I accidentally went to import day today at Union Grove, WI. I've never seen so many badly tuned cars. Half of those poor little engines were lean popping or backfiring, or in one case, blowing their innards onto the track. And why do these kids think it's cool to peg the rev limiter while waiting in the staging lanes? There was an RX7 with open exhaust. At the line, he revved to the moon before the lights even started coming down. Then when he launched, he almost stalled it. It looked like he was launching in second gear! He popped and sputtered the whole way down the track. Some old 70s looking Toyota made the most ear splitting noise when doing his burnout. He also nearly stalled at launch, and tore up the track to a 16.something. There were a handful of impressive cars, and all of them were turbocharged. One CRX spun his front tires half way down the track to a 10.X@140. There were also some domestic shitboxes running suprisingly quick times. A 12 second Dodge Shadow? Wow! But far too many of the cars sounded and ran like something was seriously wrong with the engine.
Due to the huge number of cars there, and a few rain delays, I got only one run the whole day. It was a tire spinning 12.7@112. I think it's got a 12.4 in it with better traction. I also need a higher redline, since I had to shift to
5th at the end. All in all, it was a bad day at the track, since I paid $35 to only make one run.Chris Matthaei '91 5.0 LX