Thanks. Looking forward to getting the wagon out (although it looks like a rainy weekend right now).
John
Two autocross sessions today with 4 runs in each session - started with the tires at 43 front/41 rear (cold) and did the first four runs to get the feel for the car. Bumped them up after lunch, found them running around 45 hot for three of the tires (driver's rear was around 43 and cooler than the other tires), need to run more pressure in the fronts based on the chalking I did, rears were fine.
Loved how well the car rotated with just a rear GTI bar and trail braking, also loved the torque coming out of the corners - it was easy enough to hammer the throttle as soon as I saw my line open up and have the car pull me through.
Had lots of hooting and hollering from the course workers in one section, guess I was lifting the inside tire off the ground (hence the cold driver's rear tire, lots of fast left-handers in today's course). I hope the photographer got some good shots of me with the back wheel in the air, I may just have to pay for one or two of his shots!
Overall, I improved ~3 seconds over the first set, then another 3 seconds on the second set (but there was a minor course change for the second set which made the left-handers much much faster), but still slow as molasses (near the bottom of the RAW times before the novices joined in the afternoon) and there's no point in comparing PAX times as my 235's pushed me into FSP with the 911 near the top of the standings.
All in all, it was great fun. Tomorrow, back in the Miata with my wife where we are only slightly more competitive in STS with a mostly unprepared car. If they end up running autocross into October/November after we put the Miata away, I'll definitely drag my wagon back out again for some more fun.
John