AF DSM Meet 2008 - North

[david-b]

Thinking ahead of time... we should get the MN meet that ALMOST happened and reschedule it. Or at least start working out some of the major details now, so then there's less to worry about later on. Like location, estimated date, camping, hotels... all that stuff. I was really looking forward to going this year but I switched jobs right at that time and couldn't get off. So let's set 2008 in stone.

For location, I vote for MN again.
Time: May/June/July
Living: I'm up for some camping since I've never done it before.

[JoeShmoe]

Originally Posted by david-b

For location, I vote for MN again.
Time: May/June/July
Living: I'm up for some camping since I've never done it before.

I live in FL, is there one down south, i would really like to go. Is everyone invited or is it invitation only?

[david-b]

From the way it seemed before (correct me if I'm wrong guys) it was mostly just AF but a lot of other people were coming also. The AF MN Meet thread is still stickied up at the top if you want to read up on what was going on.

[gthompson97]

Camping FTW! Plus most of us that were going are 21 now so it should be a hella good time. I got 1st game of beer pong. Plus either the Eclipse will be done, sold, and the Talon might be going, or I just might take the infamous "break down" Eclipse so ya'll can see a real 420a (Directed at you david). J/K

[JoeShmoe]

So can i go? Stock 420A, though I'm way the f*ck down here in FL! I don't mind going though, i can probably get my buddy with his Evo9 to go up withme too.

[gthompson97]

Anyone can come.

[JoeShmoe]

Beer+grill+dynos=awesome fucking time. I'm there....
Can i see pics of people that are coming, if you have a myspace layout post up your email adress so we can see more pics of the cars that are coming.

Jose, FL josealejo05@yahoo.com (I'll put up some more pics)

[bleedEGLblue]

I plan on my rebuild being done by late June/early July. If I can get the car done in time im definentely in. It would be nice being around some fellow DSMers, it seems everyone in my area that rides DSMs doesnt know they do, its just a cool lookin car they found cheap. But if the date planned is reasonable I will make sure the car is done. With hockey starting this next week, i will be occupied 6 days a week until early March, but after that im crankin out this rebuild. I will only be 18, but ill make sure to bring some beer for myself...

Cant wait

Just so you know they call me the snipes, because i just cant miss in beer pong lol.

*EDIT*
Sorry I forgot about the mach poll lol
Where: anywhere in MN, im in the cities and will drive
Living: Camping (we cann be as much louder with less conciquence)

[david-b]

Originally Posted by gthompson97

Camping FTW! Plus most of us that were going are 21 now so it should be a hella good time. I got 1st game of beer pong. Plus either the Eclipse will be done, sold, and the Talon might be going, or I just might take the infamous "break down" Eclipse so ya'll can see a real 420a (Directed at you david). J/K

You youngins...

And I think mine is the "real 420a" (N/T). Silver comes in second. Then all the rest.

[bleedEGLblue]

"Dont be hatin" - B-rad - Malibu's most wanted...

lol some of us youngins can party with the "old" guys all night long

[Thor06]

YES!! Third time is a charm right Dave?

No, this year SHIT IS GOING DOWN. My vote is for late June or sometime in July, that will give us all some summer time to get our projects together. Mine will be rolling all summer long, but hopefully by the end of June I'll be rockin 'link, adaquate fuel system, good tune, supra SMIC, decent clutch, and my cams so hopefully I can be driving a decent enough car.

We gotta decide what we want to do as that is kinda going to dictate what time we do it i.e. planning around test n' tune days at the track, etc. So what do you all want to do? Obviously we're going to have to cruise and camp/party up a bit, but what else? Dyno day? Track? Both???

I would be down to do both if you guys all are, but I would rather do one or the other. If we do dynoing I think we'll do it at DB Performance, its $60 for 3 pulls IIRC. Then if we want to do it track style, BIR (2 hours north of the twin cities) has the wednesday night street drags, I think its like $20 or something like that for as many passes as you can fit between like 4 pm and dusk. Only problem though, is that its in the middle of the week and I dont think that'll be too kosher with everyone's work schedules. Rockfalls Raceway is also close (about 1.5? hours east) and thats a really good track as well. I think their test n' tune days are Sundays so maybe that will work out better for our schedule, but it is a good bit more expensive too, its $70 per day and they have test days on both Saturdays and Sundays quite often all summer plus they have the SpoCom Drags on Sunday, so some definate options for there.

Also, I would like to note about attendance, lets try to keep this roughly AF'ers only ok? I mean, I am always down for a few extra people as I will probably bring two of my friends, but lets refrain from open ended invitations resulting in 25 people no one knows showing up, eating all our food, drinking all our beer, and taking up all our passes on the track alright?

EDIT: Just checked rockfalls' webpage, test n' tunes are from 9am-3:30pm, my vote is for that. Thats a good bit of racing. Also, yes its $70 a person individually, but its $50 a person if we come in a group of 5. Anyone have a date to nominate? Mine is for weekend before the 4th of July (June 27/28 or 28/29) or the week after the 4th (11/12 or 12/13).

[Blackcrow64]

We definitely do need to get this one setup this time so we can actually have it... I'm thinking June of 08 so we will be sure to all be out of school and have vacation time from work.

Everybody's DSM's should be up and running by that time then with all the bugs worked out of them... And if not, well then we will just drive our daily drivers and have a good time anyways. Woot woot for the Cobalt and major traveling!

At least most of us will be 21 by this time too... (Or older )

But we still need to be careful about the drinking and such if there are gonna be younger there, because the last thing I need to do is go to jail for contributing to minors...

Garrett, you and I have first round of beer pong! lol

[bleedEGLblue]

My work schedule is pretty hecktic before the fourth usually...but the weekend after will work lush for me.

[4g63gst20]

this should be fun, let's make it happen this year, i dont know if i'll be rolling in the dsm but i'm sure going

[david-b]

If we hit the track/dyno on the weekends, there's going to be more people there. The last thing I want to deal with is ricers bitching and talking shit about one thing or another... I don't want to goto jail in a state I've never been before. Track would be cool as we could go up against each other (if they allow side-by-side?). Dyno would also be cool as we get to see each others power.

And that's the same with invites. As Thor said, we should keep this to AF + friends only. After I though about it, it's just easier. We all "know" each other in one way or another, so I don't think there will be any problems. Again with outsiders and ricers, who knows what will happen. DSM lovers only.

Personally for me, it doesn't matter too too much on the date. There's a lot of festivals going on all summer long, so no matter what I'm going to be behind. But taking off is no problem for me personally. And again, date doesn't matter too much. I would rather have it during the week though. Just seems like there'd be less people/stuff going on around town and all.

I'm all for camping. Beer pong is the shit and I call winner to Brian's and Garretts game. We will have to make sure that the "kids" aren't drinking, as Brian said, so we don't get in trouble for it. Bunch of car people camping out... cops will be around for sure.

I don't know anyplace in MN... so location is up to Thor and you guys up there. Again, I don't care. Looking at at least 6 hour drive to begin with anyways.

And with this kinda set in place... it gives (or at least it should) give you people with the builds a time goal to get done by. We're trying to help you out