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My 205/50R15 Falkens weren't up to the challenge of running against R-Compounds at Grissom this weekend. Competition at divisional solo events is never predictable. Seeing that the other drivers had R-compounds I wasn’t expect to even match their times. I was surprised when I received my Sportscar that the winner in my class, Jack Burns and his ...

Car preparation for this event was limited to removing the trailer hitch and cutting the muffler off the car. The latter caused the engine to run quite poorly under 2,000 rpm--a situation that has yet to be corrected. This combined with an obviously failing clutch gave me some apprehension before the event.The apprehension was mostly for naught as ...

The car has been performing excellently. What a strange feeling to hold FTD for a while! No big changes to the coupe's setup. I did an engine flush/Marvel Mystery Oil piston soak/filter and oil change last week. I switched from the Shell Rotella 5W40 to some Mobile 1 10W40. The middle plugs were covered with oil when I pulled them, which is ...

I finally got out to one of these. I had signed up for last year’s Cone Clinic in Peru but wasn’t able to attend. I had some unexpected vacation time, so I took work off Friday and a half-day on Thursday and booked a hotel room for my wife and I.All of my Saturns use oil rapidly, and I had planned to bring a quart of Shell Rotella 5W40 Synthetic ...

I really haven’t done any work on the SC2 for a while. Since there is a lull in the local autocross schedule I looked on the myautoevents website for slightly farther away events. In the past I have run events with the South Bend and Indiana Northwest regions of the SCCA. These are normally smaller events much like our local West Michigan ...

On Sunday, I wake up early, pack myself a small lunch and head down US-131 towards Martin, Michigan. The sky had been clear when I had left but now it keeps getting darker and rain begins falling as I drive through Grand Rapids. A blue 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix passes me driven by Furrin’ Group Speed Chair, Curt Rosentengel. Curt pretty much single ...

My wife and I leave the girls with my parents and head across I-96 towards Detroit. The DTE Energy Music Theater is located in a northern suburb so we actually headed towards Flint from Lansing on I-69 and then get on I-75 south to Clarkston. We get off the highway and stop at a gas station where I use some 2”-wide white duct tape to put on my ...

The 205/50R15 Falken Azenis RT-615s have been sitting in the basement for several months waiting to be mounted to some rims. There are quite a few options for lightweight rims in the stock 15x6” size. I am not currently ready to spend $300 a piece on the 8 lbs SSRs, but I did look at getting some used Miata rims. Those seem to be at least $300 ...

The SC2 felt much improved with just the minimal maintenance I had l already performed on it. I was actually surprised about how quiet the car was. Maybe it is just too much time driving around the noisy GSi. The SC2 really seemed to remind me most of my 1989 Lincoln Continental—more luxury car than anything else.I went ahead and ordered a set of ...

So, I picked up this red SC2 advertised on Craigslist. Surprisingly the car had almost no rust anywhere on it. Evidently it had spent most of its life some place other than West Michigan. It had just come back from Germany of all places.First thing I did after getting it home was set the front toe. That instantly improved driving feel. I also ...