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Old Mar 15, 2006, 02:09 PM
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SCCA Fontana ProSolo Round 1 - Evos podium finish

At the first event of the ProSolo 9 race series, Evos had podium finishes.

In Street Modified Navid Kahangi came in a close second to the SM National Champion Vic Sias in his monster M3 by only .362 secs. Navid's engine management wasn't fully tuned for his new motor configuration.

I won Street Touring Ultra over past National Champion Steve O'blenes driving a M3, by .380 secs. Steve was the STU San Diego National Tour winner the week before.

I had around .56x reaction times with 1.8xx 60 fts, and Navid had 1.6xx 60 ft times.

http://www.scca.com/Event/Event.asp?...8BD700&Id=4746

Fun weekend!

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congrats!


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Old Mar 15, 2006, 02:14 PM
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Thanks nils!...you're quick!

Some day I'll have to get out to the track and see you run.
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Congrats on your win Richard!

It was definitely an interesting weekend. We just put a new block, head, intake manifold, cams, injectors and a bunch of other things in the car on Thursday and did not get a chance to tune the car. The engine felt strong anyway, so we headed down to the pro anyway with our fingures crossed .

It turned out we ended up with the fastest door-banger time (prepared, SP and SM2 included) minus Vic's last run. Vic is a good friend of mine, but he did not deserve 2 re-runs on the left side . One was a timing problem but the other one should not have been a re-run. I only have myself to blame though. If I was clean on my best run on the left, it wouldn't have mattered. Oh well, I got him on the right.

All and all, I'm really pleased with the car's first showing with the new engine. I'd like to thank Mike Warfield of Gruppe-s for building the bottom end for this engine and get it done in time to make the pro. I can't wait to tune this engine and see what it can do.

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Thanks Navid,

Always good seeing you again. I didn't want to spill the beans about your new motor mods

I heard you had the FTD on Sat. I hope we can both do well at the Atwater Pro too.
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Navid-- You ran anway? Shiv said you were going to sit this weekend out! Great job!!
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Originally Posted by SS RX7 r2
Thanks Navid,

Always good seeing you again. I didn't want to spill the beans about your new motor mods

I heard you had the FTD on Sat. I hope we can both do well at the Atwater Pro too.
No beans spilled! Too bad I could not carry the Saturday lead into the second day because I had a 10.5 lead in SM. We ran at the worst part of the rain storm. I was sitting at the line between my runs when they stopped the event and pulled the workers in. 2.2s 60 foot time in standing water. You gotta love AWD!

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Originally Posted by David@Vishnu
Navid-- You ran anway? Shiv said you were going to sit this weekend out! Great job!!
I think I scared Shiv a bit spewing oil out. It turned out we had the car overfilled by a quart.

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Yeah i saw the results on scca.org! Good job Navid! I know you said you are good friends with Vic, but it'd be awesome to see you take him down this year!
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Originally Posted by Navid
I think I scared Shiv a bit spewing oil out. It turned out we had the car overfilled by a quart.

--Navid
Good... now bring it back. There's a lot of power still left in there....
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Originally Posted by David@Vishnu
Good... now bring it back. There's a lot of power still left in there....
Also Shiv's custom dyno tune w/SMART was taking full advantage of the cold air on my lowly stage 0+ (w/o boost control)

Thanks guys.

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Mr J., nice to see you're doing well! We have a picture of your car on our desk here from last year's championship.
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Nice job Richard. I'm glad to finally see an Evo on top. Keep it up!
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Originally Posted by vtsnake
Yeah i saw the results on scca.org! Good job Navid! I know you said you are good friends with Vic, but it'd be awesome to see you take him down this year!
Vic knows what's coming! With his 2 reruns, he had 7 runs on the left side, I only got 4 cracks at it.

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Originally Posted by Navid
he had 7 runs on the left side.

--Navid
Cheater!

Goodluck this year!!!

btw, how come tunnel moved to BSP? is a SC M3 legal in that class or is he running another car?


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