Was really hoping ZROD would be the one for me, but not tooo crazy about the wear here. The iron was a little higher and there was some tin that popped up that I wasn’t expecting. Starting to wonder at this point if the Mini motor likes lots of molybdenum… Despite that, decently happy with…
Now that I’ve had some time to digest nationals and the rest of the season, thought I’d jot down some notes about how Nationals went & moving forward. Where I am comparatively: 12th of 18 from Nationals 2/3rds through my first/second “real” season of autox, I’m still far off pace. http://sololive.scca.com/HS.html From my Nationals “Pregame,”…
Concluded nationals on Friday! Had a terrible run on the East course. never got a great feel for it, just not well driven etc. The two drivers who should have beaten me on Thursday (coned their fastest runs) did so on Friday, putting me 12th of 18 drivers. Overall, I am satisfied with how I…
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…
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