STF posts

[ilikerice]

I don't know andres... The r-comp pixie lady must have sprinkled her dust on these instead of the R1R tires on accedent. I am tempted to get these as well. $65 a tire is pretty damn cheap to test.

[xnamerxx]

No one in STF at SD was running the older tires.

The 2 was on Dunlops
The Yaris on Federals
The Mini on Rivals

For that site Federals at least on paper look like the best choice. If I had to pick a tire though, I would say new Toyos would probably be best.

[justjesus]

Originally Posted by xnamerxx

Congrats to Travis and Alvin for the 1-2 finish in STF :)

Congrats indeed.

I was a bit surprised to see Don Green in STF. Co drive with J. Austen, it appears. Don is a pretty decent driver who's had very good results in Stock with the Mini (not sure if it was Austen's or not) over the years.

But cool deal with Travis / Alvin representing the Yaris in STF!

I'm tempted to visit the Pro Solo coming up!!

[justjesus]

Originally Posted by andres3165

Hear people driving those Federals more and more.. why?

Like I like Rice said, they're cheap. I have them on my CRX, and have done some autoX as well as a couple of track days. I like them just fine. For the price, I LOVE them.

Somebody at my skill level (bottom of the STC class) might be better off saving money with these, while improving my skill, before stepping up to the more expensive tires.

The other side of that coin, is to get what I know works, and I already have a benchmark (the other STC guys in my class) and can continue to improve my driving. With the R1Rs, on my Civic, I know my car has alot more than I can give it (my co-drive took 3rd in a Pro-Solo).

[xnamerxx]

Day 1 of the ProSolo is starting very excited to be teaching against some fierce competition.

Bad news though the tckline mini sounds like it has a rod knock I really hope I'm wrong about that.

[ilikerice]

Good job. That blue mini is joe Austin's.

You guys got 8 runs total... lucky

[xnamerxx]

The mini belongs to someone named Christopher Miller. The noise was a bad idler pulley.

[xnamerxx]

Getting ready for my last runs, hope I don't embarrass myself.

[xnamerxx]

Well finished 6th out of 8 with a 1.5s spread between 1 and 7. If I didnt have a two .95s reaction times I would be going to the challenge. With the reaction time taken into account I had the fastest left side time.

[xnamerxx]

[ilikerice]

Awesome, congrats man. Scott got you by fractions. Scott was close on my tail the first day also..

[xnamerxx]

I would have had him if I pulled a .7 reaction time on either side.

Videos of my fast times.

Got the video fixed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZn...ature=youtu.be

[andres3165]

Originally Posted by xnamerxx

Ideally the best car is Yaris sedan.

Its several inches shorter in height so the CG is lower and the frontal area is lower, its 2 inches longer and it weights a few lbs less. You also have the smaller front swaybar so inside spin isn't as much of a problem.

Based on recent results I still think there is a lot to get from the Yaris which in STF prep version my get better power/weight ratio than my Mazda2, enough to compete with the powerful newcomers like the 2.3 Focus and pf course Mazda 3

Do you have documented data on those numbers, like weight and stuff between sedan and hatch ?

Thanks

Andres

[xnamerxx]

Most of the numbers are available online like weight and wheelbase and height etc but I don't have any exact numbers.

Personally I would go with a Scion XD if you could get the weight down to the 2400lb range which I don't know if thats possible. Motor is good for well over 140hp on a Mustang Dyno, and it uses the same chassis as the Yaris with the lower roofline of the sedan, plus is has awesome gearing.

[andres3165]

Thanks, found them, who has the most powerfull STF legal Yaris? How did he achieved it?
Headers, cai , pulleys, tuning?, header back?
I haven't seen dynos higher than 112 hp or so..

Thanks

Andres

[ilikerice]

will need to pick at Travis Sackwar and Alvin Francisco brain and find out whats under that hood of the yaris. I don't know anything about those guys. First I heard about them, but yet, this is my first year actually paying attention to ST national events

[xnamerxx]

Their motor is stock with 120k on it last time I saw.

[ilikerice]

Well then its straight up all driver then.

I know joe austin has everything that can possibly be done to his mini to make it STF legal, including a reflash on his ecu, which if i can recall correctly, it was somewhere in the 140-150 hp range when I talked to him, which was back in March.

So for Travis Sackwar to come only .100 from Joe at the June 13th national event is saying something. Joe can drive, he just has a hard time getting clean runs.

http://sololive.scca.com/STF.html