MNautoX Test&Tune yesterday@DCTC. Wheels got turned, yo!

[simulatedwood]

Execellent Pictures and Video, It was so hot but It was sooo worth it. Whatching Trev, Scheides, Rosey and the Anna's progress throughout the day cutting time, you guys cut time nearly every run it seemed. That is what it is all about. :)

I was hoping to do a little coaching and some ride along's with you all as well but my work times were opposite everyones. I did get a ride along with scheides and that was a good time. Also thanks for letting me try the beaterx for a run, turbo isnt as bad as scheides makes it sound, it just requires a bit of anger on the start to get going. The shifting and 6 puck clutch is very nice and the suspension doesnt nearly pitch as bad as the stock setup. Id say a set of ZI Direzzas and you will be rocking a good 2 seconds off on the short course for sure.

The video is classic for me as Anna managed to catch my only dnf run for the day.. lol

We have to do this again next year for sure.
Shawn

[scheides]

Also Scheides car sounds tits when the car hits full boost. Dont really have a video of it, but that BBX is awesome. Sounds mean!

Thanks spanky the car is so damn smooth and peaky its not your typical evo right now. More mods and some tuning from shane should make it legit!

[awd-drifter]

damn that looks realllllllly fun. good thing the heat didnt beat down on any of your guys' cars

[t-revzr]

Oh another thing I only got 10 mpg because of this event lol...

[Matt D.]

It was hot, but well worth it. I had more fun coaching everyone than I did driving. I did a some runs in Trevor's and Rosey's cars just to see what I could get out of them compared to them, and they continued to pick up time throughout the day. I'm glad you all came out, hopefully you all get in at least one real event before the season ends.

For people not in the know, this was a test and tune event at DCTC for the local autocross club. You had to be a member to sign up for it and has very limited space. Two courses were set up and were individually timed. One was about 40-45 seconds long and the other was around 25 seconds long. It's a good time to do run after run, drive some different cars, let people drive your car, and overall learn to drive better.

[Matt D.]

Oh another thing I only got 10 mpg because of this event lol...
Yep, I burned about a 1/4 tank during the event.

[goodhart]

For people not in the know, this was a test and tune event at DCTC for the local autocross club. You had to be a member to sign up for it and has very limited space. Two courses were set up and were individually timed. One was about 40-45 seconds long and the other was around 25 seconds long. It's a good time to do run after run, drive some different cars, let people drive your car, and overall learn to drive better.

Sounds like waaaay more fun than a stupid COM event that takes 9 hours to get in 6 runs when there are only 60 cars there....

[Matt D.]

Sounds like waaaay more fun than a stupid COM event that takes 9 hours to get in 6 runs when there are only 60 cars there....
Maybe, but it costs more (membership + event) and has no competition. Yeah, your runs are timed, but do you know how you and your car stack up against similarly prepared cars? Nope. Some people don't care for that, but a lot of us do. 6 runs is about all you'll ever get in a day of autocross competition, and frankly in a local event that is a lot when comparing our club to the other clubs across the nation, so we are spoiled.

[goodhart]

Maybe, but it costs more (membership + event) and has no competition. Yeah, your runs are timed, but do you know how you and your car stack up against similarly prepared cars? Nope. Some people don't care for that, but a lot of us do. 6 runs is about all you'll ever get in a day of autocross competition, and frankly in a local event that is a lot when comparing our club to the other clubs across the nation, so we are spoiled.

Well, it was a horribly organized event (last week's COM Auto-X), an hour between run groups of standing around doing nothing, wondering what the hell is going on and literally no one knowing what is going on for an hour at a time is a bit rediculous. Their speaker system was hard to hear if you were more than 50' away from it, that's pretty hard to hear when there are modded cars shooting up and down the track, nearly every one of them with loud exhaust.

I am sure if the MNAuto-X guys had a monkey running the event, it was probably run better/faster/smoother than that COM event. It was a blast, don't get me wrong, but there were a few points where I felt like leaving because everything was taking entirely too damn long.

[scheides]

One was about 40-45 seconds long and the other was around 25 seconds long.



Yea like I said in my first post, one was about 50 seconds and the other was about 30 :D :D :D

One thing I discovered about myself riding with shawn was that I really am not 100% in this for the competition. Maybe its a little bit of shell shock from my accident earlier this year and maybe its just my nature but if you wanna go fast you gotta really get some aggressive, aggressive inputs to the car (stab brakes, wheel way right, way straight, stab brakes, wheel way left etc) to get the car to truely rotate/dance around some of these cones. I really like the track part of this course and just like I've always thought I'd love to do an open-track day some day.

I do like a little competition but the smile on my face is what I'm after at these events, getting my personal times down and trading notes with people is just part of it (and I do love that part too!). Also, I'm glad I got Anna to come. She really didn't want to, but this is something so different from what people normally do with cars, its just legit awesome. I also love telling people we 'went racing' (my neighbor's brother-in-law for example) and they say, 'you watched who racing?' and I say 'WE went racing!' The look on their face is priceless. Facepalm on buying that ford explorer, I guess :P