Maxus 2005 Overview..

**Matt93SE** · 06-12-2005, 10:02 PM

Man, what a weekend!

the Max rolled 222,222 miles on the way to the event Thurs afternoon..
Blew the engine at the track event fri afternoon

Got a farmer tan from hell Sat afternoon and talked to about 500 people from all over the country and I have no clue who 95% of you are now!

I'm guessing there were around 70 cars at the meet when all was said and done. I last counted about 50 on the lot at 1pm, but as I was making rounds judging cars I noticed that several others (Max88q, James, and some of the other Austin/Dallas guys) had rolled up and parked in the back. Guessing around another 20 there that I didn't count earlier in the day.

Overall the meet went fairly smoothly. There were some minor glitches, but overall it went well. Next year we'll be sure to have a real PA system going. It was understood the radio station that was there was going to have a PA available for us to use at the event, but that didn't materialize for some reason. Maybe miscommunication, maybe it was some of the stuff they couldn't get on the lot.

The car show went well, and we had enough competition to make the judging extremely stressful! in the Show category, there were only 6 points separating 1,2, and 3, and 2nd and 3rd were only ONE POINT apart! Talk about some close runnings!
1st Place went to Tom Schatz (Bluesbrekr) with 173 pts
2nd Place went to Sam Bosso (Chitwista?) with 168 pts
3rd Place went to Dwayne Belton (Mr. Maxx) with 167 points

The Daily Driver Category went almost as closely!
Ralph Valdez won first with 137 points.
Lance Maxwell (SOONR1) brought up second with 126 points
and Harold Brayden got 3rd place with 124 points!

Performance Category (don't have points listed on the sheet I have)
1st went to the legendary Thomas Chen (SX7R)
2nd went to Matt Ussery
3rd went to Brad Strasser (Brad92SE)

GM's choice award went to Sam Bosso
People's choice went to Dwayne Belton (Mr. Maxx)

Now for the stuff I forgot to say at the meet because I was handed a megaphone and was COMPLETELY unprepared for it!

On behalf of Maxima.org, I would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU to Trophy Nissan, as they're the ones that made the meet happen. They put forth a huge amount of effort and expense for this event, and everyone that was there owes them their thanks- at minimum for the hot dogs and drinks they supplied for free!

Thanks also to Jack Turner and TWS for letting us run the event with only a small handfull of cars. He lost his shirt on the weekend, but still smiled and said thanks for coming.

I'd also like to thank Brice at Alamo Autosports for letting us play around his shop on the dyno until 11pm Sat night. You and your guys busted your butts up there in the heat and it didn't go unnoticed.

Jeff Wharton (Mr. Eous) and all the DNE guys that helped out should also get a round of applause for pulling this stuff off. Jeff lined us up with Trophy, Speedzone, and made the deal with the hotel for us. Without his help, NONE of the event would have happened.

Also thanks to Matt Luquire (Luquire) for chauferring me around last month while working out all the details in Dallas. You were also a huge help in keeping me sane this weekend when I was being yelled at by 40 people at once.

Thanks also to everyone that came out to the event. I appreciate your patience with some of the messed up arrangements and lack of details and when you were given wrong directions to the dyno event. (remind me not to let Jeff Wharton pick the hotel next year!)

I personally owe several guys a HUGE debt of gratitude as well. My personal thanks go to Tom and Tim Schatz (Bluesbrekr and son), Brad Strasser (Brad92SE) and Adam (please let that be right!), Jayson (Blackandwhite), Joe Antas (98SEBlackMax), and David Warner (d_warner) for helping me drag all of my belongings in from College Station and back to Houston after I blew my engine at the track. You guys ALL saved the weekend for me and I owe you many thanks!

I think that's about it for all the people I need to kiss up to!
Again, thanks to all who came to the event and participated!

*Kenneth* · 06-12-2005, 10:10 PM

Thanks Matt for pulling it off!

*S00NR1* · 06-12-2005, 10:14 PM

Matt, I can't say it enough -- GREAT JOB! The entire weekend was a blast and I thought everything went very smoothly. Also, thanks to the guys at Trophy for helping put on one great show.

*Brad92SE* · 06-13-2005, 01:51 AM

I was more than happy to help. I had a blast, I would drive out to it again!

Thanks for putting in your time to help organize it.

By the way Matt, I'm gonna post that video of you being towed in, hope you dont mind.

*Turbo1er* · 06-13-2005, 03:12 AM

Hell, after all you and the others went through to get to Dallas and I was the lone one from San Anton to show, thanks for showing, looking forward to the next Maxus!

*Blu* · 06-13-2005, 07:48 AM

Im still tired especially after my flight out of Atlanta was delayed 2.5 hours.

*SPiG* · 06-13-2005, 07:49 AM

Thanks Matt and everyone who made this possible. I know I really enjoyed myself. Our little Baton Rouge group had some problems, but overall it was a blast. Matt I hope you can get your car fixed and I hope we can have another one next year.

*Flava_24/7* · 06-13-2005, 08:18 AM

I agree, it was a great event. Thanks for all the footwork Matt.
All of you guys that showed up from out of state, THANKS!
You guys really made it great. It was good to see the cars I had only seen in pics before.

**Kevlo911** · 06-13-2005, 08:31 AM

Thanks to all the guys that made it possible

**deezo** · 06-13-2005, 08:32 AM

I'm still in the OKC area and I almost got to see a tornado first hand. Oh yeah, one I got back and checked my pulley (took it apart), everything looked fine and there's no play in the bearings (thank goodness).

It was good to meet and hang out with you guys.

*maxwannabenow* · 06-13-2005, 09:08 AM

I would like to thank everyone involved as well for a great Maxima show!!

One request though. I am sure I saw all the winners at the show but just aren't sure who they are. Could someone post the winners names along with the picture of their car?

Thanks again!!

**Matt93SE** · 06-13-2005, 09:45 AM

First in Show: Tom Schatz- Bluesbrekr. http://members.cox.net/iblikewhazzzz...xus2005/11.JPG
http://mreous.home.comcast.net/18.JPG

2nd in Show: Sam Bosso (Chitwista)?
http://mreous.home.comcast.net/15.JPG
http://forums.maxima.org/showpost.ph...1&postcount=40
(all but the last one in this post)

3rd place Show: Dwayne Belton. Don't think he posts on the .org much. Local Dallas guy.
http://students.ou.edu/T/Van.N.Truon...iefcase/50.JPG
http://img288.echo.cx/img288/7007/maxuslot293nn.jpg
http://img288.echo.cx/img288/8616/maxuslot289vs.jpg

3rd in Performance: Brad92SE http://members.cox.net/iblikewhazzzz...xus2005/33.JPG

2nd in Daily Driver: Lance Maxwell (SOONR1), person and car: http://members.cox.net/iblikewhazzzz...xus2005/37.JPG

Those are the ones I personally remember. I only judged the show category and I'm horrible with names, so unfortunately I don't remember all of the other ones.

**max95q** · 06-13-2005, 10:21 AM

I loved every minute of it. Thanks Matt for pulling this thing off. Had lots of fun and met a lot of great new people. I hope to hang with you guys more now. Ive taken my car to Dallas so a meet in Austin or Houston is definately doable. Can't wait for next year!

**Cutler** · 06-13-2005, 10:40 AM

Good Job Matt on the planning. It was great being part of this and it was a good time with me and Dave Werner judging the Performance category. Thomas' car was a site, so were all the others. Good times.....

Donkey® · 06-13-2005, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Cutler

Good Job Matt on the planning. It was great being part of this and it was a good time with me and Dave Werner judging the Performance category. Thomas' car was a site, so were all the others. Good times.....

Did you leave your dictionary in Texas? Jesus.....

*SR20DEN* · 06-13-2005, 11:10 AM

We need contact info for the person(s) at Trophy who're responisble for making this happen. I encourage everyone to send them 'thank you' emails.

And I personally want to thank:

Matt Blehm; for setting this thing up and putting fourth the exrodinary effort to make it work.

Dave Warner; getting it started in the first place and telling us we all need to be school teachers when we get pulled over.

Jeff Wharton; finding us a place to sleep (Garland Belagio)

Brian Catts; Setting up a booth and showing off Maxima warez.

Trophy Nissan; Bankrolling this thing and at the last minute.

Alamo Autosports; Having us for a dyno day. Even though you guys probably hate me by now.

Speed Zone; Just being there. Best $25 anyone spent.

**Matt93SE** · 06-13-2005, 11:13 AM

My contact at Trophy is James Alligood. He's the Asst Parts manager there.
JAlligood@vtaig.com

*maxwannabenow* · 06-13-2005, 11:55 AM

I was surprised not to see any 6th gen Max's at Maxus except for the new one from Trophy Nissan. I got there late so maybe I missed it but was there any 6th gens represented there?

*S00NR1* · 06-13-2005, 12:44 PM

I was thinking the same thing -- I was out there ALL day and didn't see a single one.

*SR20DEN* · 06-13-2005, 02:13 PM

Oh and for those of you who didn't go, and those who think this was just a boring car show with a few go kart rides, I want you all to know that you really missed out. Yeah I've been to several meets that had more cars and more people but none ever came close to being this much fun.

*Bluesbrekr* · 06-13-2005, 03:37 PM

A big thanks to Matt and David. You guys did a great job.

Tim and I really enjoyed everything, especially the track day. I wish the turnout would have been better....it's the most fun I've had with the Max. Gotta give Jack Turner a lot of credit. He and his crew really did a great job in teaching us how to race. So good that my son's best lap time was 3 seconds better than my best!

I also enjoyed meeting everyone. It's good to put some faces with the names. We gotta get name tags or somethin'. I can remember a lot of faces, but can't always put the face and name together. (well, that's probably just cause I'm old)

Anyway.....Sign me up for next year.....

afroken · 06-13-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by SR20DEN

Oh and for those of you who didn't go, and those who think this was just a boring car show with a few go kart rides, I want you all to know that you really missed out. Yeah I've been to several meets that had more cars and more people but none ever came close to being this much fun.

it sounds like you guys had a blast! i didn't go, but matt is definately an awesome dude. im getting my max ready for next year...and you guys will definately see me there.

**Cutler** · 06-13-2005, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by look2me40

Did you leave your dictionary in Texas? Jesus.....

You didn't show up.... so shut it and yes I didn't pay attention to grammar and sentence structure. Get over it...

maximum810 · 06-13-2005, 06:32 PM

Thanks a lot, Matt. It was a good turn out. I got to meet a few people, so that was definitely cool. I met Brad up at Alamo and saw his dynos...very cool, definitely one sick 3rd gen. I'm still bummed I couldn't make it out to TWS...looked like a lot of fun.

*SR20DEN* · 06-13-2005, 07:40 PM

Does anyone have video of my car on the dyno?

*98SEBlackMax* · 06-13-2005, 08:48 PM

Thanks alot Matt for putting this all together for us.

Also many thanks to all the vendors and Trophy Nissan for doing there part.

Also special thanks to Jack at TWS, even though he lost a bit of cash he let us race. IMO to me that was worth the trip down there, just for that high speed track. Well 'cept for Matt's engine, oh and FYI mine maybe another casuality of the track day. Tomorrow gonna check compression and what not. (long story, dont want to whore up this thread)