Wow, what a difference in feel. You can definately feel like you're driving more now then sailing in a boat!

I was lazy this weekend, so I ran on my street tires...which is fun non-the-less...plus I wanted to see how far I could push these Pirelli's... I was very impressed with them!

First run I had everything cracked up stiff(12F/12R), and wowee that made for a fun ride! lol Talk about oversteer! Heheh, it made it really easy to drift and I felt like I joined my friends in the Subaru club! lol....after the very crowd pleasing lap of me drifting all four through various curves, I towned down the rear a bit and made some more serious runs.

Running with 12F/9R seemed to work the best for this pavement, course and tire combo. It held well without much roll, yet kept the oversteer down.

One lap I tried starting in "2" instead of "D". This seemed to be a fatal error as I ended up plowing after the opening slolom and took out two cones in the corner and scared 10 years off some course workers. Needless to say, I won't be trying to use "2" again anytime soon. lol.

I was trying learn the course with as little brake as possible but I found myself understeering alot of the sharper cutbacks when I did this... Once I said alright, time to do some braking, I shave 2seconds off my time (on ~53-57s laps)...

Final best, 52.218 ... worst (2nd gear attempt) 58.333+2 ... I beat my friend in his Mini Cooper-S which was a comfort. ;)

Was fun...pavement at this new place was great...next time, the race rubber comes with me. :)




Daniel

 

Dan - glad you like the suspension. Where was this event at?

 

Dan it looks like it rides a lot more leval around the course.

 

It was at Giant's Stadium in Seacacus... Sponsored by the NASA-NE group. They actually have sponsors that give out monetary contingancy prizes for placing.

It definately road much more level, it was great...now I just need better seats and harness to keep myself in place! lol...

Daniel

 

hmm,, what place did you finish??

~Toast

 

They havn't "finalized" the stats yet, so I'm not sure. Their classing isn't as good as the other group I run with, so I was up against some tough cars. I think I placed 15th in my group, but I have to wait to find out.

 

Great to hear everything worked out well! I dialed in my shock setting yesterday at 11F/6R and it worked well for the course I ran. Let us know about the next event!

Spike

 

Wish I was there! Too bad a bunch of us got together and played paintball.

 

How do you think I feel??? At least you take up most of the seat and don't have as much space I have to move.

 

Way to go Dan

 

Hey Dan,

sorry I took such crappy pix bro... I was definitely not used to your camera, LOL

that last run shot I took would have been awesome if not for my fat finger pressing the shudder again and letting your truck get out of the shot while just capturing its *** in the turn, LOL... I suck!

anyway, my bald head is Cobra R performance Red now... definitely got a good sunburn, but it was a lot of fun!

--Russ

 

Dan: Way to go! These quick-pigs can turn too, can't they? I autocrossed just one event about 6 months ago and made the same mistake(2nd gear) only I never smarted up and changed it to Drive. .

Dan

 

Good Job Daniel!

<<Jonesin for apex pummel-age>>

Bob

 

Thx guys...Solo2 is such a blast and really easy to participate in.

Russ -- Thanks for snapping the shots of me racing...no biggy on the pix, there's still more events to practice up on. ;) And next time, we'll get ya a hat or some sunblock for the melon. :)

Pete -- I can imagine! Heheh, harness time baby!

Spike -- Yeah, I'll probably run softer next time too...I get around 8 runs an event, so I get time to play with the settings.

Andy -- We've got another in two weeks, I'll email u.

Dan -- hehe, yeah, was really freaky, I totally didn't expect it to behave like that! Woah! After the first curve, I just pushed it back into D and finished the lap.

Bruce - thx. :) You gotta try one of these events! It only costs rubber and brakes. ;)

Bob -- Yeah, I'm loving it. That shot of in the slolom there looks like I chose a pretty good line... I think next event I'm going to take an instructor along and get some comments.

 

Riding with an instructor helps a lot, especially if you ride with them driving while they verbalize what they're doing. Yesterday, I rode with one on a road course and she was extremely smooth and talked thru each section. Then again, I expected it since she was a national autocross champion. We also did some agricultural racing!

Spike