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[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by Bluevitz-rs

Sweeeet!! Sounds like 4th gear could have been a hair longer though but close gears are so much better.

No, 5th needs to be shorter, its not 1-1.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Heading up to Buttonwillow this weekend for the final Double National road race of the season before the Runoffs. Looks like a good H Prod field, with five cars. Unfortunately Jamie could not make it, so the 2012 Yaris will sit this one out.

http://www.calclub.com/html/html2/ar...2-Schedule.pdf

[fnkngrv]

Best of luck...I have the last LSR this weekend and am hoping to break the record that I set in July.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Well the race on Saturday did not go to plan, six laps into the race after stating on the pole I had half a lap on the rest of H Prod... Then a flat tire. DNF.



Sunday started first again, and cruised around just fast enough to win the race.

Being the last class of the day there was a lot of junk on the track, so easy to pick up something a kill a tire.

[cali yaris]

Looks like you were ready to drag race instead....at least it was something out of your control.

[justjesus]

OUCH!
man, that really sucks!!!

[justjesus]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

Unfortunately Jamie could not make it, so the 2012 Yaris will sit this one out.

http://www.calclub.com/html/html2/ar...2-Schedule.pdf

Maybe I will work on my competition license, so if you ever need a back up driver....hehehehe

[Jason@SportsCar]

In less than a week our cars ship to the Runoffs... So this is the perfect day to order a new final drive gear set, six new wheels, and 18 more tires. I think its going to be a bit of a thrash come the weekend.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Here are a the opening laps from Sundays race (from the 2nd place finisher). I was sleeping at the start, expected them to wave the green much later down the strait, so I was not paying attention and in the wrong gear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53SGe...ature=youtu.be

[ilikerice]

entertaining to watch his rear view mirror. Congrats

[Jason@SportsCar]

Following last weekends race we decided to make a few changes to the 99 car... While overall we have been extremely happy with it this year - the close-ratio gear set Micro Image found is awesome, and the Loyning's head with Jun cams is a big leap over our previous setup - but I just could not match the corner speed of the new 2012 car.

So calls were made, parts were ordered, and we will now be running a setup much closer to the one on the 2012. The 13" wheels are coming off, and we will move up to the taller and wider 15" Hoosier slick. To offset the new tires bigger circumference the trans had to come out and the the stock final drive was replaced with the xB gear set. Then the ride height goes down, and spring rates go up.

We think this is a step in the right direction, but its to late to turn back now. I sure hope this is the last trans I pull this year.

I cant thank the guys at Cage Toyota (final drive set), Kaaz (gear swap), Eibach (springs), Hoosier (tires) and the Tire Rack (wheels) enough. I thought it would be impossible to do this in the short amount of time we had, but they all got me the stuff I needed in short order.

[Bluevitz-rs]

Can't go wrong with rpf1's

[Jason@SportsCar]

Re-geared trans is in. New springs, ride height and alignment set. New wheels and tires on. Just needs a bath and then ready for the Runoffs at Road America.

[xnamerxx]

Car looks fantastic, I bet it runs better than it looks

[justjesus]

That wheel/tire combo and new ride height is just perfect

[Jason@SportsCar]

Great shot from the Buttonwillow race.

[b20vteg]

Originally Posted by Jason@SportsCar

Great shot from the Buttonwillow race.

indeed

[Jason@SportsCar]

Time for some off season updates...

Less than thrilled with the other options we have used in the past, we got Porterfield to cut down a set of Hawk DTC-60 pads from a different application to fit the Yaris. So looking forward to trying these out at the Auto Club Speedway U.S. Majors Double National in a few weeks.



Also time for a steering wheel upgrade. The NRG unit is inexpensive, and works great, but with no power steering (and wide slicks, a diff and power) it is hard to grip the leather wheel for 40mins. Bought myself a late xmas present, a suede OMP wheel.

Also picked up a Longacre mirror. I don't really need the extra field of vision, but we found a cool side effect using this type of mirror... If you have your video camera mounted in the car the camera can pick up nearly everything going on behind you - picture in picture.