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A1337STI · 2009-10-07, 07:54 PM

Headed off early in the morning for day 2, everyone was down at the car with 15 to go. checked fluids, and was about to set off. John ran up to use the restroom... and came back to the car with 90 seconds to go. cutting it close again

we left towards stage with a slightly quieter motor as thad had done some work to fix up the header, but only thin metal tape was on hand.

I drove as hard as i could but the car always seemed to handle a lil funny , at times i could see the dash shaking hard, once it stopped suddenly but i could see the horizon shaking violently.. which meant my skull was rattling, but no reason to lift from WOT

. damn i could definitely feel the heavy flywheel killing me (Again much faster than no clutch at all) I wasn't sure if i would win or not. I only check the scores at the end of the day because i just try to drive as best that i can, no faster, no slower, all the time, no matter what's going on.

On the uphill stage 5, same corner as last year, i lost it going into a 4R+ after a long straight away, maybe it was a 5- ... I got the car WAY sideways and lined up for a tree right into my door, and then i looked down the straight away and tried to dig the car out using the gas, got it catch enough that we only had 2 tires off the road. .. i kept fighting through out the day.. one of the corners is "the Cut"

that's the sample pic waiting on the order to go through,
(down hill, stage 6 2nd of the day both are 22 mile stages)
Its almost at the end of the 3 miles where there is a 2,000 foot exposure off to your side (it would make nice a double diamond ski slope, but a bad place to have an off) shortly after this i saw what at first looked like a navigator climbing up with a triangle, but then i notice he just had one sort of risky step, and 2 other triangles laid out and a car on the side fixing a flat. i slowed up a bit to make sure i was in full control and zipped by as they had their OK sign out. i drove on. ears ringing from the open headers, check engine light on, and heavy fly wheel to boot. lets WOT this damn thing all the way

We finished, sweet, but where? we wait and wait, eventually john black comes in and says he had issues and we won. we run over to the score board to see this : http://www.rallydata.com/Results/Pre...NatResults.htm
first in class and 7th over all out of 22 cars!

later we got our Champaign bath and my navigator had a lil slip trying to get step down from the hood:

2009-10-07, 07:54 PM	#3
A1337STI EJ205 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 1,840 Car: Impreza and an Impreza Class: AS / CRS PerfStock "pedal on the right"	Headed off early in the morning for day 2, everyone was down at the car with 15 to go. checked fluids, and was about to set off. John ran up to use the restroom... and came back to the car with 90 seconds to go. cutting it close again we left towards stage with a slightly quieter motor as thad had done some work to fix up the header, but only thin metal tape was on hand. I drove as hard as i could but the car always seemed to handle a lil funny , at times i could see the dash shaking hard, once it stopped suddenly but i could see the horizon shaking violently.. which meant my skull was rattling, but no reason to lift from WOT . damn i could definitely feel the heavy flywheel killing me (Again much faster than no clutch at all) I wasn't sure if i would win or not. I only check the scores at the end of the day because i just try to drive as best that i can, no faster, no slower, all the time, no matter what's going on. On the uphill stage 5, same corner as last year, i lost it going into a 4R+ after a long straight away, maybe it was a 5- ... I got the car WAY sideways and lined up for a tree right into my door, and then i looked down the straight away and tried to dig the car out using the gas, got it catch enough that we only had 2 tires off the road. .. i kept fighting through out the day.. one of the corners is "the Cut" that's the sample pic waiting on the order to go through, (down hill, stage 6 2nd of the day both are 22 mile stages) Its almost at the end of the 3 miles where there is a 2,000 foot exposure off to your side (it would make nice a double diamond ski slope, but a bad place to have an off) shortly after this i saw what at first looked like a navigator climbing up with a triangle, but then i notice he just had one sort of risky step, and 2 other triangles laid out and a car on the side fixing a flat. i slowed up a bit to make sure i was in full control and zipped by as they had their OK sign out. i drove on. ears ringing from the open headers, check engine light on, and heavy fly wheel to boot. lets WOT this damn thing all the way We finished, sweet, but where? we wait and wait, eventually john black comes in and says he had issues and we won. we run over to the score board to see this : http://www.rallydata.com/Results/Pre...NatResults.htm first in class and 7th over all out of 22 cars! later we got our Champaign bath and my navigator had a lil slip trying to get step down from the hood: __________________ Fighting uphill battles, one bullet at a time!