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It's amazing what you can do with a parking lot I'll tell ya. Never got out of second gear through the whole course, but I'll tell ya it was a blast. There where some really nice cars there too......... I was kind of embarrassed by my celicas appearance sitting between a nice shinny S2000 and a '07 Vette........... that ride of mine needs some paint BAD.

I've been thinking about the whole engine swap thing, my 7A is sooooooooooo slooooooooow..............

anyway as I'm setting my car up for AutoX, so I'm thinking that the 250+ hp out of the 3S-GTE might be too much....... so maybe a beams around 190 would be just the ticket? Any thoughts out of the guys who have the 3S and or beams? I'm really looking for the low end power here as we mostly in 2nd gear anyway.

Roger

the CT26 on the 3S is a pretty quick spooling turbo. so lag isnt too much of an issue.
i personally would go with a 3SGE. I like instant power.

Well I've driven other cars of this size/weight with about 200hp and the response is good and about right. not anything like a 350hp but I think in the parking lots running around in second gear theres going to be a lot of torque steer with out little cellie. so I'm a little worried about that. I drove the Dodge Daytona when it came out and christ that had some really bad torque steer and I really did like that. Now these little 7A don't torque steer at all and I like to keep it that way. Drivability over HP wins as far as I'm concerned so, maybe someone who's driven both a Beams and the 3SGTE might chime in and possibly tell me how bad the torque steer is with these two engines??????

Hello All,

Well went to another AutoX this past weekend in Frackville. Won my class but that was not tuff. Went aganst a compleat rookie (my nieces). I did suffered a bad case of cone confusion on my first three runs. Didn't kill any cones but I think got 2 DNF's for beaing off course DOH! (I haven't seen the full results yet) but i got a bad feeling And my times where in the mid 50's...... Well after lunch and walking the course again three more times, my last three runs where all clean and my fastest was 46.573... whew

I asked my nieces boyfriend to take a few shots while I was running...... I can't wait till i get those coilovers and maybe a new set of sway bars too. I can feel the understrear..... but the amount of body roll was a real surprise!!!! This was a fairly slow tight left hander

Mike, putting on those coilovers will bump me up to STS won't it?

congrats! i was just a a two day divisional race sat. and sun. in milwaukee, i got 9th in my class which isnt to bad for running street tires.

Is that the TRD Curren Wing?

hey Vince. and yes sir thats the wing

Dude, pls help to take some close up pics if u free

Vince I'll be glad to take some pics of that wing, I just rattle canned a color on there so it wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb in grey primer. But I will try to get it painted better and then I'll shoot some shots for you.

I'm sowly putting this car together and getting it ready for a full paint job.

hey man,
Damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn that spoiler looks sweet on there!


i wanted to go either two post or spoilerless but now your making me want to go that route...

looks awesome on the car.




keep up all the good work!

it would.
you can only do basic shock and spring replacement i believe to stay in stock

Well thats cool I'll run with the STS guys then. Going to have to see what else that class will allow me to do then. I do want to try and stay out of SM for now.

Hey Guys,

Well I'm going to change gears here a little bit. I found a deal I couldn't refuse and I had to take it up........



So I guess I'm going to be moving my cellie........... I can't keep them both the wif drew the line one's go to go. grumph!
I've got a couple of folks looking at it now so we will see what happneds with that.
And Mike I'll be running this pup in the AutoX's for sure. just moving up the CS for now.

Roger

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grab some Kuhmo XS tires on that thing and your set for auto-x. I've been around auto-x for going on about 2 years now and love it to death. I also started competing in rallycross this year and will be doing winter auto-x for the first time this coming winter. My first experience with auto-x was in my 2003 Elantra GT and I fell instantly in love with it. I sold my Elantra and picked up a brand new 2009 Cobalt SS Turbo and started competing as often as I could. I only managed to make 3 competitions before my accident but gained lots of valuable experience during that time. Since the Cobalt accident I have made it to 1 auto-x competition in my 93 civic si hatch and 3 rallycross competitions. I hate to say it but I REALLY LOVE loose gravel and I already know I LOVE snow/ice, sliding is just too much fun

This post has been edited by RockyMountainCelica: Aug 16, 2010 - 12:01 AM

shame, but those mrs are go karts.!!!

THANK YOU!!!!! I wanted to say MR-S but I wasn't sure. And cmon lol can't be any better than a hatchback civic or miata stripped down and prepped for auto-x

This post has been edited by RockyMountainCelica: Aug 16, 2010 - 12:30 AM

Mike, have ya ever driven one of these things????? The first time I drove one was when I went to look at her. And I'll tell ya the little test drive I did, I was bit bad by the sypder. And if you haven't well I'll be glad to let you take a few runs in it at one of these AutoX's we cross paths on. It's like njccms2002 said this MRS is like a cart and it's bone stock I can't wait till i get some mods on this thing. WOW!

Rocky, I know what ya mean about loose gravel it's a blast. Hang the ass out and punch it! I used to play on gravel when I first started driving, way back when, when I had my bugs and my '84 Corolla SR-5 hatchback. That AE86 had no guts but it was a blast to drive. Originally thats what I got the Cellie for. The 1/8 mile dirt tracks around here run a class called 4 cly. And it's all FWD 4 bangers, but she was in too nice of shape to turn into a dirt car. So I got into AutoX and well, as they say one thing led into another. And I'm pretty sure I'll be able to give those Miata's a run for there money with this pup. The Civic's well thats a whole different game those things are insane.

And yes she's a 2001 MR2 Spyder.

lol I'm basically always on the gas the entire rallycross course, with some left foot braking 90% of the time as well. I've learned that you CANNOT left of the gas in a FWD on loose terrain while rounding corners or you loose the back end, I've gotten pretty good at left foot brake and practice every opportunity I get. I'm excited to get better with left foot braking and be able to put down some top 5 times in my civic. It is my goal to take FTD and 1st place sometime within the next 2 years of autocross and rallycross.

This post has been edited by RockyMountainCelica: Aug 16, 2010 - 3:59 PM