First AX of year (finally); with vid, New boxster wheels, new toys Options

[mskala]

Okay finally got to the first AX of the year (last month's Mass
event was cancelled due to 15" of rain or so (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ).

Got video, 26Mb MPEG-1 AX Pic-in-Pic + Data 06/04/2006
This was a Renegade Miata club event.

Not much dry weather, but just enough to get 2 runs at temp.
Video shows thru windshield on the left, and left side wheels
of the 914-6 on the right (turn-signal mount (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) ). Also have
accelerometer data in the corner (my new design (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ).

Background for this was last year's look at my 6" wheels
where the 205's were moving side-to-side by about 2" during
hard cornering (and I needed to not increase tire pressure).
So I wanted to test the same with the 7" boxster rims.

Tires are similar (Ecsta V700 vs. last year's victoracers).
Pressure was 28~29 all around.

Lots less tire movement, which can't hurt. Tires are lighter
but wheels are heavier, so I'm giving up about 10 pounds for
my trouble, but price of wheels was a wash with selling the
cookies.

I don't think my driving was all that great yet, but I like the
Miata guys' courses since they are much more of a challenge
compared to the PCA courses here.

Oh yeah, Lotus Elise with Hoosiers got into 1:12's, I was at
1:17.9 (this run was 1:16 but had a cone)