all i can say is anyone who hasn't done it yet do it...please? you owe it to your car.
I didn't do to bad for a first timer, the instructer was really impressed and asked me if i was sure i hadn't done it before
My next mod is most deffinetly tires, it was quite ugly trying to take the fast sweepers with my cooper mudders. Some falkens are in my very near future. And a LSD, whole lot of tire spin coming out of the turns.
I should have a action shot or two shortly, just have to wait for the NASA to post the pictures.
And i might have a video to cause my friend took a video from outside the car
Everyone who praises auto-x is damn right! i'm offically hooked!
Congrats Hawk, Im glad you like. Id try it, but i think my car is a little too spunky for auto-x now. I guess I could always try. I have like two different tracks by my house that are about 30-40 mins away. This year Ill try to get to it......
LSD won't help, it'll hurt. Just learn to not put your foot all the way into it. It'll just want to pull on the inner tire and you'll have to constantly fight it. The tires will help the cause as well.
And no more bitching about needing parts until you learn how to drive
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sounds like you had alot of fun, does it cost anything to enter?
SCCA events usually run $15-$25 to enter. Dunno what NASA charges but prolly the same.
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Originally posted by Hawk put a set of Cooper Lifeliners on your orange rims and tell me how you do then you'll see why i need tires.
And yea i was alittle heavy on the pedal, its all about knowing when and how much
I'll pass... 40 degrees and heat loving Kumhos was enough sliding around for me. I did one day on the stock shitstones and that was plenty for me.
Get some summer tires or Falkens or something, then just learn to drive it. You'll be better off learning to deal with the body roll and understeer than letting new parts do all the work.
A long time autocrosser once told me "corner exit wheel spin can easily be controled by your right foot." and this guy has been autocrossing longer then I've been alive..... His first autocross was in the 60s.
DC5@EM2, the one thing your going to have problems with is Corner Exits. otherwise once you learn to control that, you'll be fine.
Hawk, I dont know how NASA classes the cars, but if you can you may want to run a Good Kumho R compound tire like the V700 Ecsta or the Victoracer.
everyone there was recommending the Falken Azenis, one guy that tracks/auto-x's his mini cooper told me he loves the Azenis, and a guy with a RSX said the same thing. I just gotta save up the money for some rotas and the tires.
I was all over the damn place with the coopers. One guy said to me "man you need some tires on that thing."
Yea that happened when i first got the car back on the road, i forgot the cotter pin in the lower ball joint, suspension kinda came apart...oh well, it don't look pretty but its quick.
and btw the reason its rolls like that is because its the stock rsx springs/shocks, only after market goody is the progress rear sway bar.
Just got back from first Auto-X!! 
