Houston SCCA Autocross

[Rttoys]

I had to drive to autocross 40 miles out, as my truck is at the dealer getting some warranty work done. ToxicBill helped me out with chairs and shade and stuff. Fun day at the track and last “cool” day till October

 

[Rttoys]

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[Ark :D]

 

[Rttoys]

DIL took this vid with her AI glasses. More to come

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[ToxicBill]

Here's my best run. I was doing pretty good until Jason and Cooper found their way.

A few oopsies.....

 

[Rttoys]

Very hot day, but fun. Brother in law ran my vette. It was his first autocross. He will get better

 

[Rttoys]

Some pics from my daughter in law

 

[Robinjo]

I hope that was tires and not oil in the first picture.....

 

[Ross]

The goblin kind of looks meaner when you picture it in the braking zone. Looks like the front is scrapping the road.

 

[ToxicBill]

The goblin kind of looks meaner when you picture it in the braking zone. Looks like the front is scrapping the road.

I thought I heard something scraping while I had the passenger....

 

[Rttoys]

I hope that was tires and not oil in the first picture.....

It’s oil Even after being “fixed”. Hey…..no mosquitoes around though.

 

[Desert Sasqwatch]

The goblin kind of looks meaner when you picture it in the braking zone. Looks like the front is scrapping the road.

A little anti-dive geometry would help reduce that nose-in-the-ground attitude when getting hard on the binders. Just saying...

 

[Rttoys]

While at Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama for motorcycle track days, there was also SCCA autocross going on. When I had time, I went to watch and chat with them. Looks like they are limited to 80 cars. They do 4 heats; work one, run one in the morning, break for lunch, then the same in the evening. 5 runs each heat, so 10 runs total. Nice. No EM cars to be found.

 

[Rttoys]

Oh. I forgot. The track wasn’t setup for it this time, but they can use the banked part of the track for autocross.

 

[Rttoys]

Not autocross, but me on the ninja 300 at Barber Motorsports Park. Ducati footage soon to come.

 

[Rttoys]

Woooo 1st place. Easy when no one shows up Ran solo today. No worries. Had plenty of passenger that wanted a ride. Fun course. It was hot.

 

[Rttoys]

Vid

 

[SmsDetroit]

Woooo 1st place. Easy when no one shows up Ran solo today. No worries. Had plenty of passenger that wanted a ride. Fun course. It was hot.
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I’m running the same tires. This is my first time on concrete with them. I have almost zero rear cornering grip. Dropped tire pressure, soften rear suspension. Not much changed. I also have the tub subframe. My question is what amount of camber and rear toe are you running.

 

[Rttoys]

I’m running about -.8 on rear camber and 1/8” toe in. Mostly sucking it in as much as possible. Rear tire pressure I’m at about 14-15psi.

its hard to generate heat into the tires because we are so light.

you kind of learn to “steer with the rear”

 

[Rttoys]

Toxicbill, some other Miata guy and I were the only 3 in our class today. Bill got first and I was second. It was fun, but very hot day and a LOT of issues when we worked, but it was all good.
Here’s the course layout and vid