The infamous Escudo from the Gran Turismo games!!!???

Congrats to David, Allison, and AMS!

 

Not sure how I missed this post, but I'll try to answer the few questions I've seen.

First off, huge thanks to AMS and DHP for building some one-off bits to get us on the mountain, and Ace transmissions for keeping us up there after a front diff failure.

I was under the impression the AMS rally brake kit is available. Its currently listed on their website. Give AMS a call to find out for sure.

Onto the aero package. The front setup was something I think DHP did for the first time, and it was kind of a last minute thing to add the canard assembly, so I'm sure they didn't have a chance to do any testing to get numbers. I can say that the car felt perfectly balanced all week, so I'd assume that the front was keeping up with the rear so to speak. After a closer look at Monster's car, I've got a few ideas to bounce around with DHP for next year.

The car parked next to us up at the top was the newer version of the Escudo. I spoke with Monster Tajima for a bit up at the top. It makes 1000hp at sea-level, and he estimated that it makes only 600hp by the 14,110 ft summit. Weight is ~2250, but I can't remember if that was with him in it or not. Either way, not a bad power-to-weight ratio. The escudo was a twin-engined car, but the new one is a single engine. Its a V6 of some sort, and uses smallish turbos (think 3076-35R size), and has remarkably small diameter intercooler piping. Its got a monster velocity stack with a large intake plenum. The new car is an "XL-7," and its got extensive aero on the underside as well. Its all flat bottom with lots of tunneling to take advantage of the air flowing underneath the car.

Thanks for the kind words!

Dave

 

Very nice, I spent a few hours the other day going through the build-up on this car.

I should have made more time to go to one of these while I lived in CO.

 

Sweet... Didn''t even know pikes peak was going on.. lol i live here too.. Congrats Dave thats a sweet accomplishment... GO EVO's

 

The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is the second oldest motorsports race in America, and has been run anually since 1916.


Congrats again Dave, I need to see the car now, last I saw it was still 1.5 cars in pieces

 

I'm up for an EVOM get together next year at the hill climb. Drink some beers, bbq and watch dave tear it up. The more the merrier......

 

The car will be on display this saturday at the Discount Tire that's at I-70 and Tower Rd out near DIA. See map here.

In addition, I've got 3 more races for the car this year, though the PPIHC aero package has to be removed based on the rally rules. I'll put a new post in the motorsports forum announcing the next hillclimb.

Dave

 

damn Dave K., nice runs and good running car you got there, for the most part. Too bad your old gtx could'nt have been there. Have fun with that beast of an evo of yours.

 

Congrats Awesome work!!
THat thing looks MEAN!

 

Congrats!

I never realized that power drops that much even in a turbo car at those elevations.

 

Yeah, at first it seems like waaay too much of a power drop to be true, but with my turbo testing, I think those numbers could be pretty accurate, especially when you consider how much less boost the turbos are physically capable of making.

In Denver at 5000 feet, my stock turbo would spike to 26 and fall off to 18 as the revs climbed. At 9000 feet, the stock turbo would spike to 22 and immediately fall to 15psi (with the MBC settings the same). With some fiddling, I was able to get the stock to spike to 20 and fall to 18.

Just before PPIHC, I installed a FP White turbo, and again had it tuned to 26 psi in Denver. Since I didn't want to worry about eeking out every last HP, I just made the decision to turn the boost controller to ~20psi and forget about it. I'm sure by the top of the mountain it was making less boost, but I didn't feel like taking my eyes off the road to look at the boost gauge.

The guys who are drag racing can stick a larger turbo on the car to make up for the altitude losses, or if they're not pushing the turbo to its limit, they can just crank the boost up a bit further. For us road racing types, that means an even bigger spool-up sacrifice, or more heat heading towards the intercooler. For our first run in the new car I just decided to deal with the lower power outputs as the car heads up in altitude. As the saying goes, "to finish first, first you must finish."

Dave

 

You should bring it by sundays auto-x

 

Just wanted to let anyone local who was thinking about checking out the car on Saturday at the Discount Tire, that this will no longer be happening this weekend. DT is currently working on taking care of the valve stem recall, and they wanted me to come on a day when things were a bit less hectic, as they don't want people jumping all over the car if someone isn't there to keep an eye on it all day. I'll be sure to post back up when we reschedule it.

Thanks,

Dave

 

sweet... congrats!

 

CONGRATS DAVE AND ALLISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks AMS for the support too!!! I saw the car in Salta's shop a week before the race, it already looked good, but it even looks better at the race!!

You guys should think about sponsoring those guys for the Dakar Race that now takes place in south America!!