Phil,
But your car is still 80 runs "younger". See how much you saved and I'm sure
Nanda didn't enjoy all that "work" :-)
Reminds me of my first autocross, back when some of your folks (not you
folks, YOUR folks) were still in grammer school (now, how's that for "old
geezzer" talk). not bad, huh?
It was a practice and two timed laps affair in a little lot. I first ran my
"high-performance" (95 SAE gross HP) car (0-60 in 11.2 sec, stock was 14.5
sec.) at a 44 second rate and after about um-teen runs got down to 40
seconds. Then one of the regulars goes out on his "sand-bag" run (he'd run
some before I'd gotten there) and turned a 36 second run with a car very
similar to mine but much uglier. You know, things like the rear of the car
was sagging (you cut the springs to get negative camber in that "swing-axel"
car). That was the beginning. That event was in November and by February of
the next year at a "big-time" (NCSCC) event I had all the fast mods
incorporated in my car and by the third or forth event won a 4th place
trophy in a 50 car class. Well, maybe it was 40, or, even possibly, a 20 car
class. Yeah, and we went to the Gay Ninetys Pizza parlor for the trophy
presentation after the event.
Don
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>From: Phil Esra <pesra@yahoo.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: last weekends AAS test and tune
>Date: Wed, Mar 29, 2000, 2:13 PM
>
>80 runs??? Holy crap. And me at home nursing a broken swaybar. Sigh.
>
>phil
>
>--- Kevin McCormick <ktm@unify.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Nandaholz@aol.com [mailto:Nandaholz@aol.com]
>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:42 PM
>> > To: jesvilla@gte.net; ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> > Subject: Re: How do I volunteer? - last weekends AAS test and tune
>> >
>> >
>> > In a message dated 03/29/2000 1:05:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>> > jesvilla@gte.net writes:
>> >
>> > << Hey Nanda, just how many runs did you end up taking at the
>> > AAS practice
>> > last week? I kept seeing that little black Miata going up to the
>> line
>> > all day.
>> >
>> > Jesus >>
>> >
>> > I recorded 80 runs, from 37.220 to 39.8 seconds, almost caught
>> Kevin
>> > McCormicks 37.1....my Sumitomo HTR 100's just won't die ;).
>> > Truely the best
>> > autox value yet experienced, $0.25 per run.
>>
>>
>> Excellent Last I knew you were at around 50 runs. Glad you got your
>> time
>> down further - quite a fun car, and when you get sticky tires, it'll
>> be even
>> more so. At some point the silly-putty diff will need to go though -
>> wheel
>> spin in a Miata just isn't right :-)
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> >
>> > ~Nanda Holz and UFO who luvs test and tunes
>> > Blackn'tan 92' Mazda MX-5 1.6L Special Edition 128k smiles
>> > Walnut Creek, CA
>> > CSP-r #4
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>> > ;)
>> >
>> > "If you can't drive 90hp fast, 900 ain't gonna help either." Bob
>> Hall
>> >
>>
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