I gave my car the automotive equivalent of Viagra and am quite happy with
the results.
I recently installed a rollbar in my B Stock Miata R. It is much less
flexy (flaccid?) now and seems to handle a smidge better. But then it
could just be me liking it stiff.
My car was purchased by its original owner for the purpose of
autocrossing. It never let him down. He doesn't say, but I think he
started autcrossing it before it had turned over 1000 miles. :^) I've
been abusing the car on a daily basis and have yet to see any negative
effects. Except for the time that I spun out on the ice in downtown
Seattle and scraped up the airdam a bit. Fortunately I was able to repair
the car with factory-spec Mazda staples and a little duct tape. The duct
tape has since washed away leaviing a little bit of that nice, dusty duct
tape residue that is the talisman of every member of Team Laughing Stock.
I washed the car the other day, rubbed off all of the cone scuffs and
winter residue and found that I actually own a shiny red car! I was
becoming convinced that it was a pleasing dusty, brick red with lateral
black racing stripes running down the bottoms of the doors.
Bret Dodson
'96 Miata R (happily stiff, all the time)
Seattle, WA
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Kelly, Katie wrote:
> I've been autoxing Lucy since she was a wee girl with only 3000 miles. She
> now has 40K (eek!). The Konis were installed a year and a half ago, and
> she's a MUCH better handling car than she was back then. I don't know why
> this is, but I guess she's more flexible now, or stronger. I don't
> understand WHY this is (Nitrous?), but I don't question it. I just accept
> it. Lucy was once a little waif. She's a mean little momma now.
>
> Thank you, and over and out.
>
> Katie Kelly
> Technical Publications
> SPSS Bay Area
> (510)412-2812
> mailto:katiek@spss.com
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darren P. Madams [SMTP:darren@madams.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 5:16 PM
> > To: autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: New car too stiff???
> >
> > I heard someone mention somewhere that a brand new car needs to be
> > broken in a little bit to loosen it up before it will be a good
> > autocrosser. Has anyone heard this? Seems to me any kind of flex means
> > something is out of whack versus how you measured it sitting on grid.
> > How should this break-in be done? When is it OK to autocross a brand
> > new car? (other than the engine break-in which I'm well familiar with)
> >
> > Buddy's buying a Civic Si, and we're gonna see just how well it does in
> > EStock. Anybody got any setup help for the Civics, Si or not? I assume
> > 225s will fit up front, but the Si comes with 15" rims.
> >
> > --Darren
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