I'll see Heeter's autox vid, and raise him mine

[Charlie]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks, enjoyed MidOH_7-9.wmv. I see you have quite a few videos, I hope some also show your car from the outside.

You look like you've really mastered your car, you take good smooth lines, the tyres are screeching slightly from being on the limit yet you only make minimal corrections on the steering wheel - sounds like a good recipe for fast lap times. Too bad we live in separate countries and cannot race together.

I counted only 4 gear changes for the whole lap. Looks like your engine has a fair amount torque to pull so nicely through what seem to me to be long gears - have you changed your diff ratio (I used a 4.44 LSD on my Alpina) ?

Anyway, let me download some more videos.

Appreciate it man, I've finally started to get comfortable with the setup on the car, really loving the Turner J-stock setup with the -3.5 degrees of camber up front. Right now, the diff is the stock 3.73 LSD, I'm looking to swap to a 4.10 to let me use 4th more in a few spots. I'm playing around with other "mods" on the car to keep me under the 20 pt limit for the class the car is in right now (TTE).

-Charlie

[Andreas]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks, enjoyed MidOH_7-9.wmv. I see you have quite a few videos, I hope some also show your car from the outside.

You look like you've really mastered your car, you take good smooth lines, the tyres are screeching slightly from being on the limit yet you only make minimal corrections on the steering wheel - sounds like a good recipe for fast lap times. Too bad we live in separate countries and cannot race together.

I counted only 4 gear changes for the whole lap. Looks like your engine has a fair amount torque to pull so nicely through what seem to me to be long gears - have you changed your diff ratio (I used a 4.44 LSD on my Alpina) ?

Anyway, let me download some more videos.

[Charlie]

Charlie, that was a good video. Your car sounds awesome and turns very well. I've done a lot of track events but don't really attend AutoX (never mind there are very few that I know of in South Africa), because they are a bit confusing. Anyone who completes a course like the one on your video so well has my respect. Well done.

What did you do to your intake to achieve that sound, or is it your exhaust ?

The sound is the exhaust, an 8 year old stromung with a rust hole beginning to develop in the midpipe. Creates a nice growl ;)

You can sort of hear it in this vid too:

http://www.charliegrafton.com/videos/MidOH_7-9.wmv

-Charlie

[Charlie]

Nice vid
tight course
but what did you use to mount the camera with?

I've got an ioport camera mount attached to the rollbar.

-Charlie

[Dave]

special front end body work

[Andreas]

Charlie, that was a good video. Your car sounds awesome and turns very well. I've done a lot of track events but don't really attend AutoX (never mind there are very few that I know of in South Africa), because they are a bit confusing. Anyone who completes a course like the one on your video so well has my respect. Well done.

What did you do to your intake to achieve that sound, or is it your exhaust ?

[moatilliatta]

have you ever used your obc and see what average speed you get?

[moatilliatta]

that a very nice video.

[BMW2ner]

Nice vid
tight course
but what did you use to mount the camera with?

[JRKOUPE]

.......its amazing how they wear. Just go to the cords! I just flipped my frts on the rims........I hope to get thru this season but I also found some v710's for 100 / set!...used of course. I found a pro racer who is sponsored by kumho.......so they r barely used.

[Charlie]

fun vid.....

how old/ or how many events on those RA's?

I bought them takeoff from a spec miata guy with zero tread for 15 bucks, looking to run 2 days at Mid Ohio. I've put 7 days at about 4 20 minute sessions per day on them since then, and about 10 autox runs. They still stick, and aren't corded yet.

-Charlie

[JRKOUPE]

Rock hard RA1s and some really slippery pavement. I went in harder earlier, and the car just pushes off.

-Charlie

fun vid.....

how old/ or how many events on those RA's?

[mtechnik]

2nd gear woop woop
really enjoyed ur video

[Charlie]

fun course

youre really smooth but youre not aggressive enough and you could carry more speed in nearly every turn. just my opinion of course.

Rock hard RA1s and some really slippery pavement. I went in harder earlier, and the car just pushes off.

-Charlie

[sticksdaman]

quick hands