December 12th 2009 Practice (with photos)

[Theo O.]

Ach mein Gott!!

Hardcore ya?
http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/cscc-w ... s-jpg.html

[Mako Koiwai]

Upload stalled out last night after 100 of A LOT ... restarted now ...

[Tadd Ekstrand]

Who was it who lost a wheel and what happened?

[Doug Kott]

Great shots, Mako! I just ordered a couple. It was nice meeting you, and seeing Steve Lepper, an old friend from years back.

Had a very fun time out there at the "aqua-cross" (!!!) and I hope to do more next year.

P.S. Is there any way to get the electronic images along with the prints?

--Doug

[Mako Koiwai]

By ordering the larger print I'll send you the efiles also. Thanks!

Thanks also for bringing a whole group of drivers! Of course you guys missed out on a picture perfect Sunday. With X Runs and Fun Runs folks were getting 10+ runs ...

[Craig Naylor]

Mako, thanks for sharing the photos, too thoughts come to mind...

What a wonderful event to have driven in (I love rainy days)

What a miserable event to have worked in (I hate being rained on)... I sympathize, I worked in at outside at the LA Autoshow!

[Stacey Christopher]

Cool shots Mako!!!!

[Mark DeShon]

You got a lot of shots of me running away from an on-coming car! I'm glad you got the powerslide on page 3, though! That was the most fun 2 seconds of the whole day! I'm getting a print, for sure.
Mark D.

[Mako Koiwai]

Some of those Photos would make nice Xmas Presents

All of the photos are now uploaded: http://public.fotki.com/makofoto/2009-a ... -remember/

The first Sample photos show you how the pictures will be enlarged, cropped and corrected. 8X10 and 8X12 orders include the hi-rez file.

[Tom Berry]

Mako,
As always, great shots!
Some of my favorites are of the "Prius VS Evo" Challenge!

[Mako Koiwai]

We're in the Road & Track Blog!

http://blog.roadandtrack.com/

[Kristoffer Gjevre]

We're in the Road & Track Blog!

http://blog.roadandtrack.com/

Actually, it was a fun challenge, as there were three or four spots on the course where the water was at least ankle-deep, leading to hydroplaning and a complete loss of front traction—usually right in front of a key slalom cone. A lagoon formed on the course’s back section, deep enough to kill the engine on a couple of cars. As far as I know, nobody bent any connecting rods from hydraulic lock, but it certainly could have happened!

[Mike Simanyi]

My car will finally make its debut!!!!

Hey Max! Please tell me you didn't run the tires that way in the rain...

[Mako Koiwai]

Tire Rack tests show that you only lose about 0.1 seconds on a 3o second course with directional tires mounted backwards.

[Mako Koiwai]

Kris ... some cars have a "cold air intakes" upfront ... Subies, Evo's ... which can gulp water. I know my stock Subie air box had I believe three drain holes at the bottom of the air box, in front of the air filter. It a LOT of water got in, it could saturated the filter, causing the engine to hiccup or even stall. A Subie and a Civic soaked their air filters and called it a day. One mod'ed STI with a low mounted cold air intake elected to not run at all.

Since water is not compressable, if enough water does get into the cylinder, something has to give ... typically a connecting rod. But the air filter typically gives one an early warning.

When I had a "ricer" low mounted CAI in my WRX fender ... I went through a DEEP puddle and almost stalled the car. The air filter was soaked but no damage done.

[Kristoffer Gjevre]

Kris ... some cars have a "cold air intakes" upfront ... Subies, Evo's ... which can gulp water. I know my stock Subie air box had I believe three drain holes at the bottom of the air box, in front of the air filter. It a LOT of water got in, it could saturated the filter, causing the engine to hiccup or even stall. A Subie and a Civic soaked their air filters and called it a day. One mod'ed STI with a low mounted cold air intake elected to not run at all.

Since water is not compressable, if enough water does get into the cylinder, something has to give ... typically a connecting rod. But the air filter typically gives one an early warning.

When I had a "ricer" low mounted CAI in my WRX fender ... I went through a DEEP puddle and almost stalled the car. The air filter was soaked but no damage done.

yeah, I have read on the vette forums of several people with "cold air intakes" that has run through water and hydra-locked their engines with mechanical damage as a result - I am glad that did not happen to anyone here, but some of those pictures sure got me a bit worried, so I was not surprised to read that some of the engines stalled (sounds better than the word "killed" used in the R&T blog)...

[Mako Koiwai]

Nice slide from Pete

[Steve Lepper]

My car will finally make its debut!!!!

Hey Max! Please tell me you didn't run the tires that way in the rain...

Believe it or not, those are mounted correctly. It does look very wrong when you see those lateral grooves going the wrong way... I checked mine a couple of times to make sure the arrows were in the right places.