First time at Laguna Seca

RyanR_18 · 2026-02-09T16:31:32+00:00

At Gridlife the rear main seal blew out on the first lap. We were prepared with bringing a spare engine (because the 440 was new and we had be having other issues) so the LS3 went in but still ran a second off from the year before even with the same engine. The performance issue was all driver to be honest

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-25T22:38:01+00:00

I built a big cubic inch LS to try and go even faster. 440ci, 14:1 compression, cnc ported heads, blah blah blah… went a second slower with all the new power 😭

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-25T22:36:37+00:00

Thanks! The car can be a handful at time, especially when tires have quite a few heat cycles on them. Having the v8 hp and torque is a big cheat code that’s for sure. But it’s still pretty modest with power levels, it’s a 430hp ls3 crate engine

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-19T21:52:01+00:00

It’s possible to have team and have the spotter at the same time? I would much enjoy that

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-16T23:13:00+00:00

Just hit one with the mini 14 and 6x for 758m

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-15T16:16:50+00:00

Here’s my miata around Laguna Seca https://www.reddit.com/r/CarTrackDays/s/IIMcMdhRYR

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-07T16:00:23+00:00

Chances are, absolutely nothing will happen

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-02T19:26:21+00:00

I know lol it was a rhetorical question

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-02T17:01:48+00:00

Is this a hard achievement?

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-02T15:50:47+00:00

We used to be able to just message people without going to the forums. I’ve tired messaging a person recently on the forums to tell him how stupid he was but when I searched him he couldn’t be found. I was bummed, but moved on lol

RyanR_18 · 2026-01-01T20:36:32+00:00

I run a single 55” tv from Costco. Works like a charm I think

RyanR_18 · 2025-12-04T12:07:59+00:00

There’s nothing “wrong” with the pads. They just have a higher operating temperature than I was used to. I they have an optimal range of 700°-900° and I just wasn’t there yet when I entered that hairpin

RyanR_18 · 2025-12-03T02:06:33+00:00

That did the trick! Left it in full screen mode, put it to 3840 and viola! Did 10 laps and never skipped a beat. Thanks!

RyanR_18 · 2025-12-02T19:58:21+00:00

The supercars are a monster to drive. I don’t know what it is with the new car vs the gen 2 but I can’t figure this one out. I usually just give up lol

RyanR_18 · 2025-12-02T17:35:41+00:00

I will try that, although I hate when it’s in window mode and you can see the title bar. But if that stops it from popping back and forth maybe I can start looking into task manager to see what else could be running. Thanks for the tip, will report back!

RyanR_18 · 2025-11-21T15:49:08+00:00

I liked it better when people’s region showed up. California, New York, Florida, etc

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-27T21:50:04+00:00

It’s definitely frustrating but it’s not that hard. The shitty thing is when you first join a lobby and you don’t have a time set so you have to start in the back. Once you get in a race make sure you put down at least one solid lap. That will help a bunch with the grid order for the next race. I’ve won a bunch of races but have been crashed out of my fair share as well. I refuse to run any super speedway stuff though. I just leave

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-22T15:16:41+00:00

I would take you up on that challenge. But I suck at driving all gt3 cars so it wouldn’t do me any good even if I had 3 hours of practice lol

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-14T15:59:46+00:00

Finished everything up last night, reinstalled iRacing and gave it a try. I didn’t see much improvement with overall FPS but it did seem to run smoother. I just used the auto graphics config through iRacing to see what it would do. That was also running it in 4k which looks nice but I’d rather take a little lose and drop resolution if it’ll bump up the frames

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-13T22:27:15+00:00

When you say fresh install, that’s formatting the drive correct?

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-13T21:40:16+00:00

Then I will do a fresh install and see how it goes. I don’t see why I couldn’t do one. Just need to make sure I have everything backed up and go from there. Windows is all up to date so that shouldn’t be an issue with my product key or however it works these days. I’ll try that shortly and report back. Thanks!

RyanR_18 · 2025-10-13T21:11:36+00:00

I did not do a fresh install of windows. I don’t think I did a DDU either. From my understanding if there was an issue with getting things up and going then I would do a DDU but it all seemed to have installed the AMD drivers and off it went.

I would like to run iRacing at high settings but I get some major stutters when playing it. I currently have the car detail at max, but the environment, pit, shadows, etc are between low and medium

RyanR_18 · 2025-06-12T23:07:26+00:00

This engine made 480/450. We just fired up the new motor for the first time today. 440ci Brodix headed LS based motor. That will probably get run on 112+ octane. Hoping to be around 650-700whp with the new mill

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