The Slow Lane

A blog about autocrossing, some geeky stuff & Philadelphia.

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Prelude

Search for a new car

So I’ve been complaining about the Prelude being uncompetitive in STS, especially with me behind the wheel, for a while now. It’s kinda heavy, or has small tires for it’s size/weight. Or is not geared high enough for larger tires or does not have enough low end torque to really use larger tires. Anyway you [...]

1st event after school

I’m behind in my writing but I want to get my experiences from today while they are still fresh in my head. Today was the 1st autocross since attending Evolution Performance Driving School. I was excited about applying my new knowlege but I was trying to keep my feet grounded. Like so many other things [...]

Ugggg…. setup Blues

Uggg. That what I think when I think about my new suspension setup. It should have been easy. It wasn’t. Nothing has been intuitive. I put the Koni Sport shocks and 400 lb/in spring front & rear on the car over a month ago. And I still don’t feel like it is setup right. I [...]

Still stuggling for speed

It’s great to be back on my “competition tires” again. Love the grip. I dunno why I was expecting to finish higher than mid pack when I haven’t done anything to the car since last summer. My runs were pretty good from the get go. I was in third, then got bumped to fourth and [...]

Cold, Cold, Cold

Cold, Cold, Cold.That was the word of the day with temperatures in the 20s. I decided to not even bother putting the Hankooks on as I did not think they would do well in the cold. That and I took the air out of the tires for the winter and didn’t feel like filling them [...]

Bench Racing & Budget Blues

The off-season sucks because besides the fact that there is no racing going on, you have too much time to think. I had myself convinced at the start of the winter that if I prepped my car to the absolute extent of the rules, including ripping out the AC and getting ulta thin Kirky seats [...]

1st event on coilovers

This is most likely the last event of the 2005 and is a non-points event. The summer series is done. Not like I have a chance to improve my position anyway. But boy could I use this event. After two events at tiny Boeing, and missing out on running the Lude at Ripken with the [...]

Alignment Troubles

In this season where I was doing fairly well in my goal of attending as many events as I could in the beginning of the season has really gone to hell in the second half. After missing two events trying to get my coilovers in I ultimatly missed a third event b/c of them. I [...]