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UMI Performance's King of the Mountain was this past weekend. I went up with my nationals codriver, Ryan. We were laughing and having a great time the entire event. It helps doing "well" with my knife to a gun fight, but truly I did not have a negative experience and the entire time we were having fun and socializing.
Stuff like the parade laps obviously can't really happen at an SCCA event but the entire event was just "fun" and there's no "forced fun" happening. I met a ton of new people and put faces to names I've known for a long time and that's really fun. I met someone I've only known from Gridlife iRacers and their first words to me were "wow, you're a lot taller than I expected" and Ryan was like "man is this a tinder date?!?" I felt *really* lucky to have the car just flat out work right from the jump. From my baseline all we did was loosen it up a smidgen (which I had kind of expected based on recent local testing) and tried other more aggressive things that we just put back to normal. That really meant I could attack from the jump and drive confidently. I'm mildly annoyed with myself for coning away 2nd in Late Model during qualifying but thrilled with the pace. Shootout was a freaking blast, I really wish I got to run that course more. I made a mistake on my "round of 6" and blew ~4 tenths or so but wouldn't have been enough for JV, Sam, or Ian, but still stoked to finish 4th! My Friday fastest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdETHnX7U0s My Saturday fastest (dirty, camera card issues on fast clean run, but whatever. It was just a hair slower everywhere and the cones I hit were "you dumbass why did you do that?"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yni7U6HKiKg and my fastest Shootout run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2jv0Va8ivw Here's the entire UMI stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLVg4lVeD6M and some pics: https://i.postimg.cc/gkLdM4QW/538044...05088503-n.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gk3czNDK/IMG-5757.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/59hNWZw0/IMG-6773.jpg |
How has heat management been with the SC during events?
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Competed in the Philly region SCCA Al Holbert Memorial this past weekend. Car was untouched from KOTM other than swapping tires to my street tires to drive to work on the in between. I had a guest codriver, DJ Alessandrini, who I always end up competing with in iRacing and he is fresh off of winning an SCCA National Championship in D Street at Solo Nationals. He's no slouch! We had a great time comparing data and working on testing some setup stuff and working on driving stuff as well. I ended up narrowly taking the win both days, solid result from both of us though!
https://i.postimg.cc/prF7r02z/PXL-20...3328578-MP.jpg My 2nd fastest from day 1 (camera wasn't charging and it died for my fastest run, oops): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnJ2AsTGvDA DJ's fastest from day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekC7ZEhmuOY My fastest clean run from day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBuSTynDu_w DJ's fastest clean run from day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt94B4XYXvU and our dirty runs where I proceeded to cone away 2nd in PAX): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPob9cQYXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkbBXRbQrGU A couple of videos of outside, I love how the car sounds and you can see how it just floats over the big bumps on this site! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjhjq3kYsCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaNi_YV_qg |
I've been working on some aero improvements recently. I added some splitter tunnels/diffusers and built a rear wing to get more adjustment and balance out the front aero. I'm running a really low angle of attack on the wing for now until I can do some testing.
https://i.postimg.cc/SRyDfh3Q/PXL-20...-013236822.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/8zq4nWxS/PXL-20...-193816725.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C5PHCfjy/PXL-20...-193904073.jpg The wing is also 3D printed, two aluminum spars, and some CF sheet for end plates. https://i.postimg.cc/xCZ3XL5F/PXL-20...1932094-MP.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/8kqx3vG9/PXL-20...-163346218.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/kXKLd5Mz/PXL-20...-221715173.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/hPTNqG4y/PXL-20...-224601943.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/CLk9VKLy/PXL-20...-224652315.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/DwhHfK8r/PXL-20...6311-NIGHT.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/BnCyXwF0/PXL-20...-125725945.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/tgCcPtdX/PXL-20...3057628-MP.jpg |
Serious hardware! Love the look too
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Revalved my rear shocks yesterday. Fun making small changes that affect ride quality and performance :)
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Finally got to do an autocross on Sunday. Since last event I've revalved the rear shocks a few times to dial in ride quality and added a bunch more downforce with splitter tunnels designed in part with a friend of mine that used to do aero for the Pratt & Miller Corvette racing team and then I designed and built a rear wing.
The car is freaking awesome :) Here's my fastest clean run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYD7I1u8vZo and my fastest dirty run... where I tagged the very last cone on course with my rear mud flap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJI-HEricfE |
daaaang shock dyno is a huge tooling upgrade!! My buddy bought one to start revalving E30 Billys since they're horrible and shortly after bilstein started crimping their inserts so they weren't rebuildable.
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Wow! Huge upgrade for your garage and project. Damn dude that is awesome ��
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My wife and I went with our friend Ryan to a Refrigerator Bowl trackcross event at Summit Point. It rained a lot and we had the wrong tires on the cars. We had fun but it was very silly, haha.
https://i.postimg.cc/3w1LGdJC/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/s2gLwpL0/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/7ZxtZ3qx/image.png Here's video from the two sessions we did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFx1BK1Z0hg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVr1SFEC0MY |
First autocross of the year was on Saturday at NNJR SCCA!
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Went to the WDCR SCCA Test and Tune event. I was testing the new Bridgestone RE-71RZ and I really liked them. Pretty good wear and performance characteristics.
Neglected to take any real pics, so enjoy this one from the hotel, haha. https://i.postimg.cc/hPr2LTF7/image.png Tire wear looks pretty good! This is a front: https://i.postimg.cc/mgky7nNm/image.png and a rear: https://i.postimg.cc/KzS7S8Sv/image.png My fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqLoqY-0OH4 Amy's fastest run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1r01TVxmFg |
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A few weeks ago I swapped to 550/800 lb/in springs (up from 450/700 lb/in) and then I did autocross that weekend. Broke an axle on my only dry run on Saturday but was fastest time of the day other than a kart on Sunday.
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This past weekend was the 2026 Tire Rack SCCA Finger Lakes National Tour. I was selected to design the courses for the event which was a fun experience! We had four drivers running my car in two different classes. I ended up winning XA!
https://i.postimg.cc/Kj861GZV/image.png Here are my fastest runs from the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6iDwES3-ao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPSKYqm6Hg0 |
I got invited to the 2026 UMI Performance King of the Mountain event this past weekend and had an absolutely fantastic time! It's one of my favorite events of the year because it's pretty relaxed, TONS of cool cars, and a lot of fantastic people. The venue is pretty rad too, with fun courses and unique challenges.
After last year's event I've made some changes to my car, a bit more aero, a bit more tire, and a bit more refined suspension setup. I've gotta work on power for next year! Friday went really well for me and I was able to pull off the top spot in my class, Late Model, over Denis Bucher and Dave Schotz. After the day was over I noticed my stock seat was broken and needed some repairs, thankfully we were able to gather a few folks up and get a welder and tools and I was able to fix the seat on site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCrIeX11r6s Saturday also went pretty well and I was able to put together another solid qualifying run and finished 2nd in Late Model for the weekend behind Denis and ahead of Dave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_HbL44IJs Because of the forecasted storms, the shootout was pushed up from the evening to the afternoon. I was sitting pretty after qualifying, but needed to execute on great runs and get some lucky breaks as power became ever more relevant. I ended up getting through the first round of the shootout on pace, but the second round I was only third fastest. However, Denis hit a cone and dropped behind me so I was into the semi-finals against Dave! Dave laid down a flying first run and I knew I really needed to push. Push I did, and ended up slightly overshooting a corner and tagged a cone, taking me out of the fight. That resulted in me earning second place in class and walking home with a $1000 check! The finals ended up being heavily weather affected, but Shawn Krebsbach was on a tear again anyway and pulled off his third overall win! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fqVVs70_U https://i.postimg.cc/gjFRxFKr/image.png https://i.postimg.cc/CxPqjfNK/image.png |
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