Caged Aggression
After 6 months, the Corolla is FINALLY back home in the comfort of my garage.
In-Car vid from Traction Optional event.
Im sure to your disappointment, neither of these runs include the tire debacle. Never the less, Im happy with how the car was running despite all the body roll. My 6k/4k on GR-2s setup just isn’t cutting it anymore.
I was THAT guy.
Was running 5mm spacers on the rears with Celica Supra wheels. Apparently, this combo sheers lugs fairly often. It snapped while I was initiating into the first corner. Pretty scary shit. I sold the spacers to another Corolla owner 20mins later. We got it fixed up and I was able to pull out a Top 8 finish in the comp.
Carpet removal of Amanda’s S13
The progress on Amanda’s S13 is slow but steady. I started ripping out the carpet last night. We should have all this sound deadening crap out of the car in the next few days. In the meantime, Amanda will be knocking out some much needed routine maintenance.
Skin of the devil.
Whats left of a 4ft Cotton Mouth that infiltrated the Corolla last night.
She’s still in Memphis and I become a statistic.
The Corolla is still in Memphis being awesom-i-fied and I got laid off from XS Power a few weeks ago.
Out of hibernation.
After 8 months of sitting in a garage, Amanda’s has finally come back to life.
She’ll be back in a few weeks.
After 3 months of neglect, the Corolla will finally have some work done to it. But not by me. LOL. She’ll be back in a few weeks. That’s all the info you get for now.
Dropping tires and lighting fires
I rarely have problems with the Corolla, but I attended an event a couple of weekends ago that disproves that theory. The first problem came when my battery tie-down became loose, lodged itself under the positive battery terminal then grounded itself to the hood. This caused the battery tie-down to not only weld itself into the bottom of the hood but catch on fire as well. Wasn’t anything major thankfully. With the help of Jerry and Donnie I was able to reconnect everything, secure the battery with a ratchet strap and get back on track within a few minutes.
It didn’t take long before I ran into another issue though. My car is becoming nitorious for losing exhausts. Prior to the event in question, the exhaust has dropped and/or fallen off 4 times while at an event. Well, make that 5 times.
I was coming out of turn turn and dropped the left rear wheel into the gravel. When I came back onto track, at speed, the transition completly snapped my exhaust in half; ripping the baffling cleanly out of the test pipe.
By the end of the day, I had completely removed the rear section of the exhaust, but kep running hard. The 3hrs drive home wasn’t exactly a comfortable one though. Guess I’ll be visit the exhaust shop…… again.