[ericedelman]

Couple of tips, I'm not an expert, but I do take my car to the track.

1. Get larger front tires. You can get take-off rear wheels from another car and run the 275's up front. I destroyed a set of the 245 front tires in 300 miles on the track in one weekend. I'm personally trying to go wider than that on my car, but it did work well.

2. The Brembo brakes are very good, so are the pads. When you wear them out, try the Hawk HPS+ pads, but there's no reason not to use the Brembo's while there's still some pad left. I went 140+ at Pocono on the single infield course and had hardly any fade at all on stock brakes. Change to DOT 4 fluid and flush/bleed before you go to the track sessions.

3. Your car is heavy for a road course and will respond much better with smaller, smoother inputs of steering, braking, and throttle. It will push and plow into the corners (the larger front tires will help with this), so go in slower, and come out faster.

4. The stock engine is lugs a little under 4000 rpm, and sings from 4000 to redline. Try and maintain some rpm's throughout the course.

5. Get an instructor.

6. If you can't get a good instructor, you can drive a lot of road courses in this car in 4th gear, it has plenty of torque. Practice braking and turning into the corners without shifting at all. This can be a very helpful exercise to learn a track and gauge how slow/fast you should be going.

7. Lower the car and get heavier swaybars after you've been driving it a bit. Work on suspension and brakes first, add power last.

8. Get an instructor.