I am done with bleeding into a machine. They took two units of red blood cells and gave me back the plasma and platelets. The weird part is when they are returning the parts they don't want they add an anti-coagulant. It makes my lips tingle. It is a strange feeling, kinda like my lips are vibrating.

The nurse that took me into the interview room for the initial questions was a real cutie. Usually that person is the one to take the blood. They pulled a fast one on me, I had a ugly dude run the apheresis machine. At least I got to look at the cutie.

They gave me a couple of chocolate chip cookies. They were darn good!

I can hit those speeds in my 911 at most every autocross.

honestly, i'd prefer a much more technical course. before last year, the courses were much more technical, and slower, which, in my opinion, makes them safer. last year, this 914 owner started storing and transporting the cones, so he pretty much gets what he wants.

he likes the courses constructed in a way that he doesn't have to shift out of second (or third, i can't remember), as he feels this slows him down and makes him less competitive. this worked out great last year, as he kept beating me by about .5 second at every event...... UNTIL i figured out that i had a boost problem and changed the blowoff valve. this one little repair made my car MUCH faster (and helped it pass emissions, believe it or not).

two sundays ago, my best time was 2 seconds faster than his on a 46 second course.

so can i, but if i can drive the entire course in second gear (sometimes getting into third), i think it is too fast. my opinion, of course.

I've seen 80 in my NA at our autocross. I really wish that it was slower and more technical here.... I would stand a much better chance. I am good until it hits the fast stretches, and then all the cars with twice the HP just walk away from me....

i am glad that i can't give blood (i had cancer when i was 18). my hat is off to you for doing so.

you can hit 80?! holy cow... that is more like DE. if you can hit 80, my 951 would probably hit triple digits in the same space.

i love our hardwood floors. i am going to pull all the furniture out this summer and lightly sand them and put a new coat of urethane down.

Now imagine what a Z06 vette, or the highly tuned SVT Cobra that is putting down 600hp can do....

wow. that seems pretty dangerous for an autocross. i seem to recall you posting a car damaged pretty good at autocross. now i know why it was damaged.

Yup, our autocrosses are very open, due to the location we use. It is good, but there is not much area for tight work, and the rest of the course is fast. We try to slow it down some.

But for a place that lets us play all weekend for free, we can't really complain...

Yea, the Corvette club runs at the same track. They just put up a few cones and go like crazy.

Personally I would prefer a course that does no require a downshift into 1st. We have a wonderful track that we always seems to have some silly near stop and sometimes two near stops. Since the autocross chairman does the set up and 90% of the work he can set it up anyway he wants.

mine stayed in hte garage this weekend. Sad but true and now the weather sucks.

i guess that i am the odd guy that likes to maneuver my car through boxes and 180 degree turns around a cone.

Actually never tried it and probably won't. I have gone to watch a few. Fun to watch the DE spins.

huh. it is a blast. i have to ask: why not?

you and I have gone over this I think. Helmet and hearing issues. I refuse to wear one and they refuse to let me play.

If you go help Brian set up the course, he will let you set up whatever you like pretty much. Brian typically does a pretty good job of mix the tight twisty bits with the long straight bits to even out the hp versus handling cars. However, this last event did have no less than 5 places I got into 3rd gear.

The 914s that occasionally come to our events and stripped down tube frame full track go carts. We don't have classes, we only differentiate whether you are on competition tires or street tires.

Why would you refuse to wear a helmet at a track event?

Having to wear a hearing aide pretty much kills the helmet. Instant feedback without it I can't hear the new aide (baha) comes with its own special issues as in it would not fin inside the helmet and if the stud got knocked loose then there goes big bucks.