{"id":2530,"date":"2012-10-16T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2015-06-27T12:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T00:14:03","slug":"abtec-db-drag-soundoff-sounds-alive-2012-october-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/abtec-db-drag-soundoff-sounds-alive-2012-october-update\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive 2012 October Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday on the 13th of October ABTEC<\/a><\/strong> had yet another dB Drag Sound-off Event<\/a><\/strong> at its Lower Hutt Workshop<\/a><\/strong>. Due to the weather I did expect the turn-out to be on the lower side of things but was quite\u00a0pleasantly\u00a0surprised when it hit 2pm that the workshop started to fill up very quickly.<\/p>\n

With the Sound-Off being held on a Saturday instead of the usual Sunday, setting up the dB Drag<\/strong> Trailer and Workshop was a little more chaotic then usual due to the Workshop being open till the Sound-off started.<\/p>\n

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Soon after 2pm\u00a0most of the competitors had turned up and I’m sure you could hear the bass cranking out of the cars from close to a mile away!<\/p>\n

Now it was time to start bringing in the cars and\u00a0SPL<\/strong>\u00a0(Sound Pressure Level) testing them!\u00a0There was some impressive results and a few new personal bests too which is always good to see! I myself with my new car and setup got a new Personal Best<\/strong> of 153.56dB<\/strong> with four Entry level Digital Designs 12″ Sub-woofers<\/a> <\/strong>and I am still having slight power issues and will be addressing this before the next ABTEC dB Drag Sound-off on Saturday the 8th of December<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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After we ran the\u00a0SPL<\/strong>\u00a0\u2018Burp\u2019 test\u2019s it was time for everyone to compete in the NEW<\/strong>\u00a0dB Drag Class \u2018SOUNDS ALIVE\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0. This time round it was a different song than last time and as we use a different song every time and no-one knows what the song is till the day making it fair so no car is tuned for the song.<\/p>\n

Ashley ‘MAD BASS’ Burrell<\/a><\/strong> wouldn’t even tell me what the song was till the day and I can tell you I was asking him everyday up to the event, even to the point of annoying the hell out of him hoping he would give in. For the next event we will be using a very Bass-Heavy song for the ‘SOUNDS ALIVE’<\/strong> Class since its going to be the last event for 2012!<\/p>\n

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The car that really impressed me on the day this time round was Dave’s<\/strong> Holden Commodore\u00a0wagon<\/strong> that hit a very respectable 145.66dB<\/strong> on ‘Burps’<\/strong> and a 144.80dB<\/strong> on the ‘SOUNDS ALIVE’<\/strong> track. What is really impressive with Dave’s<\/strong> setup is how low the bass hits,\u00a0in fact it hits so low that I think the hum that everyone in Wellington<\/strong> has been complaining about is actually the bass coming from Dave’s<\/strong> car!<\/p>\n

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Yet again I will finish this off by thanking\u00a0Everybody<\/strong>\u00a0that turned up to either compete, watch or even just to drop by to say Hi! The surrounding businesses in our area\u00a0for putting up with the few hours of noise, Johnny for supplying the\u00a0Ma Moe<\/strong>\u00a0for the BBQ,\u00a0Darryl<\/strong>\u00a0for manning the most\u00a0fiery\u00a0BBQ I’ve seen in quite some time, the rest of\u00a0ABTEC<\/strong>\u00a0Team for doing there thing and last but not least\u00a0Ashley<\/strong>\u00a0for allowing this event to happen yet again!<\/p>\n

For the Events Results\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For Photos of the Winners\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For the Gallery of the Event\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the Top Ten Top Guns\u00a0CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m now looking forward to what the\u00a0ABTEC dB Drag Sound-off on Saturday the 8th of December <\/strong>has in store for us and looking forward to seeing all of you there!<\/p>\n

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