O Man, I'm In Trouble Now !

[John Fusco]

First PCA Car Control Clinic.
FUN!!!!
Even a broken accelerator rod and a 1 1/2 ride home with it tied together with scrounged zip ties and small piece of wire couldn't take the smile off my face (for a week)
Surprised that it takes more than I expected to get the back end out, even in the wet.

WOW.

John

[hoffman912]

looks like a blast John! Saw you posted on the 912bbs about the brake kit. Did you get it figured out?

[John Fusco]

It was a blast.
Yes, nice folk over there in the 912 reg. - I am looking for an accelerator rod from a 69 car - the other choice was to cut mine, checking the diff between the new and old master cyl.
I ordered the dual circuit (I am on my way down the slippery slope), Will was real quick to get back to me .
Thanks for the help .

John

[pwd72s]

John...you could have done that all day here, on the 7th...and the water was free!

[Gburner]

Very cool!
What was the exercise on the skid pad?
Throttle steering or pitch and catch?
Was it all skid pad exercises for the entire day?

[HarryD]

John,

Glad you had a blast. Pretty amazing what the car can do if you let it.

Now the next step.... AUTOCROSS to keep those skills up (and have your hat handed to you by a guy in a beater Yugo )

[John Fusco]

Very cool!
What was the exercise on the skid pad?
Throttle steering or pitch and catch?
Was it all skid pad exercises for the entire day?

Yes, and throttle steering that car is about as much fun as I have ever had doing anything. I think I need skinnier tires now - or more POWER !
We also did dry skid, a short autoX course , a small oval/apex exercise and threshold braking - that's where the connection broke.
Great people too, a kid (RJ - thanks) helped tie it up, each working from the opposite sides of the car (no safe jacks available) and he and his father following me part of the way home.

I missed out on the timed autoX but once I fix her, I will def be doing some AutoX and DE's.


John