<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 1bad gts:
Mike i help organize and run the zone event at Englishtown every year.Don Nase a i started it .Joe Houss will verify this.You came last year on Sunday.The mop up day .ALL HEADS UP RACING WAS DONE ON Saturday(Smith won the class).You claimed to not know about the event which is only advertised for MONTHS IN ADVANCE. AT first you claimed to have run an 11.68 in a BONE Stock Viper .Since i NEVER saw you at an Englishtown event i DID NOT KNOW )I was e mailed by a FEW people that your car had mods .Now you say mods were minor.In any case whatever was done to your car was not DONE TO LOSE POWER.
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Joe what are you talking about? I was there on BOTH days. As a matter of fact I did ALL my best runs on Saturday. I stayed at the hotel in Colt's neck with the guys from Canada, and we came back to the track on Sunday. I made it to the 3rd round in eliminations but then I backed out (of my own free will) because I beat this one guy who I found particularly cocky which was all I really wanted to do, and because the guy in the silver ACR I was supposed to run next round was a cool guy who wanted the trophy for his kids, so I asked Joe to give him my trophy - he said no trophies until the next round, so I backed out and gave the guy a bye run. I don't like bracket racing anyways, so my brother and I headed back over to the autocross and I let my brother drive my car around the AutoX track for a while. How can you say I wasn't there on Saturday? I made a TON of runs. I was hanging with the Nase's and with Jamie Furman in the stands, watching Jason Heffner run. So trust me, I WAS THERE... but you weren't!
As for the mods to my car... you said I had K&N's and drag radials too, remember? I don't believe "a few" people emailed you, because I really didn't talk to anyone there about my car. My car is just a plain GTS that didn't stand out so I don't think anyone would really even remember my car - let alone go over it and pick out mods I had made. Whoever told you that was wrong anyways, because they also said I had K&N's and drag radials, remember? I told you, I had smooth tubes, and I had my exhaust guy cut my muffler off and put 2 pipes there... he used 2.25" pipe (smaller than stock). I did that mod to make the car louder... I ran it for 3 years, even though it was probably costing me horsepower (but giving me extra torque). And you insinuated that maybe I had headwork done too!! just because you couldn't bear to think anyone ran faster than Evan! So, I posted my dyno sheet showing 414RWHP and 462RWTQ. But you still didn't want to buy it and just kept saying it wasn't stock. You don't want to give ANY credit where it's due. What if the car Evan drove was a ringer? Ever think about that? Maybe it's the car that Motor Trend dynoed and produced 424RWHP from? Hmm... you never know. What if Evan's car was making MORE RWHP than mine was? What would you say then? And how come you don't ever mention the runs I made when my car was BONE stock - the same way it came from Dodge, complete with corrugated intake tubes, foam filters, and big muffler... I still have my 11.76 timeslip from back then... but I'm sure there is also a reason why that is not a valid time that beats Evan's run, right?
If you weren't so bull-headed and completely unwilling to admit that ANYONE can be faster than you (Evan) without more mods, then we wouldn't have such a good time calling you on your BS.