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By the way, I haven't been out with the club for a while. I drive a box stock 1998 White Acura Integra RS (economy version, non VTEC). 140 horses with stock everything else. Plenty of power but I drive on street tires. The best I've done on Willow is a 1:47.9 on a set of RE71s Bridgestones, which is a very old fashion high performance tire. And I wasn't pushing it really hard since those were my everyday driving tires (I got 40,000 miles out of them!).
I have stock engine, springs, shocks and tire sizes. Going around turn nine is a lot more nervous for me compared to you guys with sticky tires and stiff suspensions, but I really don't feel that there's a whole lot of risk.
Around the rest of the track it's just like a Sunday drive. I've got a set of lowering springs and I'm going to put a set of stiffer springs--I'll pick up some needed stiffness and negative camber. With some stickier tires (I may by some track tires finally) I hope to pick up a few seconds and make life a little more comfortable. We'll see.
But I don't feel that even at a 1:44-1:47 range things are really all that dangerous for a 140 hp car.
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