jtminehart

Didn't realize it had 10" wheels. That should help a lot with the angle getting on the trailer. At the $2900, that aluminum trailer does seem like a great value. When I was trailer shopping for "car haulers" I couldn't even find a POS rusted out trailer for less then $1200. All the smaller Aluminum trailers I was looking at were like $5000-6000, but I was specifically looking for tilt bed after all the trouble I had with regular sized car haulers. As a side note, I think the Brunton design does include suspension, now- mine does- I think they need to update their website.

I have the Brunton trailer for my Stalker and it works pretty well. The thing I love is the tilt deck feature. When I was using U-Hauls or borrowing regular trailers, I had trouble clearing the peak where the ramps meet the deck. Since my car is so low with the 13" race wheels/tires, the oil pan would hit the cross bar on the back of the deck if I just tried to drive it straight on. It was a pain-I had to use a precarious collection of 2x8's on the ramps and decks to get it to clear. Or just use the big 17" street wheels and get more ground clearance and change to the race tires at the event- but that's just more work! . With the tilt deck, you just drive right on (as long as you don't have a super low front splitter). I don't think you would want to go any shorter than 14' for a tilt deck because the angle then increases more. They built mine as a custom trailer with a full enclosed top and it is still under 1000 lbs.

Yeah the car is getting there. I've got some videos from the ProSolo event I did in Mineral Wells: If you haven't done a ProSolo, I highly recommend it. the drag race start (with reaction times) and mirror courses are a cool twist on standard Autocross format. Main thing we are doing is trying to work out the understeer in the slow corners. The current setup gives us very stable high speed handling through slaloms and such, but in the tight stuff, it just kind of washes out. We're working on how the rear toe dynamics work to see if that solves the problem. Right now, it's toeing in under compression, and so we are looking to get it back to neutral and see how that effects the handling. If the toe dynamics doesn't solve it, then we'll probably go back to rear spring rate. But the Toe adjustment is easy stuff so its a good next step since we just made a rear spring adjustment.

Here are some pictures from before the Lincoln ProSolo and Tour.

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I've been a long time autocrosser and decided to sell my '07 MX-5 and build a Stalker AXR at the end of last year. I was looking for something fast and fun that could be competitive in Autocross, be fun at the Track, and be street legal. My brother, Scott, builds the Stalkers and I had driven my Dad's M-Spec a few times over the past few years. I've been wanting to move up to a Stalker pretty much ever since I drove the M-Spec on an Autocross course. With the new AXR chassis, it seemed like a great time to jump in on the fun. I'm not much of a "builder", but I love driving, racing, tweaking and testing. The new car went together pretty quickly working in Scott's shop in Florida (I probably slowed him down a little), but turned out great. Development has been going pretty well and I've had some successful big events already this year. The car is showing pretty good potential, and it's great to have a couple other people out there running the same chassis to compare notes with. I went with a stock LS1 (from a GTO), T56 transmission and CTS rear end. In race trim with the slicks it weighs about 1680# (our minimum weight for the class is 1850 with driver). The car drives surprisingly like a regular car (a very fast one!). I thought the light weight and high power would be a handful, but the car just sort of does what you want it to do. Of course, getting 100% out of it and running a perfect autocross run isn't easy, but it's not like anytime you get on the gas, the car just spins out. So far its been great fun to autocross and I'm excited about developing the car a little more, and seeing how competitive it can be at Nationals. I'm also looking forward to doing some track events and getting some experience on the road courses. I'll try and get some pictures and videos up on here soon!

I've been a long time autocrosser and this past year decided to step up from my STR MX5 to an E-Modified Stalker AXR. It doesn't hurt that my brother, Scott builds them, and I had driven my dad's M-spec a few times in the past few years. With all the upgrades they made with the AXR to fit the big tires and the new suspension, it seemed like a great time to jump on board with the rest of the family and start racing a Stalker. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/08/aca7b47ce3b1a8f66fa9b67210aa0648.jpg http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/08/dae31972c6dcd64390c6567f7e8f6274.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/06/08/6d19120d68bf175c4982a7a0e89c5d75.jpg[/iMto It is powered by an LS1 engine (stock from an 04 GTO), T56 transmission, CTS-V rear end with independent suspension. Penske shocks, 13x10 front wheels, 13x14 rear wheels with slicks help to put the power down and grip through the turns. While we are still early in the development phase of the chassis, it has been quite fast so far this year at the big SCCA solo events we have done. We still have a lot of work to do to catch the reining class champion (rotary powered Sprite), but we're going to give it our best shot and really focus on optimization of the setup and drivability of the car. I'm also looking forward to getting the car on some tracks for some HDPE's. Hopefully get to see some more 7s out there at the autocrosses and at the tracks. As I've learned over the past few months, it really is a ridiculously fun car to drive.