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« on: January 19, 2018, 12:57:23 PM »
I recognize this idea would have its challenges since it would involve a third party, but I wonder if a more economical approach would be paying to improve and expand Fort Macleod, the Beiseker Airport, or even the Westerner lot, in exchange for rights to use the lot at discounted rates for some period of time.
Imagine the possibilities if, for example, we filled in the gap in Fort Macleod's concrete:
This would be awesome
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« on: December 08, 2017, 07:40:04 PM »
Chain Lakes on HWY 22 has 6" ice and there is no public lands disposition over the boat ramp meaning its crown land open to the public?
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« on: November 23, 2017, 01:45:42 PM »
STS oh STS....Oh STS...... 
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« on: October 30, 2017, 01:14:20 PM »
Ice Racing taught me more about weight transfer than any other form of motorsport I've been involved in.
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« on: October 24, 2017, 06:13:56 PM »
Hankook with a 3.5mm and learn how to change tyres really quickly in -40 degrees. On Hakka 8's we were typically 60-70 seconds behind Piotr on a 4.5km track. ON the 3.5mm studs we moved to within 20 seconds by the last event. FWD Studded ended up being a pretty hotly contested class/
I got for a very soft setting at the front and a hard setting in the rear, I also run lower psi at the front (16-18psi) and 22 psi in the rear all intended to induce oversteer. It seemed to work pretty good.
I was running 12psi front and 10psi rear on my car.
Yours was a very different car, but maybe i'll go lower this year. the SASC even we were running 16 back 14 front and we were quick that day too. I'm gonna pump up your tires before every event though James, better be keeping an eye out!
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« on: October 24, 2017, 02:43:43 PM »
Hankook with a 3.5mm and learn how to change tyres really quickly in -40 degrees. On Hakka 8's we were typically 60-70 seconds behind Piotr on a 4.5km track. ON the 3.5mm studs we moved to within 20 seconds by the last event. FWD Studded ended up being a pretty hotly contested class/
I got for a very soft setting at the front and a hard setting in the rear, I also run lower psi at the front (16-18psi) and 22 psi in the rear all intended to induce oversteer. It seemed to work pretty good.
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« on: September 21, 2017, 07:47:40 PM »
I agree with everything above. The post by Murray is exactly what should be explained to Novices as early as possible. And the idea of having some folks who know the most about setting up cars being part of the novice schools and practice days providing advice around cars setups and classing would be invaluable to both novices and veterans alike I am sure.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 03:10:49 PM »
It's also the reason I ditched a much faster and more fun car for an easy to prepare and practical D Street car.
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My point is PAX is not well explained in any way to new drivers and so, as happened to you, and will ultimately happen to me, we have to ditch our cars and switch to something competitive. See my previous post, Pax, a critical part of Autocross in North America is reserved to 3 lines in a 30 page novice guide document.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 02:59:38 PM »
All that existing in the novice guide: http://solo2.com/MiscDocuments/Cal_Club_Autocross_Novice_Guide.pdfSCCA CLASSIFICATION
Check the Car Classification Rules in the Rule Book on the SCCA website and figure out
what SCCA class your car belongs in. But as we can see here this could be one of the most significant items in the ability to be competitive in a novice season....I'm sure someone has written a good piece somewhere about PAX and how to best prepare a car for a competitive soul?
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« on: September 20, 2017, 02:12:12 PM »
I feel like alot of people are saying the same thing in different ways. Stephen I am not criticizing PAX as such, but rather the implications it has on slightly modified cars from individuals entering the sport locally.
Perhaps a good take away from this discussion is education on PAX being a critical part to introducing people to the sport. I really had to go and do quite a bit of legwork to begin to understand how it worked. I'm not sure if this is part of the school program earlier in the year, but I really think it would be valuable to people to hear from some of the well built/setup cars within street and touring classes what adjustments make a competitive car.
Certainly now whenever friends talk to me about AutoX I am directing them to the SCCA rules prior to them even considering a vehicle or modifications to their car to understand implications.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 11:00:50 AM »
Pretty sure Sprocket, that a) you didn't need to be condescending and b) we're saying the same thing. "I think one of the biggest hurdles is that this index is (allegedly) developed from the results of major events but is used for the local events. At the major events, no one cares about where they place on index. It's a challenge enough to win your class and the class is all that matters. The index is 'needed' at the local level because class sizes don't offer any competition and the sport is still based on competition." The cars at those major events (the ones you say that PAX is formed from) are extremely well prepped for Auto X, thus you have a PAX for STS (and for all other classes to be fair) developed based on cars specifically prepped for that class where modifications are at the limit that the class allows. Local cars have one modifcation that throws them into that class, in most cases very few cars at our events are absolutely PAXd out for the class. Thus, you really are only racing yourself in the local events unless you are buying and building a car to maximize its Auto X performance or buying a leading Street class car (FieSt, FRS, Corvette, Camaro). In the case of my car, I did preventative maintenance on it when I bought it. Where I had two leaking rear struts, I priced out a shock/spring setup and coil over setup and went with coil over ignorant (I never intended to AutoX this car, its a Ice Dice car primarily) that that would switch me from H Street to STS which is a 0.787 vs 0.818 difference. Extremely significant. I could have the car performing the same way in H Street on a spring/shock setup as I do on the current coil-over set up. That one little change would of moved me from 54th on the weekend to 35th. Hence PAX is not as relevant for us at Local events, and as per my final statement, I’ve still had a lot of fun racing myself this season and trying to improve my driving and my times relative to the field rather than trying to push a car to the front of the pack on PAX that will never get there.
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« on: September 20, 2017, 10:04:04 AM »
STS seems to be horrendously PAXd this year.....all local STS cars have struggled in the Street Touring Category and I've noticed similar results in the USA events even for the CRX and Civics.
But How do they calculate it and how do they balance it. Once you are out of the street category the car basically has to be modified to the maximum extent that the class allows to make it competitive, and then once those modifications are made they need to be leveraged to the maximum extent. That is the flaw in my opinion, outside of street class your car needs to be setup for only the purpose of Auto X which isn't a "street" class in my opinion.
That said, once I accepted that I was never going to be hugely competitive, I've really enjoyed pushing my car and myself to be better and smoother at every event and with a couple of exceptions I think I've achieved that. Also there's something ridiculously fun about pushing a crap car to the very edge of its limits.
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« on: September 19, 2017, 02:21:01 PM »
James I'll co drive the WRX at next event?
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« on: September 19, 2017, 10:43:19 AM »
Here's my video with telemtry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxgoO7OTIUI'm interested to know if higher powered cars were significantly faster than the corolla through the kink, I look to be at around 73kph before lifting. I'm a ultra low powered car (~100hp atw new 26 years ago). I take Line A. I do think I have a video of taking line B. I will try and get a side by side to see what difference there is tongiht. Fastest time in afternoon was a 39.6
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