• November 12, 2007 Track Day: Infineon Raceway

    12:34pm by Cheechoo (Cars)

    Lijen and I went to Infineon Raceway this weekend, and met up with an old college buddy who brought his 400hp FD RX-7 to swing it around the track (3rd pic). I had brought my old DC2 Integra to The Streets of Willow before, and it was a blast. But the scene there was somewhat sparse, being that Willow Springs is way the hell out there. There were only maybe 45 cars there. Now, this can be a good thing if you’re the one actually bringing your car on the track, because the less people the better. But at Infineon, I didn’t drive, I was just a spectator. There were a TON of people there. The place was huge. There were at least 100 cars there, not including Audi’s “Sportscar Experience” fleet of RS4’s and S5’s and S8’s (2nd pic). It was awesome just watching the cars circle the track, and just walking around checking cars out. In my opinion, the fastest guy of the day was a Spoon DC5 Integra R (right hand drive and all) on slicks. Those guys were fast. They must have been part of some racing team, just seeing as how the car was decked out with sponsor stickers and they were all wearing Spoon jackets, and the driver was in his fire suit.

    Our old college buddy had a lot of fun throwing the RX7 around. I’m sure there was plenty of power in that car (3rd pic). The whole experience got Lijen and I excited to participate in one of these events someday. We’re thinking about an EG6 Civic Hatch, putting a good suspension on there, some sticky Bridgestones or Advans, and maybe a roll cage and a seat. Probably stay away from the engine because I don’t want to kill myself. But either way, it could be the first vDream project! We’ll call it vDream: Project EG.

  • November 13, 2007

    So I got to sit passenger with my friend in his FD and it was pretty crazy. Made me want to jump into my Aquavan and do a few laps, most likely at blistering speeds.

    We drove in group 3 (which is the 2nd most advanced group) with some pretty fast cars. I loved the variety of cars that we saw there. I mean, even driving Aquavan wouldn’t be out of the picture assuming that I could probably take the Chevy Tahoe on some of those turns right? I think the most popular cars was the Miata, but we saw everything from kit cars to BMW’s, an XB, WRX’s, Civics, an old school diesel Bimmer, a hand-full of Porsches, and Mustangs.

    My friend’s was the only FD that I remember seeing, and it was one of the more powerful cars out there. As a testament to that, the first steep uphill right before turn 2 (track map) felt like a dinky knoll that we blasted through at ludicrous speed. Afterwards, Jas and I walked up over to turn 2 and was a lot steeper than it felt. Aquavan probably would’ve broke down going up that Everest of a mountain.

    It was a lot of fun though. I definitely want to go again, but next time instead as a driver instead of a spectator.

    - 12:55pm

    by Lijen

  • November 14, 2007

    if you guys build that civic..be sure to keep it in south bay..it’ll be stolen with a quickness in sf

    - 04:29pm

    by Anonymous

  • October 01, 2008

    just a quick thought an RX-7 would be cool car in Vdream :]

    - 11:44pm

    by Anonymous

  • December 17, 2008

    haha the anonymous was me!
    my ideas where heard :]

    - 11:19pm

    by shane