track vids
 

Dudes,
I think it would be cool if we had a place to upload our track videos for feedback, commentary, and just to see others pushing their 986s.

I will start. If anyone has any tips, feel free to post.

https://youtu.be/eiz5ukc1jv00

Here's my videos. Mostly PCA Races F Stock

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfHsWjg7UPsrpl-J4fjIskw/videos?view_as=subscriber

Great idea!
Here's a lap at a PCA DE, @ UMC.

https://youtu.be/xQ8-Fs_pbp4

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A forum based receptacle would be ideal.....but unsure how feasible it is. I can't even upload a picture from an iPhone here without some gymnastics

Dump that apple crap! Haha

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Looks like you passed most of the group, that is always fun :cheers:

My final few times in White I was that way, and now in the black group I still pass a few, but not the majority like before :)

What's the white and black? In my region we do blue, green, yellow, red.

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In the PCA regions I run with:

Green - novice instructed
Blue - intermediate instructed and some beginner solo
White - intermediate solo
Black - advanced solo and instructors
Red - advanced solo and instructors, fastest group

Peachstate does numbers:
1 = green/blue
2 = white
3 = black
4 = red

Chin: (mapped to peachstate numbers to save typing)
Green = 1/2
Blue = 3
Red = 4 and up, very fast

Quad,

Great driving. I was there with my black 986 driving in Blue. I went out with my instructor in White and saw this 986 that he couldn't catch in his 06 911S. Had to be you!!

another vid from Watkins Glen. Ultimately the best lap I ran was a 2:17.5, which needs some improvement. Need to carry more speed through some of the turns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqYI0adnGRY

Would be nice if you had some lap data going in the video. I've run hundreds, maybe more than a thousand of laps there. Your line looks good, You may be hitting some of the curbs a little hard. My key points and speeds are top of S's at least 125. You should not lift from apex turn 2 to bus stop. Bus Stop enter at 85-90 exit 80. Carasel. to turn six 110 before down shift. +60 turn 9. +85 turn 10. 11 4th gear at footbridge 5th gear start-finish.

I only have a 5 speed. but a 3.6 motor. best lap 2:13.5 average 2:15, 2:16

yeah, i'm using harry's right now and I can't get the overlays to transfer for some reason.

I should be running 2:15s or so. need to carry more speed into turn 1. Bus stop curbing is an art it seems, some guys like all of it, some like none. I do not lift from apex of turn 1 to busstop. Max speed was like 127 or thereabouts. I enter bus stop at like 80, need to work on that a bit. I was at 89 on turn 10, I did not have to shift into 5th on the front straight.

Not an excuse for my slow time, but it was in the high 80s and the track felt pretty greasy.

I'm also finding with my 5 speed that it wants a 3.5 gear as 3rd is a bit short, and 4th is a bit tall in a few spots.

thanks for posting your vid.

Very nice, one day I am going to get up to Watkins Glen but it would be a 16 hour drive to get there. I was going to say, check out jsceash but he already posted, he seems to know a lot about that track and is quite fast there...

I just got back from Road Atlanta in my "new" 2009 base Cayman, and during this weekend I was able to learn some of the car, and build up some trust in it, and begin to push a little harder. I got to within a second of my best Boxster laps from last year (low 1:49 in boxster, 1:50.07 Cayman), and feel like next time out I should be a little faster. To compare on the same day a friend/fellow instructor with a 981 Cayman S PDK with mods, exhaust, tune, and Toyo RR could only get a 1:40. It was hot!

https://youtu.be/NxGCvwbGCio
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Here's a comparison of my fast Cayman lap and one of my 1:49 laps in the Boxster - the Cayman has more grip in the corners (wider tires, Ohlins Road & Track) but I'm not taking advantage if it... yet... only in a couple corners was I faster in the Cayman, I need to work on that...

https://viewsync.net/watch?v=NxGCvwbGCio&t=488&v=IjC6IXl8qbA&t=13&mode= solo

Since the data comes out faster through the OBDII port on the Cayman, I was able to read more data including coolant temp and air intake temp, and still get a good update rate on rpm and throttle. Even with thrashing the car, and only 2 radiators, the coolant never got above around 215F. I think the car might be pulling timing when it gets got to help with temperature? I have the 3rd radiator kit but haven't put it on yet. A surprise was that with an outside temp of 90'ish F during this session, the air intake temp was around 20 degrees higher. I would have thought that the fast air rushing in wouldn't get a chance to heat up that much. That is an area I would like to research more.

I also had an odd thing where on some sessions my Aim SOLO DL only got TPS data from the car instead of RPM, temps, etc. Maybe the wire is getting old but if it failed I would expect to get all or nothing, and not just a single data metric from the car. Weird...

I had a great student with a Camaro SS something (track package but no super charger) - we ended up running in 1 group up from the instructed novice since we weren't able to get any decent laps in the green group. The car was really fast, but he was really fast too, in the intermediate solo group we were in, we were hanging with Corvettes and the supercharged version of his car. I took him and his wife out for a demo ride in the green group and got to play with traffic a little bit which was fun:

https://youtu.be/NjY3dr2opzQ
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Here's one of my best session overall in January of this year. Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows CA. Running consistent 2:06-2:08.

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Hey Steve!

Congrats on the new Cayman! No more IMS I suppose. Will you miss it?
Are you instructing with PCA or another organization?
I'll be looking to get certified this year with PCA and maybe NASA.
It's summer break here right now so I'm watching you guys on video:)

I have a friend with a 987 base Cayman and with a 100 0ctane race tune and IPD plenum (PITA to install), he was making close to 300 HP at the crank, so it did pretty well with the 2.9. Do you think you need to upgrade the engine oil baffle for track duty?

No IMS on the 2009 and yes I miss the boxster already, it was so familiar and comfortable :-) although it is still down in the garage on jack stands so maybe I will get to driving it soon before thinking about selling it. However this past weekend at Road Atlanta was really good with the Cayman, I am starting to bind with it. And then the headliner started falling down on the trip home :-) common on the Caymans...

I got my instructor training with PCA Carolinas region and as my final mentor I had my instructor that I had on my 2nd track day ever which was pretty awesome. It was also an MSF level 2 school. After that training I have instructed with PCA (Carolinas region, Florida Citrus region, and Florida Crown region), Chin, Just Track It, (and invited to instruct with JZilla and some others if the schedule ever works). I love it, it is a lot of fun for me and I hope for my students too :-) If you think you would like it, I say go for it. It is a great way to give back.

LN does make a deep sump for the 9A1 but it is $2000+ so I might pass, the benefit is for oil cooling. I've got a 3rd radiator kit going in soon and I'll keep an eye on it. No extra baffle needed, it has 4 scavenge pumps and an electronically controlled oil pump that really dials up the pressure during sporty driving so I'm hoping the oil side is covered :-)

Headers and then tune (I heard from the Cobb people at Weeks who don't advertise a 2.9 tune for that reason) is supposed to be the only place to get power on the 2.9 since it is already supposedly optimized at 91 HP per liter (265 HP) and the same intake as the 3.4 so it should be able to provide all the air it needs. 300 HP would be a beast!

It is noisier in tbe cabin than my boxster and I wonder if it is the numeric cables I added, I don't recall it being that noisy on tbe drive home on the stock cables...

However I think it is a keeper and I am planning my next mod, FD Motorsports exhaust mod, even though I swore my last exhaust work was it :-)

Numeric cables will transmit more noise into the cabin in my experience.

It's the steel cable as opposed to nylon or what ever the stocks are made from. The steel transmits more noise. You can hear everything coming out of the transmission

Think of two coffee cans and a metal wire....did I just date myself?

Yes and probably half the group:D

couple laps at NJMP thunderbolt. Not my best laps and also hot and humid out there, but fun nonetheless. love that track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeX7gg1BYr4

Looks like you caught and passed most of that run group :cheers:

My best 3 laps at Indy.

https://youtu.be/tGF9rxxfUIA

Other full length 2019 vids are available, including one where someone spins in front of me. :eek:

Looks like you guys are having a fun summer at the track.
Someday perhaps during retirement, I might be able to swing back east and do all those lovely tracks. But, for now, it is still summer break until October:(

This is not super fast but it is fun to play with my mates at the track!
LCMT (Mont Tremblant track in Canada:
https://youtu.be/2pZ5J5lSX-o

Summit PCA Race
 

Blue Sprint 1
SPB and F-Stock Boxsters and others.

Clutch problems caused me to miss qualifying. Gridded last. Worked my way up to P17.


https://youtu.be/u6aUFRDRAG4

I've been using my iPhone8 with Track Addict for my track days, but am having trouble finding a decent holder that mounts on the windshield. The mounts I've tried vibrate way too much, and it really degrades the video quality. Any suggestions?

I'd love to post some videos from the Pacific Northwest, but the quality of the videos just isn't good enough.

Mid Ohio
 

Chasing my buddy in his Golf R and not making up much ground. Mid Ohio at the MORPCA HPDE on 9/15. Awesome track!

https://youtu.be/dDhz9baGRpA

Last event my buddy and I stayed connected through audio so we could talk to each other, so much fun! Unfortunately I’m still working on putting a new engine into the Boxster track car so I had to take my 911 which I converted to a track car for the weekend. Probably not the safest idea if you’re a beginner so don’t try this at home.

https://youtu.be/c8f9s9sK66I

Here are a few vids from over the years.

1. A little romp in a friend's GT3RS at Chuckwalla CCW with PCA. The R7 tires had 20 HC and were well past their expiration date but oh what a car! We had a ton of traffic and it was like shooting ducks in a barrel getting around them. The best I could do was 2:01 here but a 1:56 is possible in this car on fresh rubber and no traffic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKs11zNd590&list=FLUs5LPmF64NEcExlSrWdGsg& index=8&t=0s

2. My brother and I lapping Buttonwillow #1 in identical Boxster 2.5L BSX class cars with PCA. Always a hoot! 2:13 was my best time that weekend and still stands as a BSX class record in both PCA and POC.
https://youtu.be/sU_jreQz6nA

3. A lap of the historic Pomona Fairplex track where Phil Hill, Carrol Shelby, and Dan Gurney used to chase each other around in the 60s. It had been raining in the AM and my windshield was wrecked from passing cars through puddles.
https://youtu.be/dl0JPfcCD2g

Here are a few Cayman 2.9L vids just for SteveOX :)

1. Chasing M Rondeau around AAA Speedway Fontana. Both these 911s are stripped out race cars with more grip and much lighter weight. My car has a slight HP and aero advantage so I could stay with them until my tires went off. Notice as we all three drive around the slower black GT3 in T2. Note the speeds, we were moving pretty fast there. My best time at AAA Speedway in the Cay 2.9 is a 1:54 in zero traffic:

https://youtu.be/i1N7X3eyFEI

2. Laguna Seca 1st look with friends. No support vehicle this weekend so I ran my car fully stock on RE-11 tires. Had a lot of fun playing with Greg and Ken as I learned this iconic track. I have been known to coach myself as I dig into each corner of a new-to-me track:

https://youtu.be/zr4Zxi4yd1o

That Pomona footage is great! What year was that, Top?

I think that was 2012, the year of the deluge. A fun track that we used for 4 years but Fairplex management changed and they upped the rental rate 5x so it is no longer viable for car clubs. Too bad because it is 20 minutes from my house.

Yes, thank you, will watch tonight :cheers:

red black white session at summit main. great weekend, got promoted to black and put down a 1:24.4, which I was pretty happy with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnTN1kF_Xv0

awesome!!!!

I always loved that track! It was a blast to drive.

OK bumping this thread up. I am going to Sebring this weekend in my Cayman, I haven't been there is a while - I had a single day in May 2020 and a weekend in Feb 2020 and that is it.

I had been stuck for years at 2:43 in my Boxster, and it took a while for me to get used to the Cayman (purchased in March 2019) and to be able to match those times, and in Feb 2020 I was able to get my first sub 2:40 lap at Sebring:

https://youtu.be/hUW8Zz2zxxE
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When I went back in May for a single day, I was able to run a 2:40 but not a 2:39. I have various excuses, traffic, heat, etc... but the fact is I didn't put it together :) This was a fun session chasing these Caymans, and one other difference, I am on a 285/35/18 Hankook R-S4 rear tire vs 275/40/18 in the previous video.

https://youtu.be/SIFtwdmY2rQ
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With it being cooler weather, and also I have added a "big wang" (plus Cayman R splitters although they are pretty small) to the Cayman, I am hoping (and curious) to see how the car does. I am hoping to take some more time off by having more confidence and speed in T1 and T17, and maybe rolling some more speed through T16. At VIR this past November I had to move all my braking up as I seemed to have more braking power and stability, which I have heard can come from a wing and I think that may help me in T16 which is a big trailbrake corner for me.

For comparison, I was 2 seconds faster at Roebling and 3 seconds faster at VIR after adding the wang, so I am curious to see what happens at Sebring.

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1609974220.jpg

I will report back next week, hopefully with some faster times. Who else has some 2020 track vids, post them up!

Anyone else going this weekend to Sebring with Suncoast PCA?

Well, given this is a 986 forum and this is the boxster racing sub-forum, I feel bad that I don't (yet) have any track videos in my 2000 Boxster S race car project car, but heading to the track next Monday with it so should have some to share then.

In the meantime, here are a couple of videos in my other track car (2015 GT3):

2015 GT3 at Laguna Seca, PB run on fresh tires & no traffic (rare occasion!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWaitWYn3_w

2015 GT3 at Thunderhill 3-Mile, had some major problems with auto-focus on the phone I was using. This was before I installed the proper dual-camera VBOX system seen in the WRLS video above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxd2FI5yUqk

The Thunderhill video is old, and I was recently there again for the first time in over a year. I was able to match the previous PB on the first session and was perfect conditions to go out and lay down a new PB (hoping for sub 2:00) but I blew a coolant line that ended the day for me :( Car is all fixed up now, but that was a write-off of a day