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[SIPNGAS]

Bye!! Go!!

[33OH]

Checking in again.. just got back from the parents'.

Hi all.

[SIPNGAS]

HI there, Ryan...

[eTiMaGo]

good evening y'all, I'm at McDonalds and just jad a sausage mcmuffin with egg breakfast, yummy, my sodium requirement for the day fulfilled!

[SIPNGAS]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

good evening y'all, I'm at McDonalds and just jad a sausage mcmuffin with egg breakfast, yummy, my sodium requirement for the day fulfilled!

Hmmm..yum..sodium and a few other good-for-you things... =)

Morning, Thomas...

[KCALB SIRAY]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

good evening y'all, I'm at McDonalds and just jad a sausage mcmuffin with egg breakfast, yummy, my sodium requirement for the day fulfilled!

and the winds

[*MAD DOG*]

Originally Posted by eTiMaGo

good evening y'all, I'm at McDonalds and just jad a sausage mcmuffin with egg breakfast, yummy, my sodium requirement for the day fulfilled!

And Cholesterol and Fat and.......

[enobmort42]

I'm sitting here frustrated because the serial number adobe sent me for cs4 isn't working

[Morgan]

wahoo blog entry! I had several prior to the hack... oh well I never really have important things to say anyway

[LtNoogie]

Morgan, you are braver than I am. How did you lift the car to do the tranny swap?

[Morgan]

jack and jackstands?? haha it was quite the maneuver trying to get the scion transmission in the car... then the disappointment of things not working... then removal of scion trans and reinstallation of yaris trans... my arms (and my bf's arms) are tired

oh and the steering angle was off when we realigned the subframe sunday afternoon... so a few hours of this evening were spent dropping the subframe again to realign the steering

[LtNoogie]

And why did you choose to do this instead of all the short shifter kits available? I must have missed it. 6 gears?

[Morgan]

I'm not a fan of shorter/harder shifting. In my opinion the shifter travel is acceptable and since I autox regularly (wahoo sunday!) I wanted to use more of the low-end power of the Yaris.

The scion xa/xb1 have the same engine and very similar transmissions but they are geared lower to feel sportier and the yaris is geared taller for better mileage. Coming out of a hairpin corner at ~20-30 mph, its really too fast for 1st gear but its horribly low for 2nd and it takes what feels like days for it to reach back up to speed again.

The goal was to not be the fastest thing at autox, but to give the miatas a little more run for their money guess the next step will have to be some r-comps, darn!

[LtNoogie]

I've decided that right now, I don't want the hassle of changing wheels at the track just for the sake of R comps...yet. I'll get stickier tires this summer. Tomorrow, I'm upgrading my brakes with new rotors, pads, and SS lines. My brakes were no good last Sunday so I had to limit my speed in the staightaways.

[Morgan]

I regularly change my wheels at autox, part of the ritual I guess.

GL with your new brakes! Our courses usually run 70-90 seconds and its pretty technical. Rarely do we ever cross 65-70mph on the course so the stock brakes are fantastic, and if I'm changing class - I'm getting r-comps! (....or more power)

Guess it would be weird having a stock yaris (w/spings and sway) be in FSP...

[LtNoogie]

You have enough time to hit 65 - 70? No way do we have enough time to get that fast. In fact, they've thrown in a slalom once because a section was too straight. Half the people DNF'd their first run because it wasn't there during the course walkthrough.

How long have you been racing? Does your BF race too?

[Morgan]

Originally Posted by LtNoogie

You have enough time to hit 65 - 70? No way do we have enough time to get that fast. In fact, they've thrown in a slalom once because a section was too straight. Half the people DNF'd their first run because it wasn't there during the course walkthrough.

How long have you been racing? Does your BF race too?

We have a pretty large area to race on and most of the course is hairpins and slaloms, we always seem to have at least one really fast section where I hit the rev limiter in 2nd (so I know everyone else is doing at least 65). We get to the event site at 9, get set up and walk through the course at least once/twice and then we get one/two drive-thrus before the first car takes off at 11:00.

Our region is very fortunate to have such a nice venue (Hunt Army Air Feild, 15 miles or so north of Dothan, AL) and the courses are very long at take a good 60 seconds to complete even for the fast cars, so I'm guessing - close to a mile if not a little more? Typically there are about 40 cars competing. Everything from a fully built SM Sti to stock 91 Saturn SL2...

I had been to a few autox's before but never competed or even rode with anyone. Jan 08 was my first event and I co-drove my bf's 02 Mini S and loved it (the car and the autox). So by the next month I had acquired my Yaris and competed on stock tires, suspension and um it was pretty abysmal! But I went from literally bottom of the list to upper middle with my Yaris.

Kevin changed to a 04 MR2 spyder in June I think and then an 06 Mazda6 V6 in December but always managed to stay ahead of me most months no matter what he drove.

Giving some credit to the yaris, being a street driven car with no real compromises to speak of it does alright. I have TRD springs/sway and 205/50/15 Azenis and keep up with people who have invested $5k+ in their miatas... but I'm slowly finding the limit of what I think the capabilities of the mostly mushy front end - after disassembling the front end, 99% of the bushings under the car are very disappointing... oh well its still a reliable toyota at the end of the day

[LtNoogie]

Originally Posted by Morgan

We get to the event site at 9, get set up and walk through the course at least once/twice and then we get one/two drive-thrus before the first car takes off at 11:00.

Typically there are about 40 cars competing.

Jan 08 was my first event and I co-drove my bf's 02 Mini S and loved it (the car and the autox).

They've moved the venue to the old El Toro Marine Corps Air Station where the course is on the runway. We only get to walk the course. No drive-thrus.

Last Sunday, there were 230 cars. 3 runs is what we normally get for $30.

I started autox-ing in October and am loving it. I keep bringing people as passengers so I have not had as much alone time to work on best times. I still rank near the bottom with the novices and shopping cart ladies.

Do you have to work the course when you're not driving? We have to be on the course during one of the sessions to pick up cones and act as targets.