Randy is gonna hook me up with some coilover sleeves, perches and 250lb/in springs for the front of the AW. That's nice. Problem is they come with flat top hats, which won't work. I'll have to try and find some conical ones somewhere. Ryan gave me the all his OEM mounting hardware for the factory sideskirts. I've drilled holes for those. Sideskirts seem kinda silly on a car that I intend on thrashing in gravel... that in mind I probably shouldn't be putting them on. They're even fiberglass and not urethane... bad news. But... they just looks so good, and do a lot to give a shapeless car a little bit more flavour. Plus side is... they'll save my kick panels from rock chips. I have three sets of skirts now... to sacrifice to this cause. Other useless stuff will be a front lip which I'll grab from a junk yard car (I won't say which I have in mind yet) and fit to the existing bodywork [...]
CNAC 2003 was our first taste of real driving competition. Up to that point, I had been doing local auto-x for three years, and Ryan maybe six. I say real competition, because, the local events were always really friendly. Sure, we all wanted to win, but we were all nice and friendly about it. That changed with a national championship on the line. Not that everyone threw such things out the window...
Darryl Jones, and Chris Chu were two fellow CSP drivers who we figured would be our biggest challenges. Darryl was from Red Deer, and we'd seen him from time to time in past years at local events in his FB RX7. Chris brought his ITB equipped NA6 Miata from Vancouver where he was the dominant fendered car. A number of other [...]