My first time out Rallycrossing. Video for now more to come later.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Joys of working on an XD
About a week ago I dug around on-line for a few hours until I found a new intake for my XD. Needless to say I was stoked to swap out the stock air box. I placed my order and not so patently tracked its shipment to my front door.
When I got home last night I was excited to find a K&N box sitting in my front room. I went out cleaned space in the garage, got some music going and set to work. Started pulling out the old air box and snapping pictures along the way to be able to document my progress. Then suddenly every thing came to halt.
The directions called for me to remove the Mass Air Flow(MAF) sensor housing from the air box and hook it up inline with the new intake. I grabbed my air box and was stumped. Apparently in 2013 Scion decided to make the air box and MAF sensor housing all one solid piece. So now I'm in the hunt all over again. Only now I'm looking for an air box from a pre-2013 XD.
The joys of working on a Scion XD.
When I got home last night I was excited to find a K&N box sitting in my front room. I went out cleaned space in the garage, got some music going and set to work. Started pulling out the old air box and snapping pictures along the way to be able to document my progress. Then suddenly every thing came to halt.
The directions called for me to remove the Mass Air Flow(MAF) sensor housing from the air box and hook it up inline with the new intake. I grabbed my air box and was stumped. Apparently in 2013 Scion decided to make the air box and MAF sensor housing all one solid piece. So now I'm in the hunt all over again. Only now I'm looking for an air box from a pre-2013 XD.
The joys of working on a Scion XD.
Monday, October 13, 2014
Getting started
This is my attempt at keeping track of my adventure into car racing. For me racing has almost always been around in one form or another, everything from NASCAR to dirt ovals. I always thought it would be awesome to have a car of my own to run but the cost of getting involved has always kept me away.
A few years ago I saw Rally Cross for the first time. The X-games introduced it as one of their new events and it was amazing. Racers went from dirt to tarmac off jumps slid around crazy corners and basically just tore it up. When it was on the X games I'd watch but that was about the extent of my interest at that time.
Fast forward a few years and I discovered Rally Cross is now its own series here in the US, the Red Bull Global Rally Cross(The GRC). Basically it took what I had seen on the X games and turned it into a series of races held on their own through out the US. I started watching what ever I could find on line and would just wait for the next event to become available on youtube or anywhere else I could find it.
Then I started to search for more to do with The GRC. I quickly realized that there were groups of people that did their own versions of what I was seeing on TV and online. Granted it was all on dirt there were no jump and instead of walls there were cones, but essentially it was the same thing. Better yet you could run almost any car you could get your hands on with almost no modifications. This meant I might be able to afford to get involved. So I did what any sane person would do signed me and my Scion XD up for the next Rally Cross event in Utah. Now we just sit back and enjoy rally videos until race day.
A few years ago I saw Rally Cross for the first time. The X-games introduced it as one of their new events and it was amazing. Racers went from dirt to tarmac off jumps slid around crazy corners and basically just tore it up. When it was on the X games I'd watch but that was about the extent of my interest at that time.
Fast forward a few years and I discovered Rally Cross is now its own series here in the US, the Red Bull Global Rally Cross(The GRC). Basically it took what I had seen on the X games and turned it into a series of races held on their own through out the US. I started watching what ever I could find on line and would just wait for the next event to become available on youtube or anywhere else I could find it.
Then I started to search for more to do with The GRC. I quickly realized that there were groups of people that did their own versions of what I was seeing on TV and online. Granted it was all on dirt there were no jump and instead of walls there were cones, but essentially it was the same thing. Better yet you could run almost any car you could get your hands on with almost no modifications. This meant I might be able to afford to get involved. So I did what any sane person would do signed me and my Scion XD up for the next Rally Cross event in Utah. Now we just sit back and enjoy rally videos until race day.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
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