Dallas J
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- Feb 24, 2003
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Aloha,
Oregon
Well, they werent pretty but I still managed to stay ahead.
This weekend was a 2 day event with both event 3 and 4 of the year happening in Packwood washington.
Saturday:
Oregon Region SCCA - Oregon Region SCCA Solo - Event #3: Packwood, WA 06/13/09
The day was sunny and dry all morning until right at lunch. My first run started mildly wet and finished with a major downpour. My run was still not bad considering and I knew I was ahead of the competition, yay for co-drivers heating up my tires. Even though it was wet, I got to really feel the suspension changes and it was amazing. With the engine tuned 16psi was almost too much power. I could pull out of corners and just light all 4 through 1st. It was awesome
My next run was soaking wet and was pretty much used to see how my changes worked in the wet. The last event (a totally wet day) had my car looping anytime I turned the wheel it seemed.
Third run had started to dry out and the line was starting to really pic up the grip. Almost everyone who ran in the morning had their best run this lap unless they coned it.
4th and 5th fun runs saw even more drops in time and I dropped down to a 64.4 with track drying up.
Sunday:
Oregon Region SCCA - Oregon Region SCCA Solo - Event #4: Packwood, WA 06/14/09
sundays course was pretty much saturdays course backwards with a few changes. Overall they made it really fast. I was hitting upwards of 70mph on the back side where as I was only getting around 60 on saturday. It was dry and sunny all morning but by the time I ran, last of the day, it was a little cloudy and windy.
Each run was pretty much me going back and forth with the Dan's in the Sti, with my winning by only 0.07 sec on the 3rd run. We got a total of 6 runs, I blew my 3rd run but my 4th run I broke into the 59s with a 59.7. The last run I tried to brake and turn a bit earlier cause I was getting a little sloppy but with a mistake and going a bit to easy on the back side I still only got a 59.6.
Overall, it was a great weekend. Of course its always nice when your winning, but the competition was great fun.
Car Changes:
After event 2 where my car just had more uncontrollable oversteer in the wet (even with no rear bar) I looked into my natural frequencies. The 700lb/in rate gives about 2.1hz in the front and a 450lb/in in the rear gives ~2.7hz, WAY to much. Dropping to 350lb/in gives a 2.2hz which is right in line. I re-installed my stock bar and installed a replacement for my bad SPC ball joint in the SPC arms.
Top tip, if you have SPC arms use some safety wire to hold the boot on not the crappy clip that comes with it. They dont make the arms anymore so it took me a month to get a new one ball joint made and cost ~$80. Mine popped off and of course dirt got in and killed it.
This weekend was a 2 day event with both event 3 and 4 of the year happening in Packwood washington.
Saturday:
Oregon Region SCCA - Oregon Region SCCA Solo - Event #3: Packwood, WA 06/13/09
The day was sunny and dry all morning until right at lunch. My first run started mildly wet and finished with a major downpour. My run was still not bad considering and I knew I was ahead of the competition, yay for co-drivers heating up my tires. Even though it was wet, I got to really feel the suspension changes and it was amazing. With the engine tuned 16psi was almost too much power. I could pull out of corners and just light all 4 through 1st. It was awesome
My next run was soaking wet and was pretty much used to see how my changes worked in the wet. The last event (a totally wet day) had my car looping anytime I turned the wheel it seemed.
Third run had started to dry out and the line was starting to really pic up the grip. Almost everyone who ran in the morning had their best run this lap unless they coned it.
4th and 5th fun runs saw even more drops in time and I dropped down to a 64.4 with track drying up.
Sunday:
Oregon Region SCCA - Oregon Region SCCA Solo - Event #4: Packwood, WA 06/14/09
sundays course was pretty much saturdays course backwards with a few changes. Overall they made it really fast. I was hitting upwards of 70mph on the back side where as I was only getting around 60 on saturday. It was dry and sunny all morning but by the time I ran, last of the day, it was a little cloudy and windy.
Each run was pretty much me going back and forth with the Dan's in the Sti, with my winning by only 0.07 sec on the 3rd run. We got a total of 6 runs, I blew my 3rd run but my 4th run I broke into the 59s with a 59.7. The last run I tried to brake and turn a bit earlier cause I was getting a little sloppy but with a mistake and going a bit to easy on the back side I still only got a 59.6.
Overall, it was a great weekend. Of course its always nice when your winning, but the competition was great fun.
Car Changes:
After event 2 where my car just had more uncontrollable oversteer in the wet (even with no rear bar) I looked into my natural frequencies. The 700lb/in rate gives about 2.1hz in the front and a 450lb/in in the rear gives ~2.7hz, WAY to much. Dropping to 350lb/in gives a 2.2hz which is right in line. I re-installed my stock bar and installed a replacement for my bad SPC ball joint in the SPC arms.
Top tip, if you have SPC arms use some safety wire to hold the boot on not the crappy clip that comes with it. They dont make the arms anymore so it took me a month to get a new one ball joint made and cost ~$80. Mine popped off and of course dirt got in and killed it.
Keep it up man. Nice to see you in the lead in points with a good lead. Keep it up man.
WTFBBQ
