Good news first: Ryan Gates sets new NASA TT-A lap record at Road America in an AMS powered Evo X! Visit www.gates311.com for info on the car.

New Record - 2:29.7 :icon28:
Previous Record - 2:30.9
Tires: Nitto NT-01's
350whp/360wtq

Thanks to AMS Performance for the great power, needed it to keep up with the Vette! More thanks to Robispec for keeping the car flat and stable thru all the high speed corners, thanks to Girodisc for the rock solid brakes to slow the car down from multiple 145+ speeds per lap, Exedy USA for a clutch that held perfect thru the day, and Darkside Engineering for the badass wheels!

Make sure to click on High Quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_YuTFNbI8I



This was session 3 on Saturday, this was the 2nd lap of the session. This was the ONLY fast lap of the day, the car has an electrical issue...the "Engine Power" fuse kept blowing. It happened 3 times this weekend, no times for Sunday due to same issue.

Here's the story behind the weekend:

The weekend was fun, but was very problem filled. After the first TT session (Warm up) on Saturday, I was feeling good, had a great few warm up laps, got some heat in the new NT-01's, the car was running great and I ran a 2:33.xx, my fastest lap at R/A ever! I head out for the 2nd session and the car has no power, so I pulled off after 2 laps to diagnose the problem. Turns out that 2 gals of 110 leaded mixed with 9 gals of 98 unleaded is enough to burn up a H/F cat....sooooo after checking the cat, there wasn't a enough time to gut it, so I just took it out there running only the downpipe :tdown:

Onto the 3rd session, I saw that the time to beat was a 2:30.5 by a Natl. level Z06! Wow, new track record! I was pretty overwhelmed after seeing that, so I headed out just looking to do the best I could. After the warm up lap I ran 1 clean lap then went for a cool down lap to just get off the track, I didn't feel safe with all the backfires under the car. On the cooldown lap, I hit a pretty rough rumble strip and the car died....just coasted to a stop after the Carousel and waited to get towed. Well the problem ended up being a blown fuse, the "Engine Power" fuse.

I figured it was just a freak issue....it wasn't. Long story short, the car keeps blowing that same fuse any time I hit a rough rumble strip or jump a curb. I tried on Sunday for a fast lap, but after Canada corner I hit a rumble strip and the car died, so much for a good time. I just packed up and headed to Chicago to have the car looked over by AMS before Road Atlanta next weekend.

Again, thanks to AMS Performance, Robispec, Girodisc, Exedy USA and Darkside Engineering.

Anyone know a tire sponsor?????
Ryan
www.Gates311.com

 

WOW congrat's to your success!

 

That is awsome. Nice being all over the back of the vette. I knew the X could fly around a track with the best of them

 

Congrats on the new lap record AMS

 

Nice work. Congrats.

 

Wow rock on!

Might want to get this moved from the Show and Shine are :P

 

congrats

 

Sick Ryan, great job!

 

Congrats Ryan !!

 

congrats

 

congrats! this will shut up some competition guys

 

Congrats!

 

^^^^+1234!

 

Congrats. Is this the Midwest track?

http://www.nasa-tt.com//Midwest_Track_Records

Previous records
TTU 83 George Ellingson Corvette 2:31.52 8/5/07
TTS 969 Thomas Keough 911 2:30.61 8/4/07
TTA 129 Jesse White Corvette 2:30.99 8/4/07
TTB 193 Robert Dudek Corvette 2:40.70 10/22/06
TTC 175 John Slinkard S2000 2:39.68 10/22/06
TTD 711 Bill Biagi Mustang 2:44.51 8/4/07
TTE 191 Aaron Jongblordt GTI VR6 2:51.42 8/4/07
TTF 111 Allen Skillicorn Mazda 6 2:59.17 8/4/07

 

Ya, it was at Road America with NASA Midwest.

Thanks for all the good words guys!