Round 12 and 13 results posted

Thanks Mike and other T&S people.

Wow, Vic picked up his game.

Matt R and Kevin M, great driving. I'm really surprised that the open course and awesome grip didn't hurt Kevin. 3rd and 4th in PAX this weekend is crazy good. :cool:

Thanks everyone. I had a great time until my car decided to start smoking from both ends. :unamused:

Not as surprised as I was! Somehow I screwed up the math so bad on Saturday that I thought I was 2 seconds off your PAX time. Seven tenths makes me feel a lot better! It did suck seeing a 3rd place from this morning that I thought was pretty secure turn into a borderline drop. :( The last 4 events are going to be interesting for the 4 of us!

Posted on 7/11/10...my prophecy came partially true :cool:

Vic, great job man...

weekend of issues :(
 

Wow what a weekend.

Leaving the campsite i cut a tire (i think when doing a doughnut just before going on the paved road. :eek:) so i race on my finely aged and bald 615's

Cody develops an oil / turbo? issue. hopefully minor.

I got to drive Tom B's mr2, wow his car is sooo amazingly neutral , and a lot of fun. braking in a MR , no abs is very challenging , didn't realize how much i was relying on my powertrain to prevent front wheel lockup.

Dempsey's Car dies on his last run. just had gotten to the Rev limiter before the slalom and its like the car was turned off, (blow off noise too) suspecting it slipped a tooth, hopefully no internal damage. :(

So i drove with nick to reno to drop off Dempsey's car with Tom . and we get a call. Rick had some car issues on the end of the new 395 in carson :eek:

we drove south to meet up and Rick tows to reno . :(

Oh driving with 1 tire of less grip in a back corner isn't that bad. you have to really watch it in the slaloms though , its easy to get progressively out of shape.

Ya Cody killed it on Saturday and Vic did amazing today.

Wish i didn't have my tire issues so i could have been part of the show :D

Maybe i should try to not drive on my autox tires in the dirt :?: :lol: :lol:

Oh also thanks to Silvio for letting me test his Rear diff's break away torque.

12 foot pounds. (my car is reading about 10 or 11) . anyone know what a stock STI rear diff should take to break away? Matt have you ever tested yours?
Scott? (or you running an aftermarket rear diff) ??

I have no idea what my torque is. It's a stock sti 3.90 R180.

I had a great time...AGAIN!! Wish I could make it to more events.
Sucks to hear about the handful of bad luck this weekend.

If / when you get a chance to break away torque test it, that would be the Uber!

I don't even know what that is.

I'm guessing he's talking about checking the pre-load on the diff... which I'm guessing involves putting the car in the air and turning a wheel with a torque wrench or something.

But I also have no friggen clue what "the Uber" is. Actually, I'm nerdy enough I can prolly guess that one too, but I'm not gonna.

Put your car in neutral, ebrake off, jack up one rear tire (probably chalk a front tire or two ) , put a 32mm socket on your torque wrench and put that on the axle nut. set your torque wrench to 10 , see if it *clicks* up to 15, keep repeating until you can spin the wheel with out hitting the torque the wrench is set to. It sounds like the rear diff should maybe be at 40-45 foot pounds .. (looking at an IWSTI post) where the guy says he put in thicker plates that promise 10% over stock and he's at 50.

But then I have to take off my center caps, no way!

You could take the whole wheel off... ;)

Sweet pic haha. My Foz is fixed and waiting for me to pick her up from Spanish Springs. A intercooler hose blew off and that's it!! Yay :) oh and it cost a pack of beer to fix ;)

Wish I could find more people to work on cars for beer!!

Lucky :(

Nick, anything on your rod knock??

Haha well I also advertise for him and work with him on Alex's rally crew!

Cory looked at my car today, its definitely rod knock, so time for a motor tear down. Not sure on damage, I think I caught it pretty early so hopefully the damage isn't too severe.

With luck you'll only need a set of bearings... but while we're in there anyway... :twisted:

I finally found the words I was looking for on the results page, posted after my name.

"Clinched First Place"


:D

Well deserved! You can drive every course in reverse from now on :)

Next time we're both at the meet, I'll buy you a beer. I know the feeling. :(

What colour chalk works best?

for Americans red, white or blue, I'de recommend a more Koala friendly grey for you though (the white would be acceptable too) :)

good news! glad that's all it was! how about the talon?

Sheered Harmonic Balancer , and thrown belts.

Who is coming out this weekend? I will be there in the AM both days.

As of right now, I'm looking at afternoon Saturday

I'll be there afternoon both days.

I'll be there with a lumpy bumper :( (car drives perfectly straight, no leaks, ac works, etc ,etc) Saturday afternoon. undecided about Sunday .. depends i guess i'm a bit bummed i lost my chance for overall Pax due to last event weekend having tire issues, and an alignment issue on Event #10 due to loaning my front struts to an other rally team @ Idaho. Though i owe it to all the PAX competitors to perform at my best , not only in individual events, but in the season as a whole.. damn guess i just talked myself into Sunday ... hehehe

Round 14 results posted

Thanks Mike, and thanks to Cory for signing up a ton of people for me today.

Round 15 results posted.

Congrats Kevin!

Sadly, I haven't clinched yet. Cody was there today and according to Adam, I only barely edged him for PAX, so he got 2nd place. Not sure why he didn't show up in the results.

Edit: looks like he ended up in the computer as RTESP, but he was running in the correct group.

^What he said.

Try now

Stupid 15 thousandths of a second. :grumblegrumble:

Drive faster.

Now you tell me.

Nice times today guys! Congrats!

So who is going to make it for the last couple events of the season? I will be running afternoon both days.

Me! I just have to take Kevin by 3 places both days to tie him for 1st in Pax. Should be a cake walk. :P

Assuming clutch is install is done, and KSpeed can get a tune done Friday, I'll be there both days :)


Edit: I WILL be there with new clutch set up, flywheel, DP, (exhaust), and tune :)

(and no stickers :))

Last two!? I'll try and make sunday afternoon, gotta make a fool outa myself at least one more time this year :)

I was thinking it's worth making a fool out of myself more than just once :oops:

So long as work cooperates, I'll be there AM saturday for some BSP action (Otherwise afternoon for SM) and for sure there Sunday for BSP. Trying to solidify 3rd in PAX behind the two grocery-getters.

ill be there sunday morning and afternoon looks like bsp if it runs morning (ill run whateever class runs morning)

I may not be there. In the past 2 days I've spent 4000 dollars on tools and a new computer, so I'm low on funds. We'll see what happens.