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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
- Rob
PS: I'll post pics of the fast cars, maybe a vid or two. Pretty impressive.