Carpe Cursus - Seize the Race Track (c): Now it's officially underway! GAME ON!

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Now it's officially underway! GAME ON!

OH YEAH!
The Hot Bits Echo finally earns it's name... The Hot Bits double adjustable suspension came in!

Double adjustable fronts and rears... with camber plates up front of the Mac Strut setup...

For now, spring rates will remain a mystery... and no doubt they will get changed a few times as I test the balance and other critical attributes of the car.

Really nice quality stuff... they've been tested in rally conditions... so you know they're high quality. See HotBits.ca for some pics and more info.

Notice the remote canister for added damper travel as well as cooling - quite trick indeed.

-ive camber baby... every racer's best friend... let alone that of a Mac Strut car!

More comments and details to follow once they're installed... should happen this week... as I'm pumped... and need to determine optimal wheels that will fit with these parts installed ASAP.

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Favorite racing quotes:

- "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough" - Mario Andretti
- Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car, oversteer is when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
- Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you.
- Brundle - Brazil 2003 "I was haveing dinner with Kimi last night, and he is very calm, well apart from when they showed the fire truck pouring more water onto the track on the TV"
- "Attends-moi, ce ne sera pas long." - "Wait for me, I wont be long" - Gilles Villeneuve - to his wife before every race.
- "I'm not scared of driving fast in GP circuits...But I'm scared of driving my car on public roads and be overtook by idiots who think they're Fangio" - Juan Manuel Fangio.
- Senna - after Roland Ratzenberger's crash the day before Senna's untimely demise.. after he composed himself after balling about it and being told that perhaps he should walk away and not race again..."...there are certain things over which we have no control. I cannot quit, I have to go on."
- "...and HERE COMES DAMON HILL IN THE WILLIAMS!!!!.....this car is absolutely unique!....except for the one behind it....which is exactly the same..."
- Murray Walker: "There is a firey glow comeing from the back of Prost's Ferrari" - James Hunt: "No Murray that is the rear safty light."
- DC at Spain, 2003, about Alonso "Well, he borrowed Nigel Mansell's eyebrows, that's why he must be so quick"
- "Mansell's wife is very unattractive" - Nélson Piquet
- "It is head and not the foot that is instrumental in any one driver's achievement.Few consider that" - Peter Sauber
- "Spa is a good race I would have enjoyed to be in myself. Pure skill. I would like to be racing now. It is the safest and best paid time to be racing . If I lived in America I could sue my mother for having me too early- for the loss of income!" - Nikki Lauda at the end of '97 season
- It's never too late to have a happy childhood
- Less brake, more gas!
- Don't run out of ideas, traction and real estate at the same time
- Definition of snap oversteer: Unexpected rotation at the point of deminishing talent
- Racing makes a heroin addiction look like a faint desire for something salty