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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:06 PM
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Tri-Point Mazdas

Son of a bitch.... Comptech USA built these:

http://www.tripointengineering.com/cars.php


Well, we atleast know that if these numbers are right... then the TSX was doing roughly the same to be competitive.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 01:21 PM
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Haha! 5 speed!

But pretty impressive specs. If they squeezed that much from a 2.3 I wonder what ourr 2.4 is capable of? Seeing our bore and stroke might be a 'lil more square.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by ILoveMyHonda
Haha! 5 speed!

But pretty impressive specs. If they squeezed that much from a 2.3 I wonder what ourr 2.4 is capable of? Seeing our bore and stroke might be a 'lil more square.

Well, remember, custom ECUs, tons of tuning... think Hytech.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by ILoveMyHonda
Haha! 5 speed!
DRIVETRAIN: Xtrac 5 Speed Sequential

I'd take a 5 speed sequential gearbox any day. Well, I would if I didn't care about highway cruising.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 02:25 PM
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That's also why RTR went to one in the 07 season. 1 milisecond savings over the course of a race means seconds. RTR's problem was they got more TB restriction from the SCCA. I think they needed a new winner this year. Mazda is huge in Touring Car.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 04:51 PM
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I remember reading an interview with Peter Cunningham about their K24 engine (I think from temple of vtec). He didn't say exactly the output of their engine, but he did say 'in the neighborhood' of 275hp.
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Old Nov 28, 2007 | 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by moda_way
That's also why RTR went to one in the 07 season. 1 milisecond savings over the course of a race means seconds. RTR's problem was they got more TB restriction from the SCCA. I think they needed a new winner this year. Mazda is huge in Touring Car.
It really seemed like everything was against RTR and the Madzas looked waaay faster this year. It made me think that they were not even gaining weight after a win.
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Old Nov 29, 2007 | 02:58 AM
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Originally Posted by moda_way
Well, remember, custom ECUs, tons of tuning... think Hytech.
mhmmm....hytech
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Old Nov 29, 2007 | 05:43 AM
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It really seemed like everything was against RTR and the Madzas looked waaay faster this year. It made me think that they were not even gaining weight after a win.
All the teams have ways to sandbag power early in the race season until the weight comes on. I mean, you don't want to go out and blow your wade and have the SCCA penalize you. I'm surprised Mazda wasn't more of a competitor the previous 2 years. But since the TSXs won 2 years in a row, I'm sure RTR saw a restrictor plate modification coming.
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Old Nov 29, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by moda_way
Son of a bitch.... Comptech USA built these:

http://www.tripointengineering.com/cars.php


Well, we atleast know that if these numbers are right... then the TSX was doing roughly the same to be competitive.
Yeah, I remember seeing one of these engines when I was taking a tour of the old Comptech building. They had these engines in the back room and I wasn't allowed to take pictures. When he told me the engines were going on Mazdas, I was pretty surprised haha
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Old Nov 29, 2007 | 12:54 PM
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Yeah, I remember seeing one of these engines when I was taking a tour of the old Comptech building. They had these engines in the back room and I wasn't allowed to take pictures. When he told me the engines were going on Mazdas, I was pretty surprised haha

Little did you know. I remember hearing about "a tuner that works these motors for Mazda", but the announcers never said who. I wonder if Comptech, since they do a lot of work on Hondas, wanted to keep it hush hush.
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hey all!
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