Fresh off the press from Tim Harper who was RochesterDSM team captain last year:

I'm really excited about this years event and assuming the car holds together and the nuts behind the wheel are consistant we should finish quite well in the overall standings. The bar was set high after seeing how much community backing the Mitsubishi Galant VR4 got last year, but I'm confident that we can rally just as much support through the Evo X community and Evolutions in general that it will be a great experience as well.

The Evo X certainly seems to be the perfect platform for such an undertaking and I plan on making sure that the car is in 100% ready to race shape before the event. As soon as there is a break in the weather I'm going to verify the latest changes have brought power output up to 550 crank HP on the local STM dyno. I've been working with Darkside Engineering to get a nice set of BC Racing ER Coilovers (10k/12k) installed on the car before the event. I'll be getting as much shakedown time in as possible with my co-driver Sean Caron during the month of March and April so that there are no surprises. You can see much of the car details at this location:

onelap.rochesterdsm.org/therides/the-evo-x/

I'll be contacting potential sponsors for the event personally which will typically be those that I've had a great experience with in the past. Any vendors that are interested can PM me about the details as well and I'm sure we can work something out! In the above Garage link you will see a "Future Modifications" section and these items are areas we are are considering for upgrades before the event although we should be fine with what the car has now. Considering the fact that each car will cost roughly $6000 to field for this event, cash sponsors are going to be highly prized as well to offset costs.





Official One Lap of America website: http://www.onelapofamerica.com/

 

Spend a day on Suspension setup doing bump-rebound, you'll be surprised how much of an edge this will give you.

Then spend another day on toe-alignment, the X's can be quite agressive, although keep and eye on the 7000+ miles you'll be doing also when setting toe. We once ran out of tyres somewhere in New MExico on a sunday afternoon. But we were leading class... Got 2nd that year.

 

Definitely. We'll be spending a bit of time on suspension tuning pre-events. The EvoX is going to undergo a pretty radical suspension change and the goal is to get it fine tuned by beginning of April.

 

I'm not sure if one of you guys have a set, But I plan on ordering corner scales very soon. You are welcome to them when ever.


-Em

 

cool

 

I'm going to lean heavily on Sean to get us mostly dialed in after install and let the car settle for a week. Then see about corner weighting it at STM with Sean and get it professionally aligned. I think I am going to favor -2.5* Front / -1.5* Rear and mild toe settings versus -2.0* Front / -1.0* Rear with more aggressive toe. It seems the inside edges of the front tires really get torn up fast with the toe out settings. It would also be nice if we can find a setting that allowed me to lower the camber ~.5* up front for daily driving if the -2.5 ends up being a bit too much for typical use.

Thanks Emery! I can always count on you guys helping us out when in need!

 

now where is the picture of the VR4?

 

Oh we got pictures...if you want to see the back of the car just ask Chris..

 

That could mean two things, that you just passed me and pulling away...

or

That I just caught up to you and threatning to pass!

It will be good 'ole friendly competition that will push us both a bit harder to finish well. I'm comfortable with the current power levels on the X, maybe 50 hp more would be somewhat safe as then I could dial back the boost some to get similar HP as it sits now at 27 psi. The biggest worry is driveline issues or something not liking the stress on the stock block. I've read too many failures at higher boost levels with Meth lately when for the most part those people didn't have any knock, just lots of torque.

In the handling department I think the Yokohama AD08 and corner weighted coilover suspension is going to make this car handle incredible thanks to Sean being such a suspension Guru. Did I mention his hourly rate to work on the VR4 setup?

It's going to be somewhat busy over the next 14 weeks but it will be all worth it once we run the event.

 

SUBSCRIBED! keep us updated I will be following the progress. This is awesome I wish I had an opportunity to do something of this measure.

 

Also can you use the perrin psrs kit to gain the extra -.5 camber. Or am I way off here?

 

Will do, it is going to be a blast for sure. I plan on posting some of the best in car videos I find for all the tracks we will be running so that people get an idea of what road courses we are hitting this year.

"Improve turn-in and increase handling prowess with PERRIN Positive Steering Response System (Anti-Lift Kit ALK)"

I think it's more of a way to get an extra 1.5* of caster and improve turn in. Looks like it has potential and isn't overly expensive. I can already alter the camber as much as I would ever need with the BC Racing Coilovers so this would just tweak the setup a bit more. I'm wondering how brutal this would make the ride for a daily driver, the extra benefits seem like it could be worth it though.

 

We have created a Rochester DSM One Lap fan Page. I think when this all started, we didn’t appreciate the difference between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Page.

Once we started on the trip itself, it became very difficult to maintain an Internet connection long enough to update everything and the Facebook group fell behind. Having a Facebook Page will allow us to post updates from emails and also give us a better visibility footprint to people who do want to keep up with us.

While it seems redundant in nature, I can see the Page being more useful to us than the Group. Take a minute to become a fan of us on the Page to keep up with the 2010 events through Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roches...2633384?ref=ts

I actually wrote up a quick article on the advantage of the fan page, since we had a lot of questions ourselves.

http://www.stephenjburke.com/2010/02/facebook-pages/

Thanks for you support,

RochesterDSM One Lap team

 

Subscribed. Best of luck! I look forward to reading about your progress!

 

More Evo fans are needed, don't let the DSM/VR4 guys beat us out!

I've also done some updating on the website recently in addition to the VR4 and Evo X logos being updated.

Updated details on car setup and specs:

http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/therides/


Updated driver profiles, namely Sean Caron and myself:

http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/about/


Updated event map that includes links to all track websites, track maps, and a sample video of Evo's running all the tracks!

http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/the-event/





Stephen is working on finalizing the sponsor pdf but any vendors that wish to consider sponsoring us in some form are more than welcome to contact us before that is completed. With the event 12 weeks away we are going full bore even if most people are still in winter hibernation mode.