Went out today with low expectations of doing well in import wars and ended up going up against some quick cars. I got up there about 8:30 and immediatly tech in they broke out the rules and I had to go through the rules with them rule by rule showing them that my car fit in all the guidelines. After some convincing they let me run the 11.50 class.

As the day went on we had 2 qualifying runs before lunch and then eliminations. By lunch time it was hot and humid enough that I was getting sick to my stomach and started feeling like I was getting heatstroke. Only place I could find some shade was under the bleachers.

Still did alright in the heat though (Im car 501)



First Run
Ran A vw on street tires with harnesses and a cage (the cage threw me through a loop. I was wondering how a FWD car would ever need a cage with street tires)
I dont know what happened to his car but I let off after I saw I was about an 1/8th mile ahead of him. This was my first time launching off a pro tree ever. I knew I saw green so I was way late.

Got a HUGE smokey burnout and launched about 3.5k and the car just absolutly stuck like glue and scared the crap outta me and then bogged like crazy. I thought something was gonna break. I've never been on a track prepped that well.

Second run
Talked to brad (a local bracket racer who won real streeet today against other american muscle bracket cars and was parked 10 feet from me and kinda was giving me pointers all day on how to beat up on the imports.) and he came over to see how my first run went. He told me to watch the first amber and thats what I did. I also staged deep because I knew I'de be slow off the light, and it friggen worked, I saw yellow and went. But this time I was in the dreaded left lane, and I went from all traction to no traction. Spun like crazy all through first.
Still wasnt running all out, shifted about 100-200 rpm early each gear.
Car I ran against was a twin 16g turbo dodge stealth which I knew was fast and had to take him off the line.

Third Run (first qualifiers)
Ran a turbo BMW and I knew I had him cause he was parked right next to me and I saw his qualifying runs. I knew he was 13s so I didnt deep stage and slept a little at the light. Shifted ok.. a little slow still and not consistently winding her out to 6200 still short shifting by about 100-200 rpm. If I go balls to the wall and try to get every little bit out of her I am more likely to miss a shift or something so I wanted to be conservative


Now that I had knocked out the bmw and the dodge stealth had knocked out the vw I ran the first time and the previous winner of import wars (the guy who owns the company that does the payouts for the class) in a turbo rsx knocked out a white supra that always runs street tires and usually does 11s at 135mph :eyes:. I guess that run the supra was high 12s. Now I am up against the stealth and the RSX gets a by because he did the best in qualifying. he consistently ran 11.70s 11.80s with consistent 1.6x 60's and consistent .15x-.20x RTs so he was the car to beat but I knew that from the git go.

Fourth Run
Ran the Stealth to get into the finals and I did the same thing as I did my second run, I staged deep, launched and bogged and treed him and 60'd him BIG time. So I was already way ahead and I was coasting to the win when at the top of third what does the NOOB do but FAIL at shifting after hes been a winner at the tree all day. Backshifted it into 2nd, pulled it out and then did it AGAIN:bang: I thought I blew something up I pulled over to the side of the track and looked in my rear view to see if I was leaking anything as the stealth comes around me and crosses the line.

That was 100$ I had solid in my pocket from the line.. if I hadent let it go. Ahh well thats racing and my RTs are way better than I think anyone was expecting for a guy whos been to the track 5 times in his life in any car and this was his first day running a pro tree.

Still came home with some goodies though

50% off dyno time, 50% off cryogenically treatment service and 50 bucks




Not bad for a noob I felt good about it overall.

Congrats man!

congrats dude!!!

Congrads!

Way to go man sounds like you had a blast!

It was a lot of fun up untill I thought I bent some pushrods/ valves from that overrevving.

It seems fine though (knock on wood) and I drove it an hour and half home without issue.

Nice did you get to meet rob from teamXXX i know he was giving awards away

u wet up against his rsx that car is fast lol

Ohh yeah I met him he payed me the money. Talked to him a bit too. Lol he was fishing for information on how fast my car was. I told him it was a mid 12 second car. My car is deff capable of beating that RSX. I am just not there yet as a driver. His 60's were a tenth faster than mine and his ets were conincidently about 2 tenths quicker than mine. I have about prob 2 tenths worth of wiggle room left of improvement on my 60's alone so I've got a long way to go.

Action racing already posted pics, my buddy got some more pics supposedly and some guys I met at the track took a vid of the last pass (you can hear the fail I bet) and hes supposed to send it to me.

Thanks guys

The bmw guy that I knocked out in the first round I got to know a little bit as he was parked next to me and him and some of his buddies took some pics of my car.






Those guys ended up having some shitty luck and didnt make it home and had to call a tow truck. Looks like they may have warped the head. I saw them on the side of the highway and the car was overheating. I pulled over but they said they were fine and thought they had it under control I guess it overheated again soon after that.

awesome man. congrats on the win.

it addicting to go there. i went once nad now i love going. i really like the bracket racing concept. makes things interesting

Congrats!!

Thanks guys I Got a few more pics today

Nothing you guys havent seen before

Second round of qualifiers with the stealth (run 2)
Launching (this was the weak 1.95 60' these things squat like crazy)




Even though it was a weak 60' it was still better than his 60' and I treed him, see yahhh!


This was the last run of the day

Lining up with the stealth (this car was actually a bit faster than my car)



Treed him big time and I already have a car length on him and he hasnt even reacted


I'm working on 2 car lengths by the time he even gets off the line. You can see if I hadent missed the shift I woulda deff taken him




You can see how unweighted the front wheels are even though it was only a 1.95 60' and you'de think I might be able to hang the front tires with a good 1.6 60' but I guess the rx7s have a ton of suspension travel up front.

Heres a 1.38 60' from another car like mine.. and as you can see no air under the front tires.

Wow man becareful with letting ppl take pictures of your car at the track i cant wait to see this thing run u gotta come to a rekless meet the next seekonk one

I dont know if theres really anything I can do about it. I meen the second set of photos was taken by the guy who helped me do the wiring and he had the car at his garage for like 6 months so I'm not too worried about him the other guys were standing next to my car the whole day so again.. they had ample chance to take stuff if they wanted to be dicks or write down my license plate.

My car is also registered to a different address than where I live most of the time too so that helps a little if someone were to actually go through the trouble of looking up the plate, but theres really nothing valuable in the car. 80s mazda parts arent worth anything so the interior is mostly stripped except a couple nice gauges. and under the hood unless they're going to take the whole engine/tranny the only easy thing to grab is the air filter.. and they could steal that off any car. Plus theres not really a market for ls1/rx7 swapped parts.. not like there is for just about any honda part or something.