E-Town Day
Honda Mitsu
In other East Coast news, Englishtown Raceway threw down a strong response to the West Coast's Eibach Honda meet and Mitsubishi Owner's Day (profiled in the Sept and Nov '09 issues) with its own enthusiast-organized Honda Day (presented by V Race Works and Import DPS) and Mitsubishi Day (AKA "The Showdown", presented by Exedy-coverage coming next month). A meet of the East Coast's cleanest this certainly was, along with a judged car show and heads-up drag racing in multiple classes (with bounties paid by Import DPS, V Race Works, The Driveshaft Shop, NYCE1S.com, Hondata, Speed Theory, Yosolo Racing, and Certified Racing), Ruckus mayhem, models, and-true to East Coast street form-plenty of hustlin' on the side! When the tire smoke had cleared, it was Cory Chaput of Glen Burnie, MD, atop the Sport FWD bracket, and Albert Marty of Stony Point, NY, in All-Motor. Complete coverage available at importtuner.com
www.etownraceway.com
AMS Child Found!
Die-hard fans of cross-country "bull runs" should be familiar with the Fireball Run: The Race to Recover America's Missing Children. Assigning one missing child's information to each competing car, the Fireball Run challenges each team to distribute the most missing-children flyers across the country. When Chicago-based EVO tuning masters AMS (Fireball team #85) were assigned to represent RJ Myers, a six-year-old girl from NY who went missing almost three years ago, they took their responsibilities a step further, affixing her information not only to their Fireball car, but to all of their race cars, posting it on their site, and distributing it in their showroom for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. Good news-RJ was recently found in good health, living on the streets, 3,000 miles from home. For the AMS crew, it's on to the next kid: six-year-old Chloe Comb-Rivas (pictured here). Visit below to help.
www.amsperformance.com
www.fireballrun.com
2009 Gran Turismo Awards
For the seventh year in a row, the Gran Turismo Awards is returning to SEMA 2009 in search of the hottest car from five different categories. For SEMA-headed cars of the tuning flavor, you'll be gunning for the Best Japanese Import class. If you win, your car will go head-to-head against the four other category winners where Kazunori Yamauchi, the creator of Gran Turismo, will pick the ultimate Best in Show that will be immortalized in the next GT game. And here you thought you'd have to make a sex tape with Paris Hilton to become famous.
To enter, submit the make and model of your car, pictures and modification list, and the SEMA booth number to rides@importtuner.com
By The Numbers
2356
The total number of man-hours logged in the three-month build of the Boso S15 cover car, by the Garage Boso crew.
Import Tuner
STI vs. EVO Shootout
Last Call!
If you're flipping through this at the newsstand, you've got about a month until Import Tuner's own STI vs. EVO Shootout, presented by Continental Tire, on November 10th. Two years running, the EVOs have held it down around the Buttonwillow circuit, but not without some very heated competition from the STIs-will we see an upset this year, or the continued reign of the Mitsu champs? To enlist your services, send driver bios, vehicle proposals and build-a-bears to Elliott Moran (elliott.moran@sorc.com) and await a call-back. Bonus: All selected competitors will be given a free set of ExtremeContact DW tires for the event, courtesy of Continental!
www.continentaltire.com
Tricks Of The Trade
Citrus-ize Your Engine
When it's time to clean-up your engine or drivetrain, it's time to bust out a cleaner with a little more kick. Zep's Heavy-Duty Citrus Degreaser is a citrus-based cleaner that dissolves heavy soiling from many surfaces including engines, machinery and wheels, and rinses easily without leaving unwanted alkaline residues. Available in concentrated bottles, the orange, non-petroleum-based cleaner sells at Home Depot for twelve bucks a bottle. A wire brush might also be another solid investment for the tough chores-like ours pictured here.
By Brian Chin
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