PixelHarmony

I'll be autocrossing today, hopefully! My friends went yesterday to learn and do some trial runs. Today we'll be doing runs all day and I'm trying to mooch my way into getting some practical autoxing experience.

Currently my car is bone stock, save intake and shifter. So I think it'll be interesting to do some runs and try some again this summer after I do some massive suspension mods.

xizor

your tires will die a quick death, which might be a good thing or a bad thing. get tires above all else for autoxing.

JeffTSX

Wow..you're going to use those stock tires for autocrossing? Good luck on gripping but like xizor said, it might be a good or bad thing that you melt those tires away.

xizor

for reference, my stocks were nearly bald after 5000 miles of very hard spirited mountain driving and some autocrossing. it came from understeering so much, it just burned off the front tires. but good ridance

PixelHarmony

Okay so I'm back, and I must say for the first time auto crossing, it was definately a good experience. All in all they said I did a really good job autocrossing. I think all my pressures were messed up, but I ran a 70 second lap at first then shaved it down to 60.28 for my last lap. I think my car was the most underpowered out there, save a 84 escort and a civic hatch with just an intake. But I still did better than a few evo's, wrx's, boxters, and the elise (yeah he was a horrible driver, or too scared to push his car) I'll post up pictures from the event later.

I can see how autocrossing will eat up your tires, are our tires all seasons or street?

xizor

All-seasons (or really no-seasons). IMO if you want to autox, invest in a new set of wheels and good sticky summer tires and keep the oems for winter.