Golden Gardens/ XXX Root beer meets

[justin]

So today as most of you know was the Northwest Nissan Golden Gardens meet. It also happened to be the Northwest Motoring XXX Rootbeer meet. I was pretty hyped to make it down to both of these events considering I have never been to either meet before. So this morning I made an effort to wake up early as hell AKA 6am to meet up with Cory (blackice) and Tim (raptor reed).

I would have to say the way down was pretty boring considering I was still basically asleep and the weather kept a few people away. However a grip of Skylines made it down from BC and one other guy brought his Nissan President. Pretty much the 2nd coolest car I saw today IMO. First was the Aston Martin Vantage. I will get back to that later. Anyways being so early I didn't get too many pictures of the way down. Here are a couple I did manage to get though... (BTW) sorry about the cracked window status on Cory's car lol.

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Nissan President

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LOL GTR in traffic

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Finally there.

Once we were there I never managed to get a big nice shot of everything because it was so spread out and it was off and on raining. I did manage to find some pretty cool stuff while I was here. I think the Nissan guys are some of the most creative in expressing themselves through there car.

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Eat that sandwich Cory!!

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It's a little hard to tell but that was def a pink 240 lol. I'll allow it ha.

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Since I have to rep Tommy's Corolla. I love that car.

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GTIR anyone?

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Oh werd?

Anyways after a few hours of hanging out with the Nissan crowd, we decided to head down to XXX Rootbeer to see what was going on there. Of course on the way down we needed to have a little fun so we hit up I-90.

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Les (2.5I)

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When we showed up to XXX Rootbeer the place was packed! We ended up having to park across the street and by the time we got out of the car that parking lot ended up being full up.

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LOL!!! This was hands down the coolest car there 4REALZZ

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All-trac. nuff said

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I think this is my all time favorite car.

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The funny this was as soon as this left some Ferrari Showed up. I was too lazy to get a picture.

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When I saw this I instantly respected him.

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So after hours of being out and about doing car things we finally got tired and hungry and decided to head back North. By that time it was completely pouring and made the ride home shitty. I did however manage to get a couple last good shots of my friend Tomas's evo.

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[gotrice93]

What's with the huge park bench wings on the Nissan's? looks like a fun trip down, and nice cars.

[justin]

It is a drifting thing I guess. Gives madd downforce to keep the rear squatted. That would be my guess lol. I don't really understand it either but whatever ha.

[blackice]

What's with the huge park bench wings on the Nissan's? looks like a fun trip down, and nice cars.

more grip in the rear, same reason evo/sti have them. honda's on the other hand :rolleyes1:

[Domesticated]

that mustang is the guy from nwmotoring, his car is really cool lol. looked like a blast. i think rain makes car look better anyway

[gotrice93]

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I understand the whole down force concept, but the 1st picture isn't bad. The 2nd one, I was expecting an old guy sitting on it reading a newspaper.

[blackice]

just a gt style wing, if you look at a flow chart of the car's aero you would see the flow off the roof putting more pressure on a spoiler at that height. justin and i actually discussed this today and agreed though that most people have no idea how to adjust them correctly after install lol.

[gotrice93]

Makes sense. The look of them just aren't my cup of tea, but to each their own. It's not my car so I don't have any say.

[blackice]

yeah for sure, it is pretty extreme unless you actually track the car and/or have a kit/widebody/aero parts to go with it. i prefer wingless or oem on a car with mostly stock body parts too.

[justin]

Lol yeah, I'm 99% sure that this gt wing craze it only for looks. I'm not a huge fan of them at all unless it is for teal purpose. About the only one that I think looks half way decent is on the evo toward bottom of the photos I took today. He was saying that he gets so much downforce in the rear that it dented his trunk lol.

[MetaEnder]

Nice write up. I gotta try to make it to a meet sometime, I think that would be fun. My best bet looks like in the Spokane area, since that's only about 3 hours away.

[justin]

Lol there was an accord today that looked
like your red one. Did you get rid of it over here?

[2fast4usteeley]

sweet pictures dude, looks like it was fun

[justin]

Thanks man it was a great time!

[gotrice93]

Was the Rootbeer meet just kind of a mixed meeting, or did they have specific cars?

[Domesticated]

according to one of the admins at nwmotring there were about 600 cars that came in and out

[justin]

It seemed like it was just an open forum event. There were a lot of cars there that I saw at golden gardens today. The trend seemed to be golden gardens in the morning then XXX rootbeer in the afternoon.

600 might have been a little high of a number but I isn't see what it was like in the morning. I could say there was prolly 450-500 in and out when I saw there. It was cars all over the damn place lol.

[schuss]

My pics today from the Golden Gardens meet. Sorry, I'm too lazy to link each one, but the smugmug slideshow does all the work for you anyway. ;)

http://schuss.smugmug.com/Cars/Import-Shows/NWN-Golden-Gardens-Seattle-1/MG3988/822118012_7GmHc-M.jpg (http://schuss.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=11657829&AlbumKey=bPGPb)

[MetaEnder]

Lol there was an accord today that looked
like your red one. Did you get rid of it over here?

I got rid of it to some guy who I "think" might live somewhere near Lewiston, South of me. Maybe he drove up there though, ha.

Gold rims, CF hood, body kit, pretty dang dark tint. Those would be the give aways, but you never know, ha.

[justin]

My pics today from the Golden Gardens meet. Sorry, I'm too lazy to link each one, but the smugmug slideshow does all the work for you anyway. ;)

http://schuss.smugmug.com/Cars/Import-Shows/NWN-Golden-Gardens-Seattle-1/MG3988/822118012_7GmHc-M.jpg (http://schuss.smugmug.com/photos/swfpopup.mg?AlbumID=11657829&AlbumKey=bPGPb)

Lol no big deal. I just had some time
on my hands. I saw your car there today. Super nice man!!

@meta yeah nevermind then this one had dark rims and stuff on it. It was just like same color and stuff. I haven't seen many accords
in that color, but then again I've never been to a Honda meet.

[MetaEnder]

Yeah plus some dirty guy bought it. Almost 80% sure one of you guys'll see it driving around sometime with only 2 rims, a spare and some random rim on it, broken body kit and the tint torn off the front from tickets sometime, haha.

[Domesticated]

theres a lot more photos here:
http://www.nwmotoring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2477

[supeRB~GP]

My pics today from the Golden Gardens meet. Sorry, I'm too lazy to link each one, but the smugmug slideshow does all the work for you anyway. ;)


ahh....:cryin::cryin:
you just have to take picture of the BOLD spot, huh....:yikes!::yikes!:


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I LOVE the car so much....haha

[NO JOKE PT]

I got to Golden Gardens about 12:30. a lot of people were gone by than :yikes!:, Wish I had of known about the XXX meet that one looking at the pics, looked like fun. Well it give me and my son a excuse to drove the RX-8 from Portland to Seattle got to clean it out a bit.:lawl:

[Domesticated]

justin you should to a write up for the front door here, the irwindale judgement day was like 8 months ago

[justin]

I text erik about yesterday he hasn't gotten back to me. I think it would be good if he updated it lol. I would myself but I don't know how and I'm never on my computer. Just my phone a lot

[jon]

haha...i know how busy erik is...and i know a little secret about what happened yesterday....lol

[justin]

Do I know the secret?? I just talked to Erik the front page will be updated later today. I also just had a great idea to help improve this site. That should be up by early next week.

[jon]

lol i dont know if he told you the secret...im waiting for him to announce it to the world..its pretty trick

[justin]

Oh prolly not then Erik hates talking to me lol

[drsb08_89240]

Here are sum pics i took.....
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[drsb08_89240]

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[drsb08_89240]

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They are all from my phone but the quality isnt that bad

[justin]

I loved that green on the Z! Cory and I were talking about how good it looked. That white skyline in the first set of pics, was that the one Having a hell of a time getting over the speed bumps lol?

[drsb08_89240]

yeah that white R34 was havein a hell of time with those speed bumps.....it was almost painful 2 watch it scrape over every one of the bumps.....everyone watching was cringing as he went over them lol

[MetaEnder]

Dang, nice cars, ha. I wanna make it to a meet sometime. That was a big one though.

Wonder if someone had throw plywood over them if that would've helped with the bumps, seems like they should've done something about it, haha, all those lowered cars!

[RaptorReed]

Nope! all the cars had to suck it up over the speed bumps, a few you could hear the sideskirts catching.

[justin]

Lol that skyline had a gameplan for getting across. Most of the Nissan guys just didn't care. It just scratchs the bottom of the skirt so
you can't really tell.

[gotrice93]

When my car was really low and i would come across big speed bumps i would go over at like a 45 degree angle. i wonder if that would have worked for them

[SW-21turbo]

Nice freaking cars!

[RaptorReed]

When the skyline first came through he was doing it really careful and slow head on, then came back around to get his groove down.
Justin and Cory in a short video taken by the Evo guys.
YouTube- golden gardens to XXX

[Domesticated]

What's with the huge park bench wings on the Nissan's? looks like a fun trip down, and nice cars.

so i got to thinking about wing height on my way home. the wing creates a force downward kinda. it creates a force that in the direction of the wings surface. so in terms of force, it creates a force pushing straight down, but since the moment of inertia of the vehicle is at the center, there is a small force pushing straight to the back of the car around the axis where the center of mass is creating a torque. torque is eqivalent to the force multiplied by the distance perpendicular from the the axis, so the further up the wing is, the more torque or downward pressure it puts on the rear end. if you were to attach a wing to a scale and measure force there it wouldnt matter how high it is, but since the car has suspension and rotates, it pushes on an axis, therefore creating a torque also. so having the wing higher up creates the same amount of drag, neglecting airflow close to the car, but will create more total force pushing down on the rear of the car. also having the wing further back creates more of a force in the downward direction because it is further from the axis or center of mass
/.02

[gotrice93]

I know the wings create more down force jon boy I just thought they were ugly lol

[Domesticated]

well i know that, i was just stating that the higher up they are, the more traction you get, so having the wing super high up, though unattractive, is more functional! :p

[supeRB~GP]

well, I guess my car is ugly to some of you guys...

[gotrice93]

well, I guess my car is ugly to some of you guys...

your car is sexy, your wing doesn't sit a foot above your roof. No way at all do I think your car is ugly.

[Domesticated]

well, I guess my car is ugly to some of you guys...

that just stems out of jealousy

[blackice]

well, I guess my car is ugly to some of you guys...

Haha your car is clean man. I envy your engine setup. Got a close look at it during gg.

[907DC4]

Team Menace always has the siiiickest cars in their club...the green 350Z and that White Lexus slammed on those huge wheels (trunk open in one of the pics)