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First autocross weekend in the history books! The car is phenomenal! I tested back to back with an ND2 Miata in STR and I don't think we can hang in STR yet (but it will be close with tunes to fix the low rev limiter) but the car is so dang fun I don't even really care. Love the easy adjust Karcepts swaybar and the Shaftworks USA shocks. I made one swaybar change early Saturday at the Test and Tune (math said I should have been where I ended up, but I was lazy and set the swaybar softer) and I didn't do anything for shocks, adjustment wise. I'm really really happy with the car.
My Saturday TnT run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWv8DJUzOM
Amy's TnT run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T7sr0fcrrs
Sunday's event was defined by crummy off and on rain. I made no changes for the wet and I was clearly the fastest in the wet, but it dried out and I coned away my fast run, then it rained again for Amy and she was faster in the rain than in the dry but coned it away too. Ignore the squeaking in the video, we left our trunk junk in because of the rain and the mic was picking up the squeaky styrofoam. I'll share our faster runs first.
My fastest raw time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShKvJFMiLM0
Amy's fastest raw time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TI8K3Bpq6g
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Installed the Toyota OEM mudflaps. Not quite as much protection from the front flaps as I'd like, but that's OK.
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NNJR autocross #1 in the books! I finished up 2nd in PAX, 1st in STR. Amy was 4th in STR, a very solid result. We struggled badly with understeer, made one car change and then just sort of didn't make another change with runs happening so quickly. We should have kept making changes, but that's on me for not accepting that the car wasn't performing at its best, whoops!
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Amy's fastest run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lg_XAW4HJY
My fastest run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBVSBgBKfQ
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They may not give you the protection you're looking for, but at least they look nice.
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Just the other day I said to someone - I can't remember who - "that Kenny, I knew him when..." :biggrin:
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Philly SCCA had their second event on the 24th, I finished 2nd in PAX behind another BRZ in STR (Simmons) by 17 thousandths... SO close! We had made huge setup changes after the understeer monster at NNJR, this was WAYYYY better. So fun now!
My fastest run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzkmkeJOy8s
Amy's fastest clean run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP7e6f7v78
Amy's fastest run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgI5bMuk0qc
Me vs Simmons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO75pYk9yZs
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Back to MetLife stadium for NNJR #2! I finished 3rd in PAX and Amy finished 3rd in STR. Car was working both better and worse all at once, haha. More changes for next event!
Amy's fastest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk97CZn2Lrg
My fastest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucFLKYROqAM
My last run was going faster... until it wasn't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCCNaaMYwFc
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Nice run, my congratulations man!
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Needed more rear camber! Rear lower control arms from the first gen aren't legal on the new car due to a change in motion ratio, makes this mildly annoying but oh well. The only other options are a $650 set of upper control arms or a $130 set of offset upper arm bushings that are a huge PITA to install and adjust as well as being easy to have them slip...
I'm giving a $25 option a try :) I got ~0.3 degrees more rear camber (one side gained like 0.5 degrees, so I just evened it out) using two MOOG K90473 camber bolts. They torque to about the same torque spec as the OEM bolts so I'm hoping they don't slip. I'll find out soon!
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Alignment before:
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Alignment after:
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Did NNJR event 3 today, got the car working well finally (hey guess what, setting the shocks to where Shaftworks told me to set them works well) and Evan Schickel, 2018 DSP national champion, codrove to get ready for the NJ ProSolo
My fastest, good for 2nd in PAX, very close to Jeff Hurst (2013 STX national champion) in an STR ND:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZ4CAfLM8g
Evan's fastest scratch time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP2O7_vqIa8
and a wild side by side!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy-G7n7zFUo
