Re: First AutoX completed! woohooooo

["Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>]

congrats. street tires definately slow you down. i've been meaning to get 
some race rubber, but i keep spending all my money on bum engines that will 
bump me into a class where i couldn't possibly be competitive <grumble 
grumble>. not that i'm bitter or anything :)

-michael

>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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