BlackTrack

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Good news first: Ryan Gates sets new NASA TT-A lap record at Road America in an AMS powered Evo X! Visit www.gates311.com for info on the car.

New Record - 2:29.7 :icon28:
Previous Record - 2:30.9
Tires: Nitto NT-01's
350whp/360wtq

Thanks to AMS Performance for the great power, needed it to keep up with the Vette! More thanks to Robispec for keeping the car flat and stable thru all the high speed corners, thanks to Girodisc for the rock solid brakes to slow the car down from multiple 145+ speeds per lap, Exedy USA for a clutch that held perfect thru the day, and Darkside Engineering for the badass wheels!

Make sure to click on High Quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_YuTFNbI8I



Here's the story behind the weekend:

The weekend was fun, but was very problem filled. After the first TT session (Warm up) on Saturday, I was feeling good, had a great few warm up laps, got some heat in the new NT-01's, the car was running great and I ran a 2:33.xx, my fastest lap at R/A ever! I head out for the 2nd session and the car has no power, so I pulled off after 2 laps to diagnose the problem. Turns out that 2 gals of 110 leaded mixed with 9 gals of 98 unleaded is enough to burn up a H/F cat....sooooo after checking the cat, there wasn't a enough time to gut it, so I just took it out there running only the downpipe :tdown:

Onto the 3rd session, I saw that the time to beat was a 2:30.5 by a Natl. level Z06! Wow, new track record! I was pretty overwhelmed after seeing that, so I headed out just looking to do the best I could. After the warm up lap I ran 1 clean lap then went for a cool down lap to just get off the track, I didn't feel safe with all the backfires under the car. On the cooldown lap, I hit a pretty rough rumble strip and the car died....just coasted to a stop after the Carousel and waited to get towed. Well the problem ended up being a blown fuse, the "Engine Power" fuse.

I figured it was just a freak issue....it wasn't. Long story short, the car keeps blowing that same fuse any time I hit a rough rumble strip or jump a curb. I tried on Sunday for a fast lap, but after Canada corner I hit a rumble strip and the car died, so much for a good time. I just packed up and headed to Chicago to have the car looked over by AMS before Road Atlanta next weekend.

Again, thanks to AMS Performance, Robispec, Girodisc, Exedy USA and Darkside Engineering.

Anyone know a tire sponsor?????
Ryan
www.Gates311.com

hamflex

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Congrats on the track record Ryan!!!!

Wish i could have made it.....

PeteyTurbo

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AWESOME driving! Congrats on the record!

Dizy

Great job out there Ryan!

red evo8

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congrats

Fireball

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I was there!

I was the gray Evo 8 MR with the Voltex front end.

I saw that the blue car had a lot of problems throughout the weekend, but was really fast.

The other gray Evo X seemed VERY fast as well, but I think they were up in class.

BlackTrack

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Ya I saw you, sorry we never got a chance to talk. It was the same reoccurring issue, so that was a bummer. Hope you did good!

Ben (GG Evo X) Ran a 2:35.7 on Sat, then on Sunday I think he ran a 2:32.9. He did great!

Thanks for the good words guys!

JohnEB

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Great job Ryan keep it up buddy!

BlackTrack

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Thanks John!

scorke

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So smoothe, fantastic driving and congratulations, I bet that c5 zoh was a lil flustered

Scorke

VincentX

Congratulations.

BlackTrack

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Thanks man, very nice compliments! He was really surprised, we had a nice chat after the times were posted haha!

scorke

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I'm sure the bulk of the conversation was regarding how he didnt believe how little power your car made or something like that?


GRIP BOX FTW!

Scorke

BlackTrack

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He was just surprised, he had only heard bad things about the X's, he didn't expect them to be fast! The car does great for 355whp and 3500+ lbs.