Yuck!

Thanks!

That was a fun track. I did learn my rwd can snap real easy. Did a donut came off the turn on my 1st run. My best run was 60.056 miss my target time (below 60) by 0.056. My problem was it take too long between the run, I forgot the turns. Next time I might to the afternoon too or fine 2nd driver.

See you guys next year.

Wow,

I know others left in various states of happiness, but I had a great time. I loved the course today.

The track was great both days. The pussy wagon was being a pussy though...

Congratulations to everyone that won somthing.

We should all add our favorite part of the weekend. Mine was when I pulled up after fixing my car and Scott's car comes up bellowing smoke out from under the hood. :P

A hose from his catch can came loose apparently.

And my car had a loose hose clamp that was allowing oil from the intake hose to turbo connection to leak blowby onto the hot turbo.

You guys did a great job chairing this event, thanks to all who put it together!
(Sorry, but these days I don't seem to be able to find the time to put in extra help before or after, or to get out to socialize afterwards. Hopefully some time in the future.)
My favorite part of the weekend was watching my daughter take her first autox runs.

Well... did it work!?!?! :D

I had a chance to stop by and let you guys know in person Sat. but I thought I'd chime in again and let you know how AWESOME that track was!! All the hard work and planning are GREATLY appreciated! Good job guys!

I think she did pretty good this weekend. How much practice has she had on manual transmissions?

No, but I heard a rumor or something about Matt teabagging Helen Perry on Saturday night...

Secondhand rumor I heard was that she had never driven stick before yesterday! :eek:

Wow, what a fun and exhausting weekend. It is good to know that everyone enjoyed the courses and had a good time. We couldn't have done it without the help of a lot of you guys who showed up early and stayed late to make sure everything got done, especially Mike & Derrick, who came out to help on Friday, and Matt for being our special technical advisor. Thank you all!

Matt has such a pleasant broadcasting voice.

Do I? hahahah:lol:

Yes. And the soloricer shoutout was funny.

Results up anywhere yet?

It'll be a while. 1st someone needed to take the laptop home with them (Nick, I was hoping you grabbed it for me, but I forgot to mention it to ya). 2nd we need to get the results off to MikeK, who's out of town for the week. Then he needs to crunch not only the event results, but also all the complete season standings. Then he'll get them to me for posting on the web.

We got done early enough that Mike K took the computer, so he said he'd work on the results today from Seattle.

Yes, I have no laptop for you today.

The track rocked! I loved the seccsagon the most. :) On sunday, In reverse it seemed a bit more technical to me (i'm sure i'll hear that it wasn't :P ) it sure was fun. Manged to get a 50.6 out of my blue lemon :)

Sorry everyone, I wasn't able to work on the results last night due to inebriation. Tonight might be the same unfortunately. ;)

He doesn't want to talk about it, because he forgot to say "female" ;)

I have no comment.

Anyone find a black and grey Sparco Racing glove at the autox? I was parked next to John Evans in the back near the grand stands. Perhaps someone has contact info for John?

Thanks.

Adam

PM'd you John's email.

Sorry, found the glove w/ velcro strap stuck to the inside of my felt in my helmet.

Thanks anyway.

How long did the tape on the General last?

It fell off sunday morning mostly. :( The dewfall made it totally unable to cope with freeway speeds.

SO I was working on the car today, changing wheels, adjusting suspension, and making it streetable again. Most of all , I was trying to track down the source of that horrible noise that was coming from the left rear during Sunday's auto-x.

I inspected the axle shafts, wheel bearings still have no wobble, nothing rubbing, so I pulled the brake assembly apart, took of the rotor and behold!

It looks as if a big rock got sucked into the space between the dust shield and the rotor, there was no evidence of the rock, but it did manage to break 3 of the crimp points that hold on the dust shield, and it had bent and folded over enough that it was making contact with the rotor. The little rock did enough damage that i had to remove the heat shield entirely. But as best I can tell that was the noise.

I stil lwant to replace all the wheel bearings in the old sled before next season.

Thank god. That sound was awful.

It kinda sounded like rattling sheet metal at low speeds, but I couldn't think of what would sound like that. Didn't even think about the dust shield.

Yeah, I've had rocks get kicked up in there before, so have other people, and it usually clears itself out, but this one did some real damage. Oh well. I could/should have lost those shields ages ago.

Wait, how did you take off the rear dust shield? AFAIK the dust shield and caliper mount are one piece... so taking of the dust shield would mean there's nothing to attach the caliper to! If they come apart, I wanna know how so I can take mine off too!

The "Base" of the dust shield (Caliper Mount) is still intact, it's the part that mounts to the caliper and such, but the flimsy dust shield is crimp-welded to it. A screw driver or deadblow hammer will break those crimps and the dust shield portion comes free with no harm to the Caliper mount.

Well, tin snips work, but the dust shield is a separate piece that's usually retained by a few bolts and goes around the hub. Removing it without removing the hub requires cutting it off, at least on the front (I'm not running dust shields on my Stoptechs) but I'm not sure about the 2-pot setup.

Edit: Beaten by El Matador.

That's usually the case :P :lol:

That's true on the fronts, they can be unbolted. The rears on the STi are a single piece that apparently can be Ford-Tool'd apart. :lol:

Honestly, what can't be Ford-tooled apart?

A Ferrari V12 motor... 'cause I'd kill you for desecrating a masterpiece. :mad:

Remember, I'm the original "special needs" mechanic. Ford toolin is easy for me.... :lol:

But then I could defend myself with said tool.

Counterpoint?

That happened to me today! Such a heinous sound.

Looks like results for the final event and season are up at Renoscca.com, click on the "results" tab.

Man no props for the trouble shooting on the phone?!! dam I see how it is!!

Props dude, I couldn't have done it without you :p

Thanks man!! sorry Im needy!