John's CS BRZ progression

[AustinTX]

Originally Posted by jdrxb9

Are the back-to-back weekends keeping folks away from the Blytheville Pro? Just a bit too far from TX? Something else?

In my case, I'm the best man for a friend's wedding and the bachelor party will be that weekend. Otherwise, I'd be up in Bville for some fun on the new larger courses.

[itzmik3]

Originally Posted by AustinTX

Well, it took me 4 events to get the elusive top PAX out of the car. Yesterday had some weather issues with a warm and rainy 1st group and dry/cold 2nd+3rd group, so let's not all run to Rick Ruth and tell him he was right just yet I asked Vivek Goel to come out and codrive with me to help me understand any driving issues that I have. We ended up with a 1-2 finish in the Pro class and in PAX out of 138! The car was set at 38F/32R air, and half turn from stiff front + half turn from soft rear.
Results:
https://axwaresystems.com/axorm/file...ar2014_pax.htm

Videos:
My run

Comparison of best runs

out of curiosity what program did you use to do a split screen?

[vroom4]

I cant see your videos because of a work filter...what is a good place to mount gopro to help improve driving? Im thinking of sunction to back window to view hands and head movement, but havent tried it yet...thoughts?

[Sccabrz192]

Originally Posted by jdrxb9

Are the back-to-back weekends keeping folks away from the Blytheville Pro? Just a bit too far from TX? Something else?

I'm not registered either, but if there were more than 2 signed up in CS and if the long range forecast shows something significantly more promising than what we've had here in PA the past few weeks, I'd be REALLY temped to make the 12 hr drive to AR.

On a more important note, why are you not registered for the Wilmington Match tour??

[jdrxb9]

Originally Posted by Sccabrz192

On a more important note, why are you not registered for the Wilmington Match tour??

Well, getting seriously OT now, but:
1. As much as I like auto-x, I'm really not a fan of the match or champ tour formats - the 4+2 or 3+3 runs never seem like enough.
2. I'm actually going to EVO school that weekend - never done one and it is less than 30 min from my house. With not much left to do on the car, I'm committed to working on the driver this year and EVO and some DA are part of that.

[AustinTX]

Originally Posted by itzmik3

out of curiosity what program did you use to do a split screen?

Vivek did the split screen using iMovie. He used "precision editor" to manually monitor the timing at some of the cones frame by frame.

[AustinTX]

Originally Posted by vroom4

I cant see your videos because of a work filter...what is a good place to mount gopro to help improve driving? Im thinking of sunction to back window to view hands and head movement, but havent tried it yet...thoughts?

We used the back window for the last set, but it's very difficult to reach back there to turn the camera on. We used the phone app to start/stop the GoPro.

[vroom4]

I have solostorm so it turns on everything when you get to the staging area.

Thanks!

[Kido1986]

That auto-start for Solostorm sucks for me. I just end up doing it manually haha

[AustinTX]

Another event, another pretty good result. Yesterday's event was run on a race course and had some very high speed sections. The top speed was 85+MPH in one spot. Drew Vanderploeg codrove with me this time, and we ended up 5th and 6th in PAX. We were over 2 seconds back from Vivek's time in the SSR C5Z, but that's to be expected on a horsepower course. He won the PAX by 1.2 seconds!

Car setup was identical to the last event.

Results:
https://axwaresystems.com/axorm/file...event2_pax.htm

I did not take videos this time.

[piknockout]

So what you're saying is that you had fun, but due to the nature of the course, the results don't really mean anything. Got it.

[Sccabrz192]

John, are you willing to comment on what you've settled on for toe, and what camber values you were capable of achieving?

I measured my camber this weekend after I got the car uncovered and found I am around 0.95 degrees front on both sides with the crash bolts and about 0.8 degrees on the driver side of the rear (couldn't access the passenger side where the car was parked). This is using a longacre bubble gauge with the quickset adapter. I didn't try to level the car in my garage, so there is a bit of a grade towards the front of the vehicle.

[AustinTX]

Originally Posted by Sccabrz192

John, are you willing to comment on what you've settled on for toe, and what camber values you were capable of achieving?

I do not know what the camber numbers are, as I've never racked the car. It's as much as I could get, so that's all I've got anyway I may get real numbers just for grins at some point, but I don't want to know if it's a bad number right now. Tire wear is very good, so I'm assuming it's fine.

Rear toe is around 1/8" per side and front toe is 0 based on string checks.

[AustinTX]

Originally Posted by piknockout

So what you're saying is that you had fun, but due to the nature of the course, the results don't really mean anything. Got it.

You just need to pollute threads with nonsense - you'll fit right in with SSR!