Western States Cobra Bash 2007 – Main Thread

Released November 1st, 2006 -



Western States Cobra Bash 2007 – Main Thread

Mark your calendars for the 3rd Annual Western States Cobra Bash May 17-20, 2007 in Sparks-Reno Nevada at the John Ascuaga's Nugget resort and casino. WSCB is a fun gathering of owners of replica and original Cobras, Daytona Coupes, GT40s, and Specialty Vendors. SORRY, No late registrations will be accepted this year. Be sure to register now before spots run out if you are definitely planning to attend. Once we are full, we are full, and that will be it. There are a few new twists in the mix for ’07. Please note, the Reno Historics / HMSA vintage race cars and plane show have been moved to the same weekend as WSCB ’07 in a collaborative effort with Reno Fernley Raceway to make this an even more exciting and interesting weekend for vintage race car and plane buffs. It all sort of came together nicely. Your WSCB ’07 Attendee ID Badge gets you into the Reno Historics and the Air Plane show all weekend as well.

The basic plan starts with early arrivals on Thursday after 3pm, the WSCB Track Day on Friday at RFR, followed by the Social Gathering at the Nugget Friday night, the group photo shoot followed by the 100-mile Drive on Saturday morning, the now extended Victorian Square WSCB public showing Saturday afternoon through the evening, and the official Reno Historics vintage car races and plane show on Sunday for anyone who can stay and check it out.

Early registration opened November 1st 2006 at the request of returning attendees wanting to lock it in on their calendars. Limit is firmly set at 200 cars and 15 specialty vendors for WSCB registrations, and a limit of 60 cars for WSCB-RFR Track Day / Pro Control Driving Academy. See "Changes for 07" on the WSCB website for more information. Word is out now about WSCB and we are looking forward to another banner year in 2007. Make it a mini vacation with your spouse, family, and friends. Come and hang out and relax with us and enjoy these cool cars together. WSCB is a nice fun group of people

Note to Registered Attendees - feel free to reply here to this thread to let others know you’ve completed registration and you are attending WSCB in 2007.

Note to industry Specialty Vendors: – email us with inquiries, we already have a reserve list going…last year all spots were gone by Christmas Eve the previous year.

If our 3rd year of WSCB is anything like the first two years or better, this could turn out to be a really neat weekend to remember once again!

Thank You.

See Ya There!
D.E.Cooney & WSCB Crew

Registration/Information: WSCB Main Page
Questions: [email protected]

Sent my check yesterday! Can't wait for the track day I missed last year because my car was busted. She's all good now! Don't wait on this guys, the list will fill quick. A really first class get together.

It's the event of the year, great weekend and last year we could not get to all the interesting events, but will make up this time.

Booked hotel, sent registration and payment.

John Place

News Update: Notification to WSCB 2007 Attendees

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UPDATE - The Historics Motor Sports Association (HMSA) decided to postpone their race car event at the Fernley Raceway on Saturday and Sunday, and will not be holding it on the same weekend as WSCB.

A this point it appears we'll be getting the entire track to ourselves on Friday, just like last year. We are working on seeing if a 4th rungroup can be added in place of the test/tune group HMSA was going to run. We'll have even more car/trailer parking at the hotel facility and more private track time now as a result. If you by chance have any questions, concerns, or issues with this change by HMSA not being there the same weekend as WSCB, please contact me with your questions or concerns before December 25th, 2006. So far, the response I've received from the few people that know about this already is they are cool with this and very much looking forward to WSCB regardless. I hope you all feel the same way.

Duane Cooney
WSCB/President

WSCB Track Day is FULL. We are putting names on a waiting list just in case something changes or if we can add another run group. You can send an email to get added. Be sure to mention you are from GT40s.com though. Thanks, DC Email [email protected]

Also, more than 1/2 of the WSCB attendee registrations are gone now too six months in advance, and 60% of the discounted hotel rooms are sold out. Since the January Kit Car has come out, this has generated even more interest.

Come on GT40 people!, we want to increase from last year's 12 or so GT40s/Ford GTs into the 20+ range this year.

UPDATE: Western States Cobra Bash 2007 – Main Thread

WSCB 2007 STATUS UPDATE - JANUARY 01/06/07

There have been a few changes taking place over the last two weeks and just after the holiday to address a few challenges we had to work through. One of them was Track Day selling out so fast, and seeing what could be done about adding more spots. I will be sending out a more formal email notification to all regisitered attendees ONCE I get all these registrations logged into the new database being put together now. I plan to send out a major notification by January 15th by email. We have interesting news to share about some of these changes.

Changes:

- Changes to TRACK instruction school, using RCSC instead of Pro Control now. We had to make revisions in order to meet the specific requirements needed for WSCB Track Day, and we are really excited to provide you with a few more details in the notication in a few weeks.

- Since HMSA is not doing test/tune that day, this allowed us to add just one more run group of 20 additional spots for a total of 80 cars.

- 11 people on the waiting list have since been notified to go ahead and send in their Track Day registrations. Send an email to [email protected] if you want one of the remaining (FINAL) nine spots left. This will be it. I will reply with the required Track Day registration form on a case by case basis.

- NO EXTRA TRACK DAYS will be offered by WSCB. If you want to participate in Track Day, now's your chance to grab one of the last nine spots. Good Luck. Get Ready, Set, Go!

- John Marsey will follow up with you on your specific Track Day numbers on a case by case basis. Please be sure to check with JMarsey if you have not coordinated your number with him. It may already be reserved by someone else, please confirm with the numbers police! Hahahahaha.

- As of 1/6/07 we are somewhere around 130 total registered cars for WSCB now, and reaching 80 cars for Track Day soon. Do you think we'll reach the 200 car limit for WSCB with over 5 months to go?

- Once the registration/names database is completed, I wil post the requested attendees list on the WSCB website like last year with Name/Handle/Car/City only so you can see who is attending.

- A few more magazines have contacted us since the recent coverage came out in Kit Kar January 2007. Seems to have generated some additional interest by people who may not be members of ClubCobra.com, or FFCobra.com or GT40s.com.


The next update will the real one by email to all registered attendees. Thanks to everyone for your continuted support.

Take Care. DC

Magazine Coverage of WSCB

Kit Car Magazine provided great coverage of WSCB 2007 in their January 2007 issue. Here is a pic of Roy Sayles from VIP Classics runing his car during WSCB Track Day. Just a few pics to give you an idea. C'mon GT40 people, sign up! Even more GT40s needed this year.

Full Magazine Article:
2006 Western States Shelby Cobra Bash - Kit Car Magazine

Update - Western States Cobra Bash 2007 – Main Thread

WSCB Update, 02/09/07 -

-More GT40s coming this year (excellent)!
-WSCB Track Day is full (80)
-Vendor spots are full (10)
-160 cars registered now.
-Only 40 WSCB attendee registrations left.
-Hotel block of rooms at discount rate, running low.
-Don't wait if you still plan to register.
-Final registration closes April 15th, or as soon as we get to 200 cars, whichever comes first.
-Attendee list is updated on the WSCB website.
-Track Day updates are included.
-Vendor website links added to Vendor Info page.
-Thanks to all of you who registered early.
DC

Website: WSCB Main Page
Email: [email protected]

RFR is a FUN track, major personality, a great layout, I did a track day there and wore myself out because I just coulnt say no to more laps! Only problem it has ..... it's a bit to0 bumpy for racebikes to race on, drove around it in a passenger car and all the bumps magically went away. How is it bump wise for performance cars?

You guys should have a blast.

I want to be the first to report that the 2007 WSCB was GREAT!!!! Maximum thanks to all involved it it's production!!!

Pics to follow with a complete report on the track day.

Howard,
Wanted to say thanks for the fantastic ride in your '40. The brakes on it are just awsome! Very impressive car in all respects. You have done a great job sorting it out. Thanks again. Hopefully I can return the favor some day.

It was a good time.

I enjoyed meeting you, Howard. Nice car.

SOOOOO How was it? First again thanks to Dwayne and his crew. This event in the highlight of my hobby each year.

The track at Fernley Nevada is a 4+ mile long track with two levels, one down on the pit straight the first few turns and the last few turns. I will guess that about 1.5 miles are at the pit level. The rest of the track is slightly higher. Maybe something like a 100 ft in elevation or so.

It can be configured many ways. From as short as 1.5 miles to full length. We ran a 2.5 mile track that included the longest straight and the three fastest corners. All that is on the lower portion of the track. The other mile or so is a series of connector links tying the ends of the lower area together but up on the "mesa".

The thing I was most concerned about on setup was all three 3rd gear corners are lefts as well as the 4th gear 1st turn. The very fast 1st turn leads into a set of esses. The first two are VERY fast and the third must be entered after a short brake application and then on exit back to full power in forth. This series is so fast I never really gave it all it was worth. Far to much risk for a fun weekend. I would guess however that at the end of the straight I was pulling right at 6000 in 4th (130). I was getting the shift light right as I went for the brakes.

The first L turn was at about 4800, roughly 105 or so holding that speed through the first L then R and light tap on brakes through the next L thereupon full power back to about a 110 or so before a very hard brake application for the next left taken in 3rd.

This series had me spooked so I put in some under-steer so at least the car would go straight as it neared the limmit. Good choice in hindsight. Full stiff front roll bar and about 60% stiff rear bar. I also set the front shocks to about 80% stiff and the rears to about 70%.

First tire pressures were 27F 28R.

The last two corners on the track are banked to the left and taken it 3rd. I soon found that if I went as hard as I could through the last turn onto the front straight I would need to change to 5th at the end of the straight then downshift to 4th. I didn't want that much monkey motion at a 135MPH AND brake and turn the car into 1 so I took it easy in that last L so as not to get too much speed down the straight.

First session. 4 laps warm-up. Track VERY dirty and slick as snot. This track is out in the desert and there is a lot of windblown sand all over the place. It was so bad that I couldn't get any rear grip. I even thought about going even more soft at the rear of the car but decided to leave it as is for the next session and hope that the dirt got blown off.

Tire temps at end of session 1, RF31 LF29 RR32 LR29. Only 4 laps in the morning, 77F air temp and cold track, and the right side of the car is already gaining pressure.

Second session. Rob on this forum came all the way down from Montana for a ride and so he got one. 10 Laps this time. I was surprised that the extra weight didn't really change the ballance all that much.

Reset air pressures to F27 R28 Air temp now about 82F. Hit it a little harder towards the end of the session and was now getting about 5500 (120) at the end of the straight. I don't think that I have anything to prove about my manhood so I did lift a little earlier all the way around in deference to my passenger. Still the tires gained quite a bit of pressure. RF32 LF30 RR33 LR30.

Wear pattern on the rears wasn't showing that the tire was getting used all the way across the tread with the rears leaving about 1/2 in of the outboard out of the game. TOO much pressure.

Car did have a little bit more push into the really fast turns and I went the other way in my thinking. Considered tightening up the rear bar but didn't do it.

Third session. Alone in car. Going for it this time. Tire pressures back down to LF27 RF26 RR25 LR27. 2 laps easy to warm up tires. Got a little room and went hard 3 laps. Shift light blinking at end of straight. Car feels very good now. Nice and neutral where there was a lot of push before but not much over-steer except coming down the hill off camber to the right. I really hate that turn. Never did get it right.

There is a turn to the right on the "back straight" that is really a kink. I am getting throught there flat in 4th now. Maybe a 115 or so. REALLY REALLY FUN!!! Then down to 3rd hard on brakes for the second to last L.

Tires are all hot again RR up to 36 and RF33. Hummmmmm.....

Returned tire pressures to LF26 RF25 RR25 LR27.

Last session, Gave a friend a ride who instucks at Thunderhill. I really went for it and saw the highest speeds down the straight. Full on shift light and rev limmiter taking a hit (6200 @ 134) BIG BRAKES NOW BOYS!!!! YA FUCKIN WHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Water temp finally got hot @ 210F. Oil temp 180F gearbox temp 190F with pump on. Works!! Tires were all above 33.

I had a really good time. Car runs very hard.

I did have one moment, The last session only had three cars on track. Me, spec FF Cobra and a spec miaida on slicks. He spun in right in front of me at about 70 or so and I had to take to the dirt, All well, went on without any issues.

Here's a picture of the track.

Last thing. I had a camera failure and I have no pictures of me or my car at the track. If anyone does please send them to me and feel free to post them here.

Oh and by the way Ron from Montana grin looked like it was on a 15 year old boy with his hands on a set of hooters for the first time when he got out of the car.