Camaro X at Infineon Raceway - pics and video

[XcYZ]

Here's some pics and video of Charley wheeling Camaro X at Infineon Raceway (http://www.infineonraceway.com/). He was running street tires doing his best to keep up with the cars with R compound tires. I'll let Charley give the specifics, but it sure looks like fun.

Here's the video (http://www.lateral-g.org/temp/CamaroX_Infineon.wmv), it's 33mb, so it would probably work best if you first saved it to your computer then viewed it.


And a few cool pics.

http://www.lateral-g.net/stielow/X_infineon_02.jpg

http://www.lateral-g.net/stielow/X_infineon_01.jpg

[James OLC]

Very Cool!

:hail:

[Tom Fuehrer]

Scott, thanks for posting that vid - I really like how the Camaro X turned out and it's great to see people exercising their cars!

That being said - when can we expect to see YOUR car on the track? BIR's 5200' front straight is calling you......

The BIR School has classes every 2 weeks or so - Heck, you already know a couple of the top instructors there.

Tom

[XcYZ]

Tom, we need to talk again. :D Shoot me an e-mail ([email protected]) please.

[thedugan]

Take a look at the wing on the mustang that follows the black vet in the left lane. Big wing..

[Tom.A]

Cool :thumbsup:

[clill]

That white Mustang belongs to my friend Jack. He just added that wing and it actually makes a big difference. He is pretty fast in that car. Has a whipple charger on a stock engine.

[Stuart Adams]

Cool stuff. Charley, what kinda speeds are you running? Looks fun.

[Tom.A]

How do you like the Racepak set up? Do they work good and are they easy to read?

[Jr]

How does this car compare to the mustang(65)? and the mule?

[rogue]

the stance on that car is so spot on:hail:

[buickfunnycar.com]

the stance on that car is so spot on:hail:

Totally agreed.:yes:

Looks like another fun day behind the wheel Charlie...:woot:

[clill]

Racepack setup is fine but you do have to choose to display stuff like either fuel level or fuel pressure, oil temp or oil pressure. The Mule and Camaro X are at a disadvantage to the Mustang because they have street tires and the Mustang has track only tires and it is just a ton of difference to me. I'm going to get a set of race tires for Camaro X and try it again. I was dumb and happy with street tires till I ran sticky race tires.

[Spiffav8]

Looks like fun!

[lil427z]

charley the car still runs after jody and power tour . lol looks good.
rick k:D

[monza]

Great pics, love that car!

[awr68]

Love that car! Thanks for sharing!! :cheers:

[byndbad914]

the car looks great!

Scott, thanks for posting that vid - I really like
...BIR's 5200' front straight is calling you......

The BIR School has classes every 2 weeks or so - Heck, you already know a couple of the top instructors there.

Tom
I keep threatening myself to road trip there after I found out it has essentially a mile long straight. I could easily clear 160mph with that much room but diesel fuel is sooo outta whack it would cost a fortune to tow there and back from Denver area (2K round trip at 11 mpg). Would be a blast tho'.

That white Mustang belongs to my friend Jack. He just added that wing and it actually makes a big difference. He is pretty fast in that car. Has a whipple charger on a stock engine.
I have an 11"x70" wing on my car and it creates approx 350lbs of downforce at 140mph, so yeah, big difference if you have a car like mine with a tendency for high speed oversteer. Also has about 350 lbs of drag at that speed too so it can be hard to pull thru the air, but that just creates a moment arm putting more normal force to my rear tires while lightening the front end (so I added a splitter to balance that out).

So if he picked up speed he must have had oversteer issues before.

Mine with the big wing