One thing the C5 Corvette LS engine has in spades is blow-by. Now this may seem like a negative, but for the boost happy folks, this adds a lot of forgiveness, and in general these engines last a very long time and take a beating so you can't fault the engineers too much. However, pull off any LS1 or LS6 intake manifold and see just how much oil leaks out of it!

While I may have settled in the PNW, it's not my favorite region in the world.

October to December or so are throw away months the vast majority of years. The days get short, cold and generally quite rainy. All track operations pretty much cease, it becomes too wet to mountain bike, but generally not cold enough to snow and bring snowboarding to the mountains. I whitewater kayak as well, but the early season river selection is fickle as without snow pack to stabilize the river levels they often spike aggresively and then fall away just as fast.

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Leading up to the Event

So this event appears to lilkely be the last event of 2025 for me. Not too shabby of a season with a bunch of Time Attack wins combined with a few class and track records. I definitely have made if further than I ever expected to, and so a nice unwinding track day at ORP with an open format seemed right up my alley.

I'll get back to a writeup for this event when I can, but I didn't even get to take a single picture! I was so busy focusing on making sure my wife had fun with her first solo track event that I just lost myself in that.

Fresh off the win from the previous weekends Time Attack event with OnGrid, I had to swap the whole car back to being ready for SCCA Max2 class rules.