So this guy ran Gumball last year in 2008 and I remember him as we were the only 2 997 Turbo cars on the rally. He hit me up with a month left before the rally that he wanted some more power in his car. The rally was to start on that Saturday and the car was arriving from being shipped from Spain on the prior Thursday. There was no way to get the car to Phx so I scrambled first on the logistics. Big thanks to Tom at Lucent Motors for helping us out and getting the car in last minute while doing an incredible job.

We shipped Tom our new Agency Power Performance Exhaust with 200cell cats, the Agency Power Carbon Fiber Cold Air Intake, and we did the Softronic ECU Flash on 93 octane. The car was geared up and started the rally. The car owner Ian came to me probably at least 1 time per day with how excited he was in how the car drove differently and felt much stronger. In LA, at the Hoover Dam, the stop in Santa Fe, Dallas, and then finally Orlando, he kept thanking me.

Now this car is a Tiptronic and when we finally reached Palm Beach Raceway it was very HOT and HUMID. Ian lined up on the drag strip with the said 800hp Nissan GTR and blew it away. With a TERRIBLE reaction time of 0.49, Ian pulled off a 11.3 1/4 mile run with a trap speed of 122mph. With a better reaction time and some cooler temperatures, this would easily be a 10.8sec car! Not bad for a Tiptronic with a few bolt ons!

Quote from the customer - " I had a reaction time of 0.49......crap. If I had got that down we would have run sub-11 seconds! The car was getting a bit hot at the end and we only had the one run with 103 octane gas. A little bit of extra time and a bit of a rest and we would have been flying."

Here are some pics of his car -

 

Just an FYI for your next time out.......
Reaction time has no effect on elapsed time.Cooler temps would have helped though!

 

That is MOVIN for such few mods.

 

impressive..

 

Tell me more about the 800hp GT-R that you blew away!! I have never heard of an 800 hp GT-R??

 

Do a search for SSP. They were running on a "stock" map apparently

 

shaving off 0.4seconds to get into the 10s is still a long ways to go and at least a 60hp difference.

 

Split - Your original post that came to my email was this -
shaving off 0.4seconds is a lot. You're not "touching the 10s", you're "nearing the 10s."

It was nearly 100F and humid out. Guy never drag raced before. That my friend is a high 10sec car. Even if it was a 10.99. But thanks for your positive comment...

 

hi there my name is eddie and i was the co/driver with ian on the gumball and i would like to say a few words about the car and mods . back in march i drove the car right across europe and into the uk to get ready for shipping to the usa for the gumball and i gave it a good work out ie a few burn ups and i was grinning all the time. and about a month before we set of i just mention to ian about vivid racing and there tune up goodies . so ian contacted dan and told him we wanted some more power !!!! as if it wasnt quick enough . the following week ian said its all sorted dans doing some mods for us and i said what mods and ian said not sure !!!! . so i had to wait until i arrived in santa monica to find out and my god dan didnt let us down this car was realy impressive a lot more smother and a dam sight quicker and the sound was great being a cab i was worried about exccesive noise but no problems their unless you realy floored it then it sounded great but not over the top .
as for the track day well i have to hand it to ian he normaly sits behind a desk but he realy went to town on showing how this car would run . it was the first time me and ian had ever being on a drag strip so the times didnt me anything to me just the speeds we were clocking up and the other cars we were dusting . a big thanks to dan at vivid racing for the goodies he supplied and fittted hope to see you next year at the gumball .

 

eddie - thanks for coming here to show your support. you guys were great to hang out with and I loved hearing your stories of the car!

 

Dan...good trap on a heavier cabriolet platform in high temp conditions...impressive.

 

Thanks - rep points for ya!

 

^ no need to be sassy. Its an excellent run none-the-less, especially for a beginner. Shaving off that much time is a huge accomplishment when you're already running that fast. Ive never driven a 997tt tip, is it hard to drag race with or is it pretty much just hold the pedal and go?

 

no worries, just be positive man... nobody needs negativity.

 

Ive heard of that car but even with a stock map, with all the goodies on that car it should have done better no? What did the GT-R run? Im glad you beat it BTW