I just got back from my 4th lapping event at Pacific Raceway yesterday. The event was organized by ProFormance Racing School, and it was a full day event. It was the Victoria day long weeknd for us up here in Canada so it worked out great. I didn't need to ask for any time off to participate in this event.

Weather was pretty nice yesterday. Perfect weather for lapping/racing events IMO. It was roughly around 13-18*c for the whole day, cloudy with sunny period. Pavement was dry. I only had T1R ver.1 springs, front camber bolts, recaro SPG bucket w/bride FO rail and used a set of Advan A032R "H" compound last year when I went there. I got Showa tuning dampers w/ Eibach pro-kit front springs & T1R ver.1 rear springs, SPOON catback(w/sports type oval muffler), skunk2 shifter kit, nagisa super low seat rail plus the same recaro bucket & same set of tires & rims, oh and the SPC rear camber shims.

The reason why I gave up on the eibach rear spring is, I'm really sick of how soft it is. Everytime I load up the trunk or have passenger at the back I end up having major rubbing problem. First of all due to the less negative camber I have now plus the 205/50R15 Advan tires that I'm using. Rims setup is nothing aggressive, they're my old set of Regamaster Evo in 15x6.5" +45mm all around. Finally I got fed up with it and swap the rear springs back to T1R. T1R have around 3 coils less compare with Eibach pro-kit. And it didn't rub AT ALL after the springs are replaced, no matter I'm in Vancouver, trunk fully loaded traveling down to WA taking I-5 or at Pacific Raceway.

The new suspension setup is pretty impressive, very easy to control, the rear suspension responds wayyyy quicker than before & rotates a lot better now. It doesn't feel like it's floating around and it's not bumpy either. The tires hold up well and I found my perfect tire pressure setting for the day. I can use a little bit more negative camber up front once I have a limited slip differential installed.

I figure I can get a better top speed on front straight if I stay in 4th gear before turn2. The car runs smoother without downshifting to 3rd before turn 5a. I can make it through 5a all the way after turn 6 at around 100-105kph, staying in 4th gear.

I will try some different tricks the next time I go lapping there though! I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot more about my car this time due to less participants. I am the only guy from Canada and driving the only Honda yesterday. All the other stuff are street/race prep'd Corvettes, 911Carrera/turbo/GT3, E36 M3, E46 M3 turbo, Exige/Elise . Anyway, enough review with the event, here are some pictures!

Prepping my car at around 7:30am in the morning:


Around turn#9:


Entering turn#5a-5b area:


Is it gonna flip over? NOT YET, gotta push a little harder....


Turn#5b:


Towards and passing turn#6:




Braking zone before turn#8:


**Million thanks to Winkyl for taking all the awesome pictures for me!

 

good stuff man.

I hope to do the things you're doing now down the road,right now i'm just sucking at life on the auto x events,lol

 

I used to autocross a lot. But I'm now semi-retired on that. Autocross is a good way to start on sports driving though. And u get to try out all the different stuff that u modified on your car.

 

definetly man,i have sooo much to learn(as you can see in my video a couple of threads down)

 

Wow, this is awesome! If you don't mind, what spring rates are you running, camber, and toe? I understand if you wanna keep this top-secret. ^__^

I'm autocrossing too, and hopefully going to upgrade to a better suspension system soon. Someday I'd like to try out a track day as well.

Great pictures! It's awesome to see Fits at the racetrack. ^__^

 

if u think seattle is crazy...try out the portland track....it's like stright from F1 !!!
track is so big and is so well built. with a big pit and with NO hills on the side of the track to flip ur car on !!

 

Here's one of the video that I took during the event:

YouTube - May 19,2008 Pacific Raceway

I was just joking about the car gonna flip over. I like Pacific Raceway coz of the up & downhill turns. I think there's more for me to learn there. Next road course I like to try will be something like Thunderhill or Willow springs.

 

Man oh man! That looks like just entirely too much fun!! That is an absolute dream to do a track day like that. Very jealous! Great pics too.

 

Awesome!
Looks like tons of fun!

Tyler

 

are the t1r springs a less drop in the rear than eibachs??? is that why there is no more rubbing issues for you?

 

oh and p.s. where did you get the showa shocks???

thanks,
Ricky

 

Thanks a lot guys for all the comments!

U can do that too. Just search for the closest high performance driving club. Clubs like Porsche, BMW, Alfra Romeo etc should accept cars in different makes too. All u really really need is a set of good tires and a set of high performance pads. Take a driving course if u can and u will learn a lot from it.

Yes sir. The T1R rear spring doesn't lower as much as the Eibach pro-kit PLUS it's stiffer. That's the reasons why it handles better without ANY rubbing now, even the trunk area is fully loaded with floor jack, air tanks & tires etc.

 

Thanks for sharing the vid looks like a lot of fun

you said you had the full spoon n1 right? and in the vid idk if it was just the wind noise but i couldn't really hear your exhaust at all....i'm considering getting this and is it that quiet or is it the vid?

-Ricky

 

i believe he has the spoon street type muffler, not the n1.

 

^
oh ok he said oval type so i assumed n1

 

Yeah not a problem. U really don't need a lot of mods to have fun on a road course. And u don't need some bling tires & rims in order to participate in something like this either.

The muffler that I have looks like this:


Yeah I'm agreed that there's more wind noise than anything lol. I didn't bring masking tape to try taping up the mic of the camera. I heard it works well to screen out the wind noise. The exhaust isn't all that loud even with the SPOON B pipe. I'm not sure how loud it is outside though.

 

Here is another video that I uploaded last night:

Honda Fit sport @ lapping event May 19,2008

 

where did you get the showa shocks at??

Thanks,
Ricky

 

Oh I got mine from Hong Kong actually. And I got the red ones in there:

SHOWA TUNING：ショーワ・チューニング

 

they look great
i don't think i'll be able to order these to ship in the US

you're lucky for having those
they're fully adjustable too right?

-Ricky