Chicane
07-21-2003, 04:51 PM
WARNING: THIS IS AN OFF TOPIC FORUM, SO I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHATEVER I DAMN WELL PLEASE. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, HIT YOUR BACK BUTTON AND STFU!
Okay, now that we got that out of the way, I just thought I'd share the last 4 days with you. I went to Neon 2003. MAN! I was only there for 2.5 days but I had a ton of fun! (there were 6 SRT-4s there too!) The first night somebody blew their engine, so we all helped on an all night motor swap! :D Day two we headed out to Hahn Racecraft; they make turbos for Eclipses, Neons, and Cavaliers. I don't like cavies much, but a new Z24 with the ecotec was running high 12s with just a stage 2, and stock everything else. CRAZY! I also talked about getting an SVX turbo kit made, Hahn does EVERYTHING in house, and was interested into getting into the Subaru Turbo market, and I explained that the SVX basically has NOT ONE TURBO KIT FOR IT, even though it should. I'll be emailing him in a few months about it, right now they're REALLY busy. But yeah! Possible Turbo Kit for hte SVX! HELL YEAH! HEre's a link if you want to snoop around:
http://www.turbosystem.com/
I also won a fuel jug from them, its 5 gallons for race gas but I think I'm going to use it for my scooter. Heh.
We then went to the strip, ROUTE 66. YEAH. IT WAS HUGE. ANd it was FILLED with neons. :D THere were a TON of them in 14s, probably about 15 in the 13s, and a few in the 12s... pretty impressive. Only one of hte cars was trailered. A friend of mine snapped an axle so we swapped in a new one in the parking lot; it took about 20 minutes or so. :D heh.
Anyway... at the end of the night... Len Aleya shows up. He races the Hahn Racecraft Turbo neon... only he was driving his STREET car... a 1st generation Neon Coupe. It looked stock. LOOKED. Stock brakes. Stock interior. Stock exterior.
IT RAN AN 11.6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
JEZUSSS CHRIST! IT LOOKED SO STOCK TOO! :D WOWEE! That was cool!
And on friday I headed out to redrock state park in IL for a BBQ, car show. There were a ton of neonites interested in my SVX, so I answered most of their questions about it... a lot of people really liked it, even if it was slow! :) I also won an award at the car show, even though I didn't enter it: "The Honary Neon Award". Heh.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The SRT4s were badass, the 1st gens were great too, and the 2nd gen 4 doors sucked it up, because they're ugly, heavy, don't handle, and lame. :p
- Rob
PS: I'll post pics of the fast cars, maybe a vid or two. Pretty impressive.
Okay, now that we got that out of the way, I just thought I'd share the last 4 days with you. I went to Neon 2003. MAN! I was only there for 2.5 days but I had a ton of fun! (there were 6 SRT-4s there too!) The first night somebody blew their engine, so we all helped on an all night motor swap! :D Day two we headed out to Hahn Racecraft; they make turbos for Eclipses, Neons, and Cavaliers. I don't like cavies much, but a new Z24 with the ecotec was running high 12s with just a stage 2, and stock everything else. CRAZY! I also talked about getting an SVX turbo kit made, Hahn does EVERYTHING in house, and was interested into getting into the Subaru Turbo market, and I explained that the SVX basically has NOT ONE TURBO KIT FOR IT, even though it should. I'll be emailing him in a few months about it, right now they're REALLY busy. But yeah! Possible Turbo Kit for hte SVX! HELL YEAH! HEre's a link if you want to snoop around:
http://www.turbosystem.com/
I also won a fuel jug from them, its 5 gallons for race gas but I think I'm going to use it for my scooter. Heh.
We then went to the strip, ROUTE 66. YEAH. IT WAS HUGE. ANd it was FILLED with neons. :D THere were a TON of them in 14s, probably about 15 in the 13s, and a few in the 12s... pretty impressive. Only one of hte cars was trailered. A friend of mine snapped an axle so we swapped in a new one in the parking lot; it took about 20 minutes or so. :D heh.
Anyway... at the end of the night... Len Aleya shows up. He races the Hahn Racecraft Turbo neon... only he was driving his STREET car... a 1st generation Neon Coupe. It looked stock. LOOKED. Stock brakes. Stock interior. Stock exterior.
IT RAN AN 11.6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
JEZUSSS CHRIST! IT LOOKED SO STOCK TOO! :D WOWEE! That was cool!
And on friday I headed out to redrock state park in IL for a BBQ, car show. There were a ton of neonites interested in my SVX, so I answered most of their questions about it... a lot of people really liked it, even if it was slow! :) I also won an award at the car show, even though I didn't enter it: "The Honary Neon Award". Heh.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun. The SRT4s were badass, the 1st gens were great too, and the 2nd gen 4 doors sucked it up, because they're ugly, heavy, don't handle, and lame. :p
- Rob
PS: I'll post pics of the fast cars, maybe a vid or two. Pretty impressive.