It was a first EVO meet in 2010, hosted by SoCal EVO & HB Mitsubishi. EDO as one of the main distributor & a Tuning shop for EVO, we were invited to set a booth there. There was about 100 EVOs show up and filled the parking lots. At EDO booth, we gave out T-shirts and other gifts to the public. We have 3 sponsored EVOs displayed at our booth, which we have to special thanks to our guesses: Alan Vanous, Steven Welch, & Martin Enriquez for showing up there. The EVO fans were impressed with what EDO has accomplished to the displaying EVOs. Couple power packages were presented to the EVO fans. Despite that, EDO also displayed some popular parts for EVOs such as: Cusco sway bars & strut bars, Motul Racing Oils & Braille batteries. Raffle was taken place at 2pm, where EDO has contributed 2 Motor oils on raffle.
Followed by the Formula Drift, EDO was invited to participate at the JTuned Super Meet on 11/21/09, 9am – 3pm at Irwindale Speedway. EDO was setting booth on behalf of Braille Battery USA, which is the main sponsor to Formula Drift on 2009. We were displaying some Braille Batteries and one of our show cars, Nissan Skyline R33 at the meet.
This event is for all drifters to compete for the chance to battle at Formula Drift Championship 2010.
Followed by the Formula Drift at Long Beach back in April, EDO showed up on the FD finale at Toyota Speedway, Irwindale on last Saturday 10/17/09. EDO was representing Braille Battery to set a booth at vendor meet section, which is one of the main sponsors for Formula Drift.
It was a nice sunny day after a cold weather in Southern California. The event opened for public at 1pm, which was the Open Practice time for all drifters at the speedway. The vendors meet section was crowded with traffic, especially when all the drift cars & drivers were resting at their booth. The main sponsors like Falken, BG Goodrich, Cooper Tire, & etc. was having DJ playing music, show girls, professional drift drivers signing poster, & free gifts to public. There’s also a show car section with all kind of exotic cars, vintage cars, modified cars & etc. lined up.
This time, EDO displayed new release products by Braille Batteries – 9 lbs & 12 lbs Lithium Batteries. It’s a Lightweight, stronger cranking amp, and longer product life, which is launch to the market now to target the 2010 racing season! The public was so impressed with the tiny, extremely light-weighted batteries, also with its reasonable price.
The event wrapped up around 9pm. Chris Forsberg with his Nissan 350Z takes the championship of the 2009. It was an awesome event and EDO / Braille will definitely come back to showing more cool products to the drift fans in 2010!
An obscure magazine out of Japan caught us and some of our sponsored drivers out in Vegas earlier this year. They even caught a couple of the drivers sneaking a kiss! Oh man, what happens in Vegas, just went world wide. Check it out, http://cromo.jp/CS15_PRE_S/.
On September 6th & 7th the nations top Subaru’s met up at Willow Springs Raceway to party down, share their knowledge, and battle it out in the Time-Attack.
EDO Performance was proud to present Subiefest 2008, the largest Subaru gathering in America! EDO was there both days as Subaru enthusiasts gathered to watch the best of the best go head to head in an all out blown Subaru Time Attack! Aside from the excitement on the track attendees welcomed tons of vendors, live music, test drives in the new 2009 WRX/STi and much more!
Saturday started off with EDO in full force! We had our tent set up and products out for display for the many gathering Subaru fans. Some coming from as far away as Oregon! There was an array of cars on the track, not just Subaru, demonstrating their skill and abilities. EDO had 3 cars that day, preparing for Sunday’s big event. Thomas Smith was out representing EDO and Flat 4 Las Vegas in his 2006 Subaru WRX. Scott VanderHeide was present in his RobiSpec/EDO 2004 STi. EDO even resurrected our EDO/EAT Motorsports 2006 STi for this event; driven by Nikki and RJ of Acutech Autos. Also there Saturday was DC shoe founder and Rally Racer himself Ken Block out on the track taking his Monster STi for a spin and signing autographs throughout the day.
Sunday proved to be the big day as even more fans gathered to watch the all Subaru Time Attack event! There was tons of competition out but in the end EDO performed well! Congrats to Scott VanderHeide for finishing in the top 5 in Modified class. Another congratulations to Thomas Smith for taking 2nd in the Stock class with the Crawford 2008 STi just edging past him! Congratulations to Mike McGuinness and his wagon for taking best in show at Sunday’s car show. All in all it was a great showing despite the heat, oil spills and wipeouts. EDO Performance is grateful to have hosted Subiefest 2008 can’t wait for next year’s event. A special thank you to those who supported EDO: our drivers Thomas Smith, Scott VanderHeide & Niki Tam, as well as Acutech Autos, EAT Motorsports, Auto HQ, Flat 4 & Subiesport magazine. Finally, thank you to all the fans, supporters and enthusiasts who came out to watch Subaru’s do what they do best, perform! We hope to again, play a supporting role in Subiefest 2009.
Subiefest 2008 goes full throttle this Saturday, September 6th!
Here’s some of the action from last year…
And this year North America largest all Subaru event is going to be bigger and badder than ever; with live bands, all night parties, celebrities, and of course the fastest Subaru’s in the world dueling it out for top honors.
EDO Performance is proud to announce that it will be a primary sponsor of Subiefest 2008 at Willow Springs Raceway. The event will take place on Sunday, September 7th at Willow Springs in Rosemead California and be the biggest all Subaru motorsport event of the year. EDO will be there in force, supported by many of our sponsored show and race cars.
Subiefest 2008 will be an amazing gathering of Subarus from all over the country. The Las Vegas Flat4 club will travel all the way out from Nevada to support the event and have a great time. Racing classes for the day will include Street Modified, Pro Race and HPDE Only so there will be plenty of different classifications for everyone who wants to participate. This is going to be an awesome event so mark your calendars everyone and we’ll see you there!
Last week over here at EDO, we had an event to celebrate our 5th year in business! The day went off just as planned with Subarus, Mitsubishis, Nissans, Toyotas and more from all over the So-Cal area.
The highlight of the event was an open invitation car show for cars of all makes and models. We had all sorts of cars show up! Here are a few pictures of some of the hot cars in the show!
There were two winners for the car show. One for “EDO’s Choice” and one for “Crowd Favorite”. The winner for the EDO’s Choice award was Mike McGuiness and his 2004 Subaru WRX Wagon and the Crowd Favorite award went to David Chavez for his 2007 Subaru WRX-TR. Both car show winners received a Defi gauge package and a trophy as a prize.
Here is Mike’s 2004 WRX Wagon!
And here’s David’s 2007 WRX-TR
Tomei Powered, Zero/Sports, and Motul were here with displays and demonstrations. Chimera performance even flew all the way out from Andover Minnesota to offer their porting and polishing services.
There was even an hourly raffle, containing lots of prizes donated by many vendors including Zero/Sports, Works, Chimera Performance, South Coast Subaru, D-Wolf, Subie Sport, Motul and many more. The grand prize for the raffle was a brand new set of Defi Gauges, won by Joseph Cruz.
We we’re grilling it up with burgers, dogs, chips and soda for everyone in attendance.
Overall this event was a great success and will not be the last! Stay tuned in the future for more awesome meets, events and shows here at EDO Performance!
Downey, California – (April 20, 2008) SubieTech hosted a car show at their facility to celebrate their 2-Year Anniversary! The main lot was filled with over 70 cars, and over 200 Subaru’s showed up! Major thanks to SubieTech and their sponsors for hosting this spectacular event!
For more information and pictures regarding this event, feel free to head over to SubieTech.net
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