TSiAWD666
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- Aug 15, 2003
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Herndon,
Virginia
I just received my email this afternoon notifying me of my acceptance into the Grassroots Motorsports 2012 Ultimate Track Car Challenge!!! Woohoo!!!
For those of you unfamiliar with the UTCC it's a time trial event that's been run the past few years (started in 2007) by Grassroots Motorsports magazine. Participants are selected (I believe by a panel of Grassroots Motorsports employees, not entirely sure) in order to provide a competitive and also varied field of track cars, so not just any joe blow can get in off the street. The format this year is completely open meaning I'll be competing with cars that are almost street cars all the way to prototypes. Fortunately they offer many different awards like fastest v8, fastest turbocharged car, fastest Mitsubishi, etc., so there's a chance of coming out with a trophy!
Here is the website for the 2012 UTCC. This year's event is on July 20th at Virginia International Raceway (my favorite track!!). Info there is sparse at the moment but should fill out as the event approaches:
2012 Ultimate Track Car Challenge: Grassroots Motorsports Magazine
I'm very honored to have been selected to participate and see what I can do wtih the Eclipse I've been building! For those of you unfamiliar with my car here are a few pictures of what I'm bringing to the event:
The cruise control has since been yanked!
The car is putting out fairly decent horsepower with a Forced Performance FP3150 mated to my Magnus Motorsports 2.3l stroker, though possibly a bit less than the field but it will have to do for now! I've also got Andrew Brilliant's aero package in tandem with a DHP Composites wing, and some 285 tires, so I hope to put up some decent times. By the event Tim Zimmer of TMZ Performance is hoping to deliver to me one of his Stage 4 transmissions with a Quaiffe ATB front diff and 4-spider center, as well as a custom rear diff with Evo 8 internals with the Weir Performance 12-disc MAXGRIP modification. The car isn't in its final form as there is still more to come this winter, but I think I should suprise a few of the other cars and kick a little ass
I'm very excited to see what my little turbo awd 4-banger can do! I absolutely love this car and can't wait to shock a few more folks not expecting a car from the 90s to come out guns blazing in a venue many feel it has no place! It's been a dream of mine to explore the DSM platform on the track to its fullest and this is the first step into the racing world.
Many thanks to Andrew Brilliant for giving many of the tools I needed to do this along with guidance and inspiring me with his own racing endeavours. Also to the DSM community here at DSMTuners.com and everywhere else for sharing so much knowledge as without it I couldn't be here. Thanks very importantly to the vendors, aswithout their interest in our cars I wouldn't have the parts to build this "race car" of mine. Time to see what I can do with those gifts
I still need to actually knock out my time trial license so the car will be hitting VIR end of May and as well as early June, and then I'll be at Hyperfest mid-June at Summit Point Raceway to get tested.
If anyone can make the event I'd love to have the support! It's July 20th at Virginia International Raceway. Having a crew to help with the car would be amazing!
I don't have any sponsors at the moment so if anyone is interested in helping with the car please send me a PM!
For those of you unfamiliar with the UTCC it's a time trial event that's been run the past few years (started in 2007) by Grassroots Motorsports magazine. Participants are selected (I believe by a panel of Grassroots Motorsports employees, not entirely sure) in order to provide a competitive and also varied field of track cars, so not just any joe blow can get in off the street. The format this year is completely open meaning I'll be competing with cars that are almost street cars all the way to prototypes. Fortunately they offer many different awards like fastest v8, fastest turbocharged car, fastest Mitsubishi, etc., so there's a chance of coming out with a trophy!
Here is the website for the 2012 UTCC. This year's event is on July 20th at Virginia International Raceway (my favorite track!!). Info there is sparse at the moment but should fill out as the event approaches:
2012 Ultimate Track Car Challenge: Grassroots Motorsports Magazine
I'm very honored to have been selected to participate and see what I can do wtih the Eclipse I've been building! For those of you unfamiliar with my car here are a few pictures of what I'm bringing to the event:
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The cruise control has since been yanked!
The car is putting out fairly decent horsepower with a Forced Performance FP3150 mated to my Magnus Motorsports 2.3l stroker, though possibly a bit less than the field but it will have to do for now! I've also got Andrew Brilliant's aero package in tandem with a DHP Composites wing, and some 285 tires, so I hope to put up some decent times. By the event Tim Zimmer of TMZ Performance is hoping to deliver to me one of his Stage 4 transmissions with a Quaiffe ATB front diff and 4-spider center, as well as a custom rear diff with Evo 8 internals with the Weir Performance 12-disc MAXGRIP modification. The car isn't in its final form as there is still more to come this winter, but I think I should suprise a few of the other cars and kick a little ass
I'm very excited to see what my little turbo awd 4-banger can do! I absolutely love this car and can't wait to shock a few more folks not expecting a car from the 90s to come out guns blazing in a venue many feel it has no place! It's been a dream of mine to explore the DSM platform on the track to its fullest and this is the first step into the racing world.
Many thanks to Andrew Brilliant for giving many of the tools I needed to do this along with guidance and inspiring me with his own racing endeavours. Also to the DSM community here at DSMTuners.com and everywhere else for sharing so much knowledge as without it I couldn't be here. Thanks very importantly to the vendors, aswithout their interest in our cars I wouldn't have the parts to build this "race car" of mine. Time to see what I can do with those gifts
I still need to actually knock out my time trial license so the car will be hitting VIR end of May and as well as early June, and then I'll be at Hyperfest mid-June at Summit Point Raceway to get tested.
If anyone can make the event I'd love to have the support! It's July 20th at Virginia International Raceway. Having a crew to help with the car would be amazing!
I don't have any sponsors at the moment so if anyone is interested in helping with the car please send me a PM!