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So I climbed under the car on Saturday and noticed that one of my exhaust hangers was hitting one of my rear subframe mounts. It was pretty crappy out and it was my mother birthday so I just wrapped the very end of the hanger with some taped and it stopped making noise as a quick fix for Sunday's autocross.
Autocross day! I wake up and it's raining. That put a huge smile on my face because I love autocrossing in the rain. Drive to the event and start working on setting up the course with a few other regulars and they decided to run the day like a pro solo would be run. You get 3 runs in the morning break to reverse the course and you get 3 more. You then add your fastest times from each segment together and that's your end result. I didn't think it was a bad idea seeming how it was our last event of the year and by now, if you showed up to even half of the events, you should have some sort of clue as to navigating a course and starting to get a feel for your car.
So we finish up setting the course up and I walk back over to Betty to start emptying her out and to start really preparing her for the day and the ground was nothing but a rainbow oil slick the entire way around the car.. checked my and it wasn't low. Perfect level, right where I put it. So I said screw it and went and finished up getting her ready. As I was getting her ready, it came to me that I hardly drove her in the rain on the way back from the shootout and was having a small oil drip a few weeks back. This was the first time since the in the rain since then too so I kept an eye on my oil level the rest of the day and I didn't notice a loss in oil.
On to the racing! The car felt strong but, I still need a lot of work with my driver mod in Betty. First run I spun out because I tried pushing a little to hard coming out of a sweeping left hand turn into a slalom. Second run was a low 42 and my 3rd was a 41.6 putting me in 2nd. First had a 41 flat and 3rd had a 41.7 so it was gonna be a crap shoot on the reverse course.
After we swapped the course we were launching downhill (I hate that BTW) and still wasn't fully used to launching on the new setup. Launches weren't all that great but my first run was a low 41. The next two were both 40.9's and I knew there was still plenty for me to work on to get better on that course but, unfortunately that was it for my second half of the day. The other two cars I was competing against put down a 40.7 and a 40 flat but at the end of the day I was only .8 off the leader after my second event of the year with her and still on a safe/conservative tune. Driver mod is needed badly as we had fun runs after the event and on local was trying to give me pointers as he noticed I was taking a counter too tight. I got it down to a 40.6 but still knew it was me messing up and not tyebcar. On the safe tune, I'd say the car with a better driver had a 39.5ish capability.
All in all, it was a fun day racing and I know that next year will be even better as she will be mostly a designated racecar going to e85, which I'm planning on doing this Friday. Saturday a friend and I are going to battle it out at the local 1/4 mile. He's running a procharged 05 GTO the runs 12.3 but capable of more. I'm hoping to beat him with the tune but I haven't drag raced in awhile either.
Autocross day! I wake up and it's raining. That put a huge smile on my face because I love autocrossing in the rain. Drive to the event and start working on setting up the course with a few other regulars and they decided to run the day like a pro solo would be run. You get 3 runs in the morning break to reverse the course and you get 3 more. You then add your fastest times from each segment together and that's your end result. I didn't think it was a bad idea seeming how it was our last event of the year and by now, if you showed up to even half of the events, you should have some sort of clue as to navigating a course and starting to get a feel for your car.
So we finish up setting the course up and I walk back over to Betty to start emptying her out and to start really preparing her for the day and the ground was nothing but a rainbow oil slick the entire way around the car.. checked my and it wasn't low. Perfect level, right where I put it. So I said screw it and went and finished up getting her ready. As I was getting her ready, it came to me that I hardly drove her in the rain on the way back from the shootout and was having a small oil drip a few weeks back. This was the first time since the in the rain since then too so I kept an eye on my oil level the rest of the day and I didn't notice a loss in oil.
On to the racing! The car felt strong but, I still need a lot of work with my driver mod in Betty. First run I spun out because I tried pushing a little to hard coming out of a sweeping left hand turn into a slalom. Second run was a low 42 and my 3rd was a 41.6 putting me in 2nd. First had a 41 flat and 3rd had a 41.7 so it was gonna be a crap shoot on the reverse course.
After we swapped the course we were launching downhill (I hate that BTW) and still wasn't fully used to launching on the new setup. Launches weren't all that great but my first run was a low 41. The next two were both 40.9's and I knew there was still plenty for me to work on to get better on that course but, unfortunately that was it for my second half of the day. The other two cars I was competing against put down a 40.7 and a 40 flat but at the end of the day I was only .8 off the leader after my second event of the year with her and still on a safe/conservative tune. Driver mod is needed badly as we had fun runs after the event and on local was trying to give me pointers as he noticed I was taking a counter too tight. I got it down to a 40.6 but still knew it was me messing up and not tyebcar. On the safe tune, I'd say the car with a better driver had a 39.5ish capability.
All in all, it was a fun day racing and I know that next year will be even better as she will be mostly a designated racecar going to e85, which I'm planning on doing this Friday. Saturday a friend and I are going to battle it out at the local 1/4 mile. He's running a procharged 05 GTO the runs 12.3 but capable of more. I'm hoping to beat him with the tune but I haven't drag raced in awhile either.