I painted my font grille the plastic plate including the logo and the frame of the fog and turn light from chrome look in black, you can see it on the next picture.
I had BEST RACING WEEKEND. I had to travel about 900 miles from which only 120 on highways because we don't have in this country more than 200 miles of highways
to Hungary to a professional drag competition. We call it professional but is not as good as your normal drag strips, they just have the standard time trackers like you.
I traveled with some other friends from my Anonymous car club just to attend what you call it a drag race, for us is like heaven to have cells, times on paper, electronic start/finish, etc.
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Saturday was the drag race under the CEDrag (Central European Drag Competition) regulation, we all were amazed about what is supposed to be a "standard" drag race, from our point of view it was PERFECT. First 3-4 runs I was trying to learn again how to take off because the car had the tune installed from the previous drag race and if I was gonna start like before from 4000 - 45000 rpm, I was spinning the wheels all the 1st gear without moving too much because the surface was on an old airstrip and not a drag strip also learned the stop light start. Even I deflate my rear tires down to 18 psi (1.3 bars) and inflate my front to 43 psi (3 bars) I couldn't manage to start more than 3500 rpm. First runs were against our best looking car from the club (only show car) 350Z VeilSide and won everytime:
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After I saw I'm pretty good I start challenge other cars, Mitsubishi Colt CZT (over 200hp and only 2 200 pounds) a friend of mine cause we had challenge and won all 4 races and helped him to make his best time 13.9s, Honda S2000 which the driver was weak and I smashed it, and BMW M3 E46 (with a shorter lsd) to which I lost. After that I finally start to understand the time slips and realized that in my group Street S3 (under 2L Turbo or 3800 NA engines with only one traction axle) I have the 2nd qualification time. I couldn't believe I did 13.5 with only Wester Garage Race Tune which was my goal, I went to pyramidal finals, I won everything up to the final race when I met the M3, I launched better but on the 3rd and 4th gear I lost like a car length. And went and get 2nd place, fist time in my life on a podium even I'm going to drag races for 2 years:
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Next day we moved in my country Romania where was another event with same circumstances (same timing, same staff, etc). It was a huge event, about 8 000 spectators, over 200 cars from 10 seconds, one demo dragster everything was looking great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JCGtc12r8 A presentation video of the event.
I won in qualification against a performance Honda S2000 (wining his street group with 13.8), Mercedez SLK350 (306hp), Golf GTI, BMW Z4 and some others, same BMW M3 E46 from previous day was there too with best time at the group and I was doing 2nd time again but with only 13.7 this time because of the weaker surface on start.
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Again I went to finals and won everything up to the final race against same M3:
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Even this time I launched even better than previous day (1 car length in front) on the 3rd and 4th gear from -1 car length he was putting almost +1 car
But again on podium on 2nd place.
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So I went to an event just to see how it is and test my car to do a 13.5s and I achived that goal but I got back 2 international trophies:
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With this time I'm in top 50 best drag times in my country and in best 15 times in RWD drag cars.
I feel so ... speechless ... how this car made me to feel, I want to thank you all guys helping me to achieve this.
