its a setup puzzle: last 2 times dick and i were at GGF we went 1st and 2nd in fastest times. however i get stomped at the other sites. one difference is that the more power i add in a corner, the mo
so you are saying mount a gravel spreader on the front of my car??? i think i will try more rear bar. LOOK OUT corner workers!! -james No, seriously- Your car gets loose under power because there is
my friend's 2.5 year old PT Cruiser busted a connecting rod after 30K miles. dealer wants $4K to fix and refuses to cover under warranty because she doesnt have oil change receipts. she doesnt have t
oh my. well it was quite a good race in any case. my favorite part was the pace car driver during the first few laps... he was FLYING around in that giant unibody car. -james victory, following new e
dont worry, james is here to help you waste the rest of your friday at work. funny thing is.. i used this exact visegrips and hammer method today!! -james Haynes: Rotate counter-clockwise. Translatio
two drivers? geez that is going to take some getting used to :) maybe i gotta bring some playing cards to kill time between runs. james -- Original Message -- From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie
great, mentally challenging course. i woke up this morning realizing one place i had interpreted all wrong!! however "no gravel"???? by the 8th run group i could not launch at all at the start.. tire
in general the sticker the surface/tires the more a car will understeer. the most basic way to control the steady state steer characteristic (under/over steer) is with sway bar tuning. however, the s
shocks only affect the transition to the steady state (which of course is important). once it is ready they dont affect the amount of roll. id say the stock bar in virtually EVERY street-production c
sorry if this has been covered but im still confused. do i sign up for OSP as a class, or some other class? if we run in E MOD, do i have to worry about my competition showing up on slicks? i cant af
please register your hue and cry about using a "key west box" in a SFR it consists of a box with entrance and exit, and an obstacle in the center (one or more cones). think of it as a one cone option
a common katie-novice mistake: you have confused the "grin of happiness" with the "grin of manicalness". yes they are similar, but clearly that must be what is going on here. and it creeps me out a l
that was a great course, very good flow, interesting with many different features that required thought. (when the course is small and well designed, you can get by with fewer workers. when the numbe
with a low turnout we arent forced to run a car every 20 seconds until dark in a near panic, and could have a long overlap for a full length course (it was only a mid 30's course for the faster cars)
i finally got some real shocks for my car, koni 3012 double adjustable mono however i havent had adjustable shocks before, and only know what ive read about adjusting them (and those descriptions are