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Road Race Engineering (official), 13022 La Dana Court, Santa Fe Springs, CA (2026)

06/23/2024

For practice they have the mountain closed to the public until 8:30 am. So we are up at 2:30. Leave for the mountain by 3:00. Through the toll gate at the bottom at 3:30. In our pit area to set up by 4:00 am. Drivers meeting at 5am. First car out on the course as soon as it is light enough to drive without headlights.

Done by 8:30 am, packed up and off the mountain by 9:00 am and back to the motel by 10:00 am. We catch a nap of sorts, run some errands, hit the grocery store, pick up race gas, do a little maintenance on the race car. Check the load out on the RRE Box Van for the next morning and somehow try to get a little sleep. Eat-sleep-race-repeat.

The weather forecast in Colorado is kind of a suggestion. It is currently listed as clear and sunny for race day. However it is said that if you dont like the weather here in Colorado Springs, just wait 30 minutes. They will still run the race in the rain. But excessive hail or ice buildup at the higher elevations can get the course shortened to Devils Playground or even Glen Cove.

We are set up in the pits now Saturday night. Race starts at 7:30 am. Check the PPIHC website for info on the livestream, live scoring and live audio broadcast.

Additional Photos by Cruise Curtis and Yoshiaki Aoyama

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06/23/2024

We picked up the little Starlet at the port a couple weeks ago and went over it for the specific Pikes Peak rules. We towed it to Colorado early this week. We got through tech inspection on Monday. Since then it has been practice sessions each day this week up on the mountain. Thursday we got snowed out for the top section and then ran it in thick fog as possible on Friday morning. Yagi-San set the 4th fastest time up on the top in the limited session. Maybe he was faster because he could not see the 1000 foot drop offs for all the fog!

On our snow day off, we added our "hando-maedo" Colorado Springs Scavenger Hunt® radiator and intercooler water spray system after the car started running warm on the longer qualifying section. We also took some time to tidy up the airflow into and around the radiator and oil cooler. Other than this, the car has been running and behaving great!

Additional Photos by Cruise Curtis
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06/23/2024

We've been in Colorado Springs for the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb all week preparing for the race Sunday. We are crewing for Satoshi Yagi of Yagi Kantai (Team Yagi) out of Tokyo Japan again this year. Yagi-San is driving his 1990 Toyota Starlet EP82.

Yagi-San has some serious pedaling to do to keep up with the cars in his division. This little car is too modified for the Time Attack division. So the factory stock Porsche GT2 RS, 935/19 and NSX Hybrid are all safe from its wrath. We are listed in Pikes Peak Open. Basically anything goes as long as it kinda mostly resembles a known manufactured car and is not an open wheel car. Full tube frame, motor moved in the chassis, drive wheels unlimited, all the power adders you want, full aero... anything goes, run what you brung.

Last year Yagi-San finished 54th overall out of 66 entries. Finishing ahead of a Shelby Super Snake and a Viper even :-p His time was 12 minutes 33 seconds.

The motor is a slightly built 5E-FTE 1.5 liter turbo. The turbo is a Britz V200 with a stock EVO 8 FMIC. Satoshi himself tuned the Link G4X AtomX ECU running injectors from a Mark II. Clutch is a metallic Exedy and flywheel and a TRD L*D hook up the power with a taller 4.2 final drive. The car is running Cusco coil over suspension. Brakes are from an AE111 Levin and Brig brake pads get the 2000lb (with driver) car stopped. It has Volk 15x8 TE37 Wheels and Yokohama Advan 225/50-15 A050 tires.

Additional Photos by Cruise Curtis
and Yoshiaki Aoyama

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08/31/2023

1990's Turbo AWD Mitsubishi Fantasy Starter Pack

06/25/2023

We are taking a break from our normal EVO work this week to run a 1990 Toyota EP82 Starlet at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this year.

The driver Satoshi Yagi ( https://www.facebook.com/yagi.kantai ) sent us the car from Japan. We picked it up at the port and went over it for the specific Pikes Peak rules and towed it to Colorado early this week.

We got through tech inspection on Monday. Then it has been practice sessions each day this week up on the mountain. This may be the lowest power and physically smallest car running up here. Satoshi has some serious pedaling to do to keep up with the cars in this class. Satoshi and Dai Yoshihara are the only Japanese drivers on the mountain this year.

We are listed in Pikes Peak Open. Basically anything goes as long as it kinda mostly resembles a known manufactured car and is not an open wheel car. Full tube frame, motor moved in the chassis, drive wheels unlimited, all the power adders you want, full aero... anything goes, run what you brung.

Satoshi is more concerned with getting some experience on the mountain so he brought his Starlet hill climb car from Japan. The car has been running decently this week. An early issue with the oil pressure we figured out. On one run a clip fell off the shift cables but an EVO spare that we had with us worked out fine. Other than that it has been basic maintenance.

The motor is a slightly built 5E-FTE 1.5 liter turbo. The turbo is a Britz V200 with a stock EVO 8 FMIC. Satoshi himself tuned the Link G4X AtomX ECU running injectors from a Mark II. Clutch is a metallic Exedy and flywheel and a TRD L*D hook up the power with a taller 4.2 final drive. The car is running Cusco coil over suspension. Brakes are from an AE111 Levin and Brig brake pads get the 2000lb (with driver) car stopped. It has Volk 15x8 TE37 Wheels and Yokohama Advan 225/50-15 A050 tires.

I have always believed in little cars that can get it done. The character of the car reminds me of my 1989 Mirage Turbo.

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11/05/2022

Another year with the RRE at with .inc

The 2443 cc type 1 motor runs an 88mm full circle crank, CIMA 94mm pistons, H Beam rods, ported and polished big valve heads, 30mm full flow oil pump and an Engle FK7 Cam. Dual Weber 44mm IDA carbs and a 911 style fan shroud.

built the trans with freeway flyer gears to bury the speedo at VDO. disc brakes haul it down nicely from those speeds.

06/26/2022

The week of early morning practices is done. Friday night we talked to a lot of EVO people at FanFest in Colorado Springs and some transplanted RRE customers too! The car is up at the start line in the pits all ready to race.

Looks like rain for race day. And we will fully blame Jeff for that. He has been asking for rain on race day all week. He is looking for any advantage he can get ahold of to equalize us against the full tube frame 1100 hp RWD cars in Open Class.

We just hope the course isn't snowed in at the higher altitudes and we get to race all the way to the top. They still run the race in the rain. But excessive hail or ice buildup at the higher elevations can get the course shortened to Devils Playground or even Glen Cove.

06/26/2022

RRE and Pikes Peak through the years. We have built and/or crewed and supported:

1994 Michael Avatar 323 GTX
1995 Michael Avatar Celica All tracks
1996 Kristoff Hustzi Eclipse GST
2004 Stephan Verdier Subaru WRX
2010 Jeff Denmeade EVO 8
2014 Danny George LS Miata
2015 Cannan Oconnell EVO7
2015 Roy Narvaez EVO8
2016 Jeff Denmeade EVO8 8
2017 Roy Narvaez EVO8
2018 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2019 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2020 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2022 Jeff Denmeade EVO8

06/26/2022

RRE and Pikes Peak through the years. We have built and/or crewed and supported:

1994 Michael Avatar 323 GTX
1995 Michael Avatar Celica All tracks
1996 Kristoff Hustzi Eclipse GST
2004 Stephan Verdier Subaru WRX
2010 Jeff Denmeade EVO 8
2014 Danny George LS Miata
2015 Cannan Oconnell EVO7
2015 Roy Narvaez EVO8
2016 Jeff Denmeade EVO8 8
2017 Roy Narvaez EVO8
2018 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2019 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2020 Akio Kobayashi 911 GT3
2022 Jeff Denmeade EVO8

06/24/2022

We finished up the last day of practice on the middle section this morning. The EVO8 is as dialed in as it is ever going to be.

They have the mountain closed to the public until 8:30 am for practice. So we are up at 2:30. Leave for the mountain by 3:00. Through the toll gate at the bottom at 3:30.

Then pass start line by 3:40. In our pit area to set up by 4:00 am. Drivers meeting at 5am. First car out on the course as soon as it is light enough to drive with out headlights.

Done by 8:30 and back to the AirBNB before 10:00.

Then prep the car for tonight.

06/22/2022

We are racing this year with of Meadsports with his EVO8. We did the tech inspection yesterday and are up practicing on the top section tomorrow.

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