Post by killerbee20 on Sept 25, 2009 3:53:21 GMT -5
I enjoyed reading Starkeys reports from when he was at the big show, so here we are.
We got to Tacoma last night. LONG day and a half drive...We are racing in the Battle of the imports Round 8 in Woodburn Oregon this weekend.
I'm driving the white Civic in the Hot Rod class, and the red pump gas street car in S/C "street Comp", and Evan is racing the little blue civic in Whatever naturally aspirated class there is. We don't intend to kick any ass, just to be here and be a part of it. Although I do have a few goals I'd like to see, time will tell.
And if we can talk Carnahan into it, I'd like to run that red Civic 1 or 2 passes next weekend. Be nice to get a number on it as a "fast street car" potential candidate. Give a guy something to dream about all winter long. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...lol.... those other cars are gonna get hot and need cool down time....
All the fiberglass is finally on the white car, and we got it painted out here and Evan and I put the vinyl wrap on it... ALL DAY. That's quite a chore. The red car got tuned today an, and put up good numbers. I'm curious where it's gonna run. It weighs in at 2510 pounds, and i'm likely to be the only guy on pump gas in "street comp", but that's okay with me. Zol saw the numbers and thinks with some good luck the car could crack the top 16 anyway. I think that's optimistic. It's a 1.8 litre LS/VTEC with a piston rod swap and a JG head, 1000cc injectors with blox cams and Edelbrock intake manifold with a 70mm BDL throttle body and a Stainless Synapse turbo Manifold. (I know that don't mean much to most people but it's still fun to try and wrap around it).
We finish scaling out all the cars tomorrow morning and the whole group of us that are representing the "Speedfactory" are going down in a convoy. Our group is over 12 cars. The Speedfactory is the place that builds our Honda engines (and 97% of the white car), and those dudes are so sharp I feel pretty stupid when I'm in the room with them... But I'm faking it as best I can.
Patch and I were out here last year... we thought we'd show these young bucks a few things about turning wrenches... 5 minutes into it, we were looking for brooms, we ain't that sharp. ...lol...
The Speedfactory has 2 main cars, one is Kevin's car, it's similar to mine, except he made 900+ horsepower with his, and at 70% of it's boost potential turned a 9.92@153 ...YIKES! They are hoping the car will run a 9.40 before the weekend is over.
Here's that pass.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvp3nVupuoU
And their first day on the dyno:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7v-SQoRVc&feature=related
decently high horsepower Front wheel drive cars are almost hopelessly stuck in the high 10's. These cars just do everything wrong with their power. ...lol... Even Zol with 800whp is temporarily stuck in the mid 10's. Just no traction. It is fun to drive 'em though. I think the record in Billings for a Front wheel drive car is 10.1, some dude with a Dodge Neon. That 9.9 pass by Kevin is the first 9 second front wheel drive pass in Washington state, to put that in perspective as to how hard it is.
The other Shop car is James's. He's got a single overhead cam 1.6 litre engine. He owns all the records with Vitara pistons. He's gone 10.40 with a 2500 pound car on 96 cubic inches. His engine got jacked 3 weeks ago, and they tossed this one together outta stuff around the shop in 3 days. They're tuning it in the morning.
Here's the old setup:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CvdlJLes4
Got another dude in the shop today that's pushing 800whp, a dude named Zol. He got hooked up with a company that makes aftermarket transmission gear sets. they built him a transmission today, outta all this trick prottype stuff. He's doing the testing this weekend for this company. They wouldn't let me photograph it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh_XsTYUayI
Another shop dude got his Naturally aspirated k-series 2.4 litre engine to 330whp...no turbo, no nitrous...Nothing but grunt. Says he can crack the 10's with it. Awesome Kinsler setup on it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qWQMHSQio&feature=related
Lotta fast Crapola in that parking lot all day. Looks like an episode of the fast and furious around here.
Cool to be here today. It's a freaking zoo around here in the shop. PATCH, alex and tyler put Zol's car on the lift to pull the transmission, I went around the corner to ask Zol a few questions. No way I was there more than 3 minutes... I came back the transmission was out and they were on break eating lunch... We suck at changing honda transmissions...lol...
It's amazing just to be here. These guys are among the best in the country at what they do.
pics soon. We leave for Woodburn in the afternoon.
We got to Tacoma last night. LONG day and a half drive...We are racing in the Battle of the imports Round 8 in Woodburn Oregon this weekend.
I'm driving the white Civic in the Hot Rod class, and the red pump gas street car in S/C "street Comp", and Evan is racing the little blue civic in Whatever naturally aspirated class there is. We don't intend to kick any ass, just to be here and be a part of it. Although I do have a few goals I'd like to see, time will tell.
And if we can talk Carnahan into it, I'd like to run that red Civic 1 or 2 passes next weekend. Be nice to get a number on it as a "fast street car" potential candidate. Give a guy something to dream about all winter long. PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...lol.... those other cars are gonna get hot and need cool down time....
All the fiberglass is finally on the white car, and we got it painted out here and Evan and I put the vinyl wrap on it... ALL DAY. That's quite a chore. The red car got tuned today an, and put up good numbers. I'm curious where it's gonna run. It weighs in at 2510 pounds, and i'm likely to be the only guy on pump gas in "street comp", but that's okay with me. Zol saw the numbers and thinks with some good luck the car could crack the top 16 anyway. I think that's optimistic. It's a 1.8 litre LS/VTEC with a piston rod swap and a JG head, 1000cc injectors with blox cams and Edelbrock intake manifold with a 70mm BDL throttle body and a Stainless Synapse turbo Manifold. (I know that don't mean much to most people but it's still fun to try and wrap around it).
We finish scaling out all the cars tomorrow morning and the whole group of us that are representing the "Speedfactory" are going down in a convoy. Our group is over 12 cars. The Speedfactory is the place that builds our Honda engines (and 97% of the white car), and those dudes are so sharp I feel pretty stupid when I'm in the room with them... But I'm faking it as best I can.
Patch and I were out here last year... we thought we'd show these young bucks a few things about turning wrenches... 5 minutes into it, we were looking for brooms, we ain't that sharp. ...lol...
The Speedfactory has 2 main cars, one is Kevin's car, it's similar to mine, except he made 900+ horsepower with his, and at 70% of it's boost potential turned a 9.92@153 ...YIKES! They are hoping the car will run a 9.40 before the weekend is over.
Here's that pass.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvp3nVupuoU
And their first day on the dyno:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS7v-SQoRVc&feature=related
decently high horsepower Front wheel drive cars are almost hopelessly stuck in the high 10's. These cars just do everything wrong with their power. ...lol... Even Zol with 800whp is temporarily stuck in the mid 10's. Just no traction. It is fun to drive 'em though. I think the record in Billings for a Front wheel drive car is 10.1, some dude with a Dodge Neon. That 9.9 pass by Kevin is the first 9 second front wheel drive pass in Washington state, to put that in perspective as to how hard it is.
The other Shop car is James's. He's got a single overhead cam 1.6 litre engine. He owns all the records with Vitara pistons. He's gone 10.40 with a 2500 pound car on 96 cubic inches. His engine got jacked 3 weeks ago, and they tossed this one together outta stuff around the shop in 3 days. They're tuning it in the morning.
Here's the old setup:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CvdlJLes4
Got another dude in the shop today that's pushing 800whp, a dude named Zol. He got hooked up with a company that makes aftermarket transmission gear sets. they built him a transmission today, outta all this trick prottype stuff. He's doing the testing this weekend for this company. They wouldn't let me photograph it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh_XsTYUayI
Another shop dude got his Naturally aspirated k-series 2.4 litre engine to 330whp...no turbo, no nitrous...Nothing but grunt. Says he can crack the 10's with it. Awesome Kinsler setup on it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=04qWQMHSQio&feature=related
Lotta fast Crapola in that parking lot all day. Looks like an episode of the fast and furious around here.
Cool to be here today. It's a freaking zoo around here in the shop. PATCH, alex and tyler put Zol's car on the lift to pull the transmission, I went around the corner to ask Zol a few questions. No way I was there more than 3 minutes... I came back the transmission was out and they were on break eating lunch... We suck at changing honda transmissions...lol...
It's amazing just to be here. These guys are among the best in the country at what they do.
pics soon. We leave for Woodburn in the afternoon.