Matt Sheppard

I was there on Saturday as well. I was disguised in a black '86 RUF 930 that my friend Glenn (white shirt) drove there in. He works for Precision Motion which ran tech support in the pits and a customer wanted him to bring it to troll for buyers (like the guy in black). At $39K, it doesn't really perform better than my 2.7 that costs about a third of that, but it IS a 911 after all, right . . .

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Here is a pic of the Strasse car, very well prepared BTW

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I did see (and hear. . .) the Huntley car. Derrick, were those your two white cars - an S2 w/ sport classic wheels and a turbo? Nice. How did your car do against the Strasse car and the Tim Commenau 924S with the Andereson engine? They were GT4S too were they not?

There were a lot of displays of gratouitous wealth, including more than a few sets of these $17,000 brakes on street cars:

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All I can say is that the sound of a fully race prepped 996/993 is . . . stunning. It speaks to my blood more than anything I saw or experienced that day. That said, racing in this arena is EXPENSIVE.

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Very expensive: this is a 993 based car that had an early day. I beleive that is at least a new case, head, piston, a Pauter rod, some Raceware studs and perhaps a new crank. And you thought YOU were having a bad day!

The event last year was better in my opinion. I really missed the Swap Meet and the crowd of regulars it brings out. They opened to door to a very different vibe by coupling it with the Grand AM race. Between the Lexus club people and all the high $$ shop sponsored snobs, I would have opted for a last year repeat rather than watching checkbook racing and the So Cal wealthy strut in front of each other. $30 admission and $5 cup of beer? Are you listening San Diego PCA? Is this what it's going to be about in the future? Is this what it takes to pay for the track for a weekend?

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SANDOVAL

Matt- I agree... didn't the turn out last year feel 10X greater... I remember the parking lot being filled with P-cars. My feeling last year is that this has the formula of being the biggest West Coast event. Instead they took the aspects that attract the general public. It was kind of like German autofest meets Race track... this year they ruined it! THE VENDORS SUCKED!... they were giving out modified asian car posters with skanky chicks on them too... I just said NO!

Derrek Khajavi

Our customer and the driver of the Strassa car are good friends and have it out for each other every time they race. The Strassa driver is VERY talanted behind the wheel. The car was slower than ours but he out drove our customer hands down. We finished right behind him in 3rd place. I didn't see the other Anderson car (Tim's) on the track for the club race? That car is pretty out-gunned next to the Strassa car and ours though since it is relatively stock. The Yellow Anderson car was retired on Friday after some brief head to head with our car which looked like we were going to have some fun, too bad it broke.

M758

How many 944 NA where racing?
Spec cars?
How many in 4S?

Should have been at least two from Az (Yellow #76 & gray #21)

Know the specs on this Strasse car?

Derrek Khajavi

There were 20 944 and 944 Turbo guys running the weekend. There were 5 or so 4S cars. The Strasse car is a 2.7-2.8 high compression motor with Carrilo rods, prepped crank, full suspension etc... More driver than car though.

Matt Sheppard

Sandoval

Intreresting. I didn't know if anybody would agree w/ me on that. It just felt like the last one was the event of the year and this one felt like it was taken over by another . . . force. Yes, the vendors did really offer very little except models and 911 tuning parts. No Pelican, no Performance Prod., no love. . . That and they set them up on this blighted grass-area kinda far from the grandstands. My guess is that they just charged more this year for vendor presence and it scared the others off because I KNOW that Pelican and Perf. did pretty big business last year and even got some of my $$.

Chris Riha is a neat guy isn't he. Went w/ him to the Ventura event last year.

Also bad news - I heard Steve R. is giving up racing. I asked one of the 951 racers if he was there and he said he heard 4 months ago that he was selling his car and not racing. He's kinda a hero to me and I was sad to hear that news. No Technodyne this year either that I could tell, maybe just no 944's.

Derrek: I should have said hi, but you seemed busy when I passed your stall. Congrats on your strong finish. I did see what I think was Tim's dad Tom come by his stall and mentioned that he (Tim) was not happy w/ it for some reason - not specific. It was a black 924S.

There were 2 marked 944spec cars that I saw in the pits durring the 250 enduro, but no teams about to talk to. I took notes and pictures for roll-bar designs from them

It wasn't a bad way to spend 1/2 a day by any means, but I was less of a Porsche event than last year.

rcldesign

I have an ***-load of photos of Derrek's customer's car. Give me a few minutes to scan them in and I'll post 'em. The long distance ones sucked since there wasn't enough light, but the closeups are nice...

SANDOVAL

No I Felt the excitment last year this year it was just not the same...

rcldesign

As promised... pictures of the Huntley Racing built 2.8L

Some shots of the car...

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And the most important pic of them all... the coolest sponsor logo... not that I'm biased, or anything...

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