Re: Paul Mumford article in Sports Car International Jan \'04
I'm Paul's Dad. I can't thank thank the Viper community enough for the support you've given to his Mother and me. Paul scared the living bejesus out of us while racing motorcycles before taking on the 4 wheeled arena. As a result...
That's too bad a Viper didn't win this year. I actually emailed him and told him I'd show up and drive the car for him a while back. I thought with 1000hp I'd be able to kick the hell out of everybody this year even worse. I really wanted a Viper to kill everybody at the roadcoarse again...
The SCCA seems to do a pretty good job at making the cars competitive. At Laguna out of the 4 of the 5 different makes filled the top 6 positions. And you know the only reason why a Corvette wasn't up there was because Phil McClure wasn't able to race. The cars seem pretty competitive and all...
I just wanted to publically thank everybody at PVO for helping us win this weekend at Laguna. I asked for a couple of small parts changes to make the car more competitive at Laguna and they reallly came through. Peter Ford showed up with a new electric fan that pulled at least 13 pounds out of...
Sean's duct kit is pretty much the biggest and cheapest thing you can do to keep it cool. Frying your toes with the heater helps and I'm sure if you're willing to cut vents in the top of your hood, that'd help too. I had a big 4 core radiator in Big Boy (540 rwhp) with the duct kit and it...
I got a pretty good look at McClure as Galati and I were in the midst of passing him when he went off. He definitely did not come out of the gas because I was right next to him when he went off and watched him try to gather the car up. That's the difference between pro racing and club racing...
Thanks a lot for the encouragement I've received from everybody. I actually didn't get to see much of the crash, but knew it would happen as I had just made the pass into 3rd just before it all went down. I saw that McClure wasn't getting out of the gas and knew it would end ugly. I just got...
Re: Is it True?--PMUM on Probation
I think JoeB is trying to get all of the fast guys banned from Viper Days so he can win Prepared. I think I'm gonna have to let Dearing borrow my Comp Coupe to run a couple of laps at the next event....that is unless Joe B posts something to get John D...
Re: Is it True?--PMUM on Probation
Slow down fellas...I've got ZERO beef with Skip. I'm not on probation yet (appealed). Phil is saying he didn't tell anybody I punted him, so this will be cleared up very shortly. I sincerely appreciate the big brother style defense, but it's unwarranted.
SoCal, when I said 'stock' I meant as delivered from the factory. Having StopTechs and a full race alignment is not 'stock' (unless you use the Tom Glenn Cheaters Dictionary). An alignment alone on a street car is worth an easy 1-2 seconds minimum. Also, different days yield different times...
Bobby Archer was driving Johnny Yuma's race car (GT-1) in the race. I was going to drive it in the race because I didn't expect a 1 week old car with no work done on it to be competitive. But after the first session Sat. morning in the Comp Coupe I decided to race the Comp Coupe and Johnny let...
I'm not sure if the video would show much other than a lime green car doing it's best to put itself anywhere on the track that I was trying to go.
And the USS Joe Dirt didn't race Tommy Archer. They were doing more testing to find ways to make the Comp Coupes faster. The fact that...
The Comp Coupe is beyond an amazing car. All of the people complaining that the car isn't sorted are either absurd or not qualified to give advice on the handling characteristics of a race car.
We took the 'Joe Dirt' Edition primered Comp Coupe to T-Hill with almost zero prep time. Eddie...
Killer Bee,
I don't seem to recall giving you permission to beat up on my personal track-bittch, lil' Kenny. I will assume that because Kenny hasn't shown up for a while to take a beating from me, that you didn't even know he was my bittch. I suggest in the future you ask permission before...
Sorry Ron,
This is the real deal GT2 (rear wheel drive), not the X50 (all wheel drive) that took you down to Chinatown at Buttonwillow with street tires. I suggest you bring a heaping helping of Soup to distract me from giving you an OTC-style beating! Do you think the Porsche people know I...
Don't worry about me taking up a spot on your team Wasserman.
See, I'm the proud new owner of an '03 GT2 and I'm looking to make it feel welcome in the fine Mumford family of vehicles. The only thing that makes my cars feel niiiiiice is scoreboarding Vipers. Normally, that's the job of the...
I know a few of us need to thank a certain John Dearing who had the foresight to wear his lucky sweater that his grandmother knitted him. His sweater was like a tractor beam luring in 19 year olds from all directions.
Has anybody asked Skip if the West Coast drivers even need to show up? Why can't he just have the East Coast Weenies show up, subtract a few seconds from their time, mail us our trophi......errrrrr platters and have the East Coast guys spread rumors that we cheated?
That Comp Coupe was extremely well sorted. On Monday, Mike McCann, Bobby Archer and Rob Foster were allowed to drive it around the track and all 3 of them thought it was amazingly well sorted (I wasn't allowed to drive it...I guess they thought I'd drop in a cheater motor on the back straight...
I'm not sure yet if I'll be able to do BW next month. I can't seem find my motor. The last I heard, it was checking into a Super-8 motel room with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and a shopping bag full of Cool-Whip.
You guys are great! Earlier in the year I heard it made 800 horsepower 'unrestricted' according to the Viper Days participants. Now it's down to only 570 at the wheels? C'mon guys, you can do better. Hell, last week in Nashville, the Viper Days made Rick tear apart Woodhouse's still sealed...
Re: When do Hoosiers \"go away\"...
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Can somebody please put together a Hoosier heat cycling primer for Rupert so he doesn't get mistreated in his own house again?
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His...
Re: PMUM\'s Car Setup (paging PMUM)
To answer some of your questions:
Erik Messley installed 3 way adjustable Penskes in the car, then Erik and I have gone through about a dozen springs and a zillion shock setting until we got the car perfect. I highly suggest that anybody who has any...
I'm not sure what Erik was conveying to you Morgan, but that guy has spent more time with my '01 ACR than I have and he recommended and installed the Stop-Tech kit. The big difference in stopping distances are gained through actually using the rear wheels to slow the car down. The additional...
I totally disagree. Porsche defectors are nearly useless and the stock brakes really do suck. I ran a LOT of track events in 3 years with my '98 Viper with just the aforementioned setup (deflectors, pads, better fluid) and I would've saved a bundle if I had just bought a Stop-Tech kit...
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