TunerFest North is a huge show, at Oulton Park in Cheshire, taking place at the venue of Time Attack. I went for my first outing with Asphalt Knights, a car club with a vested interest in JDM cars and I had a great time. The group was friendly, the meet up and, admittedly small, convoy was always fun. That’s what I love. A full tank, empty roads and some time to listen to that turbo, screamer and engine sing in harmony. I still can’t get over how much smoother the car is with the Emtron KV8 and Rajab Racing Intake. It revs like a motorbike!
The car performed a treat on the way, 1.5bar, 7500rpm, screaming through the much needed lovely summer morning. And it also meant a couple of trips to the local petrol station! Shell 99 was inhaled this weekend!
After TunerFest, I’ll definitely attend more events with Asphalt Knights, they were a really nice and friendly bunch. Would be good to get involved and bring some more high quality JDM cars to them. I think the next even with them will be with the Supra!
It will be nice to have the option to chop and change between cars if one is away for some work with SRD, which lets face it, one of my cars always will be away!
The next event will be sometime in August, in a collaboration with Sunday Scene, I think. But I fancy a longer outing next… who fancies a trip out to somewhere like Dumfries and Galloway? Go and explore some wonderful roads in the south west coast of Scotland.
If the Isle of Man ferry was quicker and cheaper, I’d happily head over there for a couple of days. Screaming through the roads there would be insane fun, and you can’t deny it. But three hours for that short distance and £340 return is just a bit too much…
