DSMCentral's 2006 Sport Compact Drag Challenge, Sponsored by AMS Options

[scorp28]

I want one

me too

[scorp28]

I will not be racing today so anybody that needs any help with anything hunt me down and I will be willing to lend a hand or two. awd4kicks(Marcus), Spy(Dan), akamiami(Kris), natedogg(Nate), Awd Dsm1(Rob), asainkid(adam), mitsu90(Bob), and awdnot2gsx(Darryl) I belive all know who I am so ask one of them if they have seen me if you need any extra hands.

Getting ready to leave...........see you all there and GOOD LUCK

[Kazz5]

THAT sucks - sorry. I'll see you there - mounting up now.

[Kazz5]

GREAT EVENT!

Big thanks to all who helped pull it off and all that attended!

[99Spyder]

Definately some quality machines there today!

[rlsracing]

Had a good time spectatin' and shootin' the breeze with some peeps today... as always Marcus, you put on a great event!

-Ryan

[hammar]

Any results to post up? I'm jones-in for some racing news

Hammar

[rlsracing]

No results here... we left before the event was over... sorry

Lots of carnage though... I'll say that (bummer).

[mitsu90]

great event i had a blast

[racergti]

I had a blast today! I've never been to one of your events and the scene, although small, was fun and some of the cars were awesome. It was fun for us until our tranny ate third gear but we had some good runs before we broke. We were gonna get our asses kicked in the Quick class anyway. We did; however, run 100 mph in the 1/8 mile for the first time.

Good event. We'll be back.

dave......(white VW golf)

[IMSracing]

No results here...  we left before the event was over... sorry

Lots of carnage though... I'll say that (bummer).

I can say its safe to say that not a lot of people are happy with thier cars around the peoria area. I managed to throw my crank pulley off (no where to be found), break the waterpump gear off the housing, and throw the timing belt off the car. I also have no power to the car, so the pulley hit somthing. It is a non-interference motor so nothing internally was hurt, but didn't even get to make 1 pass.

Rizzo-Bad knock coming from lower end

Spy-broken front diff/transfer case???

[AWD DSM 1]

I blew an intercooler hose... just enough to keep me out of the money races. Overall a great time!!!!

[black92_tsi_awd]

Had a great time, won some stuff and went home in one piece!!!
Which is better than I can say for most of the cars that were parked around me.

Many thanks to Marcus for putting on the race and AMS for sponsoring it!!

Marcus, are you going to post up the ladders, times etc?

Looks like AWD DSM 1 and I will have to settle our 14B war another day...I think I won the first battle though...

[AWD DSM 1]

Yes, I was outperformed on this day, but yours is coming...

At least I showed up, unlike some people....

[mitsu90]

I showed up

[awd4kicks]

You boys are eager! I was just taking a little break after the event. I'll post up all of the results on Tuesday sometime. Thanks to everyone that showed up and especially the great DSMCentral crew for keeping things running as smoothly as we could.

[awd4kicks]

Here is the 2006 SCDC Tally and results:

First I want to thank everyone that was able to make the trip to Cordova. AMS and a few of us from DSMCentral and Aura Racing had gotten together the night before for some pre-racing festivities. It was a good time!

We had a total of only 42 racers registered...So there were plenty of runs for everyone!

We had (6) entries into the Street Stock FWD class.
There were (10) entries into the Street Stock AWD/RWD Class.
(4) entered into the Street Modified Class.
Only (2) entered the Street Fab Class.
...And just (2) Entered the Quick 16 Class.

There was a WHOLE LOT of carnage so it cut down on the number of entries.

For the Street Stock FWD Class the winners were:

1st Place - Sean Roberts from Bartonville in his 97 Nissan with a best of 13.310 @ 109mph but won against the second place finisher with a 14.266 @ 106mph. Roberts went home with the #1 trophy, a $200 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate, a $50 Autometer Gift Certificate and a Tial 38mm Waste gate!

2nd Place - Josh Gale from Pekin in his 04 SRT4 that ran a best of 13.691 @ 103mph, but came in 2nd with a 14.682 @ 102mph. Gale went home with the #2 trophy, a $100 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

3rd place - Went to Jim Morgan from Galesburg in his 05 SRT4 that ran a best of 14.476 @101mph. Morgan had lost to a John Duyvejonch from Moline in a 93 Ford Probe who had run a best of 14.093 @ 101mph, but was disqualified for having a non stock power adder. Morgan went home with the #3 trophy, a $50 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

Honorable mention goes to Michael Szromba from S. Holland, IL in his 97 Eclipse who ran a best of 14.023 @ 99mph in qualifying and Kristin Compton from Plainfield, IL in her 92 Plymouth Laser that a best of 15.974 @ 94mph in the first round.

For the Street Stock AWD/RWD Class the winners were:

1st Place – Matt Ecleman who arrived just in time from East Moline in his 92 Eagle Talon. His best run of the day was a 12.205 @114mph, but won first place with a 12.231 @ 115mph. Ecleman went home with the #1 trophy, a $200 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate, a $50 Autometer Gift Certificate and a Tial 50mm Blow Off valve!

2nd Place – Lindsay ‘Kazz’ Johnson in his 03 EVO from Peoria IL. Kazz’s best run of the day was a 12.445 @ 111mph but came in second with a 12.493 @ 110 against Ecleman. Kazz went home with the #2 trophy, a $100 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

3rd Place – Ben Stoner from N. Vernon, IL in his 97 Eclipse with a best of 12.294 @ 115mph, but it was not enough to take Ecleman down in the 2nd to last race. Stoner went home with the #3 trophy and a $50 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate.

Honorable mention goes out to George Bohren from Cedar Rapids, IA who ran a 12.596 @ 112mph in his 90 Eagle Talon during qualifying... Chris Coleman from Sterling, IL who ran a 13.057 @ 109mph in his 94 EVO1 during qualifying... Ian Koe from Deer Park, IL running a 13.677 @ 101mph in the first round of eliminations in his 92 DSM... Joel from Moline, IL qualifying with a 14.191 @ 95mph in his 05 EVO... Frank Barbanente from Schaumburg, IL laid down a 15.530 @ 87mph in his 88 318 BMW in qualifying... and Geoff Burns from Moline, IL went out in the first round with a 13.950 @99mph against Ecleman who won the class.

For the Street Modified Class the winners were:

1st Place – Michael Puglisi from Arlington Heights in his 98 Eclipse who won with a 10.555 @ 137mph. Michael went home with the #1 trophy, a $200 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and a $50 Autometer Gift Certificate.

2nd Place – Jose Del Valle from Cicero, IL in his Eagle Talon. Jose ran a best of 12.158 @ 117mph against Puglisi in the final round. Jose went home with the #2 trophy, a $100 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

3rd Place – Dan Lewis from Lake Zurich, IL in his 95 Talon. Dan ran an 11.663 @ 124mph, but lost to Puglisi in the first round. Dan took home with the #3 trophy, a $50 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

Unfortunately Rizzo spun a bearing after running a 12.486 @ 108 during qualifying in his 00 Honda, obviously taking him out of the running.

For the Street Fab class meant to welcome the V8 and specialty car owners the winners were:

1st Place – Our very own Chris Lange from Peoria, IL who ran a best of 13.627 @ 100mph in the final round. Chris took advantage of the fact that this class was pretty much open to anyone and only one V8 entered otherwise. Chris took home the #1 trophy, a $200 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and a $50 Autometer Gift Certificate.

2nd Place – Our one and only V8 entry was Greg Harmon from Peoria, IL in his 00 Trans Am. Greg’s best run was a 13.538 @ 105mph in the final round, but lost with a .426 reaction time to Lang’s .158. Harmon went home with the #2 trophy, a $100 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

3rd Place was not awarded due to lack of entrants.

For the infamous Quick 16 class the winner’s were:

1st Place – Albert Raczynski from Michigan won with a 10.145 @ 148mph in his beautiful 95 Eagle Talon that was converted from FWD to AWD over the winter while implementing a GT42R Turbo. Albert took home the Big trophy as well as a $350 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate, a $50 Autometer Gift Certificate.

2nd Place – Yosuf Begil from Glendale Heights, IL in his93 EVO2 ran a best 11.219 @ 123mph in the final round with the engine popping from electrical problems on the big end. Yosuf went home with the #2 trophy, a $150 AMS/Excedy Clutch gift certificate and Autometer clothing.

3rd Place was not awarded due to lack of entrants by unfortunate breakage.

I want to send out a HUGE thanks to AMS for getting prize sponsorship of this event together and bringing out some great high quality cars.

We had some great runs. The fastest run was put down by a hemi-powered pro stock chassis owned/piloted by Mark Kirkman from Kirkman Composites with a crazy 7.9 that was also able to roll a 9 second pass even when getting out of the gas at the 8th mile. As usual our good friend Robin Lawrence showed up to make a number of test & tune 10 second passes. In fact he was a good sport and ran the AMS EVO in a fun run. This was one of the best runs I seen all day! Robin Lawrence’s 05 Mustang took the AMS EVO hard off the line. Robin ran another beautiful 10 second run, but the AMS EVO pulled it out running by Robin right after mid track with a 9 second pass. Very good time!

Thanks to everyone…

[rlsracing]

Nice event wrap-up Marcus... the hemi-powered pro stock chassis is owned/piloted by Mark Kirkman from Kirkman Composites.

[awd4kicks]

Thanks Ryan I will add that info to the writ-up. Kirkman seemed like a good guy and had a Hell of a car!

[Rizzo]

My first run of the day was my best one at only 14.7 pounds of boost and 93 octane it ran a 12.1 @ only 113. I was really hoping it would hold together for this event and give me a low 11 second pass on 93 and 17 psi but I spun the #1 rod bearing and now have to make the inevitable decision to rebuild or part out and throw in another motor and sell the car and build something else. If I sell it I will most likely build something either rwd or awd.