Car runs great and is something to be proud of. But definitely should not be calling it a Evo record. It has absolutely nothing to do with a Evo driveline, witch is the real challenge with drag racing these cars. In the 4g63 unlimited chassis/drivetrain world this car does not even scratch the surface.

 

exactly. Just having a 4g63 and an evo shell doesnt make it an evo. If you wanna talk just 4g63 powered cars this is well behind the competition.

 

Wasn't that car built of an evo 8? It just looks like they added evo 9 exterior parts. Non the less its a one of kind build I can appreciate.

 

Good god

 

Agree 100%

 

Dam that thing moves out, still its impressive

 

When ams changed their rear end with a 3000gt no one had a problem or even when the bad bish had a chevy 8.8 rear it wasn't a problem.but here we have some records bean broken all all u guys can do is find faults.ill do ne thing to go fastest at the end of the day it's the title I want .I would sap in my opinion for a 2600+ car set up for auto cross to run that number is dam good here in the us we have even lighter race only evo that can't accomplish what was done .But hopefully soon by stm.

 

Purpose built drag cars do not impress me, personally. At least not on a forum such as this with 99% street driven cars. A street trim, streetable car that can swing to the track after work and run 9-10sec 1/4 does impress me. When I had my SRT-10 truck, there was a guy on the forums who had a purpose built drag "SRT-10 truck". The only thing that was still SRT-10 truck was the shell of the body, kind of, and the engine block was still a Viper V10. Everything else on it was literally custom made, one-off parts. He had well over 100k invested in it. Because of that, it wasn't impressive to me that it ran 8's or whatever it was that it ran. It should be that fast with that amount of money.

 

The nancies of this generation are baffling.

Always want to nitpick.

 

I understand all points. If you understand the real challenge of these cars than you would see the difference. A rear change, or gutted light weight drag car is definitely the outer edge of what these cars are. When you take a car like this and move the motor north/south, get rid of the transaxle style drivetrain, have a sheet metal firewall/floors, and a cut up chassis, hang some body panels that resemble a BMW 3 series or 2dr Evo or whatever they call that thing that does not qualify as a CT9A chassis any longer. Thats not just a point of view in the import world. The domestic classes work the same way. Any thing cut behind the shock towers from the front and in front of the towers in the rear is no longer a stock style suspension/chassis.

No one here including myself are taking for granted the hard work and accomplishments that has been achieved here. I happen to love the 4g63 in all platforms. Jet racing(eclipse) resent runs are nothing short of amazing, but if you expect that to take away from John's DSM record you are sadly confused.

The record for the "record" is still safe with STM..If I am not mistaken 8.34 is the ET record for the CT9A chassis period, for now...

 

Impressive. Congrats on the record.

 

Whatever you guys want to call it is fine. But I love that sequential shifter. Would be great in a street Evo, like a Hollinger available for GT-R's.

 

I'm with this.

 

The sequential shifter is badass.

You can get the whole package here for an Evo... http://www.drenth-gearboxes.com/prod...vo-ix-seq.html

There's a street Evo that has it now. Bunch of videos on youtube.

 

Some mis-information in your post. This car is 100% CT9A chassis only with 10" out the middle and 3" out the roof. Then stitched back together with stock metalwork. Done to make the car unique. It's a heavy sucker too at 2650Lbs much heavier than most sub 2200Lb drag Evos.

I turned the engine round 5 years ago as I wanted to make the driveline reliable. Car runs Holinger RD6-S gearbox, no different to fitting a non std PPG box. Has an R33 GTR rear diff, no different to fitting a 3000GTO rear end, has a R33 GTR front diff, no different to fitting an aftermarket transfer case (Holinger or other). So not quite sure what the issue is??

Anyway the current holder Andre Simon from Speedtech NZ has congratulated us on "nudging his record lower" hell it's stood for nearly 5 years now!!

Our car is street registered and did this time on 17" street tyres. It's done a proven 202Mph and laps UK circuits much faster the bespoke BTCC racing cars with pro drivers. So I think the engineering behind it is pretty good. I'm well aware you can't please all the people all the time so won't try.......but facts are facts and records are the same. New target for CT9A is 8.22, believe it.

Si