So who is going to Mineral Wells to Run the first ER Event of the Season! :cheers:
More information on the event is availble on the ER Website! 8)
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So who is going to Mineral Wells to Run the first ER Event of the Season! :cheers:
More information on the event is availble on the ER Website! 8)
As long as nobody keeps me out partying too long on Saturday, I'll be there with bells on. The "new" rear sway is in and has tamed my steady state understeer. As long as I remember to stiffen the shocks, there isn't any real oversteer, but I can flick the rear out if need be with a little extra gas. Yay!!!
I know that I will be out this weekend. Monkey has to check with the BOSS 8) She may also run, not sure yet.
I think that white is finally ready :D :D :D
Where and what time do we meet for MW. McDonalds or other?
I-20, exit 418, McDonald's is on the south side of the Interstate. It doesn't open until 7:00, but onething and I will almost certainly manage to get there at 6:55, no matter how hard we try to get there at 7:05...
If you get there early, there's air (cheap, not free) across the street at the gas station.
What he said.............Quote:
Originally Posted by Ataim
I'll be out there for sure. Dunno whether I'll make McDonalds yet or not.
I would be going backwards to go to that McDonalds. I may or may not be able to go for food.
I'll be at the event but not at McDonalds...I'm on a diet - gotta lighten up the car's weight some (apparently my really nifty automatic roof weighs too much) :roll: - not to mention the fact that that McDonald's IS somewhat out of the way.
How do you figure? We drove right past it when I had your back door...Quote:
Originally Posted by rjosey8385
Oh, NOW I remember :wink: OK. Well if I get there early enough, I may stop in and watch you guys eat....Quote:
Originally Posted by tailchaser
If all goes well, and I can get away from TMS early enough, Wayne Atkins and I will be there Saturday evening/night and try to do some testing with his Honda before anyone puts a course down...We spent the last three weeks or so putting all new bushings in the suspension, hubs and bearings, shifter kit with bushings, among other stuff to try to get back the half second penalty the new PAX brought us... :roll:
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Originally Posted by tailchaser
All C Stockers in favor of the new STS PAX raise your hands! :cheers: :mrgreen:Quote:
Originally Posted by OzCop
Hopefully the majority of the money positions won't be STS cars this year. :P
Yeah, but just in case, hang onto that handy excuse generator....I'm sure somebody'll be needing it after this weekend. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by altiain
Just a reminder ER moved up the time schedule 30 minutes for this year. Registration "should" start at 8:00 instead of 8:30.
Heh.....glad you mentioned that. I hadn't noticed and I'm working registration. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by general default
How many runs do you generally get at their events :?:
You always get 4 runs (that's for the non-member fee of $25.00) and then you have the option of buying 2 more runs at the end of your regular 4 (and this enters you into the money for Pax, which pays out to 10th place in open class and usually 3rd place in womens) for an additional $10.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPEEDRACER
The PAX payout was increased this year also.
ER Rules
H. Awards: 1. Per-event R.P.C. Awards. a) R.P.C. per event awards will be based on the following table:
R.P.C. class place winners will be awarded as follows:
First Place.............................$45.00
Second Place........................$40.00
Third Place............................$35.00
Fourth Place.........................$30.00
Fifth Place.............................$25.00
Sixth Place............................$15.00
Seventh Place.......................$15.00
Eighth Place..........................$15.00
Ninth Place...........................$15.00
Tenth Place...........................$15.00
Eleventh Place......................$10.00
Twelfth Place........................$10.00
Thirteenth Place....................$10.00
Fourteenth Place..................$10.00
Fifteenth Place......................$10.00
Sweet! :mrgreen:
Yeah, I believe you, general default, and Jon W. would have been in the money quite a bit last season with those payouts. Heck, I think I might have gotten a ten spot or two. :wink: Of course, we'll have to see how the new PAX Index effects us. Sure, STS and STX got hurt, but STU got way better (think Gabby's WRX STi if he decides to modify if like his last one), and those pesky FMods got a nice kiss as well...Quote:
Originally Posted by altiain
I'll be there. complete and utter novice, in my very stock 96 miata! I've spent all the time my wife will allow making sure it's mechanically sound, no flashy stuff.
Question - for newbies like me, do they care that I've done an imitation RB intake? If they do, I can take it off and go back to stock, but it drives so much better with it on, I'd rather not.
I don't know much about RB intakes, but I'm assuming it's like a cold air or mass air (Iceman-type) intake? They're okay with that....as long as you don't try to run it in stock class. If you want to run stock (this is only an issue at SCCA or ER events...I don't think the other clubs distinguish between modified and non-modded cars), the air filter needs to fit within the stock air filter box and the tubing running to it must be the OEM-type tubing (no chromed stuff where there was plastic before, etc.) :roll: I had an issue with this one in the past :roll:
Well, since everything else is stock, and people in non-stock classes will have spent lots of cash on many shiny additions, I think going back to the stock box is a better idea or I'll be outclassed - not that I expect to win anything on my first visit! Oh well.
If you've haven't autocrossed before or have very limited AX experience, be sure to run in the Novice Class for your regular runs.
Kiliwizz, if putting back in the stock air filter is a simple job for you, I'd do it and run NES ("N" for novice, ES for your stock class). Otherwise, I'd just leave your car as it is and run NCSP. Like you said, you are not likely to win the class anyway, and since it's your first event I think it's more important for you just to be there and drive what you are most familiar with.
Be sure to read the two “articles” referenced in this thread, have your car in good working order, and look for the "Miata Area" when you arrive 8) ...
Don't forget Kiliwizz if you can meet us at McD's in the AM, it is always good for a pre event laugh! 8)
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Originally Posted by tailchaser
I expect to be there as well in the '97. Hopefully I can give those in SM2 a little competition this year with this car. :twisted:
Or leave the intake on it and run STS 2. In fact, if you decide you like autocrossing, you have the perfect starter car for STS 2.
Ahhhhh man! Tailchaiser gave me an avatar an it looks like my own MSM! :cheers: :D
THANKS!!!!
Decided to take intake off - it's only a 30 minute job. People in STS will be running with considerably bigger budgets than me... whereas in stock, everything is more equal!
Will try to make Maccy D's at seven, but that is REALLY early for a Sunday morning...
Does anywhere know of a cheap alignment shop in Fort Worth? If it's more than $50, the wife won't let me have it
Well, it seems that even $35 is going to be too much to afford. Will have to wait for another day when I can afford to go
Sorry lads, have a good day out and I hope I'll be able to make an autox one day
:cry:
Woohoo! What a day - we had a pretty good showing with 13 or 14 Miatas today, even with the cold and threat of rain. The course was fast, fun, and long (80+ seconds), and the weather held all day, even gracing us with some sunshine in the late afternoon.
POS won E Stock - actually, he slaughtered E Stock, beating Mr. Stewart by over two seconds. :shock: Tailchaser took 2nd in Tire, Mark52 won CSP, the General won C Stock (suprise :P ), and I was able to beat lugnutjon out for 2nd place in CS. :mrgreen:
Best of all, we had four Miatas (and five members of this forum :wink: ) in the RapidePax top ten! Congrats to Kestrel (9th - way to go, man! :thumleft: ), lugnutjon (6th), General Default (3rd), and OzCop (7th) - way to go, guys!
Don't forget that 5th place in the PAX for altiain...
Robert J. also showed some impressive skill with a run 2 seconds faster than the winning time in E Stock in his STS2 car. Looks like street tires are treating him right!
Congrats all around to the MME pilots! 8)
Glad you guys had a good time and did so well! :thumrigh:
Congrats fellas!!! Very nice!!
I can hardly wait for the next run... :)
We also had a couple of new folks make their Autocross debut yesterday!
Kilwizz decided to give it a go, and did a great job for his first time out to play autocross! Looked like he was getting the hang of it as the day went on! He had a second place finish in Novice, so not a bad start! 8)
The lovely Mrs. Monkey with the help of Ataim and Speedracer (AKA-Monkey) also decide to give AX a try yesterday! She did a great job and won her class! :monkey:
It was a pretty interesting day. The CS battle between General Default, altiain, and lugnutjon was intense until the General laid down his first sub 86 second run. John B. and I languished well back from those three. At the end of the day, the Stock Miatas beat just about every other car out there -- including the Corvettes -- on a course that favored power as it had a number of long straights, and not much "technical" stuff. ES was fairly close all day until POS unleashed all those 88 ponies on his last class run and smashed his competion.
A few other interesting items:
All-in-all, a pretty good day... and an event that ran fairly smoothly, except for a few [nagging] computer problems...
- - Even with this being the first event, out in Mineral Wells, cool/cloudy February day with rain threatening, we still had about 115 drivers (185 registered, with probably 70 PAX runs). That's a pretty big turnout!
- ER is still plagued with minor PC/Computer problems. We bought a brand new laptop (a Compaq... that's part of our problem :wink: ), did a fresh load of Windows XP, loaded the latest version of AXWare, and still had the PC crash twice :x ... once just before we completed registering all the participants. That little "present" caused us to re-input just about every participant, and delayed our start by probably 45 minutes or more. We also continue to have Print Spooler problems, and simply cannot communicate with the dot matrix printer -- the one that prints out the time slips.
- The revised PAX Index seems to have helped the CS Miatas out quite a bit. Relative to the STS ans STX cars, CS now seems to be in pretty good shape to earn money in the ER Pax runs. As proof, I'll point to the fact that even I managed to take a few dollars off of them (a first for me...)!
Hey Kestrel,
Go into the system BIOS setup on the laptop and change the parallel port mode from ECP to Standard. That should fix your printing problems.
Dot matrix printers and enhanced mode printer ports don't get usually get along.
Raymond