Street n Strip - AutoX this weekend.

So, like I said, I put off the move for a few hours to go to the AutoX this Saturday night. We got there pretty late and basically had to talk them into letting us register because we were putting a new tranny into my buddy’s supercharged ram air Trans Am. I had to run my Mustang because the Super D isn’t running like I want (see: FMU post). It had been sitting up since I got the Civic and I hadn’t been through it in a while. When I did I remembered that I was missing a lug nut. A no-no and an automatic Tech fail. I got one on the way just so we could get there and register. Tech, of course failed me and I spent the course walk-though fighting to get a lug on a stripped wheel stud. I finally got it on in the grid (beating it with another lug wrench) and they let me run. Whew.

I had no idea what class the Mustang belonged in so I said just put us with all the other Mustangs. Great. We ran in Street Modified with some gnarly cars including a couple of Cobras (Shelby, not Mustang), and a plethora of highly modified Mustangs on the stickiest tires on the planet.

My first run and it’s the first time I had run the Mustang that hard in anything but a straight line. Can you say oversteer? I felt like the Duke boys on a gravel road. The first part of the course was a big ass figure “8” and I was sideways through the whole thing. Sweet if I was in a drift competition, but not real fast in a grip event. My time wasn’t great but not terrible either. I improved on each run and the same as last time, my last run was my fastest and also the only run I made with a passenger. I finished 0.71sec out of a trophy. I feel pretty good about it considering the cars and the competition. I owned my buddy’s 505rwhp TA by more than 2 seconds. Nice. I am pretty sure he had the meanest ¼ mile car out there, but power is nothing without control, boys and girls.

Pics: My ‘Stanger with the newly beaten lug and the crew on the way. My brother was driving the D.


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sweet! my dad was looking into the TA in brunt orange, the hood scoop is so ****in sweet, anyway he backed out cause it had a salavaged title, back on topic!

I went on Sunday, and remembered why i love auto-X. damn. im going a lot more often now.

I also went on Sunday with Sacs. I sure did whoop up on him, lol.
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That aint right. I am sure you were in a different class. Do you know there was not one EVO out there? I wanted to see on in action. Hey, did you get that vid clip I sent you?

ALso, WHOA.

Enough power mods for me, I need to upgrade my brakes to stop this 3200 lb whale.

Lots good oversteer though, controlable too.

NO I got nothing, dont send me anything for a week. The DSL is in the mail cause this 40k dial up aint cuttin it.





There were 3 out there including me and a bunch of scoobies and one st(why)

I beat em all...................................barely.

I didnt run in my class though so I wont know standings untill later. They almost put me in Sacs class when we got there though, I would be going nationals though.




There was a crazy eg hatch with the D in it going freaking crazy. Like 3 seconds faster then me on a 33 second run:eek:

Yeah, the fastest car out here is an EG hatch. He freakin pwns. NA too. It gets the 3-wheel motion goin. Zero body roll.

He deff wanst fastest.

There was a crazy @ss vette and camaro with the engine shoved back behind the front axle, not to mention the Viper. Although Im pretty sure the Civic did beat the viper.


There was also an EF out there ripping off some very good times.

ive been autoXing once, and there was an S4 tearing everyone apart. and by S4, i mean it was a gutted out, track ready looking S4...

looks like im going again this weekend:D. then its almost a month till the next one, maybe ill have more mods by then.