Re: LA Sports car meet (kinda long w/ pics)

[Chuck Simpson <csimpson@zeltech.com>]

Wussup George!!!

Man, don't let that shit get you down.  Those cars are in a league of their own,
but they also cost WAY more than I could ever afford.

It is possible to create a VDub that could match the power of those "sports
cars".  Just check out the "Performance VW" magazine from a couple of months
ago, where some company built a 900+ hp Mk4 GTI.

BTW...  do you have any pics of your car online?  I wouldn't mind seeing some of
the stuff you have done to it since the last time I saw it (several years
ago)!!!

c-ya,

-Chuck Simpson...


"George Turner, Jr" wrote:

> I went an a little run this past weekend with the LA Sports Car Club.
> The run was 175 miles complete, including the 125 mile canyon run up in
> Angeles Crest/Wrightwood.
> It was approx. 140-150 cars there for this annual event.   There was
> everything from exotic Porsches, Viper GTS R's, twin turbo 300Z, Supras,
> Saleens, and cars of such.  There was one viper out there on NOS running 689
> hp to the rear wheels and 800+ ft lbs of torque.  I am sure I had one of the
> top 5 cheapest cars out there.  That Saturday made me a Viper Fan.  I
> previously hated those cars, but now I have nothing but respect for them.
> There had to be over 10 vipers out for that run.  The day was pretty
> successful except for 2 major crashes in the same place.
> Check out the following URLs for pics of the event and crash..  An beautiful
> M3 and stock Honda accord fell victim. There was only one other dub out
> there besides myself, and he came with me..8(
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/GTII_2000
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/mkivbpu
> http://www.motorex.net/Sportscarmeet.html
> There was some mad high speed stuff on the run, and a 3 mile straight away
> that made me realize a couple things and brought down my spirits..
> At the beginning I started off in the back of the pack, 2nd to last.  About
> 60 miles into the run I made my way up the 2nd pack where they had about 5
> vipers, 2 Porsches, 1 typhoon, 1 Skyline, 1 300Z twin turbo by Stillen and
> about 4 to 5 turbo supras, and of coarse me.  What happened next was a HUGE
> wake up call for me.  We came to a stop sign, then directly after the stop
> sign was a short hill, from the top of the hill you can see about 3 miles
> straight in front of you.. all straight road, 1 lane in each direction.  AKA
> Top speed run.  When I was at the crest of the hill looking at the straight,
> I saw all the Porsches and vipers pull out to the left and open it wide up.
> By this time I am going about 80+ mph full throttle.  Those cars walked away
> from everyone else soo bad, it made it look like we were going backwards.  I
> did not see them again until another stop sign came up.  I was able to hit a
> little over 150 on the straight, passing up the typhoon and 300Z.  There was
> not enough room to catch up to the supras, but if the road was longer, they
> would have been got!  Speaking to one of the viper guys later, he told me he
> got to 180 before slowing down because his spoiler looked like it was
> shaking (possibly coming loose).  That straight made me realize, no matter
> what kind of turbo kit, NOS, Super charger, 3.2L you have.. a Jetta/GTI will
> NEVER be a real sports car.  I was under the notion that I had built a
> *sport scar*.... but that day woke me up..8)  All the little Supras, 300Z,
> Saleens, RX7's, skylines, and every other car out there were toys compared
> to the Porsches and vipers.  You have to respect those *real sports cars*.
> I sure do.
> You can check out this web site to see a list of cars that signed up to go
> which did not include the ones that just came out.
> http://www.geocities.com/mkivbpu/G-T2.htm
> All in all it was a great day besides the accident and wake up call...