Ignition Extreme Weekender

25-27th June was the Ignition Extreme weekender show - 3 days in theNottinghamshire countryside just messing about with Modified cars.  RESULT!

Me and Lou got there early on Friday and met up with Adam 'bassbenz' Cope and set up Camp dB Drag while the wife 'supervised' i believe she called it ( I called it sunbathing whilst taking the odd picture!!!)

The genius of a couple of men at work

Both tents up without a problem ;)

We did better than Jim 'Buju Banton'Box did with his tent!
Fail!

Jim managed to sort it out with some help from the camping experts

Later on some more guys turned up - John Daddy-O Aitkin had the Jupiler supplies - happy days

Big Black sat happily playing away all night (well until 11pm when we got told to shut it off

Saturday Morning started with Big Black playing The Top Gun Theme at full whack at 8am  - theyall loved us!!!

I got a shed load of help from Alex 'Loudvanman' Mitchell  And Jon 'WonkyJon' Clements tweaking the individual amps to set them up correctly - My initial setup got me in the ball park but a couple of the subs needed tweaking - you can see the problem in the top right hand sub in the video - moving alot more than all the others


We tested before the changes and I hit 156.1db - a personal best and new UK record

Big Black got a lot of attention all  weekend - It was making some great noise ;)

I qualified with a  perfect 149.9 in Bassrace and 156.1db @ 30hz in db drag - a good day.

Saturday night we decided to order take out and after hearing rumors of a monstor kebab that would feed a family of four - our choice for tea was easy!!

Waiting for dinner

Whilst waiting for food - Tom (lol4fun) pimped a few dubstep tunes - one of which Buju took a shine to - he promptly blew the dustcap off his dd9512 and heated it up a treat but never fear - Wonkys magic glue to the rescue! - this stuff repaired my pair of dd9918s enough that I could hammer a perfect 149.9 bassrace run not 30mins after he repaired the entire surround on both subs!

Adam 'dumdum'Daniels and Alex 'LoudvanMan' Mitchell get caught in the T4/Bandpass portaloo discussing box designs!

Darren 'Loudboy' Millard with our massive food order

Adam 'bassbenz' cope and me with 'The Twins' - Giant Mega Mixed Kebabs

That is A - LOT of Meat - Lamb Donner, Chicken and Beef Shish, Chicken Tikka Pieces plus a Tandoori Chicken Leg in a Naan Bread I could have used as a blanket!

A very happy fat man!

camp db Drag was quite for a short while as everyone tucked in

My camp seat got a little to small so Adam and me moved to the flattest table we could find which happened to be Big Blacks Bonnet

The rest of Saturday night was spend groaning with full stomachs but at 11pm we did manage to celebrate armed forces day with a Big Black style rendition of The Last Post

Sunday morning started with Insomnia by Faithless - at full whack ;)  they didnt get no sleep that morning I tell you!

Sunday was another blinding hot day so some shade was arranged for the Wags

as we where joined by Darren 'dbdaz' Hircock and his wife Helen, Chris 'Chris@Four' Woods ins the Hertz SPL Show Panda, Dave 'VD' Wilkins with his SPL Marbella and DC Sounds powered Mondeo estate and Ed 'edhick'hickling in the Jacked DC Sounds Chevy Blazer

ed and I ended up head to head again inthe bassrace semis - always very nerve racking pulling up next to ed!

Makes Big Black look not so big!

Unfortunately ed bust out and I managed another perfect 149.9 putting me up against adam cope in the finals


I ended up winning both the Extreme os 3+ category and 149.9 bassrace class - a great weekend - thanks to everyone who made it such a nice chilled out friendly show!