VIDEO: Ryan Gates – All in @ Autobahn!

Watch in HD! This vid is from Wednesday’s testing session @ Autobahn Country Club, featuring more brake squeal haha! For the first time in awhile I really pushed the car around track…felt good. It’s kinda sloppy, but sometimes that happens. Enjoy the vid, and thanks to AMS for getting the car prepped so quickly! Off to Vegas, Redline Time Attack this weekend at Spring Mountain…come out if your live near Vegas! I will Have some posters with me!

-Ryan

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Ryan Gates battles alignment problems and takes 3rd @ Redline Time Attack -Willow Springs

RTA Willow Springs…woof.

After a great week of testing at Infineon Raceway, we were all pumped to head to Willow to see how the car would finally stack up with a solid AMS engine package. The car was making great power, enough to actually make it the World’s Fastest Evo X (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5sbhuWG4vI)! With all of the engine issues sorted, things were looking great for the ‘Liberty Grand Prix’ at Willow Springs.

Ryan Gates Time Attack EVO X - 2010 Redline Time Attack  Willow  Springs

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Ryan Gates Time Attack EVO X : World’s Fastest Evo X! – Powered by AMS 900X

While out at Infineon Raceway this week doing some testing, we decided to try the car out on the strip. With a race coming later this week, I took it very easy on the launch, but then ripped it once I was off the line.

The result? 11.2 at 137.6mph!!!

The previous record was a 10.17 at 135.9, coincidentally by another AMS 900x package powered car. No tweaks to my Road Course tune, we just ran it as is and it spanked! The car will be setup FOR drag racing and run again later this year, in hopes to become the worlds Quickest AND Fastest Evo X.

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Back on track! – Ryan Gates Autobahn Redline Time Attack Race report

Autobahn 2010 Race Report

Finally, the Gates311. com / Nitto Tires Evo X made it’s 2010 track debut! With a completely new setup, we’ve all be curious to see how it’d stack up to all the new competition in Modified class for 2010. Despite some issues, the car still performed awesome….we debuted with a 2nd place finish at Autobahn, not 1st place but there’s plenty of positive things that came out of the event. Cobb Tuning took 1st in their nasty widebody GT-R, about 7/10ths of a second ahead, congrats to them! We both beat my previous lap record with 1:28’s.

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2010 Autobahn Country Club Redline Time Attack Gallery

Ryan Gates Time Attack EVO - 2010 Redline Time Attack Autobahn Country Club Joliet

Snaps from the weekend’s Autobahn Country Club Redline time attack event are up on the AMS Performance Facebook Fan Page. Make sure to comment and share :D

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VIDEO: Ryan Gates AMS EVO X 900X Package testing @ Autobahn Country Club


On-board footage from our test session at Autobahn Country Club on 5.25.10. Break-in and testing of the brand new AMS 900x 2.2L engine setup went very well. The lap in this video is just a preview of what’s to come, the engine was de-tuned to 650whp for this test session. We are scheduled to debut the new setup at Autobahn on June 12th when Redline Time Attack rolls into town. If you’re in the Chicagoland area, come out for the weekend and check out the car….and the event!

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