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RJH
11-12-2009, 08:28 PM
Just a few pics racing the truck through the cones. Most of the guys there couldn't believe I was racing the truck and then how fast it was almost stock.

krusty_R/T
11-12-2009, 08:39 PM
Sweet! I autocrossed my truck a couple years ago on the stock RS-As. Never again. LOL I use the POS in my sig :D

grapejuice1998
11-12-2009, 10:16 PM
Just a few pics racing the truck through the cones. Most of the guys there couldn't believe I was racing the truck and then how fast it was almost stock.

Great pics!

I love autocrossing mine too. This was taken at the '05 DRTC Nats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3z7-X1IG8

Corey
11-12-2009, 10:59 PM
If I was looking for an RC, that would be just the way I'd tune it.

I use to run an '85 Merkur XR4Ti(not pronounced exrawty) in ESP as well. Like it was ever competitive?

Cool pictures, and videos.

ddrango
11-13-2009, 12:00 AM
Great pics!

I love autocrossing mine too. This was taken at the '05 DRTC Nats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3z7-X1IG8

What's your truck have for an exhaust? I like the way it sounds.


Great pics man!

02DakotaR/T
11-13-2009, 12:58 AM
What's your truck have for an exhaust? I like the way it sounds.
Yea i would like to know too. Sounds mean..

RJH
11-13-2009, 02:14 AM
Great pics!

I love autocrossing mine too. This was taken at the '05 DRTC Nats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3z7-X1IG8

That exhaust does sound great. Mine sounded similar. I have Heddman shorty headers with a 3" cat back with a custom open muffler. Unfortunately we have really tight noise limits here so I had to replace it with just a high flow walker for now.

Five9Dak
11-13-2009, 11:18 AM
I like autoX better than drag racing.

Some people get really miffed when you beat them with a truck. :jester:

grapejuice1998
11-13-2009, 02:04 PM
That exhaust does sound great. Mine sounded similar. I have Heddman shorty headers with a 3" cat back with a custom open muffler. Unfortunately we have really tight noise limits here so I had to replace it with just a high flow walker for now.

Thanks!
It was a home built exhaust, with MP headers and downpipe, 2 into 1, 2 1/2" pipe, and then an 8" Flow into a Hooker power tip exiting in front of the passenger side tire.

It's different now<even meaner>.
Spintech mid length headers with 3" downpipe, 3" true duals into a Magnaflow X chamber 2 in 2 out, then dumped before the axle.

krusty_R/T
11-13-2009, 02:32 PM
I like autoX better than drag racing.

Some people get really miffed when you beat them with a truck. :jester:
Same here.

They also get mad when you beat them on street tires when they use r-comps :biggthumpup:

grapejuice1998
11-13-2009, 04:45 PM
You need a booster chair, Homes. :jester:

krusty_R/T
11-13-2009, 06:12 PM
You need a booster chair, Homes. :jester:
Any taller and my helmet hits the roof. I'm the perfect height :finger:

HoLmes.

grapejuice1998
11-13-2009, 06:29 PM
HoLmes.

Holmes was a boxer. Homes is short for Homey, which is short for Homeboy.
:finger:

krusty_R/T
11-13-2009, 06:50 PM
Holmes was a boxer. Homes is short for Homey, which is short for Homeboy.
:finger:
I was going with Sherlock.

Jontoad
11-13-2009, 08:12 PM
awesome. drag racing just isn't as interesting after you have started to race any events with turns in them :jester:

id love to try it my truck but i can risk braking the daily driver. plus i don't have proper tires for it. the 20's would kill those tiny brakes we have and i only have snow tires on my 17's


Same here.

They also get mad when you beat them on street tires when they use r-comps :biggthumpup:

its also great when you beat cars that weigh half as much as you and have twice as many drive wheels :D

SinCity R/T
11-13-2009, 08:42 PM
I like autoX better than drag racing.

Some people get really miffed when you beat them with a truck. :jester:

There was a lot of people scratching their heads when I came in overall 40th out of 105 drivers, 2nd in SM2 - still had my 20's on.

krusty_R/T
11-13-2009, 08:57 PM
If anyone wants to see any of my videos...
http://www.youtube.com/atwaterc

I snagged first in my class the last two events of the year. Ended on a good note :D

grapejuice1998
11-13-2009, 10:09 PM
There was a lot of people scratching their heads when I came in overall 40th out of 105 drivers, 2nd in SM2 - still had my 20's on.

My first time out they couldn't figure out what class to put me in, so I ended up in SSP. I came in 4th behind a Miata!

http://i35.tinypic.com/2ytwh9v.jpg

RJH
11-14-2009, 12:54 AM
I like autoX better than drag racing.

Some people get really miffed when you beat them with a truck. :jester:

They really do. This was not my first time autocrossing, it is with the truck, but a guy came out with a new GTR and he just beat me by a few tens, he couldn't believe it. :D I also beat a few guys on race tires which really shocked me, these RSA's suck.

2k1AmberR/T
11-14-2009, 05:37 AM
They really do. This was not my first time autocrossing, it is with the truck, but a guy came out with a new GTR and he just beat me by a few tens, he couldn't believe it. :D I also beat a few guys on race tires which really shocked me, these RSA's suck.

HAHAHA A GTR :jester:

grapejuice1998
11-14-2009, 07:00 PM
They really do. This was not my first time autocrossing, it is with the truck, but a guy came out with a new GTR and he just beat me by a few tens, he couldn't believe it. :D I also beat a few guys on race tires which really shocked me, these RSA's suck.

You should drive an R/T that has the Hotchkis/Bilstein setup. Compared to stock, it's a night and day difference!

Five9Dak
11-16-2009, 03:37 AM
I can't wait to get back out in the spring. Finished wearing out my LSD in the second to last event of the fall season.

But I'm seriously playing with the idea of getting a miata for a DD/autoX car and letting the truck go down for drag oriented mods.

Jontoad
11-16-2009, 06:23 AM
I can't wait to get back out in the spring. Finished wearing out my LSD in the second to last event of the fall season.

But I'm seriously playing with the idea of getting a miata for a DD/autoX car and letting the truck go down for drag oriented mods.

my dad has a miata. im thinking i can get it some day and run spec miata... i dunno if he will ever let it go tho. the damn thing is a 1991 with 38k miles. its still got the factory tires on it (wich isnt exactly safe since they are over 10 years old.) it just sits in his garage. he drives it like twice a month in the summer.

you want to know whats funny. he has one of those hard top things you can put on the car if you drive it in winter or whatever. we priced it out and the dam hard top is worth more than the car. :jester:

Five9Dak
11-16-2009, 02:14 PM
Does he want to sell it to me? hehe.