Capital Driving Club Discussion Forum

Conditions were pretty fun, enough wet to be interesting on course without being miserable out working :-) Had a great time as always, thanks to the organizers for putting it all together (thanks for NOT turning around this morning Mike!) Here's video of my quickest RX8 run before an inexplicable oi...

Dude Rocky I drove the mini the week prior on those tires and it was absolutely sublime! Makes me pine for DOT slicks myself

So youre sayin' there will be a Silver FFR going spare?

I'm also interested in the Hoosiers, D if you try them out and they're not a good fit or whatever I'll happily take them off your hands

Maybe someone there will have a spare LS for my Mazda

For the record though the back seat room is excellent. I'm 73" and with the seat in my driving position, I can open the rear door and plunk down behind the driver seat no problem. I'd be happy to demonstrate, it always surprises people.

I'm confident that its still a 15% loss or so, the engine probably produces 200 at the crank give or take, but it lost another 15% due to peacocking bullshit claims that the engine made more power than it did. Mazda always overstate their power figures. They initially quoted 250, then quickly brough...

Must be nice having dyno figures that sort of correlate to your actual manufacturer's quoted output!

My car claims 232 at the crank, but they typically dyno at 175-185whp

mine dyno'ed at 154whp

I've seen stock stooks dyno as high as 215whp, but typically just on the high side of 200

A guy on RX8club.com is selling his blue RX8 for a steal of a deal, id get it if i didnt already have one

http://www.rx8club.com/ne-sale-wanted-1 ... on-252250/

Haha! Alex loses by default!

I'd really like to try this this year, I have concerns about using my daily driver though, maybe I can get one of those rental mustangs from Hertz...

Signed up, the wait will be agonizing!

BugBomb wrote:Nate, your points should be up now.

http://youtu.be/_crvGziPn3g

Thanks for posting Mike! I'm hugely satisfied with my performance out there, I didn't hit any cones and was consistent with my times, with them only covering about a half second :D Andy might say i wasn't pushing hard enough then :o I had a great time as always and now i have some points up on the b...

you're welcome to co-drive in the meantime Rocky! I had a great time out there today, I love love love autocrossing with CDC. I've been more active in the other organizations since mid last year but CDC feels so comfortable to me now, like my autocross hometown so to speak. I'm so looking forward to...

Looks like this weather is going to clear up just in time for some autocross action! I finally get to throw down some point against Rocky for the fabled Rotary Cup

I did that Gotham Dream Cars thing at Ripken last year and i definitely got the sense that the guys running it were pretty unprofessional and wouldn't be above something like that...smh

I hope whatever happened outside Frederick was unrelated to us as well

I'm not sure why everyone says the Rivals stink in the rain, I used them all this weekend, street and autocross. They were fine, you just don't overdrive their limits, just like any other tire :roll: given equal pricing I like the Rival cause you can just slap it on any old where cause their non dir...

Sky Render wrote:

Nathan Atkins wrote:I'm sure you will all be happy to know that as I put my daily driven wheels back on, i installed my anti-squeal shims!

But I liked the fact that I could actually hear when you were applying the brakes.

I'll let my neighbors know that it was appreciated on some level haha

hahaha! that's hilarious

Hear hear, there's a time and place for that, and thank you to CDC for providing it. Totally unacceptable.

I dig the results Ed, but my only beef with them is id like to be able to check multiple categories, case in point is the TR6 from saturday, as driven by three different drivers each selected a different class, where we aught to be able to choose all that apply (i'd think we'd just need to incorpora...

Oh I almost forgot, in case anyone needs help with their bulimia, here are the results of the first homemade GoPro swivel mount test:

http://youtu.be/Eq_LUrsBOGU

I'm sure you will all be happy to know that as I put my daily driven wheels back on, i installed my anti-squeal shims!

I had a great time out there today, it was great to see everyone again! I'll post the nauseating video from my swivel mount in the morning