Import Showdown Challenge Thread

Discussion in 'General Community' started by bambooi, Oct 10, 2005.

  1. bambooi

    bambooi Member

    How did it go? What did you guys run?
     
  2. Tray@topspeed

    Tray@topspeed Member

    TopSpeed's Customers Sweeped the AWD class. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th.

    The fastest Subaru's of the day were Mike (Liquid Force) & Jason (Genya) Good job guys!
     
  3. jt money

    jt money 350hp mmm mmm Good! Supporting Member

    from what i saw we only had 2 guys out there actually racing. none met the cutoff of 12.38 to get into the top 8. im a lil disappointed in the shop participation. i didnt see any shop owned cars in the showdown class. they would have been beat by a 10.49 civic (fastest car running there) anyway prolly.
     
  4. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    what times did mike and jason hit? how did clark do?
     
  5. Trey

    Trey Active Member

    Way to go TopSpeed! :bowdown:
     
  6. Kokopelli

    Kokopelli Active Member

    My best run was a 12.53. The run was against Doug driving someone elses EVO TR. He ran a 12.2x. Allegedly someone video taped the run. I am glad they taped that one instead of my 19 sec 112mph run. ;)



    Mike K
     
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  7. Alex

    Alex Community Founder Staff Member

    Good job, I thought it might have been canceled due to incliment weather, but glad it still went through.
     
  8. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    thats bad ass... what was ur trap speed? what was the temperature like?
     
  9. dlowman

    dlowman Member

    This was my last weekend and my last week to be with my son before he moves off to Kansas City so I didn't make it. The car was already and tuned by Doug. I was going to let him run it for me. But it developed and issue with some coolant leaking. So he didn't want to risk it on a customer's car. I will get it out there soon hopefully.
    Topspeed had alot of fast cars out there it seems. :)

    Dan
     
  10. Kokopelli

    Kokopelli Active Member

    the temp was over cast and high 70's maybe very low 80's

    best et
    60 1.845
    1/8 8.14 @ 87.07
    1/4 12.531 @ 112.62

    fastest mph
    60 1.887
    1/8 8.325 @ 85.21
    1/4 12.743 @ 114.93
     
  11. wsaenotsock

    wsaenotsock Member

    I was there and managed a 13.5 @ 102 mph with a 1.9 60 ft. Could really use an 18g. :)
     
  12. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    very nice mike
     
  13. MarkM2016GTI

    MarkM2016GTI Supporting Member

    Good Job Guys!!. It looks like you guys had some very fast times. I wish I was there to see it.


    Mark
     
  14. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    so what do u have done to it?
     
  15. slowwrx

    slowwrx Supporting Member

    I'm not ripping on anyone so please dont take my next statement that way.

    I didnt go and boy am I glad because from what I heard this was a pretty weak showing as far as drag racing goes. While 12 second cars are nothing to laugh at its certainly not amazing either.

    Matt
     
  16. wsaenotsock

    wsaenotsock Member

    I was just to have some fun. They had competition and test and tune, it didn't cost anymore to be in the competition so I entered.

    Mods are AEM intake, TXS bov, TXS mbc (runs about 16 psi), TXS 4" downpipe, somesort of up-pipe, ebay special exhaust.

    I bought the car with all this stuff installed, I've only added some Prodrive springs. Not sure if it has some sort of flash.
     
  17. Kokopelli

    Kokopelli Active Member


    I was thinking the same thing. I only saw one car running 10's and a few running 11's. I sure expected to see a lot more fast cars. I guess the weather scared some people off.
     
  18. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    at the last showdown, i didnt notice too many cars running 11's or lower either... maybe cuz i didn't actually watch every run
     
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  19. Genya

    Genya No Longer Up At Odd Hours

    12.3 was the best I could muster, 12.4 during quali's :eek: (which didnt cut it) Other than that, had a fun time seeing all that came.
     
  20. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    were u having issues with the car? i thought silver dollar was a little faster than commerce
     
  21. bambooi

    bambooi Member

    Too bad I couldn't go. I would have ran my rex.
     
  22. j69raw

    j69raw Member

    My best was a 13.46@102.8 with a 1.80 60 ft. I did manage to get a 1.79 60 ft on a prior run! Not bad for 225/40/18 Nitto NeoGens with tire pressure at 35lbs.

    Here is a link to some pics from the showdown

    http://community.webshots.com/album/473450612bwZSYB
     
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  23. j69raw

    j69raw Member

    That was Peter's Civic and it actually gets in the 9s!
     
  24. Genya

    Genya No Longer Up At Odd Hours

    Great pics thx! Not sure whats wrong with the car. Im going to take a car break this week, then get started on figuring out what the deal is. Past week has been a busy week.

    Also wanted to thank Paul and Ga Dsm for having another great event. Will try again in 6 months.
     
  25. dlowman

    dlowman Member

    by the way congrats to everyone that ran :)
     
  26. slowwrx

    slowwrx Supporting Member

    Yeah those are some very respectable times, I'm glad everyone had a good time. Hopefully the Subaru and the 240 will be done in time for the next mountain run.

    Matt
     
  27. j69raw

    j69raw Member

    dlowman, just curious what your best 1/4 mile time is? I see from your sig you have the highest hp/trq on the board! I remember talking to you breifly at the seloc meet, but don't remember if you told me your 1/4 mile times!
     
  28. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    i dont think he has run it yet with the new setup
     
  29. j69raw

    j69raw Member


    Oh! OK, with that much power it should run at least low 11s maybe even dip into the 10s, right!
     
  30. MarkM2016GTI

    MarkM2016GTI Supporting Member

    Nice Pics!!

    Nice Pics.... I really like the 02 Black WRX that you sold.



    Mark:bigthumb:
     
  31. MarkM2016GTI

    MarkM2016GTI Supporting Member

    Sounds like you had a good ET Kevin...


    Mark
     
  32. j69raw

    j69raw Member


    Thanks! Yeah, I really enjoyed owning it, that car was the reason, I bought my STi! I was really sold on the AWD!
     
  33. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    we should find out by the end of the year ;)
     
  34. dlowman

    dlowman Member

    I am hoping to run 2 weeks from now at commerce. I haven't dragged the car yet so I fully expect crappy times due to poor driver. But the trap speed should tell us a little bit. I have really wanted to run this car, but honestly have just had no time what so ever. The car was all set to be taken to the show down but it developed a leak in one of the radiator hose sunday morning and there was no time to fix it, or it would of been there.

    Dan
     
  35. slowwrx

    slowwrx Supporting Member


    He has the highest advertised HP and TQ on the board.
     
  36. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    before shit gets out of hand, lets not let any IA bullshit start here
     
  37. slowwrx

    slowwrx Supporting Member

    wink wink

    There was supposed to be a wink wink after that, and for the record I wasnt actually implying me, there is another member of this forum (not Jason) that is making over 600hp. Ill let him tell you who he is if he likes.

    Matt
     
  38. miloman

    miloman Retired Admin

    sending u a PM
     
  39. rolling_trip

    rolling_trip Active Member


    maybe he will speak up, i would be very interested in seeing his car
     
  40. j69raw

    j69raw Member


    Yeah, I would like to be there, when you do run it! I would also like to take some runs at commerce! Silver Dollar was the first and only place I ran my STi. Let me know when you go, I will sure to be there.
     
  41. GTscoob

    GTscoob Black is Beautiful

    Get him over here!

    We're all about fast cars over here.
     
  42. slowwrx

    slowwrx Supporting Member

    Ill see what I can do

    He is already a member of the board, I'm not sure that he wants everyone knowing how much power his car makes. Ill see if I can get him to post up.
     
  43. bambooi

    bambooi Member

    Looks like you already told everyone that there is a 600+hp car lol. shouldn't be too hard to figure out if I was a local.
     
  44. gt30wrx

    gt30wrx New Member

    He doesnt really talk to anyone on the boards, he's a pretty quiet guy.

    Matt
     

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