The Pontiacs and Vettes sound Awesome!

 

I was at Barber working for another team. Playboy (Unitech) blew up 2 GS motors and their 1 GT motor in the first 2 laps of practice. They put a new GT motor in the car and blew it up on the formation lap of the race. They said that the same thing happened at Barber last year and that the Crank is what gave up. They think it has to do with the running a certain RPM to long on this track and last year thought it was the harmonic balancer (Aftermarket) and switch back to stock.
Although they said that the GT motors (a VQ35 made to be a 4.0L) was only assembled 3 days before they left for Barber. So they haven't even run the engine at all.

Most teams stay away from Barber in July due to heat and that the more popular Canada race is 2 weeks after.

 

Wow. Costly weekend for sure. Glad I didn't make the trek down there.

 

My favorite engine sound comes from those RX8's. I'm impressed with those things. I never would have imagined they could hang with the GT3's and GTO's. It seems that the VQ isn't competitive unless Nissan can step in and offer support.

The DP was less than exciting except for the last 20 minutes where the leader was tailed by the 75 car the entire time. You know the leader (I forget who won) had to be exhausted from all of the pressure from 75.

I finally got to see my friend on TV though (works for TRG) after three years!

 

You should hear the Howard Law G35 with the 4.5l V8. Damn that thing sounded mean.

 

Can't figure out why they're sponsored by Aprilia, lol.

 

I wonder what's happened to that team since Daytona? They've kept a low profile throughout most of the '07 Grand Am season...

 

The RX-8's are Prep 2 cars, which means they are more purpose built race cars, they run at a lighter weight than anybody else, and they run a 3 rotor engine. They are built and turned out very well, though, which ultimately is necessary to run so well in the series.

 

the rx8 have 3rotors in them that motor can push over 500 hp easy

 

They have been here or there but nothing consistant enough to keep track of. Last I heard they were still having problems blowing engines.

 

Are the guards pumped or is it just the angle of the photos. They look WIDE.

 

Any more details about the engine that playboy 350z is using?

 

I would love to hear how that Z sounds.

 

wanna see under the hood!!!!!

 

Nice. . .that's pretty tight. I work security at the Playboy club and Moon nightclub at the Palms hotel in Vegas. . . . .REPRESENT foo !!