Since I wasn’t able to get this entire week off work, I’ve been stuck here at my desk watching the numbers slowly pop up on Solo Live. I figure with the data that I do have, from Spring Nationals and Nationals last year, I can run some numbers and get some kind of estimate of…
I’d been debating whether or not I’d want new tires, whether I’d want them before or after nats, what tires to get in general etc. – decided to just go for it and bought brand new Hankook RS3V2’s in 205/45-16. This setup is a good bit shorter than what I had been running with the…
These were purchased more as a stop-gap before I moved onto the Hankook RS3’s. Very impressed with these tires overall. The talk is that these tires required a lot of heat to be happy, which I found to be true. I kind of liked that about these tires, as opposed to the ZII’s. I can…
Good event today. Course was an interpretation of the west course at Spring Nats 2014, albeit we were much more space limited. Gates etc were much narrower, thought it was definitely a good course and good interpretation. Not a great day for me overall. I think this was my first time racing at Stl on…
Tires. Are. Done. Decent course at CCSCC today, and like the first event of the year, I had D. Marx codrive the MINI with me. By the first run, we had determined that the tires are heat cycled out, which I guess is reasonable. I got a pretty sweet drift on them on the back…
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Lot of mini updates, but the dampers are here! Sort of. Just a few last minute adjustments to make on them. Then the struts currently on the MINI will be disassembled, reassembled onto these new springs and dampers, and installed into the MINI. Will be doing the RSB at the same time. May look into…
Big thanks to the St. Louis MINI Club for helping me out with this – this would have been a terrible (impossible) job on my own. We mainly followed these instructions. Luckily we finished the job in under 5 hours including a nice lunch break. A lot of work just for ~2mm. It feels marginally…
A few minor updates here. Due to shipping and other constraints, tomorrow I’ll be working with some guys from the St. Louis MINI Club to install the front and rear sway bars alone, without the springs and dampers. Then on Thursday of this week, I’ll install the springs and dampers, and Friday off for an…
Finally took some time to get the Schroth Quick Fit harness in. Very easy job, probably 30min max as long as you’ve got everything you need right there. Schroth includes a how-to, but I thought I’d write it out here with pics as well. Tools needed: Socket wrench T50 Torx bit 17mm socket And that’s…
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