 In-car 914 AutoX Video 4/8/07 |
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| yarin |
 Apr 9 2007, 03:06 PM
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'14-X'in FOOL  Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States  |
I shot some in car video yesterday at a local autocross, threw in some pics and uploaded the final cut... here is the link. For a lower res on myspace click here.
The video includes 3 runs: First and slowest, middle and sloppiest, last and fastest. For some reason the engine wasn't running right, almost sounded lean during the first run at top end. Afterwards it smoothed out. I upgraded the firmware to Megasquirt 2.6x and restored my settings but something may have changed. This was the first event that I towed my 914 to with the rennenmetal tow adapter, empi tow bar and 4" drop hitch. Weather sucked, high temp of 42F, low of 32F in the morning. Light snow scattered throughout the day. I tested out my ebay Hoosier A6s, even though it was cold they still felt much stickier than the old ass BFG R1s I ran last year. For purposes of comparison, my brother autocrossed his '89 944 Turbo (~290rwhp, aggressive suspension, street tires). He's a faster driver, normally by about 1/2 to 1sec on an autox course. His best time was a 53, my best was a 48.2. FTD was in the mid 45s. I'm still learning the car and getting used to real R compounds, but this car has potential! Check it out! |
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| DanT |
Apr 9 2007, 05:22 PM
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Going back to the Dark Side! Group: Members Posts: 4,300 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 2,880 Region Association: None |
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| jimkelly |
Apr 9 2007, 06:49 PM
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Delaware USA Group: Members Posts: 4,969 Joined: 5-August 04 From: Delaware, USA Member No.: 2,460 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
just watched the myspace link -worked fine - nice driving - jim
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| yarin |
Apr 9 2007, 08:14 PM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(Dan (Almaden Valley) @ Apr 9 2007, 07:22 PM)  I embedded the links.. look up.. http://stage6.divx.com/user/yarink/video/1...NE-AutoX-4-8-07 http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=2021055990 For you Adobe Premiere people, what format do you export the video in? I can't seem to find a comprismise between quality and size. |
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| Allan |
Apr 9 2007, 08:37 PM
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Teenerless Weenie Group: Members Posts: 8,373 Joined: 5-July 04 From: Western Mesopotamia Member No.: 2,304 Region Association: Southern California |
Nice video.
Why does it sound like you have a bunch of conduit rolling around in the trunk? BTW, nice run... |
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| yarin |
Apr 9 2007, 09:00 PM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(Headrage @ Apr 9 2007, 10:37 PM) Nice video. Why does it sound like you have a bunch of conduit rolling around in the trunk? BTW, nice run... They invented the expression "rattles like a tin car" after listening to my car idle.. trunk is empty, engine compartment is solid. The biggest contributor are the damn door handle rods... they rattle like all hell, especially where it connects to the door handle mount. The passenger side harness might have been rattling around as well. The Lexan rear window I just put it in a little tight, so it creaks against the top. The remainder of the rattle might be the tires picking up rocks. |
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| ConeDodger |
Apr 9 2007, 09:08 PM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,591 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California 
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Either the track is full of "shittage" or those A6 tires are sticky sticky!!! Why does it sound like you are going in to third gear going into the first gate? Is the track much bigger than it appears? Nice video. Always love to see the in-car stuff...
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| Joe Ricard |
Apr 9 2007, 09:41 PM
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CUMONIWANNARACEU Group: Members Posts: 6,811 Joined: 5-January 03 From: Gautier, MS Member No.: 92 |
I hate little bitty slow courses.
There is a bunch of more potential for your car. A6's are cool huh? Your car sounds like mine. Must be the white dots make the car louder. Why did you remove your top? I'm thinking I would have stayed in 2nd for most of the course or spend allot of time 2-3-2 shifting. |
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| yarin |
Apr 9 2007, 10:07 PM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(Joe Ricard @ Apr 9 2007, 11:41 PM) I hate little bitty slow courses. There is a bunch of more potential for your car. A6's are cool huh? Your car sounds like mine. Must be the white dots make the car louder. Why did you remove your top? I'm thinking I would have stayed in 2nd for most of the course or spend allot of time 2-3-2 shifting. It was cold as hell, but the A6s did OK. White dots do make our cars louder! I want to ditch the loud ass flowmaster muffler and slap on something a bit quieter. I usually run without the top... why run with it? Get some sunlight in there(or in my case snow flurries), also makes it easier getting in and out of the car. The course was pretty boring, not very technical at all. MetroNY PCA runs some of the tighest most challenging courses I've been on. Tons of fun! The torque really drops off after 5krpm, 3rd gear worked out OK. The top end stumbling kept me in 3rd gear even after it dissapeared. The lot is fairly crappy, so a lot of the noise was from the tires picking up stones. The 3rd gear thing getting to the first gate was probably tire spin. For the first time ever I spun the tires in first gear. Matter of fact it was difficult not to spin the tires when launching first few runs in the morning. NO TRACTION! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Temp was about 35F, hehe. I'm jelous of all you cali and AZ guys that get to autox year round. |
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| ConeDodger |
Apr 9 2007, 10:27 PM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,591 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California
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I find myself "thinking" about third gear here on the California courses... But seldom go there. I was under the impression that your engine was stockish 2.0 with MS? I would leave the top on if you can. Contributes to chassis stiffness. That is what I think Joe is getting at.
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| DanT |
Apr 9 2007, 10:33 PM
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Going back to the Dark Side! Group: Members Posts: 4,300 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Auburn, CA Member No.: 2,880 Region Association: None |
at our Alameda and Candlestick AXs I get third gear quite often...tired 2.0L with stock gears.
Many times I am in and out of 3 gear at least 2-3 times. many of our courses last year were right around 60seconds +/-. just for the record....I never remove my top... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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| ConeDodger |
Apr 9 2007, 10:50 PM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,591 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California
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QUOTE(Dan (Almaden Valley) @ Apr 9 2007, 09:33 PM) at our Alameda and Candlestick AXs I get third gear quite often...tired 2.0L with stock gears. Many times I am in and out of 3 gear at least 2-3 times. many of our courses last year were right around 60seconds +/-. just for the record....I never remove my top... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Dan is right, Alameda which is off limits this year? and the 'Stick are both 3rd gear courses. It is tough to tell scale from the video but you didn't sound too wound out so I wondered about the shift... Dan, DO NOT let me go through the season without making it down there for a GGR event or two... my next event will be the two day Zone Weekend at Santa Rosa. The six is on the trailer and ready to go. The engine is still in short block stage for the four cylinder car. I think we have sorted out the deck height problems and should be together in a week or two. Then, getting it set up in the car will be the chore. |
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| yarin |
Apr 10 2007, 05:53 AM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
Regarding the top off, I've got a roll cage so I really doubt the top does anything at all. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Do you guys think it does?
Yes i'm running a relateively stock motor with Megasquirt. In the future i'll wind it up some more, for now i'm still growing some nuts, hehe. Last year I was bumping off the rev limiter, but there is really no power up there. |
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| yarin |
Apr 10 2007, 05:56 AM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
A little eye candy...
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| yarin |
Apr 10 2007, 05:57 AM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
a 1/2 ass shot..
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| ConeDodger |
Apr 10 2007, 10:57 AM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,591 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California
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The GT cars had cages and they bolted in the tops. Yes the top still adds stiffness. Nice car by the way... I agree, there is no power to be had up near redline in the stock 2.0. The problem is that there is much to be lost in shifting... The 901 is notoriously bad shifting. Although if you have replaced all of the shift bushings and especially if you have gone to the Rennshifter, you probably don't have too much trouble. It also never hurts to have the skill to shift to third when you need to. Love the Panosports by the way... I had them on my 240Z at one time.
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| race914 |
Apr 10 2007, 11:21 AM
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73 914-4 Group: Members Posts: 1,006 Joined: 31-October 05 From: Nipomo, California (Central Coast) Member No.: 5,027 Region Association: Central California |
QUOTE(yarin @ Apr 10 2007, 04:56 AM) Your camera "Stabilization System" looks just like mine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) |
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| johannes |
Apr 10 2007, 02:10 PM
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Club Porsche 914 France President Group: Members Posts: 3,084 Joined: 13-January 06 From: France Member No.: 5,409 Region Association: France |
QUOTE(yarin @ Apr 9 2007, 06:14 PM) QUOTE(Dan (Almaden Valley) @ Apr 9 2007, 07:22 PM) For you Adobe Premiere people, what format do you export the video in? I can't seem to find a comprismise between quality and size. PC or MAC ? ... Depends on version of premiere you own. I found out the best results between quality and size using the microsoft media encoder. Quicktime does also excellent job but you have to pay for the pro version I think recent versions of premiere can manage it directelly. I own a very old 6.5 version of premier, so I do it in two steps. I export as DV avi . This gives you the same quality as the original file and it is fast. Then I use windows media encoder to encode for the web. There are a lot of presets. This tool is free. You can download it here. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...er/default.mspx |
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| yarin |
Apr 10 2007, 02:21 PM
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'14-X'in FOOL Group: Members Posts: 988 Joined: 13-May 03 From: Guttenberg, NJ Member No.: 693 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(johannes @ Apr 10 2007, 04:10 PM) QUOTE(yarin @ Apr 9 2007, 06:14 PM) QUOTE(Dan (Almaden Valley) @ Apr 9 2007, 07:22 PM) For you Adobe Premiere people, what format do you export the video in? I can't seem to find a comprismise between quality and size. PC or MAC ? ... Depends on version of premiere you own. I found out the best results between quality and size using the microsoft media encoder. Quicktime does also excellent job but you have to pay for the pro version I think recent versions of premiere can manage it directelly. I own a very old 6.5 version of premier, so I do it in two steps. I export as DV avi . This gives you the same quality as the original file and it is fast. Then I use windows media encoder to encode for the web. There are a lot of presets. This tool is free. You can download it here. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...er/default.mspx I have premiere 2.0 Pro for Windows. I'll try encoding my full DV file with windows media encoder. Thanks for the info! |
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| turboman808 |
Apr 10 2007, 10:34 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,718 Joined: 31-January 06 From: North Jersey Member No.: 5,505 Region Association: North East States |
Dam the season started already.
I got to get over to some autoxs and start filming. Been dating a girl in Texas so I am only in NY/NJ area every other weekend and when I am here half that time I am having a party going on. So filming so far has been kinda sucky. If there is something going on this weekend though I am definetly gonna be there to film it. Oh and if your talking editing I am using Vegas myself. Kinda laid out like protools so I am use to it. Just did my first HD project last week. The regular DVD release is selling in hte super speeders booth at the NY autoshow right now. I'll be down this week with some models and the camera!!! |
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