Seems like an appropriate drag car to me

 

'Mericans gonna 'Merica!

 

Papadakis Racing tore down the engine if you guys are curious.

 

LOL! See my thread: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/lo...rformance.html

The wife dailys that car for now. I take it out from time to time though and once "by accident" on the track.


Otherwise I suspect the older r35s will feel archaic compared to these newer chassis. Even if it's numbers are better.

 

Nice, good details there. Its definitely the wife getting it and matches what she likes to drive quite a bit. I want more raw than the Evo but she loves the Evo on course (autoX) and doesn't want anything more difficult. I think the Evo is easy mode but cant deny its fast.

I'm really looking forward to adding a new dynamic to driving at our house. We have the Evo for being hardcore track, Touareg for utility, RV for travel and getting out of the house. Wifer loves the SQ5 also but at the end of the day its just another SUV we don't need and the Tesla lets us have something new and interesting. The response is hard to ignore with electric especially coming from 20 years of turbo lag.

I may build something V8 swapped for a screwing around car just to fully round out what we have and offset the Tesla so people aren't fully thinking I'm just an environmentalist

 

Nice vid. Sub'd to his channel. I like how he narrates the videos. No annoying yelling, flashy graphics, etc.

I was interested in the "performance" of the Tesla. I rode in and drove in my friends.... it accelerated really fast. But, after two launches, I was done. It just didn't stir my soul or interest me in the least. That's just me, though. I know it's a popular car for a lot of reasons. At least I can say I tried it. My buddy says he has more fun trying to hyper mile and make stop lights without braking than he does with the acceleration. He said even he was over it in a day.

 

please... we all know its your inner honda ricer kid that couldn't resist subscribing to Papadakis

 

You can take the boy out of a Honda.....

 

It was really interesting tech, I hope that rocker/lash adjuster retainer clip trickles down. That rear timing chain doesn't seem appealing from a repair standpoint. Hopefully its problem free, and cam swaps aren't going to require you to pull the engine.

 

I, too, found the timing thing odd. I seriously doubt a timing chain replacement can be done with the engine in. Looks like the engine sits pretty far back.

 

Agreed. I was a little concerned about the casting of the cylinder head. It doesn't look like there is much space to install high duration cams and I didn't expect them to use a roller/rocker style setup as I thought they would go with flat tappet. I'm interested to see how the new intake cam features work together and sure hope that the closed deck aluminum block wouldn't need to be sleeved to break 600whp.

 

A lot of modern engines have the rear timing chain set up. I don't really understand the purpose. And I've looked around, there aren't really any white papers on the purpose it serves. Seems pretty silly..

 

The 2JZ head has to be clearance for big cams. I'm sure this will be no different. Also likely that a kit to delete that variable lift stuff will be something that comes out fairly quickly for racing apps.

 

Usually its a lazy way of updating an engine to accept overhead cams or cam phasers. Placing the chain case at the front would require redesign of accessory mounting.

 

this kid went from the showroom floor to the track to w2w racing