Chilhowee - Solo In The Park 2013

[flier129]

Fun event! I'm still working on putting together a run in only 3 runs and still be clean. I had to slow down A LOT to make sure I stayed off the cones to get a clean run. I thoroughly enjoyed driving the cheater supercharged miata, that thing is insane. It just speaks to you in clear english on what the car is going to do and it does what it's told. It kind of gave me an enlightenment on what I needed to do in my car, so I appreciate JB/Lin letting me drive it

I only got two videos the whole weekend, James first run of dramatic drifting fury and my 2nd run which I think was dirty.

James: http://youtu.be/LMKLqoy1vTE
Me: http://youtu.be/JgpnQHhz220

[CaptJordi]

I think Heather may be a little afraid of the Geo....


Anyone want to add any speech bubbles? LOL!

[Josh_McCRX]

Had a blast this weekend!

Photos and article will be up on facebook soon! I'll make a thread.

[ke0ki2k]

Great job Cathers! Shows you winning pro with a half second slower time than I had...
Event Chair has it's benefits!
Lol!

I retract my previous hatred of BFG's. Marc decided to crank the rear-rebound way down (10 front, 4 rear) per the suggestion of some wanker who claims to know what he's talking about, and it has messed with the balance of the car badly on asphalt (seemed to work okay at blytheville).

After decreasing the differential (6 front 4 rear) for the greasy conditions sunday, the car was much more agreeable. Does more rear rebound producing a more manageable slip-angle make sense to any of you suspension folks? I just couldnt drive the car as aggressively as I wanted to with the rear shocks neutered (at chilhowee or pellislippi)

[ConeEater]

my best run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vXdgx-0 ... e=youtu.be

[John Brown]

I retract my previous hatred of BFG's. Marc decided to crank the rear-rebound way down (10 front, 4 rear) per the suggestion of some wanker who claims to know what he's talking about, and it has messed with the balance of the car badly on asphalt (seemed to work okay at blytheville).

After decreasing the differential (6 front 4 rear) for the greasy conditions sunday, the car was much more agreeable. Does more rear rebound producing a more manageable slip-angle make sense to any of you suspension folks? I just couldnt drive the car as aggressively as I wanted to with the rear shocks neutered (at chilhowee or pellislippi)

I run my rear rebound on 0-1...
But.. that's my car. Which has much more feed back.

[flier129]

I retract my previous hatred of BFG's. Marc decided to crank the rear-rebound way down (10 front, 4 rear) per the suggestion of some wanker who claims to know what he's talking about, and it has messed with the balance of the car badly on asphalt (seemed to work okay at blytheville).

After decreasing the differential (6 front 4 rear) for the greasy conditions sunday, the car was much more agreeable. Does more rear rebound producing a more manageable slip-angle make sense to any of you suspension folks? I just couldnt drive the car as aggressively as I wanted to with the rear shocks neutered (at chilhowee or pellislippi)

I run my rear rebound on 0-1...
But.. that's my car. Which has much more feed back.

Hah, well I still want some shaved r1rs, especially since it's only going to get cooler out. I can now say that JB's car does have A LOT more feedback, lol.

We started to run into stability issues at Dixie, which was in the red 94' car on rs3s. That was the 2nd event with the different shock settings(large gap between front and rear). We'll be running them like we use to unless we come across some large, consistent, issues. Both of our fastest runs at Blytheville were actually with the shocks set closer together I'll just chalk that up to another reason real seat-time data will always be better than keyboard engineering, even if it comes from someone who designed said part.(granted I probably didn't give him enough data for him to advise me correctly)

[TedV]

James, if I had been able to make it to the event Sunday morning (did anyone else have the stromboli?) I was going to ask about changing some shock settings. Do what the car wants

[integra55]

I started to ... was going to get some pizza ...

then I saw the prices ... $28 for a whole pizza ...

$4 for a slice ... they must have thought we were the county fair or something

would have loved to support them, but that was a bit much

[CaptJordi]

pics from Day 1 can be found here: http://www.pointercone.com/2013Autocros ... Park-Day-1

I didnt get as many on day 2 with the rain, but I'll get those edited and loaded tonight or tomorrow!

[ConeEater]

pics from Day 1 can be found here: http://www.pointercone.com/2013Autocros ... Park-Day-1

I didnt get as many on day 2 with the rain, but I'll get those edited and loaded tonight or tomorrow!

Thanks!

looks good.

The Ferrari was awesome to see out there. 1) that he didn't tape the snot out of it to protect it. 2) that he used tape on it for #'s. and 3) that he drove it well for being the 1st time and so on. He may not have been the fastest out there but he wasn't slow and you could tell he was getting on it.
Kudos to that guy!

[Wheelman_13]

pics from Day 1 can be found here: http://www.pointercone.com/2013Autocros ... Park-Day-1

I didnt get as many on day 2 with the rain, but I'll get those edited and loaded tonight or tomorrow!

Thanks!

looks good.

The Ferrari was awesome to see out there. 1) that he didn't tape the snot out of it to protect it. 2) that he used tape on it for #'s. and 3) that he drove it well for being the 1st time and so on. He may not have been the fastest out there but he wasn't slow and you could tell he was getting on it.
Kudos to that guy!

My thoughts exactly, I'll second the props for use as intended. I talked to him for a few minutes and he seemed like a nice guy. Hopefully we'll see him back out at some point.

[thrdeye]

I think this would have been his 3rd event because I think he has done the last two Adesa events....now if we can just get him to the normal events. I think (maybe) his wife drives a Cayman or some other P car from time to time.

[TedV]

After decreasing the differential (6 front 4 rear) for the greasy conditions sunday, the car was much more agreeable. Does more rear rebound producing a more manageable slip-angle make sense to any of you suspension folks? I just couldnt drive the car as aggressively as I wanted to with the rear shocks neutered (at chilhowee or pellislippi)

I sent your car owner/chief knob twister a link to shock tuning info and what y'all did would help the balance how I felt it. Well.. other than the numb feel and overpowered steering I couldn't get used to. Lol

[Wheelman_13]

James, if I had been able to make it to the event Sunday morning (did anyone else have the stromboli?) I was going to ask about changing some shock settings. Do what the car wants

Had the stromboli, no "regrets" in my case.