Hi, Guest
06-29-2009, 07:27 AM
I hit 175 in the SPI on the way back from Oshawa to Toronto once (remember that convo, Kev? :P ) but that was with a few mods - intake, exhaust, 50% crank UDP. Otherwise, not sure I would have made it there. It got backed down about 10 KM/H and then started to creep up again.
In the Escape? Sufficiently quick enough to overtake 407 traffic ;) No governor hit yet.
They're putting a lot of backyard racers at risk here, as well as the larger elephant in the room of insurance on your motor vehicle while at the track - does it have it? Do you need to produce it at the time you pull into the pit for inspection? Can you have a "track vehicle" with insurance and no plates? What nice new revenue stream does this create for the auto insurance industry?
If amateur racing faces enough hurdles as to make participation unwieldly at best, I think a lot of amateur racers will be driven away from the sport. That can't be good for all forms of racing in Canada in the long run.
In the Escape? Sufficiently quick enough to overtake 407 traffic ;) No governor hit yet.
They're putting a lot of backyard racers at risk here, as well as the larger elephant in the room of insurance on your motor vehicle while at the track - does it have it? Do you need to produce it at the time you pull into the pit for inspection? Can you have a "track vehicle" with insurance and no plates? What nice new revenue stream does this create for the auto insurance industry?
If amateur racing faces enough hurdles as to make participation unwieldly at best, I think a lot of amateur racers will be driven away from the sport. That can't be good for all forms of racing in Canada in the long run.
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.