theblue

YAY! I have now completed my first ever car show.

For those who can't read , here is the link for the photos: http://www.rit.edu/~aab8398/car/webIMPORTFEST/index.htm

I was invited by all the toronto guys to enter importfest as a club and at first I said no because I really didn't think that my car was good enough. After lots of emails I agreed because I thought it would just be fun.

Friday.

I leave Rochester, NY at 10AM and head towards toronto to stop at Grant(5litrekiller)'s place to wash and detail out cars. I find out that he had just paid for a professional job while I was covered in mud from when I got stuck in at school (create your own parking space day ) We got our cars back to his place and he details the inside while I went to town on my exterior. After a while, mine looked good, but his looked great (custom black paint with gold flakes looks amazing and is hard to see in the photos).

Then we went to the FAMOUS budget exhaust (which is only a small two bay garage deal) and Grant picked up a rear sway bar. I really was expecting some huge custom car shop like in F&F, but it was very simple.

Then we drove to downtown and Grant(#2) [not a maxima.org member] arrived with his NA SMX maxima. We had time to kill so we walked around T.O. and went to eat. Eugene (ohboyia <- wrong spelling) picked up his 2002 HIDs that I transported from the US and we all talked cars etc for a while. After this the two grants and I (3 black maximas) drove around T.O. for a while then headed to the show.

Midnight (start of saturday).

We arrive outside the Toronto Skydome and were placed in a parking lot outside with all the other modded cars. They were telling people that you would not be able to go inside unless you had LESS than 1/4 of a tank of gas. Grant (5litrekiller had just filled up). Some people were reving their engines in an attempt to kill off gas (not was smart). Then Daniel arrived with his 2000 SE 7.5psi stillen V1 supercharged, Spoilers etc bodykit (and lots more) car and all the maximas were there with the exception of Nathan. We were going to have 4 black maximas and one white SC. We had to wait in the parking lot until atleast 3am. We ended up just going in with all the gas and they never checked. We spent the next 2-3 hours detailing our cars and checking out what all the other cars were doing.

6 - 10 AM - Sleep back at grant #2's place.

11AM The Show.

The show was great... there were tons of people walking around checking out all of our cars and I had a lot of questions about my interior. The two grants where both blasting their systems and once in a while we would fire up one of the maximas and rev a little (which got us in trouble)

-- Grant (5litre) reving his duals exhaust would bring 50 people over
-- Daniel's Blow off valve would bring even more
-- Mine stopped my battery from going dead so that I could run my neons.

4AM The Street Racing

Grant #2 and I went to his suburb of T.O. because he had some friends who needed to see my car. We went to a deserted industrial road and found the others. Every time I asked if somebody wanted to race a maxima - "A maxima - well ok then" (thinking I was a joke)

Integra Type R (mild mods) - Close but i won 2 of 3 races (missed a gear)

Newer prelude (heavy mods) - very close but I won (they were getting ****ed)

Corrado G60 - Didn't have time to race.
Tiberon (heavy, heavy mods) - no time to race
and several others.

OK I have had no sleep so I'm going to crash - enjoy the pics and throw out some questions if you have any

[url]http://www.rit.edu/~aab8398/car/webIMPORTFEST/index.htm[url]

NYCe MaXiMa

iTrader: (9)

sounds like fun.. I'd like to see more pics though

LMAO @ people revving their engines to kill gas.

PhatGuy

Awesome post!!! Hehehe those Toronto guys brought you in as a ringer to represent the Maxima's!

ohboiya

iTrader: (3)

Aaron,

Were these guys u raced the 3 silver amigos (friends of Grant)?



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theblue

yeah.. and you would have a good shot at them if you can get traction.

theblue

bump

PhatGuy

Got more pics of the Maxima's anyone? Blue were you the only one running your Max against those guys? No Max Vs Max? Any highway runs? Who won awards?

theblue

those are all the pics I took... I didn't have a chance to race any maximas but I didn't really care because I was there to lay the beatdown on the honduhs (which I have respect for, I just like a little competition)... they were taken to school and will never say "race a maxima?" in the same tone again.

PhatGuy

RedLightning

Nobody's mentioning the SR20DET powered 240SX$?#!??!% It's a Nissan, too... hehehe... and it (in its newly installed form) should be able to run at least a high 13...

- Ed.
"the geeky looking Chinese kid with glasses."

costcowholesale

iTrader: (12)

What do you mean by NA SMX max? what does SMX comes with/isn't it SCed? The only thing I saw was bumpin stereo in the back of his trunk and a big SMX sticker on the back

theblue

I got a picture of it in there...

theblue

this is what I'm trying to verify... as far as we can tell its a real SMX without an SC... but I want to know how to verify if it is or not... I guess I'll make a new post on the topic

DieselFX82

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! DUDE!!!!I SAW YOU ON FRIDAY. I was at the Argos game friday night and after I went outside and all the cars pulled up so I stayed to watch them and I saw like 3 4thgen Maximas pull up. LOL I was going to talk to you but then I went home because it was too late.

theblue

what! next time you better stop and say hello... there were so many SICK cars in that parking lot... evyerbody was reving and showing their ****... i did a long *** burnout across the whole thing...

ohboiya

iTrader: (3)

Still luv that polished look in your engine bay! sa-weet!

theblue

for 8 hours of work by hand it had better look good!

DieselFX82

Yeah I heard alot of tire sueeling that night. I was standing at gate #5 and a S2000 stops infront of me revs up and lights up his tires..Very nice. Next time your in town for sure I will stop by.

MaXXX

You shocked all of us, including the Max drivers, with your wins. Then again, so did the Hyundai!

Any tickets on the way back? Hope you put your regulator back and didn't e-brake your remaining turns!

theblue

nope... its all good... I'm no joke... racing requires practice... I really would have ruled those guys if I had known how to launch on the street the wayI do at the track... Their expressions were priceless

PhatGuy

A Hyundai beat a modded Type R? Dayum is that for real? Was he on the baby bottle with rice juice?

Weasel

iTrader: (2)

Maybe I'm missing something, but why would they not allow you in with lots of gas?

theblue

fire hazard

Lordrandall

iTrader: (4)

The SMX is just a Stillen tuned Maxima. The SC was an option.

Greg's2kGLE

Looked like fun!