AZ1000 Day 5
May
2009
Well after a tough Day 4, Marinus decided to tear apart the external sending unit and mount a bracket and sensor on the car with magnets. That did the trick. I set the factor at the end of the tire warmup. It jumped from 27000 to 69000. The odo section factor was only 900 higher. The mileage in the book matched to the .002. We ran the 1st section with almost no adjustments.
We call this rally, the rally of ‘CAST AT MILEAGE’ as there are few hard references. With the sensor remount, my workload in the car dropped about 70%. Suddenly we were getting 0s, 1s again. The lack of hard references had made it impossible to keep on time using the 798 with the bad sensor unit.
We thought we were in the clear at the beginning on the last section of day 5. The low tire indicator came on again. We held our breath and kept going, hoping that our turn to work a control would come up soon. But it didn’t until the very end of the section. But the tire held and we nursed it into town.
We only got 52 points on Friday. Overall we came in 3rd in the EQUIPPED class and 4th overall. Mapleback/Von Kaenel finished first overall. The rally was tough, but we got a break at the end and finished on a good note.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
What she said. Thursday night with my new cordless drill I hogged out a shelf bracket and bolted it up. The tires on the car still wouldn’t hold us in on downhill off-camber marbles, but at least when we passed the controls we knew how late we were.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Nice work on the re-re-re-engineering. Sounds like quite an event