Its official, the third annual 2007 Tuner Shootout is to be held Spetember 22-23rd 2007 at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch near Las Vegas, NV with the 3.5 mile configuration! In partnership with Speed Ventures, the event features 2 full days of intense road course excitement with both a time attack competition and a DE for non competition drivers. Changes for this year include opening up the event to WRX/STIs, Lancer Evolutions, and GTRs for an all out AWD turbo battle. The competition will also now be open to tuner shops and privateers alike.

This year's event will be massive with 120 cars on track throughout the weekend. There is space for 80 DE drivers on the 22nd and 40(intermediate and adanved only) drivers on the 23rd. Together with 40 competitors make for a wild weekend. There will be unlimited room for spectators and parking with only a small gate fee charge by the track. There will also be substantial media coverage for this event.

The competition will break down into 4 classes(listed below) with the added bonus of the Nitto NT-01 Challenge

The DE is open to all cars and WILL sell out.
For more information, check out the website at www.tunershootout.com


Tentative Competitor List:

1 AMS (winner of street and unlim 2006) - Evo, Evo, and STI
2 GSC - Evo(unlim)
3 Aspec - Evo(s)(unlim)
4 Robi-Spec (winner 2004, winner nitto class 2006) - Evos(street, mod, unlim)
5 Cobb Tuning - STI(s) and evo
6 XS Engineering - GTR(unlim)
7 RRM - Evo or possibly Lancer
8 Team EvoM -Evo(Unlim)
9 Tuning Technologies - Evo(possibly 2)
10 Team D Motorsports- Evos
11 FIA / Method4 motorsports - Evos
12 Eastside Muffler - Evo
13 Cusco/Nukabe - Evo (street) and possibly STI (street)
14 Orion Sports Marketing/Pure Tuning - Evo(mod)
15 Perrin - Evo or STI
16 Harmon Motive - Subarus
17 Dynocomp - STI
18 PRE - WRX/STIs
19 ESX - STI(unlim)
20 Relentless Autosport - Evo(street)
21 Topspeed
22 Subaru of Gwinnett
23 Hotlap - Evo (pending transport)
24 RMR - Evo
25 PDX - Subarus
26 GST Motorsports - Impreza (unlim), possible second
27 Mynes - Evo(Mod)

Others that have expressed interest but not added to the list yet:
APR
Atlantic Motorsports
Crawford
Greddy
HKS
Gruppe-s
Hotlap Motorsports
ISP
Cyber Evo
EDO - Zero/Sports
RB Motoring - Customers
Speed Element
Works
World One

 

Maybe try norcalevo.net or evolutionm.net

 

Ed, you'd better do this

 

Yeah, that was a mistake copied from and ealier post regarding the DE section off evoM.

The DE is now equally open to everyone, however since the event concentrates on 3 types of cars, thats what we would like to see the most off. Its a great event and lots of fun.

 

Here are the classes for competition. The DE is open to all experience levels for Saturday and intermediate/advanced for sunday

Nitto Spec NT-01 tire class - $1000 cash purse

* Must run Nitto NT-01 for the duration of the event
* Must run all require Nitto decals for duration of the event
* Must meet requirements for the Modified class

General Rules

* Safety Rules - same as NASA TT. Check www.nasa-tt.com
* Competitors will supply their own transponder or rent one. If needed, a rental can be arranged.
* Must have advanced open passing group track experience to compete.

Street - $400 cash purse

* Vehicle must be currently registered for street use
* Must have DOT approved street tires with a tread wear of 140 or greater. No R compounds. Max width 275.
* Externally Stock turbos
* No alcohol, water, meth, nitrous or any other kind of power aiding injection
* Coilovers are allowed up to 2 way adjustable dampening.
* Vehicles must have all original glass. Lexan windows not permitted
* Must have full exhaust with muffler. Cutouts will remain closed
* Maximum weight reduction of 100lbs or less (documented with list of reductions)
* Must retain full interior. May use aftermarket steering wheels and race seats if total vehicle weight reduction stays within 100lbs
* Use of non OEM doors/roof is not permitted
* Stock width fenders only
* Must run unleaded gas. No use of leaded race gas for the street class
* OEM brake calipers
* AWD only

Modified - $500 Cash Purse

* Vehicle must be currently registered for the street.
* Must have DOT approved tires with a tread wear of 100 or greater. Nt-01 is recomended for Spec NT-01 Challenge eligibility
* 275 max tire width
* Vehicles must have all original glass. Lexan windows not permitted
* Must have full exhaust with muffler.
* No nitrous, meth, propane, etc. Only water is allowed
* No alterations of suspension geometry. Exceptions are bump steer kits and ALKs on Subarus
* Maximum weight reduction of 200lbs or less (well documented with list of reductions and weights)
* Must retain partial interior. Interior behind the driver seat may be “gutted”. Seats and steering wheels may be replaced with aftermarket units.
* Use of non OEM doors/roof is not permitted
* Must run unleaded gas. No use of leaded race gas for the modified class
* Aftermarket wings, front splitters, diffusers, and wide body modifications allowed
* AWD only
* GTRs are limited to stock spec engine internals except for cams. No inreases in displacement or compression

Unlimited - $750 cash purse

* Any DOT tire or equivalent from country of origin
* Full Unibody, 2500lb minimum weight. No use of ballast to meet restriction
* AWD only

Super Unlimited – Award Only

* Anything goes!

 

i hope to see more subies there than the listed above.

btw, smmp is an awesome track!

 

I updated the competitor list which is getting big. Media coverage has also grown considerably.

For those that wish to enter in the DE, there is still plenty of room, however it will probably fill up fast towards the end of august and maybe before.

If you want to be a competitor, sign up now as we have more interested than we have room for

 

Can we get some idea of confirmed entrants? We are coming into a very tight scheduled time of the year for us and our race commitments outside of fun events like this.

Mike

 

Updated the list with fully committed entries in red. The rest on the numbered list have said they are coming, but yet to register officially. The list of people/companies that tell us they are likely to enter is over 60 cars, however will be limited to 40

 

LIC might be going...seeing if we can meet the time constraints.

Not sure if our car is worthy of going

-Noah

 

It probably is...post up some details

 

That would be awesome, we could have a pretty decent sized caravan to the event.

Mike

 

errrr, seems like we won't be ready in time.

I need to make time for a cage to be installed, its just not possible right now...this sucks.

I wish we could make it.

-Noah

 

Dude c'mon...going to vegas twice in 1 month back to back FTW! Think of the shenanigans!

 

Yeah, the more the merrier. Even if its just to run in the DE. There will be lots of photographers on hand, so even if you have a good looking stickered up car going around the track fro fun in DE, there is a good chance a pic will appear in a mag.

Not to mention the event is going to be a blast with the top evos and subarus in the country.