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They have the 2014 season schedule up over on the region website: http://www.stlsolo.org/ Looks like 10 events, four at Gateway, six at Family Arena, starting April 27, none in Arkansas. After the 10th event, they have a Team Challenge, Road Course Solo, and Year End event. Not sure what to...

I poked around a little more on this, and may have figured it out. It may be that they are allowing the same make and model car to compete in two different Prepared classes, a lower tier or slower class under the restrictions of "limited preparation", or a higher tier or faster class without...

I am still confused about the Limited and Full Prep thing. The XP specific section in Appendix A starts out with "...must conform with the rules of Section 17, with the exception of the following (specific exceptions). I'm playing with titanium stuff for resale, and had the general guideline of...

For XP, and possibly all the Prepared classes, they show "Limited Prep" and "Full Prep" alternatives for allowed modifications. Anyone have a good explanation of what exactly this means? (No luck with a google search). Are we supposed to have two separate sets of classes, XP-Limited and...

I'll let Mike have the last word, and throw my comment in here. The gymkhana videos are entertaining, and those drivers are very skilled and talented. But... They co-opted the word Gymkhana. The original meaning is an event similar to autocross, but with a course that criss-crosses back and...

Not sure if Mike feels the same way, but I feel like I drove faster times this year (on good days) than last, though the index numbers for the good events did not go up. Our region seems to snub raw time results, which are more useful for the 90+% of car enthusiasts, driving cars that are not...

One of those days when you wish you stayed in bed. It seems like I have the car set up for warm weather. On hot days, it sticks like glue. I can throw it at the course as hard as I can drive it, and it asks for more. But on cold pavement, no rear traction. The first three events were like...

I emailed our leader. (And he don't like me.) He said it's a split schedule: 1st heat makes three runs. 2nd heat makes three runs. 1st heat goes back and makes three more runs. 2nd heat goes back and makes three more runs. (This way we maximize the down time for people walking in from and out...

Who's in charge of making sure we get hosed? We ran first heat in Event 10 too. Replaced the bearing. Checked the toe. My adjustment for the Events 9-10 cold pavement was actually adjusting it back from 1/8 toe out to 0 toe. So the rack lost 1/8 inch width in the rebuild and measured...

What we need is a 16 or 18 event season. It doesn't start getting close until event 10 or 11, and then there are not enough events to take back the momentum of a come-from-behind run to the championship like Mike keeps doing. And someone to come in and kick all out butts is another thing that...

We are supposed to run a different course each event. The idea being that the drivers are all allowed to walk the course before driving, but no one has driven the course previously. The pavement condition leaves narrow pathways that can be used, and the best use of the limited pathway leaves a...

Great weather to watch a race. Great weather to sit in a car and drive it around. Not great weather for the tire to stick to the ground. Gotta figure out how to get the pavement temperature 120 degrees, and the air temperature 68 degrees... Off to set up cones. They say we will have the...

Good chase today. The car would let me push a lot harder after softening the rear dampers, raising the rear tire pressure, and changing the front toe back at lunch. Looks like my fifth run got me within .959 seconds of Mike. My sixth is not on the unofficial list, but I think I went on the...

It looks like Mike signed up, so I will have someone to run against. No new goodies this time. I caught my steering rack leaking into the boots, discovered this was a problem for license renewal and inspection (which is due) and pulled the steering rack again to be rebuilt (2+ weeks wait for...

What the heck, none of you guys showed up! I ended up running unopposed. The newly (again) rebuilt distributor did not give me any problems this time (Delco parts instead of Accel, and a big heat sink bolted to the bottom). I thought I drove my best event ever. Went like a rocket and no...

I realized after posting the times, the wrong-hand-drive Integra managed to sneak past you guys. During the heat, I was concentrating on catching Mike, and afterwards, I assumed he brought up the rear. Rich had one of those all-too-common situations with .00000000X seconds separating finish...

I didn;t post the fun I have been having. Between Event 8 and 7, I decided to rebuild my distributor, fearing an intermittent problem with the GM/Delco ignition module and/or pickup coil. I thought that might account for the slow times at Event 6. Yesterday, I decided to clean the spark...

It was nice having more cars int he class to race against. The parking area was starting to look like a Cobra club meeting. I would look up and say to myself "Dang, another one to take pictures of...". It looks like I got rid of most of the tire rub with the little C shaped shims on the...

No update email or note written on the website, but it looks like Event 5 is now on Saturday, July 20, with Event 6 the following day.

They said they would reschedule the event, so I expect they will give 24 hours notice as soon as I get the car torn down... I was looking forward to pushing the car harder again with that newly re-found rear grip. Yesterday I made a stack of steering rack limiter shims, to end the tire rubbing...