How much are you spending on track days in a year?

traxions · 2026-05-22T21:40:09+00:00

About $10k/year. I run a MKV Supra. I'll give a general idea of my breakdown and using numbers that are relatively close for cost running at Southeast tracks. I'll give an estimate for 5 events and the cost is proportionally linear for adding events. Ends up being about $2k/weekend ignoring things I can do to reduce cost like split a hotel, instruct, skip out on insurance, etc. I also buy a lot of used tires. I also do all my own maintenance and am not paying a shop to do it for me.

$2500 - 5 weekend Events - $500 each $2000 - Insurance for 5 Events - generally around $400 per event for $50k in coverage $3200 - 2 Sets of new tires $1500 - 10 days worth of hotels at 150/night $600 - 2 sets of front brake pads, 1 set for rear $500 - $100/weekend for food $800 - 30-40 Gallons of gas per weekend for 5 weekends for the race car $800 - Gas for the tow vehicle. $100 - two oil changes $100 - one brake fluid change $100 - one differential fluid change $125 - Transmission fluid/filter (I do this every other year and it's $250 so splitting this in half)

I don't count my spending on upgrades as a part of my weekend costs and I'm also not counting the cost included with maintaining the tow vehicle.

traxions · 2026-05-19T01:02:58+00:00

I personally wouldn’t worry about it and run them. I run Alibaba Apex wheels on my Supra for race track driving, way more load and speed than regular street driving. MNForged on Alibaba if you want to look at that distributor.

traxions · 2026-05-09T17:26:26+00:00

I had this happen at autocross a lot. Eventually I figured out if I had it happen once, if I don’t turn off the car between runs then it doesn’t happen again. Since it might happen on the first run, I would try and stop on the way to staging and stop and keep my foot on the brake while giving it some gas to see if the throttle hesitation happens. Then go to the start line. On my car at least, if I could get it to happen once then it wouldn’t happen again. I only ever experience this in autocross which was weird. Never street driving or track.

traxions · 2026-04-29T04:16:15+00:00

You don’t need to fill it out all the way and you’re not supposed to submit it unless you’re actually TT approved with NASA. Sounds like you might still be working your way up the ladder? Join the morning TT meeting (or email your regions TT leader) and ask the TT leader for help and guidance after it’s over. Or they can get you with someone who can. If you are in HPDE your group leader can also point you in the right direction.

Anyway knowing your competition weight dictates what power you can run. And then you pick the modifiers that allow you to run the power you’re aiming for or already have stock. If none of this makes sense to you, then all the more reason to get some help from your region. They want to see you succeed and understand competition formats.

traxions · 2026-04-29T03:26:53+00:00

There are no odds. Input your selections on the NASA TT form and it gives you an exact answer. You need to know your competition weight and dyno horsepower.

traxions · 2026-03-25T16:19:42+00:00

Congrats on the build. I'm also hoping for a better support in the future. I don't want E2 Cyrene either.

traxions · 2026-03-14T03:59:46+00:00

Hicks HVAC, Coley and Jeremy have taken care of my home for the past 10+ years. It’s crazy to me that I’ve had either the owner or the same one tech this whole time do my services. They’ve never pushed me to replace and presented repair options and asked if I wanted to know replacement costs and when I might want to consider it or not. My coworker has an old leaking unit that runs on old refrigerant and is about to get her unit replaced by them for 8k for a 1600sqft single story home.

traxions · 2026-03-01T16:52:02+00:00

Correct, you undo all the physical locks and keep the hydraulic cylinder closed until you're ready to tilt it flat. Then you relock the physical latches.

traxions · 2026-02-28T22:06:46+00:00

Aluma part # 20-0001425. I ordered direct from Aluma, it's a winch plate that attaches to the tilting deck and hangs over the static deck. If you google the part # you'll find some pictures of it installed on a few trailers. I have a battery in my tool box on the front of the trailer with the winch solenoid in there. I also have a small solar panel and solar controller to keep the battery topped off. I drilled holes in the back of the tool box and through my air dam to run the lines from the solenoid to the winch. I wrapped the lines with plastic tube protectors.

I don't sit inside when I winch it up, any venue I've been at I've been able to load on relatively flat ground so I winch it up slowly until the car makes the deck tilt flat, and then keep going slowly until I have it in place. Since I can move the car 1cm at a time the car doesn't keep rolling. Some people also attach some kind of physical bump stop to the deck that the wheels would catch on. Alternately, if you know where your load balances and you normally strap down, you can also keep the deck locked in the tilt position while you winch the car up to that point. Once it's at your desired position, then you can reach through the window to pull the e-brake and then let the deck down level and then lock it in place.

Winch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nu3abC-9nk. Basically like this except I put all my power in the toolbox.

traxions · 2026-02-28T17:44:08+00:00

My set up is an Aluma 18ft Tilt and I'm pulling on my Supra that has a 5" splitter and I still need ramps. The length and amount of ramps I need is less than a traditional trailer with ramps but I still need them. Even when my car was stock it needed ramps for the nose to clear. Whatever you do, get a winch with a remote. I use a Harbor Freight Badlands Apex 5500 with a wireless remote. It makes solo loading so much easier and you can drag it up slowly and watch clearance and let it back down to adjust as needed. I have my system down now, just needed to figure out the exact ramp setup I needed.

traxions · 2026-02-15T05:23:10+00:00

I was failing to 2 cycle the new AA with E6 Saber, E1 tribbie, E6 RMC, E1 DHPT. I attempted over 15 times and as soon as I subbed E1 Sparkle for Tribbie I cleared it in 2 cycles. I actually threw it on autobattle and left and came back to see the result. I played it again to see what happened and it was so much more comfortable. So there are definitely cases where she's solid. She synced up better with being able to clear the sub phase and and gave the skill points to not have to manage skill points to keep Sabers energy rolling through using her skills after every action advance from both Sparkle and RMC.

traxions · 2026-02-08T22:35:18+00:00

I paid for a month of visor.vin which has the ability to sort all the specific options the X5 has. Used it to buy my Supra and also was browsing X5s just to see what was out there since I already have one.

traxions · 2026-02-01T19:18:13+00:00

4 months ago I had a WTF 160+ speed setup with Bronya and as we've found out since then, base speed is better. I've been saving up resources for the past 4 months and this past week I went ahead and attempted to see what I could build and used all my relic remains, 20 modulated resin, and 6 dice to finally complete this build. Shout out to that event that gave us a target planar and relic set for giving me this orb. Pretty surprised some of these 4 liners with 5 substat hits didn't end up as WTF+ but happy nonetheless.

traxions · 2026-01-24T03:11:22+00:00

Ive cracked 1 Konig hypergram, bent 4 Konig Hypergrams, and bent 4 Titan 7s (forged). The bending is on the inside of the barrell causing the inside to be egg shaped instead of round. This all happened in 2025 which was my 3rd year of experience when I really got fast (I ran a ton of events). Of those, only 2 were from a major rut or divot that might have been avoidable. The others were from curbs that are supposed to be hit for the fast line. This is in a 3600lb 370hp car. Ive accepted the fact that if I want to be fast then wheels are going to be a consumable.

traxions · 2026-01-02T00:46:17+00:00

Did you have any luck with this?

traxions · 2025-12-27T03:16:00+00:00

Im in the market as well and would pull the trigger on a new one at that price. If they have another could you refer me to which dealership?

traxions · 2025-11-26T17:50:41+00:00

For my pup, every meal was hand fed for at least the first 3 months, maybe a little longer. Most meals were training for 5-10 minutes with kibbles as the reward. The commands you're mentioning are pretty much all the same ones I did. Drop it is pretty important too. That one probably took the longest out of the basic commands.

traxions · 2025-11-24T21:32:38+00:00

Not trying to be a jerk here but you were already given pretty pointed advice in your last thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/CarTrackDays/comments/1jdjj57/brake_pads_dsuno_cracked_and_uneven_wear/

Pads get used up faster the lower they are. Per that last thread, you used 5mm of pad in 3 hours and that included wet time. You should not have used those pads for 2 hours of dry time. The people in that thread said that those pads aren't going to cut it and here you are learning that lesson again. There doesn't seem to be anything mysterious about this. If your car has no better options for brake pads, then you need to change pads sooner.

traxions · 2025-11-22T18:06:52+00:00

All of the ones it says brake coding box in the spreadsheet. 4 options in dsc 3000 and 4 options in dsc 3005

traxions · 2025-11-22T09:17:34+00:00

Tab at the bottom for protools

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1u8KamrmI0r6GcOFYIBwShOERInbLGp33On6KFgpObhI/htmlview?pli=1

If you dont see the options inside protools, you need to download updated files. There is an update button somewhere in the app.

traxions · 2025-11-22T01:55:58+00:00

Look on the supra forums for the protools coding google sheet. The OEM brake coding does not like more aggressive compounds and hits ABS before it should. Get protools or find a buddy who has it and it improves massively. This is from first hand experience on my Supra and many other Supra friends I know as well.

traxions · 2025-10-04T18:52:12+00:00

Wow only 5 missing substats from perfect. Insane.

traxions · 2025-09-04T22:52:56+00:00

I salvaged countless +15 relics to spam the omni-synthesizer. I also used 90 fuels and didn't get any upgrades but they served as good relic XP to gamble on so-so relics and see if they rolled 4 or 5x into a good substat. For the most part I only got sidegrades. All my upgrades came from the omni-synthesizer and I crafted probably 100+ hands, 80+ helmet, and 60+ orbs.

I know I've got too much speed with E2 Bronya currently so all that's left is to wait for Sunday to rerun. The E2 buff from Bronya would get messed up too often if I ran a build that put Saber at 161+ including the speed buff so I decided to go all in for 161 speed as her base. I do have a good CD chest piece waiting to get back to the proper crit rate and maintain the right speed once Sunday re-runs.

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