Vancouver’s Next Top Novice #3 - July 20

lol...Get some rest, I have tomorrow off still, spoke to my assistant and she thought I was off until next Monday...just may have a short week:).

I'll post my other two later...good day again Austin, can't wait for the results:)

Here's the other two vid's...

With Crazy Canadian...not driving:)

Last run of the day with Kerstin:

Lot's of fun Tyler...this weekend will be a test, should come out for a visit:)

Yeah you guys should really come out!! Battle of the silver GT's: Mine vs It's evil bastard sibling lol

Brian that would be totally cool to swap cars for a few runs.  I want to get more comfortable w/ AutoX first, wouldn't want to have an incident w/ your ride! 

Also a heads up, if you guys are looking for more storage on your digital cameras and whatnot 16gig SD memory card on-sale @ Anitec $47.95!!!  I picked mine up just a couple months ago for $75, might grab another as a spare :)  The videos from Sunday alone were 12gigs!!

This Friday is test and tune and races on Saturday & Sunday, and since Kerstin has to work, I'll have a spare seat for anyone who's curious and wants to join me for a ride on Friday...the details I posted under KUHMO Challenge.

Not worried about your driving Austin, you are gaining on me very fast...concerning actually...lol, not at all:)...would be interesting to see how our cars are simular but handle based on what Adam mentioned.

I actually bought a newer version of the Sony Cybershot today that comes with a charger, etc. for only $80 more than just the charger would have been, pretty stupid hey.  As for a SD card, we also bought one at Costco 4GB for $40, that's a screaming deal at Anitec!

Also Austin, just bought at XS Cargo a 10" x 10" canopy, it's beige and fits perfectly in our trucks, will be nice to have some shade in our pits...would have been nice for both days this week...and only $70, suggest picking one up:).

Tyler...good luck on that MSD, if you don't need a 2 stage rev limiter, then that's perfect.  I know when I set my lauch control it will come in handy for race days, the max rev setting I had yesterday was perfect to me...Adam, well as Austin can agree, he's a different animal...lol.

Time for a little afternoon nap, last vacation day:(

Nice.. already looking forward to the next one on Aug. 2 w/ the UBCSCC.  Adam noted some differences between our cars maybe he'll chime in w/ some more insight:

Your car's grippier and more predictable.  Guess that would be the difference in tires and my rear suspension w/ the stiffer coilover springs.  I'm a bit surprised he would have noticed any dif between our engines??  I wonder if thats more to do with the gearing of the 4spd vs 5spd?  Capt do you have that gearing chart url handy??  What's your rev limiter set to?  Adam said you were bouncing the limiter at 5k??

Canopy?? woohoo that would will be sweet.  I got a bit burned and am starting to get pretty tanned already llol..

All things like cam and exhaust being equal, Austin your motor should make more power than Brian's, especially down in the lower RPM range.  Your fuel injection system is better, your ecm is better and you have a larger bore as well as IIRC a higher compression ratio.  Once Brian gets his fueling setup he should be able to pull more revs than your motor due to the lower amount of air required at a given rpm.    Trans wise, Brian's 4spd is usually quicker on a track due to the fact his spacing is more suited to an auto cross course, he can run 2nd gear out to nearly 100kph, (if he would actually let it rev) Where as you are probably swapping between 2nd and 3rd gear a fair bit. 

Its a lot more complex than what I wrote, and I have never driven your cars back to back, heck Austin I don't know if I have ever driven your car. 

Cool I'll check out the canopy tomorrow after work.  Is it a quick pop-up one hopefully??

The ECM could definately use some tuning though.  Black exhaust tips rich when moderate to hard on the throttle any.  I've played with the fuel pressure a bunch and dropping it anymore will sacriface throttle response from low rpms.  On AutoX I've been tending to wind it up to about 6k according to the tach.  I had to do that a lot at Mission to avoid shifting midway through a turn.