Autocrossed her today. Have a lot of things to post, and some videos once I remember my YouTube login (shocking I know) and I recover from being in the sun all day. It was a blast, here are a couple of pictures to tide folks over.
This is thing of beauty... love the body style, stance, color combo, all of it. Couldn't be happier if this is trap timer's new home...............Buffed the wax off this morning. Still have some more to do today but nearly ready for MATG.
Very cool Chief, glad to see it out stretching its legs finally. I love that supercharger whine!
That's very cool. I never had it out of the bag so I'm wondering if there is some tie to those stickers inside the package. Just glad it was modded to match what you have. With the stickers and paper in the pack I never have seen the mount.Thanks. It sure was!
Thanks. Yeah, I'm glad I finally got her back on a course. That whine is addicting, I just have to put my foot in it any time I drive her.
Thanks. Yes it is, see below.
Had some free time to myself this afternoon so jumped into things. I opened the sealed bag my trap timer was in and found that someone had it out in the open previously. This was a good thing though as the mounting bracket had been modified so it would fit a Momo wheel:
I ran to Ace to get some appropriate fasteners then proceeded to get it installed. First, the mount:
You put four screws in to hold the wheel first, then the last two (seen) are what hold the mount in place. After that the trap timer goes on bottom first on that lip you can see sticking out. There is a small Allen screw that goes into the hole at the top, and that is all there is to it.
I need to break out my teeny-tiny jeweler's screwdrivers in order to install the battery, and then I can try to figure out how to operate it. One thing to note, with the timer in place the horn button is very recessed so it can't be operated as you normally would.
This morning I installed the battery in the timer. Remember I said there were teeny-tiny screws? See at the right side of the rectangular cover for those.
Turns out it uses two LR44 batteries, the other one was already in place. Popped the second one in and she booted up to this screen:
Those with keen eyesight will notice it is set for January 01, 1996. I left it like that while I ran some errands. This afternoon I sat down to see if I could figure out how to get it set. As it turned out, it wasn't that difficult. First of all, there are four modes: Stopwatch, Alarm, Time and Countdown. The "Mode" button scrolls between those screens. I put it in Time mode and then pushed buttons to see what happened. Once in the Mode desired, pushing the Recall button starts numbers flashing. In this case the seconds were flashing first. If you push Reset the seconds go to zero. Pushing Lap changes to the next value for setting, in this case minutes. Using Reset will change that number. Continuing in this manner for the hour, date, month, year and day everything was changed to reflect current time. Honestly the only thing that was different from what I expected was the reversing of the Reset and Lap buttons to make changes (from what I normally see with other electronics). Now I have the date and time right in front of me. The stopwatch and countdown timer works as you would expect them to. Start the counting by pushing Lap. Pushing Lap again will give you a stop reading while the main timer keeps counting. Pushing Reset once will stop the timer, pushing it again resets the numbers. Not too sure about the need for an alarm though as I am not planning on sleeping in her any time soon.
Picked up a new Miata for the kids
They've known it's been coming for a few months now (the build started right in karting's busy season, so it took time), but they didn't know it was going to be here when they got home that day.
They were VERY excited
