TC Design of Milpitas CA fabricated some mounts for my off-the-shelf OMP seat mount brackets. FIA approved brackets are required in the series I anticipate racing in. But the brackets aren’t a bolt-in to the stock mounting points on the floor pan of the car.
The pictures are of questionable quality. And I don’t have any shots with the brackets removed. So the custom fabrication work is partially obscured by the brackets. Also seen are the clip in points for the anti-sub belts. I may move these wider apart. I’m still fidgeting with the precise placement of the seat, and will adjust belt mounting points as needed once I’m done with that.
So I’m over at Youtube and see a video labeled Thunderhill Racing School. And I’m thinking, “Cool, a view of the racing school from another angle.” And then I go there, and not so much. The first clue was the DRIVING SCHOOL instructor in the right-hand seat.
Pet peeve of mine. People are like, “How was racing?” And most of the time I’m all, “Dude, it wasn’t a race, just a driving school.” Although sometimes not. And that’s a distiction with a difference.
TraqMate does lap timing without a beacon. Lap beacons are a no-no at many track events, but a non-GPS data acquisition systems can’t separate data from a track session into laps without a beacon. AIM is a far better dashboard. It has real-time display and logging of some critical engine parameters.
Answer: Both! Add TraqMate for driving analysis. Keep AIM as a mini guage cluster. Anyway, that’s my current thinking.
I’m attending a licensing school with DCI in October. It’s on a SoCal NASA weekend.
Hmmm. I hope they run a tight ship. Experiences with NorCal NASA in the nineties were mixed.
I went to some events that had way too many people driving over their heads, and consequently, there were way too many yellow flags. And the schedules were so packed that they didn’t have slack to deal with the inevitable problems.
On another note, Buttonwillow is running open testing on the Friday ahead of the school. According to some guy on a car forum, all they want is a drivers license and a credit card. I’ve inquired. Could be a cheap way to get seat time. Could be the wild, wild west.
