I was there for the finish,it was awesome to watch paul slide around the skid pad. shiv was cool to, answered all my questions.the srt-10 truck shredded his tires,I still have a piece of his steel belt in the evo. congrats again paul and shiv.

 

Awesome. I can't wait to read more... Exposure like this is the kind of thing that helps me pull up to a Shelby Cobra club meet and about 1/2 the guys (older men) came right over to check out my car. Thanks for doing so much to help the Evo get the Upper Level respect it deserves. Don't call it a comeback!!!

 

From C&D write up

With the top three positions essentially decided after the previous day’s time trials at Road America, in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, the only real drama in the skidpad competition was the struggle for the top spot in the Mid-Price sedan category.

Like the entire One Lap campaign, this battle began on the Tire Rack skidpad, where Paul Gerrard’s Mitsubishi Evolution VIII posted one of the worst scores while Blake Fuller’s Subaru WRX STi scored near the front of the pack.

Although Gerrard’s Mitsu was in the top five or six runners at every circuit through the week, and actually posted the quickest time of all in the first road circuit time trial on a damp track at Heartland Park in Kansas, Fuller was always close behind.

Thus it came down to who could circle the skidpad quickest, and Gerrard prevailed, winding up seventh to Fuller’s 15th, nailing down class honors as well as fifth in the overall standings. Fuller, working with about half the horsepower of Gerrard’s highly-tuned Mitsubishi, was a very creditable sixth overall.

Funny how they were saying it was 'stock' when they were running a piggyback ecu and makeing in the range of ~450hp...

As for the daily driver, I meant that most of the top cars could be daily driven, but you probably would not want to. Sure you could, but would you want to drive around a race car all the time? I guess I am too old for that...

Great work

 

I wonder how some of those could even be considered street legal to tell ya the truth.. As for the Shivs Evo making twice the STi's power, no way. not in my humble opinion, but I'll defer that to Paul and Shiv who hopefully will elaborate on it's "tune" in both handling and power. Also seeing how this was as much an endurance event and making each event was critical, I hope Paul would elaborate on how hard he pushed the Evo. Was it 10/10ths the entire time, or were there times were 9/10s or 8/10s was more prudent simply for the endurance factor.

Compared to the factory sponsored folks who in the case of the Ford guys calling deerborn for approval to buy a caprice to pulls its motor for use to conitnue on, I wonder if Shiv would have such a luxury if $30k were needed to buy an Evo for a driveline..

With all things considered, David just slew a whole field of Super Goliaths with a very practical inexpensive rock!

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....rticle_id=8093

 

Grats Shiv and Paul - now go get some sleep

 

Shiv: What weight oil did you use and what brand? What kind of oil mileage did you get & how many oil changes?

 

Great job guys!!! Everyone knew that an EVO is a great track car, but I'm still shocked about Paul and Shiv winning the 1/4 mile drag. There was some expensive competition. Anyway, congratulations !


Sounds like someone's reaching for excuses

 

If Shivs Daily Driver is a highly tuned Mitsubishi, I wonder what they would consider the HKS Full Carbon Fiber Evo 8.75 TRB.. IT would have fit in more with some of the other rides there, heh.

 

Just wait until shiv get's back and makes his changes and does some testing with the set up. He will make it avaible to his customers.

Congrats guys!!!

 

Yep, they were full of it. They were telling people it was stock - except for the suspension... Only to get a sneek peek at them tweeking the piggy back ecu. Pretty funny I guess.

As Shiv said, Paul drove the wheels off the Evo!

 

Conglats !!!

 

Great Job Shiv and Paul! Your combined efforts prove to everyone watching exactly what we here in the Evo world already have come to expect.

 

YAWN.... just woke up. I think I'll be going into work a little late today

Blake Fuller's STi was remarkably strong. We went out to dinner later that night and with four of us loaded in the car, it pulled way harder than I remember any stocker pulling But still, he drove it very well and it held up just fine. We became good friends. But unless his car was making 230-250bhp, we weren't making twice his power. Realistically, his car was making 340-360bhp and our car was making 450-500bhp, depending on which map we were running.

And yep, anyone who lives nearby knows that my red little stinker is my daily driver. It has 35k miles on the clock despite being one of 3 cars in our shop's stable. It's nothing more than a standard Stg 2 kit with a ported head, intake manifold, rod bolts and headstuds. The clutch is an Exedy twin plate with Cusco front and rear differentials. The diffs smoothened out magically with a few bottles of Redline Friction Modifier-- thanks to ogvw and robi for the heads up. No need to rebuild as we once thought.

For giggles, during the last 6500miles/8 days, the car:

-Sucked down 650 gallons of fuel. Anything from 90oct to 118oct.

-Consumed 1/4 quart of oil.

-Got one oil change (Redline 20w 50 baby!)

-Had the brake fuel bled twice

-Got one tranny and read diff fuel change (Redline 75/90 with a ton of Friction Modifier)

-Lost no compression on any cylinder

-Listened to no less than a 100 CDs

-Tore off both front plastic wheel liners

-Melted both front ABS sensors

-Towed a 700lbs trailer every day and never missed a beat

-Launched hard 25 times (standing starts, remember?)

-Liquified 2 engine mounts, 1 drivestaft mount and a diff mount.

-Got a nail in one tire (which was patched in Chicago-- thanks Swavek!)

Pretty neat, huh?

Wow... what an experience. Despite the lack of sleep, Paul and I had a great time. What a way to learn about these cars. Everyone's encouragement (and some of the smack talk on Socalevo.net ) kept us going strong. Thanks to everyone!!!

Sincerely
Shiv

 

Good job.

 

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