Robz Wins ALL MOTOR Class At MIR WCFs
11-10-2014, 08:05 AM
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Robz Wins ALL MOTOR Class At MIR WCFs
I would like to congratulate Rob on winning the ALL MOTOR Class last night at the World Cup Finals with his CAM ONLY LS6. This was a quite an accomplishment considering that he had to replace his transmission Saturday and made it to the only round of qualifying that day. He and Kevin Smalley assisted by Dave and Ricky worked rigorously that morning to completely swap out a trans and slave just in time to hit the staging lanes and lay down a blazing 9.664 pass at 141.85. Without their help this would not have happened. After that during competition, he rowed the gears in bracket car-like fashion going low ET each round with a 9.64, 9.66, 9.67 and 9.65 in the finals to take the win. Job well done my friend. 
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11-10-2014, 08:40 AM
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Congrats Rob! Heck of a setup you've got there. I wish I could have been there.
11-10-2014, 10:47 AM
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Well done Rob very nice.
what a great showing for the LS motors and corvettes
11-10-2014, 03:36 PM
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Nice!!!! And a healthy check to boot.
11-10-2014, 05:17 PM
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Congrats Rob! Very consistent all day of comp... Great job! I had a great time at the event as usual...
11-11-2014, 02:20 PM
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Thank you all for the kind words.
This was a complete team effort and thanks to good friends for always going out of their way for me to compete and be successful.
The trackside team of Gary, Kevin, Dave, Mark, and Ricky made it possible for me to run this weekend.
And without all the help from Tune Time Performance, Smalley Automotive, and MCP Competition Engines it's just not happening. I truly appreciate all the advice from Matt, Gary, Kevin, Mike, and Mark and who are always available to listen to some crazy scheme I have going.
It was a great time and exhausting at the same time. As Gary mentioned we swapped the transmission and slave cylinder on Saturday morning after qualifying in last place Friday due to the inability to get into gear. I knew the car wasn't right and I wound up hurting 2nd gear in the trans trying to force it in gear. (The weekend before I rushed the install of the clutch and though I could get away with too little space between the clutch and TOB.) That was my mistake.
So Saturday morning Kevin tells me we are putting the new trans in and we went for it. I had a back up t 56 in my truck which was designed to run with the race motor and I brought another stock slave and shims knowing we may have to correct the clearance issues. Somehow we made it happen following his instructions and getting him everything he needs. There's no task too big for Kevin Smalley.
We then race up to the staging lanes not knowing if it was going to all come together and the car ran strong and we qualified 2nd. What a relief. I didn't want my crew to go through all that trouble and not run well. The forth qualifier got cancelled so it was key that we made the 3rd one count.
Being an ET chaser I'm immediately thinking that I know this car can go low 9.5x's and start getting ready to put the car on 100% kill. I run the strategy by Gary and I can tell he's got a different plan in mind. We decide to not change anything, keep the car on 90% and be aggressive yet safe which will help minimize any mistakes. It turned out to be a solid plan because we never smoked the tires, missed any shifts, or had to over rev the motor and still ran as fast as we needed to. The car was deadly consistent.
Gary kept me focused on each round one by one and we had a handle on the opponent and what to expect. I never had to kill the tree knowing that I would always get a solid 60' and had the other car covered by et/mph. We made tiny adjustments based on track conditions and ran our own race and somehow wound up taking the win.
It was a great time with friends. The import guys were all very cool in my experience as well. It's amazing the track manages to make this event work with 25,000+ people. The cars in my class were all bad azz and it was impressive to see everyone laying it all out there. I truly appreciated the support I received from the corvette members and enthusiasts that were at the event. Those small words of encouragement go a long way.
This was a complete team effort and thanks to good friends for always going out of their way for me to compete and be successful.
The trackside team of Gary, Kevin, Dave, Mark, and Ricky made it possible for me to run this weekend.
And without all the help from Tune Time Performance, Smalley Automotive, and MCP Competition Engines it's just not happening. I truly appreciate all the advice from Matt, Gary, Kevin, Mike, and Mark and who are always available to listen to some crazy scheme I have going.
It was a great time and exhausting at the same time. As Gary mentioned we swapped the transmission and slave cylinder on Saturday morning after qualifying in last place Friday due to the inability to get into gear. I knew the car wasn't right and I wound up hurting 2nd gear in the trans trying to force it in gear. (The weekend before I rushed the install of the clutch and though I could get away with too little space between the clutch and TOB.) That was my mistake.
So Saturday morning Kevin tells me we are putting the new trans in and we went for it. I had a back up t 56 in my truck which was designed to run with the race motor and I brought another stock slave and shims knowing we may have to correct the clearance issues. Somehow we made it happen following his instructions and getting him everything he needs. There's no task too big for Kevin Smalley.
We then race up to the staging lanes not knowing if it was going to all come together and the car ran strong and we qualified 2nd. What a relief. I didn't want my crew to go through all that trouble and not run well. The forth qualifier got cancelled so it was key that we made the 3rd one count.
Being an ET chaser I'm immediately thinking that I know this car can go low 9.5x's and start getting ready to put the car on 100% kill. I run the strategy by Gary and I can tell he's got a different plan in mind. We decide to not change anything, keep the car on 90% and be aggressive yet safe which will help minimize any mistakes. It turned out to be a solid plan because we never smoked the tires, missed any shifts, or had to over rev the motor and still ran as fast as we needed to. The car was deadly consistent.
Gary kept me focused on each round one by one and we had a handle on the opponent and what to expect. I never had to kill the tree knowing that I would always get a solid 60' and had the other car covered by et/mph. We made tiny adjustments based on track conditions and ran our own race and somehow wound up taking the win.
It was a great time with friends. The import guys were all very cool in my experience as well. It's amazing the track manages to make this event work with 25,000+ people. The cars in my class were all bad azz and it was impressive to see everyone laying it all out there. I truly appreciated the support I received from the corvette members and enthusiasts that were at the event. Those small words of encouragement go a long way.
11-12-2014, 01:53 PM
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What an accomplishment!! It's very difficult for a manual car to compete bracket style against a sea of automatics, making the accomplishment that much more impressive (as if a mid 9 second cam only c5 isn't impressive enough!).
Very impressive indeed.
Very impressive indeed.
