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| So its about time i made a new post well this post i'm gonna make it out to all my car geek friends
Bascially as most of you know, my car is off the roads now for winter
and will be brought back 2 terroize the road of vancouver hopefully by march. as most of you may also know, my car finished off last year's race season in VERY bad shaped
with a lot of body scars and etc. so my MAIN goal this year is to fix all that up
my plan (if work is nice to me during christmas+tax returns) is to repaint the whole car
possibly Grandprix white (S2000 white), or a custom Icying white (white/blue pearls).
mated with a new body kit, INGs N Spec, and possibly a new wing (a more aggressive/functional wing)
the originial plan of goin all carbon fiber was dumped, due to auto x rules. despite the original plans of moving my car up to STX for the up commin season
i dont think i have the money to be able to afford LSD this year for my car, so tat will wait untill next year.
however, wats new this year will be a set of new High Performance Light Weight Race Rims/tires
i'm thinkin along the high end market of Volks or other Ray's products. mated again to 225/45/17 Falken RT615s so this wheel set up wil by my major upgrade
+ a much more agrressive alignment settin for next year
and a few brake tweaks
nothing major
if money premits, possible boosting the power a little bit
but what i can promise is that the car will look "nice" again after the make over
i am not sure if i can affrod another set of "street" rims after i buy those high end track rims
but i'm actively on the market for new rims for street.
i am also happy to announce that i have found a co-driver
he is a rookie driver, yet i believe he has a lot of potential and talent
and with the proper training/guidence and a well preped car
he can drive my car to Novice Victory next year as some of you might know
i finished my auto x season ranked 4th out of all the novices
i believe over 100 competitors:p which wasnt bad
but i was hoping for 3rd which i lost to by 0.001secs but nehow, next season will bring new challenges, and i am looking forward to meeting the new novices
and the intense competition
this summer i'm gonna focus 100% on auto x, and really improve my driving skills
and for anybody reading this that want to get involved in the sport feel free to message me
and i'd be more than happy to tell you more about it. | | |
| 3rd auto x of the seasons, 1st event hosted by UBCSCC
so i got up at 6 as usual, had breakfast at mcdonalds then headed off to the auto x
after discovering the course was no challengin
i realized it will be hard to compete with the miatas and the smaller cars today
had total of 8 runs + 3 fun runs
some of the highlights include
a police interceptor runnin
lotus Elise
Shleby Cobra
etc.
my times were not all that great
fasest times was obtained by all the miata drivers from 41.XXX to 43.XXX
i had a few runs in the 48.XXXs but failed to remian clean usuallly taking 1 cone with me.
finally i had 1 clean run of 49.0XX which wasnt all tat bad, beatin out my competitor the RX8, 06GTi (he had better sratch time than me, but takin more cones as well), however losing to the mazadaspeed miata and 350Z and potentially a fwe other cars.
i will post offical results later, along with a video as well
as for the fun run, well this is where nothing mattered and u can tryn ew things
for the 3 runs my times are
48.00X +2 cones
47.6XX +2 Cones
then finally
46.5XX +5 Cones
so as you can see, when you dont care and dirve to the edge of control
you go faster, but u hit more cones, but i relaized tat 46 even 45s i could of achieved if i had the money to run race tires ...so yea
my car as the potential, jsut i dont have the wallet for it
which means..i gotta go work more and make some more money 2 feed the tire funds
here is the video
sry for the wait
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npRll42UKE4
neways i'll update more later | | |
| April 16th, I had my 2nd auto cross of the season, and i did okay, the results are not yet posted, so i dont know how i did, but i will post up results when they are released.
new mod for this week included maintance, and new brake pads and fluid, braking is definatly improved, so is shift smoothness.
overal the day was fun, tire is starting to wear a fair bit now, probably another 2-3 events out of them before i have to get another set.
after lookin at the schedual this season
i will be very busy
next sunday is a close club by UBCSCC i will be there
week after tat the saturday i have Velocity Driving School
and then following day is the Novice Champion #1
hoping to do well this year in the novice run
the event after tat is may 7th
BC Regional #1 @ boundry bay
may 13th is a closed club by UBCSCC
then i wll be off to kelowna weeking of may 18th-21st
for the KNOX mountain hill climb race, which is a road course
then the 27th is the 2nd novice series by VCMC
followed by regional #2 on june 4th at boundry bay
and June 10th i will be attening velocity driving school again
following by 11th the Novice #3
then a BCMA closed even on the 18th,
then i will be heading up to Vernon BC for BC Regional #3 on the 25th
then followd by a closeclub BCMA on the 8th
followed by novice #4 on the 9th of july
then a closed club on the 15th
followed by the Kumho super challenge speical event on the weekend of 22nd and 23rd
then a closedclub on the 30th and then augest 6th is the #5 novice series
then followed by two clsoed clubs on the 19th and 20th of augest
then i'm off to victoria on the 26th for an auto x and regional #4 at victoria on the 27th
then goin to the VCMC test and tune on september 10th
then finally the solo sport champ and regional #5 on sept 16th and 17th
followed by two ubc closed club events to end the sesaon 23rd and 24th of septemebr
reason why i wrote all tat is
IF ANY OF YOU WANT TO COME WITH ME TO ANY OF THE EVENTS jsut contact me and i will be more than glad to take you
all the regionals however i cannot take a passsenger same with novices series
however all the closed club event
if you want to come with me
i will be more than happy to take you as a passenger in my car
if you want to join me in an auto cross or two
jsut contact me
and here is a vid form april 16th auto cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHaEGTp6tU | | |
| Hey guys, after a few month of not posting, and enjoying the wonderful posts made by my lovely girlfriend, sida. I finally decided to post.
i'm not gonna ramble about updates of myself, beside the fact that i'm failing school miserably, and might risk gettin booted out of ubc if i dont strighten up my act.
Instead i'm gonna talk about my car, and auto x, as the season offically began yesterday.
So, as the season began, my car got a few small stuff to start the season. I got a set of new rims, TE37 replica rim in a 32offset!!!!, tat is normally unheard of in a RSX, with careful modification and fabrication, these rims fit giving me the widest possible stance possible on an RSX. Due to lack of funds, i did not have the money to run Race tires, so instead i opted for Nexen N3000 Summer tires in a 225/40/16 width, overall diameter is intentionally lowered to give me better acceleration, and tire width greatly increased from stock, giving me much better grip. So that is wats new RIGHT before the season.
Now because of some mods i made over the off season, my car can only run 94octane gas now, to be on the safe side, i added octane booster to chveron 94 before runnin in the auto cross.
This being the frist event by VCMC, it was a fairly easy course, however, the whole morning it was raining and the grounds were wet, bad news for most of us 2 wheel drives.
total of 62 car turn out, now i SHOULD be in STS (Super Street Touring) class, however, i was accidently placed in to STX (Super Street Extreme), which made myself a lot less compeititve. Now this will be fixed for my next event, however i'm up against alot of cars with LSDs when i dont quite have that. Next yea i'm goin to be trying to run in CSP, C class Street Preped, with some more mods. As of now though, the morning runs werent that good, i struggled goin below 50secs. The fastest 2 cars in STS that morning was both RSXs, my best time that Counted for the d ay was 49.870, which placed me in 8th place out of 10 on the higher STX class, when i'm corrected however, i will go into the STS class, which tat time will give me 6th place out of 16 drivers. which is not bad at all. The fastest time for STS was pulled by an RSX at 47.829. and the fastest time in STX was by an Eagal Talon with 45.722. The fastest time of the day was pulled by an mazda miata with a 44.736. The much anticipated Lotus Elise, pulled a competitve 46.579.
later on in the d ay, during the "fun" runs the runs tat dosnt count offically for scoring, i pulled my fsatest time of the day of 48.8, and a clean run, however that did not count towards scroing. This means i got a lot of practice to do before my next event which is next sunday. I will be takin the velocity driving school program to improve my times.
Tomrrow i'm installing a few small mods, such as new brake pads, brake fluids, oil change, tranny fluid change, spark plug change etc to get my car race ready.
2006 STS class WATCH OUT! Barry is gonna OWN YOU ALL :P
haha gonna aim for top 10spot in the class over the season for sure. Maybe try top 5.
I will post pics later on.
one video is uploaded
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mA10EBXAQR4 | | |
| Well my last post was ...um..pretty pointless, not much updates
so i'll try to make this one more um..boring...i'm gonna try to bore u guys with my boring life!
SO yea as you all know...i'm in university...and this is hard shit....i crusied thru highskool w/o much problem, but university..u really gotta try...at least i dont got the wits 2 slack thru this one. as much as i may want 2.
so my week at university, monday wed and friday arent as bad, i get off school early except for the occassional mondays where i have labs...i got one next week. tuesdays are long as hell ends at 10pm..normally i skip philosophy..but i realized tat skippin will not help me pass...so yea...goin 2 class now. thursdays i get off at 6...but yea those 2 are long days.
so wat do i do at skool?...i go 2 lectures..take notes, then go eat, then go 2 more lectures and eat....yes i eat a lot..i swear da god i'm gonna get fat.
next week is hell for me, monday i probblay gonna go take my Phil 120 exam 1, Tuesday Nite i have my APSC 150 Case 1 Quiz on biochemical reactors, then thursday i have my 1st of 3 math midterms. quite harsh..lots of cramming for sure.
now besides school
i quit smoking...tats rite...after playing 1 day of hockey i realized wat smoking has done 2 me physically..and i decided 2 quit..being 1 week since my last cig....quite proud of myself.
as for my car..nothing yet< but getting new exhaust and brake upgrades shortly
also selling my work emotion wheels for some light wegith spoons...lot smaller..look not as niec..but faster :D faster=good
wat else is new... well i went clubin the other day at sonar, tat was okay..got pretty drunk fun.....
probbay goin 2 a ski trip with CCS, 2 big white, tats gonna be fun
look forward 2:
Jeanie's Bday party...in like 20hrs
Nancy's Bday thingy...in 9 days
Mom's Bday, in 12 days
Nathan's Bday...4got when :p
Boya's Bday 25 days
neways tats it for now..propz la | | |
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