12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

JBrian said
Hi Rick, I'm real sorry I didn't have any time to get on my computer this past weekend. Yes, the rain sucked all day Saturday, but it's autocross, so we raced. Yesterday, Sunday, it dried out, but we only had three passes in the morning. I ran a best of 71.147, but pissed it away by spinning a 180 thru shutdown. Their may be some great pictures of it. Tim ran a best of 68.645. The course was .8 of a mile, a VERY long, fun, fast challenging course! The quickest time in CAM-T was a 63.289 by a 68 Camaro that runs a complete aftermarket chassis with 295/35-18s square, anti-lock brakes and so on. Still, we had a lot of fun

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Brian and I won the car show.... Oh wait, there wasn't one.

Side note, the new sway bar I made is exactly what this car was missing. St. Louis region hosted a test and tune session Friday with a very short course, but it was all I needed to dial in the sway bar adjustments since I haven't had a chance to autocross since I installed it. The car was oversteering slightly so I decided to adjust the rear bar to a lighter setting just since it is easier to get to than tightening the front. Turns out that was all it needed. For the first time since I've started autocross, I have the confidence the car will stick and go where I want it. I tried driving faster on my last run only to out drive my talent. The car was going faster than my ability to process the course and I ended up missing a gate for a DNF. All I need now is seat time. There were some badass hotrods and drivers there and I ended up 10th out of 24 CAMT cars. I'm happy with that result and fully aware those results would have been different if we had 2 dry days. But, we all had the same conditions this weekend.
This was also the first time I actually tried to push the car on wet pavement. I was pleasantly surprised how good it was in the wet from a turning prospective. It never understeered or oversteered in the wet, but it sure would roast the tire at anything over about 25% throttle.
Special thanks to all the St. Louis Region guys for being great hosts and more hospitality than I could have ever asked for. Huge shoutout to @JBrian and his wife for welcoming me into their home for a place to stay and nice hot breakfast every morning. I genuinely enjoyed it.