NorCal (Bay Area) OFF-TOPIC Chat Thread

[JackSmiley]

I dont know. For a while now i've had this whining when on neutral or when the car is under load, but when i step on the clutch it goes away. @BigFatFlip and @PMok, remember that whining i was telling you about?

[RC51ed]

Originally Posted by JackSmiley

I dont know. For a while now i've had this whining when on neutral or when the car is under load, but when i step on the clutch it goes away. @BigFatFlip and @PMok, remember that whining i was telling you about?

Too many high speed trips to the coffee shop. Lol

I hope it's covered under warranty.

[JackSmiley]

Originally Posted by RC51ed

Too many high speed trips to the coffee shop. Lol

I hope it's covered under warranty.

Lol. I dont think so. I've told toyota about it before, but said it was normal. Then i complained to them about it again coz it got louder. Yes, its covered under warranty.

[SnakeEyes]

Originally Posted by JackSmiley

Lol. I dont think so. I've told toyota about it before, but said it was normal. Then i complained to them about it again coz it got louder. Yes, its covered under warranty.

Is this the same whining you demonstrated the other day?

[JackSmiley]

Originally Posted by SnakeEyes

Is this the same whining you demonstrated the other day?

Yup! That sounded like a supercharger whining.

[BigFatFlip]

Originally Posted by BlaineWasHere

Ok, CSG Mike asked me to add up all my AutoX expenditures, particularly the consumables, to see how it adds up to to a track duty car! I think this might be painful but here we go!

However, NO REGRETS! This summer was a great summer of racing!!!!

Wow, grand total of $11,224! Actually, not bad for a whole season of racing, like we said way back, racing is not cheap. Autox is about as cheap as it gets, heck, I've seen karters spend about as much in a season (gokart, tires, fuel, etc), and they can't DD their gokarts .

Originally Posted by JackSmiley

I dont know. For a while now i've had this whining when on neutral or when the car is under load, but when i step on the clutch it goes away. @BigFatFlip and @PMok, remember that whining i was telling you about?

Yep, I figured it was the tranny, sounded like my old civic when I'm going in reverse, lol. Surprised it made the whinning at neutral also, I remember trying to get it to coast on neutral and didn't hear it. Did they say specifically say what was wrong with it?

[MyRx]

@Blaine - That's not bad $$ spent on your DD and autox'er. I was expecting more.
@JackSmiley - was that noise there at Sonic when I drove it? Trying to recall if I heard it.

[PMok]

Originally Posted by BlaineWasHere

Ok, CSG Mike asked me to add up all my AutoX expenditures, particularly the consumables, to see how it adds up to to a track duty car! I think this might be painful but here we go!
...
$$$$$!

Bravo sir. That's still far less than you'd have spent if you had gone to track days all year long. Because you certainly could have done all the things you've done to your car and as you noted, then you would still add more money on top of that to help on the braking, cooling, etc. But it is still hard to compare them because you could do far more/far less depending on your own inclination. For instance I managed to do 3 track days in the last 10 months but have spent far less on modifications. You don't "need" KWs or race tires or whatnot... plenty of people including myself have done autox/track days on basically a stock car and still had a blast. But interested to see what CSG Mike comes up with in comparison anyways.

[JackSmiley]

Originally Posted by BigFatFlip

Wow, grand total of $11,224! Actually, not bad for a whole season of racing, like we said way back, racing is not cheap. Autox is about as cheap as it gets, heck, I've seen karters spend about as much in a season (gokart, tires, fuel, etc), and they can't DD their gokarts .



Yep, I figured it was the tranny, sounded like my old civic when I'm going in reverse, lol. Surprised it made the whinning at neutral also, I remember trying to get it to coast on neutral and didn't hear it. Did they say specifically say what was wrong with it?

They havent told me what broke. I'll ask them when i get my car back.

Originally Posted by MyRx

@Blaine - That's not bad $$ spent on your DD and autox'er. I was expecting more.
@JackSmiley - was that noise there at Sonic when I drove it? Trying to recall if I heard it.

Yup! The whiny sound was there during the sonic meet. I dont know if you noticed it coz we were more worried of the coilovers.

[BlaineWasHere]

Originally Posted by PMok

Bravo sir. That's still far less than you'd have spent if you had gone to track days all year long. Because you certainly could have done all the things you've done to your car and as you noted, then you would still add more money on top of that to help on the braking, cooling, etc. But it is still hard to compare them because you could do far more/far less depending on your own inclination. For instance I managed to do 3 track days in the last 10 months but have spent far less on modifications. You don't "need" KWs or race tires or whatnot... plenty of people including myself have done autox/track days on basically a stock car and still had a blast. But interested to see what CSG Mike comes up with in comparison anyways.

What you're saying it true, but I decided to mod for STX instead of stock prep which is pretty much just koni dampers, FSB, and tires. You can have a cheap AutoX build also. It was mostly to compare what it costs to run a track car vs run and autoX car.

[BlaineWasHere]

This is why I haven't touch my motor yet, not even a tune. This car is too new to know the car/motor, and apparently too new to know who the proper tuners are and who aren't.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44316

[BlaineWasHere]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73nRapBJ-Zw"]Family Guy - Mazda Miata - YouTube[/ame]

[monkeedoo]

are you guys following the visconti scandal its hilarious

[BlaineWasHere]

Originally Posted by monkeedoo

are you guys following the visconti scandal its hilarious

Ummm yeah, did you see where I linked the thread three posts ago?!?!??!!?