Wake The Dragon 2011

First off sorry for the lack on posting on here, however I have been super busy personally. Anyway I headed up to Fontana Village last weekend for WTD, I was in a small caravan on the way, but we made the best of it stopping and visiting friends on the way there. For us it took 7.5 hours to get there but it was worth it. I believe roughly 130 S2000's attended the event, once again it was alot of the older crowd that has been going the past 9 years. Most of the cars that attend the event really are not that much to see however, everyone is a nut about these cars and the general focus seems to be about driving. It also seems well that they set it up the same weekend as Import Alliance, because some of the cars that may have gone to WTD chose to go to IA instead, and that was cool with me. Back on topic, Friday started out with a good run through the dragon 318 turns in 11 miles, and down the Hellbender to the cabin. Once we checked in a poker run was setup it was roughly 89 miles and took about 2.5 hours to complete. This was a great start to the weekend to gain some more familiarization with the roads if you had not been there in a while or was new.  After this we did a number of runs through the dragon, and then went back to the cabin to clean up for the night. That night they had a "Beer and Wine" swap meet where everyone brought there favorite beer or wine and put it on the table and you just went back and forth getting whatever spirit you wanted, this was a good time to catch up with old friends and just get drunk. Saturday was the big day it started off with the line up for the "Monster Roll Out", this was where everyone lined up and drove the Dragon and the Hellbender in a giant line of S2000's. The roads were wet that morning but dried up soon after this. Once again driving all these roads through the mountains seemed to conclude around noon where everyone met up atop Fontana Dam and had a catered lunch. Then we drove some more roads until it was time to clean up for dinner. Dinner consisted of more drinks and food, with some door prizes and such. We had a nice chat with videos from Killboy of www.killboy.com, where he discussed the name and cars,bikes, and big wheels. He is the resident photographer from the Dragon. What a job he has to get to drive the roads all year and take photos. After all this some people had a bon fire and some activities ensued. The next morning was time for us to leave a few more trips on the Dragon and a sad good bye. It was a great weekend and was relaxing to get away from cell phone signal. The S2000 is an amazing car for roads like that once you have driven the car there you always have a new love for the car. In fact when we came home we bought us a second S2000. I had put alot of work in my car in preparation for that weekend. It turned out great. But, I was plagued with a few problems. My EMS took a shit on the way there so the cars tune ran like shit, it reverted back to like a start up tune or something, and on the way home the cam bolt that came loose a few months ago on the toe arm came loose again after it had been replaced from the previous time. Im currently researching why it keeps doing this. Fortchentally this happened on the way home and I was able to make it home for the cost of 2 new tires soon. Im really excited for this fall for the unofficially announced Dragon Ball Run DBR. Keep up to date with this and make sure you attend this event!

You can follow all of this here http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/forum/49-dragon-events/

The Tail Of The Dragon S2000 Run

If your not familiar with the best road on the East coast, then you must live in a hole in the ground. Make sure to mark your calendar and make deals with the devil, whatever you have to do to attend Wake the Dragon 2011 April 15-17th. The Tail of the Dragon is located in the Smokey Mountains in the Tennessee/North Carolina border, once your hear you will find 318 turns in 11 miles. Holy Shit.....YES! (And the epic roads just don't stop there) I personally have never enjoyed driving the car more or meeting faces from the board, than at this event. Plan on seeing tons of S2000's at this event. What you will need to do is get your car ready, as will I. I would highly recommend to anyone planning on attending to have all maintenance done and fluids changed in preparation. Good tires are important as well, plan to bring extra oil and general tools i.e. torque wrench and tire pressure gauge etcetera. I will be updating as I perform the same maintenance to my own car and hopefully aid in other. I can also work on a checklist for others. Another thing to keep in mind is where the lodging is located in the past there has been nothing open at night or no place near to get beer (or food?) to survive a night in the mountains.  Prior planning will prevent piss poor performance.

Go here for more details and registration.
http://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=837339

Also I saw a Killboy video posted check it out if your hesitant on attending.
If your wondering who Killboy is... It is a site dedicated to taking photos of all the meets at Deals Gap
http://www.killboy.com/
http://killboy.blogspot.com/


S2000 Compilation from Deals Gap/Tail of the Dragon 2010 from killboy on Vimeo.


Also Deals Gap Info
http://www.dealsgap.com/



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