Anyone know who drove the Silver STi that was passing everyone in HPDE 4 today?

It was ridiculously fast. The driver went into the hot pits to check something out under the hood once during the second to last or last session. I could hear the external wastegate from the stands, and I saw its FMIC with my binoculars. It had something still using the air from the hood scoop though... perhaps its owner rerouted some sort of oil cooler or radiator there?

I believe the STi in question had a King of Imports sticker on it. It was passing Porsches, Vettes, M3's, S2000's, and basically everyone else who was on the track except the Radical Sport Racer. LOL.

 

Was it stott? Aluminum plate where the scoop was w/ a NACA duct?

smurf - PSM '03 Sedan on P1's looking stock with the number 1 on it duct tape style and occasionally instructor X. Most other times/tracks cept Laguna, yellow Celica #57. That looks like a Head-On pic, they do awesome work. I have a poster of my WRX from that day on my wall.

 

Thanks for posting the pics!

The results are not official, they were still tearing down the Opak car when I left. If we do end up staying in second though then we have moved up to second in the championship points as well. I will keep everyone updated, press release coming soon.

 

Yep, it's a HeadOnPhoto.

I'm not sure who it was. It had the scoop, but underneath the hood (when they popped it) I saw some metal piece where the TMIC was. So I looked, and sure enough, there was a FMIC barely visible.

The car was clean and had a bunch of stickers on it. It also had an externally-wastegated turbo and was probably doing about 120mph into the braking zone of turn 10.

 

sup Brian, it's josh

great driving again today! how long did it take that official scrutinizer ta' leave you guys alone? it'll be interesting to see if they find anything up with the opak car...

 

That car was really fast! I peaked under the hood in the pits and it looked like an oil cooler in place of the tmic w/ a custom air splitter.

 

The silver car is owned by someone called Russ and has a pretty big turbo on it, I believe he competes in TTA and makes about decent power.

 

We were there until about 7:30 or so. He had us take off the intake manifold so he could look inside for any porting or polishing. Of course he did not find anything. It was great to have Adam from LIC there to help out to get it apart and back together really fast.

We are still waiting for final word on the Opak car.

 

I was there Saturday. Some serious racing from Porsche and some tiny cars



http://www.sportscarimage.com/Track/infineonaug6/

 

bdougr - Did you get any pics from Sunday ?

 

no - only there for a couple of hours saturday

 

Cool, Legends cars! Really big on the East Coast (where I grew up), not so well known here.

If I remember right, around 1000 lbs and powered by a 4-cyl Yamaha motorcycle engine. Idea being that it is "entry level" racing where you can buy a competitive car with spares for about $20K.

 

I just heard my friend finally made it out there on Saturday in his '93 RX-7 w/ an LS1 under the hood. It's silver. Anyone get any pics or see him? That thing is pretty wicked.