Ken Block Gymkhana 3

thornz · Post by **thornz** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:30 am

Sit back and enjoy in full 1080p HD

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nutty · Post by **nutty** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:56 am

No WRX makes me sad

Somone needs to put him into a drift car

DexterPunk · Post by **DexterPunk** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:11 am

woah! thats mad! Best one yet in my opinion.

dvestate · Post by **dvestate** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:28 am

Very cool, had a pack of guys at work behind me once the clip started

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:44 am

wicked. the guy is a real showman.
how steep is that banking

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 12:34 pm

I feel sorry for the engine...

matticooper · Post by **matticooper** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:18 pm

here's where he was:
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very cool... awesome track!

wobblysauce · Post by **wobblysauce** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:13 pm

quite a few try's but still.. great production values.

poor car, but he dont have to pay for it, so he dont care really..

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:08 pm

much better than the 2nd one, which was more like a slow motion ad for DC shoes. This one was a lot more like the original.

richo · Post by **richo** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:26 pm

Poor car and motor , very cool though .

KNAPPO · Post by **KNAPPO** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:16 pm

That was awesome, pure awesome!

Jiminee · Post by **Jiminee** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:38 pm

Very awesome and a thumbs up to him for putting some of the spark back into rallying that the Loebot has inadvertently sucked out of it.
So is this car basically a Focus WRC machine with the boost cranked to 11?

Sambo · Post by **Sambo** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:59 pm

Jiminee wrote:Very awesome and a thumbs up to him for putting some of the spark back into racing that the Loebot has inadvertently sucked out of it.
So is this car basically a Focus WRC machine with the boost cranked to 11?

Yeah, 11 bar.

KNAPPO · Post by **KNAPPO** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:02 pm

The dori up the oval at the 5:30 mark is just so cool

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:20 pm

Jiminee wrote:Very awesome and a thumbs up to him for putting some of the spark back into rallying that the Loebot has inadvertently sucked out of it.
So is this car basically a Focus WRC machine with the boost cranked to 11?

No, it actually has very little to do with the Focus WRC. For one thing, it's a Fiesta.

Number two, it started life as a Swedish rallycross car (where they pump the boost up to 11 as a matter of course). Block essentially got it so he could run the Rally America events in a Ford.

Jiminee · Post by **Jiminee** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:32 pm

Gotcha, makes sense. I thought the 600hp was interesting, WRC is closer to 300 right?

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:48 pm

Jiminee wrote:Gotcha, makes sense. I thought the 600hp was interesting, WRC is closer to 300 right?

Yeah, well it's all a function of the 34mm restrictor that WRC cars have to have. And anyone who thinks they only have 300 hp is kidding themselves. They're closer to 350 hp, with huge amounts of torque (550+ Nm) from 2000 to 5000 rpm.

Take the restrictor out and let a WRCar rev (since hp is a function of torque and revs) and you'd see 600 bhp.

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:59 pm

Sorry for the double post, but the car is essentially the same as this one that Marcus Gronholm drove at Pikes Peak last year:
[youtube] [/youtube]

Sambo · Post by **Sambo** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:09 pm

I was only being silly with the 11 bar bit, having said that I am now curious when you say turn it up to 11 is that a predetermined setting or just simply 11psi?

ReppohC · Post by **ReppohC** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:04 am

I wonder how many takes (and days) it took to get all the scenes perfect? They used 4 sets of tyres for the (much shorter) second video and this car seems even harder on the tyres! Still an awesome thing to watch, well and the sound too

Sambo wrote:I was only being silly with the 11 bar bit, having said that I am now curious when you say turn it up to 11 is that a predetermined setting or just simply 11psi?

I thought most WRC ran at least 2+ bar boost... probably closer to 2.5 bar (36 psi). I'm not the resident rally expert though so maybe someone else can clarify? My guess is he would be running closer to 3 bar to make 660 Hp.

DexterPunk · Post by **DexterPunk** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:43 am

Sambo wrote:I was only being silly with the 11 bar bit, having said that I am now curious when you say turn it up to 11 is that a predetermined setting or just simply 11psi?

Someone hasn't seen 'this is spinal tap' ?

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:04 am

Well, the information I've gleaned on WRCars indicates that they run around 3 bar. That's 43 psi. For comparison, for various reasons we can only run about 1.7 bar in my car.

It wouldn't surprise me if Block's thing was running more than 3 bar.

nutty · Post by **nutty** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:06 am

I was about to say 11 bar is a like 160 psi.. you wouldnt even find a turbo that could produce that

Sambo · Post by **Sambo** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:07 pm

Thanks boys

, 3 bar is insane. I would hate to be a compression ring in a WRC car.

Dexterpunk - Is 'this is spinal tap' a video I should be seeing soon?

VTRacing · Post by **VTRacing** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:35 pm

Sambo wrote: Dexterpunk - Is 'this is spinal tap' a video I should be seeing soon?

Yes, Sambo.
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