We are back! Oh my, talk about seat time!!! ~35 runs! You are right Jeff! We had the basics imposed on us.

Yes, I knew the basics I just never had anyone show me/confirm first hand how it's done; think about 30 runs with a national champion sitting beside you....wait...we get 2 different instructors assigned to us. That is what the school is all about.

Well worth my day!

 

No doubt it's a lot of seat time. The Phase 1 school I did in 2003 was my turning point as far as feeling confident with my car.

 

i think a lot of what i learned is still sinking in and hopefully will flow out onto the course as i continue this season

i really enjoyed everything we did and what we worked on

i really enjoyed the instructors, they were really positive about what we could improve on and how to do it

when i got on the highway to go home i heard a wierd noise that sounded like i had a flat front drivers side tire. i pulled over and found that the kones struck back ...

my fender well lining had busted and the screw at the bottom was gone. luckily i had what i needed in my tool box and fixed it on the side of the road.

i also found that the lining behind my front bumper had poked out causing major air flow disruption, so i popped that back in as well.

crazy the stuff you have in your tool box that you'll find out one day you'll need

91 kone killer ~ 3 kones under the car

kones ~ 2 fixable damages

i stopped by my friend David's in Rockledge to also correct the over impacting of my lugnuts ... holy crap some mechanics hate it when a girl tells them the correct torque spec for their car, this azz put them on his way to prove some stupid point .. won't be going back there ever again to have tires mounted.

 

I remember that someone ate 3 cones and brought them back as under car trophies. Was that you? I saw the workers trying to pull them out, and the car was chewing on them like a greedy dog with a new toy.

I was putting a new downpipe on my MX-5, and while I was under the car I considered removing all the covers that seemed unnecessary. Then I thought they might be there as cone protection. I'm glad I left them on.
Excellent class and instructors.

 

CTB: I don't think it's a gender thing. Shops get pissy about that, period. TiresPlus in St. Pete didn't like me asking them not to use an impact gun, to only put my lugs on hand tight and that I would torque them after the car was rolled back.

I'd asked for non-OEM alignment specs too.

"So, basically you want to just do the job yourself."

"No, but if it's too much for you to target alignment specs that aren't in The Book and if it's a big deal that I don't want my lug nuts cranked down NASCAR-style, I'm happy to go somewhere else."

Not another word, and they did the work, but I'll never go back.

The techs were actually cool and had no problem with it. The office jackass was the one with attitude.

 

Spin Out ~ yep that was me *hears cheering in the background* man they were stuck under there ... my car doesn't understand the command "release" like my german shephard sir tut did (r.i.p.)

jblaine ~ it was the same situation for me but reverse, the guys in the office were cool, even double checked it to show the tech, the tech was the one who decided to be an ass and like you they lost my business as well.

i'll agree about the genderless and say, they just don't like that the owner knows the car as well

 

Here are a few pics I took at the event, for a camera phone and not really taking my time I guess they came out pretty good.......

https://www.tamparacing.com/photopos...y.php/cat/3423

 

For sure, those things were probably well over double the correct torque spec.....

 

sweet you got a pic of my car with someone other driving it than me ... so odd

thanks

 

Thanks for the photos.
They reminded me of the real toilets (with running water) and covered seating.
I felt like Royalty.

It was not hot on Sunday, but I had a flash back to a couple of autocrosses last Summer that were real scorchers. A little shade and running water would have been heavenly.