Stay tuned

[cali yaris]

well? let's see some visual goodness!

[Jason@SportsCar]

well?

I am sitting at my office now waiting for the one person who can approve the check I need pay for the wrap. :mad: The guy that did it says it looks sweet.

[fmicle]

What was wrong with the previous wrap? :smile: It looks pretty sweet to me... but then, what do I know? :iono:

[Jason@SportsCar]

What was wrong with the previous wrap? :smile: It looks pretty sweet to me... but then, what do I know? :iono:

That was actually paint. With this car going to SEMA, for the second time, Toyota had no intentions of just dusting off the old car and putting it in the booth. New project, new graphics. The only part that should be left over from its previous life will be the roll cage, and the header.

It looks way better now. :clap:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Our new vinyl plotter just got delivered to the office. Now we can do all the detail work, and change some of the graphics as needed for the type of event the car is going to.

Should be looking good for its debut on the 14th.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Time to head down to San Diego for the SCCA Solo National Tour. Won't be getting any work done on the Yaris this weekend. But at least I get to race something with some power. :biggrin:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Late last night I got the headlight covers and flares back on, car is looking sharp. The Toyota transporter comes at 6:00pm to pick it up for its trip to the Staples Center. :cool:

[BLAZINBLUEVITZ]

^^ BOUT TIME we have some exposure at one of these shows.....

[Jason@SportsCar]

On its way... There was also a Yaris sedan race car in the trailer. It was just a roller, looks like a project that never got finished. :iono: The driver did not know much about it, just picked it up at one of the Toyota garages.


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[Jason@SportsCar]

Found it... The 4-door was another past SEMA show car. The 2006 Street Image car. It has no engine and no brake calipers, but looks like a good start as it has an awesome cage - and air jacks. :w00t:

http://www.urbanracer.com/features/popup.asp?pic=http://www.urbanracer.com/gallery/gallery/event_coverage/sema/2006/SEMA_Day_4_11-3-06/0406.jpg

[cali yaris]

nice splitter

[Jason@SportsCar]

Its time...

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[Jason@SportsCar]

Note the family resemblance. :w00t:

http://www.allamericanracers.com/eagl_mkIII_gtp.html

[thebarber]

nice!

[cali yaris]

looks great. That lens makes the car look soooo long.

[Bluevitz-rs]

I think I liked the black headlights better. But the rest looks cool.

[Jason@SportsCar]

I think I liked the black headlights better. But the rest looks cool.

I liked the contrast the black offered, but it did not go with the theme Toyota wanted.

http://www.allamericanracers.com/images/eagle_mk3_b600x350.jpg

[Bluevitz-rs]

Ah, so this is Toyota's paint job then.

[coffiend]

im more fond of the black as well, but the car looks real sick.

two thumbs up!

[kngrsll]

look neato

[Jason@SportsCar]

Nothing new to report... Spent most of he weekend at the LB GP. Our shock guy was in town for the race, unfortunately our shocks were not in his carry-on luggage. The shocks are still being worked over, and will have to catch another flight from the Netherlands.

Still have not had time to get the engine management installed. :frown:

We did get our new 20-9.5-13 Goodyear Eagle slicks. Just a tick wider than the 15s, at 10.5", and 3"s shorter. This will help fix our way to tall gearing, and drops a good deal of unsprung weight. Now if the wheels would just get here.

Looks like we will be running the same setup as the last few races when we head to Buttonwillow for the Double National this weekend. :iono:

[ddongbap]

Nothing new to report... Spent most of he weekend at the LB GP. Our shock guy was in town for the race, unfortunately our shocks were not in his carry-on luggage. The shocks are still being worked over, and will have to catch another flight from the Netherlands.

Still have not had time to get the engine management installed. :frown:

We did get our new 20-9.5-13 Goodyear Eagle slicks. Just a tick wider than the 15s, at 10.5", and 3"s shorter. This will help fix our way to tall gearing, and drops a good deal of unsprung weight. Now if the wheels would just get here.

Looks like we will be running the same setup as the last few races when we head to Buttonwillow for the Double National this weekend. :iono:

I spent a huge portion of my time on the simulator vendors that were there. hahaha. I even had paddock passes.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Finally got a shot of the Toyota display from the Staples Center.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4540825219_37dd18cabd_b.jpg

[Kaotic Lazagna]

^ Nice.

[lilredrocket]

Look at the rust one the rotors of the sedan but a very cool pic!!!

[RHDVIPbB]

Look at the rust one the rotors of the sedan but a very cool pic!!!

Its sad actually. I want to buy it so I can restore it and finish what was started.

[lilredrocket]

I know what you mean that is a very cool sedan there

[Jason@SportsCar]

Slight setback at Buttonwillow....

Qualified strong, 2nd, after skipping practice - this turned out to be dumb. When we read the sups for the event we both read it as we were running the same configuration as we normally use for every Natl race there, but this was not the case. So we were learning a new layout in qual and still ran fast.

Things were looking great during the race, should have been able to run for the win. But on lap 4 as I tracked out over the FIA curbing on corner exit something let go - a still unidentified part broke and made the car unsteerable, resulting in an a impact with one of the worker station walls. Lucky this was one of the slowest turns on the track, I was only going about 60mph when I realized I had a problem, and got it down to about 40mph on impact.

Took about an hour to pull off all the damaged body work, and most of the damage is just cosmetic. The uni-body is strait, and all the mounting points are intact.

So while we are waiting on these parts we are going to move our schedule up a couple of months and get the engine and trans work down now.

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[lilredrocket]

Ouch!!! Glad you are ok... Any pics of this part that broke?

[markitect]

Glad your ok, doesn't look too bad for 40mph collision.

Did the radiator break, or was it just taken off while ripping things down I assume the radiator supports were at least crumpled.

[kngrsll]

ouch, i wanna know what broke...

[Jason@SportsCar]

ouch, i wanna know what broke...

So do I... It will take a bit more digging.

[CTScott]

Unsteerable, as in turn the wheel and neither wheel turns, or does one of the two move?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Unsteerable, as in turn the wheel and neither wheel turns, or does one of the two move?

As in the steering wheel locked, no turning.

The car does not have a column lock, has to be removed for Prod class, not that it would have mattered with the key in the ignition.

The power steering motor has also been removed, so I know it did not lock up.

Still early in the process, lots of parts to check. And we have lots of time, next Natl race is not until July.

Only bummer is we were planning to pull the slicks off and run one of the local autocross classes at the Cal Club Divisional in June, but the engine will likely still be in pieces at that point.

[kngrsll]

that makes me really nervous... we are pulling 85-90 mph on street tires with a lot of steering input on a couple corners here. im planning on running RA-1's at the next event so the speeds will be even higher.

[Jason@SportsCar]

that makes me really nervous... we are pulling 85-90 mph on street tires with a lot of steering input on a couple corners here. im planning on running RA-1's at the next event so the speeds will be even higher.

I would not worry based on this one case. This could have been an issue just waiting from the cars previous life.

We will figure it out and update.

But just in case... Stay off the FIA curbs. :wink:

[kou]

Did the steering unlock after the accident or was is it still locked?Do you have a manual rack or is the relay pulled on the factory power assisted rack?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Finally had a few spare minutes so I put together my video from the SCCA Solo National Tour in San Diego (April 10-11). My Saturday files took a dump, but here are the quick runs from CSL (my wife in an RX-8) and AS (the car owner and myself in his Corvette).

http://www.youtube.com/user/SportsCarMag#p/a/u/0/IBpsxnBlE38

[HTM Yaris]

Glad to see you and the Yaris are OK .

Is that a Fluidyne or Koyo radiator ? Also where did you get the radiator hoses from ? I will be needing both of those soon .

Thanks

[Jason@SportsCar]

Round two getting slowly under way... The new hood and intake system have shown up.

Plan is to get the trans out this weekend, and next week having the LSD rebuilt and the gears changed.

Now we just have to pull the trigger and pick which engine builder we are going to use. We have talked to everyone from the local guy we know, to an engine shop Toyota uses for ALMS/Rolex/Nascar. For the most part they are all starting at ground zero with a Yaris engine.

Hopefully during the tear down process we find our steering issue.

[CTScott]

Did you get to the bottom of the steering lock issue yet?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Transmission came out on Saturday... Man that is so much easier when you don't have the front end on the car. :laugh:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Progress... New radiator and hoses arrived. Just visited the shop that is rebuilding the LSD and putting in the new gear set, should be done tomorrow. :biggrin:

Going to be busy doing some driver coaching on Sat, but hopefully will be able to install the trans on Sun.

[lilredrocket]

any word on the part that broke?

[Jason@SportsCar]

The transmission is back in. Freshly rebuilt Kaaz LSD ready to put power down. And the way to tall 3.722 final drive has been replaced with 4.312, this should help acceleration - even more so when we drop from the 23" Goodyear slicks to the 20" units. :burnrubber:We should just about be able to launch in 2nd gear now.

[rob323]

I'm assuming you grabbed the 4.3 final from a C52/C56/C156 or similar? If so, did you just swap the Yaris bell housing onto the C5_ centre casing? Any problems with shifter cables etc?

[kou]

Did you get to the bottom of the steering lock issue yet?

My geuss is the wheel got suck up in the fender.

[Jason@SportsCar]

I'm assuming you grabbed the 4.3 final from a C52/C56/C156 or similar? If so, did you just swap the Yaris bell housing onto the C5_ centre casing? Any problems with shifter cables etc?

That seems like a lot of work... We found it much easier, and cheaper, to use the final drive and output shaft from an xB C50. :iono: Direct bolt in. :thumbsup:

[Jason@SportsCar]

My geuss is the wheel got suck up in the fender.

The fenders are flared, not an issue. It was also nothing in the trans/lsd.

This has been very low on the priority list. As we take the car apart and prepare for the Runoffs we are checking the various parts.

We have found two questionable items that may be related to the problem, once we nail it down for sure I will post our findings.

[Jason@SportsCar]

I am just putting a feeler out to see if there is interested in OE style fiberglass front fenders...

After the recent mishap with our HP Yaris we are replacing all of the front body work. To meet the SCCA Production class rules we have to cover the tops of our 10.5" wide slicks, this has required the use of flares. I was talking to the vendor who supplies our flares about building a one-piece fiberglass fender, with the flare already built in.

This should cut some weight on the front of the car, and give us the tire clearance/coverage we need. The other option would be just a direct OE replacement with no flare, if you want the flares you just add them on.

I just did not know if anyone other than us would be interested in such a product. He should have a ballpark figure for me in the next week, and a minimum number needed to proceed - so far it sounds like six pairs.

The end result would look very similar to the image below.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686/4427136759_893346ceef_b.jpg

[rob323]

That seems like a lot of work... We found it much easier, and cheaper, to use the final drive and output shaft from an xB C50. :iono: Direct bolt in. :thumbsup:
Is your box a C150 or a C154?
C50's are rare as over here (And I wouldn't be able to make use of my TRD 4.7:1 final drive kit).

[cali yaris]

Rob, I can send you a C50 anytime, we get them from salvage.

[rob323]

Thanks for the offer Garm but it's not needed. I have a C52, a C150 and a C56 all stripped on my bench at home, I'm too far down the track to not make the most of it now. Bearings and synchros for the C56 are ordered. Just got to drill the C56 casing for the mount, throw it all together including the lsd and the TRD final drive and slap on the C150 bellhousing on it. End result should be a close ration gearset with a top speed of about 110mph depending on rev limit and tyre size.

[Jason@SportsCar]

OK, what smart guy came up with an 8mm bi-hexagon head bolt. :mad: We got all the peripherals off, and the cams out, only to find we need this special socket to pull the head.

Oh well, the tool is on its way, and the head will wait a few more days. :drinking:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Things can start moving again... The 8mm bi-hexagon showed up today. :thumbup:

So sometime between the tire test tomorrow, and racing on Sunday, I will hopefully find time to pull the head.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Between our testing on Saturday, and playing on Sunday, no progress on the Yaris.

And what a disappointment, the Corvette I was racing on Sunday had ABS issues again, so the owner decided to park it.

I did find a suitable replacement, 430 Scuderia... http://www.youtube.com/user/SportsCarMag#p/a/u/0/m6-YM5FHGpI

That was the coolest thing I have ever gotten to take a lap in. If you have the means I highly recommend getting one. If you don't, just find someone else who does. :cool:

[cali yaris]

BEAST!

[Jason@SportsCar]

Got the rest of our body work, it is getting painted this week. Hopefully the head comes back this week as well.

Also got the new engine management.

Hopefully it will be back to life within the next ten days. :thumbup:

[Jason@SportsCar]

Got a call from our engine guy... He was not happy with the first set of valve springs he received, so a new set is on the way. Should get the finished product on Monday now. Can't wait to see what it does on the dyno with head work and new cams. :drool:

Freshly painted fenders, hood and bumper just got dropped off. Time to get out of here and go install them.

[cali yaris]

power band should be very interesting now.

I'm doing even stronger springs now as well.

[rob323]

I'd be curious to know what seat pressure you guys end up with with the stronger springs.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Core support, radiator and front fenders are in.

And just when I had given up all hope of ever seeing our custom 13" wheels, I even bought another set of 15"s, a box full of wheels shows up. 8lbs 5oz of dead sexy aluminum. :headbang:

[cali yaris]

Did you have any issues at all swapping in the final drive and output shaft from an xB? -- I think that's the way I recall you doing it.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Did you have any issues at all swapping in the final drive and output shaft from an xB? -- I think that's the way I recall you doing it.

I did not install the parts myself, I just dropped off the trans and the parts, but I was told it was a perfect fit. However, the car has not moved under its own power with those gears, so the real test will come next week. :iono: But we have no reason to think there will be an issue. :cool:

Now do the math on converting to a 4.30 gear with a 20" tall tire. It should move now. :burnrubber: Being under 1900lbs wont hurt either.

Best news... Just did a test fit with one of our custom three-piece wheels, and they clear the brakes. :thumbup: But I do need to get a set of longer studs, the centers are a little thick on these wheels.

[Jason@SportsCar]

New dash and cluster. Still have a few wires to tie up.

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[cali yaris]

I think "skeletonized" describes your interior. :clap:

[rob323]

What dash is that?

[rob323]

Did you have any issues at all swapping in the final drive and output shaft from an xB? -- I think that's the way I recall you doing it.
Garm, what code is your current box (eg, C154) and what code is the XB box?

[Jason@SportsCar]

What dash is that?

AiM, will pull data directly from our new ECU. :cool:

http://www.aimsports.com/products/mxl-chooser.html

[Jason@SportsCar]

Garm, what code is your current box (eg, C154) and what code is the XB box?

The USDM Yaris and early xB are both a C50. The outside of the case is different, so a complete swap is not in the cards, but the guts can be changed. :thumbsup:

[rob323]

Nice, very jealous.

[rob323]

The USDM Yaris and early xB are both a C50. The outside of the case is different, so a complete swap is not in the cards, but the guts can be changed. :thumbsup:
In that case, anything from a C50, C52 or C56 should swap around without too much drama, maybe a different bearing here and there but that's about it.

[cali yaris]

The USDM Yaris and early xB are both a C50.

Correct, and now I have one of each, thanks to Jason playing guinea pig for us.

[knowmercy]

Needs moar pictures!!

[Jason@SportsCar]

More hotness... The long awaited suspension has arrived. :drinking: Custom built mono-tube racing shocks. This is the same stuff that is currently being run on SCCA World Challenge cars.

With the gear change, new wheel/tire combo, engine work and suspension it should be a real eye opener at the next race.

[justjesus]

Jason... show us the aluminum sexyness!!!!!!!

[Jason@SportsCar]

The head is back on with the new cams installed. A few hours in the AM and it should be ready to run.

[rob323]

Have any dramas with shims?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Have any dramas with shims?

I got it as a complete unit from our engine guy... Just had to pull the cams back out to put in the head bolts.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Its alive... Sort of. Installed the head with the new cams, fired right up. Unfortunately it wont idle. I think I got one of the cams a tooth off on the timing chain. The engine builder seems to think all is well, just the stock ECU can't idle these cams.

Just to be safe I am going to pull the valve cover again :frown: and check all the timing marks before we run it hard.

[knowmercy]

Yeah, big cams make idle go to crap usually on a stock ecu. IIRC you're tuned via piggy back right? Might be time to retune with more air being sucked into the engine... but yeah, start with timing, go from there. Also, we need moar pictures!!

[Jason@SportsCar]

Yeah, big cams make idle go to crap usually on a stock ecu. IIRC you're tuned via piggy back right? Might be time to retune with more air being sucked into the engine... but yeah, start with timing, go from there. Also, we need moar pictures!!

Currently we are stock with a Camcon, which wont do what we need now. We have a custom stand alone setup being built right now - sort of stand alone, we will still have the stock ECU for a few things. :wink:

Just finished all the body work, no time to check the cams yet. But it looks done for our shoot. Headed here in about 12 hours: http://wikimapia.org/16838231/San-Bernardino-County-Sheriff-s-Emergency-Vehicle-Operations-Center

Doing a small feature for Toyota Connection magazine.

This will also give me a place to break in the engine and LSD.

[Jason@SportsCar]

I am just not sure this new aero package will make the car faster.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4859575370_2a2c494937_b.jpg


The magic... When they are done it will look like the Yaris was going 100mph, instead of 1" a sec.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4859577294_78f9877be3_b.jpg


Got some miles on the engine and trans.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4858957277_ee15f2d1f2_b.jpg

[Jason@SportsCar]

Double checked the cam timing and everything is lined up. Our engine guy is convinced the stock ECU just cant deal with it. Fingers crossed that we get our custom harness and new engine management this weekend.

[Jason@SportsCar]

It is a great day when the UPS man brings you a package you never ordered. :iono: One of our sales guys mentions the Yaris project to one of his advertisers a few weeks ago, and they built us a set of brake pads to try. :w00t:

[justjesus]

Very nice!!

[cali yaris]

Jason, being able to set your idle might help. I have mine at 1100, I'm not sure the stock setting would work for me either.

It is a great day when the UPS man brings you a package you never ordered.

Not always; we got a big box of porn once. It wasn't even good porn.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Jason, being able to set your idle might help. I have mine at 1100, I'm not sure the stock setting would work for me either.



Not always; we got a big box of porn once. It wasn't even good porn.

:laugh:

[soloecho2]

Did you ever get the fiberglass front fenders ??

[Jason@SportsCar]

Did you ever get the fiberglass front fenders ??

No, there did not seem to be enough people interested to make it worth doing. So we just went back to flares on stock fenders.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Jason... show us the aluminum sexyness!!!!!!!

Returned the new wheels. Just going to stick with the 15"s. I wish we could have made it work with the 13"s - the wheels actually worked, it was an issue with the manufacturer that we could not get past. :frown:

[cali yaris]

"an issue"?

PM me the details, maybe I'll pick them up.

[Jason@SportsCar]

"an issue"?

PM me the details, maybe I'll pick them up.

I won't go into detail about why we chose not to use them, or who we got them from at this time. I am certain in your position you see first hand how dealing with the wrong manufacturer can be bad for business.

Any time we do something for use in the magazine we have to decided if we would spend our own money on the product/service/etc, and would we recommend this to someone else... The answer to both of these questions became no.

Personally I hate not using them. The 13" wheel/tire package was going to do so many good things, better gearing, lower CG, less weight. Ultimately I believe not having them will slow us down some at the Runoffs. But it is to late to do anything about it now, and ultimately you have to draw the line somewhere.

[Jason@SportsCar]

On a happier note... Last night I pulled out the CamCon and associated wiring, and got the stock harness all patched up. I can now plug in our recently delivered custom plug-n-play harness for our new engine management. Going to get it tuned tomorrow.

We have also scheduled the first installment on the Yaris to go in the Oct issue of SportsCar, which we are working on right now.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Long night... With still more to do. But it is alive and running on its new AEM plug-n-play. :thumbup: Details later.

[cali yaris]

good news!

[Jason@SportsCar]

good news!

Bad news... The VTI (?) on the intake came has an issue. Not sure if it was caused by the wreck, shipping of the head/cams, or careless handling, but the unit is locked up. We can activate the VVT unit, pulled out the oil unit and we can see it move, we have full control with the AEM, but the cam is stuck.

We have a tune to race on this weekend, lots of HP, but the Tq is weak. :frown: Going to have to fix it next week.

Sitting in the car now doing the program on the AIM dash.

[Jason@SportsCar]

If anyone is interested in the parts needed to do the xB final drive (4.312) swap:

33321-52110, output shaft
41221-52270, ring gear
90105-11040, ring gear bolts (8)

Depending on mileage you may also want to replace bearings and seals, but you don't need to source those from Toyota.

[cali yaris]

ooh thanks, now I can be 100% sure I got the right parts. :bow:

[Jason@SportsCar]

What a long weekend... 5:00am Friday I hit the road to Utah, made it to the track in time to register and tech. Getting home at 2:30am today sucked. Damn you Vegas traffic.

Practice at 8:00am on sat. Qualified 1st in HP by a good margin. Things were going good during the race. I had a good gap over 2nd, and just planned to nurse the car around to my needed finish (I had to finish one more race to get an invite to the Runoffs). Late in the race the heat started to take its toll on the front tires and 2nd place was closing in. With only a few laps to go I got hosed by a slower car, he drove right in the middle of one of the fastest turns, and could not decided which way he was going to go. I was forced to brake and I watched 2nd zoom right by me. :mad: At this point only two laps left, and I did not have enough tire left to get back by him.

Sunday was another 1st place starting position. This was the most exciting race I have had to date. Two FP cars (a quicker class) were mixing it up right ahead of me, and I had James Blust (Sunday's HP winner) right on me. There were a number of times the four of us were nose to tail. James got by me a couple of times, and I got back by him as well, it was a great battle. At the end I did not have enough left and came home second.

Hopefully once we get the new suspension installed and sorted the car will be a lot easier on its tires. But considering we had stock shocks, some random lowering springs, and the VVT was not working, it was a great outing. Best of all, I have no body panels to replace. :thumbup:

Video later.

[Yoda]

yes for vid!!!

[Jason@SportsCar]

Saturday's race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxIGX2hYUI0

[justjesus]

Thanks for sharing video. Cool, and exciting story!
Looks like that Datsun 510 (?) was blocking you a few times in the beginning.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Thanks for sharing video. Cool, and exciting story!
Looks like that Datsun 510 (?) was blocking you a few times in the beginning.

Even worse on Sun... The 510 is an FP car, owner says 175hp. On Sun he was racing an EP Miata (even quicker car) and both of them were holding up the top two (slower) HP cars. :iono: That's racing.

[cali yaris]

That would be too frustrating for me.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Sunday's race, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGhnpRtp-ME
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhkHFf7GG0
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm01a2-rU8o

[justjesus]

...both of them were holding up the top two (slower) HP cars. :iono: That's racing.

Yup, that would frustrate me as well.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Yup, that would frustrate me as well.

I consider being able to even be in that position (where a faster car is holding me up) a good thing. :wink:

[Yoda]

you selling that camcon?

[Jason@SportsCar]

you selling that camcon?

Maybe...

[Jason@SportsCar]

Some great shots from Miller:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4907442553_8e7b1c5804_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4908033540_bbce34e0fd_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4908034174_19ef41afc4_z.jpg

[Jason@SportsCar]

I don't think I ever followed up from the accident... We found no broken parts, however, we do think we found the culprit. While sweeping the new suspension (running it throughout its range without a spring in place, so we can check travel limits) we found that is was possible for the front swaybar to come in contact with the inner steering rack boot on the passengers side. This required extreme compression with some steering input.

From this we can only extrapolate that in the process of curb hopping at Buttonwillow we found this limit. Seems like it was a fluke, we went over that same curb 50 times that day with no issues, and I doubt we will ever experience this again. Even at Miller I was all over the curbs and had no problem.

[thebarber]

sweet pics...

[Jason@SportsCar]

Installment number one of the Yaris project is off to the printers, SportsCar readers should have it on hand in about three weeks.

[soloecho2]

Is there a way to get a copy of the magazine without being a SCCA member??

[cali yaris]

maybe there is an online version.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Is there a way to get a copy of the magazine without being a SCCA member??

Not currently, it use to be available at some of the bigger book chains, but that was some time ago.

At some point, after the print copy has circulated to all the members, I am sure we will see a PDF of the feature online. :wink:

[Mouse]

I'm almost sure that Barnes & Noble has them.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Got the Yaris on the scales today and did the corner weights. Current weight with three bars of fuel (just over a 1/4 tank) is 1860lbs.

Also built a small air dam.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4940008696_2c7d4ff6c7_z.jpg

[rob323]

How did you find the balance from side to side?
My Echo has nearly perfect weight distribution on the fronts, but the rears are 30 kg different. And the heavier side is the side with the muffler (but no fuel tank).

[Jason@SportsCar]

How did you find the balance from side to side?
My Echo has nearly perfect weight distribution on the fronts, but the rears are 30 kg different. And the heavier side is the side with the muffler (but no fuel tank).

When we first rolled it on the scales it was 100lbs light on the right rear, with near perfect front weights. I guess our 2.74lb Coast Fabrication muffler took too much weight off of that corner. :wink:

We have been able to improve the weights a bit, but we are trying to be really careful about overloading the left front - Road America is nearly all right hand turns, and we don't want to burn off the left front tire at the Runoffs.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Hot off the presses... Just got a finished copy of the October issue with the Yaris intro. SCCA members should have the issue in 7-10 days.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Just got the call from Toyota... New VVT cam gear installed, and we are fully operational. :thumbsup: Back to the dyno for more power. :burnrubber:

[rob323]

Just got the call from Toyota... New VVT cam gear

New as in improved (adjustable?) or new as in standard replacement? In tother words, why the change? :smile:

[Jason@SportsCar]

New as in improved (adjustable?) or new as in standard replacement? In tother words, why the change? :smile:

Standard replacement. The old one was frozen. :iono:

[soloecho2]

I didn't think it got that cold in California. Ha Ha Ha
Any links to the artical yet ????

[echosqwat]

Man! I dont know how I missed this thread! This is so cool! I have been wanting to see an HP Yaris since 2001. My SCCA AX co-driver, Evan, had mentioned he knew some guys building a HP Yaris in So Cal. He said it was going up on two wheels so I knew it had to be fairly fast and have some stick. Now I have seen it. Very cool work!!!

Love the bias plys on the car! Do you have pictures of your suspension mods or are those "top secret"? My bigest complaint about my old echo was suspension arms twisting and not holding tires flat to the ground. What have you done to combat inherent weakness of the ecnobox suspension arms, mounts, bushings , etc?

Did I miss dyno specs on this motor? What kind of numbers is it pulling? Do you have a LSD in this thing? That was my other compliant is way too much inside wheel spin in tight stuff. I combatted that with huge rear bar but it needed an LSD in my opinion.

Too bad about not being able to get it in GP classing in Solo. Yeah it would get smoked in EP. I run against the EP national Champ in my FP Boxster and he consitently gets me by a second. Dont think that little Yaris would have a chance against that RX3. But GP would be perfect!

[Jason@SportsCar]

Man! I dont know how I missed this thread! This is so cool! I have been wanting to see an HP Yaris since 2001. My SCCA AX co-driver, Evan, had mentioned he knew some guys building a HP Yaris in So Cal. He said it was going up on two wheels so I knew it had to be fairly fast and have some stick. Now I have seen it. Very cool work!!!

Love the bias plys on the car! Do you have pictures of your suspension mods or are those "top secret"? My bigest complaint about my old echo was suspension arms twisting and not holding tires flat to the ground. What have you done to combat inherent weakness of the ecnobox suspension arms, mounts, bushings , etc?

Did I miss dyno specs on this motor? What kind of numbers is it pulling? Do you have a LSD in this thing? That was my other compliant is way too much inside wheel spin in tight stuff. I combatted that with huge rear bar but it needed an LSD in my opinion.

Too bad about not being able to get it in GP classing in Solo. Yeah it would get smoked in EP. I run against the EP national Champ in my FP Boxster and he consitently gets me by a second. Dont think that little Yaris would have a chance against that RX3. But GP would be perfect!

I know Evan... Have not seen him much this year because I have not done many PCA (or any) autocrosses.

I had a chance to talk to a few SEB/PAC guys this week about the Yaris, and compare some data. Hopefully they will consider moving it to GP. Any Yaris owners that are SCCA members should submit a letter to the SEB for the move to GP, just so they know people would consider running in GP. We are down 60-70hp from the real EP cars, and weigh a good bit more, the Yaris would get crushed in EP.

What a week, just wrapped up the Solo natls. I am sitting at the airport in Omaha Neb, after getting up at 3:00am Pac time to catch our flight in Lincoln, which was dropped due to weather. :mad:

I think I should have done more than three autocrosses this year before heading to Natls, I was a little rusty, no clean runs the first day, but was the quickest RX-8 in CS the second day. :frown: Oh well, always next year. My wife won her fifth Championship in CSL.

As soon as I get home I have to pick up the Yaris and meet the Toyota transporter for the trip to Road America and the Runoffs... I think Sept is going to kill me.

A lot of the info you are looking for is in the issue of SportsCar you should have any day now. The rest will be in a later issue - after the Runoffs. :wink:

[echosqwat]

Good luck at runnoffs. Congrats on your and your wife's runs at solo Nats too. I was watching CS to see how the 370Z's did in that class. From what I saw looked like course was momentum course so pesky MX5's could hang with power cars.

Will keep my eye out for Sports Car mag.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Loading up for Road America...

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/4984416338_7c687ae819_z.jpg

The SSC Sentra
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/4984422016_904f74b05a_z.jpg

That is about half of our tires for the week. :biggrin:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/4983820609_3c5336722b_z.jpg

[Bluevitz-rs]

So are you guys officially sponsored by Toyota?

[Jason@SportsCar]

So are you guys officially sponsored by Toyota?

The Yaris belongs to Toyota, we get to use it for one year. We built it, and I get to race it, but at the end of the day they own the car.

We had to rent the truck, but it beats making the three day drive to Road America.

[Bluevitz-rs]

The Yaris belongs to Toyota, we get to use it for one year. We built it, and I get to race it, but at the end of the day they own the car.

Ouch. So who's paying for all the hardcore work being done to it and what becomes of all the part at the end of the year?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Ouch. So who's paying for all the hardcore work being done to it and what becomes of all the part at the end of the year?

We are fortunate enough to have a number of great partners helping us, some that we have worked with for years, and others that came on specifically for this project. It has not been painful at all... Unless you count the seemingly hundreds of hours of labor we have done ourselves. :bonk:

But the payoff comes next week at SCCA National Championship Runoffs. :thumbup:

[Jason@SportsCar]

How many laptops does it take to tune a Yaris? :laugh:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/4984212643_5da05bb2c9_z.jpg

[justjesus]

Really?!?! How many!!!

And we have to wait til AFTER runoffs for more info? Darn. I'm still waiting to know your final HP / TQ numbers!!!

[henry33]

I really admire you guys for what you have done :)

[Jason@SportsCar]

Really?!?! How many!!!

And we have to wait til AFTER runoffs for more info? Darn. I'm still waiting to know your final HP / TQ numbers!!!

Just one for tuning... The other is to crunch numbers for VVT adjustment.

Final numbers will be included in the next SportsCar installment, date yet to be determined.

However, if you can get your hands on the Fall 2010 issue of Toyota Connection, there is a two page spread on the project, with HP#s - although it was the HP before we got the VVT fixed. :evil:


I believe Connection is handed out at Toyota sponsored events, such as the Dew Tour and other sporting events.

[thebarber]

any chance you'll share tuning data?

[echosqwat]

Nice article in Sportscar. Great work! I should have suspected Robello involvement in the motor.

[Jason@SportsCar]

any chance you'll share tuning data?

I do not have the files, but I know a great shop. Church Automotive Testing does all of our cars, also tunes a number of World Challange and Rolex cars. :thumbsup:

http://home.earthlink.net/~spchurch/churchautomotivetesting/

[Jason@SportsCar]

Nice article in Sportscar. Great work! I should have suspected Robello involvement in the motor.

Easy to work with, quick turn around and understands the rules we have to deal with.

http://www.rebelloracing.com/

[henry33]

is you engine super charged ?

[thebarber]

I do not have the files, but I know a great shop. Church Automotive Testing does all of our cars, also tunes a number of World Challange and Rolex cars. :thumbsup:

http://home.earthlink.net/~spchurch/churchautomotivetesting/

i appreciate the link, but they're on the wrong corner of the continent...

[cali yaris]

is you engine super charged ?

No he is N/A

[Jason@SportsCar]

is you engine super charged ?

All motor.

SCCA H Prod Level 2 prep rules require/allow: OE fuel injection (including stock manifold and throttle body), max compression ratio of 11.0:1, max cam lift of .390, port matching (max 1" deep). All of the peripherals are open, exhaust, CAI, ECU.

[Jason@SportsCar]

The Runoffs are less than a week away now - well qualifying anyway - and those that want to follow the racing action can see it live.

SCCA has live timing and scoring on its website: http://www.scca.com/event.aspx?hub=1&event=15558 This includes qualifying and race lap times.

And once again Speedcast TV will have live flag to flag coverage of every race: http://speedcasttv.com/scca/

If you follow sports car racing in North America you may have heard of the guys on the broadcast team... The biggest change will be the expansion to two announce crews. Sports car racing fans will recognize the familiar voices of veteran Runoffs announcers Greg Creamer, Dorsey Schroeder, Jim Tretow and John Bisignano throughout the broadcast. Current Runoffs racer Bart Wolf joins as the fifth member of the broadcast team and will work the booth as an analyst alongside Creamer.

Speedcast TV also uploads edited versions of the races, with in-car action added, on the website a few days after the event.

SCCA will also offer a DVD collection for sale around the first of the year.

The Yaris will hit the track for the National Championship race on Sept 25, at 2:30pm (Central). And it is very likely that because the Yaris is such an unusual car for the class it should get some good camera time.

[cali yaris]

cool I have it on my calendar now. hope to be around to watch live -- good luck Jason

[henry33]

good luck I will watch too ;)

[Jason@SportsCar]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/4986796523_08656480de_b.jpg

[HTM Yaris]

:headbang:

[thebarber]

138hp at the wheels naturally aspirated?

[Jason@SportsCar]

138hp at the wheels naturally aspirated?

All of our numbers are from a Dynapack (hubs), so YMMV. But it is making more HP NA than it did (from #s posted on the Tein website) with FI, and weighs 300+lbs less.

Good info here on Dynapack VS Dynojet numbers:

http://home.earthlink.net/~spchurch/id12.html

[henry33]

jason you rulezzzzzzzz :)

[ddongbap]

I remember picking up that carbing bar from you those many many hours ago. That thing is really lookin' good.

[soloecho2]

What tire sizes are you running now ? Just out of curiosity how many tires will you go through at Road America ?

[Mouse]

Jason, my dad is going up to the runoffs with Chip Van Vurst(I don't know if you know Chip) he runs in SM. Anyways I told my dad to look out for you. To take pics and video of the Yaris. His name is manny. Good luck out there.

[Jason@SportsCar]

What tire sizes are you running now ? Just out of curiosity how many tires will you go through at Road America ?

Still on the Goodyear 23x9.0x15 (23" dia, 10.4" wide, on a 15"x7" wheel).

I expect we will use up two sets of drys, and have a couple of sets left over with only a few laps on them.

Most of the tires we took are for the SSC Nissan, it will go out every session on fresh tires - I think we have five sets of dry tires for it.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Here is the dyno graph before the AEM EMS 2.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/4996573100_9509634ec9_b.jpg

[Bluevitz-rs]

^ awesome, so this is just with the ???? my mind just blanked on what it's called. The controller the car came with.

[Jason@SportsCar]

^ awesome, so this is just with the ???? my mind just blanked on what it's called. The controller the car came with.

That was with the CamCon and all the bolt-ons. Still had the stock head and cams, also had stock rev limiter.

Although as I sit here comparing before and after dyno charts we are wondering if we wasted money on cams... While we picked up a some good top end, we actually lost Tq. On fast tracks like Road America the top end is what you want, but it could hurt us at slower tracks.

[Bluevitz-rs]

everything is a tradeoff when trying to make power in a small motor.

[Jason@SportsCar]

everything is a tradeoff when trying to make power in a small motor.

Yep... Just not sure we made the right trade. I will find out for sure next week.

I think I would feel better about revving the piss out of this thing if it was not on a stock bottom end.

[Bluevitz-rs]

I think it's just the con-rods you need to worry about. though I've accidently over-reved my engine to 8600 and luckily it only bent some vavles. So I know it'll spin that high, but for how long :iono:

[Jason@SportsCar]

So... Anyone in the area of Elkhart Lake, WI (Road America) have a stock crank pulley I can use for a few days? I have mine being sent Fedex overnight, but does not get here until Monday.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5003017366_42bf022835_b.jpg

This one split in two at about 7000rpm at the exit of turn 14. :eek: If this is the only problem we have at the Runoffs I will be happy.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4131/5002413491_09afa34551_b.jpg

[Black Yaris]

Dang, that sucks....... for you and NST

[cali yaris]

^ no kidding, that sucks! it's a one piece pulley too, wow.

[Jason@SportsCar]

^ no kidding, that sucks! it's a one piece pulley too, wow.

The bang, "wtf was that", and then watching it pass me on the track was interesting.

Doing a lap with no water pump and alt was not fun... Killed the motor and coasted as much as I could, but still saw 240 on the water.

[henry33]

:eek: unbelievable that was always my night mare that something from the car will overtake me :burnrubber:
did you get new one ?

[Jason@SportsCar]

:eek: unbelievable that was always my night mare that something from the car will overtake me :burnrubber:
did you get new one ?

No, the only one we could find at a dealer was in Indy, 5 hours away, and they are not open until Monday. Just have to wait for Fedex to show with ours, and hope we get on track for Qual.

[henry33]

and how is the race going ? where can I found some video because the oficial site is not build for mac :(

[Jason@SportsCar]

and how is the race going ? where can I found some video because the oficial site is not build for mac :(

My race is on Saturday. So far we have one and half practice sessions done. :wink: We used that to test the news suspension (AST shocks, Eibach springs), and learn the track. Other than the pulley all is good.

We were able to watch the live SpeedcastTV video of last years race in our office on Mac's. :iono: Make sure your flash player is up to date.

Off to the track...

[henry33]

Good luck Jason

[Jason@SportsCar]

Our setup:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/5006275431_7e8eacb1a9_b.jpg

[henry33]

nice ;)
I just want to ask if you have some cockpit video you can share with us ?
thanks

[Jason@SportsCar]

nice ;)
I just want to ask if you have some cockpit video you can share with us ?
thanks

We did not run any in practice... Should have some after Qual 1 today.

[henry33]

coool don't forget to share with us ;)

[Jason@SportsCar]

my laptop died only have my psp for web no pics or video this week :(

[henry33]

don't worry we will wait ;-) how is the run going ?

[Jason@SportsCar]

Wow, what a week... And having no computer sucked. :mad:

After the pulley failure in practice we had to use our qualifying sessions for some fine tuning. We had the engineers from Goodyear on hand to help evaluate our alignment and tire pressures.

For the second qual session we made a spring change, and went the wrong way. The car started to pogo, on three wheels, and was really overworking the left front.

With only one session left we went back to our first set of springs, which gives us a good balance, but is a little to soft. We finally got the tire pressures and alignment optimized for RA, but it was so hot in final session we ended up going slower - however, relative to how much others slowed in the heat we knew we made the right choice.

Qualified 13th, about what we expected after getting the final assembly done on the car one days before we shipped. Got a great start, moved up a number of spots. Running in the draft during the race resulted in 3 second quicker times. The Yaris was very strong on the brakes, but with the tall gearing did not have the grunt off the turns.

Near the end of the race (I think it was lap 9 or 10) I got in to turn three and the car hopped and slid wide, not sure there was fluid or something on the track, or if the crash bolts slipped. I get down to turn six and the car goes up on two wheels, quick. Turned the wheel strait and went in the grass, which was not smooth, caught air and dug in the air damn. When I got back on track the steering wheel was 45 degrees off center. So either the crash bolts slipped, or something is bent. I took it easy for a few turns, to make sure everything was ok, then got back on it.

At this point the Honda that had been pulling me around the track was long gone. The last few laps clicked off without issue, and we came home in eighth place.

We hit our goal of a top ten finish, and were very happy to bring it home in one piece - our SSC Nissan on the other hand is in need of some bodywork.

As I understand it speedcasttv.com will have the edited races up after the first of Oct. Once I get my laptop fixed, or get a new one, I will post up the video I took.

[henry33]

cool thanks :)

[knowmercy]

Goodyear engineers are worthless and you saw that first hand by making changes based on their bad advice and seeing what happened. ;) I've seen it time and again. I used to work for a supplier who sold them test instruments and they were always clueless.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Goodyear engineers are worthless and you saw that first hand by making changes based on their bad advice and seeing what happened. ;) I've seen it time and again. I used to work for a supplier who sold them test instruments and they were always clueless.

The spring change was my idea, to get more rotation. They were consulted for pressure and alignment changes, and were spot on. :iono:

[cali yaris]

Goodyear engineers are worthless

All of them? C'mon man....

[Jason@SportsCar]

Here is the start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yy8M3vK910

[henry33]

cool video ;)

[Jason@SportsCar]

Just unloaded the Toyota transporter. No chance of getting everything home in one trip, we brought back twice as many tires as we took, plus a spare engine and trans for the RX-8 we brought back.

The boss is in FLA for Indycar... So we commandeered his office. :laugh:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/5042180911_1e87c5e195_b.jpg

[Jason@SportsCar]

Some footage from the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_mlPp8TfxA

[soloecho2]

The link is not working for me

[Jason@SportsCar]

The link is not working for me

Works for me. :iono:

[why?]

wow i need to go through this again, I didn't realize how completely stripped your car is.

Loud too, fun stuff.

[johnny_vitz]

Some footage from the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_mlPp8TfxA

:w00t:

[cali yaris]

love the office pic tires > TV

win

[soloecho2]

Works OK now.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Over the weekend Speedcasttv.com posted up the first days races. The SSC Nissan Sentra that we built as a project car a few years back - got the car race ready and on track for $3k - is in this race with Philip Royle driving. He ended his day early after hitting debris and getting two flat tires. :frown:

The Yaris did make the intro, around 18sec you catch a shot of it.

http://speedcasttv.com/scca/#/races/205

[Jason@SportsCar]

Got a great shot of the Yaris from Toyota Motorsports:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5052643234_ebd6bbfb1d_b.jpg

[cali yaris]

^ awesome

[henry33]

cool pix I have it on the desktop ;)

[Jason@SportsCar]

If you make it to SEMA make sure to stop by the Toyota booth... You can see the SportsCar Yaris, and get the #99 T-shirt. :thumbup:

[rick@NKRpedals]

jason, does toyota plan to keep promoting and developing parts and support for the yaris in SCCA?

[Jason@SportsCar]

jason, does toyota plan to keep promoting and developing parts and support for the yaris in SCCA?

I don't know of anything being done outside of what they would do for any other Toyota racing in SCCA.

[Jason@SportsCar]

The race has been posted: http://speedcasttv.com/scca/#/races/216

[Jason@SportsCar]

For those who don't get SportsCar, here is a link to download a PDF of the story.

http://pdfcast.org/pdf/sportscar-magazine-project-yaris

[Bluevitz-rs]

Cool, Thanks!!!

[henry33]

thanks I have read 3 times ;)
give us more

[Jason@SportsCar]

The Yaris needed a bit more bling for the big show... And the SEMA wheels just showed up. :cool:

[Jason@SportsCar]

The Yaris is back home, in the very nondescript warehouse where we first picked it up. Up next is the photo shoot with the American Eagle racecar, then off to SEMA.

Spotted a few more Yari collecting dust among the concepts and random show pieces.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4069/5118681815_120ac38177_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/5119284404_698f5a7996_z.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/5118681985_7d8fb2176b_z.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1253/5118682067_b2712624f3_z.jpg

[cali yaris]

ah yes the Yaris "roadster", wondered where that ended up!

[toad]

that's kind of sad to think that all those great, old showcars just sit in warehouses because corporations own them and nobody really knows what to do with them. i hope the sportscar yaris doesn't end up with a similar fate, but who knows.....?

[Jason@SportsCar]

that's kind of sad to think that all those great, old showcars just sit in warehouses because corporations own them and nobody really knows what to do with them. i hope the sportscar yaris doesn't end up with a similar fate, but who knows.....?

Nearly every program/media/test fleet/show car has a short life span. I am not sure the time frame with Toyota, but from people I know at Mazda and Honda it is most often three years... Then they are crushed. :eek: From what I heard today the date with the crusher is going to be soon for many of the "older" cars at this location. The place is packed, and they need space for new stuff.:wink: Keep in mind many of these are pre-production, so they could never be used on the street. Our Nissan racecar is VIN 81, and can never be anything but a racecar.

Not a done deal yet... But the word is we might get to run it one more year. :thumbup: However, it still has to get past the media day and our guest drivers in one piece. :laugh:

[cali yaris]

^ Good. I still want to point you by a few times. :wink:

[Jason@SportsCar]

^ Good. I still want to point you by a few times. :wink:

:laugh:

With round two now a possibility, I am making my shopping list for SEMA... :thumbsup:

[Jason@SportsCar]

The American Eagle laid an egg.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1248/5126212931_e5ef3dd494_z.jpg

[Jason@SportsCar]

One of the other Prod racers son did up a couple of the HP cars for Forza. :cool:

http://prodracing.com/prodcar/download/file.php?id=443

http://prodracing.com/prodcar/download/file.php?id=441

[Jason@SportsCar]

Off to SEMA...

[why?]

ooh that is awesome! Hope you have fun! And get some wicked cools stuff too.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Back from SEMA... Man are my feet killing me, we put in some serious miles.

Toyota did a great job with the display, and cleaning the car up for the show. They made 500 Yaris and 500 X-Runner t-shirts, all gone in 90 minutes the first day. :eek:

The Yaris was front and center on Tues.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/5144106653_05eeb27fee_z.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/5144654306_bafcae4f85_z.jpg

They changed things up for Wed.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/5144655224_9c70e25371_z.jpg

Mr. GT5 having a test fit before the big race. I think his phone call was, "the Yaris is awesome, ship the game NOW." :laugh:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/5144106483_f823c69727_z.jpg

[Jason@SportsCar]

From the Toyota press room: http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/2010-sema-show-yaris-gt-s-club-177825.aspx?ncid=12079

[Bluevitz-rs]

145hp :eek:

I guess most of the power is locked up in the head :clap:

[henry33]

not bad result for the atmospheric engine ;)

[cali yaris]

^ balanced and blueprinted also, not all in the head work. An inspiring result for an N/A build on that motor.

[Bluevitz-rs]

and I'm sure if they weren't restricted to certain stock parts it would be even higher. TB, intake manifold... ect.

[Jason@SportsCar]

^ balanced and blueprinted also, not all in the head work. An inspiring result for an N/A build on that motor.

Don't believe most of the info you are reading out there... Tons of people just take the Toyota press release and try to sexy it up - even the Toyota release has a typo, we did not start with a 5-door.:redface: The engine is not balanced and blueprinted, 100% OE Toyota bottom end, never touched.

Also keep in mind, as I said when I posted the old dyno sheet, this is from a Dynapak, these are not at the wheels numbers. While I think we made great power for our first crack at this engine, it is not a 145hp at the wheels monster. In reality it should be down a hp or two from that, since we had to pull what was left of the aluminum pulleys off. :frown:

[cali yaris]

hmm, Ok I sit corrected.

isn't the old dyno before cams and management change, though?

[thebarber]

145hp@7252rpm

moar redline?

[thebarber]

Here is the dyno graph before the AEM EMS 2.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/4996573100_9509634ec9_b.jpg

oh, i see....peak power rpm fudged by toyota?

[Jason@SportsCar]

hmm, Ok I sit corrected.

isn't the old dyno before cams and management change, though?

Yes it was. I think the head and cams yielded a very small return.

Bolt-ons and the Camcon will get you 90% of what we made. For the rest you need to get past the rev limiter, the AEM got us that, and better control of VVT-i, this is where the next chunk of power came from.

With our Level 2 prep limits only allowing us max .390 cam lift, and port matching 1" in, we did not make a lot of power on the head. There is still a lot left in there, but as long was we race the car in H Prod we can't go further into the head.

[Jason@SportsCar]

oh, i see....peak power rpm fudged by toyota?

No, that was our old dyno sheet. Before the AEM, cams and port work. That was bolt-ons and the Camcon.

[thebarber]

No, that was our old dyno sheet. Before the AEM, cams and port work. That was bolt-ons and the Camcon.

i wouldnt mind seeing the newer dyno sheet if you have access to it...

[33OH]

What all bolt-ons did you have on? Is there list somewhere?

[hatchbackkid82]

+1

What all bolt-ons did you have on? Is there list somewhere?

[Jason@SportsCar]

What all bolt-ons did you have on? Is there list somewhere?

All of the parts are listed in the story in SportsCar, there is a link to download a PDF of it in this thread.

In a nutshell - the power stuff:
AEM EMS series 2 - you need the ability to control the VVT-i/fuel/ign to make all the other parts work to full potential. Without a tune you will get minimal gains from the rest. This car was originally tuned for economy and reliability, there is a lot of power that can be unlocked with a proper tune.
Okada coils
K&N intake
DC header/Coast Fab muffler/no cat
SPEC aluminum flywheel
NST pulleys - these were on when we did the dyno runs, and for most of the season. Once we started running 7300+rpm on the track the crank pulley failed, so we went back to stock.

[33OH]

Awesome, thanks Jason. Your car rocks. Finally some motivation to try and pull some N/A power from a 1NZFE. :bow:

[Astroman]

I love this thread.

[ilikerice]

NST pulleys - these were on when we did the dyno runs, and for most of the season. Once we started running 7300+rpm on the track the crank pulley failed, so we went back to stock.
am i reading this right? you had the NST pulleys installed, then when u tweeked the engine and started running higher revs the NST crank shaft pulley broke? how bad was the damage?

also, im assuming that the NST pulleys are a bad idea for running past the stock rev limiter then?

this worries me cuz i just installed these guys and i autocross. sometimes on a quick straight i will stay in second and let the rev limiter bounce if there is a quick turn not to far but would be losing time if i go to third.

[cali yaris]

If you're on your rev limiter, you are at around 6250. You can't run past the stock rev limiter.

Jason's pulley broke in two, completely destroyed. Pretty sure a pic got posted.

[Jason@SportsCar]

am i reading this right? you had the NST pulleys installed, then when u tweeked the engine and started running higher revs the NST crank shaft pulley broke? how bad was the damage?

also, im assuming that the NST pulleys are a bad idea for running past the stock rev limiter then?

this worries me cuz i just installed these guys and i autocross. sometimes on a quick straight i will stay in second and let the rev limiter bounce if there is a quick turn not to far but would be losing time if i go to third.

I would not worry about these at all on a car with a stock limiter.

[ilikerice]

^^ ok, good, thats what i was getting at... i dont plan on adjusting my rev limiter unless i do some serious head and bottom end work which probably never happend.

[matthewai]

Fenders are done, looks funny with a 205-50-15 under there.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4377221075_de7d97f216_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4377220395_6680880165_b.jpg

good thing it has the "tow" decal cus i thought that was just a bumper belly ring

[why?]

so is the hood used on the car a seibon one for a yaris as the article stated, or is it something else like you seemed to say in your post?

[cali yaris]

I know he skeletonized an existing hood, don't know which one.

[Jason@SportsCar]

so is the hood used on the car a seibon one for a yaris as the article stated, or is it something else like you seemed to say in your post?

I have no idea what post you are referring to, or what you took from it. Some things are made purposely vague until the publication is printed.

The hood and hatch both started as production Seibon OE replacements. They were modified to suit our needs, including a sizable weight reduction accomplished by removing most of the fiberglass support structure they use.

[justjesus]

Good stuff Jason. I'm crossing my fingers you get to race it another season. :)

[Jason@SportsCar]

Good stuff Jason. I'm crossing my fingers you get to race it another season. :)

Just got back from Toyota... Happy to see nothing got broken or stolen while the car was on display.

Now I get to reset the suspension, mount up some more tires and head to Willow Springs next week. The VP's from Toyota and Sony are going to take some laps in the Yaris... And the quickest of the Sony guys will race it next month in Phoenix.

Got to see them unbox a test mule while we where there. Comes in on a flatbed in a crate. When they opened the create it already had all of the camouflage on it. They go to a lot of effort to hide the lines of a new model. And no, it was not a Yaris. :laugh:

[Thirty-Nine]

Well, I for one LOVED your car at SEMA.

http://www.subcompactculture.com/2010/11/sema-toyota-yaris-gt-s-club-racer.html

Even got the t-shirt.

http://www.subcompactculture.com/2010/11/sema-yaris-t-shirt.html

[Jason@SportsCar]

Virtual racing is getting in the way of real racing... All of the Sony guys are tied up with GT5, so this weekends shootout has been pushed to December, with the final race date to be sometime in 2011.

Good news for us, now we have the car for the 2011 season for sure. Time to make it faster. :burnrubber:

[henry33]

Well, I for one LOVED your car at SEMA.

http://www.subcompactculture.com/2010/11/sema-toyota-yaris-gt-s-club-racer.html

Even got the t-shirt.

http://www.subcompactculture.com/2010/11/sema-yaris-t-shirt.html

where can I buy the T-shirt ?
thanks

[Jason@SportsCar]

where can I buy the T-shirt ?
thanks

I don't know of any source. They made them on site for the press conference on Tuesday, and they were gone quick.

[henry33]

I don't know of any source. They made them on site for the press conference on Tuesday, and they were gone quick.

:cry:
if anyone have spare one I will take it :drinking:

[cali yaris]

^ If they are smart, they'll back up next season with some #99 merchandise. :thumbsup: