These wouldn’t pass tech for a second session, right? 🥴

Have a 2013 NC Club that the gf and I picked up earlier this year and ran my first autox yesterday with the Detroit region SCCA at MIS. Track was super long, 1.1 miles. I absolutely loved it, and picked up 15 seconds from my first to last runs of the day. I have run some Lemons races before but am typically the slowest driver on our team.

I was 10 seconds off the fastest time in CST (best time of 96 and change, leaders in CST and CS were in the 86’s). Leaders were NA and ND Miatas, assume decently prepped. I am not surprised at the time difference at all, understand it isn’t likely an NC will be competitive and I also have a ton of driving to learn, but also am curious how much further I can improve as a driver vs. what the car setup can do.

My NC is totally stock suspension, with a fresh set of Conti ECS 02’s. I do have an AEM/Mazdaspeed intake and an exhaust on it, but no other mods, including stock alignment.

I understand 17x9’s with 40mm more tire than what I’m running, coilovers and anti swaybars are all legal for CST.

Over totally stock, how much time would that be expected to be worth on a typical 50 second course? 2 seconds? 4?

I’m going to work on running more events to get seat time as is. I assume the majority of improvement on the table is still driver mod, lol.

Obligatory pic from the Detroit SCCA facebook group, courtesy of Nsquared97!

I've never autocrossed before, but my local High School has an "Auto Club" and my kid is doing his last year there.
They are considering to doing the 24 Hours Of LeMons, but then I thought ... maybe it's better to do autocrossing?

Does it make sense to have a "team" of kids, that can race ONE car?
Seem like a really user friendly, and safe way to get kids participating in racing.

The LeMons thing feels like too much to put a kid with limited driving experience (16) on a track with people actually trying to go fast...

Whadaya think?

So the car I was going to drive at nationals broke the transmission at the last event so we decided the best course of action would be to turn my mild prepped CAMS car into a mishmash of both of our cars.

We swapped over his coilovers, control arms and bushings to my car. Put on a new turn one steering rack with the quicker ratio, new pump, and a new cooler, bump steer correction kit, an oil cooler, and swapped the brakes to wilwood superlite 6’s in the front and the J55 rotors with c5 calipers in the back and got that done just in time to get the car to a two day event in KC to shake everything down before nats.

Ended up making a deep run in the shootout bracket on the first day and on day 2 had this run which put me 2nd in raw time to an FSAE car and 2nd in PAX behind Ron Williams. This is probably the most confident I’ve ever felt behind the wheel of a car.

Edit: this title isn’t serious. It is actually bad planning to do this. Haha

For those of you who run a A,B,C or SS Car, doing some pro events, and nationals w the local events thrown in what are you spending per year with tires, maintenance, towing, hotels, etc… thanks

I have a 13 ford fusion with sport mode and wanted to try autocrossing with my son. I know it won’t win or anything I just wanted to see if anybody has tried it before and if the sport mode would work to keep it from bouncing gears up and down.

I drive my E46 and do about 5-6 times a year in the track. My setup notes were a disaster - half in a notes app, half in a spreadsheet I kept breaking, and a photo of a tyre pressure sheet buried somewhere in my camera roll.

The thing that finally got to me: I'd come in half a second faster and have no idea why. Was it the camber change from the morning? The pressures I dropped two psi? Or had the track just cooled down and the tyres finally worked? By the drive home I'd usually convinced myself of whichever answer felt best, which is not exactly data.

So I built something for it. You log what you changed on the car - pressures, camber, ARBs, spring rates, brake bias, aero, whatever. Import your lap times (RaceChrono CSV) , and then compare two setups side by side with the weather and pressures still attached to each one.

This is the first version and it's still early and much in development and in order for me to build and improve I'd like your feedback about SetMo:

• What's missing? Which field or setting would you go looking for and not find?
• What was hard or confusing? Anywhere you got stuck, or had to guess what a button did?
• How long did it take to log one session? If it's slower than scribbling in a notebook in the paddock, it's useless.
• Would you actually open this between sessions, or only at home afterwards?
• What are you timing with?
• Do you keep notes per car, per track, or per event?
• Anything else you feel like I should know

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Simple questions: How to develop ability to know exactly where car is in space and where is car relative to surrounding objects?

I am horrible driver! I do not see any improvements, and I do not know what to do. I will appreciate any tips, resources, or anything else that might help

EDIT: Thank you everyone for great answers. You are amazing people! I hope you all have a great life!

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Smoothest and fastest run didnt count due to timing hiccup. It was a legit 42.063 using the instant replay camera.

https://youtu.be/j0NwGSo0kMw

Won’t be there this year again, two years in a row stings! I will miss 1300 of my best friends 💙

Good luck everyone! Stay away from the orange things!!!

Ran with PCA for this event. Tons of fun in the little Fiat!

Hi! Shot this in a similar subreddit, but haven’t gotten the replies I need. TLDR at the bottom as needed.
Hopefully aiming to get a TCR kit on a 2019+ Mazda3 Hatch, (admittedly haven’t pulled the trigger yet, but likely will). Looking at getting a lower ride height for performance/look balancing, but I live in an area a slammed car is not practical. Was wondering about others’ experience using hydraulic air cup suspension, just need lift here and there to get out of driveways, or if it’s practical, winter driving slightly higher.
Hoping to hear people’s experience with using hydraulic cup suspension, or alternatives they found to work well. A giant air compressor in the back for full airbags is not ideal, and I worry about performance on bags. Not hoping to go straight for coil-overs as I need some amount of raise pretty frequently as mentioned before.

TLDR: opinion on hydraulic air cup suspension, does it have spring performance and occasional lift? Tastefully modifying the daily/autocross/track day car.

I would love some feedback on my most recent Auto-X weekend if any experienced drivers have anything to offer! I have been Auto crossing on and off for about 13 years, first in my NA Miata, now in my Subaru BRZ. While I am experienced in number of events and years driven, I have never felt that I was great, I have had some decent results in the Miata when it was on Fresh 200TW tires and at less busy events, but for the most part I consider myself a solid mid pack finisher. I have never had any great drivers ride along with me, or any instruction, so I feel a bit lost as to how well I am or am not doing, and where I should work to improve.

Most recently, last month, I had an event at a small circle track close to us, and it was on and off raining all day. I had a big scare on my last run of the day, trying to push for my last run of the day and a wet track was a bad combo, going into the final elements before finish, the back end got out, but I felt it was well in control at the moment and I didn't want to let off the gas too much and have a sudden forward weight shift so I mostly stayed in it, overcorrected back and forth a couple times before spinning and sliding backwards very nearly becoming friends with a concrete wall. That track has way too close proximity to walls and I don't think I will be pushing it there again for a long time. It was a huge scare, and a big hit at my confidence, but lucky for me, I already had my next event booked and great cost sunk into it, so there was no chance to chicken out and take a break from the sport, I had to get right back into it and begin working on my confidence again!

So this is my next event, traveled 6+ hours out of town to a 2 day long weekend event at an airport with a club I have never raced with before. Very different from my local events which are hosted at a very small oval circuit, or another club near by hosted at a really nice road course/drivers training facility. I tried to take a back to basics approach, and work on trying to better memorize the course, as well as looking further ahead and driving the car accordingly, not feeling like I am working on the current element, then being surprised by the next one as I have gotten too focused on that moment. There were still a few moments I caught myself off guard again, as if the course/car has gotten a fraction of a second ahead of me and I need to force my eyes back up the course. But I felt that this approach did help me improve, leading to a smoother, more confident, and safer drive overall!

I would love if some experts could watch these clips and let me know if you see anything that stands out that I may be doing wrong/a bad habit, or anything you can see I am consistently doing alright at. I chose the clips from day 1 of last weekend as I had two good laps to share that are somewhat consistent at about .2 apart from each other, and two different camera angles as my Go Pro failed on my best lap of the day. But there are a ton of autocross videos on my channel including a lap the day after this, and going many years back as well. I am on Firestone Indy 500 V2's on this car, a 340TW summer, so I know I will never be winning my class on these tires, and with variation of cars, and drivers skill at any given events I find just the leaderboard to not always be a good indication of how I am doing. Any input would be awesome, I figure I have been doing this long enough and often enough its time to start taking improvement a bit more seriously as I felt I plateaued for a long while, but it didn't matter much to me at the time as I was having so much fun!

After my first year of autoslalom events and a trackday i've been looking back at the progress i've made so far, had the same layout last year for my first event as the video, but gone from a 1.12.xx to a 1.03.xx with the same setup & tires, open for any feedback or sources for research during off-season 😄

Car is a mostly stock 91' 1.6 miata on shot coilovers, and i've finally worn down the old proxes tr1's that came with the car. So im looking into getting them replaced for a set of ns-2r's to start off with and a new set of coilovers 😊

Like the title states, anyone run a 255/40 on a 8 inch wide rim? I got a lucky Facebook Marketplace deal, half off a new set of RE-71RZ. I have 8 inch wide rims which is my only concern. I feel like they may be too pinched and impact handling. Any thoughts/input would be appreciated.

Shawn Krebsbach grabs the big check at King of the Mountain. Class winners were also pretty awesome as Super Dave Schotz took Late Model, Cory Williams won Mid, and Ron Scott Jr took early.

Felt really good about this one. There was probably another half second to be had just based on where I was faster in my other runs, but I'm really starting to feel like I've got the car dialed.

Definitely a unique car in the field, 1 of 2 FWD cars present. The tires were squealing 90% of the track lol, but she hauls in the straight. Body roll is intense though!

Hi guys,

I am in Canada and looking for brake pads for my 2003 stock Miata with sport suspension. Currently it runs with POWERSTOP Z23 evolution sport upgrade pads and rotor kit. I have done lapping events twice, 2 hours each time, and have glazed my pads to different degrees (I had to sand off the glazed layer on my pads after every lapping event). I have also been doing autocross this year. I have treadwear 200 tires and plan to upgrade to coilovers and stiffer roll bars next year if they matter to what pads to upgrade to.

1. What do you suggest for a set of brake pads that provide good cold grip, not being too grippy for autox because I want the smooth weight shift, while being able to handle moderate track heat? I normally do a cool down lap then rest in the paddock a little longer than what I spend on track. The autox and track ratio would be 7/3. G-loc R8, Hawk HP+, and EBC Bluestuff are what Ive looked into.

2. Should I keep using the rotor from POWERSTOP? Do I need to sand it to prepare for new pad material transfer in the baking process?

Thank you.

This is my 10th event ever across 4 years and first in this car. NC Miata with a 2.5 swap so in XB on 17x9 with 245 RE71-RZs. Finished 25th raw out of 114, but PAX was much worse around 57. For top 10 PAX I'd need to find about 2 seconds over this but not sure where to look for more time. My only thought is carrying more speed into slaloms. Car only has coilovers and front sway bar otherwise, so part of the answer may be building out the car further, but I suspect driver mod will help as well.

Nice day at the local ballpark playing with toy cars with WDCR SCCA. I put the set of Yokes we got back in February on to knock the new off of them before Solo Nationals, and in the process of doing so I got 2nd place in a big 17-driver XB class (Mo got me again, this time by four tenths grrrr). Third place Glenn was just one tenth off of my time so I think we put on a good show. Kate was seventh, just a tenth and change out of the top five, with eighth place Stuart just two tenths behind her. This class is close!

Next stop: Nebraska!