mdosu

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I was always wondering why it's not there and the CUSCO Subaru is...then I saw a show about the race this morning...

1. Mitsubishi Motors is broke
2. It costs about $1 Million to make 1 car to the specs, do teams usually have 3?
3. It costs $3 Million a year to race

so unless some huge tuning company in Japan is willing to sponsor, I can't see a factory sponsored ride anytime soon.....booooo.

Bom's Evo

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Mitsubishi has no cars to sell. the new eclipse ain't gonna save them.

mrmefodman

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what it jgtc?

EMC2

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Japan Grand Touring Championship

brwnrice

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jgtc require 2 wheel drive vehicles that is why evo's, sti's are not in that racing series. the cusco sti is modified to only have rwd.

YellowFever

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ditto

mdosu

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even with the drivetrain difference...There might be other problems...

If a team was to enter the EVO in the race...would they use the 4G63 motor?

I don't know what the rules are for motors...they just seem confusing

All Toyotas were using 3S-GTE with 3UZ-FE engines this year, Nissan Zs were allowed to twin-turbo up a VQ30DE, the Garaiya had a VQ35D, Honda and I think the RE RX-7 were the few that actually used tuned up versions of their factory motors.

JDM-Spec.com

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Money talks

Ztypestock8

I learn something new everyday. Did not know that.

ezhangin

Leave the two wheel drive to JGTC, WRC is where its at.

-130 R-

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BTW, Mitsu runs factory Evos (PUMA EVO) in Super Taikyu (sort of like Speed World Challenge). The lead driver is "The Professor" Nakaya. He is in a lot of BMI vids (the guy with the black and white "Puma" nomex). They have different rules from JGTC...

Also, they do run a 4G63. All sorts of cool cars run in Super Taikyu - I'd rather watch those races than a lot of the crap we get on TV here.

Yaroslav

PUMA EVO is only 330hp and TQ 50. Why so low?

evo 8 ya

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There is no way the PUMA EVO makes 330hp with only 50 LBS of tq
No way!!

Impreza01

it's 50 kg-m (not 50 lb-ft) which is about 361 lb-ft torque. I think many of the turbo cars in the S-Taikyu are forced to run restrictors.

Impreza01

The real reason the STi runs in the JGTC is because JGTC is registricted to GT cars, or in other words, 2 door cars. The GC STi was a 2 door car. However, the new STi isn't, so an amendment was passed to allow teh STi to compete with 4 doors.