What a year!! i managed to build a car in 3 days just to race it one weekend, and put the coupe together from the ground up in just one week to make it to an event. drove back and forth to Indiana for the BEST motor i could have ever asked for, met tons and tons of great people, and even picked up a few sponsors along the way. the past 2 seasons for me have been the learning experiance of a lifetime. i cant wait till next year!!

started the season off on a 40r @ springpressure due to some ignition issues. put a T1 cam trigger kit and AEM in the car and went a 9.8 the very first pass after that. the first 9 second pass made every hour i spent on the car worth while.

right before this past englishtown race, courtney green was nice enough to let me borrow his 42r so i could keep up, or atleast try to. rumors have been floating around on the power i made, so i figure i would post my uncorrected dyno jet numbers. i obvously was unable to make any successfull pass's at this power level, but gathering info over the weekend with short times 1/8th mile mph etc, i think next year should be very interesting!

Brad Brooks is amazing with AEM, he did the tune on this car, and will do any AEM related tuning i ever need done. at lower boost levels before the turbo began dropping boost, power would hold out over 10k rpm.








i have struggled this year with finding a transmission that was in decent shape, and never getting the suspension set up and dialed in how i would have liked made getting respectable short times a challange. obviously thats where my focus will be next year. with all the hurdles this year i was able to come in numerous 2nd places, a few number 1 qualifiers, a win, a final and semi final in 2 domestic events, and even 2 "best reaction time" bonus checks came my way. unfortunatly the broken transmission at englishtown quickly eliminated me from the NHRA east coast points championship, but it was still a good feeling knowing i came to the track with a shot at it atleast.

there is no possible way i could have come this far with out the help and support of my sponsors and freinds along the way.

Stewart Engines..... there is no possible way i could be any happier with the engine program from stewart engines. this motor was 110% bulletproof the entire season. the port work on the cylinder head was amazing. a basic maitnance program was followed, and the motor never had a single issue, and it survived some brutal igntion missfires earlier in the year. not to mention it made sick power!! we always seemed to max out the turbo's we used with much less boost than expected. if you need a sportfwd engine program for next year http://www.stewartengines.com is where you need to go.

hybrid-performance..... as you can tell from the big stickers on the doors, hybrid performance has done an amazing job of helping me remain track ready. everything with my car has always come down to the last possible second, and hybrid always (still havnt figured out how) has manged to always get me exactly what i needed exactly when i needed it. not to mention with the help getting me to the events i cant thank http://www.hybrid-performance.com enough!!

Exedy Clutches..... when i thought i was done for the year after the New York race, Exedy stepped up and got me back on track. i previously used an exedy twin disk clutch in my car, and it lasted about 3x longer than i ever expected. slapped the new clutch in the car, and its been flawless ever sense. thanks again for all the help! http://www.exedyusa.com

Full-Race.... I have the ability to make all of my own manifolds and such, but the attention to detail on the full race products is so amazing....i wanted to put the turbo system on this car this year and know i wont have to touch it again. between the divided top mount, intake manifold and cylinder head from stewart engines, the powerband is just insane (especially with the 4088r...i made peak power under 6k rpm and held it past 10k rpm!!) thanks for everything http://www.full-race.com

T1 Race Development... i dont know if i should thank you more for fixing my missfire problems or putting up with the 4,000 questions i have day to day. Tony has been more than helpfull with many differnt things on my car, and it has been nice to compare times, dyno numbers, etc and see we usually saw nearly identical results on so many different tests. http://www.t1racedeveopment.com should be the first websight you go to if you are even considering running AEM, the cam trigger kit is absolutly a must!

tunerzine..... the press releases and help with sponsorship and promotion has been an extreme help. coverage on the car, help lining up photographers, etc has really paid off. thanks for all the great work!! http://www.tunerzine.com

i would also like to thank anybody and everybody who has lended a hand. Fred Ellis has been a great help, he is one of the most creative people i have ever met when you are in a bind. congratulations on the new baby fred!! all of our customers over the years at Tempest Racing,Luke for hooking me up with Stewart Engines, Courtney for letting me see what this 42r is all about, terry for lining up the 42r, Jason Charlie and Brian at CSI....charlie has helped with the trannys, brian has taught me a lot about the little things, and jason was the first guy i saw do this at the track that made me realize thats what i want to do, thanks for making me poor jason! casey at burns stainless, gravy for the help with the gauges and what not, john and james at mazworks, my girlfreind for making food and having a notebook that has every single pass that everybody made in SPFWD for the whole season, ladders, elimintaions etc...she's hard core. danny zimmerman and richie gibson for lending a hand last min. when i would need parts, chris for the most insane dyno strapping ever, bill at motovicity, sean at ERL, NLR for a badass boost controller, tracy for letting us sleep in his toter, anybody else who let me sleep on their floor or helped split hotel costs, bret for help R&R'ing the tranny at Etown....... i know im forgetting a lot of people and i appologize...let me know and i'll gladely add you to the list!!


i have a lot going on personally right now and have returned my turbo. finacially i can not buy another one right now, so i will not be attending any more races this season with the car, but hope to atleast make it out to a couple more races to hang out and watch. sorry for the long post! i hope to be back out running harder and stronger next season!

Thanks Again Everybody

Joe Simpson


Modified by Turbo-charged at 1:05 AM 10/6/2006

 

Just wanted to give a few shout outs to some folks that helped me all season long. My 2006 Race Season has ended sooner then expected. I didn't get a chance to make it to all the events that I wanted to, but to the ones I did made it to, it was fun and met quite a few people along the way.. My motor decided to call it quits after 3 Hard years of beating the snot out of it. May the short block rest in 50 different pieces.



Here's a compilation someone put together..from this past weekend..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UrkyoZOwW2I


Special Thanks to ..

My Folks..

My Girl for helping me in the pits..

My neighbors for dealing with all the noise

Keo S.- Right Hand wrench..

Alex Huertas - Another Right Hand Wrench

Dave Kukucka - For towing the car to the events .. and bring all the necessary odds and ends .. Generator, fan etc..

Tom Cody - TBONE

Earl Laskey - Next time I come by I hope I don't blow another tire on the interstate..

Ralphy - Racer2be

Brian Ballard - XXXRacing

RLZ Engineering

Kevin Francisco - a.ka. Ciscoscivic

turboedc2- For the Video footage

Rick-www.theFizix.Com





Modified by TheWickedOne at 9:32 PM 10/24/2006

 

Well since ive seen a few post like these already i thought it was my turn. I would like to start by say thanks to anyone and everyone that lent a helping hand with me this season. I learned alot this season. My year didnt end the way i wanted it to. Blowing the motor back at atco in july, But i couldnt be happier. I gained alot of expericene. I made due with the horsepower i had which was very low. I still manged to pull off a 10.59@137 at atco(ndra).

Well I've already start the progress of getting the car ready for next season which
i have very high hopes for. With what ive learned from last season. I think next season will be a better season for me.



Special thanks in no order.
Terry@boostfed racing (always getting me what i need and putting up with me haha)

Joe Simpson- helping dynoing and with any other question i have had. (looking foward to you helping with a few things in the offseason)

Jason hunt and Charlie- Jason for tuning my car and getting the issues fixed i had in the offseason. Charlie for letting my car sit at Car Doctor for a few months.

Brian Ballard- for some advice and beating the **** out of me the 2 time we lined up

Darren Borron and his girlfreind and brother- for giving me hotel floors to sleep on.

Jdogg- for helping getting the car down the track.

Brad@S-Fab for making me a damn nice manifold.

Full-race for Helping with the turbo issues i had..

All my freinds who have helped with this car.

Thanks all
Turbo-Bret

 

this might be alittle off but

i would like to thank all the RACERS and TEAMS for putting on another great season of racing..................

Speedynamics
Shane Mills

 

thanks art for putting this thread back together

 

first off great thread

i would like to thank my fiance Kristin...because w/o her none of this would of been possible(including my first Wally)..i would like to thank my brother George for the big brother sponsorship program..haha...thanks for all my family and friends that came to watch me race during the season...the support really helps

Nevin & Diane- these are Kristins parents and they are awesome people and very generous...always letting me use the garage and tools ..thanks guys

Alpha Racing-you guys are the best and i cant wait for next year

Evans-Tuning-Jeff your the man and thanks for all your help this season and all the hours you put into my car tuning it

My Firends-Robo,Sean,Pete and Mike thanks for the help guys

HeadGames Motorworks-Dave your the man also i should be bringing something to you on the off season for you to work your magic on

Grafx-Nickie thanks for the awesome stickers you supplied for the car...everything came out better then i expected

if i forgot anyone sorry guys let me know and i will add you...i had a great season and i cant complain...cant wait till next year








Modified by AllMoToRB18c at 7:13 PM 11/1/2006

 

TTT

 

Ok.. I dont race but I still would like to do some Thank You's hehe.
I guess I'll do this in behalf ot myself and the team

Exospeed crew... guys working on the car, cookin up the burgers... Alot of hard work to get things together for us to race. thanks!

<U>Sponsors:</U>

Darton Sleeves

Arias Pistons

Carrillo Rods

Supertech Performance

Deist Safety

Rev Hard Mfg.

Apache Rental Group

K.I Wheels

West Coast Grafix

Thanks for the support for the team and all our cars. 2006 was a weird and tough year but we're coming out stronger for 2007 with plenty of surprises.

 

Well Let me start of by congratulating everyone on an awesome season. This may be more of a congrats then a thank you to all of our customers but hey it's a thanks for being wonderful customers too.

Titan Motorsports - Congrats on winning the the championship and thanks even more for doing it with our parts

Tony and Arturbo - Thank guys for all the support we really appreciate it

Joe at tempest Racing - Thanks Joe for spending the extra dough on our stuff

Clutchmasters Racing / Team K series - Thanks for represting our products and breaking the record with it!

Ron @ Intrinsic Performance Solutions - Thanks for being such an awesome customer and being a true pleasure to work with and having faith in our expertise.

Bergenholtz Racing - congratulations and winning the champinship and represting our product well.

Jeremy Lookofsky / Drah Cartel - Congrats on winning the champinship glad we could contribute

Scion Racing / Leslie / Mike Durst - Congrats guys on a steallar season with a brand new car glad we could help ya get there!

Bisimoto engineering its amaxing what archaec engineering can do

I'm sure i forgot some people so if I did I'm sorry but thanks to everyone for some awesome racing this season I'm glad I made it out to the events I did it was a blast!


Modified by Ekasey at 5:19 PM 10/31/2006

 

I would like to thank a few people off the top of my head...I know the list is kinda short but here it goes:

1. Thanks Cortney for putting up with my ****! I know its been a long time coming but you and I both know its going to pay off in the end! I cant WAIT! Thanks so much man!

2. Terry (BoostFed) for ALL the hookups...turbo for # 1!!!! Kickass deal! Plus I know I bought a shitload more stuff and I just want to thank you man! And also for putting up with ALL my damn questions...lol!

3. Geoff at Full-Race...just want to thank you and the crew for a KICKASS topmount for this beast of a turbo. It barely fits but you all somehow designed a manifold. I love this manifold...its GOLD to me!!! And Todd...he helped out a LOT also!

4. Mike @ M&H Tires for the hookup on some slicks for next season!!!

5. Exospeed(Wil) for helping me out! Hooked me up with some GOOD ****!!! Thanks Bro!!!

6. My wife for backing me up on all the **** I have been buying! lol! Shes the greatest!

7. Well, I told ya the list was short...so there ya go! More sponsors are coming slowly. Cant make it out there without you guys!!!

Cant wait till 2007! It is going to be one HELL of a season!!!!!!!





Modified by cuin9sec at 5:28 PM 11/25/2006


Modified by cuin9sec at 5:30 PM 11/25/2006

 

Modified by cuin9sec at 6:31 PM 11/26/2006

 

I would like to thank a few people also:

Thomas Tapley, Wes McDade, Kevin Vinson,Tyler Garrard, Ty Hubert, Michael Coleman, Shane Turner, David Marks, AB, Robby Manly, Henry Hill, Michael Peter and Jessica Fountain (NOPI Chic Champion) - These people all went to events or helped me when I got there. Most of them have spent long hours helping me work on the car also.

Dave Zientara for his help in Ohio

Jason Hunt, Charlie Schafer, Dan, and Julie for all there help. That team really defines sportsmanship. Congrats on the championship.

Tex Blackwell and Team BRE. Good luck on your upcoming year.

Team AAP Motorsports, thanks for the advice.

Sam Madavi, one of the best tuners with Hondata

Todd Griffen of Motorsports Engineering for fabrication help

Jay Poss of J and J Machine for the machine work and chassis help

Chuck Downing

Keith and Aaron of Pure Tuning, Toledo Ohio

Chris and Melissa of Competition Clutch-great support!!

Sean and Nick of JE Pistons

Frank at The Driveshaft Shop

Hondata

The Other Guys Paint and Body Shop

Frank at Baldwin Trophies and Awards

Bobby Evans, Glen Woods, and the entire NDRA staff

Last but not least, my family for all their love and support this year (sorry about running the car at 11:30 pm )

Thanks to all these people.






Modified by jjspec at 3:01 PM 11/1/2006

 

Laskey racing
Hondata
Cp pistons
Drive shaft shop
supertech
Benson
Rc injection
portflow
M&H tires
Bdl industries
Ips for the (Dc2 project)

Without your supports, this will not be possible





Looking forward for 07 season. I wish everyone have a safe and prosper 07 season!!!!!!

 

well, i was gonna wait till the end of the season as we still have a couple more venues to finish but ill just get started.....

its been a really long and narrow road with everything in between, and it was never easy but here goes....

first off, i cant thank you guys enough for all your support and good words during my build, this is what kept me going on the project that turned into a big drama filled thorn in my *** race car....Honda-tech and all my fellow competitors, i cant thank you guys enough, we are truly a class of our own, support, hospitality, and friendship, couldn't ask for anything more....

my sponsors, what can i say i am truly blessed with great friends and support from you guys, if i forget someone just let me know ill fix it, i have a long list to fill so here goes.

American Wholesale Finance Inc. you guys are my best friends and my right hand... we taught each other so much and been through the ups and downs of our teenage years, you guys have supported this cause since day one and never let me down, i have the best on my side and i thank you soooo much that you do what you guys do. now we need to get some contracts signed for 08
Rota Wheels Kim i first off would say that you are one of the greatest guys to deal with as i felt so comfortable with you and felt more obligated then forced into doing anything... thank you support, it is second to none, and customer service is top notch. i look forward to 2007 and i will try my best!!
RPS Clutches what can i say, you guys have known me since i was a little kid so i just wanted to thank you for all your product support and great friendship. did you guys know its almost been 10 years ! thank you so much !
Orme Bros Inc.you guys are a bunch of knuckle heads! except your dad Jim hes cool! lol j/k i just would like to thank you guys for all your friendship and support, and giving me everything i never thought existed in a fitting, i swore if there is something in this world that needs a fitting or hose these guys can make it. 40 some odd years and the oldest business running in northridge ever, that just tells you these guys are the best thank you.
Blox Racingmike, Devin you guys are so awesome, been in the game since day one, and have so much knowledge of the sport, amazing group of guys, the cams work awesome and gave me another 80 hp + great work! and the guages are tight too! thank guys ill see you soon
Camp1320.comhe is the man to go to if you are ever in need... thank you tom for all the support and love. i know we butt heads but you know i don't get along with Koreans!lol i love you and will always support you no matter how bad it gets, great prices and great customer service, you cant get any better... thanks
JG Fabricationsjames, i always believed in you when alot of guys were trying to vere me to another brand, you stood by everything you said and the quality of your products to me is the best hands down. i enjoy talking with you and all the weird questions that i have!lol your support and friendship is the best! thanks you
Team Madness Crewi love you guys, always can cheer me up and make me laugh at the toughest times! you guys helped me so much i cant even repay you for all the years! thanks guys i wouldnt want any other crew to roll with
Deeds Performancejosh thanks for all the late night welding and fabbing all the parts to get my car rolling, i couldn't of got the car up with out ya, thank you i owe ya man
Innovative Mountsthank you for all the support and innovative products! i love them thanks guys
Exospeed Race Engineswill , Roy you guys are my guardian angels, i never would have made this season with out ya! thanks for doing the impossible and hope to do many more things with you guys thank you!!
Stick it Graphicseric and john thanks for all your hard work and suck it easy ok...! lol j/k
Honda Factory Performancethank you for your product support for 06 thank you
chatsworth tiresbob for president thank you guys for all the funny jokes!
GNS dist.thank you for all the product support gary and friendship, when we going back to havasu? thanks man for all your support
Drive Shaft Shopyou make the immpossible possible! thank you for the products that last!
Hondatathank you for the support

 

I just want to thank Rick Everly (nonvtecallmotor on here) for getting me from 13.9 to 10.4 this year. Not only did he tune my car to make some sick power and probably the fastest stock sleeve B16 out there, but also did the impossible and taught me how to drive it like it should be driven. Thanks Rick you da man

 

i would like to thank everyone that has help me with the car.

george from orlando powerline

jimmy jones for all the help at the events

micheal peters and jessica fountain for all the help at the events

all the guys with smp racing for all the help at the events.

my brother (bruce)

nbs race cars for the cage and misc. fabrication on the car.

kris nelson from nelson competition inc. for a motor that held up to alot of passes.

lois soto jr. for all his help behind the scene.

james innes at mazworx for getting the parts i needed for the car.

darn at titan motorsports for all the tuning with the car.

and if i'm forgetting any body i'm truly sorry, but thank you to everyone again. and i hope to see everyone next year. good luck during the off season.

 

i'd like to thank:

-Endyn, their parts and motor spec combination kept our sportsman Street Stock car Very competitive for a b-series, Larry's parts, headwork and combination has proven that they know what they're talking about.

-Ryan Machine in Matawan, NJ Best in town !!!

-DRTRacing.com for the tuning and dynotime to get the car competitive - Ralphy is a very experienced tuner

-Clutchmasters - what an awesome clutch, their twindisc held up with all the abuse and reliability with no problems ... it kept the tranny issues to a very minimum.

-IPS - helped us to wrapup our k-series project ... and so far from street tuning lol, its a beast

-Mazworks and VSRacing - helped us get some k-series parts for our k-project, always on call to help locate parts and good price-break

- Z10Motorsports - their traction bars def help keep those street tires planted ... awesome product and AEBS block sleeving

 

this was a decent freshman year for me, going from a 250-300 whp street car to a 540+ different story. i had alot of help along the way either with parts/time/knowlege/transoprtation/or hospitality.

these are in no particular order. and there is no way i could have done this without help throughout the season.

James and Jay at car version 2 ( our shop )
for countless late nights, and overnight tuning sessions. plus for giving me a place to work on my car, and use what i know to help you out.

Josh, Dan, and Erik at first state motorsports
for letting me pick your brains, the hookup on the kit, and the great work on the exhaust. plus the deal on the ERL block that i still need to pay for.

Spence and Ronnie at rhodes custom auto
for the cage and belly pans. stellar job. and i will be back for the chute mount and maybe a fender roll.

Joe Simpson and Fred Ellis at Tempest Racing
for the knowlege i have gained from them, and staying up til the sun came up for the NDRA at MIR to get on the dyno. i think i have asked joe more questions than anyone this season.

Jame, Mark, and John from Maz.
for answering every question i threw at them, for the hookup on the cams, (cant wait to get a clean pull with them) and for just being good guys to race with / against. if we needed a tool from them, they were quick to help.

Dan Back and back motorsports
you and phil have taught me how to drive the car. gave me the knowlege i needed to get the car where it is today. and cindi for keeping our bellies full.

Chuck w ( i cant even pronounce your last name let alone spell it )
for being my pit bitch. everything i asked of you, you did he hee. thanks bro.

Luke Cannibal
he hee for towing my non truck having *** to the track in may.
JP for lending me his truck for the may atco race.

Hojda for the great videos from atco.

Miller and boostfed terry for hookups.

and for the friends i have met this season. this was the best summer i have ever had. it will be hard to out do next year.

underpressure02, vaporboy, vtecthis, dan, cindi, phil, miller, kory, terry, racer stev, dennis, speediva, sheldon, dturbocivic, 2.0coupe, turbo-charged, donetoperfection, big tom, the maz crew, fmunk, rado, steve jung, felix medena, craig nyce, tim 11 sec civ, jamaican dave, buddy, joe's pop, matt with the supra, arron abomb, brian, arturbo, benzo, bart, wheelie will, and i know there is more. PM me please if i have forgotten.

 

i envy you guys down there....

we dont have a big scene at all up here.... its awesome to see soo many boosted hondas at any specific race.... theres usually only a couple big gunners up here

hopefully this season will make next year take off!

 

Thank You's To the following for the Hookups and Support:

Elton - Raceline
John - M&H
Tom - Camp1320
Bisi & Hedi - Bisimoto Engineering

the Team Siknezz Crew for their mad support and always down to roll for the events.

My husband, Fernie, who i constantly thank in the threads for being there always, and getting me to build my car... and to my little angels that understand that mommy is away racing.... I love you guys....




HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE.... See yah in 2007

 

this thread got me all sentimental...

special thanks to:

<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Camp1320 Motorsports</FONT></FONT> - Tom is my guardian angel. what can i say. he's backed me from day 1. i love u brother.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">AutoLink Motorworks</FONT></FONT> - Kevin for his relentless love and support in me. for all his help in getting my **** ready.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Whitfield Racing</FONT></FONT> - chris for awsome tuning.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Golden Eagle</FONT></FONT> - Robert and Vince u guys are the ****. RIP Ted u are missed dearly.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Ak1 Motorsports</FONT></FONT> - rodell always there to help me.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Jspek</FONT></FONT> - all of the support in that forum. thanks
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">JDM ****</FONT></FONT> - dave thanks
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Stick-it graphics</FONT></FONT> (818) 341-1643 - eric and john, for saving me last minute all the damn time.
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Abstraxx skateboards</FONT></FONT> - hottest clothes out there
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Tru Wheel</FONT></FONT> - best wheel repair company in the business
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Wheel Choice</FONT></FONT> - bringing in high quality wheels
<FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="red">Abunai Racing</FONT></FONT> - lastly, my vision