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First the right side. And the left side. Of all the things I’ve mentioned about Wendover, did I say that Ryan’s front dampers blew up? Can you tell?

Ryan in Wendover

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Ryan still hasn’t returned from his trip to the states, so I haven’t had time to be de-briefed in detail… but via a short conversation he did present something that may be a problem with his current set up.  It is typical for fast auto-x cars to run stupidly large rubber.  An auto-xer can get away with it more so […]

Work Boots or Sneakers

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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

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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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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 […]

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