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Nov 19 2009, 05:45 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
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Check out the Desktops section of SpeedHunters for a couple of my favorite shots of the car in both Widescreen and Standard format as usual. - Carl Jarrett
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Nov 17 2009, 12:59 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 42 comment(s)
Its been too long since I posted that teaser, but check it out! I'm pretty stoked to be able to see a glimpse of what my project will look like when its done (next year). Here's where the nerd in me comes out, I mocked up this shot of the car in a windtunnel, not that it'll ever see one I'm sure, but a cool image regardless. There is a good chance I'll be doing some CFD tests with this car though, testing out various diffuser, canard, and wing set-ups. For the sake of these concept...
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Posted
Nov 16 2009, 11:45 AM
by
Mike Garrett
with 15 comment(s)
The 2009 American time attack season is now behind us. Following the Super Lap Battle at Buttonwillow on Wednesday, the Redline Time Attack series wrapped up their season at California Speedway over the weekend. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get out to Fontana for myself, as I was up in the Bay Area for the Hellaflush meet. You can expect some Hellaflush coverage later today, but first I'm going to finish my Super Lap coverage from Buttonwillow....
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Posted
Nov 13 2009, 01:08 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 17 comment(s)
Hey, I thought November was supposed to be the off-season for car events? With SEMA, the VIP Festival, and Wednesday's Super Lap Battle, it's been a busy week of Speedhunting for me - and it's not over yet. Later this afternoon I'll be hitting the road towards NorCal for tomorrow's Hella Flush meet in Milpitas. Before I leave, I thought I'd post some more Buttonwillow Super Lap coverage for you guys....
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Posted
Nov 12 2009, 01:18 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 25 comment(s)
Every November for the past several years, America's (and the world's) fastest tuner cars have gathered at Buttonwillow Raceway for a one-day battle in the dusty and fragrant Central Valley of California. Upon arriving at the track, I noticed the paddock appeared a little emptier than past years. Nonetheless, all the top players in the game were present and accounted for. Teams like FX Motorsports, Sierra Sierra, Crawford, and AMS were all ready to fight in hopes of claiming the day's fastest time, and just maybe breaking the long standing track record held by NOB Taniguchi and the HKS CT230R....
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Posted
Nov 10 2009, 04:05 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 12 comment(s)
For those of you who have been waiting to see more "functional" machines on Speedhunters this month, don't worry. Tomorrow is the annual Super Lap Finals at Butonwillow Raceway, and I'll be heading out bright and early to bring you guys the action.
Even better, if you live in California and can find an excuse to get out of work or school for the day, you can head to Buttonwillow tomorrow and see it for yourself!
If not, stay tuned to the site.
-Mike Garrett
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Posted
Oct 24 2009, 08:52 AM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 27 comment(s)
I had to share this car with you all, very impressive work went into this Evo VI and it was almost all done by one chap named Clive over in the good ol UK. First off, everything except for the cage, the paint, and the engine mapping was done by Clive himself, who is an Aircraft Engineer by trade, so everything you see below, was done by him in his spare time at home. I was checking out what was going on over at http://www.timeattackforums.com and I came across someone who saw this build-up thread...
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Posted
Oct 23 2009, 12:30 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 13 comment(s)
I'll finish up blogging about my recent trip to California with a quick story about the journey from the hotel to the airport this past Monday. The plan was to drop off the NFS Terlingua off at Shelby's LA HQ and take a cab to LAX, but this isn't exactly how things turned out. So here we are parking up the Mustang for another sad good bye. The giant SUV belongs to everyone's favourite Scion stalwart, Chris Rado. Some of you may remember we featured this supercharged 600 hp truck exactly...
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Posted
Oct 22 2009, 04:10 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 16 comment(s)
I've been working hard on the car in the garage as well as on the computer building up a visual target *that's what we call it in the games biz* for my FC build. I wanted something to be able to show people what this beast is going to look like. Enjoy the teaser! Should have the car really for IPO right around SEMA. - Carl Jarrett
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Posted
Oct 20 2009, 03:25 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 24 comment(s)
Saw this rad looking Evo 8 on www.timeattackforums.com , its a 2003 with a 2.3L stroker engine and GT35 turbo. The livery is an interesting take of urban camo mixed with gloss yellow and black on the rest of the car. - Carl Jarrett
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Posted
Oct 12 2009, 11:46 AM
by
Rod Chong
with 22 comment(s)
What a year it's been, the 2009 Time Attack season has come to an end, part of the Modified Live show run in tandem with the Need for Speed European Drift championship. It was a capacity crowd and fine weather - until it really mattered - bringing the unpredictable nature of all motorsports into Time Attack. The weather was dry if windy for the entire day, until approximatley 3 minutes into the SuperBattle when a light drizzle began to fall. Anyone who was watching last weekend's FIA GT3...
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Posted
Sep 11 2009, 02:00 AM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 25 comment(s)
You might remember my blog post in July finding the car to start my newest project, a road race/time attack/hill climb/who knows 1988 Mazda RX7, as promised here's the official part 1 of my EPIC (please note my pretentious and humorous tone here) RX7 race car build! Over my break from work and after my eyes healed up from laser eye surgery I finally had some free time to get started on my new adventure. Step 1 is the messiest and dirtiest but pretty damn fun at times, the tear down... The tear...
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Posted
Jul 31 2009, 10:53 PM
by
Rod Chong
with 7 comment(s)
I am sure many of you might wonder what it takes to turn a regular, bone stock- as it came from the maker EVO X into a dominating fire breathing Time Attack monster such as our recently unveiled AMS Performance / NOS Energy Drink Time Attack EVO X. Well today Speedhunters has a special treat for you as I am going to take you behind the scenes and show in detail how our time attack evo came to be. So this is in fact our time attack evo as it came to us from Mitsubishi and as shown by the look on Eric’s...
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Posted
Jul 31 2009, 05:00 AM
by
Jeroen Willemsen
with 21 comment(s)
This mesmerizing blue EVO X belongs to Ryan Gates. After seeing a lot of EVO Xs this month I came to the conclusion this car doesn't need any aftermarket bumpers. This vehicle already looks as it shoud: aggressive and purposeful. All other modifications are inside the car and under the hood. Let's take a closer look at what makes it tick... The large Seibon sticker hints at the carbon fiber treatment this car has undergone. The hood, trunk, doors and even the roof are made from this precious...
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Posted
Jul 27 2009, 01:41 AM
by
Casey Dhnaram
with 16 comment(s)
As you all may know I'm mainly a drift photographer so this was one of my first real track sprint days I've attended. As soon as we drove into the gates at the entrance, straight away I could hear how intense how the day was going to be! The sound of 4G63's and RB26's roaring around Queensland Raceway was heart thumping. I headed straight around to the dipper to get a closer look. There were going to be two sessions throughout the day; one in the morning and another in the afternoon...
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Posted
Jul 24 2009, 03:23 PM
by
Carl Jarrett
with 38 comment(s)
I've asked myself this question a few times in the past couple days, 'what have I got myself into?!?' Or, 'I sold my Cobra for this?' You might remember my post from a few weeks ago when I sold my FFR. A little scary to dive into such a big project, but man am I looking forward to it! I picked up an '88 RX-7 the other day for $200, basically bought it for the shell only, as most of the parts aren't pristine, as I'm sure you can tell. The owner had it sitting 20 feet...
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Posted
Jul 22 2009, 04:02 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 26 comment(s)
This month has gone by fast hasn't it? I'm finding it hard to believe that we've got just over a week left before AWD month is going to be over. I've had the fortune of attending numerous track events here in the USA and in Japan, so I thought I'd post a gallery of some of the most memorable Evo and Impreza time attack cars I've seen over the past couple years.
Some of these cars are very well known, and some of them might not be - but all have left a lasting impression on me in some way or another....
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Posted
Jul 16 2009, 07:40 PM
by
Dino Dalle Carbonare
with 8 comment(s)
I can't wait for the time attack season to get going here in Japan, starting with the Tsukuba Super Lap Battle in early December. For me there is no better event on the calendar, and this year, like back in 2007, the guys from High Octane Racing in Australia will be there with their new Advan-sponsored R34 GT-R. This video shows its first ever track outing at Oran Park. The custom-dry sumped RB30 drivers all four wheels via the 6-speed Holinger transmission. Apparently, the AWD system wasn't working well on the day so it was a bit of a handful, precisely what makes this video so cool to watch.
-Dino Dalle Carbonare
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Posted
Jul 13 2009, 02:45 PM
by
Mike Garrett
with 15 comment(s)
The time attack scene here in the United States is dominated primarily by two cars, the Subaru Impreza and Mitsubishi Evolution. Walking through the paddock at one of these events, there will be so many Evos and Imprezas around that it's hard to keep track of all them. In the iconic film Two Lane Blacktop, James Taylor's character says "They all get to lookin' the same. They perform about the same too...". James was of course referring to the Detroit muscle cars of the early '70s, but the same can be said about the AWD rockets from Japan. One of the cars that's stuck out to me at time attack events is the Harman Motive Impreza - a car that's been dominant in the Modified class of the Redline Time Attack series and other US track events. Last week I headed down to Harman Motive's shop in Torrance, CA to have a closer look at this car....
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Posted
Jul 03 2009, 09:35 AM
by
John Brooks
with 12 comment(s)
Wow! Is it really the penultimate round of the 2009 UK Time Attack series? Has June passed already? Well the answer is yes to both counts and event four (of five) was held at Brands Hatch last weekend. It was part of the Modified Live Summer Special along with the Need for Speed European Drift Champsionship, a combination that has proved a success with the fans since the opening event at Oulton Park back in early April. Over 6.000 passed through the gate on Sunday in support of this assertion. The...
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