Nasa High Speed Autocross @ VMP 4/21/2013 Sponsored by Ptuning

[warman]

Originally Posted by xjohnx

Likely. SoloStorm is $200 though on android. Harry's Lap Timer is only $27 on iOS. I'm working to see if he can add AppRadio support.

That is quite the difference. I have all iOS devices as it is, but I don't think they'll come out with a head unit since it's not open source. I think the Ipad Mini is the perfect size, but I'd much rather have an indash unit than something mounted to the dash.

[xjohnx]

Originally Posted by warman

That is quite the difference. I have all iOS devices as it is, but I don't think they'll come out with a head unit since it's not open source. I think the Ipad Mini is the perfect size, but I'd much rather have an indash unit than something mounted to the dash.

Get a Pioneer head unit, either an AppRadio, or an AVH series unit. You can then mirror your iphone apps to your head unit and control them through your head units touchscreen. That's what I've got in my car. Was working great with my iPhone 4, just waiting on a firmware update to support that iPhone 5 cable. Should be any day now.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcP7-DjKRs"]AppRadio- The Revolution Continues.mp4 - YouTube[/ame]

Check out the 2:00 mark of that video

[VoiD]

Originally Posted by Blown_xa

what was camber?

-1.5 front -1.7 rear 0 toe

[UncleFester]

Originally Posted by VoiD

-1.5 front -1.7 rear 0 toe

Are those settings what you wanted? Or are you limited by equipment?

Originally Posted by davtbaum

Had a great time - although punctured coolant pipe led to this on my friend's e30

Sorry to hear you guys didn't make it back. Was fun chatting with you two during the day and in grid.

[VoiD]

Originally Posted by UncleFester

Are those settings what you wanted? Or are you limited by equipment?

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Wanted -1.5 front and -2.0 rear but ended up with those numbers. I can run more up front with camber bolts in kw upper holes, rear seems limited up to -1.8 or 1.9 without LCAs.

[ptuning]

Originally Posted by VoiD

Wanted -1.5 front and -2.0 rear but ended up with those numbers. I can run more up front with camber bolts in kw upper holes, rear seems limited up to -1.8 or 1.9 without LCAs.

If you plan on autocrossing more often, then definitely try to dial in more negative camber up front. Your current settings will cause the car to understeer quite a bit.

Unlike cars with double wishbone front suspensions, the front struts on the FR-S/BRZ have very little negative camber gain under compression. For your street driven car, you may want to start at -2.5 up front and go from there.

For this past autocross, we really wanted to run -3.5" camber up front on our shop car, but could only muster -1.6" because of clearance issues with the 255 tires and the factory struts (our coilovers didn't arrive in time).

Anyhow, the result, which was no surprise to us, was fairly heavy understeer. This really killed our speed through the two skidpad sections. I had to try extra hard to make up the time through the other sections of the course.

If you'd like to pick our brain about alignment settings, please feel free to stop by or give us a call.

- Toan

[warman]

Originally Posted by xjohnx

Get a Pioneer head unit, either an AppRadio, or an AVH series unit. You can then mirror your iphone apps to your head unit and control them through your head units touchscreen. That's what I've got in my car. Was working great with my iPhone 4, just waiting on a firmware update to support that iPhone 5 cable. Should be any day now.

Check out the 2:00 mark of that video

That is sweet.. I'm going to have to check this out. Thanks.

[warman]

Here's a video of one of my runs. Not the best quality, but I thought it was cool that you can see most of the course from the grandstands.

[ame]http://youtu.be/PnvUjufFwfY[/ame]

[xjohnx]

Originally Posted by Blown_xa

If any of you are interested, try this time trial on May 11th. It is run like an autocross (standstill start, one lap).... but it is around a 2.5 mile road course.

It isn't too much further south than VMP!

I'm considering signing up for this. Do they have you work the corner stations when not driving, or does the track/organization provide their own corner workers?

Anyone else considering it?

[civicdrivr]

Originally Posted by Blown_xa

If any of you are interested, try this time trial on May 11th. It is run like an autocross (standstill start, one lap).... but it is around a 2.5 mile road course.

It isn't too much further south than VMP!

Originally Posted by xjohnx

I'm considering signing up for this. Do they have you work the corner stations when not driving, or does the track/organization provide their own corner workers?

Anyone else considering it?

I am. Its not that far away and it looks like tons of fun.

Sent from my Nexus 4

[kanundrum]

Any other weekend I would be down dang already made a commitment I don't want to change.

[UncleFester]

Originally Posted by ptuning

If you plan on autocrossing more often, then definitely try to dial in more negative camber up front. Your current settings will cause the car to understeer quite a bit.

Unlike cars with double wishbone front suspensions, the front struts on the FR-S/BRZ have very little negative camber gain under compression. For your street driven car, you may want to start at -2.5 up front and go from there.

This is exactly what I was thinking as well. Unless you are trying to overcompensate for steer conditions with alignment, which you shouldn't be, I would never run more camber in the rear on this car. I think -2.5 front and -1.5 rear is the sweet spot on these cars, and you can adjust for driver preference from there. On the twins, you will need to invest in adjustability parts in order to get a proper racing alignment; IE camber plates, LCA's, bushings, bolts, etc.

[thejevans]

I'm in!

[xjohnx]

First run of the day in my car, before we got tire pressures sorted out. Codriver was driving,but needless to say, thing was a bit of a handful.