Argh. The tires that they had in stock suddenly they don't have in stock anymore and estimated ship date has gone back to mid-September. So I'll be on crappy old tires instead of crappy new tires.
Argh. The tires that they had in stock suddenly they don't have in stock anymore and estimated ship date has gone back to mid-September. So I'll be on crappy old tires instead of crappy new tires.
Weather forecast a week out says thunderstorms both days. Interested to see how many times it changes this coming week. But it wouldn't be a rallycross without thunderstorms during or after, or both.
I'm just hoping it rains all next week then clears up for the weekend.
I'll try to keep my rain dance under control this time...
The weather is always three days off when you check this far out...
Jerry wrote: Weather forecast a week out says thunderstorms both days. Interested to see how many times it changes this coming week. But it wouldn't be a rallycross without thunderstorms during or after, or both.
I'll be honest....I don't drive as well in mud, but I certainly enjoy it. After driving on our arid dusty gravel desert all year, I could go for some rain.
[mental note: pack gore-tex trail shoes]
I love the mud so it will be a completely dry dust bowl event.
EvanB wrote: I'm just hoping it rains all next week then clears up for the weekend.
+1
The tow Volvo is ready to go after a new water pump, timing belt and various seals and gaskets. It no longer dumps coolant on the ground as fast as it is poured in.
I hope it no longer dumps coolant on the ground at all! 
My crew loaded up the car today so I don't have to bother doing it after work later in the week.
I... wrecked by back on Saturday, so I dug out the Cane of Gimpiness and stayed in all weekend watching bad movies and realizing that Evan Williams Honey is a really girly beverage and I am ashamed to have bought it.
Operation "Zero Preparation" is going off without a hitch.
wae wrote: Is anyone planning on camping out at the site on Friday night as opposed to taking the easy way out at a hotel? I don't really wanna be the only guy out there, sleeping in my van in the middle of a field... I do have all the free candy you can eat, though!
I will be there Friday.
Knurled wrote: I... wrecked by back on Saturday, so I dug out the Cane of Gimpiness and stayed in all weekend watching bad movies and realizing that Evan Williams Honey is a really girly beverage and I am ashamed to have bought it. Operation "Zero Preparation" is going off without a hitch.
Sounds more like Operation "I Get to Sit in the Timing Tent instead of shagging cones" haha. j/k. Hope the back is feeling better!
Nah, ever since 2009, whenever an Ohio region hosts a national level event, I get to play gridmaster. The job was thrown at me at the Eastern States Championship that year and it appears to have stuck.
I should be fine to get around by next weekend but I needed to keep off of it this weekend so I can work during the week. Which meant not painting my spare hood black and installing the new Mazdaspeed decals to replace the tatty old ones, which is high up on the list of things I need to do. That and getting my injector duty cycles down. I pulled a bunch of fuel and I was still seeing 120% duty cycle.
I'm thinking of selling my 1yr old Goodyear cordless impact wrench since I'm sticking w/ stock classes and don't really need it anymore. I'll bring it to the event, think I paid ~$200, anyone interested for $100? Pass along the fortune to another rallycrosser.....
I found a shop that was willing to repair the tire I holed last month. So I will be continuing the Glacier-Grip Experiment.
speaking of round things, check your messages at dirtyimpreza, pete.
Been too busy finding music to glom off of YouTube to bother with DI today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyaWcIe8Dys
"It's 160 miles to Columbus, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
Current weather report has Columbus being decently warm (highs in the low 90s) for the forseeable future, with high chance of rain until Wednesday and then tapering off to 10-20% chance every day until Sunday.
Excellent. If it rains, the heat will burn it off quickly, for theoretically good course conditions. At least it will be really humid and buggy...
Dammit, it's 360 miles to Hebron for us. And I'll need 2 tanks of gas (@20 gallons per tank) to get there. And I'll have a full pack of cigarettes, and will be wearing sunglasses, but it won't be dark.
And that reminds me I need to make my driving playlist for "during competition" runs (which Nick will surely turn off so he can hear all the creaks and rattles in the car when he drives).
So far, the list has some old Metallica, some Maiden, some Fugazi, some Rush, some KMFDM, some Anthrax, some Shelter, and some Pennywise.
Any chance I can just drive your car instead since you'll clearly have the music issue sorted?
You people and your fancy-pants cars with radios...
wae wrote: You people and your fancy-pants cars with radios...
my radio strategy:
It sounds terrible on the 3 hour drives to our local venue. But it isn't too bad once the helmet goes on :)
I have a cupholder, too. Aftermarket.
Knurled wrote: Any chance I can just drive your car instead since you'll clearly have the music issue sorted?
a mazda driver mentioning driving an e30, whether in jest or not, is something that I've never heard in rallycross before (and vice versa) :)
I'll have you know that I was close to buying a 325i (not eta, a genuine i), but turned it down for some reason that I can't think of right now. Probably something stupid like being no longer SR legal because of the 318is limited slip rearend that we put in it. Anyway, proof that time travel doesn't exist is that I didn't suddenly get kicked in the ass by several older copies of myself. The car is no longer for sale and if it ever does come up for sale again, he'll probably want what it is actually worth instead of the pittance he was asking before.
ok, so the playlist is done. It's pretty berkeleying random, I've got to say...but these songs make me drive faster, at least in my head if not in reality 
Clearly I'm a child of the 90s music scene...
I left off the KMFDM as I discovered that basically it blows up my cheap rallykar speakers with distortion, so is a no-go. 
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