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Originally Posted by Dimman
Head. Meet wall. Again. Yet I continue...
Formula D lets Scion run a full tube-frame, NASCAR powered car. This has nothing to do with homologation of a chassis-sharing car in Europe.
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Yet Again, that is but ONE tC in FD. There are 2 people. The second one is driven by Ken Gushi. And is NOT tubed frame. Gushi's tC WAS at it's start, powered by a BEAMS motor. Gushi was Drifting the tC before Tanner was guys...stay with me now and follow. Gushi's tC ran the BEAMS motor for about 2 seasons at around 400+whp. The motor was not reliable and kept breaking on them. What did they do....they turned to Chris Rado and asked for advice. What did Rado suggest.....Put the factory motor back in it! LOL....For 2010 they have been running a Built 2az-FE at 600whp (200 more than what their BEAMS was making), and have been running it this whole season.
NEWS UPDATE:
Tanner's Rockstar Scion tC will NOT be running a V8 Nascar motor for 2011. The rules of FD are changing again, and the firewall rule seems to be a good stress point now. This rule enforcement now is going to cause a LOT of teams, not just the Rockstar team, to ditch their V8 swaps (as we know, Tanner's tC is not the only V8 swapped Drift car). So, I believe this rule is going to force Tanner and Rockstar to drop in a 2az factory tC motor. I keep up with Scion News and Current Motorsports, you can look this up if you wish.
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Originally Posted by Dimman
You have who is David and who is Goliath mixed up. This is because of the marketing.
As for you keep using PTuning to support the 'no money from Scion' argument. First, they are getting sponsorship from their local Scion dealer (on their website). So that makes your statement wrong. Secondly as there are many more 'top' teams that ARE getting more money from Scion than aren't it makes your argument irrelevant in addition to being wrong.
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Dude....I PERSONALLY KNOW MrC who is the founder of PTuning. If they would have been getting RACE funding from Scion, he Would NOT be making post on ScionLife expressing his frustrations at what they have accomplished and not getting a nod from Scion for doing it. He has posted this several times.
They are sponsored from the Local Scion Dealer in terms of "that" dealer dropping off a brand new 2011 tC so they can start development on a full boost setup. That's their involvement with Scion. No where near the level of involvement suggest for all Scion track cars.
And PTuning....IS NOT the only example I have mentioned to back up my statements. I have used My own car, and My Own experiences in this "David vs Goliath" phenom you speak of. And I know you are not considering me as Goliath...lol.
So, what you are trying to say again which basically trumps your own biased opinion is that....."A car can be fast with enough money thrown into it" Right? So, what is with the hostility of hating on any particular platform then? Why hate on ANY car or anybody's passion? If all cars can be fast (which I don't believe by the way), then there is no rhyme or reason to dislike a platform at all...except that you would rather be driving car X, because you like it. So....in the Grand Scheme of things...it's a matter of Personal Choice and not a Matter of a car Sucking.
Some cars just can't do these things though, so that's why I stated I don't believe any car can be fast with enough money in it, and still retain that cars roots to a factory show room car.