Southern Missouri 3S first gathering

We had a total of 7 cars turn out one died before it could show. 4 VR-4's; 2 BASE models and one SL.

We started around 1 - 2 and it was fun. The first part of the evening was grilling, shooting the shite, and checking out each others cars. I will post a link to the pics when I get the film developed, we did 35mm for the quality since my fiance is a photographer. After the meet was over those who stuck around went to my place and the rest of that is below. I copied what i posted on 3si in the MidWest forum.

Well everyone I had a great time and it was nice meeting you all. I was happy to see the turn out we had and maybe in the future we can work on putting together some other events and get more people. For those who left early we all went back to my place and hung out for a while just shooting the shit, playing a little xbox360 and watching tv. Tommy went home just before Aaron showed up in his GrandAm...

We sat around until around 10pm and then went out to find some street racing. Took forever. After a wild goose chase, sonic on Glenstone to some convenience store on Kearney, following a total poser who was driving a customers porsche and offering us his detailing services, outrageuous prices and like I would ever tell someone to take their car to a guy we know first hand was ragging on a Porsche he didnt own. Anyway from the convenience store we followed some loud ass trucks to braums on Kansas expressway where we were told we would find some races. Well we caught up with someone RedDragon had talked to and he hooked xeudoxus up with a guy who said he would run him in his Honda S2000 turbo, but only later after the heat had cleared up. Well hour to an hour and a half later we go to get the story on when the race will take place and the dude has gone home because he has to work the next day. BIaaaTCH.

Well we talk to everyone who knows someone who might... they were all just a bunch of bench racers other than the rednecks who would only race other rednecks. Anyway everyone with anything worth running wouldnt. Finally around 12 we find a guy who tries to find us something, but he cant, well we end up talking him into running. He has a slightly modded mustang GT. First run they set up from a dig.... Matt killed him by I would say 6 car lengths and thats just when he passed us about halfway down the road. We didnt know they were lining up for a second and started to walk back to the meeting point and then we hear that blow off turn to see Matt go by and then.... oh there is the mustang another 6 cars at our spot. Well they come back in and the guy asks if he will go from a roll so he can at least get his tires to hook up, gave him a choice of speed and he picks 30mph, he thought that would put Matt in the bottom of 2nd, WRONG, top of first gear full spool up and max boost. Even from the roll Matt took him by 2 at our spot. They circle and do the same run back, Matt takes him by another 2 or 3 at our spot. We thought there was going to be another but it was over, Matt should watch that rear view, lets off on and gives us some BOV and has a cop right behind him... Lucky bastard didnt get pulled over for it though. As he is pulling in the rednecks are actually talking about how bad assed the car sounded running against the mustang. We went from Jap crap to "wow that sounds mean". Mustang guy was cool took his beating well and shook hands like a man before parting ways, was really in awe that matt would give up his strong spot of traction and run him from a dig.

Well after that was over we headed out towards my place so Aaron could get his car and go home. Matt tells me first light we line up at we are going to race, cool with me, I dont mind being owned. Finally get to a flashing red and set up, cop just turned down the road so we wait a second. Start giving it some gas and Matt signals for me to go, lets me take a short lead and starts pulling on me, we hit an S curve side by side and you hear tires biting pavement. Matt takes the lead by a car here, we come over the small hill to the light and he is ahead of me by a car plus, might be two but im not paying attention. Light is red and we lock the brakes, oh shit cop on the other side of the road.....FACK. Hook right on Campbell and jump on a side street, cop had more important business because he let us be. We get to my place and Matt shows me the data from the run we did 125 in the length of a city block before shutting it down. Matt owned me fair and square but it was fun as hell. I smoked my clutch like a cuban cigar, at least now everyone knows what the stock one smells like, right Adam.

Well I guess I need to start tossing some money under the hood so the next time we line up I can hold my own. Had a damn good time with you guys, definately going to do this again, Matt I'll call you when I am ready to do some work if you want to help out. I will being doing new plugs and wires first and taking my car to the paint shop.... but only to have the mustache painted. If you guys can find some good wires and plugs let me know, I want the wires to be blue. After that its going to be bov, boost controller, turbo timer, intake. Slowly but surely I will build it up, just have to catch some bills up.

Well here they are, I dropped off the two rolls after work, 1 hour photo, had 2 discs made to make my uploading easier... hahaha the jackasses loaded them all upside down, so a quick 48 flips later and 15 minutes uploading and you have 48 digital images captured from a 35mm camera on 400 speed film all at about 1.5megs each. If anyone feels like hosting them and loading feel free.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/album?.dir=e9f1scd&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/my_photos

Very cool pics. Thats not the stock bumper on the red 1st gen vr-4 is it?

Edit: After looking again it looks like the black part was painted. Looks good.