Okay people....first of all...the Shootout was awesome...had a great time. It was awesome meeting some new people, aong with seeing the other I have already met once before.

Here are the pics and I'll break everything down for those of you that failed to come.....no excuses..you all just suck. Sorry. Die hard DSMers make the Shootout!

Anyhow:

Here's the first pic I tok before I left.....nice and clean.


Jason filling up for the trip..



Here is JasonESi-T's car and mine at our first hotel Thursday night in Chicago.


Another nice shot with the sky and whatnot..


The next morning Jason and I met up with Thura, Dino, Whodatt, Jordan(Blue-guy as many called him), Aaron, Luke and Mike...
---No pics of that I forgot...doh---

Then we ran that small caravan to Toledo to Meet the Michiga cravan.


They were running a tad late, apprantly SoulControllers downpipe 'fell off'... heh but it was fixed....as seen in other pics in the other thread.

Yes, ETX had a friend drive his TwinTurbo350Z....Too cool.




Whodatt's car (Used to be owned by Brynden...2.6 liter..ya)



Matts clean engine bay, as usual


From here, we head to Norwalk...rolling deep...13 or 14 crs I believe with us, not including other we "didnt know" that joined off the highway. (Thats me in the middle and Whodatt in the black car on the right)


We arrive at bestwestern....some cars are there....parking lot is filling. The streets are full of cars. no matter where you at, in thebackground you will be hearing blow off valves goin off or cars ripping down the strip. I think saw maybe one cop the entire time...very cool.

-Met the guy that did the first ever 6Bolt swap into a 2G (or so he claims)

-Checked out engine bays...

-Random Car Chat

-Met Bill Hahn.... exactly as you'd think, very smart and extremely nice.

-Met Mr.Blunt -- he's kickass

-Met Dr1665 -- or now I know D-R-I-G-G-S .......Yea Im slow

-Talked to guys Ive already met before.....

Checked in....etc....

That night (Friday) we went to the track...2GNTers were running for the 200 bucks, fastest Turbo 420A get it. Lots of guys had trouble lauching - Mr.Blunt would take the price running a 13.7. nice

Heres a shot of the staging lane on Friday


Bill Hahn ran Friday in the RS - I dont have that video but others do. He an a 12.5 -- was an AWESOME run until 3rd gear...some popping issued -- I talked to him later about it - Apprantly the nitrous pressure was 800psi instead of 900psi.... yea dont we hate when that happens....lol Still...the cars rocks and sounds incredible. The engine bay just looks badass.



On Saturday we pretty much all just hung out. Everyone did their own thing....lots of wrenching as you saw in the other pics posted. I didn't get many pics that day... was adjusting my BOV..and roaming around.

Sunday was as expected... we left Bestwestern early -- (Whch wasnt asy after the drinkig that took place Sat. night) Nucknutty made me a double shot of rum....so I took it.... later to find out it was actually a blend of 4 100 proof drink....SoCo...Rim..Vodka...I dont even know what else..

Eralier on Saturday we went to Buschers shop, out about 10 min from Norwalk.
Here is us leaving:


At th shop there was a ton of people....Dynos a few cars....I FOROGT my camera at the hotel....so no pics there....that sucked.

Most of that night was spent in the parking lot, talking to people...meeting people...etc... Gosh so many inside jokes.

"Let's take it to the A/C" haha

-Met Ashalee, she's awesome
-Talked to SoulController and others....
-Was ridiculed by Dino and SilverNT...that was not cool.
-Met Emily and talked to Jon a bit -- he's cool

umm...drank beer

Anyhow, woke up Sunday for the Shootout and rolled out



Here are some misc. pics from the SO:

Bill Hahn just hangin out


Todd versus Mike -- Todd won...not sure what he ran tho...


Here is a panoramic picture I made of the track - so you can get a full mental image....heh


Here's the HRC "Spot"


And heres my panoramic of the HRC chill spot (I know it isnt perfect..I tried..when people move around it sorta messes with panoramic pictures...


Jasons car, Mike's car, and Thura's car


Jons's car, Matt's car, and my car


After that Jason and I headed out and trekked it 7 hours home.

I have a TON of video from my Video camera...these are only pics....

More cliff notes:

-The 2GNT Non-Turbo record is now a 15 Flat. A guy named Daniel_2GNT I believe ran it. Ive got his car on tape and video of me with the timeslip in my hand... impressive...14's soon Im sure- he is waiting on a new, more aggressive ECU.

-Thura had problems during his 6th pass at WOT in 3rd gear....car just stopped making power. Brought it to the HRC Spot and Bill and everyone was glad to help. not sure what the exact issue was....but something wasn't right..you can hear the knocking...

-ETX snapped an axel roughly 30 min later...

The decision was made to trailer Thuras car to HRC's shop via the HRC trailer, and have Adam Hahn (Bill's son) drive the RS back. This way ETX could snag an axel from Thura's car.

Here is Adam Hahn prepping the RS for the street...adding the rest of the exhaust.


Anyhow, is was a blast.....enjoy the pics

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Ryan
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'03 Mazda 6s