My First Auto X ..

*ae01maxine* · 12-03-2007, 08:22 PM

Hey wuts up guys,

So I finally went to my first Auto X events .. The whole setup was fun (except it being cold as hell) working the event and of course the driving. A friend of mine went with me to be a sponsor and co drived my car.. We did as good as we can with my setup now I got some goals on what i want to do with my max. Thanks for all those peeps that had replied and helped with my questions ...Most of all thanks to Daniel for coming out and helping/teaching me.. Here are some Pics...

Roger Times ***** Daniel Times

1st Run: 92.605 70.869

2nd Run: 75.202 66.836

3rd run: 72.174 66.751

So basically i got owned in my own car

but it was all worth it .. Daniel got 9th and i got 10th place out of 18 cars.. These pictures were the best you can get with the way the setup the track my wife is pregnant so i dont think it would of been a good idea to get any closer..

*DaveVQ* · 12-03-2007, 08:46 PM

Very nice job man. do you plan to do more events? and do you have coilovers? How did they handle

I am going to my second one this month...after finals.

I wish some of these other guys with max's lived closer to race with them and compare setup's and learn from them.

Congrats on the family as well

*ae01maxine* · 12-03-2007, 08:52 PM

Yeah i got Ksports but I guess they were running to stiff.. And it didnt help that i have POS tires and i didnt get a chance to camber either.. Next week there having another event close by and were going again and so is my friends dad with his 5.5 gen .. So that should be alot more fun ..

Thanks for the congrats.. this is kid #2 hehe

*Regime* · 12-03-2007, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by 01_Maxine

Yeah i got Ksports but I guess they were running to stiff.. And it didnt help that i have POS tires and i didnt get a chance to camber either.. Next week there having another event close by and were going again and so is my friends dad with his 5.5 gen .. So that should be alot more fun ..

Thanks for the congrats.. this is kid #2 hehe

Yeah your car needs alot of tuning and a decent set of tires to really compete out there, but overall wasn't too bad considering what we were workin with.

G4nismo · 12-04-2007, 03:13 PM

hey. glad to see you finally went out!
what settings were you running on?

when ever i run, i set it the 2 turns away from the stiffest up front and stiffest in the rear.
my main issues is understeer and traction but thats prob due mostly to the tires...

*Regime* · 12-04-2007, 04:39 PM

Not sure what the rears were set at, as the adjusters were not put in when they were installed.
The fronts were 2 turns away from stiffest, but we needed a bit more body roll for how rough and slick the track was. We were sliding all over the place, thanks to the combination of crap tires, bad adjustments on the shocks and the horrible amount of gravel on the "new" surface they put down on Candlestick's lot.

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Originally Posted by g4nismo

hey. glad to see you finally went out!
what settings were you running on?

when ever i run, i set it the 2 turns away from the stiffest up front and stiffest in the rear.
my main issues is understeer and traction but thats prob due mostly to the tires...

aprisamotorsports · 12-06-2007, 08:27 PM

Seems like a pretty cool sport it's something I would like to get into.

**irish44j** · 12-07-2007, 10:27 PM

wow, only 18 cars total? Or in class?

if total, you should have gotten like 20 runs in

*Regime* · 12-08-2007, 12:34 AM

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Originally Posted by irish44j

wow, only 18 cars total? Or in class?

if total, you should have gotten like 20 runs in

Haha I wish, you have to realize we are in SFR SCCA which is by far the largest region in the SCCA SoloII. Roger was incorrect there was 10 cars total in STS, which we were running. However there were 16 cars in our run group, which was incredibly low, usually STS has 20+ cars by itself. Back when I was really active in SoloII we averaged around 300 cars per event, though this was the second to last event in the Slush season, and it was chilly out there (for CA) must have been mid 50's to low 60's.

G4nismo · 12-08-2007, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Regime

Haha I wish, you have to realize we are in SFR SCCA which is by far the largest region in the SCCA SoloII. Roger was incorrect there was 10 cars total in STS, which we were running. However there were 16 cars in our run group, which was incredibly low, usually STS has 20+ cars by itself. Back when I was really active in SoloII we averaged around 300 cars per event, though this was the second to last event in the Slush season, and it was chilly out there (for CA) must have been mid 50's to low 60's.

average around 300 cars per event?! jeez that a lot. how many runs did you get then? the most cars there been to an event i went to was the BMW auto -x and it was there record of 241 cars

*Regime* · 12-08-2007, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by g4nismo

average around 300 cars per event?! jeez that a lot. how many runs did you get then? the most cars there been to an event i went to was the BMW auto -x and it was there record of 241 cars

Almost always 3 runs. Very very rarely we would get 4, or we would get a fun run at the end.

*SilverGLE* · 12-08-2007, 02:20 PM

Yikes, 300 cars and only 3 runs!

The ETR region has had maybe the lower 80's total (once or twice). We usually get in 6 runs, only got 5 in at the last event. It's some fun stuff! Looking forward to next season!

*ae01maxine* · 12-09-2007, 02:19 PM

Hey g4nismo Sorry havent been able to follow up on here .. But looks like daniel has it down

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Originally Posted by g4nismo

hey. glad to see you finally went out!
what settings were you running on?

when ever i run, i set it the 2 turns away from the stiffest up front and stiffest in the rear.
my main issues is understeer and traction but thats prob due mostly to the tires...

*BEJAY1* · 12-13-2007, 08:46 PM

Roger, congrats on getting your first event done. In addition to Dan you might look for Barry Chafin and his Miata at the next event. He's a top driver and wrote the book on Max setups. SFR is indeed tough with Chin, Fong, McCormick, etc. Oh and stop complaining about cold til you run out here. One of my first events was 3/25/01 and we faced work assignments in this.

*ae01maxine* · 12-13-2007, 10:48 PM

Were californians .. Were not used to it being cold.. Yeah i didnt know who he was tell dan told me afterwards who he was . But yeah ill definatly try to meet Barry . Thanks for the congrats and advice..

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Originally Posted by BEJAY1

Roger, congrats on getting your first event done. In addition to Dan you might look for Barry Chafin and his Miata at the next event. He's a top driver and wrote the book on Max setups. SFR is indeed tough with Chin, Fong, McCormick, etc. Oh and stop complaining about cold til you run out here. One of my first events was 3/25/01 and we faced work assignments in this.

*ae01maxine* · 12-19-2007, 07:58 PM

Heres the video of my my first run at the last turn my wife had a feeling i was going to spin out so she started recording..

*BEJAY1* · 12-19-2007, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by 01_Maxine

Heres the video of my my first run at the last turn my wife had a feeling i was going to spin out so she started recording..

Not sure what's funnier - you spinning or her laughing!

**irish44j** · 12-21-2007, 08:59 PM

wtf, I don't think I could spin out like that if I tried on an autocross course

*ae01maxine* · 12-21-2007, 11:03 PM

Well it takes alot of noobieness and no skills to accomplish that my friend

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You can see how much lose dirt there was on the ground you can see it behind my tires..

*Regime* · 12-21-2007, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by irish44j

wtf, I don't think I could spin out like that if I tried on an autocross course

To Roger's credit, there was a metric sh!t ton of loose gravel out there. In addition to some super crappy hard tires. In my first run I actually hung the a$$ end out for an entire 70'+ sweeper, later my friends whom happened to be working that sweeper came over to ask me how I hung on to it, as they were certain they were going to be picking up a lot of cones.

*ae01maxine* · 12-21-2007, 11:21 PM

Haha thanks D ..

Yeah i dont know how you kept a hold of the car on that turn .. We thought you hit the cone but you didnt and you even miss the one that the tail was swinging towards.. One talented driver i had for a sponsor.. Cant thank ya enough !

Whats up with next year?

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Originally Posted by Regime

To Roger's credit, there was a metric sh!t ton of loose gravel out there. In addition to some super crappy hard tires. In my first run I actually hung the a$$ end out for an entire 70'+ sweeper, later my friends whom happened to be working that sweeper came over to ask me how I hung on to it, as they were certain they were going to be picking up a lot of cones.