RE: First AutoX completed! woohooooo

["Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@verizon.net>]

Cool! I'm glad I didn't wait until my 40th to give it a try. :) So, will you
be going back next time? After you've been to a few events and start to
really get a feel for it, there's nothing like the feeling you get when you
start figuring out how to get the car to move in magical ways. It's the
biggest (safe/legal) rush you can get for $20.

The 16v Scirocco probably won't win you a national championship, but it can
be VERY competitive locally. We've been running the Impreza for a while now,
but I decided to take the 16v out on Saturday for our region's practice day.
Most of the local "hot shoes" weren't there, but there was a BMW M3 that was
beating everyone's times by about two seconds. After I re-learned how to
drive (an AWD Subaru with 2.5 liters of grunt and race rubber is just a
*little* different than the 16v!!), I was able to get my times down to where
he was. They didn't write down times since it was a practice day, but I know
that we were within a couple tenths of a second of each other. I might have
even beaten him. After it was over, I noticed him changing tires. He had
Kuhmo race tires and a full set of TC Kline Koni coilovers. Suddenly, my day
seemed pretty damn good! It's always a pleasure to compete with someone who
spent as much on shocks & wheels as you did on your whole car. ;)

I really wonder what a national-level driver could do with a
seriously-prepped 16v in STS. It may not have Subaru power, but it is 400lbs
lighter...

Neal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Cheapass Ron
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 9:12 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: First AutoX completed! woohooooo
>
>
> Two days shy of my 40th, I FINALLY get out there...been a long wait
> this year...I had planned to be autoxing the first week of the season.
> But well worth the wait....progressively quicker times (including a
> fastest run - last of the day - with my brother in the car...go figure.
>  Maybe his 200lbs smoothed me out?)
>
> A few rough spots...after run #2, the car "idled" at 5000 RPM...WTH?
> Throttle cable was OK, popped off the boot by the a/f meter, that's OK,
> as a last resort I removed the boot from the TB and what do I find?
> About a 6" x6" piece of emery paper of all things!  Seems Madd Matt (my
> 3-year old) was "helping" Daddy yesterday when I had the boot off to
> access the M/C...he likes to put things in odd places...found that the
> reason for an odd rattle was a golf ball in the tailpipe...
>
> Learned that HP is not what wins Autox's, it's smoothness, knowing when
> to downshift, when not to upshift, when to use a lighter foot on the
> throttle, that heavy scrubbing slooows the car, and that Dunlop D40M2's
> are OK for a daily driver but not so good on the autox course!  Anyhow,
> whupped on a Audi a4 Quattro w/ 1.8T, a '90-ish RX7 Turbo, and at least
> one Miata...several more, results aint posted yet!
>
> Laterrrr...(BIG FAT GRIN)
>
> Ron
>
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