Ahhh, TGP! I ran there in my old car. Pretty basic, yet fun track. I plan on going back soon enough w/ the EVO for FTD .

 

Hey what Trans are you using martin....Thanks

 

we are using the stock tranmission.

Eric

 

Hey eric, which front cusco sway bar did you use?

 

AMS guys really enjoyed the videos . I am looking forward to trying my car out on a course, cannot really get the feel of the race car spirit on the streets scared of hitting someone . I have a family and being the cause of an accident would be brutal. Thanks again!

 

Rook,
I would suggest you attend the seat-time event Jon holds at Roebling. Track is very good to learn on, and you have lots of run-off at most places. I have looped it there, and hit nothing, so I feel pretty sure it is a good place for someone testing the spirit of their ride. Not to mention, you can see a fair amount of Evos there, to see how your car compares to others.

www.seat-time.com

Give a look, I am pretty sure I will make the next event, but I am out for the 25th of this month.

 

Since the 3071R is on the car it might be a good time to get some dyno #'s up for this turbo as well. That way people can se the shape of the curve and where it is against the other turbos.

Great to see AMS looking at more than just drag racing. Not everyone is into it and a well balanced car that does a lot of things well vs. 1 thing well is the way to go.

 

I'm guessing a 1:15 there is pretty fast, because it looked fast. STF, you've been on the track before how fast is 1:15, for R compounds that is?

AMS, can you give any more details about the Buddy Club setup?

 

1:15s is what he was running in the other car, David ran a 1:08.5 in the Evo.

The Street Modified SCCA Track record there is a 1:06.75 (the class it would run in)

We were faster than that.

We had the softest springs for the setup on the buddy clubs, i know they had 15 adjustment settings, single adjustable.

Jon K
www.seat-time.com

 

My personal best in an Evo, with just an MBC and SAFC2, was a 1:13's on street tires and stock suspension, less the rear sway, which was a adjustable Cusco. Not sure what class I would be in with that setup, or how it would rank.

That was before the run in the AMS car, which was 'considerably' quicker.

 

I was running 1:16's in a VW passat with KW coilovers, RE750 tires, FMIC, chip, and exhaust. Brakes were stock along w/ pads. Timing equipment was out of my friends ITA- RX7. I plan on going 1:11's or lower in my street tired EVO.

 

Martin, you are the expert but don't you think that you could have run more than 16-18lbs of boost safely?

 

Smogrunner, the goal for the day was to dial in the chassis and not worry so much about power. We knew the setup the car was running could easily make decent numbers, but Jon and he were working on getting the car dialed in.

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1:16 is a good time there, what kind of power did the car make, I would be curious. For perspective, my best in a stock-powered (except a K&N dropin), but suspension modified (sway, springs, pan-hard bar, subs) 96 cobra is @1:14:50, on decent street tires with stock brakes (back to back laps). I think the my Evo could have done better than a 1:13, but the tires were shot, and the stock suspension really denied me the ability to easily rotate, unless I lifted throttle, hence slowing me down. I found if I drilled it into the first corner, put it on the nose, it would rotate, but it made for inconsitent laps, and it heated the tires, slowing me down even more. If you watch the vid on 32vcobra, you can see the car slowed by one second in 3 laps.

With the coil-overs, I think 1:11's / 1:10's maybe a option, but I am really looking more for conistentcy rather than a one lap blow to sub 10's. When I can get the Evo to run 10 laps within 1/10th of a second of each other, showing consistent performance, then, maybe I will try something to put it in the record books.

 

Smogrunner,

I am sure we could have had the boost up more, Martin kept asking me all day.. "You want the boost up now?" "You want the boost up now?" "You want the boost up now?" ...call it the Evo tuner equivalent of "Are we there yet?"

I was the one insistent on not going crazy with the boost for a while because I wanted to be able to know what gains I was getting was suspension and adjustment and not throwing more HP at it.

The last two runs of the day we picked up the boost by a pound each time, because then with decent base settings I could then see how the car was going to change as we added power. It did very well, and the last run running the 18psi or so I was actually able to induce some throttle on rotation. The "bad" thing was that it made for two of the straights to be "too long for 3rd but too short for 4th." None of the Videos are from my fastest laps where I was either steady throttle to try to stop from catching 3rd gear limiter or banging away on the limiter on the two short straights.

Once we did some laps and Martin made the adjustments for my throttle modulation (guess that's not something they do in drag racing) there was no problem with boost, and I could tell he was itching to feed it more.

Jon K
www.seat-time.com

 

DId you have any trans work done or is it completly stock...