Well, looks like it's a no go. The only time available was during a practice yesterday and he unfortunately damaged his motor.

Chedstar, yeah it's a PKA event - Tues through Friday.

That sucks, what type of frame/engine combination? I am assuming he was running a Honda engine.

Tony Kart I believe and yes it was a Honda.


Alright, I need a set of hands to help me Friday and Saturday. Anybody want to volunteer? Free admission, food and drink are covered by me. I just need you to help on a few thinks, like checking tire pressures, tire temps, cleaning car, etc.

Any suckers...uh, I'm mean takers??


Looks like I'm competing against a 2008 RX-7 :lol:

1. Rotary Speed Magazine, Modified Class: 2008 RX-7 (Driver Ryan Douthit)

http://www.drivingsports.com/blog/timeattack.html

What? You haven't heard of the 2008 RX-7? :) :p

(note to self: don't update entry list while hungover)

Well just got off the phone with Ryan and I may have two more free passes for people to be as my crew.

He also stated that another FD entered and said it was similar to mine. Be interesting to see this car.

Here's the entry list so far, more are entering:

1. Rotary Speed Magazine, Modified Class: 2008 RX-8 (Driver Ryan Douthit)
2. Subiesport Magazine, Modified Class: 2004 Subaru STI (Driver Tim Bailey)
3. Cobb Tuning, Modified Class: Mazdaspeed3 (Driver Eric Bizek)
4. Cobb Tuning, Pro Class: Nissan R35 GT-R (Driver Billy Brooks)
5. Adam Griffith, Modified Class: 1993 Mazda RX-7
6. Anthony Schwisow, Modified Class: 1971 Datsun 510 Wagon with Supra Swap(Driver Steve Pepka)
7. Michael Brusher, Pro Class: 1998 Honda Civic EX
8. Forged Performance, Pro Class: 2003 Mitsubishi EVO VIII (Driver Wayne Monahan)
9. 1ntenths Motorsports, Pro Class: 1993 Honda Civic (Driver Erick Miller)
10. 1ntenths Motorsports, Pro Class: 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo (Driver John Miller)
11. Hot Rod Racing, Modified Class: 2005 Subaru STI (Driver Rod Hindman)
12. Pro Autosports, Pro Class: 2002 Honda S2000 (Driver Jared Floyd)
13. AR Auto Service, Modified Class: 2005 Subaru STI (Driver Eddie Nakato)
14. Race Design Graphics, Modified Class: 1993 Mazda RX-7 (Driver Fred Roman)
15. Gig Harbor Autoworks, Pro Class: 2005 Subaru STi (Driver Mike Sampson)
16. World One Performance, Modified Class: 2004 Subaru STi (Driver Eric Cotten)
17. Performance Race Engineering, PRO Class: 2002 Subaru WRX (Driver Jason Richards)

And here's the link to the racing schedule this week: http://www.mazdagrandprix.com/calendar.php

See you guys there!

i will crew for you adam,is it going to be all day both days?

Sweet

No, just the afternoons from about 3:30 pm to 4:30pm on Friday and 4:30pm to ~11 pm Saturday, if you want to help pack up when it's over.

Call me sometime this week, I may need to get your full name and such so you can get in when you arive. 503-320-6495

i'm not sure if you know my screen name,this is Paul,white wide body first gen,currently working on my RX-3SP for street/strip.i will call you tomorrow.

wtf is fred doing w/an fd??? thats race dezign fred . . . . weird. it would be awesome to come but i think i made plans for saturday n friday i definatly get off at 530 . . . lame

I got the GTR at 1:27. tried to get the RX7 with the apex sticker. went off when i was timing him.
Got that M3 with the white fender crap at 1:30. and a black sti at 1:30.

Wish i could have went out with you guys. 250 thou for such little track time and having to buy the fire suite. Next year. why haven't i seen any of these RX7s at track days. Broke? apex seals???? hahaha

I went today and enjoyed myself! I really liked the small Formula's with the modified renisis motors. Couple crashes, loud cars, fast acceleration= good fun! The spec miatas were sweet. I still think the VW's had no place at the Mazda Grand Prix but w/e. I REALLY liked the camilleon colored FD. Too bad the hood wasn't up..

Thanks for the discount!!

Well your looking at the overall winner in modified class and RWD. 1:28.56, Second place is an STI with a very very fast driver Eddie Nakato (in anything he drives which if he had it his way today would have been every class Mod and Pro), 1:29.54.

During qualifying the break pads would lose their bit within 1.5 laps, well before the tires got up to proper temps, so the first 3 laps I when fast enough to get the tires up to temp, but kept the brakes and engine cool. I ended up with a 1:28.56. Next lap the line to the boost controller split and I saw 235 oil and 200 water. I need bigger oil coolers and hard lines.

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The COBB GTR with R-compounds and light mods did a 1:22 lap, damn.

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afgmoto1978 I loved your car, congratz on the win. It sounded great out there. A friend of mine was out taking pictures at the turn complex after the shekane (sp?). I'll post em' when he gets it up. There should be some good action shots.

What sideskirts do you have? I noticed that you had a good mmount of work done to focus air across your oil coolers/radiator/intercoolers. What material did you use to do that? I was looking to do something similar but I wasn't sure how I could make it happen without a ton of fiberglass/aluminum panel work (that I have no experience with).

What harness/roll bar is that?

Congrats on the win!

I didn't see all of the time attack, but on the runs we did see, it was generally agreed that the silver STI in the modified class was the fastest car through the chicanes. (was that Eddie? )

He had the car on the limit all the way through 1,2 and 3.

Most of the TA cars we saw could have been pushed a little harder through there.

Easy to judge from the stands I guess, but at least I have had some hot laps around the track, just not real recent.


How much boost were you running when the line split?

I'm a little surprised that oil temps got to 235. What's the max you should see?
Seems to me it's around 240, 245?

Howard Coleman is using stock oil coolers, and he's not known for going slow. I wonder why the difference?

Here's the car at the awards ceremony:


https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...1&d=1217187107

afg ftw!!!

Oh man, I knew I was going to miss all the fun :(.

I got Erics 93 MB Touring LS1 finished. You need to take it for a spin. It feels nose heavy.
And I watched the 3 rotor I built a few years ago blow on the dyno :( However steve kan did a excellent job tuning my car and I cant wait to get my new Greddy SMIC (for now).
My new camera should be here soon, lets get some good shots before you loose the stickers.

Yeah that was Eddie. There were a few fast cars with not so fast drivers, but all had fun, well most did.

It wasn't the boost so much. This viton material is turning out to be not to robust when forced onto something of larger diameter.

Your right 240F is normal in a competition environment, it just the rate that it got to that temp was rather alarming to me. Since oil is 40% of a rotaries cooling and the amount of power I'm generating, going bigger on oil coolers won't hurt.

Agreed, Howard Coleman is fast. As far as what he's running and what he sees for oil temps would be a question to ask him.


Thanks Mitch, did you come by and watch?

And yes Marc you did miss a good showing. I did a nice at the limit drift, almost to the wall, but saved it maneuver at turn 12 in front of the stands during qualifying.

(Not my pictures)

http://www.dylanwiggins.com/gallery/...2/DSC_2269.jpg
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Full gallery http://www.dylanwiggins.com/gallery/...d_prix7-26-08/

I was there in a jetta tdi cup car. It was a pre-loved car and number 25. The one that didn't end up in the wall at the end. I started 28th due to tranny problems and ended in 20th. Made a lot of awesome passes and was only handed 3 positions by people going off. No damage which was my main goal and I couldn't have moved up any farther than 20th since there was a huge gap between me and 19th by the time i got there.

Good seeing the guys from corksport! I'll probably be coming up there to visit the place tomorrow.

The Pre-Loved car (the one that went into the wall) had some "interesting" lines through the chicane. My wife and daughter were both trying to figure out what the heck he was doing. :hahaha:

Granted, that set of corners can be a little tricky when you're new to them.

I've asked: https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/dual-oil-coolers-cheap-633480/page4/

I saw the impact of the other Pre-loved car. He hit it around +50-60 mph, fast enough to get the rear tires off the ground by 2 feet.

Good racing, but those cars are too quiet.

Thanks for posting those pics Parid

The side skirts are Shine Auto Feed Replica's and currently I just have Styrofoam block and aluminum ducting tape in place, I made a aluminum duct for the IC out of thin aluminum sheet. Later this year I will be making CF ducts for the larger oil coolers I will now be getting and for the IC/Radiator.

Race Shop four point cage and Sparco Six-Point.