If you couldnt tell

"Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30) 01/09/2019 at 11:12 • Filed to: None

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i have a bit of a fetish for this car

f86sabre > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/09/2019 at 12:39

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Worthy. The 333SP was a heck of a car. 

RallyWrench > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/09/2019 at 12:54

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You and me both, man. I remember the first time I saw the IMSA Momo 333 run, as a teenager at Laguna Seca back in the 90's. That sound will never leave me. At Laguna, they run until 5:30 on practice and qualifying days, and sometimes after the last session is checkered and the field returns to the pits and paddock, you can catch a cool echo of the last car on track as it downshifts for turn 6 before it climbs to the Corkscrew. . From that point on track, the exhausts point right back into the bowl of the track and resonate off the hills. On one glorious day around sunset when I was outside turn 5, that last car was one of the red 333SPs on a cooldown lap but still screaming up the hill then cracking and snarling through six, and the big downshift, exaggerated because the car was going slower than race pace, was what echoed off the hills. I’ve tried to catch that echo every year since, although nothing really sounds this good anymore

Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner > RallyWrench 01/09/2019 at 13:35

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This is the greatest sound explanation Ive ever heard. You earned this star. And try the 911 this year.

RallyWrench > Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner 01/09/2019 at 14:05

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I almost mentioned the new RSRs because t he 911s do come close , they scream properly. The GT1 Aston DBR9s and Ferrari 575GTCs were amazing as well, in their day . Modern racing gearboxes have more gears with less space between them and thus don’t downshift quite so dramatically though, I just remember the 333 having this hard-edged rip to it that just tingled the spine, and I got really lucky to catch that one by chance.