I feel like it's been ages since I've updated but it's only been a couple weeks.. So much has happened the past couple weeks it all seems like a blur.
I got the new sets of NRG lut nuts
The old ones were jacked up. A couple years of swapping wheels and removing to work on the car REALLY took its toll. But they also got jacked up partially because I used a 12pt slightly deep end socket instead of a deeper 6pt.. But regardless of the socket, the tapered end of the lug nuts where they make contact with the wheel were pretty worn to the point where it was a safety concern.
A friend of mine gave me a new Shorai 2.5lb Lithium battery for free(I love my friends). My old Braille(which I also got for free) was 9.5lbs. So 7lbs easily removed from the front of the car
Zip tied down to the battery tray for now. I'm going to mount it down lower on the front cross member to remove the 1lb battery tray and move the weight lower on the car.
My 3" plastic intake tubing came in on Thursday, just before my first big National event this season. So I got to work, cut it up and made a better flowing intake than the AEM intake. Not only are there less bends, they are less dramatic as well.
My sponsor hooked me up with a new velocity stack for the 3" piping.
All done and ready for the first big National event for me of the season. The Washington D.C. SCCA ProSolo came to town this past weekend. ProSolo is a mix of drag racing and autox. Competitors line up side by side facing into mirrored autox courses. They launch on a .500 drag tree into the autox courses and it's a race to the finish to have the best time. They then switch sides immediately and run again. The best left side and right side runs, out of 12 runs total, add up for your total time. The fastest time combined wins.
I had 8 competitors in my class which for me is the most I've ran against competitively. I held a very strong lead against all my competitors, who were all in '89-'91 Civic Si's and all prepped. I ran against guys who have trophied and even won at a National Championship. I held a very strong lead all weekend to ultimately take the win by .916seconds. This may not sound like a large margin but in the world of autox this is quite large. Just for reference, the difference between 2nd and 3rd place was just .038 seconds and remember we are all in basically the same car lol.
Needless to say I'm very happy with how I did and even more happy that all my hard work and determination of rebuilding the car over the winter has paid off. I'm looking forward to more National events this year and pushing hard to go to Naionals Finale this year to run against the best in the country.
Here's my video from the weekend.
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Some pics from this weekend
NO my exhaust is not dragging LOL. The side exit is still a good bit off from the ground. What looks like a muffler to the right of the side exit is the inside rear wheel.