Here it is...

Street A

1st - Tara Allen 148.9dB NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD (QUALIFIED WITH 149.2Db)

Street B

1st - Troy Allen 145.7dB NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD
2nd - Rob Collison 144.3dB

Street Max

1st - James Chalazia 142.5dB

Super Street NW

1st - Daniel Bezzina 151.6dB
2nd - Leo Franke 150.4dB

Super Street 3-4

1st - Billy Arnold 161.0dB

Super Street 5+

1St - Larissa Franke 159.2dB NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD (159.1dB)

Big congrats to all the competitors today!

Well done to Larissa, Tara and Troy on there new Australian records!

Good to see everyone out today, I will post a couple of pics up shortly!

Billy, why not run four amps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Phil

I dont think he wanted to blow another sub apart so soon

Was a good day, shame i couldnt enter. Was good meeting alot of people and getting an idea of what happens.

I was the guy in the red hat and red shirt who looked like a loner most of the day haha

Still its pretty dm good effort now i can't wait to see what he does with 4
ALSO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS HIT OVER 160'S AT A LOCAL EVENT IN BANKSTOWN
MY HAT GOES OFF TO HIM

Bill's partner Jenn drove the Barina an hour to the event from Wollongong, ran a 161, packed her all up and drove it back home again.

I dont know of many SPL cars that are street legal and used on the roads in Australia these days, its a real credit to Bill for the attenion to detail he has shown so he can have the car on the road.

And yes it is getting driven from Wollongong to the Gold Coast for this months Autosalon.

Congrat bill for getting it on the road!

Better to do it close to home and find out if he does in fact need to go to a composite cone before GCAS......

Phil

Good scores, look forward to seeing you all at GCAS better still how about a BBQ on the saturday nite at our house?

had a great day p.b for me. thanks to leo,billy and adam for their guidance and tips hopefully there will be bigger numbers coming soon.

Hi guys!

I was sent this link, thanks to Tom for filming it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJi_7-K7AR4

Cheers

was a good day. starting to think now its time to put in the bigger battery in and strap the 2nd e in and load them at .25 cause im sick of seeing 145's especially after seeing 147's in the past

Sorry to say guys but these aren't NEW AUSTRALIAN records.
Just got off the phone to Angelo and he said these scores were not done at a 2X event so they ARE NOT official records.
Good scores none the less

We don't really have enough events to worry about double and triple points counting for records.

We (the Aust dB Drag community) have always accepted any score at a dB Drag event towards "our" records.

I think most other competitors would echo my sentiment?

Phil

Ok thats fine to say that but i have to agree with what Phil says below but if we want to go by that only Australian records can be set at a 2 x event so be it .......... bring on the next multi point event which by the dB drag event calender there isn't one that means that finals will be the only event to set a record as all the events on the calender are all 1x event's

I can't imagine any of our top competitors "cheating" and if they did, it wouldn't take long for the rest of us to find out......

Phil

I agree Phil if they were cheating they would be found out.
I just spoke to angelo and he did say to me to have an record set on termpro it has to be at a 3 x event which is finals and to get a certified score it has to be a 2 x event but he did say that even though its not an official Termpro Australian Record as per say ...so for instance, Brad if you have anyone break an Australian Record at the event you are holding then it would be an Australian record just not recognised by Termpro.
But you know that seeing it was who spoke to Angelo and it was you Brad who asked about setting records.

I wasn't saying anyone was cheating, I'm sorry if anyone took me the wrong way, it's just that I'm holding my first official event this weekend and I have spent alot of time on the phone to Ange and that was just stuff he was telling me. There will be cars at our comp this weekend that will be doing huge numbers and Ange said they won't be records due to the 1x thing. That's all

Why do we only have 1x events? I was looking on the American dB Drag site and they have heaps of 2x and 3x over the coarse of the year. Even Gold Coast and Brisbane Auto Salons are only 1x this year.

Yes i know it sux but having you starting to hold events can only be a good thing the more comps the more people get involve and maybe we can have as many multi point events as the US this what I and everyone else has been saying for a long time .....
I think that its great and i tip my hat to you Brad you have finally started to see the light and you have my respect for it but as for records we Australians have to take them where we can get them otherwise the only people in Australia with records are those who go to Finals.

No one said that you were.

I was just saying that we've all taken any score at any dB Drag event to be "official", hence the thread here on MEA with "records".

Phil

i see it that we are competing under the DB Drag rules and get scrutinised and are competing by the rules for the class we compete in, we prove the numbers we do on a Termlab Meter (including the whole "break it twice and take the lowest score")

then why can we not have "gentlemans(and ladies) agreement" that it is a record.

How do we go about making our events 2x ? be stricter on scrutineering? have Ange at every event?

We have a lot of cars in Australia that can set Official Records that should very well be recognised on Termpro. hell, its a long shot but we might even get a shot at a World Finals including AUSTRALIANS

why waste our time going to 1x events if we cant even set a certified score for our names? or have a shot at records?

im sure Capalaba wont like it, nor George - not being able to get their records either

Well it wasn't me who said that it wont be a record cause as far as i'm concerned it is a record the only thing it wont be recognised by termpro but it will be by our peers

by peers is fine by me, im happy to acknowledge scores set on Termlab as Australian Records.
but for those who do have serious shots at the big picture - they have to suffer.
no incentive to compete if we get nothing out of it.

bloody frustrating that Australia gets given the raw deal of the sport.

we have Super Street 5+ car that does over 160db... why bother now if we cant even get Certified scores.

The number of multipoint events is relative to the number of 1x events, therefore if there isn't any (or not many) 1x events being run, there's not going to be alot of 2x/3x events to follow.

It's the same sh.it, just in a different year.

Whatever happened to just doing it for fun, yeah be competitive, strive to get louder (be it on a local or world scale) but fu.ck me, it's a sport/hobby, so what if that score doesn't ever get certified, it will still be on Termpro as you're Max SPL, the world will still see it.


I don't think this is the case, Australia has given itself the raw end, poor support for/attitude towards dB Drag Racing by competitors, distributors and retailers, even event organisers (non Audio) (obviously not all) has prevented the sport from growing into something much bigger.

Although I don't really have any invested interest in audio anymore, I would still like to see dB Drag Racing in Oz go on to be successful.

Ok why get out of bed and go to work
All you do is spend the money and get tired
If you stayed in bed you wouldn't spend money or get tired

I hear you michael I love this sport and i'm not going any where but i have to say i dont only do it for the fun but i do it because i can

Dont get out of bed = dont earn money.

dont go to 1x events = dont earn points or set records... cant get them at 1x events anyway so no loss.....

its pretty much same as an Autobarn comp... only difference is Sacntioned events have all the proper classes.

after only being able to compete in 2 comps last year, to be able to compete in all Sanctioned QLD events this year was a great thing for me.... then to get the news that no points and no records.... no incentive to work towards anything.

i hear people say "but you can work at getting louder"
i could just build my car at home and meter it on Termlab and see how loud i get.

1x events are pretty much a Test N Tune, and for those with a lab we do all that ourselves.

I love the sport. But its not just my point of view im trying to get across. there are other people out there who can and do take records, who are going to miss out by being in QLD.

seamed to be a great day and good scores pity it is clouded over by so much crap now.

Well youre wrong you do get points
But this attitude is the reason why we only have 1 x events and why retailers wont organise comps.
Man stop with the boo hoo crap a suck it up.
I'm not a shop or a car audio importer, i dont work in the industry but I built 4 cars that compete reguarly i go to the shows and i pay my money i am not sponsered and i pay for everything.I could say " why should i do it all i get for my money is a plastic or glass trophy and a peice of paper with my score on it"
FFS stop having a sook and get over it just compete and do your best why did you build the car in the first place ... so you can break the current record ...... well come to finals and do it then it will be Official but to get to finals you need to qualify (by coming 1st or 2nd at an sanctioned event) or get a wild card entry

If thats how they work out the events, we only have 1 option. Go to every event possible support the guys that run the event by getting every car we possible have there. I beleive it's brad and the boys at cartunez running this?? Lets get behind him and have a massive turnout that way we show him and Dbdrag that we are serious up here in QLD so that we CAN run more events. As somebody who orginasies events for another unrelated club there is nothing worse than pouring weeks and weeks of work into something to see 15 blokes show up.. Were early days at this stage but if we do the right things now we may be able to see the fruits of our labour later...

none the less there is one thing you get at a comp you can never get at home playin with your our termlab.... Congtatulations and adglodgement from your peers when you punch out a big number... you can do 160's al day long in the shed but to do it infront of people who understand how hard it is to acheive thats where you get a bit of satisfaction for your hard work. not a knock on ur door from the cops coz ur neigbor has complained about you knocking stuff off her wall...

just to correct devinchy on one thing that always seems to happen is that he has built 5 cars all be it i paid for the 5th one to be built he still made the time to build it and make it seriously loud.and also he has now got 5 aus records and not to mention the loudest ever sedan in aus out of the one build house his front yard. he has spent alot of time and effort (and also tears after a day of testing and blowing a woofer 3 days before an event) to get the recognition he has in this industry. and all this from a man who is a chef by day and never worked in the industry.

but as for the records i was always under the impression that it only had to be a sactioned event but seen as it now needs to be a 3x event well i say bring on finals and all people wanting to set offical aus records should make an effort to attend it i know of a few qld people that have made the trip to do so.

We (the competitors) accept any score at any dB Drag event toward "our" Australian records.

As for "official" records, I've towed cars as far as Sydney and Rockhampton and driven as far as Melb over the last decade.

Brad from Car Tunez drove his walled SPL car, a 1980 Mazda 323 all the way to Wagga and back by himself in 2006.

Phil

and that what commited people do they dont winge they just do it and i comend you and brad for making the long haul just to compeate (not forgeting the 4 day piss up as well) it shows true passion and support for the sport we all love.

It was a 1977 Mazda
I also drove down last year and I will do it again this year.
I didn't realise that my comment about records would open such a big can of worms.
I'm a firm believer that if you are at any comp with a crowd of people and a record is done on a term-lab it's good enough for me. I was just going off what Angelo said. Gosh!

I think Cluetin needs to take his skirt off and get some man pants

*edit* This is Brad, damn Sharee signed in on my pc again

agreed

gluetin goto gold coast autosalon do your 160.9 there and back it up and bang you have your self an australian record.


sound good?????????? as it sounds good for me

that woudl work if Gold Coast was a 2x or 3x event... its only a 1x, same as the local event that im sure Brad will do a great job running.

i would like to apologise for my outburst, with everything ive gone through personally over the past 18months ive been under a lot of stress and competing with all the other guys and girls has been something that has helped keep me sane.

the news of no 2x events cracked me. I shouldve taken a 24hour cool off to think what i was going to type.

I will still be present and competing. it will however be the 3rd and last comp for my Pintara - i just dont have the money to make it a loud car, but saying that im not retiring from SPL, i will hopefully be at GCAS with something loud.

also, all what i had said previously were from me, not the views of Justen, Team Boomz ir any other influence.

again, sorry for my outburst and to anyone that felt any kind of offence.

Lets keep QLD the Loud State

Matt

sounds like an idea. may have to organise something before we come up. jen and i up for 8 days anyway