Final two events of the year the past two weekends, with NNJR SCCA at MetLife stadium. I took top raw time (fastest overall!) and 5th in PAX both weekends. Big car changes between both weekends and HUGE car changes since the last Philly event, setup philosophy wise. I'm making great progress with the new style valving and the way it's made the car a lot more stable. I've had to loosen the car up a lot steady state, including reinstalling the rear swaybar.
On the 9th I had a friend, Nick Babin, codrive. He recently sold his ND Miata and picked up an RX-8 to copy Amy's build and then go wild from there with aero and such. He needed a ride as he hasn't autocrossed regularly in years. My car is faster than everything he's ever driven at autocross and the course was wildly busy so it took him longer than he'd have liked to get up to speed and never put together a solid run.
Nick's fastest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-q-lxi5-bo
My fastest run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ1xmzYvCxk
Realigned the car during the week, tweaking things a bit
Then on the 16th I hit up the final event of the year. Mark Labbancz, an NNJR autocross chair who also recently sold his ND Miata needed a codrive. Funny how that works out, haha. He ended up getting pretty close to me on pace, but neither of us put together a run we were really all that happy with.
Mark's fastest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgFYe1eEvo
My fastest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYC7QA76VQ
and some pics from the past two weekends:
