MSNE Autocross #2 (3/23/08) - March 28, 2008

The car performed pretty well in this event. It felt slightly better balanced and easier to turn into corners, which is probably due to the relocation of the battery to the trunk. I did the battery relocation before last week's event, but I couldn't sense as much of a difference because the grip level was so low in the rain.

A friend of mine co-drove the car with me, which helped me confirm the handling issues I've been experiencing. Like me, he felt that the car had low overall grip due to the old street tires, which made it easy to spin the tires coming out of corners or lock the front tires under braking. We ran similar times in the car.

The pictures are of him driving my car since the photographers did not take pictures of my run group. The shot with the car coming towards the camera shows how much the outside tire is leaning on the outer edge. I'll be installing camber bolts next week to correct this issue and give the car more front grip.

My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 1 My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 2
My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 3 My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 4
My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 5 My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 6

The pictures above were taken by John Flynn of Moonlighting Photography Studios. More pictures from the event

The following photos were taken by Hector Rodriguez. The rest of his pictures can be found here.

My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 7 My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 8
My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 9 My 240SX in the March 23rd MSNE Autocross - Picture 10

The results for my class (F) are shown below.

  1. Yun Ng: Toyota MR2 - 49.522
  2. Chien Wu: Toyota MR2 - 49.767
  3. Bruce Bellom: 2007 Mini Cooper S - 50.965
  4. David Corsaro: Honda Fit (Fitrari) - 51.693
  5. Chris Elwell: Golf GTI - 52.354
  6. Angelo Nevado: Nissan 240SX (S14) - 52.750
  7. Miroslav Ovcharik: 1992 Nissan 240SX - 52.878
  8. Dat Khong (my co-driver): 1992 Nissan 240SX - 53.273
  9. Jon Lattif: 2001 2.5RS - 53.653
  10. Ray Lee: 2001 Subaru Impreza - 54.772
  11. Craig Gordon: Subaru Impreza 2.5RS - 55.161
  12. Joseph Toronto: 1994 Mazda Miata 1.8 - 55.803
  13. Howard Cawley: 2003 Subaru WRX - 56.165
  14. Steve Seguis: Dodge Neon R/T - 56.636
  15. Armando Muir: Mitsubishi Galant VR-R - DNS
  16. David Rukshin: BMW323IS - DNS

Full Results

The fastest time of the day was a 46.476 put in by Robert Ida in a Porsche race car.

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