August 16-17 - Summer Sizzler Autocross (Cumberland Airport)

[wannarace928]

It was very nice meeting some of you guys. Thanks a lot Tom and Di for having SVXonthebrain and I out to the meet. Wish we could have stayed longer out there. But our trip ended up lasting about 8 hours longer than hoped when the car broke on the way home, But it seems we may have finally fixed the problem!

[green_eyed_lady]

Glad to hear everyone (so far) made it home okay, albeit later than expected. It was a great meet; Tom is saying his final goodbyes to YT, Sov13t and Downforlow (I think that's his name) as I type this.

Thanks to all for coming, I will post more in the morning, when I have more time.

[SVXRide]

What a meet! I almost want to say that I missed the "up close and personal" abuse from the SVX family (as if the abuse via the Network wasn't bad enough). Thanks so much to OT and Di for their hospitality! Thanks to YT for making the trip down to MD to install the R180 and caravaning up to OT's place all in the same day (did I mention how loud YT's exhaust is?) It really was great getting to see everyone and knock off some of the ~2yrs of autoX rust that had accumulated

As Chris has already mentioned, Saturday's course was, to be kind, challenging. I have never heard so many people called off course - a lot of them very experienced autoX'ers. Sunday's course definitely made up for the somewhat confusing nature of Saturday's course. Thanks to YT and Dave for their help with the "adjustments" made to Battlescar late Saturday night (yes, the "Official AutoX Parts Breaker" title was confirmed) in preparation for Sunday. I'm not sure if Chris or YT had the fastest SVX time of the day on Sunday. My Sunday times were:

Run 1 = 59.933
Run 2 = 57.911
Run 3 = 55.996
Run 4 = 55.444
Run 5 = 54.551
Run 6 = 53.535

I can honestly say that I still hadn't reached the car's limit after 6 runs. I do think the high 40s were out there, I just ran out of runs

I took ~50 pics and will provide a link sometime Monday.

-Bill
p.s. anybody see Ben?

[benebob]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

I can honestly say that I still hadn't reached the car's limit after 6 runs. I do think the high 40s were out there, I just ran out of runs


-Bill
p.s. anybody see Ben?

No the question is did anybody see Bill. Aparently his car was here, his shell was there but the idiot behind the wheel finished a .10 ahead of HS winner Dave! I'm thinking he's been snatched up by an alien.

I can honestly say that I didn't reach the car's limits in the allotted runs either. Just think, if you had 100 runs and Dave had 100 runs in his poorly running stock XT6 you might be 2 seconds ahead. Then again, you probably would have driven into an airplane if you had that many runs!

.1 better than DAVE and you're whining about me not showing up? Obviously I'm not interested in wasting my time on a lightweight! Instead I'll send Hocrest with a Bone Stock XT6 and street tires to entertain your boy racer ambitions. Do your rockets fly that slow too!

[TomsSVX]

ugh... finally made it back to the shop by 5am. Shortly after Nathan got onto 81 from the Penna Turnpike, I had to pull off to take a short rest...`2hrs. Then made the rest of the trek home.

Tom & Di your hostility is always second to none....wait... hospitality??? There was no point in my visit that I felt anywhere but home, and we even got to discuss exoculation!!!

The A-X was the second best part of my trip. Sat being a course that was easy to get lost I tripped 2 off-courses and 1 +1 run. 2 clean... best time of 54.590

Sunday the course was easier to read but VERY FAST!!! I was topping out 3rd gear at the end of the straights. Ran R-compound tires that Tom lent me instead of my street tires on the Sti wheels. Managed to close Saturdays gap of 3.xxx seconds behing Chris to .4 seconds with a best clean time of 50.5xx. Chris, i congratulate you on your abilities as you were able to carry a lot of speed through those courses.

Played around with the G-tech both days.

Maximum Lateral G's on Sat= .99 on street tires
Maximum Lateral G's on Sun= 1.16 on r-comps

Just a cool little tid-bit about the car. Hope to see you all again real soon at the Jersey Beach Meet!!!

Tom

[GreenMarine]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

ugh... finally made it back to the shop by 5am. Shortly after Nathan got onto 81 from the Penna Turnpike, I had to pull off to take a short rest...`2hrs. Then made the rest of the trek home.

Tom & Di your hostility is always second to none....wait... hospitality??? There was no point in my visit that I felt anywhere but home, and we even got to discuss exoculation!!!

Yes, thanks very much Tom and Di for letting me stay there with youguys. Sorry I wasn't in much of a "party mood" on saturday, but I was worn out ... Hopefully I'll see youguys again sometime soon.

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

The A-X was the second best part of my trip. Sat being a course that was easy to get lost I tripped 2 off-courses and 1 +1 run. 2 clean... best time of 54.590

Sunday the course was easier to read but VERY FAST!!! I was topping out 3rd gear at the end of the straights. Ran R-compound tires that Tom lent me instead of my street tires on the Sti wheels. Managed to close Saturdays gap of 3.xxx seconds behing Chris to .4 seconds with a best clean time of 50.5xx. Chris, i congratulate you on your abilities as you were able to carry a lot of speed through those courses.

Played around with the G-tech both days.

Maximum Lateral G's on Sat= .99 on street tires
Maximum Lateral G's on Sun= 1.16 on r-comps

Just a cool little tid-bit about the car. Hope to see you all again real soon at the Jersey Beach Meet!!!

Tom

Tom, thanks for letting me drive the 6MT SVX down the road and back. It handles very similarly to an STi. Well I mean that it transfers power very similarly and was the feel I was hoping it would have. I would have loved to take it around the Autocross course a few times too I think your car definitely has the potential to be really good at Autocross, if only you could get more seat time. Hell, that is hard for me to come by too now days. But it was fun having you slide towards me while I was working at corner 3 on Sunday ... Wish I had a camera for that!

~ Chris

[green_eyed_lady]

Counting our 4 "spares", we had a total of 20 SVXi and 28 people show up at our little meet, at one time or another over the total 2-1/2 days.

In attendance were: (* means they brought an SVX)

1. svxfiles*
2. green_eyed_lady*
3. GreenMarineSVX*
4. TomsSVX*
5. SVXRide*
6. downforlow*
7. svxcess*
8. SVXyGirl*
9. Wannarace928*
10. SVXonthebrain (rode with Wannarace928)
11. Brian (from Pgh.)*
12. Mike621*
13. newsvx*
14. Mr. Black* (Tom's son Nick)
15. BugBomb*
16. Jen Moran
17. Jake Moran
18. Chris (came with the Moran gang)
19. Rufus
20. Hocrest
21. subi-crosser
22. Dave Williams (one of the major organizers of the autocross events)
23. Linda (came with Dave)
24. Dan Semler (a local friend of ours)
25. Sov13t*
26. Ron Durham (another local friend, but he didn't bring his SVX)
27. Rick Robeson* (another local SVXer)
28. Brian (our next-door neighbor)

The official autocross results haven't been posted yet; we'll let everybody know when they are. It's always great when we have several SVXi show up for the autocrosses - the more people find out about them, the more valuable they will become!

Thanks again to everybody who came. We all had a great time.

We are planning another meet for the next autocross event, the September 20-21 "Harvest Moon" Autocross. More info on the Autocross Series can be found on the National Road Rally website.

[green_eyed_lady]

Harry (newsvx) took some great videos, including this one of the drive to our house. Great view when you come in the driveway, eh?

Thanks, Harry.

[SVXRide]

Originally Posted by benebob

No the question is did anybody see Bill. Aparently his car was here, his shell was there but the idiot behind the wheel finished a .10 ahead of HS winner Dave! I'm thinking he's been snatched up by an alien.

I can honestly say that I didn't reach the car's limits in the allotted runs either. Just think, if you had 100 runs and Dave had 100 runs in his poorly running stock XT6 you might be 2 seconds ahead. Then again, you probably would have driven into an airplane if you had that many runs!

.1 better than DAVE and you're whining about me not showing up? Obviously I'm not interested in wasting my time on a lightweight! Instead I'll send Hocrest with a Bone Stock XT6 and street tires to entertain your boy racer ambitions. Do your rockets fly that slow too!

Whine, whine, whine...

I'll be the first to admit I drove like crap on Saturday. I can come up with multiple reasons why, but I know better

Trust me, if Dave had been there on Sunday he would have been nowhere near .1 off of my time

Hopefully, we'll see you at the next meet

-Bill

[TomsSVX]

I still think Ben was there in spirit...

Making engine revving noises and skidding noises in the racer while we were racing

tom

[SVXRide]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

I still think Ben was there in spirit...

Making engine revving noises and skidding noises in the racer while we were racing

tom

zoom zoom rumm rumm screech zoom



-Bill

[SUBBYRU89]

I was sick over the weekend so someone was drinking for me

I'll see about scheduling some Di time soon...I'll let you know
Miss yas!!!!!

[benebob]

Originally Posted by TomsSVX

I still think Ben was there in spirit...

Making engine revving noises and skidding noises in the racer while we were racing

tom

Ummm... How the heII are you getting me confused with Wally. He's the one who makes skidding noises.

[benebob]

Originally Posted by SVXRide

Whine, whine, whine...

Trust me, IF Dave had been there on Sunday he would have been nowhere near .1 off of my time


-Bill

Nuf I mean IF said!

Would've liked to have been there but needed to take the new camper out for a test run before our September vacation.

I've decided that either next year is the year to start hillclimbing or its time to pass the REAL racer on to someone who has the time and skill to pilot it. Obviously you flunked your preaudition!

[downforlow]

Driver: me
car: 94 blue banana svx,
mod's: custom body work, performance power steering, specially prepared low tread street tires (with a nail for extra traction on those tricky turns), overheat switch (aka gas pedal), performance exhaust leaking at headers (adds tons of power there.)

sat times:
1st 62.388 +off
2nd 58.7 +1
3rd 57.977 +off
4th 57.048
5th 56.945 clean

sun times:
1st 58.487 +off
2nd 54.295
3rd 54.041 +1
4th 53.457 clean
5th 53.665
6th smoking in the pits


Thanks for a great time everyone. first auto cross and now I'm really addicted.

next time i think I'll use a good car though.