EVO Power in Speed World Challenge GT Class @ Miller RIGHT NOW!
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I was looking at the Event schedule, because i would love to come watch one your events. One of the Norcal guys was at your Miller event, and posted a few of the pics he took in the Norcalevo thread. Unfortunately, since i compete in NASA's TT series, it appears most of my events are on the same weekends that you guys have a race. If that wasnt bad enough, pretty much all the events are pretty far. Although, im going to keep my eye out to see if i can make any of the races. Good luck.
Just so we are clear. I exchanged an e-mail with Vesko today. There were NO engine problems. He said the engine performed flawlessly. The problem was electrical. I just don't want any rumors getting started
He also wants to keep all the details of the actual engine build quiet so please don't ask me as I am not allowed to talk about any of that.
Thanks and I am very proud to be apart of this.
He also wants to keep all the details of the actual engine build quiet so please don't ask me as I am not allowed to talk about any of that.
Thanks and I am very proud to be apart of this.
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Yes, those Mustangs are sick. They've done a lot of development to get the team and cars into shape for this season after a few not so great debuts in the past. My buddy, who I worked with last season, works for ACS now.
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Yeah, thats the one. It has seen A LOT of abuse and a ton of miles, street and track, drag racing and road racing. We are all VERY impressed with that motor.
Erich
Yeah, i usually don't like those cars, but those are sick, and are obviously built, driven, and setup well since they are running strong.
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I'm Vesko's business partner on the shop side and the owner of Competition Associates. To be clear, there are two entities, Competition Associates where we build and support race cars for a number of local customers and CA Sport which is the race team comprised of Mr. Ficker organizing the crew and Vesko, Lara Tallman and Byron Smith driving. Byron is running in WC touring with a BMW that we also built. As mentioned, we hope to complete a 2nd Evo for World Challenge in the near future at which point Vesko and Lara will drive side by side.
The motor you are referencing is for my personal car which is the black Evo that we ran in time attack at Buttonwillow a few years ago. I think we took 2nd overall in that event. If we get the time we may use that car for the time attacks but road racing is the first priority at least this year. And it has been heavily abused... or as we like to say "tested".
We have developed several very trick, custom components for the WC car. The hope is that at some point we will offer these parts back to the Evo community. Before we do that we want to test and evolve our initial designs. Makes no sense to sell something until we know it really works.
Anyway, we'll get that other engine to you and hope to get a few others built as well.
Best,
Jeff
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We have developed several very trick, custom components for the WC car. The hope is that at some point we will offer these parts back to the Evo community. Before we do that we want to test and evolve our initial designs. Makes no sense to sell something until we know it really works.
I am looking forward to your offerings.
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How competitive is it to the rest of the field lap time wise? Looks like you were mid pack on the starting grid...is that a reflection of your qualifying. If so, very impressive. Its so difficult to start a new team and to do so without the ridiculous budgets that some of the competition has. Great job on getting it together.
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Pic of the evo in action.
Rest of the pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usually...7605215976665/
Enjoy,
-heeltoer
Rest of the pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usually...7605215976665/
Enjoy,
-heeltoer
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How competitive is it to the rest of the field lap time wise? Looks like you were mid pack on the starting grid...is that a reflection of your qualifying. If so, very impressive. Its so difficult to start a new team and to do so without the ridiculous budgets that some of the competition has. Great job on getting it together.
Congrats to you guys for breaking new ground.
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I don't think the SCCA or the team even knows what power the car is making right now since they finished the build at the last min, and haven't really tuned the car. They probably won't be looking too hard until the car starts to put down lap times at the front of the pack.
If they wanted they could makes tons of power - as we all know, but that wouldn't last long in the series and they'd end up like Audi. So it's a balance of not coming out of the gate too hot and drawing a bunch of attention.
It will be fun to watch how things go throughout the season.
If they wanted they could makes tons of power - as we all know, but that wouldn't last long in the series and they'd end up like Audi. So it's a balance of not coming out of the gate too hot and drawing a bunch of attention.
It will be fun to watch how things go throughout the season.
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How competitive is it to the rest of the field lap time wise? Looks like you were mid pack on the starting grid...is that a reflection of your qualifying. If so, very impressive. Its so difficult to start a new team and to do so without the ridiculous budgets that some of the competition has. Great job on getting it together.
Again, thanks to Dave and many others in the community that have already helped out in a big way so far. We'll keep trying to make everyone proud.
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I don't think the SCCA or the team even knows what power the car is making right now since they finished the build at the last min, and haven't really tuned the car. They probably won't be looking too hard until the car starts to put down lap times at the front of the pack.
If they wanted they could makes tons of power - as we all know, but that wouldn't last long in the series and they'd end up like Audi. So it's a balance of not coming out of the gate too hot and drawing a bunch of attention.
It will be fun to watch how things go throughout the season.
If they wanted they could makes tons of power - as we all know, but that wouldn't last long in the series and they'd end up like Audi. So it's a balance of not coming out of the gate too hot and drawing a bunch of attention.
It will be fun to watch how things go throughout the season.
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How competitive is it to the rest of the field lap time wise? Looks like you were mid pack on the starting grid...is that a reflection of your qualifying. If so, very impressive. Its so difficult to start a new team and to do so without the ridiculous budgets that some of the competition has. Great job on getting it together.
Thanks to all for the kind words and support!
We do know about what the car makes in terms of power because we have put the same engine on the dyno in another Evo. And everyone on this board knows what these motors are capable of. The issue you point out is reliability. We are not running a 10 second drag race or a 10 minute time attack session. We have to engineer for 50 minute races and then there is the consideration that you don't want to rebuild the whole car after every race from both a time and money perspective. But the power in the GT class is impressive. Most of the cars in class are in the 450-600 hp range.
Like Jeff said, we'll get there, but we have some work to do.
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