Crumpler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:14 am
My chapter is more wine and cheese then any tech or racing. If there’s a tech session, it’s about which wax is best.
If we assume a certain uniformity across chapters then many events will be about "wine and cheese" and tech sessions are mostly a marketing ploy for the sponsering shop.
As an aside, group tech sessions are a poor forum anyway. I wrote my PPI doc, originally, as the result of a request by Greg Nichols (IIRC) for me to host the tech session at The Frenzy. If I was going to do it, then I wanted to make sure it was planned, scripted, etc. Not much more work to turn that into a document. Anyways, when I did the tech session out of about 100 people, most were talking amongst themselves and not too many were actually paying attention. That was the final nail in the coffin for me for big-group tech sessions: those are social occasions and not about 'tech.'
Crumpler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:14 am
There’s a more money then sense vibe, that I get out of some of the players, but I’m sure that’s not exclusive to PCA.
Nope. I've gone to a few non-PCA C&Cs and the vibe is Penis Size Comparison. Although if you look carefully for folks with grease under their finger nails you can find "real" folks and have good conversation.
The folks you seek are more likely to be found at PCA DEs and A-Xs. SCCA A-Xs also. SCCA track days are, however, up here at least, reportedly brutal and not to be entered unless you do your own body work or just don't give a shit. And they like to 'target' nice cars. (So... DBs can be found anywhere.)
Crumpler wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:14 am
I have a client that just paid the local Porsche dealer 11k to replace his ceramic rotors on a Panamera that I know doesn’t get pushed hard.
Possible explanations for replacement of PCCB rotors absent track days:
- dealer just screwed him, vociferously and without lube
- mechanical damage due to FOD or screwing up wheel removal/install (see previous dealer bullet.)
- he's a left-foot braker and rides the brake with his left foot all the time.
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