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Old 04-16-2019, 01:38 PM   #15
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Hey Alex, I recognize you from the B5 days. Good to see you here, too. Love the seven layer torque dip.
There are apparently a bunch of B5ers who went this route. If you get east at all, hit me up.
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I got a little happy with the vinyl cutter. Three blues, one pink.
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Old 04-22-2019, 09:43 AM   #17
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Ho ho ho....

These tyres really wake up the rear axle. Damn. Also, they are just great in the wet. Many slides were slid during a rainstorm on saturday.
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Old 04-24-2019, 09:23 AM   #18
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I've been contemplating the 615k+ , I just had a bad experience in the wet with the og 615s many years ago. In the dry I loved them though
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Old 05-21-2019, 10:39 AM   #19
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Oh, so very disappointed that there is no provision for a Schroth QuickFit in this thing. I've been using QuickFits for years in my VWs. Such a great product and now they have the Pro version that is HANS compatible. I was on the phone with them to try to sort out my upgrades and got the bad news.

Added a Rallye3 for HPDE, although I am not 100% happy about it.

Long term plan is to source a Bride seat (tiny person seat) and a hoop, so that I can use my fancy-pants TeamTech 5-pt harness. It's pink.
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Oh oh oh, this is hilarious. My Cricut can do iron-on films and there is dye-sub paper coming soon!!

So I made a tshirt out of one of my stickers. Hahahahah when the dye-sub paper arrives, I am going to do one that says 死ぬなよ (don't die). It's my favorite line between my two favorite characters.



Anyway, track day on friday on the new tars. Going to Waterford Hills. Tight little track with lots of elevation change and some really fun, challenging turns.
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Old 06-10-2019, 08:14 AM   #21
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Waterford Hills was excellent. Ran with the Trackalicious group, well-run day, only one incident involving a new Camaro that was a total loss. Sad as the driver was improving. Waterford Hills is a small track, barely more than a big shifter kart track. It is tight and fun. Very zoom-zoom. I think about 1.6 miles. Elevation change, a wall, some narrow runoffs, and a swamp. And like all of Michigan, turtles. They repaved it for this season and the surface is AMAZING. Considering that the old surface was half asphalt and half concrete, I am estimating that about 20% of my bandwidth was freed up due to no longer having to think about pavement transitions. The company that does Watkins Glen did the work and it was soooo worth it. Track went from thank goodness it's close to home because that is the only redeeming factor to OMG, need more WHRRI days!!

I spent two sessions sorting out my new line, which was interesting as I was starting to carry some speed. Third session was devoted to the turn at the end of the back straight, which still requires work and braking practice. Fourth session was all about no longer braking for every little wobble in the track. That works great for FWD, but.... So by the end of the fourth I was carrying a lot more speed around the track, which was really fun. I think on my first lap, I probably pulled about 50 in Big Bend, by the end of the day, I was holding 65+ through it. That is a lot of improvement. I also was able to stop braking on the uphill section. This is so new to me and so much fun to be in the learning curve again. Last session, I just goofed off and stayed on my line and relaxed.

The Azenis RT615Ks performed well. They are now making an incredible racket. I thought I was losing a wheel bearing. Nope, tars. My LF was taking all of the load and the temps (hand check) were letting me know that. I did get a cheapo IR gun off amazon for $15 for next time. Emissivity be damned, it will be close enough for me.

The Schroth Rallye3 worked really well, in fact, better than I expected. I conned another driver into pulling my hip tabs for me, which made all the difference.

So, a great day and I am super happy with the car and finally feel like I am getting somewhere with it.
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More InitialD themed sticker crap!

High octane! Fill it!

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This looks very familiar. I am supposed to get a set of the blue ones when I see you. Assuming I haven't traded for a set of Enkei Raijin's...

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I got a little happy with the vinyl cutter. Three blues, one pink.
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So, apparently you can cut magnet vinyl on a Cricut Maker. Font from MF Ghost.



I appear to have a Cricut problem.
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Another awesome day at Waterford Hills.

Spent time continuing to work on evicting FWD habits. Spent lots of time on not braking (again). Getting speeds up and working on my own brain.

The Azenis are very good, but I could feel the left front rolling up a bit. I was down to 20psi (cold) in that corner with about 25 RF and 35 in the rear. WHRRI eats up front lefts on all cars. I could have probably dropped the LF even further. The tyre is visibly heat cycled hard - getting a bit furry. Lots of rolls of rubber around the entire circumference of the one solid band of tread. I could feel the rolls building up in certain corners. That's a super new experience and I love how communicative the car is about what is going on in various places. It was a really hot day (temps 90+°F) and I could feel a bit of greasy trying to come in at the ends of the sessions. But just a tiny bit, not enough to worry about. These will be fine for Gingerman when I head out there next month. I'll be at the CGI day and have spent the extra cash to get an instructor for the day, even though I got booted from novice.

One thing I'm starting to understand is that there are no truly bad tyres for this car. There are sticky tyres and not-sticky tyres, but all of them can be driven with the right attitude. I had the Michelins back on briefly trying to track down a noise (Brembo's crappy PWI!), and found that since my first good day at WHRRI, the lack of grip was far less annoying. I felt a lot more in control of the car whether I had traction or not and was way less bothered by the tendency of the tyres to give up. So basically the driver is the fail, not the tyres.

ie - the driver needs more training. Must do more track days! Oh, darn.

Then went home and spent the better part of 30 hours working on my son's #RustyMR2. Will wrap that up after work today.
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Two freaking kilos of front pads. Damn.

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Magnet numbers how-to.

You will need a Cricut Maker (the $400 one), magnet vinyl (available from Michael's and/or Amazon), software that can output .jpgs or .pngs, and the Cricut app. You can add colored vinyl to laminate with for an extra challenge.

1. Prepare the magnet vinyl by magnetting it to your washing machine, fridge, steel door, or any other flat surface. It comes in rolls and needs to be flat to go through the Cricut nicely. Leave it there for two days. If you are laminating vinyl on, then unroll the vinyl and hang that up to flatten, too.

2. Design your numbers. Use your graphics software or whatever. Output a graphics file that the Cricut app can read (.jpg seems to work better than .png).

3. If you are so inclined and really want hot pink numbers, laminate the colored vinyl to the magnet vinyl. This is not easy and it took me to the third go before I could make it look decent without a million bubbles. Don't hate yourself.

4. Load up the Cricut app and set your design. I found that using the whole 12x24 sheet of magnet vinyl on the 12x24 grip pad worked better, but then you have to drop the $$ on the big pad.

5. Stick the magnet vinyl to the grip pad. Make sure it is exactly in the lines because the positioning rollers will push it around if you are running the full 12" width sheet. This will cause cuts within 0.5" of the edges to not be just so.

6. Set the material to 0.5mm magnet sheet. 0.6mm also works, but tends to cut through and into the grip pad. DAMHIK.

7. Cut your numbers. At 0.5mm it will run the pattern twice. This is normal. I think it does three times for 0.6mm.

8. Put your numbers on your car and look awesome at the track/autocross.

I have been running this material for several track days now, and have left them on by accident (lol) for driving to work (lots of traffic and highway). It stays on well and doesn't move around. Do make sure your car is very clean before sticking the numbers on as if there is dust, it will get into the paint.
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Yesterday was 100% up.

Headed out to GingerMan for a CGI track day. Paid an extra $50 for an instructor and requested a RWD person. Got a guy with a 600hp Corvette. We did the standard Novice run at my request, minus the classroom.

Holy ****. I have CAR.

The instructor (Mark) helped me find a functional line and had me pushing into oversteer in two useful locations on the track. The line is so incredibly different. We spent the whole day talking about the differences and why I was defaulting to certain (FF) behaviours. He actually drove the car for the first couple of laps and said that it is far better than he had imagined and continued to comment on how awesome it is the whole day. That was kind of cool. He said it was a big treat for him to have an experienced driver who knew all the basics and he could just focus on getting me around the track faster. That was really cool to hear.

His evaluation was - my inputs are great, super smooth, and very controlled, and my experience was clear. Once I had a new line down, I was holding it and driving very consistently. He said he could see me moving around a little to try things out. We are both DR people (there is one section of GM that can be run DA or DR) and he said that my path through there was really sweet and that basically from inside of 3 to through 11 I was kicking ass and only going to get faster. I still need to polish 1 and 2 and the entrance to 3. He said the biggest deal of all was that I was pushing into oversteer and not freaking out. I was not oversteering that much, but I guess it was enough to count. I was just countersteering it and riding it out for fun. Because of the placement of the line he recommended, I had plenty of track to use for that. So no stress.

I ran my last session solo and railed it.

Met a bunch of 86 people (five cars started, one lost their engine , one runs Midwest 86 Cup) and learned about AIM Solo telemetry. Might need one of those.

Texted KBJr "dude, I sent it."

So tons of positive feedback about my driving and met new people and had a blast and started to actually DRIVE my little blueberry.

edit - so. the PP Brembos. I have way more brakes than I realized. Like OMGHolyCowWTFBBQ brakes. Like Last Stick Brakes. Hmmm. That would be a good name for a friction supplier.
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