Sorry to hear that Johnson. Hope it's an easy cheap fix.
Damon

 

see you all in a few hours!

 

Hey guys, I won't make it today. I just got home, and I really don't feel like driving in the rain. I'll just be spinning out :\

See you all at January's race.

 

Jesse- Thank you very very much! That was the most fun I've had in a long time! Your car is stupid fast. Very fun on strait-aways and throught he slaloms. Sorry bout the cone bruise!
Here's a few pics that won't be nearly as cool as Me-Shells.

 

One more of the mx-5 posse.

 

HAHAH SWEEET!!

ey i had soooo muuch fun doing auto cross!!

even though i did spin out a few times, and drifted a lot!!

thats what happens when you drive a bone stock fc, with 14x5s lol and slammed lol..

it was soo ******* worth it! haha



it was great meeting you guys( Damon, Jesse, casey) and hanging out with Rob, Tim, Andrew, fris, and ken.


cant wait for the Jan session, ill be a bit more prepared next time lol

 

no problem damon!! anytime...... yeah, i had alot of fun! i think i did pretty damn good.. felt like the coarse was designed for my car..lol...very fast!

cant wait to see the pics me-shell took

 

I Want To See Pics!!!

 

Btw Thanks For All The Pointers Every One!

 

Settle down tigger. They're worth the wait.

 

haha i just want to shut some ppl up who dont believe that i went, and that i also didnt do that bad.

in due time lol

 

Cone killas of the day!!!! Thanks michelle for the greeaaat pics.
Later Rob

 

That's hilarious. I totally thought I caused the dinger on Jesse's car. Looks like we both did Once again... Thank you Michelle and Jesse! You guys rock!

 

i missed out.

somebody lend me a dremel so i can port my wastegate and participate with you guys!

 

What was the course like this time?

 

Now this is a happy miata! Driver has the same smile too!

 

Fris now holds the track record.

 

Pics are up (as you can tell) - Keep in mind if you are my FOTKI friend, you can download high resolution verssions of these pictures.
http://public.fotki.com/speeddemon32...-da/06dec2008/



more pics from somone else. we are about half way down the page.
http://www.ikonique.com/2008_1214/



Results are up
http://www.solo2.com/results/2008-12-14r.pdf




Here is everyones best. (hopefully I go the screen names right)


Keith - Kwescott - 54.784
Casey - Speeddemon32 - 54.786 .002 seconds - that was a close one!
Jesse - Vipers - 58.306
Rob - FC3S91 - 58.397 another close one
Tim - Rob Friend - 60.429
Andrew - AndrewRuiz - 60.911
Damon - Michael Night - 62.266
Fris - Lil Red - 65.329 what was your 4th run? they dont show it.
Ken - no S/N - 69.121
Jamie - ZeroX7 - 77.816




Yeah baby! (no I didnt cone)

 

haha, man i was upset with my car. i could not get it to drive the right way, i kept sliding out as if i was drifting on purpose! I will have to set it up better next time. And I did not run a 4th lap, I was mad at my car.

 

good stuff.

 

from a happy miata to a sad one.

 

Haha, yes. I was not sure of what I had to do. I locked up the brakes and plowed straight into some cones. A cone went under my car and I was dragging it, so I stopped. The cone worker told me to keep going. I was confused at this point, I did not know if I should limp out the rest of the way or run it.

At the road course like WSIR if something like this happens, you limp your way back into the hot pit, and let people pass. But I saw cars still coming so I went for it, and even started going backwards at one point.

I was like what did I do? You can see in one of the pics I was confused and had to turn around, i was going the wrong way. I ran a 9x.xxx and got the slowest time

 

What springs are you running? It made a world of difference to get rid of my rear swaybar. Not nearly as much drifty drifty. Also, I think we all know you have way too much power to weight for 205's in the rear.

 

gotcha.
are you still running a rear sway bar.

the miata comes with a pretty heavy oversteer problem.
everything you do to a miata (well everything I have done to my miata) has been to remove over steer.

we do NOT run a rear sway bar at all.
we run a super stiff front sway bar
front springs are SUPER stiff and rear springs are only mild stiff. (700/375 compared to the stock 120/100)
31/26 air pressure
.... etc

There is a picture of you hugging that cone pretty close also. I commented to Michelle when we were edditing the pictures on how nice you took that one turn... let me see if I can find it....

 

a cone under the car is no big deal, continue on like you normally would. (fast)

well that sucks you didnt take your 4th lap. you shoulda just asked for an instructor run or something. its nice to see how fast someone else can drive your car. or at least have and instructor sit in the passenger seat and help guid you.

anyways, you did just fine. very few come out and set th track on fire their first event. you ran a 65.3 and you only had 3 laps.... not bad man. thats a respectable time.

get rid of that rear sway bar, lower the rear air pressure a couple pounds and you will be much happier.