First AutoX completed! woohooooo

[Cheapass Ron <rapieper@yahoo.com>]

Two days shy of my 40th, I FINALLY get out there...been a long wait
this year...I had planned to be autoxing the first week of the season. 
But well worth the wait....progressively quicker times (including a
fastest run - last of the day - with my brother in the car...go figure.
 Maybe his 200lbs smoothed me out?)

A few rough spots...after run #2, the car "idled" at 5000 RPM...WTH? 
Throttle cable was OK, popped off the boot by the a/f meter, that's OK,
as a last resort I removed the boot from the TB and what do I find? 
About a 6" x6" piece of emery paper of all things!  Seems Madd Matt (my
3-year old) was "helping" Daddy yesterday when I had the boot off to
access the M/C...he likes to put things in odd places...found that the
reason for an odd rattle was a golf ball in the tailpipe...

Learned that HP is not what wins Autox's, it's smoothness, knowing when
to downshift, when not to upshift, when to use a lighter foot on the
throttle, that heavy scrubbing slooows the car, and that Dunlop D40M2's
are OK for a daily driver but not so good on the autox course!  Anyhow,
whupped on a Audi a4 Quattro w/ 1.8T, a '90-ish RX7 Turbo, and at least
one Miata...several more, results aint posted yet!

Laterrrr...(BIG FAT GRIN)

Ron

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Ron (Cheapass)
'87 16V, ("Victor"), '93 Cabby ("Teufelhasen")
ICQ 108845455

If it ain't foggy, TURN OFF YOUR FOG LIGHTS.

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