NASA Northwest?!?

#1

I’ve been bumming around the East Coast for the last few years slowly building my car and experience. I’m planning on moving back to Oregon in 2014 and I was wondering if I was going to have to transition to the Pro3 rule set or if I should finish my SpecE30 build. GRM arrived today, and I see that NASA NW is up and running. Sweet: now I can finally pull the trigger on the Poore exhaust, etc.

Any one out there from PDX? Raced anyone from OR/WA? I know there are a dozen or so Pro3 cars up there, so has anyone made contact with those guys about SpecE30?

#2

I’m ex Northwest, now in Arizona. I believe the Pro3 class is now attracting 40+ car fields. Do a YouTube search and you will find some great videos.

I understand NASA has launched up there, it will interesting to see how many cars they can get over to Spec E30. With the NASA National Championship in Utah, I think their will be some cross over.

I ran with these guys last year at the 25 and I know they are aware of Spec E30. http://www.gripracing.com/Home.html

Pro 3 at the Portland NASCAR support race:

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#3

A NASCAR support race? Man, that’s cool.

It’s interesting how flat the Pro3 car in the vid corners. We’d be rolling hard left and right and in the vid it’s hard to detect any roll at all.

#4

We could roll flat to if the powers at be would let us adopt a spec coilover kit in our series…:slight_smile:

#5

Hello,

Except if SpecE30 folks from NorCal come up, I don’t see big Spec E30 fields at Northwest NASA events. There is a critical mass of 70+ PRO3 cars built, with average grids of 20 cars and larger grids seeing 35-40 PRO3 cars. PRO3 only race in the Pacific Northwest with sanctioning body ICSCC. www.ICSCC.com

Though more similar than different, there is enough different in a PRO3 build that it is not easy to detune a PRO3 car to be legal in SpecE30.

I’m not totally familiar with the SpecE30 rule book, but PRO3 can do these things:

Suspension is open, except no remote reservoir shocks.
Exhaust is open (limited by db of tracks)
Rear diff is open (i.e. anything goes)
Can run 225-50-15 or 225-45-15 tires (Running RA1 in 2013)
Can run aftermarket chip
Can run headers

So a SpecE30 can run in the PRO3 class, but a PRO3 can’t go the other direction.

The one thing I can think of that is on a SpecE30 which would be illegal is ABS. ABS is not allowed in PRO3.

I was down for the Thunderhill 25hour race and was able to meet a number of SpecE30 owners. Nice to be able to put some faces with names.

It would be nice to have a SpecE30/PRO3 combined race at someplace like Thunderhill. That’s not too far of a tow for our guys. PRO3 would have some performance advantage, but SpecE30 guys would have local track knowledge.

Either way, putting 50-60 E30s on the track at once would have to be some sort of world record. :cheer:

Lance Richert, Seattle, WA.