1/24/2015 @ TRD

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Wow! Big turnout of Members and friends for kickoff 2015. TRD Costa Mesa CA is where the 2015 Toyota NASCAR Sprint Cup engines are built and tested. An acre of tooling, dynos, clean rooms etc.

All five 2015 C.A.T. Officers and Board of Directors were present and we managed to get together for a photo before the Tour. Left to Right , Rick TigerBlue Treasurer Claudia Secretary, Mike President, Bob Director, , Warren Director, Buck T. V.P. and Director David who also is Editor TT.


TRD is working to get engines delivered to the Teams for Testing and Season opening race Daytona so things were busy with several employees working Saturday.

The V-8 engine spec of NASCAR is closer to a 57 Chevy than anything in a Toyota, Ford or Chevrolet today. What a challenge to build an engine to survive 500 miles of racing at over 9,000 rpm. The TRD Dynos are accurate enough to measure fractions of a H.P. They tweek things over and over to gain a couple HP.

Oh and we also had a Meeting after the Tour. Big thanks to Mike for arranging the Tour.
 
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Great tour. Thanks Mike for setting it up. Only one disappointment. I took my Toyota Mr2 spyder to the meeting hoping to get a surprise transplant of one of the engines. When I got in to leave I still had the 150 horsepower sewing machine engine. bummer, Lee
 
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Meeting minutes will most likely be posted soon. We are still working on the new and improved features.

It is most interesting to me to get feedback from guys that are members of other sites. Most report on commercially run operations that are far from the best and pardon me in saying that a just right Goldielocks fix.
 
Left to Right part two

:) For pic and forum

Rick M. Webmaster Treasurer, Tallest guy in Tiger I've seen aka Tigerblue
Claudia T. Secretary no forum name.
Mike M. President 1966 TGR
Bob J. Director aka Venice 352 I think...
Me Warren Director
Buck T. Vice President aka At the Beach
Dave W. Director and editor T.T. aka Holy Cat .

I like to omit last names as some like a little E privacy aka is posted as most guys leave their first name at bottom of their posts, which would be really nice.

Not to take anything from coming meeting reports we had a visitor from UK Owen and Tom Hall and several from San Diego county.

Tom was able to share some insights about STOA and their newsletter dist. as well . Talk of coming United at South Lake Tahoe make your reservation there is a limited number of rooms reserve now!
 
More Photos

Here are some more photos from the gathering at TRD and meeting. Unfortunately, TRD does not allow photos to be taken once we went past the lobby.

Photo01 - TRD
Photo02 - In the lot
Photo03 - In the lot
Photo04 - In the lot
Photo05 - Bruce Wecklich talking with Buck Trippel
Photo06 - Checking out Paul Paretti's Tiger
 
More Photos - Part 2

Photo07 - Four of the engines on display, showing the different engines TRD has built over the years
Photo08 - All of the engines
Photo09 - All of the engines
Photo10 - TRD's Tyler Gibbs talking with CAT visitors
Photo11 & 12 - Getting ready for the meeting
 
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