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last year I competed in The Grassroots Motorsports (GRM) $2014 Challenge with this '91 Q45t.
If you are not familiar with The GRM Challenge, it is an Autocross, Drag Race and Concourse event with one underlying rule; you can not spend more than $2015 (price equals the year). All competitors have to provide a detailed budget. There are a couple caveats to the budget/rules. All competitors can have 4 new tires and fresh brake pads that do not have to be counted in budget. Shipping and taxes due not have to be budgeted either.
The '91 took 11th overall, won the People Choice Award, as well as The Most Spectacular Failure Award. Yes, during the drag portion, the engine developed a knock. Since the engine did not seem fit for the 1,000 journey I intended to drive it back home to Ohio, I sold the car at the event to another competitor for $750. I had about $1k into the car and about $500 into new autocross tires = about $1,500. I sold the car for $750 but also won $1k at the event equaling a $250 gain!
I drove home in a Hertz Chevy Cruise.
It is rumored that the car has since had an LS3 and 6 speed installed but I have never confirmed that.
Since then, I have searched for another Q45. Earlier this week, I cast the winning bid on the hail damaged '90 Q45 in Denver. It is now time to start prepping the Q45 GRM Challenge, Deja Vu edition.
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Last years car had a Stillen air intake, a JWT brand ECU and Magnaflow mufflers. Being a "t" the '91 had a rear sway bar. It was also a HICAS model.
Aside from the engine failure in the drags, the only hold back the car suffered in the Autocross was the steering ratio seemed generally slow. I hope some of that can be attributed to the HICAS. The autox course at these events are generally pretty wide and favorable to large engine or large body cars.
Needed:
Rear Sway Bar. The '90 is a base model so it will have no sway bar. I would like to find the larger "A" model bar but the '91 had a "t" bar. Does anyone have any leads?
NICO ECU but I would really like to explore NOS this year!
Cold air intake. Does anyone have any leads?
These are 16" OZ rims on the '90 and we had 16" BBS's on the '91. I outfitted the '91 with sticky Hankook RS-3 autocross tires but this time will likely go with Bridgestone RE-71R's. I just put a set on my Autox Miata and they are the stickiest!
Could go to larger rims and therefore larger tires if a super deal could be found on rims. The rims have to be counted in budget, the tires do not. I can also sell off the OZ's and use those proceeds to pay toward the larger rims. Trading is allowed too.
What's out there?
