Here is a write up that Bret Kepner (From ESPN) did of my car.

https://www.rx7club.com/midwest-rx-7-forum-32/9-5-06-gateway-scss-street-car-shootout-results-576193/

 

Good driving Lupe!! God I love the 7!!

 

No really, my driving was horrid !

 

sweet.. congrats

 

Thanks Ito . . . . . . . . . .

 

I took out my plugs to clean them today, I looked down and my rear trailing wire was just hanging there. I'm sure that can't be good

I removed the plugs, the front plugs were nice and tan, the rear plugs were black.

 

This one!


SEPTEMBER 5th, 2006 STLSR.COM SPORT TUNER SHOWDOWN FINAL ROUND

Pos Name Hometown ST Vehicle R.T. ET MPH

W Eric Cheatham, Belleville, IL 1993 79 RX7 0.451 10.363 136.02
RU Adam Corbitt, St. Charles, MO 1985 122 Golf (foul) -0.041 11.473 126.46

He finally showed up. He didn’t get disqualified. He backed up the talk with the quickest and fastest
run in the history of the St. Louis Street Racing.com Sport Tuner Showdown Series. He beat the
toughest field of Sport Compacts ever assembled. He murdered the Elapsed Time and Speed
Records.

It’s official. Eric Cheatham is on top of the world.

Having parked what was already a 10.7-second, show-quality ‘93 RX7 at the end of the 2005 season
to completely revamp the car into an even stronger piece, Cheatham’s Mazda was the subject of
much conjecture through most of the season. Cheatham insisted the car would be all-conquering
once it returned. During the first eight months of 2006, most fans wondering if it ever would show
up again.

The Belleville, Illinois, veteran finally made it to the track for the August 29th STSS series event but
low clouds and their accompanying moisture cancelled the race before Eric ever made a lap. When
he returned for the September 5th program, he was already knocked out of the limelight by the
awesome ‘85 Volkswagen Golf GTi of Adam and Dave Corbitt. Before qualifying even began, the
Polk Audio/Wheels America VW charged to an 11.55/126.87...three hundredths of a second quicker
and less than a tenth of a mile-per-hour slower than the team’s Front-Wheel-Drive Series Records.

While Cheatham spent the first several runs reacquainting himself with the five-speed candy blue
Mazda, the VW made run after run in the 11.50s accompanied by Corbitt’s typically awesome
“double-oh” Reaction Times. Finally, Corbitt hit an 11.47/125.86 to officially reset the team’s FWD
ET mark. Cheatham responded with an 11.41 which regained his Rotary ET Record stolen six weeks
earlier by Gary Hagner, but failed to beat Derek Coffman’s twenty-five month-old 122.21 mph Rotary
Speed Record. On the very last run of the official qualifying period, Cheatham used a slightly more
aggressive approach to hit an 11.05 at an astounding 131.97 mph.

While Corbitt and Cheatham earned the honors of battling for the championship, the rest of the
Tuner field was the toughest group of Sport Compacts ever assembled for an STSS event. The
leaders were followed by Kyle Sturgeon’s exceptional white ‘06 Neon SRT-4 from Montgomery City,
Missouri, (12.43/116.95), Patrick Jacobsmeyer, the winningest STSS driver ever, in his ‘91 Eagle
Talon, (12.61/110.51), August 22nd STSS champ Andy Lemons’ new black ‘04 SRT-4, (a great
12.65/113.85), Rick Howie’s legendary white ‘94 Civic hatchback, (12.71/116.69), Curtis Wyatt’s ‘02
Subaru Impreza, (a career-best 12.86/106.22), and Nick Stepp’s ‘05 SRT-4, (13.01/107.08).

When Corbitt and Cheatham staged up for the final round, it was the most anticipated match of the
event. It was also a chance for the VW team to tie Jacobsmeyer’s record of seven wins in the Sport
Tuner Category. The fact that Corbitt redlighted away an 11.47/126.46 by a mere eight thousandths
of a second for his first runner-up in seven final rounds was quickly overshadowed by the largest
crowd response of the race when Cheatham finally “let ‘er eat”. Nobody...not even Cheatham
himself...was ready for the 10.36 at 136.02 miles per hour which appeared on the scoreboards. As
the cheers verified, it was simply incredible!

After prying himself from the cockpit of the diminutive Mazda, basking in the light of flashbulbs in the
winner’s circle and accepting the congratulations of not only his final-round opponent but nearly
every fan remaining on the property, Eric Cheatham made what many might consider his most
important point. He fired up the RX7 and drove it home!

 

"After prying himself from the cockpit of the diminutive Mazda, basking in the light of flashbulbs in the
winner’s circle and accepting the congratulations of not only his final-round opponent but nearly
every fan remaining on the property, Eric Cheatham made what many might consider his most
important point. He fired up the RX7 and drove it home!"

Love it.

 

Love the ending!

 

That's the one

Bret Kepner (Host of inside Drag Racing) took these pictures.

 

awesome pictures

 

I posted the wrong pictures, here are the correct ones. Can someone delete my previous post with the smaller pictures?