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I've never looked at it that way, but it's an interesting take. I have been in situations where the previous lap, I was braking at the #3, but the very next lap if I did that, I blew the turn because the car didn't have enough brake. I couldn't tell you if it made more noise on the "blew the...

Honestly, your street performance sounds like most modern track pads in a street usage scenario. There are a bunch of factors at play here, so it's hard to really give you a precise answer, but that's my take. As for "they get hot on track and they're extremely sensitive" , that's "working...

I never tracked the car on the stock staggered wheels. I bought a square setup before my first track day with the car, as I've been around enough other cars to know my preferences. I currently have 18x10.5 et 35, 15mm spacers, and 275/35/18 at all corners. I find it to be a good setup when...

You might have put some heat into those :-D That's a lot of "crumbling" at the pad edge.

This, a thousand times this. It kinda depends on the pad you use, but if you plan to switch pad material and keep the same rotor, you need to bed the new pad material into the rotor before you drive in anger. I broke this rule the other weekend with my LeMons car, as we cracked front rotors...

Project Mu Club Racer pads for the front, leave the rears stock (for now) and Castrol SRF fluid. That will get you through just fine for your first few track days. I switch out rotors between street and track, which means I leave my track pads and rotors on the majority of the time. You don't...

After a case of severe laziness, I finally put some effort towards the Supra this weekend - pulling the front pads and rotors off the car. I'm running CSG pads at all 4 corners, and these had about 10K miles of use that included 2 OneLaps and a couple of track days thrown in there for good...

Just reached out to Verkline - their LCAs are currently out of stock, but they expect another run to be available in July. I bought a set.

Entirely possible. What I don't have is the usual printout from the alignment machine with the final specs. That's why I will do a fresh alignment regardless of what I change (or don't change).

I need to price out options like the Ohlins for sure. The baller in me wants to go straight to MCS 2WNR, but I don't think that's in the budget. I do NOT want to start a fight about SPL parts, but I don't think I'd use their LCAs per some of the feedback I've seen here over the last few...

I _think_ that was all the shop could could get with the factory adjustments in the rear of the car

Brand new, full tread depth, they're a little loud, but not bad at all. Over the week, they got louder and louder, and the Thursday night drive from NCM in KY to Putnam Park in IN, they were downright treacherous in the heavy rain we had. I was in a caravan of a couple of other OneLap cars, on...

More thread-bumping my own dead threads today. 2 years of OneLaps in the car have taught me a few things about setup, my tolerance for 5K miles of street driving in a week, and my desire to improve the car. Compromise is the name of the game. Every track day I've done with the car and my...

Better late than never update. We finished 35th overall (77 cars), thanks to my quick co-driver. He put the car in the top 20 at High Plains (his home track) and in the top 10 in the dry skidpad. He was thorough and meticulous about the car and driver prep the whole time, and that was a clear...

2 One Lap of America events completed in a nearly stock Supra, couple of track days thrown in there as well. Not a hiccup.

Aside from bringing the car...I don't even have the charisma...just the attitude.

It's that time again! I'm leaving for OLOA on Thursday afternoon. The car is unchanged, other than the tires. I'm running the Bridgestone RE71RS this year, vs the Conti ECS02 that I ran last year. I'm about 90% ready to go right now, and that last 10% can be done in about 10 minutes. Can I...

AFE Sways F and R, Rear end links AFE spherical/adjustable, Verus Camber plates here. Use case - track days, One Lap of America time trial sessions. My setup is clearly a compromise. I wanted to stay with stock springs/dampers to keep the car comfortable for long trips, as some of the drives...

Ha...my internal calendar has already flipped to '24. :D I'm planning to run OLOA again - I'm on the 80-ish car "accepted" list for '24, which filled up in about an hour. My co-driver is one of my LeMons teammates, and assuming his wife doesn't kill him between now and then, it will be fun...

Actually, Danny did OLOA in the Supra in '22 (my first OLOA), and he and Brian Heikotter did indeed do very well against the other Supras (Toyota PE, Dave Marcus, etc.) considering the considerable power disadvantage. Danny is local to me, and has moved on to Porsche stuff. This year Dave was...