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DLC360
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Location: Parma Hts Ohio
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 Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 5:23 am Post subject: Mid Ohio Vintage Races 2013 |
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Well, last Saturday I took the 924S to Mid Ohio Sports Car Course for the annual Vintage race weekend. At first I parked in the infield and after walking through the car show area & talking with other Porsche owners I was invited to bring my car into the show area. When I got back to my car to move it, I found this. A nice matching 944 parked next to me.
So once in the show area I cleaned up my car and let others enjoy looking at it.
At this point I found out all cars that were in the show area were invited to take pace laps at lunch time. so of course I signed up for that. In previous times on the track, they limited us to 25MPH, this time it was pretty much open as long as you didn't pass the car in front of you. The first lap they lead us around at about 45MPH then pulled off the pace car for our second lap and I was able to open it up to about 75MPH behind the Mercedes I had to follow.
OK, so now for some of the vintage Porsches that were at the track this weekend. All beautiful cars and nobody was holding back on the track either.
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Grenadiers
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Location: Nelson, WI & Prescott, AZ
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| Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Nice pics, looks like a fun time!
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ideola
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Location: Spring Lake MI
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| Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing! I really like the chin spoiler and side skirts on your car.
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DLC360
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Location: Parma Hts Ohio
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| Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| ideola wrote: | | Thanks for sharing! I really like the chin spoiler and side skirts on your car. |
THANKS. The PO installed those before I got the car, but it was a selling point for me. I love the look for a street car, almost an older IMSA style front end. The only issue I had with it was getting air flow to the radiator. The back side of the spoiler was all open and air flow im sure was going under the car. I boxed in the opening directly through the original lower bumper / grill opening and now have excellent cooling. The car doesn't run higher than 190 at highway speeds and no more than 210 in city stop & go traffic. |
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Ian89C4
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Great pics and a beautiful car! Thank you for sharing.
Good stuff on getting to do parade laps 
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924RACR
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Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome, very cool, makes me wish we'd been there...
Maybe I can con my wife into racing that next year... 
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gla924sem
Joined: 08 Nov 2002
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Location: Taylor, Michigan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:14 am Post subject: Mid Ohio |
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That race is on my list for 2014 in my 914
Vaughn............you may want to check into vintage rules
One reason I sold the 924.............different tire requirements............plus fuel cell |
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Joes924Racer
Joined: 03 Nov 2002
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Location: Oregon, Denver Colorado native!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 6:27 am Post subject: |
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Awesome. 
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924RACR
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Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:22 pm Post subject: Re: Mid Ohio |
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| gla924sem wrote: | Vaughan............you may want to check into vintage rules
One reason I sold the 924.............different tire requirements............plus fuel cell |
Oh yeah, good point... nevermind...
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