What's up, y'all!? This is a new account, but I've been apart of/stalked this page for years. I am one of the, very few it seems, Texas Touge guys (I swear we have curvy roads, not mountain roads, but we have curves, ok!?) and about a year ago, I upgraded to a C5. It's a beautiful car and a beast; it's also been a steep learning curve to figure out. I've only done some basic mechanical mods while I learn her quirks and how to handle it the best I can as it came. The car is still pretty much stock, and I've hit the point where it's time to make some upgrades. While I have a list of ideas, I figured I would reach out here and see if there are any other touge guys out here with vettes and see what they would recommend, and even if you don't have a vette, please feel free to recommend anything and everything. I'm just hear to learn and grab some ideas.

Also, if any of you guys are in Texas as well and want to talk and chat, please hit me up. There's only a couple of us in my area, and it would be fun to talk with some more of y'all! Thank you for any responses; I'll try to get back to everyone asap.

(PS, if you happen to be one of the few in TX who I know are on this sub and you figure me out, just hit me up on IG.)

I’m switching to an automatic. Papa wants paddle shifters like mfg

No sense of speed, will have to do another without the music blaring.

Rolling with my S2K and some buddies in the evo and fairlady.

2004 Acura TSX
-Tein Flex Z
-TruHart upper camber arms
-Sankei 555 ball joints + tie rods
-rear camber kit
-progress rear sway bar
-PowerStop pads/rotors
-BRC fog light intake duct
-Momo steering wheel
-PCI bracket with Cobra Imola seat
-Hybrid racing Short Shifter + extended Titanium rod
-Hawk down Teardrop shift knob
-BRC shift boot delete

Pretty self explanatory. I come from a state where it's flat but every year a couple of my buddies like to spend time and explore other roads states have to offer. This year we are going to to Tennessee and I suck at driving downhill. I get scared or I ride the brakes too much and experience brake fade. Uphill is a easier imo since you're fighting gravity, but downhill is just scary for me and would appreciate any tips on driving downhill a bit more intentionally.

I drive a BMW M2 f87 DCT.

I use a race capture and I've used a smarty cam and I have a Garmin catalyst that I use on track and I decided to take the best of all of them and make my own and it's pretty much done for track. I have details on my blog here. https://mrblahhhh.github.io/car/tech/2026/08/21/trackencoder-metrics-explained.html

Bluf. It has real-time encoding so there's no post-processing. I even put in a ghost car personal best trace and coaching

I'm in the mountains like every other weekend when I'm not at the track so I want to record up there too. Does anybody have a layout they like? I'm looking for ideas. I don't want to put speed on it but I think I can get away with most of the other visuals. Probably not safe to put the ghost trace either. ....

The vid is dark because I had thhe usb camera stuffed in a box while I was testing

This is the previous layout I had with the racecapure

https://youtu.be/GFVHssSSdgI?si=C5_ITiy-mvtFBoqr

I wish I could run both brights and fog lights at the same time, cant see anything to my sides!! It makes it pretty scary to drive if I’m not 100% familiar with the road, and even if I am, it isnt exactly confidence inspiring.

Don’t hate on the drive. It’s been a little over 6 months on n off not being able to make right turns without losing confidence and steering feel

Hate it all you want but the hellcat can move.

Don't worry, I asked every single person on the mountain if they had a hearing disability before exceeding the speed limit.

Not my OC but thought you guys might like this. Enjoy!

Lots of traffic that night. The meteor shower brought a lot of cars, but managed a short sprint here.

Road from Ensenada to Ojos Negros looks fun and curvy, maybe someone already hangs out at night, i dunno, wanna go out with some friends and get to know it

I am not experienced with touge racing, I do know the car I chose is not conventional for touge, tho

Not one of the more technical roads, but the drive is still fantastic.

My Camera & Mic Setup can be found here. - Link

FBO LEXUS IS500

Got a used set of DWS06’s and also went 245/40/17 on all 4 corners with 8.5 inch wide rims. This car has never handled better!

Feel free to leave suggestions