^ I would assume that we won't find out till the magazine issue comes out.

 

 

WOW! I am just blown away by the support. The editor of Modified is a big fan of FD's and he talked with us a long time today. I told him of the support from the Rotary community and he thought that was really cool. He said he was putting the support from the Rotary community in the article.
I made 635 and 482 TQ. Yesterday was a record high of 95F and today was 93F. I don't think any other rear wheel drive car made more. An EVO made 742 and another 700+whp AWD car was yet to dyno. My car was at 100 dB and the limit was 95 so that cost me 5 points. If you pass emissions, you get 5 bonus points. I think the limit was 18 ppm HC and I was over 600ppm. LOL!!!! I guess the cat didn't make that much difference...
We are on the big road course tomorrow. It has a 1/2 mile front stretch. Probably 150mph..... The tires are really slick though. It could be tricky. Look for some updates tomorrow.

Thanks again for the support. That is the most amazing part of the whole deal.

 

Good job Bobby! Is the drag event last? You could get some drag solution for those tires to make them hook! Might check the rules first.

 

600 HC is still pretty damn impressive for a catted rotary power car making that much power(cats are a huge restriction so balancing flow for emissions isn't easy).

wish i could show some support but i'm about broke until i get some of these cars done, best of luck in the next events.

 

Great numbers Bobby

 

My phone has been blowing up day long like a Christmas tree with texts and pictures

Awesome news guys, we are closing in on almost $1000 in donations to the paypal account listed in this thread...hell yeah

We're all real proud of you Bobby, you're representing the community like a champ just as I knew you would

Btw, I tore down your son's longblock tonight.....still at shop at past 1am.... Don't worry about my findings, just concentrate on kicking *** out there

 

Are they measuring this at idle or WOT?

 

It would be great to see you guys. DGRR is great fun so make it happen

Back to the thread, some pics from the event:

Car Arriving


Bobby Getting His Inner Rice On (Stickers!)


End Result


Pulling In For The Dyno


Dyno Results

 

This is just a great thing and I am very happy for you. Can't believe it's that hot but welcome to AZ. It's a dry heat right?

Regarding your cat, what are you using? I'm going to get back to putting one (or two) on the car. Am going to do what RotorMotor suggested, run two in parallel.

As for the tires, are you saying they're not that great? Or that they are street tires versus racing tires?

 

Hey guys... well, I took a break from work Friday to head over and check out the Dyno and say Hi to Bobby and his brother Tim. Great guys who are doing an incredible job representing for us!! This early season heat spike is a total fluke. A week ago it was in the 60s with rain and by the middle of next week it's forecast for the upper 70s and low 80s. Last year's event hit the same hot weather. Hopefully next year our luck will improve Heading out this morning (Sat) to chat with Bobby/Tim and watch them compete for a few hours and support the cause. From what he told me, they're packing up and hitting the road this evening post event to be back to work by Tuesday. Truly epic dedication and commitment to representing! If you haven't already done so, please donate if you can!! Every little bit helps! I'll post up some pics this afternoon!

 

This is just plain awesome! Good luck and i cant wait to grab my issue.

It sucks that theyre limiting the participants to crappy tires. Kinda defeats the purpose imo.

Good luck! Hope you do us proud!

Oh and sidenote... You are crazy to pull that with a 4runner lol

 

^What is so crazy about pulling it with a 4 runner?

 

max towing is 5k so he should be ok but ideally you dont go to 100% of capacity lol

 

Two more:

 

Just made a donation, I hope it can still help a bit
Good luck, show them what the RX7 is capable of

R_1

 

Enjoy your time there or if to late hope you guys had allot of it..

Send a litle something also..

Hope it helps.

Chip U
ChipsMoto...$$&$$$

 

Lowered and a set of wheels is all it takes to make an Fd look better than any non-Supercar at an event. I should have donated him some 99 spec tailights. Bobby, good luck and safe travels and make sure to swap out those tail lights when you get back.

 

UPDATE!!!

Not sure exactly how to interpret this but here is the message:

"Time Attack"
Felt fast
Broke transmission
We took spare
Going to an RX7club.com members house with a lift
Should be ready for event"

Major props to the AZ member. Go guys!!

 

They are heading to one of our club members house with a lift. It's about 40 minutes from the track. Time attack finals are at 4 pm (7 pm eastern). They should have it up on the lift by now. Definitely broke the tranny. They looked competitive on the track speedwise. There was an Evo that was stupid fast, but most others were pretty close speedwise. Temps are close to 90F again today, so he can't run "hot laps" the entire time. His brother Tim was driving the session when they broke the tranny.

Pics from this morning and loading the broken beast to head out for repairs....

Launching from the start of autocross



Bobby (left) with brother Tim (right) at the conclusion of autocross



Bobby cooling her off in the pits with his gas powered weed blower



Checking the wiring on his oil cooler fans



Brother Tim leaving for time attack practice



Tim on the track







Broken tranny, but heading for a swap out (12 pm Phx time). Need to be back in 4 hours to run the actual time attack event!

 

Tranny swapped out and they are headed back to the track.

 

I'm sure it wasn't Tim's house where the car was taken too, it was Masin's. His house is about that far and he has a lift

Also a forum member and former vendor.

 

Just saw this thread.
Glad rich made the thread to help bobby out.
Bobby has made it to DGRR many times and definitely a great representation of the rotary community. I hope all went well and hope to hear great news from the event.
See you at DGRR Bobby, Rich, David, and others.

 

Good luck Bobby with the car way to represent the rotary community.

 

They are on their way back now but wanted to let everyone know how much they appreciate the support of the community, from the well wishes, to the cash and goods, to the awesome help they got out in AZ from forum members. They represented the community well but couldn't have done it without the support of everyone.

Modified has asked that the results not be made public so you'll have to wait on those. Bobby did say that he wishes he had a professional driver.