So. . . Drift Atlanta.

[TRAY_STi]

Drifters were a lot better this year. Samuel Whipped ass, The GTO was Tight, Car show was weak.

[4dmin]

^ ya car show was lame, what 50 cars maybe? GTO, Mustangs, Viper = HOT

[TRAY_STi]

The nicest cars there were the usual eci &team allstar cars, and Purple Godzillas Skyline.

[Cliff]

not even 50 cars...maybe 30....WHO SAW THE BUG ZAPPER BETWEEN 8:30-10 DOWN BY THE FENCE!!!!! WOOOHOOOOO

[The Yousef]

yeah the drifting this year was amazing...especially the viper vs corrolla heat (which they did over like 4 times)...i still can't believe how approachable the drivers are....i had like a 15 minute conversation with rhys millen...the car show kinda sucked...but overall i had a blast!

yousef

[TRAY_STi]

Next year I'm renting a golf cart. lol

[terminus2k]

does anyone think theres a conspiracy for the viper to win? i mean, the corolla was doing well, especially since it had 1/4th of the power of the viper. it sure was holding his own..and all of a sudden ends up with an overheating problem

[TRAY_STi]

The corolla is an old car. I believe it. The AE86 did well, but the Viper OWN3D all!

[Cliff]

yea and everyone saw how well chevy held it down....and to go back to when everyone used to hate that they were letting american cars into japanese drifting...i'm glad they did cause the el camino, gto, viper, and mustangs made the whole thing alot more interesting and fun to me

[SLOWR/T]

Quote "Samuel Whipped ass"

Quote "but the Viper OWN3D all!"

no sammuel didnt whip ass and the viper didnt own all. he won by DEFAULT. yes hes a real good driver but to advance cause a car "overheaded" come on. the 86 kicked ass and should have won if they judged it and not said "one more time". there were runs closer than them two that they advanced. but thats IMO

[TRAY_STi]

ohwell, he won the rest of the competition. So i guess he doesn't suck too bad.

[down_shift]

I think he has won all but 1 of the Formula D events.

[Buford®]

Oh well.

[5thgcelica]

yesterday was cool as hell. and id have to say the gto, mustangs, vipers and the el camino were the hottest. was some awesome shit.

they had better bring it back next year.

[Julio]

The whole event was wack.... hopefully the event will come back.. Judging by the attendance, chances are this event might not come back, wich sucks. Thanks GA.

[SLOWR/T]

Quote "So i guess he doesn't suck too bad."

nobody said anything about him sucking. hes a great driver but i feel he won by default. thats just me and some other people i know

[Subleg4]

Viper Rules Period! Cant be beat!!

[josh nixon]

car show was terrible! glad i did NOT waste my $53.50 to enter!!!

[Allstar3.8T]

car show was terrible! glad i did NOT waste my $53.50 to enter!!!
Too few people showing, too much time, and too far from everywhere else stuff happened. In the end, a car w/ one body mod and a very undetailed engine won BOS, and there were 2 civics that should beat that car to a pulp on a score sheet.

[Julio]

who got BOS ?

[Cliff]

the drift crowde was awesome as far as that goes...there tons of people there to watch and you could tell from how many cars were spread everywhere...but the show...wtf that was nuts....if anything that's what killed the whole event....and Greg that was the first time i have seen your car in person and WOW that thing is beautiful...very nice....

[The Yousef]

The whole event was wack.... hopefully the event will come back.. Judging by the attendance, chances are this event might not come back, wich sucks. Thanks GA.


it looked like, to me at least, the same amount of people (or even more) showed up compared to last year....granted friday there wasn't many people at all...but saturday it was seemed pretty filled to me....

bear in mind...i'm not the best judge of crowd capacity :(

[Allstar3.8T]

and Greg that was the first time i have seen your car in person and WOW that thing is beautiful...very nice....
Thanks alot , its a nice daily driver IMO, barely a show vehicle.

Julio, the Tsunami/Kicker mustang won BOS. Great paint but no graphics in his jambs...they just stop (one body mod w/ the tail light sliding out) and a few polished engine pieces, (Not like Jeff and especially Tim w/ swap, and turbo, and polish etc etc) and its dash was awesome, but they gave Jeff best interior. So what made it the Best? We thought it was Jeff or Tim for sure. They typically like more flash than subtle, so we thought we had a better than 50% chance.... We were wrong.

[Julio]

damn, that sucks... Maybe the Circuit City booth gave him an edge.

[topsecret2JZ]

haha i saw the zapper....

[5thgcelica]

haha i saw the zapper....


i saw you're car. looks clean man. good job

[josh nixon]

yeah, like always, judging was off! jamel beat that mustang in texas, next week lost to it. tim beats that mustang at every show.....weirdness!

[4dmin]

^ look who the sponsor was and what booth he was in... what do you expect? politics...

[Big Rick]

the american cars did very good b/c of the gay ass track. that up hill push to to much for most of the jap cars. where they more turns and none of that uphill shit it would have been a different story.

[Big Rick]

they the show suxed, startin to be alot more go then show now adays

[Allstar3.8T]

Yeah Josh, Jeff had never lost to that car til now. (in like 5-6 shows) Jeff knew it was him or Tim, once the Honda class was called we thought he was good, until he got best interior, then we all were prepared for it. If there was no $1,000 for BOS, I wouldnt even made a comment in reply on here, but we stayed up all night to try to win the $$ ... and if we knew this would have been comin, we'd not been puttin ALL the glass in Jeffs car at 10:30 Fri eve.
Oh well, We will still return in Oct, and give them NO excuses... except possibly someone else really is better.

[NOTSOJDM]

Some pics from sat.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Mazdaturbopimp/4ce2a9ba.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Mazdaturbopimp/DriftATL040.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Mazdaturbopimp/DriftATL041.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/Mazdaturbopimp/DriftATL017.jpg

[atlantamx3]

Aww man- they had a FD RX-7 there this year??

Damn them! It should have been there last year when I was there!

Grrrr...

[JITB]

So i guesst he domestics are still dominating...lol

[Cliff]

the fd has an SR20 in it....also the judging ended at the bottom of the hill so none of the uphill mattered?

[QuickBrick]

Greg did NCCA judge the show again this year?

Tom

[Silvernbluepearl]

no they did not

[Cliff]

mmmmmmmmmmmm cake

[Jaimecbr900]

The show part was weak. The drifting was good.

Here's a couple of my pics. I have few more over on seloc. I have a couple on someone's bike that will get the leghumpers going, but I won't post those until he gives me permission. He knows who "he" is..... ;)

[Cliff]

jamie...that was me...remember...s/c or turbo

[Jaimecbr900]

jamie...that was me...remember...s/c or turbo

Lost me there bud....?????

[Cliff]

ya caught us

[Cliff]

you were in your car leaving after the car show...some fool ran up to your window....

[Jaimecbr900]

you were in your car leaving after the car show...some fool ran up to your window....

Ohhh, you mean right at the top of the hill just before the gate? I remember. I was gonna jump on it like you asked, but Hall County was at the gate. It would've been ugly..... ;)

[HiPSI]

the american cars did very good b/c of the gay ass track. that up hill push to to much for most of the jap cars. where they more turns and none of that uphill shit it would have been a different story.


buahahaha... funniest thing i've read in a while. most of the jap cars you see out there are 400+whp. that's more than enough power to do the uphill section.

[RiceBoy]

buahahaha... funniest thing i've read in a while. most of the jap cars you see out there are 400+whp. that's more than enough power to do the uphill section.


Yes, but you forgot to put the "torque" into the equation.

[green91]

i thought the drifting was very good but i was less than impressed with the car show... the circuit city mobile display rocked!

i sat on the opposite side of the track from cliff and i was getting rubber in my eyes.. the fence was so close to the outside of the horse shoe it was awesome.

[5thgcelica]

i thought the drifting was very good but i was less than impressed with the car show... the circuit city mobile display rocked!

i sat on the opposite side of the track from cliff and i was getting rubber in my eyes.. the fence was so close to the outside of the horse shoe it was awesome.



^^^ word. i went down there for the tandum drifting. it was the shit.

[WINDSOR]

drifting sucks ;)

[HiPSI]

drifting sucks ;)


but there were mustangs there... and pretty kickass ones at that. JR's Team Falken mustang was the meanest thing out there, but they were having heat issues and belt slippage on the supercharger so it didn't run much. but hot damn when he did get out there that thing smoked the hell out of some tires like no other.

[The Yousef]

but there were mustangs there... and pretty kickass ones at that. JR's Team Falken mustang was the meanest thing out there, but they were having heat issues and belt slippage on the supercharger so it didn't run much. but hot damn when he did get out there that thing smoked the hell out of some tires like no other.


that Falken g35 did some major smokage too.... :goodjob:

[Nittanys1]

yeah the g35 put down alot of smoke...i got some vids of the trial runs but have no place to upload them

[Big Rick]

buahahaha... funniest thing i've read in a while. most of the jap cars you see out there are 400+whp. that's more than enough power to do the uphill section.

sorry bro, i'm not a drift expert, i'll leave that up to u?

but i still think power was a big part of it, that and skills maybe? i dunno, just seem like the american cars where doing alot better. and not most of those cars were, maybe not even 1/4 of them were. enjuku is pushing 328 on the torque side. no need to even talk about there whp.

dones't take 400+ hp to drift a car, these cars were not ready for this up hill.

[HiPSI]

sorry bro, i'm not a drift expert, i'll leave that up to u?


if you wish... i was just pointing out that you say they were underpowered, but if you saw a dyno chart from 99% of them you'd say "DAMN". i was talking to Calvin Wan for a bit and they said that the G35 was making too much power and that they were going to turn the boost down. at the time it was estimated by the crew guys to be ~460rwhp. even after they toned it down he was still linking the horseshoe exit all the way down to 10b. Dai's car (the guy that got 2nd place) was estimated to be around 350whp and he was doing the same.


now, i do believe the guys like Taka that choose to drive lower powered cars do tend to be kickass drivers, but you can't take anything away from Sam or Rhys because of the cars they drive. more power doesn't cover up shitty driving, it accentuates it more than you'd believe.

[HiPSI]

but i still think power was a big part of it, that and skills maybe?


skills definitely... Millen and Hubinette have both been pro drivers for years and years. most of these other guys are basically newbies to pro driving on any level.

[Big Rick]

skills definitely... Millen and Hubinette have both been pro drivers for years and years. most of these other guys are basically newbies to pro driving on any level.

i hear ya bro, but i don't see what was so funny about my statement. we just named a few that didn't have much problem runnin the track, most of the rest did. the other cars that had enough power just didn't have the best drivers behind the wheel. but yes i do agree sometimes to much power is not the best thing either. :)

[HiPSI]

i hear ya bro, but i don't see what was so funny about my statement

it just sounded a lot like the complaints from last year about hubinette driving a viper and such. that was the argument on everyone's minds last year when all was said and done... did he win because he's a good driver or because of power advantage? i was apparently the only person that went to the event that thought he had major skill to keep that car precise, that's all ;).

[5thgcelica]

taka was freaking owning that viper for awhile there.

that was the best tandum ive seen.

[Big Rick]

it just sounded a lot like the complaints from last year about hubinette driving a viper and such. that was the argument on everyone's minds last year when all was said and done... did he win because he's a good driver or because of power advantage? i was apparently the only person that went to the event that thought he had major skill to keep that car precise, that's all ;).

i agree with u on that, thats like sayin Rhys Millen can't drive, when we all know he is 1 of the best drivers out there. i don't think u can get any better then to have a great driver in a great car. but sayin sam is doing all the work would be wrong too. he has a great car to back his skills. but i agree with u on that, takes skills to drive the viper, not anyone can do it.

[SLOWR/T]

Quote "the fd has an SR20 in it"

sorry bud not this one. it had the 13B-REW

[SLOWR/T]

this one is though. total waste of an FD if you ask me

[Cliff]

what! the one that says "rotary powered" was rotary powered!??!?!?! no way!!!!!!! ummm ok

[Jaimecbr900]

this one is though. total waste of an FD if you ask me


Dude, that is a pimp as pic.....Who took that?????? ;) :D