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Originally Posted by PowerSurge Price wise you can do a lot better negotiating your own price. Especially if you email several dealerships' internet sales and have them fighting against each other. This is a very good point. There are a LOT of good deals to be had right now. Even if you don't...

I had a friend sell his car to Carvana. He knew he probably wasn't getting absolute top-dollar, but was glad to not have any anxiety of "how bad is the dealer screwing me on this" or relentless calls from tire-kickers on the weekend. They showed up at his house, put the car on the trailer, and...

My Corvette has worked fairly well as an only car for the last 3 years, but I think it's time to finally relegate it to track duty and fun/weekends. Not only does this give me more leeway to run more aggressive tires and potentially modify it further, but it adds a "safety margin" should...

Sounds like they have a loose definition for out of balance. This is like how alignments work -- there is a range of acceptable values, and cheaper places will get the alignment to read in the green because that's the quickest way / is "good enough" for many people. Vote with your feet.

I don't know a ton about the Passat implementation of the 2.0T, but that motor is available in numerous tunes across the VAG lineup. 20ish horsepower from higher octane doesn't seem that unreasonable, really. Modern knock sensors and ECUs are pretty good at making a whole range of fuel qualities...

Originally Posted by RoadDukie Originally Posted by dparm Originally Posted by RoadDukie Thanks dparm. I noticed in your videos how short and crisp your shifter was. Very impressive. It's an MGW shifter. One of the only mods the car has and well worth the $400. The factory shifter is trash...

Originally Posted by A_Harman Fuel dilution? I see your UOA lab doesn't provide a fuel dilution measurement. I doubt that the oil is shearing in a GM LS-type engine. In hot trackday conditions, I wouldn't be surprised if the ECM calibration is injecting a lot of extra fuel to save the cats...

Originally Posted by RoadDukie Thanks dparm. I noticed in your videos how short and crisp your shifter was. Very impressive. It's an MGW shifter. One of the only mods the car has and well worth the $400. The factory shifter is trash -- mushy, poorly defined gates, no feedback. The MGW is a...

Originally Posted by RhondaHonda Any idea how much is left behind in the diff cooler when you change it? I'm looking to change my 2017 Grand Sport soon if anything because I'm bored. Not sure, but when my shop changed it out, I gave them the gallon jug and they said they used "most of it". I...

Originally Posted by RoadDukie How does your shifting feel with the Redline? Not much different from the OEM stuff. Car already has an MGW short shifter so the shift feel was already decent.

I see no reason to run 5w30 unless you are repeatedly subjecting it to stressful situations (such as towing) and are seeing negative effects like oil pressure loss. Thicker is not always better. I would get whichever of those two Pennzoil varieties is on sale as they're both pretty good. Not...

Originally Posted by tcp71 Isn't it supposed to be bad if the TAN number exceeds the TBN number? The answer is: it depends. Some oils will have a high starting TAN, so without knowing the virgin (brand new out of the bottle) TBN and TAN, you can't definitively say that oil must be changed when...

There was a revised oil cap IIRC, but they all sorta weep. Hope you're still hooning it on a daily basis!

Originally Posted by robertcope Come on over to http://www.trackjunkies.org/ and also join the Discord chat. Lots of Texas TT folks there. Welcome to the club! I am a regular in the big Facebook TT/HPDE/auto-x group. Haven't registered at the TrackJunkies site yet. Can't say I've seen either...

Looks good. I wouldn't sweat it with the fuel dilution if you're driving the car the way it was meant to be. Curious why you added 2L between changes versus 1L on the previous ones. The digital dipstick was always a bit awkward on that car... BTW, has it had bearings changed out?

This is the third manual transmission change the car has seen. Mileage worked out to nearly double (14.4k vs 7.6k) and track time was about 50% longer (22 hours vs 15 hours). The car has a dedicated transmission cooler. Blackstone said things still look fine. Wear metals are dropping on a...

This is the third rear differential fluid change the car has seen. Mileage worked out to a tad longer (14.4k vs 11k) but overall track time was similar (22 hours vs 24 hours). The car has a dedicated differential cooler. Blackstone highlighted that iron came down even further despite the longer...

This is the third full interval with the M1 ESP Formula 0w40. I pushed it past my usual 20% OLM reading and let it go down to around 3% which was around 2k extra miles. But this also worked out to a lot of track time: about 15 hours! Several of those track days had ambient temps in the mid-90s...

Originally Posted by sloinker Gas is heading to a buck a gallon. 1970 Buick GS 455 stage 1. May as well have fun at work. I've been reading that $29/barrel is the price floor and is close to the Saudi production cost so they'll just cut production if it looks to go any lower. Gas prices likely...

A bit late to share this, but figured I'd throw it up to tide some of you over until the racetracks reopen and you can get back out for some spirited driving! March 6-8 - MotorSport Ranch Cresson (1.7 CCW), NASA Texas March Madness event Time trial is the next step up from HPDEs so I decided...