2016 OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car - Thunderhill
 

We just returned from the OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car - Thunderhill event!

Many photos and videos to come. :)

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jdnguyen and myself participated in Optima's Search for the Ultimate Street car at Road America in 2015. It is a great event; however, I think it would be pretty hard for a 86 to ever win the event.

Very nice! How did you guys fair in the various events? What did you have done to your cars?

We met and were hanging out with Churchill and Bong from RS Motors; good guys. Bong was competing with his turbo S2000. We definitely agree about it being hard for an 86 to win. I imagine your event was as dominated, if not more, by domestics as our event was. We had sea of late model Corvettes and well sorted pro-touring vehicles. Short of something like LS-swapping with wide body/wide rubber I don't think it would happen.

Still a very fun time though!

EDIT: You should post those photos (and other track photos if you have more) in the Track Photos - Directory and Discussion thread. It needs a kick start.

My car is pretty simple: OFT/E85, Tomei Header, Grimmspeed intake, DTC60s, RCE T2 and sways, and some bushings.

Was wondering if you would catch the RS Stickers on my car. ;) We have a very large crew that attends these events. At road America our group of friends made up 27(Evos, STis, Civic, FD, bmws) of the 75 entries, granted it was our "Home" event. The Evo crew has came in 2nd in vegas 2 years in a row, as well as a handful in the top 10 for both years.

I got 7th or 9th out of 26 in GTL at Road America, I was pretty happy with the placement, can't remember Jason's placing. A NA BRZ can't touch 400+ HP evos, Popps 600+ C5, or a LS swapped FD on a road course that's made for speed.

Yeah, sounds like you did really well, especially considering being N/A.

And that's a good showing of imports. There were maybe 10 non-domestic vehicles are our event.

Aerocatch installation.

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More event prep:

Brake ducting back in.
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Corner balancing.
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We would have liked to dial it in better, but were running out of time.
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Weight WITH driver.
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We choose the Hankook R-S3 to abide by the 200 treadwear or higher event rule. 245/40/ZR17 size.
Wheels are RAYS Gram Lights 57DR in 17x9 +38 sizing.
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Alignment.
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We drove the BRZ to Thunderhill Raceway from our shop at Sonoma Raceway.

It's a STREETcar challenge after all, right?! :)

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:iono::iono::iono::iono::iono::iono::iono::iono::i ono::iono::iono::iono::iono::iono:Drive car to street car event....:iono::iono::iono::iono::iono:You mean haul in 200k rig??

Yeah....we were thinking the same thing, ha.

Speed/Stop Challenge. Video next!

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USCA
 

I will be running the Charlotte event this year and can't wait! Did they make you provide any proof of vehicle weight to run the GTL class? If so what did you use?

You likely won't get questioned on it, the new rules for weight are mainly for something that looks like it was swiss cheesed to get under 3200lbs, people were doing it. Our cars have no contest of being over the 3200lbs. Any online article you may find from a magazine review should have curb weight.

That being said, they had scales on site in Charlotte last year. Be prepared for a 1/8 mile drag race into a box at the 1/8th for your standing start shootout.

Yea I watched last year's speed stop and autocross events. Looked a little slick near the stop box too. Can't wait!

We did not get weighed and didn't see anyone else get weighed.

They did have scales at the event though, but from what I understand they are there only if someone "contests" a car as not following the rules or something like what @ka-t_240 was talking about.

The event was a lot of fun! I think you'll have a good time.

Got to see the car 1st hand yesterday @ Sonoma Raceway with the SpeedSF/NorCal 86Cup event.


Nash was kind enough to pop the hood and show us some of the work you guys are doing. Nice job. I dig the Works spec Ohlins, STI calipers, brake ducts, and of course the CARB legal, intercooled turbo kit.

Good to hear and thank you! Glad you were able to check out the car. Were you driving that day?

Btw, we are still looking for a volunteer to R&D the automatic transmission compatible versions of our turbo kits. The volunteer would get a large discount on the turbo kit & labor.

If you know anyone that might be interested have them contact us.

Cheers

Yes, I was driving in the event. Crazy wet that day... never been on track with so much standing water and rain. Quite an experience.

The turbo kit's intercooler and heat exchanger was an a clever setup. I've never seen it done like that before.

I'll keep it in mind that you are looking for an auto trans owners but I personally don't know anyone with an auto. Most of the 86 owners i know are track regulars and they are all manual trans drivers.

Nice, I was with the white STi w/ orange wheels. We drove the car there non stop from Fargo, ND. Broke a wheel in half Sunday, and somehow manged to get the car home. Got really lucky a shop was able to find us a wheel from his customer.

One more Speed/Stop photo.

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First video from the event, this one from the Speed/Stop Challenge. There's a even a nice spin in the middle of it too. ;) Enjoy.

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Couple photos by James Larieau from the autocross.

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Back from the dead! :D

Autocross video is up! Enjoy :)

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Long overdue, but whipped together the road course segment from Ultimate Street Car! Cheers.

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