7/9/08Almost a year past and a lot things happened within the team. Jun's Crx was sold to Jimwel and since then we've been trying to make it run with a new engine program similar to Jun's old set-up. Unfortunately we've gone through two engines and still unsuccessful. Jason's Crx is getting a bigger engine, hopefully break into 11's as well. Franz' black crx still suffers from some transmission problem since the Battle of the Imports in Bakersfield last Oct.07. One good news after all this misfortune is that Pekto finally broke 11's since CMI last May 23 and able to back it up last July 6 CMI with 11.7 @ 116mph. His engine should be capable of low elevens after we do more tuning on the dyno. We're all trying to get ready for the next Battle of the Imports here in Sacramento Raceway in August. Hopefully all of the cars or most of the racecars will be ready by then. Some CMI pictures will be posted soon as well updates on the other projects.
8/22/07It's been a while since the last updates on the team. There's not much improvement over the last few months other than Jun's car finally broke 11's last Battle of the Imports held in Sacramento Raceway last August 12. It's was a historic event since the "Battle of the Imports" finally came to NorCal since it's first event in 1990 held at now closed down facility L.A. county raceway @ Palmdale. Juan's car finally ran right after I finally took a look at it. As it turned out, his wiring of his wiring conversion by a reputable shop was wrong. The fuel map on his Vafc doesn't help either. Juan ran his 1st 13's on the first pass on a stock B16 block. As far as our crx drag car, the usual tranny problem of not going on gear since the Battle last year @ Bakersfield which cost me a runner-up spot. The car had not problem on the horsepower department it's just a tranny issues. Hopefully all the issues would be fix for the next CMI in Sept.30 and everybody else needs to step up their game within the team. Battle pix and video should be up soon.
4/12/07Added pictures from CMI Spring Jam held last 4/1/07 @ Sac Raceway Park. Although we did not do good on this event like none of the cars qualified F8 for the first time due to mechanical failure and one of our car snapped an axle and did a 360 and hit the wall. Jason's engine blew up half track during qualifying. Jun's chassis starts to show abuse every pass. Pekto's car was not up to par due to vtec controller issues. While some of us was struggling, Rudy's H22 powered EG finally broke 13's with just an additional M&H slicks and P28 chipped ecu. Not bad for a stock block w/ full glass and uncut unibody. Alex' ol' schoool ZC/NOs powered civic dragcar was consistently pullin' 12's during testing on Sat but ran out Nitrous during competion. Hopefully we'll be back quicker and all ready to go for the next event on our schedule like CMI in July and Battle of the Imports in August.
1/16/07Added pictures from CMI Winter warm-up in the gallery section. Added Jayson's crx, Richard's crx and Juan's civic in the project cars section.
1/15/07We started off the year w/ a good one @ the CMI Winter Warm-up 1/14/07. The weather was cold Highs 48 and 22 Lows, good for all motor guys. 3 of the 6 project cars was brought out, might not be in their full potential but that's a good start, they're done. Jason's car has been a long time comming. He started off w/ an EF chop top hatchback but ended up bring out a crx and was done in maybe only six months.His best pass of the day was 13.0 @ 103 mph. Juan's EF hatchback was done too but had some map sensor problem during testing. The same w/ Jr porkchops EF hatchback having a missfiring problem. We could have figured out problem @ the problem @ the track but we were testing out our "all motor" crx too. We finally got rid of the grinding problem on second gear and ran 11.0 @ 124 mph on our last pass w/ a 1.6 60ft. With a better 60 ft., it should be in the 10's by the end of the year. All in all it was a good turn out other than the crash left and right , we can't wait till the next Spring Jam
11/2/06It's been a long season,Battle of the Imports experience was one of the best turnout in years. Fomoso Raceway was better than Sacramento Raceway other than it's 500 ft. elevation compared to Sac. Most of the crew showed up on Sat. and Sunday but unfortunately our first casualty of the day was Jun's "all motor" mint green EF that hit the wall during 1st pass of ProStreet qualifying 12.3 @ 114mph crossing the finish line backwards due to coil wires stucked in the throttlebody at the end of the pass. We qualified #2 11.2 @ 119mph w/ our black drag crx after Bisi Ezerioha w/ 9.8 @ 140mph #1 qualifier. Jun qualified #5 w/ his 1st and only pass on the new car. The car was too damage to continue so he headed home early for the weekend. There were only three cars showed up for elimination so everbody had a bye run. We tried to take advantage of the bye to get some more seat time on the new headers but we been struggling all weekend w/ a tranny problem w/ 1st to 2nd gear selection. Well enough w/ the excuses time to fix the problem for the next season and finish the rest of the project cars. Some of the pix are already up but more BOTI pix will be up soon.
10/18/06 Everyone are getting their drag car ready for the upcomming Battle of the Imports and some might just stay @ the local final CMI North vs. South. We just got our new custom headers from SixSigma Racing in Stockton, Ca. for our EF8 drag car. Hopefully this will take us to our 1st 10 sec. all motor drag car after tuning since couple of our dyno resources are gone. We're probably just gonna dyno the car @ the track the same goes for Jun and Pekto's Crx which we would hopefully debut @ the Battle. We would have had 5 cars ready but due to lack of time, most likely just 2 to 3 cars. Hopefully everything goes out smoothly as planned...see you guyz over @ the Bakersfield.
9/5/06 Added CMI Summer National pix and Formula D drifting held @ Sonoma, Ca. Infineon Raceway courtesy of Chris Moreno
5/18/06 Added NorCal Street car show @ SMA in which we won "Best Drag Honda". It was a good turn out compared to last year over all with the addition of DJ and event models.
1/2/06 Added last 10/9/05 CMI drag video
12/16/05 Updated some event pictures @ the gallery section. Project Black Widow "all motor" Crx was sold finally. It's gonna be a totally different 06 season w/out one of our car in the heads-up category especially the guaranteed $400-$1,000 whole season cash pay-outs will be missed.
12/2/05 2006 Race Schedules are up. I've noticed some of the CMI Sacramento events only have one day event compared to last year. Some event schedules don't have test n' tune on Saturday. IDRC added one more event in West coast which is in Fontana, California this year w/ the rumors of LACR/Palmdale closing in next 2 years. Some schedules conflict with CMI event but we all know where we're going. Project Black Widow might retire next year depending if it would be sold or some kind of sponsorship would come through. I would probably take a season off on driving the Black Widow "all motor" CrX next year tend to the rest of the teams racecars to become fulltime crew chief coz it's hard to run a race team, drive and crew chief at the same time. Other teams project car plans for 06 are still up in the air. There would be a lot of changes next year as far as rules and regulation within the team, who's down or not and weeding out people who's holding back the entire team. We're hoping to have a great season next year...Happy Holidays!!!
10/26/05 I'ts been a while since the last update,just wrapped up a long 2005 racing season and it's time to hybernate for a while to set-up a new combo for the next season. We're gonna do some dyno tuning on couple of project cars as well as our street driven racecars. Finish up on some of our long overdue so called project cars that never ran right and sort out the bugs.
7/19/05 D1 Championship Drifting championship pix are up. Check out some pix from the mini parking lot car show at SMA last weekend 7/16/05 @ Roxspin.com in which our crx drag car won 1st place in Nasty category.
7/4/05 Updated some event pictures and added video @ the gallery section. CMI Summer National 6/26/2005 pictures are up. Congrats to Vickey for winning 1st place last Wednesday night fun drags and lastly congrats to Jason and Marissa for a healthy new 7.5 lbs. baby girl.
7/1/05 Finally added Chris, Iseah, Jasin and Vickey's section on the active member's list. CMI Summer National pix will be up soon.
6/28/05 We did pretty good last CMI Summer National just like last CMI Spring Jam. Brought home semi finals again on Fast 8 All Motor class on our project black all motor crx but runner-up or 1st would have been nice. Check out the Fast 8 all motor video 1st round of qualifying last Sunday June 26. Best time ever pulled that day was just 11.4 @ 120 mph, 2 tenths slower than before since it's hot day @ the track. Toby got runner-up on Outlaw class with his white EG hatchback running with the best 12.4 @ 107mph. Mostly every lasted couple of rounds in their category like Ren's hybrid DC/DA hybrid Integra doing low 15's, George's 240 eventhough red lit but broke 14's all motor, Vicky doing mid 15's & Alex car doin high 13's. Jason's car finally made down the track with plenty of bugs to be fixed for the next CMI. His car leaves hard off the line but seems to fall off on the top end.
5/19/05 IDRC pix and results from the race are up from last April 17 road trip down Palmdale, Ca. L.A. county raceway. There is a coverage from DragSport Magazine on July issue of this event although they mispelled my name to "Frank Reyes" instead of Franz Reyes. It was our 1st trip down southern california competing and it was somewhat a great experience other than a speeding ticket going 90mph with a trailer (55mph max speed limit w/ trailer). The event had a low turn out but less competition maybe because of track condition. The track sucks coz of desert wind, sand gets stuck between 'ur teeth when you talk. You would think that a lot fast southern california pro racers would show up but only Erick's Racing team and few priveteer showed to fill in 8 spot of the "All Motor" class. If I still qualified 4th with a slow and only pass on Sunday qualifying of 12.5 @ 108 mph, what does that tell you? Unfortunately I red lit during elimination to Eddie Meza due to uneven staging surface (like Infineon Raceway) but still went ahead and record my Palmdale track record 11.9 @ 112 mph. I guess I can say now that I laid down 11 second pass @ Palmdale. Next race CMI June 26-27 with some suspension changes to the black car and yellow w/ the addition of wheelie bar but might not be necessary since I can cut a good high 1.5's to low 1.6 60ft. anyway but the yellow car definitely needs it since it looses control @ the end of the track.
4/6/05 Finally added some new pix @ the gallery like the past CMI events and updated members pix and profile. Last CMI event was ok although it was rescheduled to April 24. We got to test out our new set up on a few cars which broke some a the teams personal best like Glenn almost broke into 12's with his Nitrous Express powered old school hatch. George got to bring his 89 240 sx finally at the track (Richard's old 240 SX). We finally got to dial in Pekto's yellow "all motor" crx with 12.6 best e.t. on the B16A 1.6L engine. Project black widow "all motor" crx was on hand too and brought home another teams best 11.2 @ 120 mph with just a few diet on the car by a one piece fiberglass front end and doors. Next stop IDRC @ Palmdale on April 16-17 then rescheduled CMI on the 24th.
3/30/05 It's been a while since the last update. We just aquired more space so more updated event pix, project cars pix and members pix should be up soon. We did ok last winter warm up, we ran about six car from our stable and qualified 4th for heads up for the quickest turbo/all motor at the CMI winter warm-up event. With the best e.t. to date 11.3 @ 119 mph straight off from the trailer. With just couple changes on our project "Black Widow" all motor crx we went from 11.5 @ 117 mph last year. We're getting now for CMI spring jam in April 2-3 and if everything goes well we should be good to go to IDRC at Palmdale in April 16-17.
11/14/04We're so deeply sorry to announce that the brother of one of our teammates, Bobby Skou, had past away. This is definitely the all time low of our team with the loss of our beloved friend, a brother and a son.
10/17/04 We did ok last CMI event eventhough we only had 4 cars that ran compared to last event. The "Black Widow Crx" qualified #7 on Fast 8 all motor class with a wounded engine and a flying bumper but still able to pull the best e.t. 11.5 @ 117 mph during elimination race againts Danny Tran's 11.00 @ 120 mph. We're planning on running at IDRC finals down southern California in Nov. 16-17. We're hoping to bring two Pro cars and 3 bracket race car that we have.
- 9/10/04 Updated project cars section and members. Check out Roxspin.com for some CMI pix featuring a few of team Neu Era cars.
- 9/3/04 Added George, Toby, Tien and Jay S. in the members section
- 9/1/04 Added CMI pix from last April 04, added Glenn and Alex as a new member. Project Da Integra is finally done and ran the best of 14.9 @ 90 mph on stock ls block. Project Green "all motor" was sold to one of the team member with a B16A 1.6L VTEC grunt motor instead of the 1.8L that we raced during the mid 03 and 04 season. We have a new project "all motor" Crx that was aquired last June. So far we ran the best of 11.8 @ 118 mph on it's third pass ever at the track last August CMI with no dyno tuning whatsoever.
1/8/04 2004 race schedules are up
- 10/7/03Nothing but problem last weekend at the CMI "North vs. South". First qualifying on the green crx with a miss shift, second was rather more exciting with my passenger side door blew off on third gear resulted 12.3 @ 86 mph with a slow down at the end. Still testing on the new Mickey Thompsons slicks, so far I'm only able to cut 1.7 sec 60 foots on those compared to the old M&H's I had early in the season with a best of 1.6 60 ft. Lost 3 mph compared to the old set up and after dyno. We will be doing some adjustments and get ready for Battle of the Imports in Oct. 18-19.
- 9/18/03 Richard and Ren's car are back on project car section. Our low buck EF9 civic hb will be revamped w/ somewhat new powerplant and chassis set up but still maintain sohc D series block in all motor trim and hopefully can hit low 13's to high 12's. Pictures and set up will be up soon when we get done. Ren's DA Integra will go under the knife again and pull out the ol' B16A/Ls tranny set up and go with the ever popular "poor man's GsR" LS/VTEC.
- 9/8/03 qualified #14 with 11.8 @ 113 mph after round 3 of qualifying @ the Matrix GRMotorsports NHRA event in Sonoma Infineon raceway. I had to face #3 qualifier Scott Kelly running mid 10's all day and eventual winner of the day. I only able to cut .7xx reaction time, 1.6 second 60 ft. and 12.5 @ 111 mph results from a miss shift of 1st to second gear againtst Scott's .5xx reaction time, 1.4 second 60 ft. and 10.6 @ 123 mph.Check out photos from the event at urbanracer.com and race results @ nhraimport.com . Next stop, CMI "North vs. South" @ Sacramento Raceway
- 8/30/03 just got the project yellow crx dynoed last Tuesday. Baseline dyno showed just only 191 whp and 128 ft.lbs. of torque to run an 11.7 @ 116 mph e.t. last CMI event in Sacramento Raceway. After some tuning and adjustment 197.4 whp and 134.1 ft.lbs. of torque to the wheels on a Dynopack dyno. Further testing is next to our list and then we will be Sonoma bound next month for an NHRA event.
- 6/23/03 just broke into 11's last weekend as planned with the project all motor crx. But 11.8 @ 115 mph 3rd pass on the new motor was still not good enough to qualify for "All motor 8". Dyno tuning will be next to our agenda and mid 11's should be next.
- 6/20/03 finally tested out the new ls-rs/vtec race motor and suspension mods on the project yellow crx last Wednesday. Only made a couple pass untill got kicked out coz of the legal issue of the rollbar and the car's uncontrolable bounce after engagement of the clutch on 4th gear in which I have to slow down before I cross the finish line and resulted a crushed header downpipe and tranny case tapping/scrapping the track aspalt. I think 12.4 @ 109 and 12.3 @ 95 mph explains the slow down on the top end. Will try again to make a full pass this weekend @ CMI "Cal Compacts" 6/21-6/22 as long as the suspension and rollbar issues had been resolved. I think 11's is within reach since it pulls hard on 2nd and 3rd compared to my B16 that I used to run on the car that put's out 172 whp. the new motor should put out somewhere 185-195 whp after I get a chance to dyno tune the car.
- 4/19/03 active members pix & car profile updated
- 4/16/03 added 3 events on our team race schedule for 2003. We're planning on attending NHRA, IDRC & Battle of the Imports
- 4/13/03 check out photo gallery of CMI w/ team Neu eRa @ www.Roxspin.com
- 4/12/03 Although we didn't go home with a trophy few members 1/4 mile times improved last weekend at CMI held at Sacramento Raceway.
- 4/11/03 added updates & team race schedule section