Apparently your name is "Salmon" like the fish.

I've only been called that pretty much by entire life either by illiterate people who can't read and/or people who think they're clever and that I've 'never heard that one before'.

Weird, because if you say your name out loud, it's actually not anywhere close to sounding the same.

Solomon/Solomin <-- how it's pronounced no?

Sehmin <-- the fish.

Close?

Trying to type Salmon phonetically. lol

It's like the king or the sporting company.

In english, the easiest way to sound it out is "Saw-low-min"

I win! What do I win?

Free pass to the shootout next year?

Pretty cool if you ask me. I tried to find the results but have been unsuccessfull till Jamie's link.

I ain't the fastest but really enjoyed the MaxEffort; that is probably what I'll do next year to include the Sunday 1/4 mile.

My best run on the AutoX was 34 sec but I destroyed the two Cones at the end of the "You Must Stop Box" Gaetan from the Quebec DSM Club has a fotage. I'll post when available.

That event was pretty cool. Jamie and "HotShoe Salmon" were the Canucks to beat. I'll have to sit with Salomon for a 15 minutes so he can re-instruct me on how to HeelToe.

At last guys and gals; You have one full year to get your ars in gear and come over to participate. My Hotel reservation is not made yet but you guys can count on me attending and participating.

Best Event Ever!!!

Ghislain

Oh yeah; btw last year Salomon won a Title in one of the Braket Class. They named him "Salomon Poontay".

You think you have a hard name to pronounce; try mine!!! Hence the nick.

GizThaWiz!!!

Salomon, I am impressed you heel toe(yes i realize you need to do so to do well in autox). The space between my gas and my brake is rediculous making heel toe a bitch/impossible.

I'm more than happy to offer 'instructionals'/advice on driving skills/lines/etc. I will say that anyone interested in learning heel-toe would be best served learning how to properly rev-match first, as it makes the learning curve a fair bit less steep when jumping into heel-toe.



I guess that's what happens when English-speakers try to pronounce names not of an English-languauge origin (French in your case, Spanish in mine). It just means we get cool nicknames instead.

I agree, the space between the brake and gas pedals in these cars is huge, which is why I wear my work boots if I need to be sure of my heel-toeing in the Talon. In my sneakers/etc. it is way too easy to slip off the brake pedal during a heel-toe, so the extra width the work boot gives me helps greatly.

I'd be down for a tutorial. See how I stack up. Still a little gunshy to push my machine until she's properly tuned. Not $1000 tuned, but enough to not knock like a monster. haha

Salomon is MaBoy and will be beging for his instructional.

Now I forgot to admit that I use to know how to do it but it has been about 10 years since I have Heeled Toed.

Rev matching is a current; Learned it from Me Dad; Old Man was a truck driver.

Ghislain

Ya; and I happend to have the coolest of them all!!!

Given the condition my car was in when I not only drove her to and from the SO last year, but also raced and won a trophy, I couldn't not do it when my car was miles beyond where it was last year in terms of tune/performance/reliability/etc.

I wasn't planning to AutoCross her this year because I've never driven this car aggressively in anything but a straight line; not even so much as a tire-squealing on/off-ramp. But....seeing all the other guys doing it and given the fact that I'm a road-racer and not a drag-racer, I couldn't say no after dropping all the money and time to get to the SO.
In addition, I've never driven a turbo and/or AWD car at or near the limit, so there was definitely some getting used to. That and the depowered steering rack was brutal on my bad elbow.

I was pleasantly surprised given that she's a 20 year old car on run-of-the-mill street tires, and all stock handling-related components.

I had also only switched to SD the day before, but she was running like a top!

When I'm back in town we can go over your logs and start getting your car dialed in, if you want. Then maybe you won't be such a chicken to actually push the gas pedal!






Well, being able to rev-match well puts you ahead of the game.

Heel-toe really isn't as hard as people make it out to be, it just takes practice, so I'm sure all of you guys will be doing it in no time! Once you get the hang of it you'll be doing it during daily driving in no time and when you finally hit the track, well, you won't even have to think about it because it will be second nature!




Not gonna argue with you on that one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D_yGXUJRzE&feature=plcp

This the only way I know how to post vids so if ya want it removed let me know.

Salomon and jamie in a few minutes.

Whose 2g was that in the 2nd vid? Sounds badass

That would be Jamie's.

And it is bad ars!!!

Needs a big carbon fibre wing to match his hood!

sure is

but its sooo rich. pouring black smoke all over poor Tim's evo.

It was nice to get a chance to talk with some of you guys! I had some issues with the car but nothing serious. My fault, generally not a good idea to make my first pass of the season in Ohio.

Eh, at least we got the chance to lay an eye on your Car. I was a little worried when you got pushed back but gald that we did not hear anything bad chunching in the Tranny.

There is always next year.

Ghislain

Nice to see the maple leaf in this vid!

Salomon great job on your run. I can not seem to heel-toe in the evo. My brake feels too tall. Maybe i should try different shoes. I always wear sneakers when i do it. I do however rev match which i am embarassed to admit i never used to do. It was not untill I installed my Greddy triple disk clutch a few months ago that i realized how bad i drive If i dont rev match and simply downshift my clutch bites so hard it feels like i hit a wall. I only did it twice before i started blipping the throttle on downshifting. Unfortunately i take my foot off the brake for a second to do it which would not be good in autocross. I have managed to figure out how to do it really quickly. I am not sure if I will be able to do it in my car but i will have to get out there and practice. Maybe my feet are too small. I can not seem to reach. I could use some pointers too

Did buschur get that 1g drag car he was working on running

I've been practising since I got my car, first manual too.

I tend to use the side of my foot and roll into the accelerator, which makes the braking not too smooth either, but it works!

My shoe size is 10-10.5.

It's so satisfying when you heel-toe properly and get that smooth shift around a corner.

I am frustrated cause i used to heel toe in my mom's ford focus station wagon, but since I got my talon I have only attempted it a hand full of times and been annoyed with the space between the brake and gas.

For those of you that came to the shoot out I decided to take some of the things I saw there and apply them to my car. I really did not like all the red under the hood

Before


After



What do you think? I think the silver looks way cleaner.

I like it!

The red looks more "factory" though.

Exactly my thought. I originally bought the k&n because it was red and matched the oem cover but after a while i missed all the bling bling polished IC pipes. I really want to find someone to make me a SS blow off recirc. That long rubber hose looks like a rad hose

Looks great Tim (y)

I personally like the red accent. But yours looks good as well

I think you shoud have gone blue..or paint the rad shroud blue . that would be cool.

As for the recirc pipe.. By a used HKS Safr of ebay for under $100, and just run it zero'd out.(or use it to tune a bit) It has a program that compensates for the sudden loss of air when the Bov opens so you can run it to the atmosphere. EIDS i think it was.. been awhile since I played with one. Then buy my Blitz BOV off me for $1000! hehhe that would be cool too!


Kiddin

Jay: I am running Cobb access port for my tuning. Maybe i can relocate the BOV and that would make it easier. Instead of needing a 90 degree bend i could move the bov to the front where the bend would be.

isn't there another forum for you guys?? lol jk I'd love to own a evox. i also agree, the bling bling is better than the red. just out of curiosity, do you find that charge pipe gets heat soaked being that its routed over the engine?

kind of reminds me of the subies tmic. kind of silly isn't it.

No problem with Heat soak. The exhaust is at the back now so heat is much better.

get those clunky pedal covers that every riced out honda has it'll close the gap lool