FINALLY autoX'd the car

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FINALLY autoX'd the car

June 22, 2008, 07:26:47 PM

after a build that took longer than planned, a budget that ran out of money, and scheduling that just did not work out, i finally got to my first autoX event today! :burnout:

the event was held at an old airport/CDL test site. the section we used was roughly 1.25 miles around w/an access road thru the middle.
the course was set up in one half of the oval, and we ran in a u-shape. it was very open and fast. the surface is rough and broken in spots, but very grippy. total run length was 0.8miles.

overall, the car felt great. i doubt it will need any suspension or brake upgrades, other than tires, for a long time. i really need some seat time before i will be able to use everything ive already got to its fullest extent.

my runs were all either clean(w/o any cones) or DNF :hick:

60.225
56.573
DNF (pushed out of a fast turn and missed a garage)
DNF (looped the car in a slalom)
55.303
55.004

i will update here after the final results are posted, and the pics are up

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Reply #1 – June 22, 2008, 07:36:19 PM

Cool!:burnout:

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Reply #2 – June 22, 2008, 08:16:31 PM

here is a shot of the site

we setup and staged in the lower half of the runway you can see(the wider long road) and raced on the upper half of the run way and access road; in a u-shape. start was at the cross road, around the u, and finish was at the cross road again. flying finish with lots of shut down room. then around the lower half of the oval back to staging.

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Reply #3 – June 22, 2008, 10:39:01 PM

Sounds like fun. You should try to find an event on a roadracing track. My first ever track event was on the roadcourse at Lowes in Charlotte.
Needless to say, it was addicting......

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Reply #4 – June 23, 2008, 06:22:53 AM

as soon as i have enough money, or start workin events for credit, i will be takin the car out to putnam park road course.

http://www.putnampark.com/

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Reply #5 – June 23, 2008, 05:00:28 PM

Beating up on Porsche's?

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Reply #6 – June 23, 2008, 05:06:45 PM

Quote from: Tbird232ci;224385

Beating up on Porsche's?

meh, i dunno....i was probly "mid-pack" and really "tearing up the course!"

usually that's a good thing

Reply #7 – June 24, 2008, 04:26:38 AM

Quote from: gumby;224302

DNF (pushed out of a fast turn and missed a garage)

wtf, a garage? ya'll's autox's must be different from ours....

Anyway, were there any fox bodies (or anything else) there that could give you a benchmark to compare the performance of yours?

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Reply #8 – June 24, 2008, 06:33:34 AM

a garage:

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basically a box with the entrance and exit on the same side

there was one sn95 car, no foxes. i dont remember what class he was running, or his mods if any...i hope the results get posted soon.

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Reply #9 – June 24, 2008, 04:08:05 PM

overall results are posted. i came in 42nd of 55.

overall:
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2008_Jun_Overall.pdf

by class:
http://home.comcast.net/~vbrunamonti/cscc/2008_Jun_Class.pdf

hooray for not being the slowest, nor makin the biggest mistake of the day! one guy in an 05 mustang GT went four off into the dirt after he looped his car in the slalom :hick:

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Reply #10 – June 25, 2008, 01:53:49 AM

Are you using sticky tires?

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Reply #11 – June 25, 2008, 06:30:49 AM

nope.

5yo, 320 treadwear, street tires. good tread depth, but heat cycled to death by now im sure....

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Reply #12 – June 25, 2008, 12:01:15 PM

A group of us here in Wisconsin are trying to get some scratch together so we can do an Auto X day at Road America. I'll have the bird up there if it pans out!

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Reply #13 – June 25, 2008, 12:19:41 PM

For those of you not familliar with RA, here is a link to the course map.

http://www.roadamerica.com/images/information_maps/map_08_main.pdf

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Reply #14 – June 25, 2008, 08:58:49 PM

You need to try some sticky tires. The difference is amazing. I bought two sets of shaved DOT legal racing tires from a local SCCA racer. They were molded with very shallow tread, and then were shaved to be almost slicks. They WERE slicks after the morning track session, but lasted all weekend. I felt like I had 50 more HP and my tires were twice as wide with the grip they gave me. I still have the second set, wish you were closer.
I used street tires my first trip to Lowe's, and got black flagged during our second session because my RF tire was smoking in T-4 of the NASCAR oval (about 125mph). I knocked some more neg camber in it, they saw that it was just the tire smoking, and went back out. That tire chunked from the heat, but lasted me another few thousand miles on the street.