Nice job gotham racing. Steven your CYM will definitely kill the competition next year.

 

Congrats guys. It sounds like the car held up well aside from a few teathing problems. They awarded points for aftermarket body parts and stickers? Maybe this isn't the type of competition you should be trying to win

 

Gotham will sweep it next year - I'm bettin' my drawers on it

 

CYM will own..

 

I agree with the install theroy. but ricey stickers, i don't know. Hell, brad was having a hard time coming up with the money to even get there. The few sponsors he did get were put there with only few days before. When he first posted there was guys offering racing seats, and all kinda of "showy" products. He wanted to keep the car with the stock look. That why his interior was as stock as can be. So was the body. Any of the cosmetic upgrades he had were ALL OEM toyota parts. So i don't think it was really the stickers that got him extra points. although i'm sure you are right on the install getting points. It did look really sweet.

honestly......your 7 did deserve to be at least in the top three. It was a VERY sexy looking 7. Sorry to hear it went so bad. I remember it was SH** for the MK1 and last years MK2 MR2. Good luck next year.

 

anybody know what issue of SCC this will be in?

 

Probably wont show up in the Mag for months.

 

December is the feature issue of all cars entered. January is the result of the competition.

 

Thanks Steve, and congrats again.

Looking forward to seeing Gotham's 2005 entry!

 

December and January? That seems ridiculously late, but hey, I'm no journalist. Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing the CYM progress for next year. Josh

 

thanks for all of your support guys, we had much higher hopes as well, most of the things that went wrong were my fault, last minute hurriedness, oh well, at least we got to go and the car didn't blow up, everyone there was taking bets on when it would pop. everytime it would back fire everyone would be like ooooohhhh, there it went...again like steve-o said, we weren't real sure exactly what they would be looking for, but now we know.....my car wasn't really the best suited for this event, they called about 1 month b/4 the event and told us to be there, the car at that point still wasn't running, we worked night and day trying to work the bugs out and throw the parts that we felt would benefit us the most.....the water injection was the key, i feel it is what helped the motor survive, along with the tuning by steve-o....i am not unhappy with the car, it was a learning experience for all of us, the competition was fierce with some major dollar cars there, i would have like to have done better than we did, but i'm not the kind of person to dwell in the past so i will continue to make the car better and better......thanks again....

 

damn...how cruel are they to make bets and hoping the car would blow. Are they rotaries fans?

if not, i can understand that as they're jealous of rotaries engine and their capabilities.

 

Hey, don't be so negative just because you did not do well in this event. There'll be a time where you'll make all the rotaries community proud by winning races and etc...stay positive and keep up the good work.

 

Out of curiosity what were the water and air intake temps while running at the road course (Willow Springs is in the desert, right?)

Ramon

 

Yeah i'd like to know as well. Also, i believe Willow Springs may also be at a mentionable elevation as well? Not 100% sure on that though.

 

not sure what the intake temps were, i can ask steve if he data logged them, they were low i remember that much....also not sure what the elevation @ willow springs was, it was damn hot though.....funny side note, the car survived but our van died in the mojave desert, the mass airflow was getting too hot leaning out the motor, we eventually made it home a day late...i thought that was kinda ironic...

 

Yeah, it would have been funny if the FD had to tow the van

 

wow, that sucks that you placed so bad in the event, but i think its some good sportsmanship of the mk2 guys to come in here and give some words of encouragement.

 

oh yeah, and what place did you actually come in, and from that link of pictures its surprising how many are of your car considering how tame it looked compared to the other ones.

 

when i ran the uscc (blue rotary 510) we ran @ fontana and it was 106 degrees... i was having serious overheating problems, during the burnout my car got to 270, and on the road corse after about 1/2 a lap it would be at 250. i got a zero in driveability, they dident like my giken twin disk. the elevation at willow is about 2500 ft

Michael

 

Hopefully Gotham will get into next year's USCC and dominate. It's a shame that it's mostly a rice competition, and a competition for driveability. The last thing most people think about when building a "near" racecar is driveability..

 

Yea but wouldn't you want to have your cake and eat it too?

 

It's the Street Car Challenge, not the Race Car Challenge.

 

Yup, and if it was the Ultimate Track Car Challenge, I think my roommate's car would have done a hell of a lot better

 

I heard that the FD in the event only posted 400 whp in the dyno event. Dissapointing if its true. Anyone else heard this rumor?