This year was big improvement from last year. It was nice to meet a few more new faces and of course it was great to catch up with the dedicated members that make it every year. To me, the Shootout is like getting to see your family that you only get to see once a year. To those of you who really fought to make it even though money was tight, I cannot tell you how much respect I have for you.

For those of you who didnt show because of some petty disagreement, you should be ashamed of yourself.

A small hint of the events for the weekend:
Friday: got beer, drank, out to dinner, then got really drunk

Saturday: Breakfast, open house, caught up with Mark bullett, saw another member and actually saw one of my Fuel Rails in service!

Got drunk later on, tried to get one of the hotel employees drunk and get Hazardeclipse laid. He failed epically.

Sunday: sat at the races all day, saw some very impresive machines. got to watch Mark scatter an axle! lot of cars broke down this year.

Sunday Night we drank till 3am and laughed our asses off till it hurt! Hazardeclipse got the dick drawn on his face

Nice to finally put faces to names (though I met so many faces, with my old man memory, I couldn't keep the list). Also, great to finally get to meet the "core" group. Kinda pissed that the car wouldn't work well enough to get Driggs in it but "that's racing".

Damn disappointed in you Terry. You aren't the dick I thought you were. Case in point; the time and effort you and Matt spent (I believe it was Matt?) in helping out Todd. I left at 1:30am and you guys were still working on it. Sorry man, dicks don't generally do that. But I'm going to chalk that up to the late hour and the alcohol. We all make mistakes (But it was excellent chatting with you and the rest at Buscher's).

Damn impressive group of guys (and gals) there. When I snapped my axle on the first run, everybody was more than willing to help out. Locke was right there beside me as was nyboosted and others (crap I wish I could remember names) not asking if they could help, but insisting. They knew I had to make it back out for the first stage of racing. I really like to see that and I truly appreciated the help (but I think we got a little too confident on the dial in, lol. Though I got no problem handing the choice to you guys). Thanks guys.

Gotta give a shout out to nyboosted for letting me try out his wally 255 directly from his car. Though it didn't fix the problem, I'm sure the problem is fuel related (unfortunately all I brought was spark stuff with me, lol). Gracias, ny.

For those who didn't go, you missed a damn good time and you really should be there next year.

Captain Caveman

96 RS Turbo 11.414 @ 119.62 MSNS, Crower 2 NA cams, BW366, 10.5 comp, UDP, 60mm TB, W/A intercooler, 3.55 tranny 567.9whp 430tq
97 RS NA 13.188 @ 103.87 MSnS powered 12.5 comp, Crower 3's and 219.4whp with 175tq
98 RS DD 12.5 comp on stock ECU, LTH, Crower 2's, Koni, GC, Hypercoil, DG hats
99 OZ 5sp Stocker 15.856 @ 85.97
99 GS stocker auto 17.7@77mph!

wiki home page:http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=bullettdsm

RIP- Rustbucket 1995-2009

‹hazardeclipse› by the way youre thinking of hazard_eclipse
‹hazardeclipse› thats not my fucking car
‹teklein› Oh yeah
‹hazardeclipse› he stole my name
‹hazardeclipse› fuck that radioactive yellow shit
‹teklein› Hazard_eclipse is the homo.

I live about two hrs away and drove up Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I met up with a couple of friends and saw some nice 420a's there. It was great when Bullet pulled off the trailer and EVERYONE stopped and turned to watch and see what it was. lol. That thing is quite loud but sounded good. I was wearing a 2gnt.com shirt and just kinda hung around while a couple people were talking and I was trying to listen but was completely lost. ha. Transmissions and cams and then MSNS which just made me completely bonkers as I have no clue what you were talking about then. I met two Aarons who were pretty cool and said they were on here and a couple other people who I wasnt sure of their names.

Sunday was awesome and for the first time being at the Shootout and having the biggest attendance ever was even better. It was great seeing that many DSM's all in one area having fun. I got some great pictures right next to the starting line and a couple videos of Bullets car too (will upload once I get my memory card)

All in all GREAT TIME and already looking forward to next year where hopefully more 2gnt's will be running. (hopefully mine)

the picture of the event!

It's always great to see all the old timers, meet the "new guys", and put faces to all of the screen names.

Bullet it was great to meet you, and to see your low 13 second n/a whip. You remind me of an old school v8 guy! good stuff.

I thought it was pretty relaxed this year. Lots of beers to be drank. Derek and I watched the cooler while everyone was at the outback steakhouse for dinner, we tried our hardest to drink all of the beers before everyone got back lol. Then proceeded to go completely defeated at beer pong (thanks aarons). The turnout at buschurs and the event was incredible though! The weekend has gotten much bigger in the last few years.

Thanks XtremeRS for carting my ass to norwalk, Terry for bringing those shirts, and Slo2g for having a hot girlfriend lol.

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Matt D.
'06 Evo IX SE
'98 RS-T 13.8 @ 106.1

Bullett pulling racecar off trailer at Buscher's

how come any time somebody tries to get video of marks car, it's just his car breaking at the line. Me last year at mitsu day at e-town, locke this year at the shootout. Mark can't perform on camera? LOL

I contributed to the Wiki!
EVO IX - just a really expensive boost gauge and a K&N air filter
96 Eclipse RS -awaiting registration and inspection
95 Eclipse GS - parts car
Mods/Profile - http://www.2gnt.com/index.php?d=cs82685

I have a video of his second run - I'll get to it, I'll get to it.

Epic



Through the traps without breaking!

Bulletdsm -
@ The Track

Tim Reed
76 Colt Galant coupe
77 Colt Galant Wagon
91 GVR4 1350/2000 (Scrapped)
99 Eclipse GS (sold)
89 Suburban 4x4