kyoo

iTrader: (29)

Longer 3rd and 4th may be worth the points, esp on the track maybe? Like I said before I have Shep's with 3rd 4th upgrade - decided since the trans was out of the car I'd do everything to it that I would want to, so I wouldn't have to do it again. May want to consider TRE too. I like the effort he puts into each of his jobs, though it does take a while.

I'm in central IL too, let me know if you ever wanna see what the gearing is like. Or maybe I'll finally make it out to the autobahn this summer lol and you can check out shift points/gearing there.

JDavenport

iTrader: (33)

Wow, that track record vid, you were cooking. Carrying a ton of speed into and through corners, very nice.


I've got the Evo 8 3-4 in my IX, but it's been in there since I started the track habit, so I don't know how it would compare. RPM drops seem very even gear to gear.

KleenWhiteMR

iTrader: (12)

congrats nathan. thats some great driving

rawkus

iTrader: (16)

Does it count as mod points to put a different year Evo's gear ratios in? (ie, not aftermarket)

Dan

JDavenport

iTrader: (33)

I PM'd Greg (TT Director) on the NASA board about it and he told me yes, it's a 3-point mod.

boomn29

iTrader: (47)

Yep. It falls into the category of creating a vehicle with options never available alltogether from the factory originally.

+3 pts - for altered gear ratios. That's 1 gear or all of them.
0 pts - for upgraded Final Drive.

I've through about the final drive, but I think that'd make things worse. There's no way I'd want shorter gears; so if I made everything longer it'd realllllly stretch out 5th. With a 4.11 it'd push 5th gear out like ~11mph.

I could run a larger tire. But I've got rubbing now so I know that'd take some work... But it might be worth it. Who knows; gonna run my next even as is and see how the trans responds.

Thx for the well-wishes and advice everyone!

rawkus

iTrader: (16)

Well that's too bad... I wonder if our case would be cause for excemption... we run an Evo VII supercross 5th gear. It was a legit option and knocks top speed down to about 149 or so.

Dan


(Added- Not that it matters much, I think our car is well into TTU status)

boomn29

iTrader: (47)

Yeah, in TTS/U/R you can do whatever you want as you're not counting pts anymore.

And to that point, if TTS is at some point in the future - because it mirrors the ST-2 ruleset for w2w that I have my eye on as well (GoForward, Bueller and Hamflex already there) I'd much rather have the VIII 3/4.
Hell, if it weren't for VIR or Road America, I'd like the 4.11 in there too AND the shorter .825 JDM 5th to pull it all back down. Not that I've been researching much...

hammerevo

iTrader: (1)

Well done!

white97dsm

Looking fast

rawkus

iTrader: (16)

Great minds think alike and apparently ours do as well!

Dan

boomn29

iTrader: (47)

NASA's official race report for Autobahn is out.

http://www.nasamidwest.com/pdf/press.../ABCCTTApr.pdf

In case you're wondering - They are written by each of the respective series directors.

asininedervish

iTrader: (7)

Hey boomn - wondering if you're thinking about doing the UTCC @ VIR again this year?

boomn29

iTrader: (47)

Funny you should ask, I got the initial reminder a few weeks back and recently updated my CarDomain page to try and get the voting process going. (Shameless plug to get votes here) Afterall, you have to be invited in and all.

Vote for me --> http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3234323

I've had it on my tentative list the entire year, but I just dunno. It was an exhausting trip last year and the mountain claimed my 04 Titan on the climb out so it was an expensive trip too! It was also the 3rd track weekend in a row and this year would be even tougher with 2 NASA events in the 2 weekends leading to it including Autobahn (160miles) and Mid-Ohio (460 miles). So that'd be a total of 3000 roundtrip towing miles in 3 weekends!

So overall July is kinda up in the air for me still. But the UTCC is on the radar!