Went to the track yesterday to work on the Maverick. They were having an import faceoff. Drag racing and car show, sound off and a bunch of other stuff. I was one row of pits away from all the stuff going on. I had a lot of people come over asking me what kind of car it was. I kept telling everyone it was a Canadian Ford Maverick, so it was an import. They thought that was cool. They were disappointed when I told them I wasn't going to race it. The guy pitted next to me was working on his also. 59 Ford Anglia with a 355 chevy, dynoed at 630 HP.
I went to one of those import shows ONCE out at Speedworld. It was back when I had my 5.0 Mustang. they let everybody in and race it was just geared toward the import crowd. I'll never do that again. A bunch of inconsiderate people walking allover in your way to and from the staging lanes, and the noise from all the stereos and silly exhaust systems was enough to make me want to wear my helmet even when not racing.
I hear you there. As much as i appreciate the idea of young kids getting into drag racing i dont like them taking up 10 minutes of time to make a short little run while all the real cars are sitting in the staging lanes. If you want to run Jr. dragsters, make a Jr Drag strip. that way you can have your own finish line everything to scale and not be in the way. or have dedicated time for jr. dragsters.
Went to one import day and that was it for me. Its pretty much everything I cant stand all in one place. It was kind of funny actually. It was like some Anti-Darren show. Ignorant, wanna be bad attitude punks everywhere.
Well, everybody that came over and looked at my car was very nice and interested in it. Some even took pictures. I never went over to the import stuff. Since Ruth was working at the track I just went down to work on the car. I put a mew fuel pump on and new slicks also. Just getting ready for this weeks racing on Saturday and Sunday, Last 2 weeks down there I blew a freeze plug, then lost the fuel pump and noticed cords starting to show on the skicks.
I Have a 82 Ford Escort that I race in Stock Eliminator. I used to go to the Import/Sport Compact races. It was easy Money. Most of them didn't understand the concept of it. The questions they always asked when the car when in the 14's was What size Turbo or How much Nitrous I was using. I kept telling them I do it the old fashioned way. Hard work. And then really blew their Mind when you open the hood and it's all Stock equipment. The All Motor guys got it but the turbo guys just didn't understand.
The problem with import tuners is there is one great one, then for that single one there's a hundred bad one's. I love import's and i'm slowly becoming an expert on a few honda engine's. Which are pretty marvelous. For being twenty+ years old they are overbuilt from the factory. Stuff like a forged crank that will handle anything, even a 8 second car. The heads flow like crazy with no port work like 277cfm@.400. Then guys will actually put a V8 sized turbo and the little 1.6 engine will actually spool it to make 600 wheel horse power.
