Viper World, I too need your support for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge!

[Paolo Castellano]

Hello all! I just found out today that my car has also has been nominated as an entrant to the Sport Compact Car Magazine's Ultimate Street Car Challenge. There are 83 cars nominated. There are fourteen tests they do:

1. Car Show: self explanatory

2. Grandma test: Grandma sorts out which cars are comfortably usable in the real world.==> The Whine of the Heffner supercharger and the Sean Roe V-10 howling side exhaust will drown out grandma's screams!


3. Guru Panel: Panel of engineering gurus evaluates how tricked out the car is from an engineering perspective.

4. Driveability: self explanatory

5. Dyno: self explanatory

6. Base price: self explanatory

7. Emissions testing: self explanatory

8. Fuel Economy: self explanatory

9. Road course: Cars are timed around a road course

10. Skid Pad: The usual skid pad test

11. Braking: 60-0 MPH=> shortest distance wins

12. Acceleration: 1/4 Mile ET and trap speed

13. 0-60 time

14. Gross display of HP: Massive parking lot with no telephone poles===> Imagine the possibilities of going sideways at 100 MPH and not getting in trouble!

.........My car is almost done getting supercharged by Jason Heffner. In the Sport Compact Car article, In support of the Viper Community, I mention just about every tuner and person in the Viper community who has helped along the way to help me get various parts of this project done. I would love to show all my Supra and ricer friends exactly what an intercooled, supercharged V-10 MONSTER on Heffner steriods can do. Please vote for me I will do the Viper Community proud...... I will teach them the meaning of respect for the Viper as I do to all who come up against ENZO WHO every day on the street. Paolo Castellano

P.S. I am car #11 on the ballot. Just go buy the magazine, on P.155 there is a ballot. Please choose me and 9 other cars!!!!!!

 

[SapphireGTS]

Ill vote for you if you get a hair cut.

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Ill vote for you if you get a hair cut.

Keith, you would not believe it, but I swear my wife just gave me a hair cut!

On second thought, for you, I'll get them all cut!

 

[GaryA]

Congratulations Paolo!! I'll be sure to place my vote for you! It looks like this Ultimate Street Car Challenge was written especially for you. I don't think I've ever met anybody that combines all the aspects of this challenge (road racing, pure performance, engineering, etc.) better than you. Somehow I think that #14 will be named after you after this competition. Good luck!!!

By the way, how do you vote? Make it easy for us!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Congratulations Paolo!! I'll be sure to place my vote for you! It looks like this Ultimate Street Car Challenge was written especially for you. I don't think I've ever met anybody that combines all the aspects of this challenge (road racing, pure performance, engineering, etc.) better than you. Somehow I think that #14 will be named after you after this competition. Good luck!!!

By the way, how do you vote? Make it easy for us!

Gary, you have to buy the Sport Compact Car magazine and tear out page 155 that has the all the possible cars on a grid. You pick the ten you want to see and compete and that's that.

 

[King GTS]

Re: Viper World, I too need your support for the Ultimate Street Car Challe

Consider it done. Good luck!

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[TOOOFST]

"Comfortably usable"that judge better have a skinny @SS or be a yoga master to get in that monkey cage.Aside from that,you've got my vote buddy.

PS.Keith,your supposed to make fun of peoples good points.

 

[Torquemonster]

Cool - way to go Paolo! Your car is going to be a monster - I think it'll raise more than a few eyebrows when it surfaces

...sniff... sniff ..sniff did you smell that?

it wasn't me...

I could have sworn I smelt a bit of fear in those whose cars might face a new king of the hill to compare too....

Pity that shoot out does not include a top speed run - that'd sort out the 1/4 mile specialist cars from the real streeters....oh well.

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Re: Viper World, I too need your support for the Ultimate Street Car Challe

Consider it done. Good luck!

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Trey, Thanks my man!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Cool - way to go Paolo! Your car is going to be a monster - I think it'll raise more than a few eyebrows when it surfaces

...sniff... sniff ..sniff did you smell that?

it wasn't me...

I could have sworn I smelt a bit of fear in those whose cars might face a new king of the hill to compare too....

Pity that shoot out does not include a top speed run - that'd sort out the 1/4 mile specialist cars from the real streeters....oh well.

Torquemonster, I can't smell anything yet as I have a cold until the car is done. You must have a keener sense of smell than I do, I hope you are right!

As far as the top speed run is concerned, we would just need to take care of that little detail about the tires that would handle 250+ MPH!

I do wish they would add a standing mile to the competition, I can't wait to do that one on a closed course!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

"Comfortably usable"that judge better have a skinny @SS or be a yoga master to get in that monkey cage.Aside from that,you've got my vote buddy.

PS.Keith,your supposed to make fun of peoples good points.

Scott, I will be driving my car for the test! You will need to give me a few lessons on how to be a drag strip terror like yourself!!!!!! :coo]

"Comfortably usable" ==>that judge better have a skinny @SS or be a yoga master to get in that monkey cage!:

Scott, like I said in an earlier post, the Whine of the Heffner supercharger and the Sean Roe side exhaust will drown out grandma's screams!

 

[96 GTS]

Hi Paolo, you will one of the ten I select for sure. I bought the magazine lastnight - it gave me an excuse to get my GTS out for a quick (and I do mean quick) trip to the grocery store. Good luck!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Actually, there is another guy in the magazine who literally has no legs and made his own controls to drive the car. He has an RX-7 turbo. He is ballot #33....==> We all have to vote for this guy; he has a lot of balls to say that if he is voted in all the contestants will know what it feels like to be beaten by a guy in a wheel chair! I have to meet this guy! I bet he is one bad MF!

 

[Walt McFarland]

I'll try to vote later today.

 

[SapphireGTS]

Ill vote for you. Of course, unless your car gets its doors blown off by some 7 second Civic.

I doubt that will happen though.

I dont know about the guy in the wheelchair. Its a competition with the cars not a foot race. As long as his car is not handicap then him having no legs doesnt really matter. Or am I missing something.

Good luck man.

When do you get your car? We cant talk smack about it until you have it in your hands.

 

[Chuck 97 GTS]

You definitely have my vote. A lot of people can talk the talk, but Paolo will back it up 100%. None of this 'estimated' top speed crap; he'll give you real speedometer readings. If you don't believe me come to Chicago and he will gladly show you. Just make sure you bring a change of underwear.

 

[SapphireGTS]

Chuck. You still have the viper. Last 3 times I have seen you, your car was nowhere to be found?

 

[Joe Dozzo]

Count on my vote!

 

[GaryA]

You definitely have my vote. A lot of people can talk the talk, but Paolo will back it up 100%. None of this 'estimated' top speed crap; he'll give you real speedometer readings. If you don't believe me come to Chicago and he will gladly show you. Just make sure you bring a change of underwear.

I can attest to this!! Paolo's THE man when it comes to freaky speed (I've seen the video!) He's the only guy who has gone for a ride in my car and yelled for me to go faster when the tires were burning off in the 120+ MPH range.

 

[Torquemonster]

I believe it! You're a sick man Paolo - you know that don't you

Video - you have a video?

Where can we find it? It was taken on a closed track right?

I'd love to see it!

 

[Birvini]

I believe it! You're a sick man Paolo - you know that don't you

Video - you have a video?

Where can we find it? It was taken on a closed track right?

I'd love to see it!

Ditto that! I want, no, I need to see this video!!!

You've got my vote, and mail!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Birvini, How's it going? I will probably see you at the Viper Meeting this Wednesday night. Thanks for the support and Gary just has a road racing video with me doing some cool stuff on the road course where I am going pretty fast! I will show you the video some time if you want!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

I believe it! You're a sick man Paolo - you know that don't you

Video - you have a video?

Where can we find it? It was taken on a closed track right?

I'd love to see it!

Torquemonster, Do you even need to ask if the video was taken on a closed course? Of course it was on a closed course I had ice water coursing through my veins, The pavement was coarse which got the tires hot and made for a beautiful 360 with a smoking set of rears in 2nd gear at the 360 degree mark after the correction. Classic!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Russ, Walt, Keith Joe and Gary: Thank you all for the Votes of confidence and votes to hopefully get me into this competition! Paolo

 

[Casey]

What's up Paolo? How's the waiting game going?
I'll be at Starbucks/BarnesNoble tomorrow morning! I'll get you a few votes!

 

[Paolo Castellano]

What's up Paolo? How's the waiting game going?
I'll be at Starbucks/BarnesNoble tomorrow morning! I'll get you a few votes!

Hey my man, the waiting game is going just fine as we decided to add one more big thing that I just had to have.... It will be well worth the wait I am sure!==> So when are you going to pick up your car? I hope you come to Chicago so all can see your bad boy to hold them over till mine comes back! Hopefully I will see you soon! Thanks for the vote, I appreciate it! Paolo

 

[ZX1100]

Paolo, Thursday night we can all go to Barnes and put in our vote for you.

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Paolo, Thursday night we can all go to Barnes and put in our vote for you.

ZX1100, thank you!Sounds like a plan! Let's get enough votes to overcome the possible import bias against the American muscle!

 

[Birvini]

Paolo, Thursday night we can all go to Barnes and put in our vote for you.

ZX1100, thank you!Sounds like a plan! Let's get enough votes to overcome the possible import bias against the American muscle!

Exactly!! Soooo tired of hearing my Supra this and my Supra that.

 

[Paolo Castellano]

Exactly!! Soooo tired of hearing my Supra this and my Supra that.

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Birvini, I have a good email account of a Viper spanking a Supra I will foreward to you!