Do you have a shot of your engine bay?

 

Its pretty unflattering. I have a ported stock exhaust manifold with old chipping, peeling Swain Coating, FP Green with a polished compressor cover that has not been polished since 2006, black Nisei intercooler pipes with water spots/stains, Nisei mini battery tray with rusty bolts, brand new ARC air box with clean filters ($100 EACH), a raw brushed aluminum Pure Tuning intake pipe (makes more power than most competitors, dyno tested), DC sports titanium strut tower bar, no spark plug cover so you can see all the mess of wires . . . etc. . . definitely not show-car stuff here!

 

From 2 years ago. Now I have full size radiator, peeling Swain Coating, and red ARC air filters in the airbox. . .

 

Nice vids Jarrod. Good luck on the upcoming race!

 

Bump. More videos coming in 2011 from Mid Ohio, Autobahn, Gingerman, Grattan, Putnam Park, Summit Point, Carolina Motorsports Park, Gainsville, Daytona, NOLA, Barber Motorsports Park, . . . and hopefully more! Should be an EPIC year if all goes as planned!

 

So Jarrod, what are your plans for 2011?

 

Jarrod,

Noticed in your engine bay pic there is no sound deadening or insulation on your firewall. Is this standard for the RS or did you remove it? I can potentially lose a couple pounds there from UD/BD in bsp.

 

Currently my plans are to jump from HPDE3 to TT as quick as I can early this next year and then run TTS or TTU for the 2011 season, including the 2011 NASA Championships if I get enough events in to qualify. ALSO, I plan to run a series of 7 or so tracks in 9 days early in the year. More info should be coming soon regarding this endeavor . . .

As for the sound deadening - whatever is there is OEM. Nothing has been removed or added. If you want some more or better pics of firewall area I can probably provide . . . but it should be the same for all EVO RS's.

BTW - GOOD CATCH! Even after all these years I never noticed a difference in that between my '04 GSR and my '06 RS. I remember cutting that multi-layer sound deadening crap on my '04 to route a hole for various sensor wiring through the firewall. . .

 

Yeah, if you don't mind taking 1-2 shots behind the intake mani area that would be appreciated. Only reason I noticed is my engine bay is totally empty right now.

Had another questions for you, have you made any changes to the suspension setup when running road courses? I'm really thinking about getting mine out to a track day or two this year.

 

PMd the pics. As far as changes - I usually just run a little less toe out in the rear and higher wing angle to settle down the rear end. If you run the track days you might just give up on autocross!

 

Hey everybody now is the perfect time for removing sound proofing. With sub zero temperatures moving across the country this is the best time to open your garage door and let the cold air freeze the metal and sound proofing. Buy a nice clean rubber mallet and start breaking the sound proofing off. It will break like glass, in big pieces, and require very minimal clean up with a solvent when you warm back up. No scratches will happen and it will look factory fresh where the adhesive sound proofing was. The colder the better! dress warm and go at it.

 

Supposed to get down to 34 tonight.....for a whole 6 seconds

 

Which Summit Point event were you planning on attending?

 

Will be there for one of the stops of the 2011 One Lap of America.

 

Updated with vid from last weekend's NASA stop at Autobahn Country Club, South Course. Won TTU on Saturday, TTR on Sunday, and set a new TTR track record!