The end of the second day of the Import Meet Street Car Competition was broken into two categories: Build Quality/Fabrication and Car Show. A quick reference guide for the competitors can be found here. Photos by Ryan Cutuli, Randy Montgomery, and Nick Poirier. Text by Matt Haugness. Build/Fabrication Quality After finishing the morning part of day two, the competition moved to Speedware Motorsports in Redmond, Washington. Here the competitor’s cars were put on lifts and judged on the quality of their build and fabricated parts. Speedware Motorsports is known for having one of the nicest shops in the Pacific Northwest…
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Matt Haugness
Matt created ImportMeet.com in 2011 after noticing a lack of media websites dedicated exclusively to import cars. Although he's employed as an engineer and has no formal training in journalism, his skills continue to develop as the editor for the site. He enjoys writing feature car articles, technical build/project articles, and organizing events. Matt drives a 2023 Honda Civic Type R and a 1990 LS-swapped Mazda RX-7.
The first half of the second day of the Import Meet Street Car Competition was broken into three categories: Peak Horsepower, Power Delivery, and Ride Quality. A quick reference guide for the competitors can be found here. Photos by Ryan Cutuli, Randy Montgomery, Sam Fu, and Nick Poirier. Text by Matt Haugness. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxFG06zUUrM Watch Import Car Dyno – IMSCC 2013 on YouTube Peak Horsepower Day two of the IMSCC began at Carb Connection in Kirkland, Washington on Saturday, August 10, 2013. Carb Connection has an in-ground AWD Dynojet dynamometer that was well suited for the variety of drivetrain configurations in…
The first day of the Import Meet Street Car Competition was broken into two categories: Retail Price and Drag Racing. A quick reference guide for the competitors can be found here. Photos by Ryan Cutuli, Randy Montgomery, Matt Haugness, and Nick Poirier. Retail Price Out of all of the categories in the IMSCC Retail Price was the only one that was decided prior to the competition. The retail price of each car was determined by using their original MSRP with inflation. The same online resource was used for all of the cars with the exception of the Skyline which was…
Before we share the results of each day of the IMSCC, we wanted to make sure that the method we used to determine the points throughout the competition was clear to everyone following along. Major categories of the IMSCC (the ones where performance was critical) were worth 100 points. The rest of the categories were worth 50 points each. Every category of the IMSCC had bonus points for finishing with the exception of Retail Price. Retail Price was calculated before the competition so it was impossible for a car to not finish.
2000 Nissan Skyline GT-R V-Spec II Owner: Johnny Driver: Jake Montgomery (JMtuning) Car Nickname: The Blue Dragon Location: Idaho Tires: Nitto NT555II Extreme Fuel Choice: E85 Estimated Horsepower: 700+ Click for Introduction Video Click for Feature Article 2004 Subaru WRX Wagon Owner/Driver: Katie Smith Car Nickname: Rumble Wagon Location: Bothell, WA Tires: Dunlop Direzza DZII Fuel Choice: Pump (92 octane) Estimated Horsepower: 300+ Click for Introduction Video Click for Feature Article
As essential as performance and appearance are with a street car—its comfort level, practicality, and how nice it is to be a passenger in are just as important. We felt that the best person to judge this portion of the Import Meet Street Car Competition would be an unbiased female. We’re happy to introduce Elise Detris as the official model and ride quality judge of the IMSCC for 2013.
Most automotive enthusiasts that reside in the Pacific Northwest are very familiar with NWMotiv.com. Josh Mackey and his crew have put together some of the largest automotive events in the region over the last few years and pride themselves on being some of the most fair and experienced car show judges. It was for these reasons that we asked them to be our judges for the car show portion of the Import Meet Street Car Competition. To give our readers from other regions an idea of who they are, we put together this short interview. ImportMeet.com: How long have you…
This year was the fourth time that we have organized our annual Mt. Baker Import Run and every year it continues to grow in size. Like last year, we started the event with an hour long pre-meet at the Sunset Square Cost Cutter in Bellingham, WA. After a short driver’s meeting we left town and began the climb up the twisty mountain roads to the Heather Meadows overflow lot. Photos by Ryan Cutuli.