Auto-x this sunday 4/5

[zeenon53]

I'm heading to pungo airfield in Chesapeake sunday morning around 7. Weather is looking great! It is an SCCA event and they won't be having many that are this close. Spectators/Cruisers welcome:george:


LMFAO the smiley is called [: george :]

[05Roush]

I'm heading to pungo airfield in Chesapeake sunday morning around 7. Weather is looking great! It is an SCCA event and they won't be having many that are this close. Spectators/Cruisers welcome:george:


LMFAO the smiley is called [: george :]

You noticed that?! ;)

And this is very tempting... I'll have to alert my other half...

[zeenon53]

I'll be leaving my house at 7 going to bagels to beef around 7:20 if you decide to come. Mike Kerr will be riding with me as well.

[zeenon53]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s4TDjz2k_E

My ass got burnt up there. I think i finished 4/19 in the novice group and was 3/10 of a second off the top novice spot. The official results aren't posted yet, but that is what my time slip says. I am also 3/3 with spinning out, on my very first run I spun on the cross section of the figure 8. I would have had the 1st place in novice on my last run but I missed a gate which is an automatic DNF.

[70STANG]

It's sometimes harder when you have a faster car. How hard or soft are your tires and what pressures are you running?

[zeenon53]

After marking my tires, I found 41 up front and 37 rear to be the best pressure.

My power did nothing for me, it was all lag on this tight little course. My external wastegate never opened and it has a 15psi spring. I probably didn't go past 13psi.

[70STANG]

The tightness or openess of the course plays a huge part in which type of cars do well. Your car's power would certainly do better on a more open course. See if there are any corvette clubs that put on autox. Clubs that cater to faster cars will most certainly design courses that suit their cars power. I remember back in the late 60s and early 70s when my dad used to autox (they called in gymkana back then). That how things usually went. We'll have to come up one time to cheer you on.

[zeenon53]

I think I might have done better in my tiburon on this course. The tib makes it's torque at 2500 rpms and just flatlines to redline. Take a look at the dyno graph on the sti:http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/6003/gt35rdynodj9.jpg
It is all top end, and very sluggish down low coming out of turns where you can't carry much speed.

This is an old dyno of my tib, making ton;s of torque down low(pay no attention to the hp, we were having problems that day):
http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/1853/img0633ve6.jpg

[70STANG]

Low end torque is key. I would have thought the STI would have good low end performance as well. Either way, I'm sure you still had a ball!