A small S2000 shoot from the weekend

During a nice Saturday evening in Lexington, Alex and I decided to take a few pictures of our S2000s at a parking garage on campus. More pictures will be available in the upcoming "Cars" section listed at the top.

 Alex's New Formula Red S2000 and Zoops's Silverstone S2000

 Alex's New Formula Red S2000 lowered on Regamaster Evos

 Zoops's Silverstone S2000 lowered on stock wheels

Finally some success in STS

Earlier this month I gave a brief update on the Integra RS I have put together for STS. June has been a busy month for us, and I have put in three more autocrosses since my last post.

On June 8th, Mike, Bryce, and I traveled to Xenia, OH for a joint event with the Cincinnati and Western Ohio regions. Kil Kare raceway proved to be an awesome venue in which the Integra was able to do exceptionally well at. I was able to win the class of 12 entries with Mike finishing second. We were very pleased with the hospitality of the WOR and we will be back for future events.

Central Kentucky's fourth points event on June 15th took place at the Training Pad, where the Integra seems to suffer. Between a lack of focus and difficult course, I struggled to a sixth place finish out of 10. This set me back a bit in the overall points race for our local region, but I hope to recover in the July events at EKU.

Most recently, we made the journey to Ft. Knox for Kentucky region's fourth points event. This is an amazing venue that takes place on an actual runway setup. It usually brings out the most participants and the best competition, and this year was no different. Due to increasing gas prices and the nature of the speed at Ft. Knox's events, Mike and I decided to co-drive his RSX Type S. Featured below is my fastest, STS-winning run:

Mike's car felt excellent and right at home with the high speed transitions. A stiffer front sway bar would have yielded even greater confidence through the slaloms. Unfortunately, Mike was unable to carry both speed and accuracy through the high speed sections, and coned away his blazing fast runs. Regardless, it was an excellent day before the remainder of the heats had to be canceled because of inclement weather. I squeaked away with a first place finish among the best competition in the region and a total of 14 drivers.

 

Update on the STS Integra RS

I realize that it's been a long time since there were any updates on the Integra RS. In fact, I believe it was last pictured bone stock. Well, not a whole lot has changed, but it is different nevertheless.

In the past several months I have been working towards campaigning this 94 Integra RS for the STS autocross class. Aside from the 89 Civic Si, there are not too many cars that have a legitimate chance at becoming the "class killer" car. In the back of my mind, I had always thought that the 94-95 Integra RS might be another competitive car, but I had never seen it tried before. I'm not trying to create a nationally competitive car, but in the meantime, it's a pretty fun daily driver that has been reasonably competitive in our local STS classes.

This past weekend marked my 5th event in the Integra since it was lightly prepared. I ended up in 5th out of 15 in a fairly competitive Louisville STS class. The top two finishers were about a second ahead of me in a well sorted 89 Civic Si on Bridgestone RE-01Rs. As I become more comfortable with the setup, I will update my progress and thoughts more on this site. For now, I am still getting used to the car as a whole.

 Rzoops Integra at Louisville Autocross