Scalliwag

They screwed up on their website and are at least as of right now showing the results on the wrong page. They are showing up on next months race.
As of right now Ken Scheepers won the first round qualifying round in All-Motor class with a 10.79 run. Everyone else is 11.01 or slower. Jesus Padillo is 4th.
Scott Mohler who is usually our (us rotary folks) piston nemesis is in 5th.
The times are pretty slow compared to the races earlier in the year.
In the Pro class Ara Arslanian was dq'ed for some reason. Abel Ibarra must have broke becasue he ran a 27.08
Here is the link to the results as of now. http://nhraimport.com/2003/events/ra...alifying1order
If they fix it I (or someone else) with put another link.

kabooski

traction at atco must suck
cause everyone all classes are pretty slow
compared to past races lol

Scalliwag

They are really slow to update the website. It is getting aggravating

RX794

You think that's bad, you gotta check out the IDRC website, lol.

Scalliwag

What is worse is that if I would have read the recap page I would have seen that because of rain and a couple of oil downs they shut it down after only one round of qualifications. Damn I have to remember to read the recap pages!

Scalliwag

The first round qualifications today are faster. Ken is still holding first and Jesus has moved to 3rd. Scott Mohler picked it up and is in 2nd. Jesus needs a better time for the next round so him and Ken have a shot at first and second.
What has happened on two occasions is Scott got to run unopposed the last round while Jesus got beat by Ken. Then Scott gets to run Ken and gets 2nd place.
Has anyone heard if Jesus is still running a carb or not?
He needs to get past Mohler so we can have rotaries on the last run.

http://nhraimport.com/2003/events/ra...alifying1order

kabooski

yes he is still on carb

There is a race just about every 2 weeks
thats not enough time to change to a EFI setup
and do tuning etc

Scalliwag

He has some time before the next race. Hopefully he can get this done. That race is not until July 25-26. The race after that is here. I know he will come out to Ken's and I look forward to meeting him finally.
Hopefully he can make it a little early in the week so they can hang out a little more that the usual race weeks.

Scalliwag

More wrecks, fire, and oil set things back to where they are finishing tomorrow. That has to really screw up some peoples schedules.
I have always wanted to see under Matt Scraton's Turbonetics car but not this way. It is a very bad *** car and was cool as hell looking. Fortunately no one was hurt out there today.

87GTR

iTrader: (61)

OH CRAP that looks bad!!

Scalliwag

That car ran high 6's at NOPI here a month or so back. One of the coolest cars there too.

fdracer

i thought that car ran methanol. that ic looks too big for a meth fed car. they usually go w/ smaller ic's or forego them altogether.

crispeed

They are running on race gas. No alky!

crispeed
87 RX-7 TII
9.204@150.47mph
2600lbs
un-tubbed

Travieso Racing
73 RX-3
10.57@124.97mph
2190lbs
un-tubbed
13B PP--- All Motor

Scalliwag

Ken took 1st. Mohler (yuck!) took 2nd and Jesus took 3rd. in All-Motor. It's a good thing that the modified class has troubles because that is how Abel Ibarra has won the only two wins he has had this year. Check out the details on how that went downhttp://www.nhraimport.com/2003/events/race05/results/monday_prw.html#top
I guess a win is a win but when you have to rely on luck it's not very impressive.

kabooski

That neon with factory backing
keeps getting faster and faster

his MPH are the highest of anyone
so theres trouble 'a' brewing

crispeed

Abel is in the'Pro RWD' class not the 'Modified'.
Sometime luck is all you got when you're racing and a win is a win no matter what!

crispeed
87 RX-7 TII
9.204@150.47mph
2600lbs
un-tubbed

Travieso Racing
73 RX-3
10.57@124.97mph
2190lbs
13B PP--All Motor
traviesoracing.com

kabooski

Hey Chris when are we going to see that RX3 in action?
would be nice to see another rotary race in a NHRA all-motor class

fdracer

why is it that whenever people talk about the gm and mopar cars, they have to preface it w/ their sponsors. sure, kilo and ken are a small time operation, and what they acheive w/ such a small budget is mind boggling. but the fact that other cars get a lot of corporate money shouldn't take away from what they've accomplished either. look at how much k&n and mazda give abel, how much honda gives adam and steph, or how much castrol gives jojo, etc. they aren't getting pennies. abel and adam have absolute retards on the track the past 2 years. no one points out they've gotten a lot of corporate backing and they're still ******* up.

crispeed

We can't run the car in the NHRA due to the car was built before the new rule changes for 2003. Basically the car has a ladder bar setup(un-tubbed) instead of the orignal leaf spring setup. The car has all factory original interior and exterior parts.
We're going to do the NOPI races. There we are required to weigh 1900lbs with driver so we're going to take advantage of that weight break with some extreme weight reduction methods. The points leader and fastest car in the class runs consistent 10.20's. At the last NOPI we came in 2nd place.
It should drop at least 2 tenths with the weight reduction, some chassis tuning plus there's some power still left in the combination. We'll see what happens this weekend at Atlanta for the NOPI Nationals.

crispeed
87 RX-7 TII
9.204@150.47mph
2600lbs
un-tubbed

Travieso Racing
73 RX-3
10.57@124.97mph
2190lbs
un-tubbed
13B PP-- All Motor
traviesoracing.com

Scalliwag

I accidently put modified but I meant the Pro class Abel runs in.
FD made one of the main reasons I am pretty disappointed in Abel. He has ample sponsorship and is getting his *** handed to him everytime by the other guys when they don't break. His best time sucks compared to the competition.
He will not win any race the rest of the year unless somebody breaks.
I would be very surprised if he does not lose his sponsorship at the end of the year if he does not get a little closer to these guys.
Hopefully Siguel comes back around or someone that can break into the 6's with a rotary.

kabooski

well it's difficult it seems holding the motors together for abel
Abel is building a RX8 full chassis car btw
and maybe a 3 rotor renesis?
would be more reliable
since there wont be as much heat pressed against the apex seals
with the renesis's side exhaust port
and double side seals
(also siguel broke the engine is gainsville I hear)

fdracer

damn, it seems like the piston guys just get better every week, and the rotaries are going backward. bullish just continues to get quicker, so do the scrantons, venom, steph, etc. we haven't even seen bob reiger yet. at least w/ the r100 abel could get down the track w/o breaking all the time. carlos hasn't done **** this year, siguel doesn't even show up anymore. and mva, sammy, dennis the menace, etc. all fell off the face of the earth. and where are all the puerto ricans, they at least used to attend some east coast events, they don't even do that anymore.

RX794

What's really scary is that no one has gotten the 3 rotor to work right, and bottom line is that the reason all the piston guys are making the HP is because of displacement, THAT'S the BOTTOM LINE! If someone doesn't come up with a way to make the 2.0liter, 3 rotor to work, it's gonna be over soon. Don't get me wrong I'm a die hard rotary loyalist, but it just seems no one can get the 3 rotor to work properly and consistantly. Those 2JZ's are stroked to 3.4liters, Manny Cruz's car starts off as a 3.0liter which has been enlarged, Matt Scrantons car starts off as a 3.4liter Tacoma motor which has also been enlarged(Probably to a 3.8liter), Bob Riegers car(which isn't even out yet) will start with a 3.2liter Caddy motor which will no doubt will also be enlarged, etc. etc., and everyone else is making big displacement motors because no matter what displacement is displacement, and it makes HP with less strain. It's all mathematics when it comes to this subject sometimes. I was looking at the rules for Pro RWD, and it doesn't state anything about displacement, all it says is that the motor must be a production OHC block, that's about it.

kabooski

TRD engine programs
Mopar engine programs
GM engine programs

No rotary engine programs
all 99% stock oem parts
only the ecc shaft is custom
There no engineers with the rotary guys
no custom rotors,sideplated,etc

learn the facts

fdracer

huh, learn what facts? no one's doubting the piston guys have a lot of engineering support. plus, there's not much else that abel can get custom parts for other than the rotors. the rotors aren't even a problem anyway. he already has 3mm ceramic apex seals, dowel pinning, custom crank, custom intake and exaust manifolds, custom turbos, custom ic, custom fuel system, custom ems. he has to stay w/ the stock housings after this year, so wtf else do you want him to change? racing beat has been building his engines for the past couple years now, so it's not like it's a backyard operation he's running. he can pretty much only go w/ more aggresive porting, but at this point he can't even handle the power he's currently making. almost anything you can do to a rotary he's already got.