Posted a gallery of photos from the 2008 Pacific Northwest Historics (July 4th Weekend).  Was a great turnout, despite of the rainy weather.

Some choice photos:

I had to go on a unplanned business trip the week before the Idaho Rally, and Dad had just gotten back from a business tirp as well, so we were forced to withdraw.  The Civic is in pretty good shape, nearly all the issues we had at Oregon Trail (update coming soon) have been resolved, including:

• Heat. New catalytic converter at the back of the car rather than under our feet.  Better heat shielding.
• Fenders. New fenders were purchased and painted.  We’ll try not to hit anything next time.
• Front Radius Rods / Cross Member. Fabricating a new “rally spec” unit.  Bent/broke the Place Racing unit.

Photos of the new work will be up shortly.

Next rally will be Wild West out in Eastern Washington in September (just have to figure out a way to get some taller gearing, or more RPM, for the long straights).  We may also do Pacific Forest to make up for the Idaho Rally.

I’ve updated the RallyDB to include the two latest rounds of the Rally America Championship (STPR and Oregon Trail).  I also added the 2007 100 Acre Wood and the 2007 Regional Cup.

I’ll be back-filling all the 2007, 2008 Rally America and NASA Rally events, so stay tuned.

Also is an improved Competitor Database, which is a great way to to a quick lookup on your favorite rallyist.

We’ve launched the new version of the website tonight.

We’ve tried our best to make sure all the features of the old site work on the new site.  If you notice something is not working as expected, please let me know at kris@fatboyraceworks.com.

A couple of new features to point out:

• New Search Box — The search box at the top of the page will search for albums and photos in the gallery as well as blog posts.
• Lots more photos — We’ve added even more photos to the gallery.
• Rally DB Updates — The Rally DB has been updated and improved.  Is now a competitor listing feature, there are now delta/difference times on the stage analysis, as well as improved overall and class rankings.  We’ve got a whole slew of rally data that will be imported into the tool over the next week or two, so keep watching.
• Gear Ratio Calculator — Updated the UI a bit.  Working on a major update to the Gear Ratio Calculator which we think you’ll really like.
• Project Cars — We now have a list of project cars, which links to articles as well as photos of the various projects.  More to come!
• Calendar — You can now view and subscribe to our calendar
• Comments — Can now add comments to the blog posts, etc.  Feel free to let us know what you think.  If the comments get popular we may add a forum  to discuss gear ratio stuff, project builds, and rally stage times.

Stay tuned for a lot of catch-up posts on the Civic rally car and the vintage Honda’s!

Naturally, if you’d like to see anything improved or a new feature implemented please let us know!

The 2006 season was a great success, culminating in the Rally America West Production Class and 2WD championships (Driver and Co-Driver), the 2006 Production Class Regional Rally Championship (Driver and Co-Driver) and the Production Class Co-Driver Pacific Northwest Rally Championship.

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In December 2004, for the first time the Japanese Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC, now SuperGT) came to the United States.  This is a video of the endurance race that took place in Fontana, CA and features exotic cars such as the Honda NSX, Nissan 350Z, Mazda RX7,
Toyota Supra and more!  Shot and edited by Kris Dahl (http://www.fatboyraceworks.com)
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Just a heads up for people, that the Fatboy Raceworks team will be competing with the Production Class (P3) Integra GSR rally car at the Pacific Forest Rally in Merrit, BC this weekend.

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Although we had a bit of bad luck, the Wild West International Rally was a good event for us.  We placed 2nd in Production Class on the Sou’Wester Divisional Rally and 3rd in the Pacific Rally Groups Driver Class 3.  Over the course of the weekend we set 4 P class stage wins and set the fastest Nawhatzel time for a
naturally aspirated, 2 wheel drive car, even though we only got one attempt at it and are in an extremely limiting class.   We improved dramatically and now have the confidence to get class wins.

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Check out the CRX’s Dyno run. Tuned on a DynoJet at  Meridian Performance Center by Crescent Kao.