Bah, that's magazine time. That means end of August or early September on the newsstand.

 

Couple pics I found from the superfour event.

GO DAVE!!

 

I think Mr. Buschur's car would have a Buschur FMIC not an HKS.

Or is that last year's event.

Edit: Is his the white one?

 

I would think the HKS car would have an HKS FMIC eh??

Dave has the white Evo.

 

The posted picture is the HKS car. Our car is white. One of the guys on the starting line said, "That is the most sedate car I have ever seen, without those side decals you wouldn't know what just hit you." He didn't know who I was, I told him "thank you."

The field was tough with the two Elise's, more than a few top level professional drivers too.

Yes, we did the change the gear ratio in the car. Didn't seem to hurt the low end performance but I was hoping for a big change up top and with the stock turbo and 93 octane it didn't really help us.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

Interesting. Did you change the actual gear ratios or just the final drive ratio?

l8r)

 

Dave,
now looking back on the whole thing and knowing your competition....

Was your car in the 'unlimited' or 'budget' category and do you feel like you made the right choice?


n

 

Dave,


Congrats man, my hats off to you . Don't worry i will drink some for you .

 

Thanks for the questions guys, thanks for the interest too.

Ludikraut,
We changed the final drive only.

Nils,
Looking back our car was definetely in the budget catagory. I could have gone at this cheaper than I did and left the head/shortblock bone stock. With 450 dyno pulls on the stock engine though I was honestly worried about it, that was the only reason I changed. I was warned that going there and having mechanical failures was the worst thing that we could do. The car was very well prepared. The only other money that was spent that I would consider excessive was the suspension, but with how well the car performed and the comments from the editors that drove it, I would say it was money well spent. I am not saying that $5,000 for suspension is a budget build though! With the engine, head and suspension that added $9650 to our build, that is quite a lot of money. Other than that you guys know it was a Stage 4, porting of the intake and exhaust parts and an EMS, that only totals $6875. Then we had a big brake kit that was $1995. That is basically what the car consisted of. I would still call this a budget build for atleast the most part.

You ask if now looking back if I would take the same approach. My answer is an absolute YES!! I would only make one change and that one change would have been the difference between where we placed and where we would have easily placed. I'll know next time. Given 1 days notice I could take this same car back and completely change the outcome of the event.

This was a live and learn type of thing for me. I would trade the drag racing I do for being able to just do 2-3 events like this for the entire year, it was that good.

It was nice being "judged" on more than how fast we could make a car go in the 1/4 mile. Not that the other competitors opinions mattered in how you did but I heard just compliment after compliment on the car and the build quality of our parts, that to me was priceless. I mean this in a humbling manner, it made me extremely proud of what we do and why we do it......... for the love of the cars.

It's hard for me to put into words how great the event was and how important it was.....crazy.

I have to thank Robert Fuller for flying here and driving the car. I surely couldn't have done the job he did in it and honestly don't know anyone else I would have asked. We butt heads but at the end of the day I feel we are a good team. Very proud to not only sponsor his EVO but to have had him driving mine at this event. Sorry about the one thing we should have had and didn't Robert, ONLY that ONE thing though!

Also, although my brother Daniel and his employee Steve don't read these forums I also have to thank those two for completely busting their asses on the car whenever I would ask them to make a change on it. All the major work, mechanically, on the car was done by those two. Daniel runs/owns the service end of our shop and I don't know a better wrench than him. I have it made here with the guys that work with/for me, best crew a shop could ask for.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

Wow, congrats Dave and I cant wait to see the results. I'm glad you all had a good time and I would love to see you involved with some more competitions. Your shop gives great credit to this community and I for one and very proud of your fine shop representing the EVO!!!

 

I was there (with another entry) as well and I have to say that the Buschur car was really well prepared. I dont think that you could build a quicker, faster car for less money. Wait till you guys see Car & Driver TV, there should be some awesome footage of this car.

Good job to the Buschur crew, great to meet and hang with you guys

Jason

 

Wow, thanks a lot Jason. Very nice meeting you too. Really great bunch of guys at this event I thought. Nice putting faces/names together. Thanks for the compliments on the car.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com

 

Maybe this is your foot in the door to the magazine world, Dave! Congratulations!

 

When will the issue hit the newsstands?

 

comes out in the November issue, which hits the stands in October....