It felt like the nice thing to do, to give a little thanks for a good point by. Apparently it's pretty common judging from talking to people at the event at least. One of the greatest things about the event was the "same team" attitude everyone from organizers to corner workers to the drivers...
Had a PHENOMENAL time at the inagural SCCA Time Trial Nationals. Car ran great. I drove ok. I ended up the fastest car in my (novice...) heat by about a second and a half, which had some interesting side effects (see below). This is going to be a series next year, so if one comes near you, and...
Thanks y'all. We made the drive up and got through tech and all that just fine. Got to see the Corvette museum w/ the kids, which was awesome because man, those boys LOVE them some Corvettes :D
SCCA Time Trial Nationals prep completed.
...at least, for the car. Still have all the gear to pack and get ready, but that'll probably happen Tuesday & Wednesday evening.
We have: installed the seat back brace, installed a pair of stock Miata mirrors, swapped in the shorter ratio diff...
Took the kids out to a vacant school parking lot to get a little bit of a feel for their kart. We'll probably do this one more time before hitting up a practice day at the local kart track.
The KMiata swap uses an NB pattern steering-rack mount, so I picked up an NB rack and started the depowering process. And since I'm depowering it, I might as well do what I did with the NA rack and make a couple of steering rack stops to keep the 15x10s & tires off of the swaybar in paddock /...
They've known it's been coming for a few months now (the build started right in karting's busy season, so it took time), but they didn't know it was going to be here when they got home that day.
They were VERY excited :D