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Posted by: awd4kicks May 4 2011, 08:16 PM

2011 DSMCentral DRAG DAY
At Cordova Dragway
In Cordova, IL

Sunday - June 5th, 2011
Gates open at 11:00 AM
Racing Starts at Noon and goes through 4pm for less that 150 racers
Over 150 racers we will keep the lanes open until 5pm

ENTRY FEES:
$35 FOR THOSE RACING
$10 FOR A SECOND RACE VEHICLE FOR THE SAME DRIVER
$5 FOR SPECTATORS

This is an open Test-N-Tune Event at a discounted rate!
All vehicles are welcome to run the quarter mile
As usual - No motorcycle stunting allowed

Make plans now to join us!

Posted by: mitsu90 May 5 2011, 11:02 AM

Hope to have the G-ride together for this.

Posted by: bluzvr4 May 5 2011, 07:36 PM

maybe the talon can grab a lane with the g ride;)

Posted by: 93dsmowner May 6 2011, 03:00 PM

Had fun last year, will be riding up this year with bluzvr4. Hope to have him crack a 12 with only $1100 invested!

Posted by: awd4kicks May 7 2011, 03:00 PM

Excellent! Everyone chould bring a couple things to race .

Posted by: treydawgs4g63T May 8 2011, 06:50 PM

working on pickin up one of my old GSX's now, if i do get it ill be bringing it up. and if i get it, ill be posting pics and plans for it, even tho we already have like 5 grand in it...

Posted by: 93dsmowner May 8 2011, 11:42 PM

Possibility of having a bike by then

Posted by: doayamaha May 10 2011, 10:08 AM

my talon should be ready for this!

Posted by: dualdj1 May 10 2011, 02:57 PM

well shit, i may actually be able to make it! not sure if i'll have something to race, but will come watch at least. Though maybe the stang will be able to make an appearance...

Posted by: awd4kicks May 10 2011, 08:55 PM

Do it!

Posted by: Dan Boles May 13 2011, 05:40 AM

hells yes ladies and gents.. going to eat me a hamburger, going to break the ta.. all will be right as rain.

Posted by: Dan Boles May 16 2011, 09:42 AM

BTW, I riposted this up everywhere that I frequent, save for one.. I only lurk there.

Posted by: awd4kicks May 17 2011, 08:54 PM

Thanks Dan! I posted up there.

Posted by: awdnot2 May 23 2011, 08:30 PM

I have a DSM can I run it?

Posted by: bluzvr4 May 23 2011, 08:36 PM

u need to run i have met you once in havana and u had nothing but trouble and i want to see what that cars got. i was the kid with the blue vr4 that talked to you while u teched in

Posted by: dualdj1 May 24 2011, 07:46 AM

I don't think the stang will be ready for this. However Gross will be in town, so maybe I can talk him into bringing the porche up.

Posted by: awd4kicks May 24 2011, 04:10 PM

Darryl & Gross! I haven't seen those two in for ever....

Darryl, we would have it any other way. Bring that bad boy up.

Jason...make sure Kris comes weather he brings the Porsce or not!

Posted by: awdnot2 May 25 2011, 08:00 PM

The plan is to bring it up, although it is short one key component. Anyone have a 23 spline transfer case they need destroyed?

Posted by: dualdj1 May 26 2011, 07:58 AM

Brent may have one, he has all kinds of spare parts laying around.

Posted by: bluzvr4 May 26 2011, 10:37 AM

mistu90 had a few too

Posted by: mitsu90 May 27 2011, 04:00 PM

I have a couple let me count the splines and make sure they are 23

Posted by: treydawgs4g63T May 29 2011, 09:56 PM

find that tcase for darryl yet??? i may have one also if not..

Posted by: black92_tsi_awd May 30 2011, 02:58 PM

You better find him two so he can make two passes! 8)

Posted by: dualdj1 May 31 2011, 07:40 AM

Me and Gross will be there for sure. Possibly with a real loud porche, pulled the mufflers off yesterday cause he got a wild hair on improving performance or some shit.

Posted by: mitsu90 May 31 2011, 12:42 PM

Just waiting for him to call when hes back in town

Posted by: awd4kicks May 31 2011, 02:49 PM

Excellent news.... Why am I not really surprised that Kris would pull the mufflers off of his Porsche?

Posted by: awd4kicks May 31 2011, 02:58 PM

I'm going early to open the gates and get things ready. I think we are going to run Evan's freshly re-powered BMW 325 for fun.

Will any of you be setting a up a caravan to the track? Those trips are always filled with some fun jackassery.

Posted by: evan409 Jun 2 2011, 04:58 AM

DSMCentral DRAG DAY 2011 Commercial

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 2 2011, 12:04 PM

the commercial is bad ass!

Posted by: mitsu90 Jun 2 2011, 02:25 PM

It's been a while since we have had a promo video.. I love it

Posted by: evan409 Jun 2 2011, 11:13 PM

I'm glad you guys like it! I thought we needed something to get racers motivated!

Posted by: dualdj1 Jun 3 2011, 08:01 AM

who all is planning on going? is there a caravan forming up somewhere?

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 3 2011, 10:36 AM

im going to be geting people at the pekin mall to head up there but i havent decided a time yet ill post up as soon as i do (some time tonight)

Posted by: dualdj1 Jun 3 2011, 11:47 AM

cool we're headin up from EP, so probably won't cruise down to pekin, but may be able to catch up to ya on the way.

Posted by: awd4kicks Jun 3 2011, 02:42 PM

I've got some great news of additional entertainment for our Sunday event!

You can now expect to see a Jet car make a couple hits durring our track rental!
We will also have a number of 10.5" tire race cars and a Nostalgia drag car making Test and Tune runs throughout the day.
This is a nice bonus for us all to check out.

See you there!

Posted by: kapoosh Jun 3 2011, 04:41 PM

Evo won't be ready.....might make it up to watch.

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 3 2011, 04:42 PM

whats going on with the evo?

Posted by: kapoosh Jun 3 2011, 04:58 PM

Haven't finished cleaning it yet.......

I think I let it hibernate too long, just working out some bugs.

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 4 2011, 11:54 AM

bummer i was hoping to see it in action

Posted by: awd4kicks Jun 5 2011, 06:50 AM

Alright everybody...Today is the day!

I just talked to Cordova at 7:50am this morning and they plan to have clear skys by race time at noon. It's dry there now with overcast skies. All the rain is headed to Peoria. Perservier for great racing weather because we will have to probably drive through the rain to get to sunny skies.

See you there!

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 5 2011, 05:51 PM

i had a great time today

Posted by: awd4kicks Jun 5 2011, 07:12 PM

I did too! Thanks for coming out and braving the weather.

Posted by: Hult250R Jun 5 2011, 07:29 PM

Braving the weather? Psh, It was great out!
I set a new personal best after my auto swap, 11.4 and another 11.4 to back it up lol

Have to work on the tune to stall it up faster. Took waaaay too long. I played around with the tune today and didnt get anywhere

Had a great time!

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 5 2011, 07:45 PM

hult what car were u in today?

Posted by: Hult250R Jun 5 2011, 08:11 PM

The red 1G Talon, "ILEAGLE" license plate

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 5 2011, 09:12 PM

i saw the car it was super sexy i just didnt get to see it run

Posted by: Hult250R Jun 6 2011, 05:25 AM

Haha thanks man

Posted by: dualdj1 Jun 6 2011, 08:27 AM

wish we could've made it, too late of a saturday for both me and gross. How many cars were there? Hope you had a good turnout.

On a side note, maybe we can hit BWW sometime before the end of the month. Gross in town till start of july.

Posted by: black92_tsi_awd Jun 6 2011, 02:18 PM

Hult, what size turbo?

Posted by: awd4kicks Jun 6 2011, 03:55 PM

Good to see you again Hult... That is one of the sweetest looking 1G DSM's I've seen in a long time. Good to hear your numbers have improved. If you don't me asking, what was your personal best with the manual trans?

BTW - When I left peoria Sunday morning it was like driving in a hurricane. I assume that's why most from our area didn't make it.

Posted by: bluzvr4 Jun 6 2011, 04:07 PM

i almost didnt go! i woke up to lighting and thunder and went back to sleep and got a call 10 mins later saying come on cordavas clear

Posted by: Hult250R Jun 7 2011, 08:09 PM

Thanks for the kind words! Shes my baby lol
My best 5-speed time was 11.7, missing 4th once. I made a few passes that night all around that time.

That was the first and only time out with my "built" double synchroed, 4-spider diff trans. The 600 mile old clutch went out the next trip to the track. Needless to say I was a little fed up with the car and had to change something in it or I was gonna lose interest in it quick.
So I changed over to auto and absolutley love it, on the track and on the street.


I updated the link in my sig so it works now if youre curious about my setup.

Posted by: awd4kicks Jun 9 2011, 12:10 PM

A 3 tenth improvment definitely makes the automatic a worthwhile swap! Good job. I wish I would have gotten a chance to see your runs.
Did your MPH change at all from the manual transmission runs?

Posted by: black92_tsi_awd Jun 9 2011, 08:40 PM

What's a built Auto trans cost?

Lord know I've spent enough coin putting manunals together.

Posted by: Hult250R Jun 16 2011, 08:17 PM

I got the entire swap for $800 yeah i know i stole it lol, including a re-stalled converter. Trans, t-case, rear end, shifter, tcu (im not using a tcu at all now)

Building the trans cost me about $1600 and its good to run 9's all day long

By far the best money ive spent on the car. I absolutley love it on the street and on the track.

Im running a RoadSurge shift box. Push-button shift at full line pressure is fun

Posted by: 93dsmowner Jun 20 2011, 09:35 AM

Which is why when my 5spd goes kaboom, I'm going auto!