I have been running G Stock class and I am more than likely going to continue because the Si is a very well set up car for stock class and can be competitive.
Locally the Si will be an OK autocrosser, not Nationally, at least not without spending a ton of time and money on shock development. Being you live in Hawaii, unless you hop on a plane like Jennifer Lee and get a co-drive on the mainland, you aren't running National events anyway with that car!
One of my areas that I am working on is breaking coming into corners. I was starting a little to early mostly because I was not breaking hard enough.
I was able to get 10 fun runs in at the last event (yesterday) and worked on this quite a bit along with my lines. I know that I can change my pads and still remain stock class, what is a good recommended pad? My car is 95% used for auto cross so noise is not of that much concern.
The new Civic, in my experience, doesn't like to be trail-braked into corners, regardless if it is the Si or my LX. Some of this may be attributed to the EBD feature in the braking system. Regardless, get the braking done in a straight line and allow those front tires to work more efficiently for acceleration out of the corner as well as dealing with the act of cornering itself... ESPECIALLY because you are on the OEM tires. In other words, save your money on brake pads and put it towards the tire fund.
Also if any of you guys are running stock class with stock tires, I have the Pilot MX that came on the car, what pressures are you running at that you have found works well? I used a 37 psi front and a 34 PSI rear yesterday that worked well for me.
If that's what you're going to use, then I'd go up to 40 in the front and 55 in the rear. The car needs to rotate.
Also, do you have an autocross-specific alignment?
Anthony "Mario" Crea
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