polyfc

i'm moving to omaha in about a week, but i'm not taking my 7 as i heard they salt the roads so i was going to wait til spring time and have it shipped. Anyways i just wanted to say hello to any of you guys in the area and see if there are any good shops or tracks in the area. And how do the roads fare there this time of year?

-Joe

jonjonwells

I'm pretty sure Sgtblue is from Omaha.

papiogxl

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Hi Joe,

There are several of us on here from Omaha. The main ones I know are Bheiman, Sgt. Blue, FitzRX7, Flaresniper, Claborn1, supraturbo1987, brian, rotorballs, rotarymarine, power hungry, pealryellow and a few others that I can't think of at the moment.

Good call on not bringing the 7 yet, we just had a fair amount of snow and theres a bunch of salt/gravel on the road right now.

I'm hoping that we may actually be able to get a meet going sometime this year. A few months ago we had one, and it wasn't a terrible turnout, but not the best.

As far as tracks go, you'll probably be disappointed, but the nearest track is about 3 hours away, unless you want to go to an 1/8th mile track.

Shops? We don't need no stinkin shops. j/k But it seems like a lot of us do our own work, Jon (fitz) and Jim know their stuff when it comes to FD's. I believe trev (supra) is rebuilding his engine on his own.

polyfc

thanks for the info papio, i generally try to do my own work, but i'm going to be extremely limited on tools and other resources. i was looking more on the terms of some kind of local autocross, not sure if you were referring to a drag strip or not. glad there's some knowledgeable fd guys around, i've had mine for about a year but it's a lot more complex than my old t2. look forward to a meet though, hopefully with my car but even without.

papiogxl

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The local division of SCCA holds autocross fairly often, about twice a month IIRC. The tracks I was referring to are drag strips,but MAM also has a decent road course from what I've heard.

bheiman

people are working on getting a 1/4mile dragstrip here

there are quite a bit of Fd's here for the amount of people in omaha

there is one guy that is building a 3 rotor, fitz is probobly the fastest fd right now. Brian1 probobly will be fastest if he ever gets it back from gotham...

so for fd's we got
fitz
brian1
sgtblue's is pretty stock, but its CLEAN as can be.
There is a Gunmetal fd somwhere around here, he usually shows up at world of wheels every year.
Clayborne's fd is stock
94rotorTT is pretty stock, his dad has a pretty sick supra
there is some other kid with an FD that is around
there is a guy with an fd i met once, he is an engineer at Oriental trading company, i dont know anything else really
wearjoy's 3 rotor
pearl yellow's
i know there are a bunch more

Mine is currently in rebuild stage, im putting on a holeset h1e

ryan1

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If anyone is interested I'm trying to set up a Kan tuning session in April.
https://www.rx7club.com/midwest-rx-7-forum-32/steve-kan-tuning-604146/

brian

does 4estRX7 still have his fd? i havent heard from him in a long time.

brian

I asked steve if he would come to omaha if I got enough people together. He said "doenst it snow in Omaha" and then he laughed and changed the subject. Thats my funny steve kan story.

bheiman

hum, what are all the ems's that steve kan tunes?

Sgtblue

iTrader: (16)

Hi Joe.
Wow, tough time for a move to the mid-west from Northern California, but welcome anyway. My car's also in storage now since we do sand and salt here and it won't be coming out now until late March/early April.
As for tracks, Mid-America Motorplex ("MAM") is the closest track, about 20 minutes from my home. http://midamericamotorplex.com/2006/default.asp. Another is opening soon (or is now open) in Hastings, just a couple of hours west on I-80. http://www.racemph.com/
We're about 3 hours or so north of Topeka KS., the SCCA's headquarters and where the SOLO national championships are now held. KANSAS CITY SPEEDWAY is also just down I-29.
I'm a rookie autocrosser myself. http://www.nrscca.com/
As for tools and know-how, I can probably help with the tools, but still learning like everyone else. Glad to help in anyway I can though.
PM me when you get in town.

ryan1

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Microtech
Motec
Greddy E-manage
Wolf3D
Apexi AFC
Hydra EMS
AEM
Autronic
Links
LS1-Edit
PowerFC
SDS
Fast
If you have anything else you want tuned let me know. He told me that he has,or can get the stuff to tune anything.

polyfc

appreciate it sgtblue, and thanks for all the info on the local tracks as i'm sure i'll be hitting those up regularly. i'll definitely pm you when i get there next week and i do have some questions on storing the car like you said you did.

bheiman

how about megasquirt?

ryan1

iTrader: (5)

Steve said yes he does megasquirt, but don't expect big horsepower.

supraturbo1987

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Hey Jow, welcome. My name is Trev, I bought my 93 touring in august. Had my Supra for 6 years prior to that. What will you be doing here in omaha? Great to have another FD owner coming to town! Welcome! Between me, fitz and jim (sgtblue) You will have plenty of space and tools

Trev

bheiman

not to totally hijack a thread but
what is that supposed to mean?

i was just wondering for the future
its good to know though

i will probobly try and figure it out myself anyways, but between trying to get ahold of dieselgeek(a guy that has done close to 100 megasquirts and currently is working for spectre helping make Their Phantom EMS) and going to a steve kan tuning session, it just might be easier for the steve kan tuning session

ryan1

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That was the answer he gave me. If you want more info I would suggest pming him, pluto, or email him at steve@gothamracing.com

Sgtblue

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Too late.

siguysdad

Very cool yet a nother moving to this Cooooold place. Well i just wanted tosay hello to everyone as I am going to be moving there in 6 days. Looks like there is alot of ya Fd guys there and not many FC. Even better i say i like being the odd ball.i posted on the form all ready but was told this is the hot one for new people coming in to town. Well my name is Robert I got my wife and 4 kids there all ready with a house in Papillion. I am coming out of the Coast Guard after 8 years did all kinds of work on aircraft as a AMT. Still looking for a good job in NE. Come summer time I will be having alot of BBQ's at the house so all are welcome. Here are some pic's of the car. I did the work my self from the rebuild to the body work <had some help with the paint> See you guys soon!

polyfc

man i wish my fc was have as nice as that when i got rid of it. i'll be coming to town to do as little work as possible of course supra, i actually got pcs'ed over to offutt. would've liked to stay here in cali so i can drive my car all year around. but hey, no smog anymore

siguysdad

what kind of work do you do?

polyfc

i'm a translator

Sgtblue

iTrader: (16)

Welcome to the neigborhood Robert. Nice car. As Mike (papiogxl) will tell you, I love FC's too. I'm the fossil of the local group... the token old guy. You can guess from my avatar what I do for a living but I'm still usually tolerated by the others.
Hope to meet you guys soon. I'll buy the first round.

brian

Jim, if your buying the first round count me in on that night, oh and I got the secound.