The Cato Outlaws, with the TransAm, were just salt of the earth people. Carlia and Joel Rickett were the kind of couple that work hard so they can race every weekend. Kris Keltner was a quiet wiz. Their garage session was fun with lots of good natured kidding and jokes.
The Fox Marketing team, with the Scion tC, were full of energy and a different kind of fun. They had something irreverant to say about everything. And they knew their stuff. After all, they all worked for ZPI Racing - they manufacture parts for the Scion.
The Outlaws had an agressive garage strategy. Their big mod was a new torque converter, which couples the engine to the transmission. With a stock convertor, step on you brake pedal hard and floor the gas pedal, the engine will only rev to 2000 rpm or so, with the 3600 stall convertor, it allow the engine to rev to 3600 rpm. 3600 means the rpm that the convertor slips to before it locks up the engine to the transmission. This all converts to the fact that Cato could rev the engine higher on the starting line and have a car that leaves harder.
And Carlia was right in there with the guys when the old torque converter came out and the new one went in. This girl was not afraid of hard work.
The Scion got tricked out.....a new exhaust, new S pipe, new crank pulley - all courtesy of ZPI Racing, of course. But also new drag radials and a new racing seat. Slick.
The team was led by Kenny Strickler.....who owns ZPI Racing. Chad Robinson and Brad Waldron did most of the heavy lifting. So to speak. They took like 270 lbs out of the car to lighten the load. The crew had bets on how much weight they would remove. Matt guessed it within 4 lbs. I think he cheated though.
It was fairly obvious that these guys know how to build fast cars and they had a long term plan. That plan definitely included being back for Round 2.
And they will be back for Round 2. They picked up almost 3 seconds from their baseline average. Evolution indeed.
Check out these team's Ride Pages and web sites on Squidoo.
And if you go to www.ZPIRacing.net tell 'em PIPES sent you.
8 comments:
Hey I have been out of the country and have only seen a couple of episodes. But I don't get it. What's up with these times?
I see a Gen 4 Camaro going against a similar Mustang and they are already in the high 11s. I get the impression they went out and found these cars - and they are already THAT fast!
I wonder how that can be. Are they running the full 1/4 mi? How come you don't post the trap speeds? Why don't you say anything about what mods have already been done to the cars?
I think on the other episode I saw, some tuner car gained way over 2 sec. with their mods which seems way outrageous. I just get the feeling like I am missing something here.
The cars are racing on a 1000' track. You can see the rules on what cars are allowed to enter
here....
http://www.pipestv.com/applications/PipesApplication.doc
It's funny, we get feedback saying the cars came in too slow, and some saying them came in too fast. We allow street legal cars that are not Turbocharged, Supercharged, or have N2O.
Message for Carlia Rickett, please would you make contact with me re a family search. Many thanks Gail Hickman - eurozulu@btinternet.com
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