Can your SHO run with a Porsche Cayman?

[MN66]

Yes, your SHO not only can run in a straight line but it also can turn and stop. Here is a link to one lap at Road America in Wisconsin with the BMW club. When you go to RA, you do see many VERY fast cars, but the SHO is no slouch for a 4-door grocery getter.

 

[76FoMoCo]

Nice work

 

[Csbbrah]

Really cool!

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[Zpak]

Good stuff! Cool video too. The best part is you got him in the straight.

 

[Sgtmeatsauce1]

Nice!

 

[SM105K]

Haha, that is some good stuff.

 

[BPete81]

Indeed, a SHO well driven is faster than a Cayman. The PC never came within 3 feet of an apex and it looks like you nailed your marks perfectly. Well done, and thanks for showing us the potential of our cars with track time and practice.

Original owner, black 89.

 

[PaulTAutoX]

Yes, your SHO not only can run in a straight line but it also can turn and stop. Here is a link to one lap at Road America in Wisconsin with the BMW club. When you go to RA, you do see many VERY fast cars, but the SHO is no slouch for a 4-door grocery getter.

That's a pretty fast course! Those repeated haul-downs from 120-ish will really work the brakes. While it looked like your lines were good, woulda been fun to see what whaz-iz-name the stock car driver who did the SHO commercials on track could have done!

Back in the day, musta been ~1994 as I had about 20K miles on my late year '92, I ran a BMW club track day at Sears Point in Sonoma. I had had a little autocrossing, plus a 3 day Bondurant HPD school. I found I was about even with a guy with a '85 Supra - he was a little better in the corners, (mine was bone stock) but I could pull him back on the straights. And in our sessions we passed EVERYTHING BMW that was not greater than 3.5 liters, and probably a few that were. Other than the modded-up ones.
Side note, that Bondurant school was what got me to buy the SHO, as they were using the SHO as instructor cars back then. It gave you room for a roll cage and three students, and on the track they were about as fast as the contemporary Mustangs which were not very powerful yet.

 

[twobitcoder]

You took your SHO racing with the factory speed limiter? And it's like a yacht around the corners.

 

[MN66]

You took your SHO racing with the factory speed limiter? And it's like a yacht around the corners.

No, no limiter. It has an LMS tune and H&R springs and goes around corners quite well for 4600 lbs and stock tires. The speed limiter is the fact that on the front straight you are driving up a four story building. The car hit 140 at Brainerd International.