205/50/15 Toyo RA1 pro race team take off tires, killer deal!

Oh sigh. I had hoped to contain costs on this car, but things keep sneaking into my plans. I've been ruminating on a fire suppression setup as well. My old car had a Spa Technique LWM 50 SL AFFF 2-nozzle (one at the driver's crotch, one at the injector rail) fire suppression setup.

Your price is very fair...just not sure I want to sit on them for a year. Hah. My wheels are finally on a truck and coming (after 4 months), but there's still lots to do before getting on the track. Main thing: I am still waiting on Carbotech to get its act together. I've found some teflon/stainless brake line options and am resigned to Castrol SRF (nothing else comes close). I'll go that far and even get some kind of cooling setup done (adapted Porsche fins most likely), but 2 or 3 HPDE track days per year just does not warrant a BBK. I'll just try to dial back a little as the day wears on. My stock setup on the SVT Focus never let me down with the XP8/Castrol SRF/Goodridge setup, even with the Powerworks SC.

The worst mechanical incident for me was when one of my crap stock motor mounts (connecting the engine to the transmission) snapped on track at Seattle (speculation was that it was loose from some work that was done on the transmission). Luckily, I was under braking (which makes sense), at the slowest part of the track. I just stayed on brakes and rolled to a gravel runoff area.

raamaudio said:

I did not realize you had ran them before, I have corded tires as well, a bit scary but never had a failure....

I had both front rotors crack all the way to the hubs and close to the studs after coming off the track after the cool down lap....Brembo STI calipers, one piece stoptech rotors that were brand new that day, do not recall what pads and I had brake ducts on my very quick Forester ST.

Glad it happened at 10MPH and not 128MPH when I hit the brakes....of course more likely to fail while cooling I would think.

I called Stoptech and they paid to have them over nighted to me to inspect them as quite concerned, the next day I bought a Stoptech BBK for it.

I have had an engine let go, 5 holes in the block, off in my own oil backwards at 110MPH, jumped out, put out the fire with my handheld Halatron extinguisher....before the Safety Crew got there. They reminded me I am not supposed to fight the fire but I said it was habit I taught for 3 years in the USN so they were cool about it.

My ST is getting a Halatron as well, full time, base of passenger seat.

No blown tires, yet, hope to not have any.

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