Beaver Run.

The trip into Beaverun was grueling. We started the day before in South Carolina and then traveled 106 miles to the BMW testing grounds for a quick lap around there test track and finally we trekked nearly 600 miles up to Beaverun. We got into the Hotel around 2am and were up at 6am to go racing. Although we seemed OK the three of us were beat up pretty good and what...

Sebring…

I’ve always loved the 12 hour endurance races at Sebring. Its such a tuff race track with lots of speed and plenty of punishment both for the car and for the driver. I think its harder then the 24 hour at Daytona. From the start of One Lap I’ve wanted to drive it not because I expect to do well but because I expect to be challenged. Over three miles long with 17 turns with...

Today’s Talladega event is sponsored my Mitsumedia.com.

Yesterday I was disappointed in my performance in the autocross. It’s supposed to be my specialty and the best I could muster was 14th overall. Mike and Steve got together and decided to let me run Talladega so I could test the car out with the new control arms and get some more seat time before Sebring. It wasn’t my turn to...

We hit a huge pothole after the Autobahn event and snapped the bolt in the rear Ingalls upper control arm. we got about half and inch of the bolt back in and we are under way but its not going to hold up very long.

If anyone near cincinatti or florence kentucy has either an ingalls control are or a STOCK rear upper control arm we need your help.

We want to keep posting in the same BLOG thread to keep this organized. However, this is Stephen's (nrvous on this board) report from this morning's skid pad.

Last thing we did before we left our borrowed garage space Friday night was to throw rainX on the windshield. Running the skid pad wet, means that there are sprinklers running and spraying out onto the course from the inside....

The One Lap team had two events today, the first one being the wet skid pad at the Tire Rack facility in South Bend.

The skid pad is the testing grounds used by Tire Rack to rate their tires on different vehicles. The concept is easy. You drive around the circle as fast as possible, which gets recorded on a time. By recording time around the circle, they are able to calculate the...

Today was registration and decal day hosted at the Tire Rack facility in South Bend. We used a better part of the day to clean the car up and install most of the Sponsor decals.

Let me just say I hate F'ing decals. No wonder guys charge an arm and a leg to install them. Almost as bad as painting stripes.

The VR4 is a hit. We had a constant stream of on lookers and...

Mike was late this morning. We wanted to get on the road by 8am but it was closer to 9am before we finally rolled out. With the new Dunlops the VR4 pulled the trailer like a dream.

I drove the first leg. Our first tank of gas wasn't impressive. We only managed slightly better then 17mpg. Steve took over the second leg of driving and about two seconds after it started to rain. ...

The days proceeding our departure became a blur. I have updates and pictures to post from every day, but some how time was stolen from me.

This morning the team assembled somewhere in Penfield to fill every crevace of space left in the trailer and trunk as we headed out on our 10 day journey. For us the first leg of the trip is actually getting to the start of the race, in South Bend...

Just some photo's from packing today. All of our sponsor decals are in and we started to put some on. We still have a lot left but I didn't get shots of those. More to come tomorrow.

Sunday was our last full day of work before the start of One Lap. Steve and Chris joined me on Sunday to finish up some of the little things.

Steve worked on completing the installation of the power inverter and we now have 1500W of AC anytime we need it. That's going to come in hand if we ever need a drill or grinder and it allows us to have full AC power in the car so keeping laptops...

A Friday drive in sunny 75 degree weather in a rally inspired 355hp One lap VR4 with working CRUISE CONTROL!

Yep, I fixed it and in the end is was simple. At the beginning I didn't have power to the cruise and the horn didn't work. A fuse fixed that. The next thing I did was to remove the clutch switch mod that was in the car. That didn't fix it. Then I swapped the entire cruise control...

The Rochester DSM One Lap of America team is proud to announce Street Tuned Motorsports has signed on as an official team sponsor.

Street Tuned Motorsports Inc. specializes in Tuning, Performance Parts and Installation for the 4G63 Turbo Eclipse, Talon, Laser and Evolution. We are also a parts retailer for the popular tuner cars and buy direct with numerous companies.

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We rolled the car into Street Tuned Motorsports yesterday afternoon to put the car on their dyno and to enlist the aid of Emery in getting the car tuned with the ECMLink. It was a bit of a learning curve for us all, getting to play with the new ECMLink version 3 software.

Our goals were simple. First I needed to learn how to tune with ECMlink and Emery was good enough to give me a...

Steve and I spent a couple of hours working on the little things. We had tee'd into the BOV line when we installed the FP3052 turbo. At the time we didn't want to drill and tap the turbo for a boost source. The turbo is on loan and we want to return it in the same condition we received it in. So I installed a nipple in the lower intercooler pipe to provide boost to the boost controller.
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Saturday was a big day for the RochesterDSM One Lap team. We had all sorts of little projects to work on and even as we check things off new items pop up and it seems like we only take baby steps closer to being ready.

I worked on fabbing up a new 4” air intake pipe to go along with the Art Hoffman FP3052 turbo. I also needed to add a v-band clamp to the exhaust system to get rid...

---Live Video April 21st ~2pm ---

The RochesterDSM One Lap VR4 is going to be dyno testing and tuning at Street Tuned Motorsport. Emery, of STM, is a long time friend of the RochesterDSM club and has offered to lend a hand wringing every last drop of power out of our FP3052 turbo.

http://www.streettunedmotorsports.com/

Steve Burke and I will be there and...

The Rochester DSM One Lap of America team is proud to announce TunersNation.com has signed on to the One Lap of America Team as an official Race Day Sponsor.

TunersNation.com started out in supplying hard to find parts for the 6g E39A Mitsubishi Galant VR4 for friends in 2000 & finally turning the hobby into a full fledged import go fast business in June 2008 specializing in Mitsubishi...

MotorTrend.com has just posted our car on there website in support of the One Lap of America race. They didn't use the write up I sent them so there are a few little mistakes. Any press is good press!

http://www.motortrend.com/one_lap_of...yes/index.html

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Last night we hand an all hands work session to get the FP3052 turbo installed. The turbo is on loan from Art Hoffman from NABR who wanted to make sure we had the right amount of sting in the One Lap VR4.

Currently on the car is a AGP L1R turbo which I love but really trades top end power for quick spool. Its great for autocrossing and track use on my Eclipse but the One Lap VR4...

Its been a few weeks since we got the car on the road and so far its been flawless. We something had to give and on the way home from work tonight all hell broke loose from the rear end. I put the hazards on and was preparing to pull over when the noise faded away. I was only a minute from home so I decided to try and make it.

I made it home and quickly hopped out to see what had...

The Rochester DSM One Lap Team is proud to announce that the staff at the East Rochester Public Library has gotten together to sponsor the One Lap of America Team as an official Race Day Sponsor.

Stephen’s mom, has worked at the East Rochester Public Library for almost 22 years. While bragging about your children is a natural occurrence with any parent, Sue has gotten everybody on the...

I had wanted to have the turbo installed by now but seeing how this was Easter weekend I didn't get much done. I did manage to work on the trailer a bit and I constructed a plywood box to house our tools and spares. The idea was to keep the car as empty as possible so when we get to the tracks we can just un-hook the trailer and go right out on track. We also needed a place to keep our stuff dry...

Anybody who's ever painted a car before knows that putting the last coat of clear on the car isn't the final step. Its actually some where in the middle of the whole process.

On Thursday and friend of mine, Harry, stopped out to give me hand wet sanding and rubbing the car. We started with 1200 grit and in some spots 600 grit to flatten the clear. Then we moved up to 2000 grit before...

One of the members from the www.galantVR4.org community has fabricated us a custom gauge plate to go onto the car. We owe huge thanks to Curtis for devoting his own time and expense into creating this one of a kind gauge plate. This plate will replace the heater vents in the center of the dash. Not only did Curtis design the logo for us, but had the piece resized to fit into the dash. This sort of...