* Saturday sucked. It rained on and off all day long. I ran my street tires
for part of the day and my racing tires for the other part. There was a lot
of slipping and sliding including me. I was taking turn two when the track
was beginning to dry and I hit a wet spot and went straight off. I did not
correct. I let the car go straight and it ended up stopping by the fence.
Yikes. The suspension opened up and bottomed down hard. I left two deep
marks in the mud and they were still visible the next day. I drove the car
back to the pits and did an inspection. I had grass up to the light
assembly. So I mowed the lawn for them :-) There was no damage to the car.
Thank god.

* Three cars spun right in front of me on Saturday. A Miata, a turbo 240sx,
and a race prepped Type R. Luckily I avoided them all.

* Sunday was great no rain and all sun. I was booking. I brought my time
down from a previous 1:47 to 1:41.18. I know the car had more in it. but I
kept hitting the speed limiter and on occasion the rev limiter. I was coming
out of turn 9 doing 100 mph on the speedo. and then the car would cut off at
an indicated 115. So I had about 15 mph to play with only. If I had no
rev/speed limiter I can do 1:35. I am sure. On the back straight the same
shit of hitting the limiters happened. On the front straight I finally
started shifting into 5th to avoid the rev limiter and keeping the speedo a
hair under 115.

* I was uncatchable around the twisty section. But, alas on the straights
the Mazda RX-7 and the SVT Stang would catch me at the end of the straight
and pass me just before turn one. The Beemers and a Turbo 944 could not
catch me, however. It sucked big time. I am not going to Big Willow w/o an
ECU. That is it. If I had a JWT ECU I would have been uncatchable on Sunday.

* My tires are done. I corded all four of them. The RA1s are great. They
have served me for 5 events. Each event two days long. And each day had 4-5
sessions of 20 minutes each. You do the math. I just ordered another set
from tread depot.

* The NX AD22VF brakes are magnificent. You do not need bigger brakes on an
NA car. All you need are the AD22VFs, Motul 600, Hawk Blue pads, and SS
lines. That is it. The car stops on a dim. The brakes have not faded with me
at all the track events I have been to. And I go on the track like a pit
bull after a postman. I was stopping from 109 mph to turn into one with no
problems.

* At one point I looked at my rotors and noticed hair line cracks
developing. These are the rotors that have been to 6 track events. They have
been resurfaced three times. So I switched them with my new street rotors.
It was a good thing to have two sets I guess.

* I solved the clunking problem in my suspension. I have 1.5 inches of front
travel and 2.0 inches in the rear. I put the tenders on top of the main
spring as originally intended. I set the compression to 7 clicks out of 12
and rebound 1.5 tuns out of 3.5 up front. I set the rears to 4 out of 12 and
rebound 1 turn out of 3 and 1/3. The car felt very good all day. No clunks
at all.

* There was one G20 on Saturday and no SR20DEs on Sunday.

* I saw tow Lotus Elise roadsters. And the amazing thing is that they had a
Type R engine and tranny. A company named Sun Speed is importing them and
doing the transplant and selling them as street legal machines in the US.
The cost 55K. Any takers :-)