I WON! I WON I WON!!! Can't believe it.

[Phat Euro Cab]

The Performance Therapy online car show photo contest!!! With a picture taken by my friend John Hendrick at a NASA HPDE road course event I attended at Sebring in June of this year. It was taken during one of the first sessions of the day and was the first time I'd ever run the famous 3.7 mile track used for the 12 hour races.

I know it was with one of my other cars but figured I'd share here anyway. Sometimes I wonder who wins all the contests.

Details of the contest were posted by Hotchkis and so I went to check out the pics people put up then thought "Hey! I should put a cool pic of my car up!" I'm always posting track pics to get others interested in taking their cars out. The contest said "post a pic of you enjoying your car". Well a day at an awesome world famous road course is the most fun for me in my car!

The Performance Therapy contest winners were just announced by John Hotchkis at SEMA and just posted online here Performance Therapy

Chad from Fletchers had called me yesterday from SEMA and said he'd heard my name over the loudspeakers and I'd been bouncing off the walls since waiting to see if it was really true!! I'd been at Fletchers Customs installing a dash I'd built for Tys car and then helping the guys all of last week. When they headed off toward Vegas I made the 8 hour trip back to south Florida from Chads shop in GA.

I thought maybe they were messin with me when they first called yesterday but it's true! I won!!!!

As the grand prize winner I'll be recieving a system from each of the sponsors of the contest. Man can I put this stuff to good use!!! Here's why

Hotchkis Sport Suspension: A full TVS setup. I already have Hotchkis springs, sways, and tierod adjusters, as well as the Bilsteins they sold me to go with their products I installed in my Firebird which I purchased a long time ago, before they called it the TVS. So I'll have to talk to them about my options for another car or maybe upgrading the Firebird.

Baer Brakes: A full setup. As many of you know from my posts like "here's why you need big brakes for track use" I've had some real issues running a stock front disc/rear drum setup in my Firebird on road racing tracks with long straightaways where I need to haul the car down from 125 MPH+ to slow for sharp corners. I've gone through stacks of different pads, shoes, rotors, calipers and literally gallons and gallons of brake fluid. I couldn't put bigger brakes on without also needing to buy new wheels and tires. I just couldn't afford to do both but thanks to Jason Rushforth....

Rushforth Wheels: A full set!!! Then I can install bigger brakes!! Funny that I win a set after I sent an email earlier today recommending someone else purchase a set for his early 2nd gen Camaro. Now I should be able to fit some really serious rotors and binders while being stylish with new wheels I couldn't afford. To wrap the new wheels.................

Yokohama Tires: Again a full set! I'd been running the Yokohama Advan AO 32s and needed to replace the fronts but they've discontinued making the DOT R tires in the sizes I needed so I've had a set of temporary front tires on the car (with the AO32 rears) since the end of the track day the picture was taken. The temporary fronts had nowhere near the traction of the original AO32's so I've had to take a little easier. (I put 4 wheels off once and found the new lower adhesion limit! LOL) Perhaps I can get some DOT Rs in a size that will work with the new rims!!!!

Red Line Synthetic Oil: I was going to order some of their Water Wetter this week. I've had some slowly rising water temp issues on track in the Firebird since moving south which required a cool down lap in the middle of each track session the past couple events when it was very hot out. Now that I'm in FL I don't need antifreeze anymore and I planned on flushing the system and switching to just water with Water Wetter. Not sure what else I'll get from them but because of the track time the Firebird gets I'm constantly changing oil, tranny fluids, rear end, etc. in the car as well as my tow vehicle (which takes 15 quarts of oil !) so I know I'll go right through whatever it is that they provide.

Lifeline Fire Safety Systems: A full system. As you might guess by the full cage, NASCAR full containment seats and 6 point harnesses in my Firebird, safety in cars is an issue with me to the point where the money I've spent on safety items could have purchased the killer engine I really want. I can certainly put a fire system to good use!!! Although hopefully not ever needed and activated!

MSD Ignition: A full setup! I currently run an MSD Pro Billet distributor, Blaster 3 coil, 6A box, and 300+ wires on the old Pontiac 400 thats in the Firebird. I'm going to need (read want) to replace the engine with a much more powerfull one to reach my speed goals at land speed races and open road racing, so getting an ignition setup for it will be a huge help!

Flowmaster: A complete exhaust system. While the sidepipes on my Firebird are functional they have a fake 4 into one header that won't even allow the current engine to perform as well as it could because only one of the 4 "header" pipes is actually used and it's barely 1 1/2" !!! I'd installed the sidepipes about 10 years ago when the car had a stock 350 two barrel and for that engine it was fine. I've been searching for the a set of the original Hooker headers that go with the sidepipes to replace the fake ones on the car but never found any. A new system will be awesome and allow me to run a bigger carb on the current engine than the (cough) 575 (cough) thats on there now. Plus when I can afford a new engine it will have some breathing room!

Hot Wheels: We're all big kids who love toys. Who wouldn't want enough Hot Wheels to fill a track that spirals around the garage! LOL

I want to thank all the sponsors for giving us all the contest. It's a place to throw our cool pics up and share our pride in our vehicles with others. If you haven't looked through the photo galleries it's really worth a look. You'll find pics of everything from ground scraping cars, to pics of little kids helping their ole man wash the car, the smokiest burnouts, and all the way up to giant 4 wheeler monter trucks as well as everything in between. Performance Therapy Sponsors

OK enough of my ramblings! Here's the winning picture

[khamul02]

Outstanding!

[porcupine911]

wow, what a great prize package!

[tangerine911S]

In no way 911 Technical related...


but good for you!

[GaryR]

WTH does this have to do with Porsche Technical discussion? Move to Off Topic or is there a GM picture forum?

Let me add "Subscribed!"

[Laneco]

OKay, yeah, wrong forum (off topic would rock this one) -

Just let me say two things; THAT CAR IS AWESOME and CONGRATULATIONS!!!

angela

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

Good lord. Give the kid a couple of cents-off coupons or something so he gets over the "I WON!!!" phase. It's not even a good photo--looks like a couple of cars cruising through a condo complex.

[Phat Euro Cab]

Originally Posted by Formerly Steve Wilkinson

Good lord. Give the kid a couple of cents-off coupons or something so he gets over the "I WON!!!" phase. It's not even a good photo--looks like a couple of cars cruising through a condo complex.

Good one Steve! You must be a real buzzkill kind of guy at a party! I'll crawl back under my rock.

Please everyone, DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD SO STEVE DOESN'T HAVE TO SEE THE TITLE COME UP IN NEW POSTS AGAIN. Steve please submit a photo to the contest next year and show everyone how it should be done. I'll leave a parting pic that has minor relevance and go out and talk nice to my Porsche for not submitting a pic of it to a contest geared toward American cars.

[glewis80SC]

Congrats dude!!! Ignore all the Debbie Downers!!!

[pkracer21j]

opps, the thread is going back to the top...haha
congrats on winning! and that is one sweet looking firebird! you rarely see vintage muscle cars road racing, but damn they look good doing it! rock on, a little variety to the 911 forum isn't going to kill us. I like it. post away.

[G50targa]

Congrats!
Nice picture and the second pic has a Porsche trying to catch up.

[TR]

There is a porsche BEHIND you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[herr_oberst]

Nice job! Take pix of the prizes when you get 'em, so we can enjoy the sweet, sweet bounty along with you!

[Danny_Ocean]

Originally Posted by Phat Euro Cab

Please everyone, DO NOT POST IN THIS THREAD SO STEVE DOESN'T HAVE TO SEE THE TITLE COME UP IN NEW POSTS AGAIN.

OK, will do...

[Rick V]

Nice

[M.D. Holloway]

Fantastic! I love that car. Good for you.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by Formerly Steve Wilkinson

Good lord. Give the kid a couple of cents-off coupons or something so he gets over the "I WON!!!" phase. It's not even a good photo--looks like a couple of cars cruising through a condo complex.

remind me not to share with you when my hangnail heals...

The dude is stoked, let him shine, what dif does it make?


Oh, I thought you were serious...sorry.

[tabs]

Some of those Technical Board BOyz chafe my azz....somebody gets sumthin nice and all they can do is complain about it not being on the right Board or its a lousy pic...well fk em...and if they ever come down to OT he11 they better know how to run through the jungle and they better not trip....cause if they do you know who will be there to catch them...

[Jim Bremner]

That's BaDAZZZZZ

[Dueller]

Congrats...how 'bout posting some detailed pics and info about your T/A.