It was the long track config, i really enjoyed it! So many beautifully designed corners, so much variety. Short/tight/narrow/long everything including a few straights.
I was only able to hit 165km/hr on the backstraight lol the ka loses power at higher revs so that sucked. Even coming from the podium straight into the first corner I had to shift just right to get to about 150-160km/hr before the second corner… I would enter at about 140-150 but I felt a lil worried the car would understeer (no rear swaybar) or oversteer… so I’d brake lightly and then mash full throttle… but if i didnt shift right i’d end up with only about 140km/hr on that straight. The KA felt best shifted at 5500rpm. Same with the long straight away. I managed to hit 165km/hr on there IF I shifted JUST RIGHT… otherwise i could end up with 145-150km/hr if i shifted at like 7k rpm. Lame.
Favorite corner? Hard to say… I just liked the whole track. I like the first set of corners from the straight away. I like the ones in the middle where you go through a few sections then mash on full throttle before you have to lightly slowdown, continue then go into the slight set of tight corners… then it gets a lil boring before the long straight away… then the long straight away fast corner is FUN, going through that section (i went off once here lol)… going through there as fast as possible was mad fun then comes the tight corner where I had to downshift to 2nd an understeered LOL… before the straight away. The middle of the track has tons of curvy stuff that I really enjoyed! Hard to put in words it’s all in the head.
I was understeering alot… as I have no rear swaybar at the moment (grip trick/test). The car was rolling alot even though I have 10.7kg/mm front and 8kg/mm rear springrates… so I’m hoping to put the rear swaybar and see how that affects things. I run -3 front and -1.8 rear camber… so i may increase both…
I’ll be getting a set of nt01s in two-three weeks… so I’m anxious for that as well…
On the higher speed corners where I was entering at like 140km/hr I would like to install the gtc-200 wing i got and see how that helps… i wish i had a gtc-300 but meh… $$$. And the car turns in great when I shift the weight to the front by braking lol… so I imagine a front splitter would make the car turn in alot better and probably even brake better… the car is relatively light…
Car definitely needs more power… i have yet to dyno my ka with boltons but its anoying when it runs out of steam at top end. I am planning to get nistune eventually and maybe some different cams…
I fell off track three times as i went in a lil too fast and tires needed a break as did i.
First time I fell off was in the middle somewhere I forget exactly now as I was a bit tired and tires needed a cool down lol… not racing tire… and well I was still learning this track. Second time I fell off at the straight away first high speed corner… tires were running hot… trail braked a lil too much and out went the back lol… third time i fell off from the mid section high speed sweeper before the sharp right turn and other set of turns… this was brutal… i was getting comfortable and i was pushing it a bit here n there i went in a lil too fast… locked up the fronts and off to some sweet grass hoping i went. I killed my cold air intake elbow and air filter lol… I went back on track and retired for the day 
The mistakes I made, make me learn from them, both driving wise and car adjustment wise.
I was doing OKAY. On mosport ddt even with a broken RUCA i was chasing down every single car and forcing them to let me go lol… with shanonville… I was keeping up with all the cars and passing a few but really required more driver learning, better lines as opposed to just aggression and some fine tuning on the parts i mentioned… and wish i had more power haha…
Meh end rant… it was tons of fun. I just need to get a 3" filter now… elbow is still fine just a lil bent which is nothing a hammer can’t fix.
I noticed my front left is also more negatively cambered so i probably bent an lca or something along those lines, i hope its nothing major. Hopefully I’ll have it up on the hoist today. Sucks I went off roading :-/ But hey we learn from our mistakes, all good experiences.
I found mosport ddt far more easy than shanonville. It was all low speed tight corners for the most part… while shanonville had alot of higher speed and tighter variety of corners. Just my opinion and how i felt.
I had two hours of video footage… but the stupid mini-dv tape from wallmart was deffective so no more footage
Oh well.
