Costas and Terry spent last Friday afternoon testing the E30 V8 before next weekend’s $2011 GRM Challenge. We learned a lot and had a great time putting 43 laps on the car. You can read more on the Vorshlag forum thread or just watch the compilation video below. See you next week in Florida!
We’ve worked on our $2011 GRM Challenge BMW E30 V8, the scrappy little junkyard dog, for the past 6 weeks. In that time we’ve pulled and reinstalled the drivetrain twice: once to swap out a broken transmission, then again to repair the clutch hydraulics that failed in the interim. Crazy thrash time, but it drives under its own power once again. We have a week before we leave for Gainesville, Florida for the $2011 GRM Challenge shootout, being held Oct 6-8th. So much power + so many junkyard parts = fingers are crossed that we don’t break another transmission or halfshaft. Read more about the latest updates on our forum thread, here.
You can catch up in 1 minute 3 seconds by viewing the video update above.
For some reason our main phone line in our “hunt group” of lines is down today (Sept 15, 2011). If you need to call us and our main line is just ringing endlessly, please try 972-422-7069 (our second line). Thanks!
Amy and Terry ran the Vorshlag STX Mustang 5.0 at Texas Motor Speedway last weekend, and almost came up with a double-win. Amy won her class, but Terry coned away the win in STX. Oh well, still lots of fun at this atypically fast autocross, held annually on the infield road course at TMS. You can read more about the event, and the mods done since out last thread update, on the Vorshlag forum.
Click the picture above for in-car video.
“First time Whelen USTTC competitor Paul Costas stole the show on Saturday, setting a blisteringly quick lap of 1:49.590 in the day’s first session to take the win in his tube-framed Camaro.” (from the USTTC press release) Paul only took two timed laps, and those in traffic, but still managed to win the Unlimited Time Trial class in his AST 5200 equipped GT-1 Camaro. A short “spoiler-cam” video showing his 2 laps is below – turn up the volume!
NARRA is a new group that has a cross-country racing series which includes Wheel to Wheel racing, Time Trial and HPDE sessions, with a heavy emphasis on Vipers. Its even a Pro based series with a Versus TV contract – but with entry fees very much in-line with other club racing/TT/HPDE groups. He said the organizers were great to work with and helped him tech and properly class his car. Look for events near you on the NARRA website at narraonline.com.
As many of you who follow our forum build threads know, Costas is a long-time Vorshlag Tester, our “media consultant”, co-drives our STX 2011 Mustang, and is Vorshlag’s past and future GRM $2011 Challenge autocross driver. He runs his home built GT-1 Camaro at lots of track events, where it does unusually well for the modest budget he has in the car. You can read Costas’ racing blog here.
Vorshlag is closed September 1st-5th while we move into our new, much larger facility. This date range also covers the Labor Day holiday, Sept. 5th. New orders will not ship during that period and phone + email support will be minimal. Construction is wrapping up at the new space, which is located across the parking lot from AST/Moton, in Plano, TX. We should be back up and running, moved in and shipping orders again on Sept 6th. Our new phone number is 972-422-7170. We will announce the date for the grand opening party soon – it will be sometime in late September. Thanks!
Are you a Vorshlag VTPP tester, or just want to show some Vorshlag love? Do you want some 24″ Vorshlag decals for use at the SCCA or NASA National Championships? Drop us an e-mail at sales@vorshlag.com and we will mail you a pair in either black or white, for free! We won’t be at either Nationals this year, due to construction at our new shop that is going to last through August. If you want another color and have your own decal supplier, we can send you the EPS cut file instead. We can even make different, sizes if you must have one bigger or smaller, but the 24″ fits well in a lot of places. Thanks!
Brianne Corn took her 2005 Subaru STi to a Time Attack 4WD class win at Pike’s Peak last weekend. Brianne’s Subaru already has several Vorshlag parts and is getting more Vorshlag suspension bits soon. You can read more about her historic win here. Congrats!
For all of our Vorshlag customers in the Great White North: as you know, Candian Post is still on strike. That means our normally lower cost International USPS shipping option is not the best one to pick for Canadian deliveries until they are back at work – as the Canadian Post takes the package at the border from the US Postal Service. Pick UPS and its a worry free delivery. Cheers!
Well we finally won STX class at a Divisional autocross; even if the event was a bit under-attended, we’ll take it. :] The car is working better, and we’re still finding more things to tweak and improve. You can read the event write-up here.
