Looks like there's a nasty wreck westbound on 30 right past my exit (Cedar St) right now. Fire trucks and ambulances everywhere... I hope it's not anyone we know.

 

Mike, you see any higher gas prices than this morning?

 

To tell you the truth Brian, I didn't look. I didn't see that bit about them going up until I got home tonight... although it honestly wouldn't surprise me if they did go up.

 

That wreck was none of us.

 

That's good to hear. I couldn't tell what happened; it looked like there was at least one car on the small bridge just west of the exit and something else further down, about 200 feet or so. They just now finished cleaning-up and it looks like both lanes are open...

 

No Mike, that was not me. I wasn't on route 30 till like 11:30 at the earliest.

Hey I have a fun time tonight, despite the gross drunk ppl at sheetz... it ended really well with the 4-wheelin'

It was good to meet you Bill and good to see you again Dave.

 

When I filled up yesterday it was $2.699 for 93. It probably will go up, that's my luck. Going to be burning through 3-4 tanks today alone. 7mpg track mileage FTMFL. Oh well, worth it for a full day of stress relief.

 

WHOA.... where the hell did you find 93 octane for 2.69???????????

I paid 2.89 for 93 on THursday @ Sunoco in Irwin. It was $2.69 for 87 there.

I'd tell you good luck today, but you're already gone.

 

Anyone up to watch the pens game anywhere tonight? Pens and the Maple Leafs at 7:00. If you havent seen the pens recently, you dont know what you are missing....

 

Yeah, I knew the one that passed me by my exit wasn't you (it was a guy ), and I didn't think you'd do anything as stupid as that other one...

Glad you had fun!

 

I'd be up for it. Just let me know where and when.

OH, BTW.... as I type... my SS's OEM Wheels are having their New HOOSIER R-comps mounted and balanced for the 1st Auto-X of the season.

$18 a wheel including tire disposal.

 

That was me by the way "Bill" and yea that other red one cut right in front of me I had to slam my brakes so he didnt hit me I dont think he saw me at all..You also shouldnt make left had turns from the right lane lol

 

Good times. I must have hit my head on the roof of the jeep like 10 times. Yea, sheetz is definitely an uncomfortable place to be that time of night. I'm surprised that cops don't sit there all night and pick people off leaving the parking lot. They could probably pull about 20 DUI's out of there easy.

 

Yeah, I was behind you and in the right lane at that point... I don't know WTF that guy was trying to do, but it looked like he almost got you. I don't know if you noticed the blue 2.2 but that was me!

 

Just an FYI to everyone, I'm planning on meeting up with Dave tomorrow (Sunday) around noon to install my pulley and injectors possibly. Dave suggested I post this in case anyone else is interested in showing up.

 

Im leaving for church soon so i wont get to check on here again. If anyone is doing anything tonight give me a call/text.

 

OK, well if anyone is getting together, let me know SOON. ALMS race @ St. Petersburg is on @ 8 and I want to watch that, but if someone wants to go and eat... I'm game.

I got the tires back FINALLY from CFM.....

I dropped them off @ 11AM and they said they'd get to them. I called @ 2:45 and they were working on them. Well, they said "Hey, you can come get them, but there's no charge since we cant do them. THe sidewalls are too stiff for our machine to get the inside bead to seat right. They called Flynn tire and they had the same machine, so they were out.

When I got there, they had sent them to Import/Export as they apparently have a better machine. It took a while, but I got them, and they still only charged me $18 a wheel including old tire disposal.

The guys up there seem to be a good bunch of guys.

For those of you that are at some of the Autocrosses, the "trunkmonkey" kid is now working there. He's working on getting me a better $$ on my wheel/tire combo.

 

Me, Dave, and Dan are goin' to Dave's place to put on Dan's new brake pads and figure out what's goin' on from there. Probably more boozin'. It's gonna rain for the next 2 or 3 days so we should take advantage of the weather while we can. If anybody's out, give us a call.

 

Hahahaha, Brian, to clarify my text message...my car is now the fabled BeaveRun Cobalt. I, uh, have some new Cobalt fans and there's also a few Porche's out for revenge on Cobalts. Made some new EVO friends too. (Denny, I'll send them in the direction of Dave's website.)

There was a screw up in registration and I got stuck in run group one which is like driving for retards, all the first timers are in that group. There was me and a guy in a brand new white EVO that had previous track days, so we pretty much just got to go all out and dodge newbs. There was a VERY unhappy Viper ACR that got lapped for three sessions straight. Also a race-prepped SVT Cobra that couldn't drive for ****. Got him to 11 laps down. Now I can understand not getting the hang of cornering right away, but I was eating this guy alive ON THE STRAIGHTS.

The guy that rode in my car is a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Mazda guy, owns a modded RX-7 race car, an RX-8 daily driver, and has a Mazdaspeed Miata. Was absolutely blown away by the SS/SC in general. He said he picked my car because he figured it would be like a Miata where you rely more on momentum than power, ended up saying "Honestly, I would DEFINITELY consider this a muscle car, cause you can pretty much power it through anything, you don't need so much momentum."

Several nicknames of the day: 1) Loudest boosted car at BeaveRun, 2) the French car (cause it whines so much), 3) the one guy using a track rental car called it Houdini, cause he'd just be driving along and all of a sudden there was a Cobalt on his ass, 4) 4 out of 5 members of the Porsche club refer to it as "That ******* blue Cobalt...".

So, the "rumors" I was telling Brian about, LOL. We're in classroom with one of the cheif instructors at BR, as well as Brock Yates, and Brock Jr. (and as I type this I am depressed by the fact that probably only Brian knows who I'm talking about). Anyway, they were warning people about last minute changes to car setup for OLOA, saying how they were setting up their GT3 and something got screwed up, they lost like 100hp. The instructor was like "It was kinda embarrassing because here we are getting our ass handed to us by this Cobalt SS/SC day in and day out." So the one Porsche guy goes "Tell me about it, there's one out there today that is passing every Goddamn car on the track" next Porsche guy goes, "Yeah, I saw that one, the blue one. I think that's one of the special ones that GM Racing built" third Porsche guy (who, BTW, sucked at driving - chickening out at a mere 85mph on a 130mph straight) goes "Oh, I was wondering. I knew they must have done something with it, that's way too loud to be stock. It's probably got a smaller pulley and some other goodies on it. That explains a lot." Meanwhile me, rental guy, and the two EVOs are laughing our asses off.

Fun, fun, FUN day.

Oh, and look for some Cobalt TV exposure. Both Discovery Channel and CMT were there filming footage. Don't know what will make the cut, but I know I was on there for a while. And they MIGHT have footage of my friend AJ FUBAR'ing his valvetrain on track.

 

The ass that that story kicks is of legendary status, and now I'm pissed that I spent the day moving stone instead coming out to watch.

COngrats on the great track day, and showing that just becuase it's not a Corvette, or F-body that a chevy can run on the track.
You'd think that these guys would expect it after seeing the Grand-Am Cobalts running...

Brock Yates..... has one of my favorite quotes ever...

Cannonball Run... "As far as I know, none of the 50 states has the death penalty for speeding... But we're not so sure about Ohio..."

Classic.

 

Yeah, it was a FUN day. People have seen my car up there I don't know how many times but they still don't think it's a fast car sitting still, then when it's on track everyone thinks it's modded to high hell. In all reality I'm on the line of having TOO much power. I can see why some of the GAC teams had issues. Intake and exhaust and you're doing all you can to keep the power to the ground. As my instructor put it, my car was one of the only ones he was more scared of the car than he was of the driver, LOL. I never realized how loud my car was until people kept bugging me about it. There's a guy that runs a MINI with a smaller pulley and intake that is probably louder, but he wasn't there. LOL my instructor was laughing the whole time talking about he loves how you could tell it was FI...we'd come up on a car to pass and he was like "Nothing says 'Get the **** out of my way!' like some nice loud supercharger whine..."

Even better - I wasn't the only newer SS on the track. One of the people there took their Trailblazer SS out too, LOL!

Yeah, I have to say the Brocks made for the best classroom session EVER!!!!!! How to avoid getting pulled over, what to do/say to get out of a ticket, how to not draw attention to yourself, etc, etc. I can't wait to go on One Lap now. Too bad I gotta save for a few years.

 

Dammit.

I was going to go to Beaver yesterday for that, but I had to shoot some photos.

I've met Brock before, was awesome, of course.

 

Wow...lot's of activity on here today.

 

Haha yea that driver was stupid whoever it was....but Yea I noticed you there.

 

That sucks man. I'll be there every chance I get this year. Had a LOT of fun with the OLOA people, my ex-boyfriend and my best friend's husband ran it in 2004, I will hopefully be running it in the near future.

Definitely come out sometime there's a track day, let me know when you'll be there, I'll more than likely be out and about.