First races of the year were last weekend. Got the win in CSP both days, despite my bald Sumitomos and rain on Saturday. Here's a video from Saturday, not much rotary action because we all raced in the same heat, but there is an RX8 in there and a bunch of other cool cars (and a few snippets from my incar action).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nhM3qijRwE

 

Here's a short, low quality shot someone got of my a couple of weeks ago. Racing on a wet, very dirty course, on completely bald Sumitomos made for a very interesting day.

On the last turn of the course, if you watch closely you'll see me kick a cone up into the air after catching the edge of it with my rear tire. The cone landed right back where it started from, so I didn't incure any penalties. Pure skill, I tell you.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYdx5NH6DE

 

Time for new tires there bud. I've never seen you slide around that much.

 

http://vimeo.com/12067348


Very cool video about autocrossing. I've been told by 80's Old School that the bug eyed sprite at the end of the video is powered by a 20b.

 

July 3rd and 4th races. I took 1st on both days in CSP. Also some footage of a very nice rx3 that belongs to a friend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKNjkywj1Q0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpEXhKAp1IY

 

Our latest club event, and my best performance to date. Only 6 seconds off FTD, I LOVED the course.
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FB road race car, first time he'd autocrossed it.

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bah, can't get videos to work. I'll fix it later, out of time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/v/5MuwUhPHOLU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US

FB road race car, first time he'd autocrossed it.

http://www.youtube.com/v/cOalqlJ6ls4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US

 

thats not loud a little high pitch but not loud

 

Latest run in the RX-7. I took an additional 130# of weight out, New RE Speed camber plates, New Tokico Illuminas, and fresh Hoosier A-6 tires.

Car is starting to get wicked fast!!! Now I need more power!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWR3YPuNOto

 

This was the fourth run of my first ever autocross a few weeks ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo7zdwVawkw

By the way, you guys should look up a plugin for virtualdub called Deshaker, it works wonders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LlmoxF5g9k

 

That deshaker looks pretty cool. Was this event at Tire Rack?

 

It was a Corvettes of Minnesota-hosted event at a local technical college. The college has a big-ol' track behind it for training truck drivers, which makes for a fantastic autocross course. There's another one at the same location in just a couple of weeks, and I'm really excited for it.

 

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http://youtu.be/eRlA-TXKuPc

Lets try this again....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtBPspUI4WI

 

Not autocross, but rather rallycross. The Nationals, at that. Was only my 4th event ever, and the car needs front suspension, BADLY.....

http://youtu.be/2w84rvSTyhA

 

Great video RW

 

Thanks! Too bad the audio is crap. You could have heard the fury of the bumpstop action, as well as how well that edelbrock 600 works on the SE 6 port engine.
The bumpstop action was so rough, it broke the hangers on the exhaust. RB headers and presilencers are WAY overbuilt. The full wieght of the exhaust bouncing between the underside of the car and top of the axle only managed to strip the threads in the nuts holding the presilencer to the header. The car competed the full day on day 2 with a chain wrapped around the muffler and tied into one rear hanger and the tie-down hook.
Well, actually the first run, the chain had been tied to the hanger at the axle, which broke again, and the chain then became a "tailhook", and managed to hook the rubber timing hose at the finish line. One in a million shot, and we pulled it off.
Yes, we actually wrote "Tailhook" on the back window for the remainder of the event with bright white vinyl letters. Gotta know how to make fun of yourself, before you can really do it to others.

 

I tried Rallycross one time, then spent the next month apologizing to my car and begging forgiveness. If I had a car I hated, I'd be all over it!

 

Just had my first autocross Saturday, and man, it was fantastic. Great seeing these videos of my favorite car in this great sport. Thanks

 

all i want to do is autox... i need a better paying job

 

 

On Youtube you mentioned that you should've left the RB rear bar on, instead of swapping for the stock bar. What front bar do you have? It looks like you are dealing with a little bit of understeer, which would make you want the RB bar on the back (to increase oversteer). However, this is actually making one end of the car handle worse, in order to get better overall handling.

What you really want to shoot for is getting more grip on the front end, rather than less on the rear.

From what I can see in the video, it looks like you would really benefit from some camber plates. You already have good tires (888's, right?).

Other than that, better setup before the corner would help. Concentrate on slow in, fast out. The majority of your understeer issue could be handled by simply going into the corner more slowly. I know it hurts to hear that, but your overall times will improve because you will exit the corner faster, and obtain a higher speed on the interval before the next turn. This is especially important on a turn right before any kind of a straight section.

But overall, looked like some great driving and you seemed to handle the handling shortcomings quite well. Nice car from what I could see.




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Pay a $20.00 (average) entry fee, and borrow a helmet. Other than that, as long as your battery is secure (no bungee cords) and you aren't leaking fluids, you're a race car driver.