Thursday morning we really got things off the ground. For the 12th straight year we took over the rollers at Silver State Motorsports. Mike, Mikey, and the crew were getting the Supras in and out as quickly as possible. We had some trouble getting people to show up on time and that made it impossible to get any of the day of the dyno signups. We did get all of the people through that pre-registered. Please note that pre-registration guaranteed those people time on the rollers.
As we moved through the morning some of the big dawgs started trickling in and after lunch we kicked the dyno up a notch or two with the MkIII Smackdown. To make things fair we drew names out of a hat to determine the final run order.
Up first was Roy Cruz with his 7M-GTE powered 84 dropping a very nice 609.39 whp.
Jeff Wilson came in with his 2JZ-GTE 92 and upped the bar to 785.64.
Shawn Cassady from WAY up in Mass strapped his 7M-GTE powered 87 down next and kicked out 637.10.
Running a bit late all weekend (sorry... had to add that part), we ran Darian Wilcox at the end of the day so he could get his numbers for the Smackdown. His 2JZ-GTE powered 89 gave us a very solid 678.79.
I am also VERY pleased to announce that Turbo Tony's record was not only broken... the pieces were picked up, smashed on the ground again, and then mashed into dust with a smokey 5-minute burnout! Way to go Rey!
It was now time for some of the craziest dyno runs I have ever seen. The High Roller Series Participants came out swinging... all hoping to take home the top spot for the dyno trophies and also competing for points in the High Roller Series.
We again drew names out of the hat to determine the final run order for the day.
Up first was Kean Wang and the red/black Boostlogic race car. Getting the crowd fired up and ready for more their 93 crested the 1000hp mark with 1087.15 whp.
We moved on to SWs 95. Even with the quick build time this Supra was AMAZING! And then they popped the hood. A few years ago the dyno was topped out at 1200whp. After some upgrades we proved last year that the dyno would read higher but just how high? According to all of the calculations it was supposed to be 1800.
SW topped out the rollers at 1500+whp. I guess the Silver State Motorsports guys are going to have to go back and make a few more changes for next year.
Saad Saad finally got signed up for the HRS and was up next in his 94 and pulled a solid 1128.68.
The 2JZ-GTE powered 89 from Vijay Ramkisoon and the guys at Big Daddy Performance Center down in Fort Lauderdale Florida I have to say this part again DOWN IN FORT LAUDERDALE FLORIDA strapped down for a run of 1336.57. Did I mention that they came in from Fort Lauderdale Florida?
Jerry Reyes was up next and pulled a clean 790.04 out of his 97.
Coming out of retirement at the LAST FREAKIN SECOND (my cell phone was ringing off the hook as I was driving down from Portland to Las Vegas on 9/27 with people calling to tell me the news) Ryan Woon went all in and became the second Supra of the day to top out the rollers at 1500+ whp.
Cody Phillips was our final HRS participant to be strapped down and without the funny gas hit a rockin 1256.18.
Official Dyno Challenge Results:
NA Unlimited Alex Perez 6M-GE 163.47whp 177.52 Tq
7M-GTE Mild Dave Shepherd 401.08 whp 429.12 Tq
2JZ-GTE Mild Stu Hagen 462.99 whp 423.52 Tq
7M-GTE Wild Shawn Cassady 637.10 whp 452.66 Tq
1JZ-GTE Wild Erik Lam 510.85 whp 435.17 Tq
2JZ-GTE Wild Cody Phillips 1256.18 whp
7M-GTE Unlimited Rey Cruz 990.02 whp 728.34 Tq
2JZ-GTE Unlimited Ryan Woon 1500+ whp
A huge thanks goes to Bob Sully for being our Dyno Challenge Coordinator again this year. With Bob keeping us on track, I was able to hand out registration packets and sell T-shirts.
