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Old 12-12-2018, 12:14 PM
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Look at that contact patch!!
Job well done Lance. That looks WAY better than before the new sway bar install!
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Old 12-12-2018, 12:49 PM
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Great pics, Lance. You really were flying around that corner all day. I did notice a lot of rear brake lockup though, especially in the lefthander preceding this sweeper.
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Job well done Lance. That looks WAY better than before the new sway bar install!
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Great pics, Lance. You really were flying around that corner all day. I did notice a lot of rear brake lockup though, especially in the lefthander preceding this sweeper.
Thanks Ric. I noticed that I could hear the rear tires sliding when I watched the videos back but never felt them cause a loose condition on corner entry. I've got the bias down to about a half turn between locking the fronts first or locking the rears first and locking the fronts first does cause a push. Depending on what the next course looks like I may put a quarter turn more on the fronts for a run just to see how it does.
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Old 12-12-2018, 02:30 PM
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Did a little bit of photo editing this morning. Gotta thank Chris Niemeyer for grabbing these great action shots.







Look at that contact patch!!

looks like Darrel Waltrip driving !!! lol Bugggidie buggidie
nice work
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Sure appears to run a lot flatter
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Old 12-12-2018, 03:16 PM
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looks like Darrel Waltrip driving !!! lol Bugggidie buggidie
nice work
Thanks Blake... It freaks me out how serious my face looks in these pics...

I'm having fun at this REALLY!!!
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Old 02-05-2019, 03:00 PM
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One of the best testaments to a well setup car (besides great handling) is even tire wear.

I put new tires on Barney in October 2018. Since then I've run 2 SCCA Autocross events (one with a co-driver plus fun runs\20 long slalom intensive runs), 1 Good Guys event, and 4 more SCCA autocross events. I haven't rotated the tires once during all of this.

Today I took them off the car for inspection and was impressed enough with the even wear across all four tires that I thought I'd share.

You'll have to look close at these pics and know what to look for but if you pay particular attention to the center rib on each of the four tires, you can see how all 4 of them are wearing very VERY evenly...










I'll probably rotate the rears to the front as there is just a bit more wear on the rears (probably just from the Good Guys event) and these should last me thru most of the summer at this rate.

If I really wanted to extend the life of these, I'd pay to have them flipped on the rims...and that's probably not that bad of an idea either.
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Old 02-05-2019, 04:26 PM
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Car is obviously working good, Lance, but we already know that, huh?! Definitely a fantastic tire choice for your application!
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So this autocross thing can be a fickle bitch sometimes... I like to think that I'm getting pretty good at it and then I have an event like Sunday where I think I'm doing okay speed wise...and I end up 41st in raw time out of 130ish drivers. It wasn't just me though, a lot of the drivers I typically run similar times to in different cars were also way down on the time chart while others were way higher than normal. I'm still trying to process why and one of the things that helps is to watch videos from those that went faster on the same course.

Here was my fastest timed run in Group B (the one that counts). 46.243



Later in the Time only runs, I used the data from my solostorm and new 8" tablet to find ways to pick up speed.

E20 CAM-T TO Lance Hamilton 1985 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS 45.763 45.471 45.263 45.068

Here is my 45.068 run with data




Now, to totally blow our minds...here is Brian Peters in a 2018 1LE putting down a 42.879 in the cool run Group B I was in...

https://www.facebook.com/brian.peter...6247955797333/

He later ran a 42.562 in time onlys...

The full results are here

http://www.azsolo.com/backup/index.p...s-info/results

You can sort by fast time, PAX or class...

The car ran great and it's ready for Good Guys this week...and I got to share my hobby with a couple of our new neighbors that had never experienced autocross before. So it's all good.
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Old 03-16-2019, 07:37 AM
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https://youtu.be/zX2dVDkamVM

http://goodguysautocross.com
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