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Testing at the Speedrome the Drinan TQ built for the upcoming Indoor Season on the East Coast.

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Who was in the car for the test? Drinan?

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Drinan and Jon Gambuti

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Nice lookin Ride !

[thebus79h]

What kind of engine is in the car. Size? Age?

Reason I ask, is forever I've been told the winters rear end that is in our tq, they don't make gears that would handle the bigger engines.
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[TQ29m]

I gotta assume it was a 750cc of some kind, Suzuki most likely, that's mostly what they run. 1in gears won't hold the HP? What kind of Winters you got, an ACRO? They'll take all a full midget engine can put on them, I guess, I don't hear of anyone have teeth falling off. Just sayin! Bob!

[thebus79h]

No, not for durability, but for ratios. I remember someone on here sayin that the rear ends wouldn't work for some reason. Why haven't the midwest TQ's gone to the CanAm rules. I saw one up in Canada a few months back with a new 750 suzuki with a good set of EFI. That's what TQ racing around here needs.
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[TQ29m]

I guess I don't understand, I've been running the same Winters, I bought new in 1994, without any gear failure, I'd guess the midget rear end is good for at least 500hp. Gear ratios? between all the gear manufcturers, you can get down to 12.26 to one, over the counter, and right now, I'm working on a 6.2 ring and pinion, to replace the 5.38, so that will make the gear selection even better. I can tell you this, when you spin one up past 11k, the bearings get real unhappy, but, I have a cure for that also. Why don't we run their rules?they don't run dirt, and they have a lot different people to deal with, then we do, to even over the next 10 years, to think about going to their style of car, and rules, would probably wipe out the TQ racing in the Midwest, and I don't think anyone wants to see that happen, we have as open a set of rules you can think of, yet are restrained enough, to keep most cars competative, and the expense down, I, for one, would sure hate to see anything changed, except the weight rule, everything else lets us run like the big boys, no tire rules, no gas vs alcohol, no "stock" engine rule, just some simple rules, that are easy to follow, and lets the owner actually work on the motor, as long as he stays in the box, that's the fun part, the racing is the test part. I think a lot of confusion, is the fact that a lot of the racers, don't understand the engine rules, or we just don't have real race mechanics involved anymore. BTW, we used to have a few teams here in Indiana, that had both types of cars, and ran with the East Coast roadsters, and in Florida, but not many can afford that many cars. Just Google Can-Am Midgets for their rules, and how, and where they run, totally different than anything we do. JMHO Bob!