GTA DSMer meet December

I will be in GTA again for a week starting Dec 4 2017.
How about another meet at Buffalo Wild Wings (Winston Churchill & 401)





Rob Strelecki, i hope you can also join us
We can also drive to see Ziggy, that would be great

Lets get some nice group and talk DSMs. Debate 7bolt vs 6bolt and other stories we can share

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I would be down. And with some luck, I would even show up in a DSM!

perfect!


- Alex AK
- Lucian M
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I'm down! I live closer to Ziggy these days though

Depending on what date we pick. I might be able to come!

I'm in, only guys or gfs too? Mine lives like 5 min away from there

so far i like the energy here )

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes (pending on the date)
- Guillaume Berton
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Regarding the date, we can do any day between Dec 6 Wednesday to Saturday Dec 9.

Gui, you don't want to bring you gf in (read Lucian's avatar)

Bryan L, i know you looked at this post several times already. Make a decision ))

Haha, you know me well! Yeah definitely put me down, I am hopefully I will have the car ready by then!

Haha, believe me, a closet is no place to be as a guy, because you need to come out of it at some point

I suppose I could make the effort.

Let's get a date set.

right on

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes (pending on the date)
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
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How about Thursday Dec 7th starting 8:30pm ?
Backup option is Saturday 8:00 PM

It would be nice if Ziggy can also join. Ride sharing with Rob S ?:)

Does anyone have direct contact for Jeremy Gilbert?
Can some one ping him about the meet. It would be nice see him again.

Ok done! Either day is fine for me

Is Tuesday possible instead?

I'll try my best to make it as well.

That would be great

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
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This will be a great meet if everyone can make it.
Lets get some more DSMers. Please tell/txt anyone else who hasn't been here recently.

Where is Rob these days? You guys know I am in Stoney Creek (Hamilton), right?

Hamilton Mountain, hi neighbour!

Hey, How you doing? Maybe we can go to this meet together?

If it's on the 9th, that'll work!

So what's the final date/time/location?
Why not make it a central location... If Reza comes, he's from the east side... some from west side. Why not Mississauga or something in the middle for all...
Not stirring the pot haha.. but just don't want to deter people because of the drive, to me it's all good wherever you guys decide.
Cheers

Two dates have been proposed.
- Thursday December 7th 8:30pm
- Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

So far it seems Saturday works better for Rob and Ziggy so we're going to set the day to:

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM


If you can make it Ziggy it would be awesome and best meet ever
Rob let us know if you can drive together with Ziggy. If not, we'll workout alternatives.



^we're sticking to this place for now, it's easy to get to, due to it's location, and plenty of places to park. Also, it's not overcrowded as far as i can remember.

Cool Beans,
I should be able to make it out!

Maybe I can give you all a taste of what a boosted Lancer feels like!

This meet is all about seeing faces and having laughs over drinks and wings So it's absolute priority to make it there by the most reliable transportation available and not let any project delay/issues get in the way.
With that being said, if you can make it in your project car, that is only a plus


Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

Sorry to not respond sooner guys, rough couple weeks. If we're doing the Saturday, I should have no problem making that.

Would be great to see the crew again, and I'm definitely interested about this boosted Lancer

Excellent

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy (Possibly driving with Rob S)
- Jeremy G


Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

Haha... Alex, she's my daily driver... Don't worry I won't be doing burn outs in the parking lot! lol...

I'll be glad to see her for sure. Defiantly one of a kind project

Hmmm, need to find an excuse for work to send me to the GTA that week lol

If something were to happen around July 18th 2018 I will be in Toronto that week

I just put the GSX away. a little journey from windsor hard to say when I m guna be hamilton way at the moment

i know you could:



This drive is nothing compared to shootout drive

I’m down !

8 hours vs 12 hours, still sucks lol.

i should be good to go

You still got time to figure it out. 407ETR is your "friend"









Numbers look good so far, let's keep it growing!

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
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Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

Probably won't be in town that weekend but if I am, I'll be there.

4 hours and 50 minutes to fly. LA to YYZ



I really hope to see you there! They make really good wings at that place

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
- Salomon P (Pending)


Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

You can officially add me to the list

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
- Salomon P (Pending)
- Jason Drew

Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM [/quote]

Alright gents, let's get this ^ date circled on our kitchen calendars and remind our wife's/girlfriends everyday once in the morning and once again at night before turning lights off... not to over-plan anything on that day!

Wow this is amazing!! It's been a long time since we have had a turnout like this! Will be great to see everyone!

Don't Jinx it Bryan! These things usually ramp up but when the date comes... The crickets come out lol...
We should try to do a Forks of the Credit Day!
Rob S, I still have the VHS recording of that day!

This thread is the most alive this forum has been in 5 years lol looking forward to seeing some of you fuckers

Haha Isaque, very true!
This is the perfect time for Forks, speed bumps are gone for the winter.

haha very true Lucian!

So True Lucian, I kind of miss those 19 year olds who'd join every day and ask, bro I want to make my car fast...
Wait, I was one of those lol... but I was 24

I will try and make it.

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
- Salomon P (Pending)
- Jason Drew
- Mike Kuttz

Or how to vent their BOV....

Interprovincial, international, seems to be turning into a "DSM Invasion"

The real question, is how many people are gonna be showing up in some sort of Mitsubishi product

I'll be going in the trusty Ply-mishi

Tho insurance is supposed to be off the car the temptation is all too real weather permitting ...

For me, it's going to come down to the viability of summer tires

We could go in my car, but it's not a Mitsu.....it's a Kia....

Another factor has worked its way in. Talon is off the road now I'll explain at our support group!

Haha I will be there probably in the Honda based on the way things are going

Alright gents the date is getting close!

Here is the list of all expected DSMers

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
- Salomon P (Pending)
- Jason Drew
- Mike Kuttz

If anyone else can join please let us know asap or if anyone no longer able to join please don't wait and let us or just PM me direct.

Over the next few days i will be making reservation for:

Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM



^ You bet and also multicultural! We're counting on you to arrive with Ziggy that day Please confirm if all is good

All good to go here

Yup I'm still in too

Zig & I are still a go

I'll be there.

Will be in Chicago so won't be around for this unfortunately.

We're all set for:

Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

Saturday December 9th 8:00 PM

I called BWW place and made sure their manager (Mr. Lee & his assistance Amanda) understood the importance of our "DSM Invasion" meeting(Hungry DSMers arriving from all over the continent). They will stock up Wings and Beer to ensure no one leaves hungry or depressed.
Although, he said that it can get busy on weekends so we agreed to stay in touch regarding final head count that needs to be re-confirmed by Saturday Morning. If anyone still wants to join or not able to join please let us know no later than Friday! (you can also PM me)

See you all soon

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S
- Jason Drew
- Mike Kuttz

Tentatively a 50/50 as I'm supposed to work in the east end of the city Saturday afternoon won't know for sure til Saturday

Looks like I'll be in town.

Save me a couple seats!!

You got it DSMer

- Alex AK
- Lucian M
- Rob Strelecki
- Isaque Nunes
- Guillaume Berton
- Bryan L
- Terry S
- Reza
- Ziggy
- Jeremy G
- Ruben S
- Manny S (50/50)
- Jason Drew
- Mike Kuttz
- Jay Stacey +1


Location: Buffalo Wild Wings
Winston Churchill & 401

TODAY at 8:00 PM


I just spoke with BWW manager Matt (Lee was out).
We're good for tonight at 8PM. Everyone please arrive on time if you can, there is TFC game tonight and Matt warn me it would be difficult to keep tables empty for long. I will be there (with few DSMers) early around 7:30 pm to get things in order.

Need to help with getting Olivia to bed so I won't be there for 8 but will get there as soon as I can.

We're here

Be there by 820... sorry gut hung up

Come inside, we got tables

I had an awesome time last night! Great to see all the old faces, and put some new faces to names.

Many thanks to Alex for organizing, and to him and Ziggy for taking the bill. That was a nice surprise at the end of the night! Hope everybody made it home safe.

Yeah was amazing guys! Was great seeing some old faces for sure, it's been far too long for some of you!!

Thank you Alex! Very glad you made this happen! Was a very nice surprise, really appreciate that!

Thank you Alex for planning it, and big thanks to you as well as Ziggy for covering the bill - I was not expecting that! It was nice seeing everybody again. And unlike most DSM meets, everybody showed up

Was a good time. Glad to see everyone, and thanks again for covering the bill.

See you's in the spring.

Had a great time.. must do more of these

Lucian... where were you going?

Wherever my co-pilot asked me to. In other words, the curb LOL shitty 1Ga headlights none of us could see the median 3 lanes over till we got there.

That was nothing short of amazing!
Thanks everyone and thanks for treating us so well, Alex & Ziggy!

Alex covered the majority of the bill. I chipped in a bit, but pretty sure he covered at least double what I did! A huge thank you to Alex, both for organizing and for being the DSM Santa, and thanks to Rob Strelecki for the ride. It was a great night.

Yes great time with a great group of guys! This board might not be as active as others but die hard DSM'rs! Thanks again Alex for the treat man and Ziggy too... Stand up guys!

Well worth the trip! It was nice to see everyone, put faces to names and see familiar faces. It really is too bad that the Shootout is only once a year.

As other said, a big thanks to Alex and Ziggy, that was really not necessary but much appreciated.

Also a special thanks to Terry S for the hospitality and for carting my ass to and from the airport.

Alex, as I told you, I have a place saved for you in Ohio and you ARE coming

Jason,
Aren't we able to set up our own "shootout" somewhere closer to all of us?
I have no idea but maybe we could explore this?

There's no replacement for the real deal. You need all the cars and people from all over North America to make it what it is.

Ok... Thought it would be cool to have our own Canadian style one.

Woah, woah, woah. Pretty sure I spent the entire time saying "This is one way, you can't go out here", which I believe you responded to by saying something along the lines of "frack it!"

^ It was good seeing you again sir


^ Glad you were able to make it.


^Yep, i was really pumped haha...Glad you were able to make it in 1Ga... and thanks for stepping hard on the throttle on the way out and surprise at the end...we saw lights flashing and felt ground shaking it was the perfect way to end our meet


^I'll be back


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^No worries Ziggy, i'm so glad you were able to make. The meet would not be same without you!


^You're the man of your word you showed up in the lancer like promised. She does look like an RalliArt Idled really well


^Finally i met you in person. Glad you made it





Now let's take a look at some pics.
I know we all have busy schedules but i really appreciate you were all able make it. Regarding the bill, no big deal at all. I saved ton of money over last 10+ years by learning from the crew and buying parts and service from our board.




^Every single seat was occupied


^Jason Drew (left), Terry S (center), and myself(right) were putting parts in plastic bags for our little DSM game. Pic was taken inside Terry's garage next to his 2Gb Spyder

^Jason Drew (left), and Terry S (right). We arrived early to ensure tables were ready for us.




And here is our game...DSMers had to figure out where specific parts belong in DSM


^ Winner Mike Kuttz. Rear sub-frame bushing


^ Winner Reza. Seat belt mounting bolt


^ Winner Lucian M. Factory alarm horn


^ Winner Jeremy G. Cigarette lighter nut


^ Guillaume Berton. 2G fender plastic clip (passenger side)

and here are few pics from the parking lot ...after wings and beer






^Guillaume's daily 1Gb and Isaque's boosted lancer. Built by Reza






^ Lucian's 1990 TSi AWD

We used to say: "I'm only going one way!"

Definitely big thanks to Ziggy and Alex, very kind of you both.

Sorry I didn't answer quicker, tried going on site yesterday and kept getting an error.

Awesome to put faces to names of people I hadn't met before and to see people I haven't seen in a while.

I also spotted an X-files agent



Terry, you look like one of those dark government secret sellers



Would actually be cool to do a Canadian DSM meet ( HUGE *Trump accent* one) Not saying we could be bigger than the DSM meet in Ohio, but would definitely be a cool thing to have every year.

There are lots of smaller local tracks where meets happen, and that is great, but it just doesn't compare to the annual shootout where all the big names show, and there are DSMers from all over North America.

In my mind, although tracks or dynos would be great dont' get me wrong, I'd be ok with a general meet of anyone and everyone in Canada with DSMs a certain date that repeats itself (or 1rst wkn of whatever month) annually. Not only is it nice to see the old cars still kicking but it's also a motivator when you see others with working cars. Same can be said with dynos/race events of the cars actually improving.

I just don't want this community (not just our forum but in general) die out to single DIYers that keep to themselves. People need to talk/work amongst themselves to keep things alive and competitive. For example DSMQuebec is well...pretty much dead and people barely talk to each other.

I am pretty sure there was still a decent turnout from DSM Quebec at last year's shootout.

The core guys are still there and we still attend the Shootout and the SSPA but it's a very small group. There hasn't been an annual Gala(pretty much like we just did) for several years. The forum gets maybe 1-2 posts a week.

Sadly Facebook has done a lot of damage to the boards, most newcomers don't even know what a forum is.

This was our biggest local gathering last year

I agree with this 100%. I don't have FB, so I definitely noticed the drop in activity across all of the forum's I'm part of. I think I caught the tail end of forum popularity when I joined my first DSM forum back in like 2007-2008. Started going downhill from there

I agree Lucian I joined in 2006.. and it was thriving with lots to do. But it quickly thinned out.

I thought it was me for a while.

I Calendared the event, but just been spending too much money with the 2 dsms lately and haven't made much time for myself outside of work. Turned out to be a busy week to do the 7 hr round trip. would have been nice to make the meet but I will continue to bring a running car to whatever I can in the non winter months. Especially ohio and the shootout 😆

God I have been around forever, went to my first meet Cayuga June 1998 lol, I haven't been on the site for awhile myself. It was great to see the turn out you guys had, I remember the BIG KW meets from 20 yrs ago , I think I might be the only original member out here now, maybe its up to me a an elder statesmen to try to organise another for Kitchener, we have Devons bbq in the summer but I long for the glory days lmao, I sound like a bad Springsteen song

Jerry! Good to see you man. But I think you're forgetting that old man Richardson still hangs around these parts! (That's his favourite nickname)

I'm sure we'll get another meet together in the springtime, would be great to have you out!

Ah yes Stephen is still around , every yr I tell him we are getting together for some beers, but we never hook up lol.Its always nice to see you Jeremy and your car, I always love your car because its the same yr as mine, except a little faster lol, whenever I see it I always think, dam my car should have that set up lol

Lol.... Who you calling Old ?

It is good to see that there are still some core DSMer willing to make a drive for a meet.

Forsure this spring/summer we need to get another KW/Guelph meet organized.