Recent content by Yalferd

And then drive the car, figure out where it's lacking, where you're lacking, and go from there

I'm always self conscious about my Pilotis when i'm around car people. I like them because they actually fit my feet well. Oddly enough they are the most comfortable shoes I've found for my weird feet.

i just liked this

I learned about it on Cadillac's web page, then the dealer mentioned it, but didn't give any real help, so I called SM and started talking to them and got someone to help with the scheduling for me to attend. I always watch for things like this when going for a "high end" product like this

Principal threat analyst for a large cyber security company.

I drove 8 hours each way from central california. I've done car control before, HPDEs, experienced in car coaching from people that know what they're doing. Was still fun, but I tend to read manuals, test the car myself, so the best bit that I experienced was running in the wet and getting to...

@DCV the trunk floor mat is good if they begin to ooze

always been a car and motorcycle guy but my son was the one that got me into auto-x and track days. I found Spring Mountain to be be a reasonable value for the time and money I put into it but wouldn't call it a must do. I've had some really good expperiences at HPDE events with the coach in...

Spotted new a White CT4-V Blackwing in traffic on 101 in San Jose today. Exchanged waves (hopefully he saw mine).

Forget PTM, drop down to Drive Mode for Snow/Ice. We had torrential rain during my Spring Mountain experience and it worked great to keep the car going straight

Meatball is a reference to one of the parts of the optical landing system that they use on ships, kinda like the red and green threshold lights on a real runway

i thought it was about 1500 of each 4 and 5 per year. Not sure why this would be important to me

guy was out there when I was doing day 2 in the rain, he was all hunkered down in his foul weather gear and shooting shot after shot and laughing at the faces we made at him when going by

I like my car, but agree on the engine. It's not necessarily underwhelming, but I expected more. I came from a slower car, but i'm never blown away. I'm waiting for my next track day to do some experimentation with different modes. Oh, and i've got an automatic, so that's part of the issue...

I was there in April of this year, rained like a son of a gun on day 2