National Speed Inc. is proud to play host for the Neon Vs. Cobalt – Dyno Day, Horsepower Contest, and Cruise Event from 11am – 4pm Saturday January 29th at National Speed Inc. We are located at 6779 Gordon Rd. in Wilmington, NC 28411. We would love to see everyone out here for a great time for this event. We will have free food during the event for lunch and raffles and prizes as well as trophies for highest horsepower forced induction and naturally aspirated. We will also have a trophy for the car that wins on the other end of the spectrum and makes the lowest horsepower number. Of course no Dyno Day would be the same without the lovely Speed Girls in full effect to help sign you up for Raffles! We look forward to seeing everyone out here to share in the fun!
Category: Events
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Imports vs. Domestic Dyno Day: Horsepower Showdown
Join us at National Speed for this power packed event and watch the toughest Domestics and Imports battle it out on the dyno. Take a chance at the grand prize and win up to $500 in labor at National Speed. We’ll have food, raffles, prizes, and the lovely Speed Girls!
This is a 2 day event with the first day being held Saturday, June 4th as the Dyno Day at National Speed. The second day of this event will be held Sunday, June 5th as a Drag Event held at Coastal Plains Dragway in Jacksonville, NC.
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Wide Open Throttle Mustang Club Dyno Day
On August 8th National Speed Wilmington Performance Store proudly hosted our 2nd annual Wide open Throttle Mustang Dyno Day Event. Come in and see the pictures from the event of the cars we had turn out!
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Volvo & Maxima Dyno Day Event
Another great event with the Volvo Speed & Maxima.org! Great turnout, great cars, and an overall great time. If you had to miss the event, here are all the pictures to bring you up to speed!
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Cape Fear Z Club Dyno Day
The Cape Fear Z Club turned out a great dyno day! Beautiful cars, beautiful weather, great food, and great friends all came together to make it an awesome event. Here are the pics, enjoy!
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M.A.D. Mayhem Dyno Day Event
We can’t thank everyone enough for coming out to support our troops, the Wounded Warrior project and for celebrating Armed Forces Day with National Speed. The event was the largest event so far this year and we can’t wait until next year to do it even bigger! A huge thanks to Machine Gun for coming out and putting on a great show!
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Cape Fear Corvette Club Dyno Day
Here is the evidence of another great dyno day! The Cape Fear Corvette Club brought out some gorgeous rides for a great day at National Speed. Great weather plus great people equals one great event.
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Ecotec Dyno Day and Cruise-In Recap
On February 10th, National Speed was happy to have the East Coast Cobalts here for a Cruise-in and Dyno Day. Lots of ECOTEC powered goodness was here in various flavors, whether it be Naturally Aspirated, Supercharged or Turbocharged — We had it all. Seriously, you haven’t seen this much Cobalt since the last time you looked at the Periodic Table.
Around 8-9 Cobalts were in attendance, as well as 1 HHR SS provided by Marine Chevrolet of Jacksonville, NC. The free food started rolling around 11:00 and so did the rollers on the dyno. We served around 75-80 SpeedBurgers throughout the day and kept everyone happy in the rather warm weather.
Austin Daniels won the dyno competition with 279HP and walked away with a T-shirt, Trophy, and the satisfaction of having the quickest Cobalt in the parking lot. Although…I think that guy in the wheelchair with a Nitrous bottle on the back could’ve taken him. Power/Weight ratio FTW!
The East Coast Cobalt organization are a great group of folks that show a real enthusiasm for the car culture. We hope to host more events from them soon, and for those in the club that are currently in the Marine Corps, we salute your service!
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Domestics vs Imports Dyno Day
There’s nothing better than hanging out with a group of car aficionados killing time and talking shop. Throw in a smoking hot Dodge Viper SRT10, 600 horsepower Nissan 350Z, and a slap-your-momma C6 ZO6 Corvette into the mix and you’ve got yourself one hella good Dyno Day. It just goes to show that in the presence of true automotive greatness, even Domestic and Import owners can get along.
Not pictured: the 300 plus crowd of people staring open mouthed and drooling.
Oh wait, there they are…
The crowd gathered around the dyno looked like a zombie horde in search of a shopping mall to feast on. Ham-fisted Dawn of the Dead reference aside, the dyno saw some serious action with Jason Pipkin’s Supra rolling out with a crowd pleasing 762hp, James Smith’s Corvette putting down a ballin’ 801hp, and Chris Crawford’s Trans Am throwing down 827 galloping horses. Actually, 827 is more than a gallop…I couldn’t go that fast if you shoved an ACME rocket up my ass.
Special mention to National Speed’s very own Chris Polanski and his’96 C4 Corvette which pulled a blistering 906 horsepower on the dyno. Unfortunately, you work for us Chris so no prize for you. Maybe next time.
Chris Crawford (left) and Jason Pipkin (right) took home trophies for highest horsepower.
As always, thanks to everyone for coming out. Domestic vs Imports was one of our must successful Dyno Days yet and we hope to see you back at the shop on February 7th for the ECOTEC Cruise-In and Dyno Day.
Click to Biggie-Size.For more pics of Domestic vs Imports action click here.
