Autocross... in the rain!

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

Aug 9, 2003

Boilermaker1

Thread Starter

Jap-Euro Fusion

Hey! Look At Me!! I'm a Supporting Member!!

iTrader: (16)

Joined: Jul 2002

Posts: 13,151

Likes: 3

From: Washington DC

Rep Power: 425

Boilermaker1 is a splendid one to behold

Holy crap... after the fact... that was fun! Before it started... I was a bit worried about it. Never done it before, and I have no way of making any sort of suspension adjustments. Thankfully, I had my trusty AVS ES100s strapped on, which do absolutely wonderful in the rain... then tried to figure out what would happen. It started off a nice sunny day... but before they got to the 3rd heat (which STS got stuck in) it poured for an hour and a half... if I left my car where it was... I would have been up to the hubs in water. moved it back about 150 feet over the course of the storm to keep it from flooding...then it let up enough to go racing. So in the rain... we went at it. Big pain in the *** keeping the windows from fogging up... Had the A/C Defroster running full blast to de-fog, forgot to turn it off once... there goes 10 HP. Then remembered the other 5 times. The course sucked... it was too short and didn't really require any skill. No hard braking or tricky cornering... almost boring. Best time was a 34.27. I finished 5/11... and just 0.1 out of 4th place and a trophy.

Further proof you can race anything....

I'll take one of those please

The rain did this...

It was actually higher... that was a little after it slowed down a bit.

Last edited by Boilermaker1; Aug 9, 2003 at 08:53 PM.

Aug 9, 2003

Zzyzx

Autocross Junky

Hey! Look At Me!! I'm a Supporting Member!!

Joined: Oct 2002

Posts: 7,211

Likes: 0

From: Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Rep Power: 381

Bad *** dude!

I have yet to race in the rain. But I've been told that its the "great equializer" that separates the good drivers from the ones with the good cars.