Bump.

 

See you at all the RTA events!

 

I'm planning on being at the one in Joliet. Hopefully, I can meet you guys and check out the car up close and in person.

 

ill be at etown

 

Ty, looking forward to seeing you guys and your new FWD tC.

MrC

 

We won't be able to make all the changes we want for this season by the first event in Illinois, but we should have the changes done for ver 3. by the time we head to e-town.

MrC

 

If I have the spare $500 sitting around, I just might enter the E-Town event. It also depends on if my car can fit inside our new trailer.

Is Ross still going to be driving for you guys?

 

Can't wait to see the beast in Nashville.

 

I am really intrested in seeing the car in person! I may stop up to the shop on my way to ocean city car show!

 

x2

 

finally!! im gonna request a day off for these dates already!! HAHA!! cant wait to see more updates on the car.

 

Mr.c, Toan, And Ptuning watching..

 

Here's an updated pic of the engine bay. Here's the same production turbo manifold that's used on our turbo kit.


We've still have a lot of changes we want to make but that might not happen until after the first race in illinois. We'll post more pics when we get a chance.

MrC

 

can't wait to see u guys at e-town!

 

Cant wait to see it once a week God I love that you all arent far.

 

lol

 

you should come on out! although i would not recommend a RTA as your first on track event ever.

As for driving, they kindly offered me the drivers seat back and I didn't hesitate to accept the offer.

We took the car out yesterday to a NASA autoX to test the car out. we learned quite a few things, like 500whp.... its insane, there is nothing else that can be said about that. We also need to replace a battery terminal and other really trivial things. We are hoping to make it to VIR or NJMP to test the car out on track before Autobahn as well.

I hope to see you all at RTA events this year, since we are defending our 2008 Champ status we really want to make it a solid year. Between the PTuning built motor, which provides 500whp all day 100% reliably, to the Progress Technology suspension, to the Advan wheels and R888's this car is the complete package, and anyone standing in our way will really have to be on top of their game to have a chance at beating us

 

I'm Your Huckle Berry....

 

We finally took our TA tC to the drag strip on Sunday for a test and tune session. Although we are not much into drag racing, we did learn a lot from our testing.

Other than a zero degree front camber setting and lower front tire pressures, the car was tested in actual Time Attack trim. That includes the 18 wheels, front splitter and new, much larger rear wing. We wanted to see what the car would do mainly in terms of trap speed. The car was set up at a slightly lower ~450WHP set-up for Sunday.

We obviously knew that our E.T. would only be ho-hum at best given the fact that a 30 series r-comp tire with a stiff sidewall designed for cornering is no where near as sticky as a drag radial, much less a drag slick.

Anyhow, all our runs were at 126+mph with our fastest run being a 12.77 at 128.55mph. This is essentially with granny launches, since the r-comps provided little to no traction for a proper drag launch. Could we have gone quicker and faster with drag slicks and without the front splitter and rear wing? Of course, but we wanted to test the car as-is minus the front camber setting. Mathematically, the car with drag slicks should be a mid to high 10 second car, but we will never know since we have no plans to take her down the strip on drag slicks.

What our testing tell us too is that with the right components, it is possible to build a pump gas/WMI tC that can trap at 120+mph all day long. Btw, our race car as it sits now is no super lightweight in case anyone was wondering, It is only about 250-300 lbs lighter than a bone-stock tC (roll cage adds most of the weight back). A full-weight stock tC with the same power plant should probably see about 123+mph.

Now for the bad news. We took out fourth gear AGAIN! This was only between the multiple dyno pulls and the 4-5 runs down the track. Fourth gear is pretty much the first gear that can sort of put the power to the ground and therefore sees the greatest loads. Our runs put us at about 7600+rpms in fourth.

So yeah, it looks like we'll need to look into transmission fortification sooner than we expected. Oh well, just part of racing and R&D.

- Toan

 

still good numbers though its not a drag car..