I autocrossed yesterday

[roccolister@hotmail.com (Craig Williams)]

Until you just mentioned it, I didn't even think aboust torque steer. Of 
course I'm used to driving a front wheel drive car, but I have to say that 
I'm very impressed with the Velocity shim kit that I installed. Very worth 
the $100.

Wheel spin is pretty much solved with the sticky Yokohama 032R's. Those 
things are great. It takes a lot to get them to spin.

The TT exhaust is on order and hasn't arrived yet, so this was still with 
the stock 1.8 16V exhaust; cat and all. That will change in a few weeks.

-- Craig



>From: John Ringham <jrringha@adobe.com>
>To: "Craig Williams" <roccolister@hotmail.com>, scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: I autocrossed yesterday
>Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:33:30 -0700
>
>
>Cool! Get any torque steer, or wheel spin with all that mad power? TT 
>exhaust on yet?
>
>John
>
>
>At 01:13 PM 7/15/2002 -0700, Craig Williams wrote:
>
>
>>Well,
>>
>>For the first time since I built the 2.0 16V (over 2 years ago) I finally 
>>got the time to take the Scirocco to an autocross event. I had a blast. I 
>>improved with every lap. I ended up only 2 seconds behind the guy who 
>>designed the course (driving a Miata) and 2.5 seconds behind the Western 
>>Regional champion and his Acura Type R. Since I hadn't raced in over 2 
>>years, I felt pretty good about that.
>>
>>I was worried that the motor had too much top end power to do well on an 
>>autocross course, but the car perfomed really well. An all second gear 
>>course and I had plenty of power to pull me out of every corner and it 
>>never felt like it was bogging down.
>>
>>Just had to share. -- Craig
>>
>>
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