I know, I know, SUPER-SHORT notice, but if anybody wants to meet up:

Portland International Raceway (PIR)
Gates open at 6PM
$8 to watch, $25 to race
Drag Racing (1/4 mile) "fun runs"

Maybe even a planned dinner somewhere first (we haven't been kicked out of Applebee's in awhile)!

Already going to be at least two of us there (me in the Autocross FB and Abe from PDXCGP in his 11-second Grand National) and maybe a third (Josh's LS1 FC from Rotary Car Club, who better show! :P )

So yeah, if you want to come hang out or race it should be a good time. I'll bring the camera incase anything "article-worthy" shows up!

 

Id be game. probably the last time i could make it up there. Plus Im not going to 7stock so this would be fun

 

Sveet! Up for dinner meet too? We're thinking Vancouver Red Robin @5PM...

 

too soon to tell if I'm going or not but if so I'll be the guy in the white MR2 with the gold gab sports

 

OK, the more the merrier!

Dinner is definitely Vancouver Red Robin (the one over by the mall off of 205) at 5PM.

 

You guys up for a new 7 driver joining you? haha

 

yeah i actually have to work till 8 and funny i work at Red Robin in sherwood so ill be able to make it out there after...oh well

 

1MZFE,
Sure, come on out!

tallbozo,
We'll see you at the track then. Look for a black GN, a dark red FB with "15" on the doors, and hopefully some other random 7's.

Just so it's known, we're starting at Red Robin at 5PM:
8311 NE Vancouver Mall Dr
Vancouver, WA

Then cruising across 14 and down 5 to PIR.

 

i don't know about tomorrow night,but tonight(friday),a friend will be running his RX-3,i will be his pit crew lol,hopefully get the car into the 11's,last weekend he ran 12.32@ 107.

 

Cool, my girlfriend works at the mall so I'm there all the time for her lunches, I'll see you guys there.

 

tomorrow is dyno day and BBQ at unnatural, starting at 11am
i'm going to that- i heard their dyno is optimistic
then i'm a head to the strip a lil before 6. to hopefully beat that gnarly line

 

You should come up and eat Josh! We'll be out before the line

How much is the dyno anyways? I'm sure the old 12A picked up a HP or 2 to bring it to like 107 at the flywheel!

It would be fun to bring the P71 to the dyno...

 

man I was just at PIR tonight didnt see this thread.

 

dyno is 30 for 3 pulls.
runs from 11-7
i'm just gonna go strait from unnatural to the drag strip

 

Come back then Fear No Piston

Josh, see you there!

 

My car will be in semi-horrible shape, my friend and I were trying to get my bumper changed out, but some of the nuts were rusted, so we had to cut half of it off, going to finish the job Sunday. But for the next 24 hours I'm driving the "drifter" style of no front bumper, hahaha...

But I'll be at dinner tonight.

 

It's OK. My FB is still sporting the "Hit-and-run" mod on the door and Josh's FC gets a new color on it every time I see it...

 

My new front bumper actually came from Josh's car, haha - going to get it on there tomorrow afternoon I believe.

 

I saw that thing....very very loud, I was dragging the black fd last night.

 

wish I could make it.... need more notice

 

all hail mike! lol
my best was 12.577, and he ran 12.457 on like his 3rd run in my car. ever.. :-/

 

You forgot to mention that I exactly matched your best 12.577 first run out

Thanks for letting me drive it though!

Did you get that VW towed?

I'll throw up a re-cap:

That was an AWESOME night!

So I do have to start out with dinner. Abe showed up with his Buick GN and so did 1MZFE with his Red SE FC.

On the way to the track Abe was following me and I had a little fun on the twisty onramp, only to remember that the GN doesn't corner like the RX-7!! I figured Abe would catch up in the straights though

So we get there and Tech in and Josh happened to pull up at the same time. Stupid me forgot about my helmet on the roof when I moved forward and it took a nasty spill. Time for a repaint!

Anyways, my goal for the night was a 15.99 so I can claim "15's" and also because when John had his RX-7 out (the gold one) he went a 16.0 something.

I started off with a 16.33 (beating my previous best of a 16.34) and just kept wacking a tenth off every run. The autocross tires I have hook nicely! My best 60' was a 2.15, which is better then my 14 second cop car!

Eventually I ended up at a 16.07 @83. Figuring that was good enough to beat John (and I really hope it is, I have no idea what he ran!) I wanted to try Josh's car. Josh hasn't drag raced much. He started with a 13.03 and progressively made it to a 12.577@112.

So I jumped in his car (I've autocrossed it before) and tried it. 12.577@112. I am not kidding! Josh took my car down and laughed at it for being so slow :P I ran Josh's 3 more times. Run #2 resulted in pseudo-missed 2nd gear (I thought I missed it, so I tried it again, and it was in, I was just being cautious!).

Run #3 resulted in a new best for the car, a 12.53@112 and was against Abe's GN (which went an 11.51@118!!). We pulled back around so I hot-lapped the RX-7 and ran a 12.45@112!! That's on his autocross tires with stiff sidewalls! It's on the limiter going through the traps, so I'm going to try to talk Josh into a taller set of tires (and DR's at that) to get it to trap 114/115. I feel the car definitely has a 12.2 in it, maybe even an 11.99 at awesome weather...

So calling the 12.45 a success I jumped back into my car, man did it feel SLOW after that!! It took a few runs just to figure out what I was doing again and by then the track was dead. So 16.07 was it's best (and I really, REALLY hope that's faster then John's!!).

 

My RX-7 with me cutting another .0xx light!



Abe's GN taking out a T-Type (the GN is doing the burnout):



Josh asleep at the wheel...

 

Haha, I wish I coulda been there for the whole night. Next time I'll have to make sure that I got the time, maybe then my GXL will be done and I can even give it a go.

 

here is some of me the night before....wish I would of knew to go saturday.