Rock Out with your Stock Out, KCR Autocross Options

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https://youtu.be/-vOGXcAEH4k

This is the 5th run of my second autocross. I'm running in the unmodified street class. And getting beat by mini Coopers, a Dodge Dart, and a Fiat.
I know my problem is not going fast enough through that first section but I'm at the top of 1st gear and I'm just getting some practice and not trying to push so hard that I actually break something.
If I were driving anything besides a Toyota I wouldn't even try to take my daily driver out here.

In Kansas City we are truly blessed to have this awesome track to run. It is actually the local community college course that they use to train law enforcement and it's super sweet.



This is the track, but the highlight is not the way it was coned off this time. They make a different track every meet.
We have 10 events a year here any body within driving distance of KC should come and check us out.
I'm the only Celica out here.

...And you know what my paint looks like : /
By this time next year I'll be opening my build thread

[VavAlephVav]

The dart has 20 more hp though.
When you look at hp/weight the cars you see in our class the Scion TC is 0.055 and the Celica and Dart are 0.050.
The everything else is lower; Civic and Fiesta 0.047, Mini Cooper 0.045.
But I am the only one that's got suspension bushings that are 22 years old and 200k miles on the rings. I think that's a big part of my problem.


Here's the best run from event 13. I'm still about 5 seconds behind the leader of H Street class which is a Fiesta actually. But that car had no wheel gap and looked lowered to me, like he had some nice coil-overs. Unless the Fiesta comes that way stock I'll have to go through the rules and see what you can get away with and still be in the stock class.

This wasn't bad but I'm still spinning my tires a bit through 2nd gear after the hairpin and I am geared so low that I can get into 3rd on the straights. I think a taller gear would be better here.
The slalom was an option this time and I entered from the left each time because that is what the guy who did the novice walk-through suggested to make it easier once you got the gates at the end. But now I wish I would have tried it the other direction once.




KCR SCCA Autocross #13 2016