The black ge8 was my wife's car

 

Wow! Haven't been on here for waaay too long. Very sorry we missed this meeting I love the dragon/deal's gap. Been through there many times on a bike, but only once in the Fit. Of course the Fit trip resulted in a ticket for 45 in a 30. Cop radio'd ahead and had someone else pull me over cause his crown vic was no match.

 

Cool man, I was only there Saturday. Congrats on making the highlights!!

 

Yeah no doubt, its funny how such a "slow" car can be so quick up there. I had a similar experience - 71 in a 40 up by the lake, lol.

 

Had a great time, already planning for next year.

 

Still no pics?

 

Here's some of my car up there. This is from the run:


From a previous drive up there:

 

Heres a some pics we really didn't take that many, having to much fun

 

Did anymore of my car turn out? I remember you hanging out of your car snapping some of mine.

 

I had a rolling shot but it came out like 5!ht so i deleted it, viewing it on the camera it look great then full size not so much, Sorry man

 

Man...I am going to the Smokeys this weekend! I hope to get some fun driving in...will post pics if I get any.

 

man i can't beleive i missed this again this year! we need an e-mail list out! cuz i got some other honda friends that would come with me

 

Here are some driving shots of my car, and there are more on my photo thread. I have a few pics of the other cars, but they aren't Fits so I'm not going to post them.

 

I mean there's hardcore and then there's HARDCORE! Good thing they didn't take this stance over on the Contour site because their would only be pics of one car, Matt's T-Red CSVT. Our run is not only about the cars but the PEOPLE who drive them. This whole run started back in 2003 with 3 cars, 2 Contours and FSVT. Since then, many of us are 2-5+ cars removed from the Contour but have remained friends. It was just the Contour that brought us together but we still admire and respect the other cars, especially ones that are above and beyond what brought us together. Once of the guys who was in the original 3, Josh, has built himself a Factory 5 Daytona replica, I mean its NO Fit but an awesome car nonetheless. He's still around on the Contour forum and will make it out to our 10th anniversary run next year with that car. The other member of the original 3 is Eric, another local who had a regular Contour SE that always had bald tires on it and he drove the hell out of it, again, not a Fit but it too did good down there as well. Since then he's had various other cars but now has an AE86 that he's building an engine for. It will surely not be able to keep up with the Fit out there but he'll do his best for sure, even if the car weighs about 2000 lbs and has RWD w/about 130 hp, maybe the Fit should just give him a chance out there. Finally there's me, the final member of the original 3. I first went out there in my modded 2000 Contour SVT, certainly NO Fit but it did pretty good with Bilstein struts, lowering spring, SS lines, BBS RX's w/perf Goodyear rubber. Following that up out there was yet another car that was NO Fit, a 2005 Crossfire Limited w/6 speed. This M-B platform couldn't hold a candle to the Fit with its 215 hp and 230 ft/lbs of torque and RWD but was a pretty good handler for a RWD car. Moving on was the 2007 Mini Cooper S w/sport suspension and sport package, fat BFG's and PIAA wheels, custom cat-back w/Magnaflow and functional ram-air intake. This car gave me alot of problem, unlike the Honda but I wanted to keep it, even though it was NO Fit. Then I really got an awesome car, my 2010 Honda Fit sport which I had modded with Drag Dr20's, Conti DWS', K&N typhoon intake and Magnaflow muffler, certainly the greatest car of all time, hands down! I don't know what I was thinking but I traded it in because I wanted a stick, so I settled for the 2011 CR-Z EX 6MT, its NO Fit once again but it gets me around. The features and MPGs, blah-blah-blah, I just can't get over the fact that I don't have the Fit anymore, what was I thinking

 

Nah, I didn't mean it that way. I use the photo album built into this site instead of linking from an external online photo site, and my free upload quota is maxed out! I have to delete one of MY photos before I can upload pics of a different car... I can't even bear the though of that!

 

I guess you should try and say what you mean, very confusing

Ok, here's the deal with next years run, its on, ofcoarse, so no worries there. I've had some bring up that CCV is going down hill and isn't very clean, point taken but the price is right, as is the location. Speaking of location, some would like to move to a more centrally located site, like Robinsville or Fontana Village and I do like the idea of that because we're closer to the Dragon and 28 but further away from the Skyway, so its a catch 22 for sure. Back to the lodging thing though. We'll find out prices soon enough, I mean we've got "some time", right

I'd like to hear what you guys all think about this, we win either way, just hope that if we move our home base we're taken care of, we pretty much have CCV to ourselves and noone says anything about the campfire activities either. Speaking of that, the campfire chatter is getting old for me but that's because of one person who just stirs the pot and doesn't let up. If my buddy Arturo comes with me next year we'll be staying at his parents place in Sweetwater, the next town over and I will not have to deal with any of that while I'm there. You Fit guys/gals will have to fend for yourself, although I'm sure Jim will be ok with that. The person in question has NO respect for the Fit or anything that's like it which pisses me off to be honest. I will not use his name here or anywhere else but IMO its just wrong to tear down a solid car like the Fit. Sure its only got 117 hp/109 ft/lbs of torque and it needs to be wound up to get going up and down the Skyway but as all of you guys/gals have proved, with some suspension and tires and wheels, the car does just fine thank you IMO where the Fit really shines is on the Dragon, its really a beast and especially with modded suspension! All you've gotta do is look at the lone GD out there to see that, rock solid! Not to mention ALL the Fits for that matter

Your input is appreciated and needed to make next year's run even better, that's the point, right!

 

Remind me for next yr. DEFINITELY will take the drive. Couldn't come this yr cause I used up all my vacation days in Aug., but will save some for this next yr, and bring my gf (she wanted to go as well).

 

I will and the official thread will start first of the year! I started this years run at the end of January and our turn out was absolutely off the chart, everyone but one FF showed up, so that was true commitment

I hope the couple with matching Fits show up and bring both of them, along with anyone else who wants to go but I will say this, if you've got an ego or hang up, stay home, we had a couple people this year that left alot to be desired. I'll just say this, just because you've got a certain type of car or a certain skill set because of a club your apart of, doesn't put you above anyone

I hope those looking to go don't take the above comment meaning our run has a bunch of emo's because we're not, trust me!

 

Please make sure that I get the notice. We will be there and my wife will be happy to shut down whoever you are speaking of. She will talk circles around him and then pass him in the Dragon. That is coming from someone who has made passes there in both my zx-9 and Triumph RS, but can't equal what I'm capable of in the Fit.

Only problems we ran into were cops (got a ticket) and fading brakes. Will need to upgrade before having an audience. Our corner speeds became more and more impressive because our brakes were working less and less

 

Your wife sounds like a real firecracker and if she feels the need to shut someone down for talking too much smack, great! One thing though, no passing on the Dragon

How do you fade the brakes on a Fit, were they already on their way out? I ran the Dragon at night last year for the first time balls to the wall with the Fit going from the wall to Deal's Gap and had NO fade at all, I gave the Fit all it had, for what that's worth

It will great to have another Fit on the run, not to mention another GD, we only had one GD this year but that one was awesome and complete with scaffolding to boot

The new thread for the 2012 will be here and the thread will be in the BOLD!