I thought i would start a new blog. I didn't like what i did with the old one and its too much work to try and change it.
Run 1st
Work 3rd
Today was a cloudy overcast day. Not much Sun but you can feel the UV rays making it a bit humid outside. The course layout was awesome today. I can't remember a time when the course was setup so well for the powerband of the civic. There was only two things I can think of that needed changing. One was the Sound Meter. Because it was an overcast morning, i decided to leave the full street exhaust on the car. The sound meter was located near the fence (Qside) so i knew sound would be an issue today. The second thing would be the use of cones. AGAIN they decided to use the tiny cones for setup. This bugs me because the tiny cones make it hard for me to judge exactly how close i am to the cones.
Anyways, my first three runs had sound meter encounters. My first warning was a 91.8 db. This was with full street exhaust and my CAI. Second warning was the same setup but with a 92.5 db. I decided to make a change and ran to grab my modified stock intake. Third run in and i came with a 91.5 db. Quieter but clearly an issue with where the sound meter was located. The way it was positioned was fine... about 50ft... maybe a little bit more out. BUT the issue was that the meter was positioned almost 10 ft elevated from where the cars were at. This means that the sound meter would be picking up resonance and different frequencys than what we normal measure. Oh well.
Today was a highly anticipated day for me. I wanted to try my new alignment setup in order to get the car to be more loose. I overexaggerated my targeted spec in order to find the limit. Looks like what i did was more than i needed for todays event. Sure the car was the loosest its ever been midcorner, but transitional elements were sacrificed as it became a bit snappy in transition. I guess thats what */*" toe OUT does. =P
Time to back it down. Anyways i took first today and won't be seeing another autocross for another month. =(...
