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I've now run two autocrosses and have studied the videos from both. The car feels great out on the track, it's extremely planted in the corners. The fastest time was a 42.9 and I ran a 47.01 on a very open track. Having only 58 hp was a big disadvantage with the layout as I was accelerating all the way down the straights, even through the chicanes that all of the more powerful cars had to slow down for.
One thing I've noticed is it seems like I have a bit more body roll than I'd like. I took a couple screen shots of the car mid-corner to show this. The car is almost lifting the inside rear when trail braking into the corner so it's getting all the weight onto the outer wheels. I'm running 125/105 springs at the moment so I think I should go stiffer to control the body movement better. It also looks like I have too much rear travel before it gets on the bump stops. I don't want to lower it down on the stops since I'd need to shorten the shocks to match and I'm running out of room in the fenderwells. It also looks like the tires could use more air pressure up front.
Link to my first and second run, along with a few other hatchbacks running. Thanks to member DriverOne for shooting the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZUXkn0xFv8
The results from the latest autocross. Many of the "stock" classed cars are not stock, or at the least they're not on street tires. They don't check/inspect the cars to class them and you can run r-compound slicks in a "stock" class if you want to. I really need more power and better tires. It's impressively quick for what it is though. The guy with the 911 wanted a ride once timed runs were over... He was laughing at how slow it was off the line, but soon scrambled to find something to hold on to through the chicane and first big corner! We had talked about the 911's rearward weight bias and he mentioned that he couldn't enter the corner hard or the back end would come around. On our third timed run the track was damp and he nearly spun going into the first big turn. I didn't slow down as much as I should have going into the same corner and the tail of the Festiva came around some but it was easy to correct and stay on my line. Had I not tried to trail brake as much it would have stayed hooked.
I've now run two autocrosses and have studied the videos from both. The car feels great out on the track, it's extremely planted in the corners. The fastest time was a 42.9 and I ran a 47.01 on a very open track. Having only 58 hp was a big disadvantage with the layout as I was accelerating all the way down the straights, even through the chicanes that all of the more powerful cars had to slow down for.
One thing I've noticed is it seems like I have a bit more body roll than I'd like. I took a couple screen shots of the car mid-corner to show this. The car is almost lifting the inside rear when trail braking into the corner so it's getting all the weight onto the outer wheels. I'm running 125/105 springs at the moment so I think I should go stiffer to control the body movement better. It also looks like I have too much rear travel before it gets on the bump stops. I don't want to lower it down on the stops since I'd need to shorten the shocks to match and I'm running out of room in the fenderwells. It also looks like the tires could use more air pressure up front.
Link to my first and second run, along with a few other hatchbacks running. Thanks to member DriverOne for shooting the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZUXkn0xFv8
The results from the latest autocross. Many of the "stock" classed cars are not stock, or at the least they're not on street tires. They don't check/inspect the cars to class them and you can run r-compound slicks in a "stock" class if you want to. I really need more power and better tires. It's impressively quick for what it is though. The guy with the 911 wanted a ride once timed runs were over... He was laughing at how slow it was off the line, but soon scrambled to find something to hold on to through the chicane and first big corner! We had talked about the 911's rearward weight bias and he mentioned that he couldn't enter the corner hard or the back end would come around. On our third timed run the track was damp and he nearly spun going into the first big turn. I didn't slow down as much as I should have going into the same corner and the tail of the Festiva came around some but it was easy to correct and stay on my line. Had I not tried to trail brake as much it would have stayed hooked.
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