Race Tracking Your Supra - Information exchange

[rwense]

I can't necessarily offer technical input but I can however say AJ is a fantastic human being. Super nice guy and VERY receptive to feedback. The red supra on his website is a friend of mine who helped develop and provide feedback for the A90 kit.

Ive also hung out with him at the track a couple of times, if you have any questions I have no doubt he'd be happy to answer them.

Zebulon also seems like a great couple of guys and very knowledgeable however I haven't met them personally.

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[garudathree]

i have both the f14 and zwg330. get whichever can make the widest wing allowed in your class.

fwiw i had good luck with the 72" f14 installed using my existing APR mounts, with additional bracing underneath, but you might not need something that big. this was a wind tunnel setup and he has data from it. even a basic NLR wing will perform better than your gtc300 with gurney and singular endplates (i had that as well).

 

[Racedaq63]

I have always been impressed with the products coming out of AJ's shop. I have seen several examples at the track and everyone always has good things to say and the quality looks top tier.
I know he does a good bit of back to back wind tunnel tests with a lot of common setups as well which is nice for real world comparisons.

That being said, at the end of the day, use the product you feel comfortable with and that fits into your class rules or gives you the most flexibility with rules perhaps so you can have some room to grow.

 

[Vegas17]

Been running a good amount of HPDE's and have worked up to advanced groups and got my initial certification for becoming an instructor (non ride along). I think i've about maxed out the stock suspensions potential on RE71RS's. There's so many flavor of the day setups now depending on the current influencer/youtuber. What's a good option at this point without destroying street driving and pissing the wife off as she loves the car as is. I know it's been asked a million times before but i haven't seen anything recent that sparks interest.

I seen PHD Racing is looking at carrying a new ohlins R&T option with a different spring setup.

 

[Gabe]

Been running a good amount of HPDE's and have worked up to advanced groups and got my initial certification for becoming an instructor (non ride along). I think i've about maxed out the stock suspensions potential on RE71RS's. There's so many flavor of the day setups now depending on the current influencer/youtuber. What's a good option at this point without destroying street driving and pissing the wife off as she loves the car as is. I know it's been asked a million times before but i haven't seen anything recent that sparks interest.

I seen PHD Racing is looking at carrying a new ohlins R&T option with a different spring setup.

I am on MCS. 100 recommended.

 

[Evolution]

Been running a good amount of HPDE's and have worked up to advanced groups and got my initial certification for becoming an instructor (non ride along). I think i've about maxed out the stock suspensions potential on RE71RS's. There's so many flavor of the day setups now depending on the current influencer/youtuber. What's a good option at this point without destroying street driving and pissing the wife off as she loves the car as is. I know it's been asked a million times before but i haven't seen anything recent that sparks interest.

I seen PHD Racing is looking at carrying a new ohlins R&T option with a different spring setup.

Any chance you are running with Speed Ventures on the Vegas track April 18-19th? I will be there. You can come for a spin in my car with Ohlins

 

[Z4m40i]

@Vegas17
I was on KW DDC’s until moving into MCS 1WNR. I had two sets of DDC’s because I blew two shocks and warranty replacements take 2 months.

I wish I just went with MCS from the very beginning. They’re still very road friendly but so much more capable on track. Buy once, cry once.

also crazy that you did that 1:18 at SMMR West on stock suspension.

 

[Vegas17]

Any chance you are running with Speed Ventures on the Vegas track April 18-19th? I will be there. You can come for a spin in my car with Ohlins

Yeah I was going to run the bimmerchallenge but signups on Saturday are nuts already so we might just do the CCW on Sunday. You need to come out and do ClubSportExperience sometime at Spring Mountain. Super low car count and great setup. I had 4 cars in advanced this last weekend.

 

[Subydude]

I've had MCS's on 3 other cars, and still have them on the autox car. If/when I buy coilovers for the Supra it'd be MCS 2WR.

 

[Vegas17]

@Vegas17
I was on KW DDC’s until moving into MCS 1WNR. I had two sets of DDC’s because I blew two shocks and warranty replacements take 2 months.

I wish I just went with MCS from the very beginning. They’re still very road friendly but so much more capable on track. Buy once, cry once.

also crazy that you did that 1:18 at SMMR West on stock suspension.

Thanks! My fronts were pretty cooked after that. Definitely need more camber seeing how far on the shoulder it's wearing. Figured i'll knock out suspension at the same time I upgrade the lower links.

 

[razorlab]

Been running a good amount of HPDE's and have worked up to advanced groups and got my initial certification for becoming an instructor (non ride along). I think i've about maxed out the stock suspensions potential on RE71RS's. There's so many flavor of the day setups now depending on the current influencer/youtuber. What's a good option at this point without destroying street driving and pissing the wife off as she loves the car as is. I know it's been asked a million times before but i haven't seen anything recent that sparks interest.

I seen PHD Racing is looking at carrying a new ohlins R&T option with a different spring setup.

MCS 100%

I have MCS 2WNR on my Supra with 650/600 rates and Ohlins R&T on my M240i with 500/530 rates and the MCS ride better for sure. Ohlins are good for the money for sure but the MCS are a whole other level.

 

[raysupra]

Currently I have Ohlins with stiffer springs and it’s ok for me. I’m planning to upgrade to a more top-tier suspension, but prices in Europe are insane. The most ‘affordable’ JRZ RS Pro3 comes out to around €7,700. MCS I think will be even more expensive or same as JRZ. So Ohlins is top for this money.

 

[Evolution]

Yeah I was going to run the bimmerchallenge but signups on Saturday are nuts already so we might just do the CCW on Sunday. You need to come out and do ClubSportExperience sometime at Spring Mountain. Super low car count and great setup. I had 4 cars in advanced this last weekend.

I have yet to do the CCW config so that may be fun. Havent decided what day I am going to do yet but ill be at one of them.

I will keep an eye out on ClubSportExperience. I really like Charleston Peak and SV isnt running it this year. 4 cars in the group would be unreal!

 

[Z4m40i]

I have yet to do the CCW config so that may be fun. Havent decided what day I am going to do yet but ill be at one of them.

I will keep an eye out on ClubSportExperience. I really like Charleston Peak and SV isnt running it this year. 4 cars in the group would be unreal!

Unfortunately you’ll have to do PCA to do Charleston peak pretty much moving forward.

CCW lvms is a lot of fun! They remove turns 1-3 from the CW config and no curbs to catch you on the exit of turns though. I did a 1:44.32 my last go around. Sundays are always less crowded with SV weekends if that changes your mind.

 

[Vegas17]

Unfortunately you’ll have to do PCA to do Charleston peak pretty much moving forward.

CCW lvms is a lot of fun! They remove turns 1-3 from the CW config and no curbs to catch you on the exit of turns though. I did a 1:44.32 my last go around. Sundays are always less crowded with SV weekends if that changes your mind.

CCW is fun but not a fan of the warehouse sweeper exit as it falls away and the turn onto front straight with the wall right there.

PCA's worth it. I think ClubSportExperience was looking at doing it at some point if SMMR allows it.

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