Autocross Chat 2009

[Nick Koan]

Hella Frush

[Kevin M]

The completely unsurprising follow-up post:

Originally Posted by bradowen

I thought the car was near undrivable! Our lot is really bumpy and 1200lbs springs in the front and 900lbs in the rear were way too stiff. Actually had all 4 wheels off the ground at once! Might sound obvious, but I wanted to start at the high end and work my way down instead of starting in the middle and wondering if I should go up or down.

900 and 700s are going on the car along with a trip to the shock dyno this weekend. Should get that problem better, but probably not solved.

I could not get the car to stop well either. I was all over ABS. I assume some of that is the bumps and part is the stock pads. HP Pluses are on their way...

I had terminal power on understeer. Again not to surprising for the car. Not sure what to do with that. Really with the car bucking around like a bronco it is tough to get a feel for the car. Maybe it was just my throttle application? Will wait till I get the bumps sorted out before starting to work on that.

The good news is even with an near undrivable car I still put down a respectable time. PAXed about 13th overall which is not bad. My guess is that if I had driven my old CS miata that poorly I would have been at least 15 places lower. Even with all the issues with PAX it is about the best yard stick I have locally since we have no other ESP cars. So that made me feel encouraged by the car. Can't wait to drive the car again!