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Las Vegas, Bug-O-Rama

On Oct 3/2003 I went down to the Vegas Bug-O-Rama. I met Mike (the red bug on my friends rides page) and hid friend Dustin. We had an awesome time. The new Unlimited Street class was awesome. I got lots of pics, so here we go.

First off here is Mike Scott's 55 Oval window, this car is amazing, lowered down on 17" Porschs 993 wheels. It is putting out massive power from a T-61 turbocharged, alcohol injected 2789cc Auto-Craft motor, and this is a STREET car. It ran a best on the weekend of 10.01 at 140mph, on the 26x8" slicks that are mounted to Porsche Fuchs in the pic. The wheelie he pulled while racing Dominic Luppino was amazing it popped up on launch but then the boost came on and lifted it up about 3 ft and carried then for over 80ft, I got it as it was coming up(see pic below on right), and still ran 11.10. Wicked car:

This is Kris Laufler's class winning vert (Unlimited Street), it has a turbo/nitros (although he wasn't using the juice) equiped alcohol injected motor. He ran a best of 9.45 @ 142 mph, amazing for a street car, on stock pan and suspension:

This is Scott Fetherolf's roof chopped oval, he ran a best of 10.45 in the Unlimited Street class. This has 2275cc T3/T4 turbocharged motor and the intercooler is mounted in the rear wing. Nice:

The pic below is the final of Kris Laufler against Mike Scott's oval, Laufler won with a 9.45 to Scott's 10.4 (Mike missed 3rd gear):

These are a few of the race cars that were there.

This is Pat Downs' Bug, he is the head Engine/Performance guy a CB Performance. He is a really nice guy and spent about 1/2 hour talking to us, even though he was busy tuning his new race car:

Here is the Motor in Don Browns JCL built race car. Beautiful:

This is Kris Laufler's other car, The Nail. It is a VW powered slingshot dragster with a Carbon Fibre body (if you can call it that). It ran a best of 6.57 @ 203.98mph, they couldn't back it up but came close with a 6.64 sec run:

Here are some Car Show photos:

Here are some cars in the Renn Kafer Cup class. This is a show and go event, they have to be N/A (no power adder) cars that are street legal. They are judged on show points and all street equipment has to be there, this is then combined with their result from an elimitation style event for their final score.

Ceaser Pasillas' Bug:

Another amazing RKC car:

I can't believe they race these cars.

Later

See:
Page 1 - intro page
Page 2 - engine specs.
Page 3 - engine rebuild
Page 4 - new rims
Page 5 - beam narrowing
Page 6 - misc mods
Page 7 - the green limousine
Page 8 - friends rides
Page 9 - 2003 Las Vegas Bug-O-Rama