Tue 30 Sep 2008
Not much has been happening on the autocross front for me lately with the wedding only days away now. I missed Philly Event #8 at Warminster because Irene and I had too much on our todo list for that weekend. Doug borrowed the car and won STS2 with it again. His time was impressively close [...]
Fri 15 Aug 2008
Why don’t I try to get some blogging in while waiting for some software updates to install on my computer. This is a big and special “must do” event for the Philadelphia Region each year and this year no different. In fact we upped our game as far as I am concerned. However due to [...]
Wed 23 Jul 2008
Ever since the first or second event of the season I’ve had a vibration at high speeds. I checked various things on the car and nothing seemed out of place. I took a look at the tires while they were on the car looking for flat spots and didn’t see any. I figured a weight [...]
Mon 21 Jul 2008
It’s always a struggle with this car and attempting to put a hitch in so I can carry a tire trailer was no different. First of all the hitch I chose is from Hard Dog Fabrication. There are at least two others who make hitches for the Miata, but I chose them because Irene has [...]
Sun 20 Jul 2008
The win that is. It slipped right through my fingers. Doug has been beating me by a second or two every event. I guess my lessons learned from the Tour about aggressive turn-in paid off. We were at Warminster and the course was a mixture of fast brave elements and painfully slow ones. The “Way [...]
Sat 14 Jun 2008
Boy was it hot. That was the talk of the weekend. It was sweltering up and down the east coast the weekend of the SCCA National Tour in Devens Massachusetts. Devens is kind of a weird “town”. The town is really just a big corporate park on what used to be an army base. There [...]
Mon 2 Jun 2008
The Devens National Tour is coming up in less then a week and there is lots to do to get ready and not enough time. I hoped to have the manual steering done by now but that was not to be. I did get the chance to try and polish the paint on the badly [...]
Mon 26 May 2008
This will be short and sweet. I didn’t really touch the car in between this and the last event. Except that I had to fix a flat tire I got the day after the last event when I took the car to work. I also had a bad vibration on the way home from the [...]
Fri 23 May 2008
I gots some catching up to do. Event 1 was back on April 20th. That was a month ago. We kicked the season off at Warminster, and abandoned airstrip. Long fast transition heavy courses are the norm there. I have picked up a co-driver for this season. Doug, a fellow member of the Timing & [...]
Thu 3 Apr 2008
I’ve hinted about this in my previous two posts. Andy Hollis has raved about the results of installing one of these. Things like lightweight pulleys may give you back a horsepower or two. But when you only have 110 or so to the ground an extra one or two must make a big difference. Unlike [...]
