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August 22, 2010, 06:02:07 PM

FINALLY got out to an event today. been slow gettin the car ready, and with the TC day in july i didnt wanna push my luck too much before hand. today, the car was great! the driver was mediocre as usual

just when things were coming together, a couple junked runs in a row completely tossed my concentration.

1st run is always pretty slow. putting the course together in my head walking vs. driving. 58.xx seconds
2nd run was much better, mid 55.xx
3rd run was another improvement, 54.00x
4th run felt at least as fast as the 3rd until i got flagged. the guy runnin ahead of me put his car off course in the second section, out into the corn field.
on my re-run the back end came around in the first section and i killed three cones with the passenger door of the car:hick:
5th run was feeling decent, but after having two runs where i did not complete the back section, i got ahead of myself and missed the final box. coming out of the second to last obstacle, i hammered down and realized i was lined up on the wrong side of a pointer cone. locked up the brakes, crossed up the car, and put it.......out in the corn!! many curse words ensued.
6th run was clean, but my head just wasnt in it. 54.33x

these are raw times, my official times will show a 1sec handicap for street tires. i know the guy who finished 3rd in SM had an official time of 49.xx sec. i didnt listen to everyone elses times

ill post up the links to the official results when they are posted, and hopefully some pics if i can find them. i did see a few cameras floating around

overall the car felt great considering all the changes i have made since i was out last. i was very pleased with how the car performed when i was up to the task of driving it. lighter clutch and d/s really shined in transitions; smoother as well as more responsive. the new turbo and exhaust setup made power much smoother than the old IHI. i converted to a breather tank vs. PCV system, and it seems to be working flawlessly. was very nice not to have oil puked down the side of my motor or have the dipstick pop out.

next event is labor day. im already ready to go!

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Reply #1 – August 22, 2010, 08:56:10 PM

Great to hear you're able to do an event and the car is up to it!

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Reply #2 – August 22, 2010, 09:21:12 PM

vids fresh from youtube, this was our course today(obviously not my vids....)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNY8vdlXrUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls20WSiLUTk

watchin his vids after running the event in my car, its very interesting how different the throttle inputs are from his car to mine. his is an 86 civic Si running in street touring
also you can see our old surface compared to the new surface layed down this year. this was the first time i ran on the new surface, and it is incredible! on my first run, after the 90* corner and the two gates, i tried to drive over the FIRST cone in the slalom because the car actually turned in at the beginning of my steering input.

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Reply #3 – August 22, 2010, 09:23:57 PM

Cool, I imagine that it was quite fun

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Reply #4 – August 22, 2010, 10:30:49 PM

Sounds like a blast

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Reply #5 – August 22, 2010, 11:14:38 PM

, you should come out to an NWOR event sometime. Sept 26 is at chrysler machining in perrysburg(toledo) and its right off the ohio turnpike.
I love seriously fast courses like that one was. I would've been at 75-7600 rpm on some of those straights with my 3.55 gears still.

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Reply #6 – August 23, 2010, 06:48:07 PM

Quote from: fordguy545;333084

, you should come out to an NWOR event sometime.

why? so you can show me how much faster you are with far less suspension work and a whole lot more tire?

more vids
roof mount cam on a mini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiP1hBE406o

another dash mount, in a turbo solstice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4N2ExoQprw

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Reply #7 – August 23, 2010, 11:04:06 PM

lol. You're gonna make me come out there aren't ya! Just because I'm still on stock springs doesn't mean anything:)

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Reply #8 – August 24, 2010, 10:44:48 PM

overall results
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2010_Aug22_Overall.pdf

class results
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2010_Aug22_Results.pdf

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Reply #9 – September 11, 2010, 08:30:05 PM

ok heres some stuff from labor day.
i was actually fastest in my class, but there were only three cars vs. the normal 6-7, and since the monday event was combined with sundays event as "super weekend," there were no individual trophies for mondays run.

some vid from a GS civic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iAE25mJzDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0gGkgliV0

and results
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2010-09-06_Results.pdf

ethan, you would have LOVED this course! it was very wide open thru the first section. i washiznittin the limiter in 2nd right before my braking zone into the first sweeping 90, and reaching for third coming thru the last set of element headed to the finish.

my buddie got some outside video of my runs, but im gonna hafta help him get them off his camera i guess, cause he hasnt emailed em to me yet....

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Reply #10 – September 12, 2010, 01:12:07 AM

lol. Good job!

I definately need to go to you sometime because it really doesnt look like there are that many fast cars down there. Theres no way for me to guage how fast it is because there are no corvettes at all on there. I usually beat almost all of the corvettes in the NWOR SCCA. If I go to a corvette club autox in lorain, I'm gauranteed to beat them all, rofl

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Reply #11 – September 12, 2010, 09:21:56 PM

yeah, the fastest stuff down here is generally a turbo solstice, and the subies. i do run with the smaller region too though, rather than the indy region. i get more seat time this way.

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Reply #12 – September 26, 2010, 06:15:08 PM

ok, finally got the vids from my buddie. this is the best quality one. all the rest were horribly out of focus
http://s25.photobucket.com/albums/c73/gmby23/87%20turbocoupe/?action=view¤t=886f1cf7.mp4
and a fresh pic of the car from that event

todays event started rainy, and of course i ended up in the first run group....weatherman kept sayin it would clear out and he was right; second run group had nice sunshine and dry pavement.
anyhow i finished second to an AWD car on a wet course. the other two in class were FWDs. runnin the tbird on a wet course was an interesting experience. taught me a couple things about smooth transitions and throttle control ;)

there was a guy in a vette at this event, who ran in the dry and spun out every run.
all i could think of while he was on course was this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzrXwgMSy1Y&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ngA4IHnAQ&feature=channel

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Reply #13 – September 28, 2010, 05:01:45 PM

official results from sun 9/26
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2010-09-26_Results.pdf
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2010-09-26_Overall.pdf

the course dried out a bit between each run in the morning. my 6th run was on almost completely dry pavement. it was my last run of the day, so i went all in as if it was a normal dry event. there was one damp spot right near the end of the course that got me crossed up just enough to get one freakin cone. that would have been a badass run otherwise....

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Reply #14 – September 28, 2010, 05:15:46 PM

sweetness.. makes me want to rush to finish my capri and go run at NJMP, since it's right down the street.. bad things happen when rushing though :(