Glad to see you are on your way
 

That Tom dude is a cool cat. Have fun!

Just chewed through all 12 pages! What a great build! It's always great when a plan comes comes together! It's experiences like this when family and friends get involved that make it even more worth while - especially for your boys! Car looks awesome and very well thought out. Congrats!

Great news. I survived a few sessions at Gingerman and doing unbelievably well in the autocross today, I was one proud guy. Sure got some things to work out, but I ran about 3-4 seconds faster than I imagined I would've in the autocross (comparing to cars I'm familiar with and how well they did).

At Gingerman, in the first session I was able to hit 110 on the straight with ease. Still getting used to the manual brakes, I was braking waaaay to early, but hey it was a shake down run

Second session I sat out as I was trying to find the squealing noise as it was back big time. We determined it was in the front accessories, not in the transmission like it sounded like before. So hoping for an easy fix I replaced the idler pulley...nope, looks like the brand new power steering pump has a bad bearing. Oh well, everyone got out of my way in the pits because it was so obnoxious to hear coming So, I need to address that.

Third session I went back out and got stuck behind some "touring" guys that obviously didn't listen to anything the officials talked about in the driver's meeting, grrrr. So, due to being blocked, never got a good clean track for even an attempt at something close to 8/10th's speed.

The autocross was my happy place. Pretty fast couse was setup with a few tricky spots. The first three attempts, somehow I managed to go on the wrong side of a gate, so those were DNFs. Then on a run that was going very good, another car spun and took out the timing light in front of me...so I got a do over lap for that. The do over was a good clean time and my last time was also good and even faster at 34.9

The car felt great, very balanced but with low rear grip (due to the used, hard tires I'm sure). It turned in very well and was very stable cornering. I don't know what to change

Couldn't be happier guys. If it wasn't for the power steering pump screaming when it got warm, it would've been perfect. It exceeded my expectations for the maiden voyage for sure. It's in one piece, drove it back on the trailer and we made the trip back safely.

A few cheesy pics for now, there will be some up that I can link to in a few days.

In the pit
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps48f6eaee.jpg
getting ready for my first session behind Deb, with butterflies
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps866ea52f.jpg
on track in turn 2 (I know, kinda cheesy)
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6148ea47.jpg

:cheers:

Congrats Aaron!! Not cheesy to me. The car looks great in that turn if you ask me. I bet it felt good.

You're going to make them wait? I can't let that happen.....

I was fortunate enough to take a couple of rides with Aaron during his DNF runs. Car does really well without even considering the short time to shake it out and the old tires.



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Hope you don't mind me posting Aaron, but I'm off to China in the morning so this is the only real chance! Thanks again for the rides! :lateral:

Hope I don't mind!! heck no, those are great. You need to give my wife some camera lessons lol.
Thanks Brian, glad you made it out to the event.
I'll have to get with you when you get back to get a good copy of these.

:thankyou:

Awww, bummer video is "private". Such a teaser. :warning:

Great to see the maiden track day went well Aaron! It looks right at home going around the cones.

By the way the video works for me!

Thanks Rick! it was an incredible experience. I'm very pleased for just knocking a "eyeball" alignment on it and throwing it on the trailer, on how well it did the autocross. Can wait for some new tires for more rear grip :bigun2:

Yeah, Brian fixed the video. Thanks again Brian!

That thing is sweet! I am glad you got it back on track and made it to the event.

Car is KICK A$$ :thumbsup: Congrats