Cascade Crew

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:18 pm Post subject: Sad day for American Muscle

So where I'm living now there is a sweet tight banked offramp. I've gotten pretty used to it and ran the Mazda around it at 45mph. No tire barking, just planted and smooth in and out, but hard on it.

Now the Mazda has 16x7 wheels with some medium road all season Falkens and is slightly lowered with KYBs on all corners.

Took the Camaro around a few times today. Best I could muster was about 39mph, and the tires were giving up traction. I'm way more versed in this car, it has Goodyear F1 tires, and tons of suspension goodies kyb front/koni yellow rear.

Both speedos are as dead on as can be for 80's cars.

This has sadened me.

Crying or Very sad

chevymad · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:30 pm Post subject:

Probably weight. Still sad.

While my formy stays fairly flat and has good grip, I'm not nearly as confident in it as I am in my truck at times. Now with the new suspension under the 74, it feels really good and balanced too. The 87 just kinda feels rough, stiff, and sometimes slippery. It never has lost it for me though, just doesnt make me feel confident in it. Maybe like its too hard to feel where the edge is.

Now Mikes car... I've been plastered to the pass window going around a ramp with it.

But lets look at it the other way... Hurray for the mazda! You got one car that must be really sweet handling if its beating the maro.

townaj · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:45 pm Post subject:

Well you know what that means....more goodies are in order for the Camaro!!!

But that does kinda suck....

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:59 pm Post subject:

RSFreak · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject:

The previous owner of my T/A said it cornered better than his Porshe 911. Shocked

His actual words were, "I can take a corner at speed with more confidence in the Trans Am."

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject:

Where is this corner? I'll beat that Mazda! Laughing

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject:

townaj · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:30 pm Post subject:

I know how you can get through it faster with the Camaro....just get a little sideways Twisted Evil

. But don't get too Fast and Furious on us...

In all seriousness though...thats a lot of upgrades.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:35 pm Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject:

The state likes to call it the "I-5 / 705 / Hwy 7 interchange" but all we ever knew it as was the gulch

I grew up right up the hill from there. You walk a block from my parents house, look down the cliff, and that's it. We ran all kinds of cars through it. Great place to test stuff out.

From I-5 Northbound in Tacoma, follow the signs for Hwy 7, till you see a sign for 38th St East. Take that but don't merge into traffic, just get back on the freeway and follow the signs for I-5 South. The North to North run is pretty good too.

Staters sit under and/or on top of the 38th St. overpass looking for this type of BS, so watch out for that. I got nicked up there for what he wrote down as 60. Wink

Red Bird · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject:

An RX7 is 1000lbs lighter, so being able to keep up in the corners is going to be tough for sure. The RX7 has much better weight distribution. but when those turns straighten out, you can always cruise right around the RX7 and on the straights and wave bye bye. I bet with bigger/wider wheels/tires you could match the RX7's speed even if you had the same kind of tire on both. It would be a lot more white knuckle in the F-body for sure:)

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:07 pm Post subject:

iansane · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:15 pm Post subject:

A lot shorter but much tighter; this

aaron_sK · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:19 pm Post subject:

When I was a kid my Grandpa told me that the reason for all of that was that back when the federal government built I-5, the state and Tacoma businesses had them convinced that everybody and their uncle would want to get off of I-5, drive through Tacoma via Pacific Ave. (Hwy 7) and out to Mount Ranier. The feds thought that was a great idea, so they spent a boatload of money digging out the gulch and building a huge interchange via 38th st., then widening and improving Hwy 7 out past Roy.

Of course then everybody realized that Pac Ave is crowded, and has a billion stoplights, so they just took a better, quicker, less surface-street route, and now we get to race on whats left. Razz

Richster · Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:53 pm Post subject:

Don't feel bad dude!
My wifes speed-3 freaking hauls ass and handles like a dream!
I call it the go-cart when my big butt is driving...but that thing is fast as heck and comfy...Love those corners!
Remember dyno? I did a vid of your mazda...never ending rpms!

Twilightoptics · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 5:56 am Post subject:

Alphius · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:08 am Post subject:

redlava · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:14 am Post subject:

I didn't see a wonder bar or a strut tower brace in your list of mods. I always thought those were suppose to be really beneficial to handling.

Alphius · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:15 am Post subject:

91RSVert · Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:05 am Post subject:

On that Gulch, are you refuring to it being long strait, and between walls, or the full loops from 7 to 5??

Here in little rock, we have a road I-630 going thru town, strait, and part of it is trenched down for "road noise". Very easy to hit 100 and not know it. We also have a nice large well banked loop from I630 to I30East that I have passed MANY of cars taking the inside lane and putting the hammer down. Another is Hwy10 to I30e but its fairly rough. 40E to 167/67 north is banked WAY wrong and any time it rains we have some go in the ditch.