Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Joel, if it says Snell Approved DOT; look on the inside for the sticker. It will be under the foam padding. There will be a rating there. As long as it's a 2000 or newer rating, it should work. I'm not clear on the class of helmet though as in M , SA , K, etc.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

lol I'll try my best spaz. but if i cant life will move on hahaha.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Will it? Will it really?

JK, the thing I've noticed is that the MRs really don't trap well, both you and Shawn had really low trap speeds for the power the car's making.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

just got back. didn't really know that i was going to actually go. I've got some videos and some pictures to show. Mark's 1G definitely surprised the crowd ;)

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Cool, can't wait to hear what he ran. I ended up pulling the head and fixing some stuff on the 1G today instead. Too many small things to fix to race it yet.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Not good, got 2 passes in. Track conditions sucked at my power. First pass off the trailer and the car went 10.1 @152, the track would not hold any power and I spun hard in first bogged into second and spun hard again in second. It was stupid. I should have just pulled out of the run but I wasn’t able to since adrenaline was affecting my decision making process.

Second pass was bad, popped a freeze plug out of the block when the car was bouncing off the rev limiter in first gear due to tires spinning, I was un aware of the issue and went down the track to a 10.0 @148, again spun in second bounced off rev limiter. I’m sure it was due to antifreeze soaked tires. And this time it spun in third too. Just stupid.

It will be an easy fix tomorrow, I hope I didn't fuck anything else up by making a pass with no coolant.....worried about head being warped or head gasket, fuck... Also my drivetrain was making some funky de acceleration noise and hard vibration, I think only one rear tire was spinning since the antifreeze was focused on the passenger side of the car, might not be good. We will see tomorrow.

If I go out again this year it will not be RF, maybe cedar for the midway shootout?

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

I heard Ron had some pretty good luck.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Why is it something is always breaking? These cars a cursed! You probably would have owned everyone there. Let's see a video!

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

This. Man is nuts, stock block, cams, turbo, intercooler, unported manifolds, etc.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Ron's car is crazy for what it has.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Ron has some crazy driving ability to exploit the best out of that setup. I wonder what its weight is? He is also running 2 piece rotors all the way around.
I would like to try some of those Hoosier radials on my Evo.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Car is fixed, drove it a couple of miles. I don't think there are any drivetrain issues don't know about the head gasket quite yet. I will post videos later.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Good to hear.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

In car video of my 10.1 @ 152. Thanks to Chris B @ MAP for borrowing me the GoPro camera.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9jvcLDMPScs&hd=1

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

[QUOTE=cmspaz;392157]Will it? Will it really?

JK, the thing I've noticed is that the MRs really don't trap well, both you and Shawn had really low trap speeds for the power the car's making.[/QUOTE

went to rockfall and again fastest time with me driving it was a 12.8 at 113, and that when i said here are the keys Ron he got the car to go a 12.1 at 113.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Maybe Ron can post here?

Glad to hear nothing got messed up Mark, sucks about the track though.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Ron's driving back from Rochester.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Mark, nice to see/meet you at Rockfalls.
Kinda cool how you even paid attention to my rotors. They are the only light weight mod left from the IX RS I sold. I decided to use them for this event. Prior to yesterday, my best time was 11.20 or 11.1 at 123mph. Somehow the cold weather was working yesterday even with 30 psi in the hoosiers(couldn't find a gauge to borrow).
As for weight, I don't know the exact number. I remember getting on the scale at Brainerd and it was around 3000lbs. With full interior. Saturday night I decided to remove the seats and use a light weight race seat, remove bumper beam in front(rear already gone), remove condenser fan, strut bar and swap rotors. I'd say I took out almost 100lbs. Never expected anything better than 10.9x but somehow it kept getting quicker. At the same time trapping the fastest ever for me.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

2900lbs is pretty light for an Evo, my stripped 1G weighed in at 2860.

Re: Rock Fall Sport Compact Day, Sept 17th?
 

Just uploaded some pictures from RF. I have some footage I'll have to go through later tonight if I have some time. Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2ofnine...7627581620731/