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After months of lurking on other autox threads I'm finally at a happy place with my HS setup which includes Koni yellows (full stiff rear, almost full soft front), 16" Rota Slipstreams w/ 205/45/16 RE-71R and even toe alignment. Last weekend we had two events in Farmington, NM and I have no complaints. I ran pressures of 38psi front and 42psi rear.
At the previous event last month, a regular we'll call Bob showed up in a new-to-him Fiesta that he'd already set up with konis, stones, muffler, and front sway bar. He won the Street 2 combined class and scored 4th overall PAX on one of the days. We swapped cars for one run and I put down my best time of the day and was inspired to try something similar.
It really payed off on Saturday. I took the lead early but Bob put a better run down. With only two runs to go I got him by a whole half second. That run gave me the Street 2 win and got me 2nd overall PAX. This was my first event coming from being a novice, so it was a big deal for me to do this well. To get 2nd PAX out of 70 something cars is unreal.
I couldn't quite find my line on Sunday. I ended up in the middle of the Street 2 pack and 10th overall. I'm very happy with the weekend. I took two days of Evo autox school a couple weeks ago. That and the tires and shocks gave me an edge on Saturday. Looking forward to another one of those days.
Edit: Bob and I were giving each other bad advice when it got close on Saturday. I told him I read on the forums that 20 psi all around was the magic number. He offered to let the air out of my tires.
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