vido from today autocross

[steve k.]

SFRSCCA round 5 at Marina Airport

understeer, understeer!!

http://www.kgb-racing.com/video/SCCA040206.wmv

steve k.

[ponyboy]

Dat engine sound goooooood!!!!!!!!!!!

I have 70 '02 with original single barrel, hehe, original everything, dont sound like dat!!! lol

Nice video man, thanx thats some handling!

[MOESPEED2002]

Hey Steve, how did the new front swaybar endlink setup work for you? I was planning on the same thing. I want to remove the load that is put on the front control arms. Does it change the caracteristics of the bar? Is it stiffer? From the video it doesn't lool like the car understeered to bad. I know that you have the IE hollow bar, so it would be similar to what my car would do, less the high spring rate that you have. I will be working on that later. Thanks for the input and sharing.

[steve k.]

the car was pushing through sweepers. That is normal for Marina surface on a cold day.

The bar is now stiffer since the connection to the strut makes a 1 to 1 ratio. There is a still an arm at work when connected to the control arms. Plus with the current connectors it is a lot easier to make sure the bar is not preloaded on either side.

steve k.

[MOESPEED2002]

Sorry Steve, What I meant about the loading of the control arm is that the swaybar is attached to the middle of the control arm. I was under the impression that the arm could bend or flex due to heavy cornering or loads. If that makes anymore sense. Plus I like the Idea of the adjustment ease as opposed to the stock way. It's a pain in the Arse when you have to corner balance.

How did you find the rods for yours? Pelican Parts has the rod ends and jam nuts in metric and L & R treads, but can't find rods. Did you make your rods from sratch?

[steve k.]

It might be bending, but i am not sure.

I bought all parts from http://www.mcmaster.com/ I went SAE, easier to find parts when needed, but they do have all in metric too.

Get a pair of right handed rod ends and a pair of left handed. same with jam nuts. Also get the rods that have both threads.

steve k.

[steve k.]

I did not take it as i was driving

[Guest Anonymous]

Cool Video Steve, do you happen to know what jets you are running in your dcoes? I had always meant to ask you. Oh yeah, do you have a side exit exhaust, it sounds mean.

[steve k.]

i donlt remember the jest of the top of my head. i've emailed them to other people, but cannot find them in my "Sent" directory.

The exhaust exits under the car. Right behind the driver's seat under the driveshaft It is lighter that way, legal for my class and does not have to go thorugh too many bends. In the form it is in this video the exhaust is under 90db at 50 feet. Fully open it gets to about 103db.

You can see the muffler in the image i poset if you look under the car

steve k.

[_z_]

Man glad I set that to download and went out to work in the garden for a few hours

sheesh I wish there was some racing around here .. Some friends came over and I showed them that vid and we'd love to start some action like that around here..

how do you even begin setting up an event etc?