For those of you who are considering installing 6mm stem valves in your 600/850 based cars, I now have a pretty good supply of manganese-bronze valve guides in...
Okay, here's whassup... Â The Divisional SCCA Solo 2 will be hld this weekend @ El Toro on Saturday and Sunday starting around 8:00am to around 5:00pm both...
I'm off to the Houston Divisional as well. Good luck to both of us! I'm up against my arch rival the 1275 mini and feel like I'm brining a (dull) knife to a...
The retainers should be in today from Mitsubishi. I'm using the forged aluminum retainers and steel keepers from the Evo, Porsche 996 valve springs, and my...
great - traffic here is horrible - dick cheney is here and there are cops everywhere! - not at the autocross of course chat with you next week -david stamman ...
Just getting in from test & tune, got in 3 runs. The 124 sway bars are working extremely well, or else I'm just getting nuttier behind the wheel and making the...
another good day (for me). My main comp a 1275 mini couldn't run since he had to leave because his house got broken into. DO NOT like to win that way. Good...
Sounds like you had a great time! We had 206 entries in our Divisional, 9 entries in Historic class. The Spit beat me w/raw times, both days, but I wound up...
thank you - will be looking for it -david ... David, Head is done as far as I can go on this end. You will have to use an early (817/843) set of retainers with...
Well, its time to treck back down to San Diego this weekend for another Solo 2 event. The Spitfire - Fiat battle rages on... Trying to get Steve back on his...
John, Good luck down in SD. Had a great time last weekend spectating at El Toro. Talked to a lot of different car owners and took a few pics thanks for the 2...
Thanx Mitch... Will try and get some video in and out of the car. Our next event @ Fontucky will Aug 16, a Saturday only run. Get your trailer hooked up and...
John, My 850 will not see the solo course. Thanks for the offer in the sedan I may take you up on it on the right weekend scenario (I will not be available Aug...
who's that good looking guy in the red shirt?? looks like your cars are more street modified as opposed to the spider and "my" spit being both gutted, race...
I have uploaded a couple of pictures in the files section. Two are of the exhaust currently on my 600D. Does anyone know what exhaust it is? It sounds great...
Aaron, My guess is either Stebro or Ansa. The welded-on bracket on the right side is something that looks like a later addition to me. The FAZA pub looks like...
I have posted some new vids from today's event @ Qualcomm Stadium on StreetFire. Not sure where I finished, there were around 7-8 entries in FSP today. The...
Still have a few vids to post, but this should get the juices flowing... The car runs really flat now, however I still lifted the inside-rear tyre a few times,...
1. While I have been doing this (autocross) for a while (44+ years), I am by no means an expert. It's hard enough to coach someone in person much less from a...
oooops - what I meant to say is slow down on the _entry_ to the right hander and get closer in (on the right) so that you get a better sweep to the left corner...
Hello John, Your sedan is looking better all the time and the engine sounds sweet. The next step in the rear would be to add a camber compensator. Guys will...
Sorry for the late notice, but the Sedan will be @ Qualcomm tomorrow (8/10/08). We run first or second group - early - first car out @ 9:00am. Leaving the shop...
Here's a few more vids of the 850 in action down in San Diego today. Put tha big smack-down on the new GTO, Datsun 510, AND the Spitfire by nearly 3 seconds!...
Everyone was complaining about this course, luckily we got 4 runs, but most everyone had an off-course adventure. I have burned a bunch of the Solo races to a...
John, Look good and the car sounds great. I liked how the car was staying flat in the turns - looks like you getting the swaybars dialed in. Very impressed...
It's that time of the year again folks... it's time for the Night of the Living Dead Autocross @ Fontana. Bring your worst nightmare and... if you dare......
Uhhhhhhhh, it must be a GHOST date.. where do you det the dates from (website or the graveyard LOL). Mitch John Edwards <fiat_nut@...> wrote: It's that...
Don't ask me who comes up with this stuff, but it's listed on the Solo2.com site that we all watch. San Diego was a lot of fun, weird course once you were in...