STANG KILLA SS Goes Racin

[STANG KILLA SS]

After about a 10 year hiatus, I decided I wanted to go racing again(with corners this time around), and spent the winter getting the car back road worthy, and fixing a lot of issues. Had my first Autocross today

never been a fan of cone dodging, but for $20 bucks and 10 minutes from my house to Hoonigan around right in front of the cops it was worth it. Defiantly a good shake down.

I was really pleased with how the car did. Especially the front end. Braking and cornering were great. The back end not so much. Cornering was fine, but I just couldn't get any power down, with the power im putting out, the 4.10s, first gear, and a track that was a puddle of water that morning I just couldn't give any skinny pedal. Due to the venue they also had a "no breaking traction" rule that made it even tougher.

I felt like all my iRacing actually hurt me in turn-in and braking, I could have been way more aggressive there in real life, than iRacing allows. Old habits die hard.

For some reason the outside footage looks like slow mo. My dad rode with me and after watching from the outside he thought the same, going way faster inside the car, than it looks like watching.

took it easy the first run, then the last 3 starting trying to push more. ran 30.5, 30.4, and 30.7. The 1LE Camaros and SRT8s with there several event experience were running high 29s. the pros were running 27s in there Miatas and Sti's.

But I didn't hit any cones, the car survived, and I had a blast! Im hooked

[spankbomb]

So jealous!

[Tommy R]

Okay, dude, now you're in my world. We should talk....

[Sarra]

The Track - Siskiyou Sports Car Club

That's the local AutoX track. No cones.

[WHITE-TRASH]

It always looks like slow motion on the outside.


My whole family will be running autocross tomorrow for a charity event including his 99 z/28 and my nephew and I with our toyota trucks. It'll be a good time for sure. Glad you had fun, as I tell everyone, it's the most fun I've had with my clothes still on.

[Peaker]

Auto X is okay i guess, we dont have that here, but rally X is what get me going.

I would not mind one of the small carts to keep it cheap and funny, but beeing a bottom-dwelling Dane i will never be able to afford that

[looneybin]

Car sounds nasty man....not that i would have expected any different. . I would love to try it but a quirky automatic in a 5000+lbs TBSS would be slow and aggravating as hell

[BJoe]

Originally Posted by looneybin

I would love to try it but a quirky automatic in a 5000+lbs TBSS would be slow and aggravating as hell

Same here, but both of mine would probably do well........but with no squeel rule, my XJ would probably be the better choice My 200 would be quick, but with the weight, power, and granny low first gear, even the grippier tires it now wears would get overwhelmed pretty quick and start squawkin' Now my XJ..............put it's NV242 in Full Time 4wd, AW4 in 1-2, and turn it loose

[EeePee]

Looked slow because it was.

[Tommy R]

Originally Posted by Peaker

Auto X is okay i guess, we dont have that here, but rally X is what get me going.

I would not mind one of the small carts to keep it cheap and funny, but beeing a bottom-dwelling Dane i will never be able to afford that

Budget is what got most of us into autocross. The fantasticly close competition is what made (some of) us obsessed with it.

[binaryterror]

Yeah Autox is addicting. Especially as you creep up in competition.

Car sounds good out there. Since selling my WRX I think my next Autox car will be an SS or T/A. They are getting pretty cheap and still a good car.

[DARKHORSE]

Very nice. I have a 2013 1LE that I use to do our monthly Auto cross out here in Oklahoma City...




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[johnnyh66]

I've always wanted to try auto-x in my wrx... but haven't becasue of this:

Originally Posted by STANG KILLA SS

I had a blast! Im hooked

I know I'll be hooked and talk about expensive hobbies!

[Mayhem Eng.]

Cool, When do you get to shift to second?

[Sarra]

Originally Posted by Peaker

Auto X is okay i guess, we dont have that here, but rally X is what get me going.

I would not mind one of the small carts to keep it cheap and funny, but beeing a bottom-dwelling Dane i will never be able to afford that

We have Rally and RallyX here. A ton of fun. Sadly, it's a big money thing, you gotta have a good car to be competitive. Though, we had a snow rally a few years ago. Our car club leader spoke to the Sheriff, got approval, and we used a long, winding road in the woods. Leader ran it during the day, set up check points, then timed himself driving legally through the course. That night, each driver got a copy of the times, and had to run the course as close to the leader's time as possible. There were no wrecks, no tickets, and lots and lots of fun. They actually had a few Sheriff cars out watching, two of them actually participated in their cruisers.

The local AutoX organization does a hill climb once a year. It's sanctioned, and thus, legal. It's a long course, from 1,500 feet above sea level to 5,500 feed above sea level. It's on a wicked twisty road, which really oddly, doesn't have huge drop offs along the sides like most roads. I think they need to do a canyon run, we have an awesome canyon road here, but it's too busy I think.

Originally Posted by Mayhem Eng.

Cool, When do you get to shift to second?

Our course here requires second all the way around. If you go down the front stretch, you can hit third... Most AutoX's don't use the front stretch, though, so it's usually a moot point.

[badhoopty]

stangkilla what suspension setup you running? ive been somewhat distracted by other things in life but with my fbody my intention is keep the motor stock (aside from longtubes) and focus on the suspension to make a fun to drive car.

i havent been on ls1tech or any fbody sites for years to read suspension tech, but when i was up to date it seemed the strano setup was the hot ticket for both autox and street.

couple years ago i had the strawberry milkshake happen and replaced the steering pump with a turnone unit, if you havent done that yet it really changes the steering feel from an old caddy to something a little more racy feeling.

[binaryterror]

Strano is still the hot stuff for fbodies and vettes for AutoX. At least that's what the Toldeo guys we run with swear by.

I kinda miss the old WRX for it on some days:

I know I'll be hooked and talk about expensive hobbies!

It's not that expensive unless you have to win...

[WHITE-TRASH]

Originally Posted by Mayhem Eng.

Cool, When do you get to shift to second?

Right! If we ran on courses like that I'd be doing something else. Our courses are very open and much higher speed. Yesterday the fastest car was a built to the balls 2010 ZR1 he didn't shift out of first gear on the course either but he hits the rev limiter at 62 mph. He spent a lot of time bouncing off of it.


A regular with what started out as a 2.5 rs subaru now putting just shy of 700 hp to the ground has logged 103 mph on one course with a longer straight but his ground speed may have been closer to 70 tops. He was hazing all 4 stickies as he crossed the line.

[Tommy R]

Generally speaking for your average autocross course, it's a matter of "put it in 2nd gear and forget it", but there are always exceptions to the rule. Cory's course was extremely small, short, and tight. I've been on a variety of courses with speeds up to 100 mph, but for most SCCA sanctioned events, they try to target a top speed of ~70 mph.

Of course, for insurance and overall safety requirements, there are a ton of guidelines with regard to layout of the course relative to objects around it, including spectators. Some clubs just don't get access to large facilities so they make do with that they have.

And yeah, autocross is expensive if you want to win. I couldn't justify $5k on dampers and probably $10k for a reasonably competitive motor so I changed classes. But when you get out-classed by brand new cars in your class that are way out of your budget, well, it kinda puts a damper on things. It was around that time I got burned out and migrated to offroading.

[Mayhem Eng.]

I'm just having fun at stangs expense..... I have never done autocross. Don't know much about it, turn left turn right don't hit the cones.