Last Sunday was the first event in the ARMS Regional AutoSlalom championship. It was hosted by Moncton Motorsport Club at the Magic Mountain Parking lot. There was a good turnout. It wasn’t a surprise that Brian took FTD in their BMW… they have a habit of doing that…
Just having finished putting the 510 together, we figured it would be a good idea to bring it out to test it out. It worked better than expected in the autoslalom. Someone took some vids of it.
Results are posted here. Our 510 is in the DMOD class.
http://www.vimeo.com/5069484
MMSC is also hosting the racing at AMP this weekend. There will be a club camp-out at the track on Saturday night. There’s going to be a BBQ. If you’re thinking of coming down to the track, this weekend would be a awesome one.
We brought the 350Z to the Moncton Motorsport AutoSlalom on June 3rd. The weather was beautiful and 17 competitors attended. We scored the FTD run of the evening with a 41.116, nearly 1.5 seconds faster than 2nd spot.
You can check out the results and you can see the onboard video of our FTD run here.
http://www.vimeo.com/5015872
We’re also planning to bring the 350Z to the Regional Autoslalom on June 07 at the Magic Mountain Parking lot in Moncton. Hoping to see lots of new cars from around the region.
Apart from some autoslalom action, I’m happy to say the 510 race car is 100% ready. Every nut and bolt is tighten, it starts, it runs, its READY! We’re going to the June 14 race at Atlantic Motorsport Park in Shubenacadie.
See ya there.
The grass is green and that can only mean one thing — start doing yard work…. or that racing is about to start!
I updated the season schedule for the 2009 season. Its still a bit early to say if that schedule is finalized or not, but keep an eye on it, and hopefully I’ll see some of you at the events. We’re planning to do basically the same as last year. Compete in the TRAC Tour Championship at Atlantic Motorsport Park and follow the MMSC local autoslaloms.
One big item this year is the ASN Canada FIA Solosprint championship in September. We’re excited to participate and compare our skills/car with the rest of Canada for doing hotlaps. Slalom @ Slemon is also usually pretty interesting in that it brings competition from all over. This year we might bring the Datsun 510 there instead of the 350Z.
We’ve been doing the once over the 510 and 350z to start the season. The motor for the 510 isn’t quite ready yet, but that should be done withing weeks and ready to drop in the car.
I’ve been looking around for a while for a solution to organize most of my tools. The biggest issue is that it needed to be portable because I bring my tools at the race track.
I don’t have a ton of tools, but I have enough that its hard to be portable without having them organized. Last years we rolled a bigger tool chest on the trailer every weekend, I wanted to try to avoid that but still have the essential tools with me at the track.
I bought a smaller 4 drawer tool chest. And the mission now was to jam all the essential tools in there and sort them out.
A lot of people recommended Ernst tool organizers. Its a very flexible solution and quality is pretty good. They have solutions for sockets, wrenches, screwdrivers, etc. I was mostly interested in sorting out all my sockets.
This allowed me to not only organize the sockets, but they also take up a lot less space in the drawer. I think the setup turned out pretty good.
I used a combination of the Ernst socket organizers and the cheap socket rails that you can find at Princess Auto.
A good resource for this type of stuff is the Tools Forum at Garage Journal. There’s a lot of people on there that are crazy about tools and that can provide you with good info.
