Dude, where's my turn?

We had a slight visibility issue at Pocono East this past Saturday.

CG, Stee and I were there to get in a last little bit of practice before our upcoming trip. You'd think we were in the Westphalian forests...but no, Pennsylvania in May! I was actually hoping for rain but instead we just spent most of the day inside a cloud.

Still, it eventually cleared up enough that you could see the turns and we got some runs in. I had a blast running the MCoupe on street tires in the first session. Pocono East is low speed and twisty, a great place for some douchy sideways action. The MCoupe with my stiff suspension and skinny tires is pretty silly stuff: no front end grip and come to think of it not much rear grip either... weeee.

Later I did put proper rubber on, the video below is my best lap. The Boxster in front is Stee's "Axis Plan A", with the 3.4 carrera engine. Once all issues are sorted, that car is going to be f.great! CG is driving it in the video and as you can tell towards the end, the car is a proper Axis of Oversteer car!

You can download my Traqmate telemetry file HERE

Axis Brilliant Plan A...in action from Axis on Vimeo.

Wear and Tear Pt.II

We looked at my cracked wheel recently now lets play video mechanic and diagnose the nasty noise coming from Stee's rear end.....ah...I mean Stee's Boxster rear end on right turns. Feel free to share your theories and we will have the answer tomorrow.


Crunch on the Bumps from Axis on Vimeo.

Spec Boxster taking shape.

First pictures of Stee's Spec boxster with the cage in.

The most amazing part is that he actually got Kalani Gohara to use a digital camera and a computer!

Never underestimate the power of persistence and threats!

In case you are wondering...

...why it is that we have not posted much Axis generated material lately. Well, here's the thing, when you drive street cars at the track often....they break, and at the moment most of our cars are just that, busted!

The Mcoupe has a bad clutch and in need of some buffing, the Spec Boxster has a bad cam position sensor, the M3 and Exige S have some overheating issues... think the Spec e30 is also getting some work done. As fas as I know the EVO and the 997 are the only cars that is running properly at the moment and that's probably only because they are not used as often! Of course we probably all need newbrake pads and tires...

No worries we are working on the "fleet" and we'll be back in action ASAP!.

Watkins Glen NASCAR garage, 12 May 2007 by badbadM.





Read about Spec Boxsters here.

First round of the American HPDE championship

The usual group of track-tards ran the hotly contested first round of the NA-HPDE Championship at Pocono East on Cinco de Mayo 2007.
An international group was vying for the top prize: India, Venezuela Italy Colombia and the USA all after that most elusive of prizes, a good time....ok and bragging rights.

We'll post Traqmate data files and individual videos later, but suffice it to say that the GT3 Rad eS was unbeatable.
OK, we got to kick Rad's ass when analyzing the data we found he left at least 1 second on the table by being too lazy to downshift, but there was no denying the 3000lbs 400hp car with giant tires. Rad had a 1:11.3, AC a 1:12.0 and CG 1:12.2.
Stee in the Spexster for the first time ever almost got to 1:14 and Adil... he is still in transcendental meditation mode and has not yet shared his data!

The Data analysis is going to be interesting, each one of us was faster in a different section, even Stee with a slower lap time had the fastest apex speed of all in one fast turn showing the handling potential of the Spoxster.













Below is a VERY LARGE Cinerama extravaganza: from left to right, in CG's 997s, from the rear bumper of AC's MCoupe and finally inside with AC, the sound is only from the MCoupe. CG and I had fun for a few laps until I left the braking too late and decided to do the smart thing rather than risk eating hay bales and armco for lunch.

As I said large but I think well worth the wait. On a Mac it will stream, on PC I'm not sure. Click on the window to see it online or the link below to save on you computer.


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The SteeXster!

There it is, the Stee takes his first step towards East Coast domination of Spec Boxster!
It will be great to follow the transformation of this car from hairdresser to a 2:12 @ the Glen beast.... (grin).

Coming soon to the Axis....

While we have been trying to bring you some tasty clips from outside sources it is important to remind our readers that the core of this blog will continue to be our own experience as track and racing enthusiasts and the new season will see some very exciting changes and improvements for the Axis of Oversteer:

In a couple of weeks, BadBadM's "LaBomba" will make it's Spec e30 debut at VIR.



AC's BMW M Coupe just got a new differential which will add about 10% effective torque to the wheels. We look forward to doing track time comparisons using our TRAQMATE data logging system.



CG and Adil will take delivery of their Lotus Exige S sometime in march.



and finally, Stee might just go build a Spec Boxster racer. This is a new spec series which is extremely interesting from both dynamic and financial points of view. We will be discussing Spec Boxster at length in the future.



So please bookmark our site and check in, we will always have something interesting!