I'm going to my first autox this weekend (i just found out i was going, hence my lackluster amount of research into this question), and i was wondering if they'd have a problem with my subs in the back. The amp is mounted to the back of the box, and the whole rig altogether is a pain in the *** to take out. the box is bolted to the fiberboard underneath the trunk carpet and it shifts an inch or two to either side, but it will NOT come totally loose, even under hard driving. i wish i could take it out, but unfortunatley i cant. am i ok with it in?

 

When i tech cars here for our autoxs, if it moves it must come out. But then again, i'd have to see how it is mounted to judge if i'd let you run or not. I'd take it out anyways, if it does come loose, it could dent up your trunk lid or sides from the inside.

 

Hahahaha!


Where are these people coming from?


Just so I am not accused of being a total dick I will say that I would make you take it out since fiberboard is about as strong as cardboard and the rules say "no loose objects".


Drew - Who has been doing SCCA tech for 11 years and has been an SCCA Safety Steward for 7

 

Yup, it's gotta come out. The fiber board isn't sercure enough.

 

i cant take it out...thats the thing...the way its all set up, it would take me a a few hours to take it out, and probably a day to get it back in, and i dont have the time or the facilities to do that. (college = have to work in parking lot). i guess ill just add some more brackets in the front, and hope for the best.

 

Or take it out and modify it to be taken in and out easily (like connectors on the ends of the wires and better brackets). That's how I run mine. I take the box out at home and then take the rest of it (spare, tools, spare cover) out at the autocross.

 

i'd like to someday do that...because the thing is big and heavy, but there are those times when i wanna roll deep like a stunna....my setup has cap, positive dist block, and two amp all mounted to the box. im gonna get a gnd dist block and run the amps through those, rca's are easy to connect/disconnect. how do you connect your speaker wires for easy connect/disconnect? i've got spade terminals on mine, but xplod amps have recessed connectors to make life a bitch.

 

I mounted all that stuff also (minus the cap) in the car under the seats. So taking out my box is as simple as disconnecting the single speaker wire to the box and its out. I don't have any suggestions about the recessed connectors?

 

i'd be tight if my amps were under the seats, recesses terminals or not...but unfortunately its all in the trunk. i thought about doing this.. https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=334283

 

Froggie Panties!!!!

 

I have a heavy potential projectile mounted behind me, held in place by dental floss. If I add mint flavor dental floss, will it help?

A guy I know suffered a collapsed lung because there was a toolbox loose in his car when he had a rollover accident. Smacked into the side of him, broke his ribs, punctured his lungs. That incident was not at an autocross (tech would have made him take it out), but rollovers and other incidents do happen at autocross, and that fiberboard is _NOT_ structural.. I'd put in something more structural for safety on the streets, let alone any autocross considerations.

The sad thing is, there's a decent chance the people doing tech will let this slide..

ah well.. dismiss me as a **** and do whatever you want.

 

I don't mean to be rude, maybe I'm uncompromising when it comes to performance. But why would you even thing about leaving 100 lbs. of unnecessary equipment in your trunk for a autocross. Even if you "try" to listen to it while you race. 9 times out of 10 you will think back after the run and not remember what song you were listening to. Take that crap out, I thought people liked imports because they are light.

 

that reminds me, I need to take the 180 lb. compressor out of my back seat.

 

Dude, take it out...I damn near got hospitalised from one of those things coming loose in an accident. Granted it was in a hatchback ('85 RX-7) rather than a sedan, but it was bolted in with angle brackets/carriage bolts and still came off and hit me in the shoulder (the bolts pulled through the sub box).

 

Did you figure out a solution yet? Let us know.

 

lol...i've got the best solution of all. instead of my schiesty d16 EK, ill be in a 2000 ITR (hopefully, as it belongs to a friend of mine ). as soon as i get some time (thanksgiving) im gonna rewire the amps to make it easily removable becuase it's heavy as **** and really weighs the back of my car down. and no, i wanst planning on listening to it, but i found out about the VCC event this sunday yesterday and i dont have time to take it out. i was at an autox kinda thing in my dad's audi over the summer, and they told me to take the stuff out of the trunk, but i was dumb and didnt. first run, hit the brakes, back seats flipped down and a bunch of cardboard boxes were up in the front seat with me. luckily they were empty

btw - dont ask about the ace and gary thing...its a result of my foolish involvment in a certain thread awhile back

 

Jeez, he made it clear that it is time consuming to take it out and put it back in. That's why.

I think it's safe to say that he's new to autocross. You really think 100 lbs is going to make a big difference? I have maybe 6 events under my belt, and at a recent practice I posted my best time (by 0.4 seconds) with a passenger in the car. That was the only run out of 11 in which I had a passenger.

If it's unsafe, it should come out. But telling a new driver that he'll do measurably better with it out is misleading until he's had some experience.

 

DAYYM, switch to decaf bro. I don't like flames either so it wasn't meant as such. I usually spent the day before the race prepping the car. I simply thougt that he would maybe do the same. I've seen people spin due to that megar 100lbs shifting laterally in a corner. The right nudge at the wrong time sux. In reference to the passenger, I take a rider every run to balance my car. I always run better times with a passenger. Finally I never said he'd do better without it, I said it wasn't necessary, and would be better off without it.

To the thread originator. Welcome to autocross, I hope I didn't mislead you. Just putting in my $0.02