On Saturday, while we were on our way back from the SICC rain out, my friend Jared hit the blackberry messenger with a message saying lets meet up when we are rolling through Columbia. Through some more rain, dark sections of I-95 and I-20, some of the best southern non-top 40 music I have heard lately, and a few energy drinks, we got to Cola about midnight. Rolling up, we pulled in right behind Jared and before you know it, I am already out of the car combing one of the holy grails to most Honda Owners.

Check this shit out!

Plans for this car are said to be only a few minor mods, but knowing Jared’s history of cars, and also having documented coverage of his history of cars I think it is safe to say we will see this thing modded up in the future! Til then, I plan to sit back and watch with open eyes!

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1. Stormy Days

After tons of anticipation, the SICC (Sportsman Import Compact Championship) debut was soiled by bad weather on July 10th, 2010. Rain kept the lights off and the gates closed for the kickoff to the series, creating tons of speculation. It was a blow to Nyce1s, but weather can happen. The track officials and owner stood by their decision that while the rain stopped, the lightning and puddles, along with other elements still created a challenge. The track owner did not want to damage any of the equipment or make an unsafe environment by using the lights with the way their electrical system was built. Knowing the Carolinas from living here, or any track around, they are probably just some lights up on poles!  But mother nature had a say in it, with the lightning still present. The owner did not want to put his workers and paid help in the conditions of heavy thunder and lightning, and I do not blame him.

I feel for Nyce1s in this, because in the end, it will come back on them and not the track. Weather issues can happen. There was a rain date planned if it rained, and the event can still take place. With the promotion, it will most certainly be a bigger and better.

When we first arriaved to the track about 1pm, there were cars already sitting at the gate waiting for the 3pm opening time. From then on out, it was a hope game to “hope” that the rain didnt stick us too bad! It was such a nasty hit though, as the rain and wind made for sheets of soaking weather and forced vendors who were already inside to start backing up. There was some food, and 1 vendor with a tent set up, but by the time they got it down it looked like the tent possibly was mangled. We went to the front gate after talking to Craig some, and we waited for a second before telling the 30-40 cars that the event was going to have to be called and gave out free passes to the next event.

More cars showed up, and we turned away more cars. After a few, the rain stopped, and we had a number of cars waiting, so I went out and snapped some shots of some of the crowd that was there throughout the rain.

Overall, I am glad I made the trip. Yes, I lost money in the trip, but what I gained along with a few other people was a chance to see exactly how things can goto hell in 1 second. Yes, bad situation, but I will continue to support Nyce1s and the SICC racing series. And for those who are still wanting an event in North Carolina, round 2 will be held back here at the same track again on Saturday, September 11th, 2010. I hope to see you all there, as Greasyblocks will be in the house.

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Digglers 88 GTA goes 9.44@139mph… on a stock LT1 shortblock with a 17 year old nitrous kit!

Every Friday night I usually meet up with some other local domestic guys who are big GM guys and as usual we were talking about how can we squeeze some more power out of a car or how can we make it work better at the track. Well we come up to talking about my buddy Digglers Turd-Gen GTA and how he did this past Thursday at our local 1/8th mile track. The topic was  on how the car was doing fairly well and that they had managed to keep the front end from jumping way up in the air as the car had previously done. Next thing I know we’re talking about taking the car to Darlington to run it in the 1/4 mile and how I need to come get some shots of it. So we figure out a time for me and Russ Ethridge, who himself holds the Bolt-on 6-speed LS1 GTO record and held the bolt-on LT1 record for a number of years in Shon Herron’s car, to show up at Digglers house so we can get the car loaded up and head out.

Most people wouldn’t think too much about a 88 Pontiac Trans-Am GTA at the track but this GTA is one that will surprise you. It’s not your typical “Turd-Gen” F-body.  The first thing you realize is that its got a weird intake on it and that its got a crank trigger. “SoulGlo” is powered by an LT1 which came from the 4th Generation Camaro and Trans-Ams and C4 Vettes. Even more surprising is its no longer plagued by its notorious Optispark nor an OEM ECU. This LT1 has a Single-Plane intake and 4bbl throttle body atop of it and a Megasquirt EMS, that Diggler built himself, along with a single plate kit.

With this fairly “mild” setup most people don’t expect much, but we proved those in attendance at Darlington International Raceway wrong. After warming the car up and doing a quick check of the car Diggler pulled the car into the staging lanes. Nothing had changed since the car was at Greer on Thursday night. We were expecting the car to pull the front tires maybe 6-8″ and carry the car out and set back down smooth as usual. The track decided we were wrong. I’ll let the photos do the talking.

Yes, that is the HOOD of the car you see from behind, Diggler tried to pedal it and keep the car from slamming down but some times you just cant react fast enough. The car slammed down and put a slight dent in one of the header primaries and knocked the car out of alignment and I’m sure emptied Digglers bowels. All three of us were not all that happy with what just happened and we were just hoping that our day didn’t end as soon as it started.

After some looking around we decided to try to eyeball the drivers side suspension back into spec. Out comes the tape measure and some desperation to fix the alignment and a wrench to shorten up the travel limiters in hopes that we can keep the front end down this time.  We all agree that the car needs to run again and hope that it doesn’t blow up on the top end, considering the 200 shot on a stock shortblock.

You might not believe this but with our parking lot alignment quick limiter adjustment and some KILLER air, the DA was 97 feet, Diggler managed to bust off a 9.65@137mph which took the fastest stock shortblock LT1 record but as with anyone who races we knew there was more in it as we had brought an .082 jet with us for the plate as a “this is going to get us the record or blow it up” last grasp… we’re hitting it with 210hp now once fully progressed… Here is where we screwed up tho, we started fiddling with the FJO trying to keep it at the same ~175hp hit that we had on the previous pills and during this they announce that the track will only be running for another 15 minutes or so and we get in a hurry. Next thing we know we’ve stupidly added a 3 tenths of a second delay before the progressed hit even began. Even with that screw up the car lazily went down the track to a 9.44@139mph… on a stock LT1 shortblock with a 17 year old nitrous kit!

-Cone

Specs:

• 1988 Pontiac Trans-Am GTA
• Stock LT1 shortblock
• Off the shelf 236/248 Comp cam
• TH400 Transmission
• Nitrous Converter
• 9″ rear-end
• 28×10.5×15 Hoosier slicks
• 17 year old nitrous kit
• Megasquirt EMS

Check out more of Digglers car here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadconetuning/sets/72157622854489572/

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We all have had to stop on the road before with car trouble! Seems that every caravan of cars has its share! But this story is seriously like finding a needle in a haystack!

Going through pictures on numerous forums and other sites, it looks like H2o was one of the best events of the year. 1000s of cars jumped on the road from all directions to head to H2o. In this series the plan is to show what you are not seeing on the forums. Greasyblocks will cover the ride up with the  DürtyDübs and Eurowise Caravan. The starting point was ATL and the meet-up point was just past Charlotte in Concord at the Lowes Motor Speedway exit off I-85.

I was sitting at Monterrey’s, still my favorite Mexican restaurant BTW, when I started going through Eric’s Macbook Pro. I shoot my way straight to Iphoto and click the H2o folder. What I saw was insane! There had to be over 500 pictures of the most random nonsense and partying I have ever seen! Anyways, I ran across these photos of this guy I met a few months ago working on a M3. Before I could even ask, Eric went straight into the story about what happened. It was too good to hear, so I contacted Mike for more of the story on his BMW!

GB: Mike, What happened man?!

Mike: As always last minute work was performed on the car to get the final stance on my M3 perfect. I have a 90mm stud conversion on my car with titanium gold lug nuts. You aren’t supposed to use air tools to run these lugs down but last minute and desperate measures, I turn my impact gun down to the lowest setting and just get the lugs started. At the same time I ran down the lower shock bolt. That’s where the issue began. I didn’t use a lift that night to work on my car so I didn’t do my usual routine and go back over all the bolts by hand. I lowered the car off the floor jack. Torqued the wheels down with my torque wrench and pulled her on out.

On the way up to concord mills to meet up with the durtydubs crew. Strangely while cruising on  the highway, not driving fast or hitting huge bumps my left rear wheel started rubbing more then often. I didn’t think anything of it except my trunk was loaded down with parts and clothes. We all met up with the durties then took off. Not even 10 minutes after leaving the gas station nash calls me and says the dude following behind you says he sees your shock hanging. I was like “no way it cant be I don’t hear anything dragging or hitting” So we kept driving and he called back again and said “no seriously something doesn’t look right” so we pull off the interstate and as we are pulling off we hit a small road bump and while I am on the phone with him he was like “OMG something just hit my sub-frame”

So we pull off the exit into a gas station and sure enough my shock was completely loose. We hoped back onto the highway and drove up the off ramp and looked for less than 10mins and Noosh goes “there it is!” sure enough it was sitting in the middle of the highway off ramp!

Pretty crazy story 1 in a million for sure!

Thanks for getting back at me quickly Mike! I have seen a pretty good amount of work that has came out of the Eurowise camp, and for sure this story is not to reflect on their shop work, but more or less show you that even the best mechanics out there can have problems, especially if you are working in a rush! By day, they are your all goto quality Euro shop, and by night, your everyday average human being like the rest of us!!

www.euro-wise.com

Oh snap! BTW, who is this big overgrown Predator-looking black dude?!

Yes, that’s the famous Walker joining in on the action with some photos! Shot outs to you and my S3 homies man!

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I have heard mad rumors about this car locally. People all seem to have a different view of it but one thing is for sure,  it looks stock as hell!

I once wondered about this car being stock and there are a few videos talking about it.

Is it stock? Is he bombing the shit out of it? I have a few pictures of a completely stock car!

Looks stock around these parts to me! The automatic car seems to be just a daily. I would possibly be more worried about the car sitting in this gentleman’s garage…

…shot out to my fellow GreasyBlock’r Kyle Barnett on his photos. Kid is dope with the camera!

This 99 Viper GTS holds the Record for fastest:

• Stock clutch pass
• Stock axle pass
• Stock Trasmission pass
• Stock Longblock pass
• Supercharged 20″ Tire pass

1/4 times: 9.56 @148 on drag radials

1/8 times: 6.04 @117 on drag radials

Here is a view of the car running:

GreasyBlocks will have more up on these cars soon. Keep it dialed in!

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