How about something Socal? Big Willow, SOW, Buttonwillow or ACS....

 

You won't be setting any track records near me--they won't let you on any track I run on with floormats in your car.....

 

what happened to the "enough talking part"?


answer this question.........how were you only able to run 1:33 in a R53 with
head, tune ,coilovers, brakes etc and able to run 1:27 in the JCW with less performance parts?

 

That's cool I'll take them out but you will have to have a 1.7" piece of mauve shiny tape 3" from the bottom of the right dash applied to a silver covering instead for the record to stand!

 

Please read above....

 

You really want to race in Norcal when we live in Socal, are you really being this difficult? Bob Sheer drove his R53 not me. Ive never been on a track with a R53.

 

DezCW, welcome to the wonderfull world of NAM, hope you enjoy your stay as its very entertaining at times.

So the question is are you a PRO driver or just a very good driver, what is your vehicle / racing background.

 

As I've said before if people mention times they should be accurate when they write them or refer to them, in racing every thousandth means something to somebody

 

Yeah especially when you are trying to puff out your chest and claim a record you DON'T have
roflmao

don't worry Ill post up some benchmarks when appropriate

 

I feel quite good a the moment Jan, thanks for asking.

Its intresting that you have to change the head to just be a couple inches in front of the JCW R56 at the finish line

I'm not sure what Danny's would do, Are you saying Danny's not a very good driver? If Danny posted a video up I'm sure Ian could tell us roughly what is left in it.

It is strange that he has got 67 more hp and 30 ish more trq than Sean but cant keep up or better Seans time, just shows maybe lessons are more important than HP.

 

Your lack of rational thinking is legendary
even for NAM

 

Can you pleas quote the parts where i whine and make excuses

Myself and Ian have discussed this one before great acheivement for the Mini guys thats for sure.

I'm glad this thread has spurred him to come back out, after all if there wasn;t any competition we would still be running slow, well some of you lot would

 

I hate to tell you this but the difference between a 1.27.001 and a 1.27.999 is nearly a secound, you said he run a 1.27 and we believed you.

So we had to take it as a 1.27.999 as we had nothing else to go on, now we do which was the whole point of this thread to get some facts on the table.

Still waiting for the confirmation of Sean's 1.26 and your 1.27s

We're compiling a World league table on MT

 

When you beat the "record" I'll show you video of something faster

 

Speaking of Ian and records... Jan is it true that the motor Ian set a in class NASA track record with at Road Atlanta and won the NASA National Championship with was basically a junk yard motor with your stuff bolted to it?

 

So everyone can buy your head off you today for $2000 including ARP head studs, head gaskets, ex gasket, inlet gasket, oil, oil filter, labor to fit the above

Yup you have come a long way since then Jan you and Danny have spent loads more money.........

Its quite nice to see that 234 hub horsepower = the 205 whp similar lap times

Of course its a record time Jan, think about it.......................

 

There always the quick engines, mine ended up 300ft down the road from the car, unfortunatley the young driver died. Thats why I was determined to use it and set a few records with it.

So it ended up doing the times below and 25k in 2 years for a total of 75k miles covered.

 

Hey Paul good to meet you Ive heard good things about you. As for experience my dad my the president of PCA LA for a few years and I grew up around building Porsche's and racing them. Started with Karts and then auto-x and then worked with Ford on the Focus and ZX2 programs they had in the late 90's, after they cancelled the program in 2000 I went to another profession for 9 years and now Im back full time racing. I have a 08 Subaru STI 500+hp that I race Redline Time Attack in. Im just really happy to be working with ABF and running the Mini's. Track wise I have driven all west coast tracks except for Miller. Would I say Im pro NO, just gifted.

 

yes but we have people on this site that think it's impossible

I just will wait my time and show our cards when it matters......

we will let the peanut gallery speculate all they want

fact is: You have no record. Fact is: RMW and Ian have real sanctioned track records and a National Championship.

 

We spun a rod bearing in our motor when it was Stock with a pulley on it's 2nd visit to sebring (august 07). Having virtually zero budget for the shop car we sourced a motor that had low miles but had been locked due to water intake and had bent rods. Our crank was pretty bad but we had 3 good rods. The Motor we found had only a couple bent rods, so we did some mixing and matching of good parts and that's what our motor was/is. Thanks to good parts, good tuning, and really thick oil it held together the whole season.

Paul, How NASA does it is they rate the car based off HP or Tq whichever is higher. I'm sure that car is in the 230tq range. NASA found classing cars off HP that some people would show up with tons of tq and tall gearing and run in a really low hp class. The problem with Time attack is they have this extremely open rule set. For FWD Street class you'd be crazy to start with ANY car other then a late 80's early 90's civic. Put a K24 with a Blower in it. Make 400hp and be less then 2000lbs WITH DRIVER (I happen to know someone building one of those, but it's going to run on Ethanol and run in the One Lap Of America). I'd find it really funny if manufactures got involved in Time Attack and started doing with they do in other forms of racing by building purpose built race cars but building just enough street examples that it's legal in the series. That would push the price of competetiveness beyond that of any tuner shop or individual.

Also as far as drivers. As we all know drivers can vary greatly. Some from car to car. I co-drive a lot with someone here who's a respected quick driver. On the same day depending on the car the difference between us can be as little as 2-3 seconds to as much as 14-18 seconds.

 

Hey Dez....I wondered if that was you from IWSTI. Don't waste your time in a pissing match with RMW. The only people that take him seriously are people here on NAM and when he looks at himself in the mirror Even the Honda guys laugh at him.

 

 

Folks, you've been toeing the line from the beginning on this thread, and the personal attacks and disrespect need to stop. If you can't act with more tact and respect, this thread will be locked.

Please clean it up and recall the following:

-tim

 

Yes I do post a bit on IWSTI! We are just happy with the time we ran, cant wait till we get the suspension dialed in(and more suspension)!lol

 

Thanks Ian for the full story! Make's it even more impressive that you ran the whole season, set sanctioned records and won a NASA National Championship with RMW parts and tune bolted to a pieced together motor! Your one heck of a driver Mr Stewart!!!