Here at Titan Motorsports, we have the great fortune of seeing great Supras day in and day out. As a result, it takes quite a bit for a MKIV part to impress me. Last year I sold my Titan Copper Supra, a car many consider to be one of the finest street Supras in the country. The car was purchased by Cavin Green in Ohio, and while close to a finished canvas, the one missing piece of the puzzle was the interior. I had fitted Sparco seats and a roll bar in the car, however it still lacked that finishing touch to put it over the top, as the rest of the car had. Today the last pieces of the puzzle arrived in the dash, door panels, glove box and center console where all wrapped in black Alcantara with suede stitching. It looks amazing on its own, I can’t wait to see how it looks installed.
Many thanks to RC for sending us a set of their 60lb injectors to test in Project 996TT. These injectors will require minor modifications to the rail for a tight fit, but we hope to have available full instructions and possibly a modified rail if necessary. Larger injectors are available to test as well when the larger turbochargers get bolted on the car.
As of right now we are awaiting 2 front tires, the modifications to be completed to the K24s for the 18G upgrade, a replacement differential, and suspension to proceed to the next stage of our project. We hope to have everything completed in the next 2 weeks.
On Saturday, some of the Titan crew visited Orlando Automotive Club’s monthly Cars & Cafe meeting in Lake Mary. This meet has seen an increase in attendance since its inception, and this month’s meet was no different with a reported 193 cars. All makes and models are invited to attend, and the variety of cars allows everyone to find something they like in the crowd . This monthly meet happens at Colonial TownPark in Lake Mary from 9AM to 11AM on the last Saturday of every month. For more details visit http://www.orlandoautomotiveclub.com/
Thanks to Mike @ AWE, our straight pipes for the 996 project arrived today. Since this car is primarily going to be used at the track and mild street duty, we decided to save some weight and give the car an obnoxious tone at the same time. This setup should drop 50-60lbs off the back of the car, as always we will scale the car after the install and get some video of the sound during our next track visit.
Unfortunately our dyno session on Friday did not go quite as well. We sent the car to an AWD dyno, and the rollers where not locked during a run, taking the diff out in the process. Lesson learned the hard way, but something we will fix and try again. We may convert the car to RWD for a short period while we locate a replacement diff and get it installed.
Today the UPS man arrived with the HRE P43 Monoblock wheels we have awaiting our 996. We opted for the same texture black finish as found on our yellow car, but went with the P43 straight spoke look to mix things up a bit. Unfortunately the tires did not arrive as quickly as the wheels, we’ll have them in next week and hope to mount the wheels at that time.
In the meantime we’ll be getting some baseline dyno numbers on the car using CFT’s AWD Dyno, and hope to do some more baseline testing at the track this evening as well. As always check our blog for up to date results.
We took the Titan Porsches out last night to Orlando Speedworld. On its maiden Voyage Nero managed to run a 11.79 @ 116, with an amazing 1.689 60 foot. All this was accomplished on a bone stock car running pump gas and stock PS2 tires at full pressure. We did remove the rear seat and spare as illustrated in our blog, so the car weighed 3404lbs with a full tank of fuel(w/o driver) . Nero backed this pass up with an 11.964 @ 116 with a 1.61 60 foot. The car hit the limiter in first slowing the overall time down.
I also ran our yellow K24 car on 1.2 bar and managed a 11.553 @ 121 and learned a valuable lesson to turn the PSC off. My best 60 foot for the night was a 1.80 spinning through 2nd, so there is quite a bit of room for improvement.
We expect to have more baseline information on the Silver car, and currently have a massive parts list building up for the first state of its build. We expect to begin that install in 1-2 weeks when our brand new K24/18G turbos arrive.
Over the past few weeks, Titan Motorsports has been prepping James Innes of Innes Performance’s VX Civic hatchback, piloted by Titan’s own John Ferguson. The two have been collaborating on the car for some time now and have even won The East Coast NHRA Sport FWD Championship in 2006! Currently the car has undergone a complete refresh, based on IPG’s specifications/Titan recommendations and boasts such parts as a GSR bottom end, B16 head, Borg Warner S-372, G-Force transmission, Mickey Thompson 26×10 tires, and full Strange suspension.Additionally we have had to add 140 lbs. to make the 2500 lbs minimum weight requirement. We chose to put it in the passenger floorboard to help with the weight distribution. The Civic was dynoed in the heat of July and put down 860 hp to the wheels at 35 psi. The car ran 9.70 in the Florida heat recently and should be even faster when it travels to Englishtown, NJ for the Outlaw FWD Shootout on October 11-12th. Best of luck to the duo, we will post more on the Shootout and the Civic after the event.
Next on the list was to get rid of some dead weight. We pulled the car into the shop and put our trusty Accuset scales to work. We made sure the car had a full tank of gas after our roadtrip, making sure we had consistent fuel weights included for future sessions.
We carefully place the scales under the lift and lowered the car down to get a base weight.
Total : 3,476lbs LF 679 / RF 653 / LR 1071 / RR 1073
We popped the hood and removed the spare tire and existing tools, as they likely won’t fit our future BBK and we have some HRE’s on the way.
Total : 3,437 LF 649 / RF 633 / LR 1081 / RR 1074
A 39lb drop in weight off the front of the car.
Next up we grabbed a few wrenches and removed the disc changer, rear seat, and floormats.
The end result was a total weight loss of 74lbs. Not bad for less than a half hours work and no money spent.
Here at Titan we have the pleasure of working on cars from all over this country, and even cars from countries in other continents. It’s not an uncommon site to see a transporter delivering the cars as this is the most efficient method. We use Exotic Car Transporter almost exclusively for all transports, as they’re local to us and offer world renowned service and care for some of the finest vehicles in the world. This week one of their newest trucks showed up, a single car enclosed box truck that elevates to allow the car to be removed. What was inside the truck……not a Supra, not a Porsche, rather V6 swapped Flat Black TC owned by Mike Lipson, one of our employees. The car arrived unharmed, although it’s probably about time Mike finished the car and got it running, more updates to come when he finally does.
This weekend at ADRL’s Dragstock V, Titan Motorsports became the first ADRL 10.5 car in the teens with a blistering 4.158 @ 172.67. After this amazing performance in pre-race testing, the team then went on to qualify #1 with a 4.184 @ 173.32 in Friday night’s qualifying session. After advancing to the Semi-finals with victories over Kenny Kneece and Rick Fleck, Titan’s day ended in the semi-finals with an uncharacteristic red-light by Gary White giving Darrin Hoyle the win. With a very consistent weekend of passes in the 20’s or quicker, Titan moved to 4th place in the ADRL Battle of the Belts. The season ending ADRL race takes place in Ennis, Texas on October 24-25. As with all ADRL races, we will be sending out free tickets to this event, email jons@titanmotorsports.com with your mailing address.
