First maintenance/modification up for the new Rav4 – Weathertech mats! Whoever owned the car previously and traded it into the dealer must have felt they needed to take the mats with them, so I ended up with none. Sadly the dealer didn’t provide any either, and after scanning the web for a wide range of…
What a fast year 2015 turned out to be — can’t believe how quickly time flew. Funnily enough, for the second year in a row I got in 33 events, though this time via dual driving, and managed to get a few more runs in as well. Big year of changes too — Evo 2015:…
Final event of the year! Unfortunately, a stark contrast from my performance last year – didn’t get a great run in and finished 27th overall – though we had about 10+ nationally competitive drivers at the event today. The course standard fair for CCSCC, starting from the south and running in the typical M configuration.…
Swapped these tires from our NB Miata, as we were planning to sell the car anyway. Right away noticed that, even though the tire is the same 205, runs much wider (nearly an inch) compared to the 205/45-16 RS3s. Thanks to the Miata being kind on the tires, the flipped side had very little wear,…
These tires were leftover tires on the OEM wheels that came with the Evo when I bought it. True to form, they were still pretty grippy, though dated, and had a lot of tread. Compared to modern, fresh tires, they probably give up 1s on any decent sized course. Just trying to finish these off so I…
Decided to use the final GAX event as a test ‘n tune (16 runs to do some shock tuning). I had been having a lot of problems with the rear of the car being unstable, especially on lift and braking, the car would be pitching and rolling a lot. I had pretty much decided to…
Continental TrueContact 185/65-15 (Mini, 11/2015-current): Initial impressions of this tire are very good. Main purpose was to use as a daily cruiser and highway tire for trips. This will play especially key in next year, as the RE71Rs truly disintegrate it seems. They are much narrower than what I’ve been running, so there is a…
I leveled up. That’s the only way I can really describe my performance from the last event, and now this one. If only this weren’t all happening after all the points events had finished. Squashing any concerns that the last event (technically two courses) was a fluke, I had yet another best-ever performance. I actually…
Noticed very recently the battery for the Fit was feeling pretty weak – start ups were taking a bit longer than usual. The dash lights would flicker during start up. The windows would make noises like they were struggling. The effects were exacerbated the colder it was or the longer it sat, and twice to…
Slow in getting this out – had our annual year end fun event for Stl Solo – decided to put an interesting spin on things this year – we’d run the course forwards in the morning, then backwards in the afternoon! Per the “fun” event, we’d measure by our 2nd run – no matter how…
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