After a succesfull first season with the Accord and getting our team on track the focus has now shifted to getting the car the rest of the way race worthy! There were definitely some improvements made during the first season of getting o…
The EBC SR series brake pads are a a relatively new brake pad to the "race" scene as of 2022 or so. When I first heard about these, they weren't really discussed in many articles and barely discussed even by EBC in press releases. The fe…
Coming into this track day I had a bit of a gap driving, and had actually been driving our Lemons Accord more. Fortunately, I was able to wrap up a few last minute modifications to get the car ready to go for the event. Weight Reduction …
So a lot happened since the last track day. Specifically, we unloaded the car and noticed that the steering pump sounded horrible, and we also needed to manage some really high trans temperatures we were seeing. While our small trans coo…
Leading up To The Event Coming fresh off the tail of the previous OnGrid time attack weekend, I had some work to do both to my car and my kit. On the Corvette, my brake booster had failed so that required swapping out. I had hoped for a …
Leading up to the Time Attack Event Leading up to the event I had a few ideas I wanted to tackle in the hopes of producing some additional power. Specifically, I'd purchased some Kooks 1-7/8" long tube headers I wanted to put on the car,…
So I don't talk much about what I do professionally for work on this blog, but in that field, "Open Source" is a big deal. I love Open Source as well, since everybody shares what they've built, and everyone improves because of it. Produc…
Fresh off the back of the last set of track events, the Accord came out to the next event with very little changes. I had put the car up on Quijaks trying to find the source of the leak/oil contamination that cropped up at the last event…
Track Day 3 -- The Ridge W/ Track Night in America So as part of our plan to get everybody at least some track familiarity, I found Orion to be free for a Track Night in America event at The Ridge. For this event though, both myself and …
So the 36th track day for this car was at Portland International Raceway with Cascade Sports Car club. I was instructing and driving, so I covered a lot of ground, but here's in general how it went! Upgrades / Repairs Made Prior to the E…
