Monthly Archives: May 2010


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As I mentioned last week, with RCA’s banned in most SCCA Solo classes, some creativity is required to modify the roll axis on cars like the AE86 after serious lowering. Luckily, in these same SCCA classes, methods of lateral rear axle placement is almost entirely open. That means that relocation and modification of the existing panhard rod is allowed, or […]

Mumford Linkage For Lateral Axle Placement


There is a lot to it, but Ryan got back from the Wendover Pro Solo with a broken car that may have let him down in more ways than one.  One of the things he was talking about was losing weight… and the acrylic hood on this AH Civic may have provided inspiration.  I don’t know about using it on […]

Plastic Body Parts



In more ways than one of course.  What a decent car weekend, despite missing auto-x on Saturday.  Sunday morning was spent moving my exhaust.  It’s almost perfect now… the flaw being that it still isn’t quite centered on the bumper opening.  Making exhaust sucks.  I spent a lot of time trimming and grinding pieces of pipe so they fit together […]

I love Q-sha


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FSP is my favorite auto-x class, but it’s not exactly an easy class to prepare a car for.  FSP is the slowest of the Street Prepared classes, and that means that it is always growing. As new cars are manufactured, previously competitive cars in faster classes become deprecated and are bumped down into FSP.  This does at the least, create […]

A Look at FSP in 2009



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So refreshing. I hope something interesting happens at 88mph. (!!!) Shouldn’t the passenger seat actually be functional though? And… is this what he drives to work? Awesome. Photo Credit: JForce Racing

Quantime?


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Ryan has left town with the SW11 in tow, and is headed for the Wendover Prosolo in Utah.  He’ll be up against Randy Chase and his SSM SW20.  If you don’t know Randy Chase… he’s kind of a big deal in the solo world… or at least he used to be. The data he can display in this video is […]

Competition