Autocross Fort Devens, MA USA

[KWM338R]

OK gents, I've been flying the Dolly flag at the autocross with the Boston BMW club. <br>
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The Day started off crappy, I had put replacement dizzy in that I got from Mart (cheers mate) on friday night but had not had chance to run the car until setting off at 6am on sunday. Got a few mile from home and te car started missfiring. stopped and had a look at it and found nothing wrong. drove another few miles and still missfired and would barely pull up the hills. Had a problem starting it a few days earlier and popped off the cap and put it back on making no changes and it fired up. OK i thought I'll change the cap so stopped again and made the change. No difference. pushed on at 50mph as it ran ok'ish on the flat at this speed. stopped again after a while and popped the cap off and noticed the sensor for the pertronix/aldon ignitor was touching the rotor. made a few adjustments to get some clearence and set off again. it ran a bit better but was still far from right. Anyway arrived at the event with minutes to spare after waking up a few small towns with some serious backfires. Did drivers meeting and walked the course then rushed back over to the car to doo some more fiddling. A bit more methodical troubleshooting pinpointed the pertronix unit as the problem so popped in some points and the old bird fired right up. set the timing, stuck on me lid and hit the track. car was missing at high rpm so i feel i could have gone faster, but it seems I didn't need to! Hopefully I'll get a few more events in before the end of the season.Look out for me in class I somewhere down the page.<br>
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The Pax time is a weighted time using SCCA clasification.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Mark<br>
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PS here's a vid of one of the runs from last time out, I wasn't there and i don't know who the driver is but it gives you an idea of what kind of event it is.<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.euromelee.com/across05.wmv" target="top">www.euromelee.com/across05.wmv</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->

<p>1979 Dolomite Sprint<br>
1972 TR6 (now breaking for spares to fund the Dolly)<br>
1993 Mazda Protege ($250 Winter Hack)<br>
2000 Mazda MPV (For Sale)<br>
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</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p206.ezboard.com/bthetriumphdolo ... KWM338R</A> at: 26/6/06 8:55 pm<br></i>

[Carsreunited]

Well done mate. I bet that raised a few eyebrows! As a matter of interest, how much does it cost to enter? I assume you get two runs.<br>
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[KWM338R]

Cheers Scott, its $30 per event. we had 8 runs each this time, it depends on how many cars are there. not bad value really.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Mark

<p>1979 Dolomite Sprint<br>
1972 TR6 (now breaking for spares to fund the Dolly)<br>
1993 Mazda Protege ($250 Winter Hack)<br>
2000 Mazda MPV (For Sale)<br>
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[Carsreunited]

Probably the best value motorsport there is. That's excellent value.<br>
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[2F45T4U]

Wow! I wanna do it!<br>
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It's only going to end up in tears if I keep slaloming traffic cones round here <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END-->

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[MaddMart]

Nice one Mark. That's pretty good VFM, especially compared to the Castle Combe trackdays. Is the dizzy better than the one you had ?

<p>Martin<br>
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[KWM338R]

yes Mart, it's alot better.<br>
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Autocrossing is very good value, the costs are kept down by having all the competitors work the course, ie picking up cones when they get knocked over etc. the only other expense other than petrol is joining an organising club, in my case the BMW club, but thats only $40 per year. This particular event is run on an old airfield , but alot are run in big car parks, preferably not sainsburys on a sunday afternoon<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ! there must be something similar in the UK, if not get organising!<br>
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Cheers<br>
Mark<br>
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<p>1979 Dolomite Sprint<br>
1972 TR6 (now breaking for spares to fund the Dolly)<br>
1993 Mazda Protege ($250 Winter Hack)<br>
2000 Mazda MPV (For Sale)<br>
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[mbellinger]

Mark,<br>
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Agree with you about Autocross - fantastic fun and good value and every one "mucks in", which gives a nice atmosphere.<br>
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When I did my two historic Monte Carlo rallies, the organisers ran an autocross at Dover Harbour at 1 am whilst we all waited for the boat. It formed one of the "special stage tests".<br>
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All the crews were knackered, having driven from Edinburgh through day and evening in appalling snow (it was mid-Jan and about minus 6 celsius).<br>
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It was great fun and certainly woke everybody up a bit and provided great conversation on the ferry. The (mostly) Dutch truckers trying to get some kip on the quay did not appreciate it too much though!

<p>Martin<br>
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1968 Triumph 1300FWD<br>
1975 Triumph 1500TC Auto<br>
1989 Honda Civic 1300 Auto<br>
2006 Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X Auto<br>
2002 Renault Scenic<br>
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