There was a lot of breakage, and it rained saturday, so qulifiying moved over to sunday morning... i stopped by and chatted with them for a bit at the event, nice group of guys! Very hospitable and even the wives and girlfriends were nice as well, they brought their dashund over to play with my little girl, she loves puppies!

 

Nice meeting you too, as well as a number of other EvoM members that showed up to the event and introduced themselves. It's always nice to put a name with a face and get feedback from people in person - definitely one of the better aspects of this event.

Well, MIR WCF did not go exactly as I had hoped it would. It was a nightmare of an event with cars constantly breaking, wrecking, and weather preventing us from making more than a few passes down the track. The crew at MIR was fantastic, but this seemed somewhat like the perfect storm for extreme frustration.

My best pass was a 9.51@151 with a 1.55 60ft. Even though this was a new personal best for me and likely one of the fastest passes you'll see at 33psi, this was not good enough for us at TPG. We came to break the record of 9.33 and I essentially screwed the pooch. I know everyone makes mistakes, but this is the first time I didn't get the time I was looking to achieve. Everyone at TPG Tuning has done an incredible job at setting this car up for success and it really sucks to not have been able to pilot it to a new world record when the car clearly has the ability to do exactly that.

The only good thing to come from this is that I'm quite pissed off at myself and have never been more determined to succeed - I know everyone else at TPG feels the same way. We should be at Pittsburgh Raceway Park this coming weekend so long as the weather holds up.

I want to thank Robert at Forced Performance for giving me the opportunity to run this turbo and test out these parts. You guys come up with some truly wicked stuff and I can't wait to prove that this turbo is far more capable than a 9.51.

This motor would be in pieces already if it was not built by the magician, Curt Brown. Only he could put together a 2.3ltr motor that can be repeatedly run well beyond 9000rpms without issue.

See you guys at the track! Oh, and here's that 9.51 pass...

 

That's awesome man, I seen the car in person and introduced myself, a pleasure speaking to you guys and watching this car run, gl with everything man!

 

Good stuff. Definitely a ton more room in the 60'...

Scott

 

Damn this car is making some great power on a stock frame turbo! Solid pass though man and I think this car can definitely see bottom 9s. A lot of room for improvement on the 60ft as well. Good Luck if you make it back out this weekend!

 

HollyCow! That's insane for a stock frame turbo!
What RPM do you shift at?

 

I saw the car at the event.. I was so ready to see that car go low 9s.. But at least you guys haven't given up. I had the grey evo 9 with the green fd rims and the huge Ivey Tune sticker on the back window that competed in True Street class..

 

sub'd for more "zero" info

 

Nice meeting you and everyone else, although what sucks now is I don't even remember who you were, lol. I sware, at events like this, we all need a name tag with our screen name, signature, and avatar on it.

Thanks Joey. This 9.51 pass was a 1.55 60ft spinning and clawing out of the hole. I've cut 1.4s on these tires at our local track, just never imagined I wouldn't cut the same time at MIR - damn nerves getting to me all weekend.

Anywhere from 8400rpm to 9200rpm. My dash doesnt really light up anymore so at night I have no idea. I kind of go off sound and feel more than anything else at this point. The car can be a handful, so alot of my concentration is spent keeping it going straight - broke the steering wheel at the end of this pass doing exactly that, haha.

It was overwhelming how many people came up and recognized the car and were pulling for me to do well. On my last pass Sunday night, I tore out of the hole and went 6.222@108mph in the 1/8th after missing 4th. That was 2 hundreths quicker than on my 9.51 pass and 10mph slower - still went 9.74@147. If I hadn't have missed 4th, I would have been way under a 9.33.

Nice, I know I saw your car, but I can't remember what it ran? How'd you do?

 

nice im sure you guys will break the record with this car

 

Do you have any pics of this FP zero housing? Does a stock o2 housing flange bolt up to this?

 

My car hooked great... 1.47 60' But I hit the rev limiter in 1st, grabbed 2nd and it went 9.51 @ 151 but I am also hitting my 9k rev limiter in 4th gear around the 1000' mark.. This was my first time out this year.. I think if Ivey ups the rev limiter to 9500 and get another 1.4 60' the car can possibly go high 9.3 or low 9.4 @ 155ish.. But idk if I'll have enough time to go back out to the track this year.. It was def good seeing other evos there.. I think it was only me, you, and an evo in 11.5 index that competed..

 

Yes, I actually run an old school ported Titek 02 housing.

Ahhh, that was the pass I saw. Car looked great man. I actually said to my girlfriend, "Holy Sh*t that thing was fast!" She replied, "Yeah, that's exactly what your car looks like going down the track." Haha, you don't realize how fast a mid 9 second pass at 150 looks unless you are actually there. Video just doesn't do it justice. What turbo are you running? Great 60ft and pass!

 

6466.. but the car is still heavy since I still DD it.. 3130 with me in it..

 

I was out there spectating, first time I'd been to that track. I was glad to see Canexican's car (although I didn't know which was his until now), the Ivey Tune car, the Procco Evo, the Boostin performance red Talon and a whole faction of DSM guys pitted towards the back. I saw a couple more Evos in index classes as well and that fast 3000GT was pretty awesome.

Didn't introduce myself to anyone since it was such a whirlwind of a weekend I didn't get to stop anywhere in the pits.

Can't wait till next year, it such a great event.