My 6th Gen's FIRST AUTOCROSSING ADVENTURE...PICS COMIN
whatup people, i compteted in my first autocross yesterday. The 6th gen handled like a champ. I've got ground control coilovers, tokico illumina shocks, 17x7.5 Volk SE37k wheels with nitto neo gen tires, nuespeed strut bar...that's it for the suspension mods, but they did their job. I set the shocks to 4 in the front 5 in the rear...everybody's first run was pretty shakey because there was a confusing turn in the course. second, 3rd, and 4th runs were all good tho. there were 3 Evo's, a WRX, a couple old school mustangs, a mustang GT, a 91 mustang, a handfull of miata's, 2 neon srt-4's, a couple of corolla's, a 240SX, a ford focus, a mercury mistique a couple old school civics (one was like a 78), a datsun 510, a few formula 1 style cars, and even some go karts. There were 50 cars in all. I got lumped into the STS class, my best time was 60.304...good enough to take first place =) i felt pretty good about my time in the old 4 door family sedan because there were a couple vette's that did 60.5's as their best runs.The Evo's were doing it up with 55's-57's...one broke into the high 54's. The WRX ran 55's, but also broke a high 54. The go karts and one of the miata's actually broke into the high 48-49 range a couple times. My time of 60.304 was really good considering i had the worst power/weight ratio of any car out there, and i was the only automatic ahah...but it's all about suspension and driving. It was fun as hell...i drove my car like i stole it...but that's the only way to do it in my book...go big or go home. it was fun watchin the evo's and the WRX. The WRX lost it once and slammed into some bushes, but that dude could ****in drive....It was my first autox adventure, but i've been using my home town as one big autox course since i started driving lol the guys running it were like man, u've done this before haven't u? i was like nah, not legally.... The only thing that got me was the front passanger side tire is eaten up pretty bad and it gave out on me once or twice...i should have been able to break a high 58, low 59. with new tires i could have done that easy i think. my lil I4 with it's AEM V2, DC header, and GReddy EVO was handling it's business out there with all the super cars. Im considering getting a set of 16X7.5 volks with super sticky tires just for autoxing....i thought about using my stocks, but they're too narrow. well like i said, i'll post some pics tonight, and hopefully some video later on...my first autocross, my first trophy...i love my accord....holla back, peacE