Jumping into SBP

[rastta]

Looks great - good luck!

[Lemming]

Cleaned up some wheels this weekend, added paint to one set and mounted my RA1 rain tires. Not sure if I like the white wheels or not.

[trygve]

Originally Posted by Lemming

Cleaned up some wheels this weekend, added paint to one set and mounted my RA1 rain tires. Not sure if I like the white wheels or not.

I think they look good going with your black car / white decals. I've been considering whether to do white if I get my wheels repainted. The car is maroon (Arena Red) with all white decals, so it would have a similar kind of white-dark contrast.

[Lemming]

My wife, the artist of the family, is responsible for the livery. She wants to add a splash of red or orange to match the rear lights and possibly do one set of wheels in the same color.

[AZ986S]

Originally Posted by Lemming

My wife, the artist of the family, is responsible for the livery. She wants to add a splash of red or orange to match the rear lights and possibly do one set of wheels in the same color.

I like how you painted the front grills grey. Your wife is right: orange side view mirrors and maybe the lower rocker panels and even the front grills and side grills would be nice. I personally like the wheels in orange as well😀

[Lemming]

Actually, all grills are the exact same color, but look quite different because they are recessed within the black body.

My last race car was orange!

[Lemming]

Great test weekend at Road Atlanta, although it was stinking HOT! One good thing about the heat (95 with lots of humidity, 135 track temp), I found out that my cooling system works very well, water temps never got above 190.

This was my third test weekend in the car, first two at Barber. Because I was bouncing off the bump stops at Barber, I raised the car slightly before the weekend. During the first two trips I didn't understand all this talk about corner entry oversteer, that was until I went into T1 at full speed trying to trail brake deep as I always did in my 944 race cars. First step was to decrease compression in the rear, which helped a little but not enough, so I dropped the rear ride height and that helped quite a bit. I also had to chance my driving method through the corner to get back on the gas sooner to plant the rear. Will have to continue to work on this.

I did take one wild ride on Saturday coming out of T1, I closed the gap on a GT3 far too quickly at trackout and had to either lift, go off track, or hit him. I lifted, putting me into a spin and off track, doing a fantastic 360 and ending up to the left of T2. Luckily nothing was hit, but I did tear up some of the underbody plastic pieces. Data shows I went started the spin at 89 mph. Most of my driving buds were parked sitting at T1 watching the entire episode, took a bunch of crap for that one.

[Lemming]

Also raised the shifter 40mm tonight, diy all the way. Still need to clean them up and throw a coat or two of paint on them. Very solid, and only a couple of bucks and a few minutes of welding.

[champ986]

Originally Posted by Lemming

Also raised the shifter 40mm tonight, diy all the way. Still need to clean them up and throw a coat or two of paint on them. Very solid, and only a couple of bucks and a few minutes of welding.

New to the forum and racing boxsters. Why did you raise the shifter ?

[leterbuck]

Originally Posted by champ986

New to the forum and racing boxsters. Why did you raise the shifter ?

The shifters are raised to put it closer to your hand coming off the wheel to make your shifts faster and easier. As a rookie I was a bit skeptical too but it does make it better when racing.