Andy69

I'll be posting about the CRX as soon as I get it back on track.  For now it's the FiST I'm currently running.  Feel free to jump in with autocross events.

Got a great running season points battle in the Mid South SCCA region with 3 other drivers - Doug with his 09 F Street M3, and Steve and Alex codriving first a late model GTi in G Street and lately a fully prepped STR Miata.  I had been finishing 4th or 5th behind the others and decided I needed to step up my game.  Got some new tires for the FiST and focused on driver mods.  The last three events I had a 1st, 3rd and 1st.  Yesterday I set a great time and ended the morning session with top PAX.  I was unable to improve in the afternoon but as luck would have it the others got faster but not quite fast enough.  Got the W and jumped past Alex and Steve in the points race.  Currently 2nd and hoping I can hang on and catch Doug for the PAX Championshio repeat.

This is probably already common knowledge but just in case...

The pin that holds the shift linkage to the transmission is an 8x20 spring pin, pretty commonly available from McMaster Carr or Granger

New track opened this spring in Villonia Arkansas.

Heading there tomorrow early for league racing.  
Made one race last season, started pretty far back in the field due to a poor qualifier but managed to move up to 13th in a 20 driver field by the end of the main.  Hope to do a little better this time.  It usually takes me a few tries to get the track right.

Last season was thursday evenings, making the 3 hour run from Memphis pretty tiring.  Saturdays only require me getting up at 5 which I do anyway most days.

I'm about to break out the suspension modeling worksheet again. There is a thread here, partially done.  Going to finish that up but a summary of the results is that I ended up with more understeer than predicted, I suspect due to my spoiler.  So I'm going to address the aero question as well.

Looking for resources on balancing aero.  You can use a suspension calculator to get somewhere in the ballpark for suspension setup, but is there something similar for aero?  It would be nice to have somewhat of an idea of how big a splitter and spoiler can/should be and how to balance them with each other for the optimum effect.  I figure there will be some testing and tuning with regard to the suspension to get the optimal setup.

What has anyone here used as far as calculators and actual setup?

I parked the CRX 4 years ago after it developed a drivetrain issue.  Not sure what it is - the car shakes badly letting out the clutch.  I suspect at minimum it's a leaking seal (although no oil on the floor) getting oil on the clutch.  Possibly a bad clutch or flywheel, or bad LSD.  My son and I are going to pull it this weekend.

Ordered a header from Kirk Racing, looking for intake possibilities, probably will get the adapter plate for a later intake if I can't find an actual Skunk2 or similar.  

Also going to pull the rear suspension and scrape/grind off the undercoating and repaint.

Install the shifter bushing kit, and the HF rear axle.

Longer term is to rebuild the engine with the spun bearing, maxing out the rules for Street Prepared.  I'd like to get the car back on the autocross course this season.  I love my Fiesta ST to death but it's a pig compared to the Honda,.

I ordered parts for the Seven last week but they will take a couple months to arrive so I'll have some time to work on the Honda