Autocross yesterday at MBR

[joelster]

Had a blast yesterday on a FAST course. You can see the speedometer in the video. Going through the middle section at 65mph, and through the finish around 75mph. Fun day for sure! Got top pax as well!

This is my fastest raw run a 43.233+1, they did a 2-day format for this event. Adding your morning runs to your afternoon runs. So you had to be really patient to not hit cones early on.

[1JEWLDSSRS]

Nice driving brother!! Love your vids, and your car sounds great!!

[GeneRoss]

Awesome!!!

What gear are you in? Putting the power down very nicely.

[joelster]

I short shift into 2nd a few seconds into the run, and then just run the entire course in 2nd. It's almost never beneficial at an autocross to keep shifting back and forth between 1st and 2nd. Guys will do it all the time thinking it's faster but the slightest hiccup on a shift will ruin the run. Plus our cars have plenty of torque to pull from a low rpm. Coming out of tighter corners you'd think that being in 1st would be the faster way around, but it's super easy to blow the tires off with all the power we have. Being in second gear in a tight spot allows you to put power down pretty easy.

[highrevving]

Thanks for sharing! That's great about our cars with plenty of low-end torque plus high revving engine. Track monster...

[docwra]

Awesome, looked really fast and gripped nicely as well - what tyres are you running?

[joelster]

Originally Posted by docwra

Awesome, looked really fast and gripped nicely as well - what tyres are you running?

Tires are Yokohama A052 in 315/30/18 on 18x11 Apex SM-10 wheels

[docwra]

Originally Posted by joelster

Tires are Yokohama A052 in 315/30/18 on 18x11 Apex SM-10 wheels

I didnt know you could get AO52 that size, Ive just fitted 4 to my E82 135i.

I cant get over how good they are wet or dry, they are about the same price as Cup 2s here as well - cheers for the info

[joelster]

Originally Posted by docwra

I didnt know you could get AO52 that size, Ive just fitted 4 to my E82 135i.

I cant get over how good they are wet or dry, they are about the same price as Cup 2s here as well - cheers for the info

Yoks are real good but they DO NOT like any heat. You have to spray the crap out of them after every run. On my factory 19" wheels I run Falken RT660's. They are not as fast as the Yoks, but there are no real big Yoks for 19" wheels. Ideally I'd like to run a set of the new RE-71rs' on my 19's but again, they don't make big boy sizes.

[CamayroZ]

@joelster, thank you for posting!! Great stuff!

Here is what an SCCA auto-crosser from your region looked like exactly 40 years ago! I took this picture not far from you!

It is nice to see Camaros now, back then there were none, mostly all 2002s, 911s, and my Volvo.

I was an engineer and pretty much had to fabricate everything for my car. Around 1987 I purchased a 350 TPI/5-speed from a wrecked IROC-Z and did a transplant. We had a bunch of gear heads in NYS, guys from Rochester Products, Gleason Works, Tonawanda GM, etc.

In 1988, I sold the whole thing and bought an '88 M3 which I still own.

[highrevving]

Originally Posted by CamayroZ

@joelster, thank you for posting!! Great stuff!

Here is what an SCCA auto-crosser from your region looked like exactly 40 years ago! I took this picture not far from you!

It is nice to see Camaros now, back then there were none, mostly all 2002s, 911s, and my Volvo.

I was an engineer and pretty much had to fabricate everything for my car. Around 1987 I purchased a 350 TPI/5-speed from a wrecked IROC-Z and did a transplant. We had a bunch of gear heads in NYS, guys from Rochester Products, Gleason Works, Tonawanda GM, etc.

In 1988, I sold the whole thing and bought an '88 M3 which I still own.

Do you have pic of the M3?

[mlee]

That was a fast track... Great run

[joelster]

That Volvo is cool as hell!

[CamayroZ]

Originally Posted by highrevving

Do you have pic of the M3?

Sorry for the poor quality of picture my shop faces west. This is by far the lowest power car that I have an all-time classic to me. Great car, ton of memories, perfect shape still. The Z/28 is the modern special car.