Gates311.com - Sunday Funday at Road America

[esquibel58]

Dude you looked so smooth out on the track!

[vangrollerboi]

In car racing is way more intense. Feels like I'm in it for the rush.  EPIC!!

[BaneOfFreeSpeech]

isn't this teh GSR? And now Ryan gates has a 770whp evo x...im excited to see how that turns out.

[conceptonefilm]

Hey Ryan! The car sounds really clean! Are you still running out of the stock block or have you done some internal work now?

[blacktrack311]

Hey man thanks! It's still running the stock engine.

[conceptonefilm]

That is really impressive for Mitsubishi to have a solid motor like that...too bad I only have the 2009 GTS haha.

[blacktrack311]

I know...it's really turning out to be a great platform! The GTS' are great cars no doubt dude.

[conceptonefilm]

Thanks man, Road Race Motorsports has been treating me well, and the fact that they work well with AMS is pretty tight. Good luck in 2010!

[jw311gsr]

Sick driving Ryan! At the time of this lap time what was your whp/wtq? I take it this was on the NT01's? Have you ran the NT05's at Road America? Curious to know how they'd handle time trial/lapping days at RA since I'm looking at them for my Z. Truly a bad@ss time for a stock longblock and very streetable EVO X, anytime someone makes comment at the EVO X being less of an EVO to the VIII-IX, I use your X as the example that they are just as capable if not more so. Good luck in 2010!

[blacktrack311]

Thanks dude! My car was running around 530whp/450wtq on NT01's, yep. I've only ran the NT05's at Buttonwillow, but the cool think about them is that they actually stayed true throughout the whole sessions. Good stuff...

Thanks man, appreciate the good words!

[KPAracing]

Ha ! Nice car mate. It be great to turn my stock Evo X to something like this for the streets of Greece.. we have so many wannabes with their expensive Euro cars showing off, I just wanna blow them away, that be fun. and cops dont give much of a shit here either. Thats what I want from Santa this year.

[duramate]

and , of course, you have a heavy right food

[duramate]

excellent Ryan, i was seeing your car in SEMA, very good time attack car, good inspiration to EVO X fans. congrats.

[blacktrack311]

Thanks man!

[itznoraa]

Atleast we know 5th gear can hit 177 hahah. man your shifts look so crisp... mine are super notchy haha

[Begelza]

what was your lap record for road america?

[blacktrack311]

Last year 2:29 was my best. Nothing offiicial for this season, but this 2:17 is my best so far.

[LSCHLEGS]

dude. love the evo. my favorite evo x out there. keep up the nice work. 311 FTW!

[blacktrack311]

Thanks man!

[shyongkwon]

Hauling ass.  Nice driving, Ryan

[s14dorifto]

Great job Ryan, keep up the great work.

[MrBonus24]

I'm so much slower than you in my X that it's depressing.

[eeeen321]

thats insane without mentioning oem longblock 4b11........ 4b11 is way stouter than i thought it would be.. amazingly insane stock longblock evo x....

[blacktrack311]

Exactly dude, I was just laughing this weekend because I just couldn't believe this thing still runs!

[eeeen321]

AND, it sounds so damn good.... does it have oem head studs??

..are there any plans to upgrade aero on the gates311 X?? before round8?

[blacktrack311]

OEM headstuds yep. Aero upgrades are already complete...check my site for most recent pictures.

[eeeen321]

OEM headstuds, thats crazy......

I went to your site, but i could not see the any rear aero work; do you plan on doing any sort of elaborate underbody diffuser set up??

Do you run a full size underbody front splitter or just a front lip?

Is there some size restriction on how far the front splitter can extend towards the rear?

i tried to find it in the mod class rules on RLTA website, but i couldnt find it...

[mexicanevo]

Sick as always! Thanks for the tips!