{"id":3475,"date":"2013-07-25T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T23:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abtec.co.nz\/blog\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2015-04-25T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T01:54:47","slug":"abtec-db-drag-soundoff-sounds-alive-winter-2013-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abtec.co.nz\/blog\/abtec-db-drag-soundoff-sounds-alive-winter-2013-update\/","title":{"rendered":"ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive Winter 2013 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being the middle of the year it was time for yet another\u00a0ABTEC dB Drag Soundoff & Sounds Alive Winter Event<\/strong>, this time round it was at our NEW Shop in Petone<\/strong> making it a far better site for parking but also having enough room to move around in the workshop while the event was running.<\/p>\n

Yet again the regular competitors have been stepping up their game with some very impressive upgrade’s and even some of newer people in the scene have been fully rebuilding with almost everybody beating their own personal bests!<\/p>\n

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As we all started to setup it was starting to look like it was going to be a small event due to the typical Wellington winter weather, but soon enough people were turning up one by one and to my surprise it ended up being one of the biggest Sound Offs<\/strong> NZ has had this year with 25 competitors! This might not seem like much but NZ is a small country and on average competitions here in NZ have 12-16 competitors.<\/p>\n

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After a good hour of everybody checking out the competitors cars we finally got the Sound Off<\/strong> started and as we always do we started with the Kiwi Classes<\/strong>, this way we can get the battery draining burps out of the way before everybody demos their batteries away!<\/p>\n

The Kiwi Class<\/strong> Results were very impressive with lowest being a 120dB<\/strong> out of 2 200w RMS SVC 8″ Sub-Woofers<\/strong> in a Commodore sedan and the highest result being a monstrous 156.4dB<\/strong> out of 2 18″ Sub-Woofers<\/strong> in a walled Pajero! I would also like to congratulate Johnny, David & Jason<\/strong> for entering the 150+dB Club<\/strong> with some epic results!<\/p>\n

Next up was my favourite class, the ‘Sounds Alive’ (Music) Class<\/strong>! The of choice song for the day was Brutal by Excision<\/strong>, which has bass frequency range from 60Hz<\/strong> down to 38Hz<\/strong> which accommodates for most peoples setups but unfortunately wasn’t ideal for Wellington Ground Pounder Dave<\/strong> yet he still got the best result of 148.5dB<\/strong> for the class!<\/p>\n

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After the competition was finished and all the dB Drag<\/strong> gear was all packed away a few of us relaxed while waiting on our certificates to be written up by watching a few Animusic tracks in The Abtec Audio Lounge.<\/strong>\u00a0Soon after a small group of us competitors headed into town and demoed our cars in which has become a bit of a tradition for a few of us after the Abtec dB Drag Competitions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Now for the results of the day.<\/p>\n

Sounds Alive:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong> Dave Moore\u00a0148.5<\/strong>
\n2nd:<\/strong> Lance Wilson\u00a0147.6<\/strong>
\n3rd:<\/strong>\u00a0David Williams\u00a0147.1<\/strong>
\n4th:<\/strong> Anthony Latu\u00a0146.7<\/strong>
\n5th:<\/strong>\u00a0Steven Feavearyear 144.7<\/strong>
\n6th:<\/strong>\u00a0Jason Sanders 144.5<\/strong>
\n7th:<\/strong>\u00a0Wayne Toms 143.6<\/strong>
\n8th:<\/strong>\u00a0Johnny Asiata 142.2<\/strong>
\n8th:<\/strong>\u00a0Slade Winiana\u00a0142.2<\/strong>
\n9th:<\/strong>\u00a0Shane Snow 140.7<\/strong>
\n10th:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Martin 139.6<\/strong>
\n11th:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Coley\u00a0139.1<\/strong>
\n12th:\u00a0<\/strong>Ashley Burrell 138.7<\/strong>
\n13th:\u00a0<\/strong>Jade Coley 137.2<\/strong>
\n14th<\/strong>:\u00a0Henry Dominic 136.4<\/strong>
\n15th:<\/strong>\u00a0Ryan Day 135.0<\/strong>
\n16th:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Findlay 131.7<\/strong>
\n17th:<\/strong>\u00a0Sam Ashton 131.1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiwi Class:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong> Jade Coley\u00a0139.7<\/strong>
\n2nd:<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Coley 139.5<\/strong>
\n3rd:<\/strong>\u00a0Chris Findlay 131.7<\/strong>
\n4th:<\/strong>\u00a0Allan Snow 120.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiwi Pro Class:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong>\u00a0Slade Winiana 144.3<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong>\u00a0Jaden Green 144.3<\/strong>
\n2nd:<\/strong>\u00a0Wayne Toms 144.2<\/strong>
\n3rd:<\/strong>\u00a0Leon Smith 143.2<\/strong>
\n4th:\u00a0<\/strong>Burnie Guthrie 141.2<\/strong>
\n5th:\u00a0<\/strong>Shane Snow 140.7<\/strong>
\n5th:\u00a0<\/strong>Matt Martin 140.7<\/strong>
\n6th:\u00a0<\/strong>Jody Green 140.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiwi Expert Class:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong> Anthony Latu\u00a0149.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiwi Extreme Class:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong> Lance Wilson 154.2<\/strong>
\n2nd:<\/strong>\u00a0Jason Sanders 153.1<\/strong>
\n3rd:<\/strong>\u00a0David Williams 151.1<\/strong>
\n4th:\u00a0<\/strong>Johnny Asiata 150.0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kiwi Elite Class:<\/strong>
\n1st:<\/strong>\u00a0Steven Feavearyear 156.4<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As usual I\u2019d like to end this update by thanking all the competitors in dB Drag<\/strong> since if it wasn\u2019t for all of you we wouldn\u2019t have a competition, Ashley \u2018MAD BASS\u2019 Burrell<\/strong> for the continuing support in dB Drag<\/strong> and for all the time & effort organising event\u2019s at your own cost yet again. Darryl<\/strong> for manning the BBQ at the event held at our NEW<\/strong> workshop, Shane, Dave <\/strong>& Johnny<\/strong> for helping out and Yvonne<\/strong> for jolting down the results at the event & doing the paper work. Also a massive thank you to all the friends, customers, neighbours & local businesses that have either put up with or joined in with all the excessive noise and chaos at the ABTEC dB Drag Sound Off\u2019s<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

For the Official Event Results CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor Photos of the Winners CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong>
\nFor the Gallery of the Event CLICK HERE<\/strong><\/a>
\nFor the Official Top Ten Top Guns CLICK HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope everyone had fun at the event, stay safe and I look forward to seeing you all at the next ABTEC dB Drag Sound Off & \u2018Sounds Alive\u2019 Event<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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