video: autocross in the Civic
These are some of my better runs, including the best, which starts at 6:27 in the video and has a time of 62.519 s, followed by the next best of 62.540 s. I believe the video should start with the best run, but if you want more, they are there:
And someone took this while we were driving to show us the back tire lifting. I think it was Derek driving but not sure.
autocross video
I find this fascinating. I haven’t looked at the GPS data to correlate but using YouTubeDoubler, I put two of my runs side by side to compare them.
I had six runs, three morning and three afternoon. The three morning were fairly useless times, but taught me something. The last three were fairly close to each other in time, although I believe I hit a cone on run 6. The GPS data shows some differences for sure, although I don’t think the speed data from GPS is all that accurate.
Here is run 5 versus run 6. As you can see, run 6 was much faster all the way up until the last couple turns, where I threw it all away.
Here is run 4 versus run 6. Not perfectly synchronized but a bit of the same.
I made this with all three but it seems impossible to get the timing perfect.
Anyhow, good fun. I think I figured out a good mounting point above the windshield, which gives a better view of the cones. So I’ll try that next time.
brake job
Changed all four rotors and switched to track pads, in prep for this weekend’s track event. I found the rotors for amazingly cheap–total price of $120 for all four. Last time I paid $400 for the front rotors alone.
lap-time improvements
I eliminated the warmup/cooldown laps and some of the outliers but kept the traffic-interrupted laps. Those show up pretty readily as offset from the faster laps. As you can see, my familiarity with my phone’s lock code and the confusing app interface, along with Arron’s selectiveness and desire to preserve the car, means that more of my laps were tracked.
Arron:
Me:
shift light revised
Now with calculations using 1k-times-improved resolution.
The $4 stereo
I pulled out the factory deck and wired connectors for my phone to a harness from eBay. Then I hot glued the connectors into the coin tray, which perfectly fits my phone. So now it charges and plays music through the speakers. Yay.
NSX parts
Update: now with brake rotors and air deflectors for the front brakes.
Everything is ready except the timing belt, which is coming from Japan.
HID headlights
I just installed the High-Intensity Discharge bulbs and ballasts that I got for the NSX. Now it has modern headlights (low beam only). The camera was set to manual-exposure mode, so the brightness differences are accurate.
Before:
After driver side:
After:
