We're excited to finally put together a meet for Wisconsin Nissan owners and our friends. Thanks to Flicktitty (Nick) and kjlingr (Karl) for their efforts to organize and put this together.

Who's invited:
Our primary target are Nissan owners from the state of Wisconsin. However, it will be open to everyone. I'd consider it to be an invitational meet. We'll start with Nissan owners and allow them to invite their friends as well. The Green Bay contingency will probably include a few 240's, an MKIV Supra turbo, a Skyline R33 GTR, an 800+ hp RB26 powered FD RX-7, a 600 hp Rotary FD RX7, a 400 hp turbo civic, a civic that needs a parachute, and a 2JZ turbo powered celica supra.
We're also going to make a play to get a group of Wisconsin Supra owners to meet with us as well.

Location:
We've chosen Fond du Lac as our meeting place due to it's central location in the state of Wisconsin.
Madison (72.5 Miles 1Hr 27min)
Milwaukee (67 Miles 1hr 13min)
Green Bay (74 Miles 1hr 23min)
Chicago (154 Miles 2hrs 46min)
La Crosse (168 Miles 3hrs 14min)

We selected Lakeside Park as our site.
Here's a big shot of the City of Fond du Lac.

Here's a close up of the park.

Assuming we get a good response to the idea, we'll reserve the large shelter to the left of the parking lot. That lot should park 65+ cars so we should be in good shape for space.

Details:
I've listed 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM as a general time frame. But it's certainly completely open to whatever anyone would like to do. I don't know the park hours, but I imagine it's at least open til dusk. So people can stay as long as they like.

Food:
Due to city regulations, our posters will not have formal plans for food. Each person can bring their own food and drink, or organize with their friends to do so. We plan to organize a run to a grocery store for burgers and brats and then grill out, and we'll have people chip in for that on location. We just don't want to advertise that so that we can avoid having to get a city permit for selling food.

Activities:
This is going to be very informal. No sponsors, no admission, no raffle, etc... Just a chance to relax and chill out and meet some other Wisconsin import owners. I'm hoping we'll have someone with some nice camera equipment and some photography skills to act as our photographer for the day. Other than that, we'll just check out each others cars, sit back, relax and enjoy.

Rules:
Common sense folks! I'm sure I don't have to say this, but I will anyway. Please don't street race in Fond du Lac on the way into the park. Please don't horse around and do huge burnouts in the parking lot. If your car is not safe or street legal, please make arrangements to trailer it to the location. If you drink, please don't drive home. We don't want anyone getting hurt, or getting in trouble, or causing the local authorities to ask us to leave.

Park rules state that we cannot reserve the parking space. We've checked the calender for the park that day and there are no softball or other formal activities planned, so the park should be rather quiet. Still, we cannot promise parking space in the main area. It is open to the public on a first come first served basis. To ensure you get to park your car in the main parking lot near everyone else, please plan to arrive as early as possible.

For more information:
Please respond to this thread with any questions, concerns, etc.. If you want to contact me directly, please do.. eikond (at) gmail.com
Feel free to spread the word to other friends and import owners, but let's not spam the whole world. We're looking for quality and not quantity. Bring your friends or people who have cool cars!

I'll have a PDF version of the flyer available for distribution tomorrow, so if anyone wants a copy, please let me know.

Thanks all!

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Wisconsin Nissan and Import Meet and Greet. 9-20-08 Fond du Lac, WI

I posted this up on a Milwaukee car club so theres a few saying they might show.

tony-

That's a great question Rob.

I can't personally promise that the cops won't have there eyes on us. However, I think it unlikely that they will give us a hard time.
We'll certainly go through the proper steps to ensure we're not violating any rules.

First off, I'll pay for and place a reservation with the parks and rec department and the city works department stating that we are having a "car meet" at the park. We'll have the pavilion reserved for our use. So it won't be any surprise to the park or to the city that we are there. I've also discussed the legalities of what type of event we are having. Essentially it's just a picnic or gathering. There is no registration, no fee to enter, no raffle, no exchange of any money or services. Thus, no permit is required for the event. I even talked with the lady at parks and rec about food and she said that we'd be better off having no organized food service of any kind to avoid having to get a permit. That's why our flyer says bring your own picnic food. Having said that, we'll get together informally while we're there and decide to make a run to the store for cookout supplies.

Outside of reservations at the park, there should be no other legal issues at all. Its simply a picnic or family reunion style gathering. We'll just have some fancy imports rather than Buicks and Minivans.

As long as everyone behaves themselves and doesn't do anything stupid to attract attention to the gathering we should be fine. Muscle car guys do this kind of thing all the time and don't get in trouble... so we shouldn't either.

Again, as long as people are doing anything stupid.... Like I said in my original post RULES section: No streetracing on the way to or from, no burnouts or crazy driving, and if your car isn't street legal you should trailer it there.

It's just a picnic. No event title, sponsor, raffle, fee, donation, sales of food, etc... Informal keeps us out of trouble.

We'll all just have to keep an eye on each other. I'm hoping everyone that comes will be mature and responsible. I'll sure be quick to stop any activities that show poor judgment.

I'm really hoping to get more of a mature and responsible crowd. We won't turn anyone away, but I'm hoping it doesn't turn into a high school type atmosphere, or people just there to show off like you said.

Very nice!

I was just discussing with Karl the fact that we might need to consider a back-up plan for a bigger location if this thing turns into a success. The parking lot that we're targeting has about 60 to 65 spots from what I can tell from looking at that overhead picture. If we get more people than that, we may need to consider a plan for more parking or a different location nearby.
There is a second parking lot in that same park we could use for overflow...

Tony-

I dont really have any "car" buddies. I've got one friend that autocrosses with me and thats about it.

Im not really into the "tuner" or "import" scene. I just like to track my nissan. both the car and driver (thats me!) have had success on the track, and i dont really want to be hassled by cops getting lumped in with the "that guy" like you guys are talkin about...

I'm a mid 20's IT professional, and I feel old and uncool. LOL

I dont really know if this is my kind of event.... I feel more comfortable hammin it up with the old guys at the open track days...

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Whats wrong with it? i thought it was running?

when I try to start it, the fuel pump doesnt prime. I had this problem last year and after hours of diagnosing we found it was the computer (which it rarely is) and Marco from SR20store.com sent me a new one and it was all good. But now im back at step one

tony-

The fuel pump is controlled by the ECU. There is a pin that triggers a relay that kicks the pump on and off. There are a couple possible checks for issues:

1. Make sure the ECU is sending the signal to the relay
2. Make sure the relay is good and getting the power/grounds it needs
3. Make sure the fuel pump fuse is good

If all else fails, hot wire it to a switch so you can make the meet

yea all of this stuff has been checked and still nothing. its kindve annoying to say the least!

tony-

that was my main arguement. The likelyhood of 2 of them going bad is real slim like you were saying. Im planning to take apart the harness and check all the wiring grounds, connections etc. Yea I have both, the car was running perfect about a month ago and then all the sudden while i was driving it cut out on me and hasnt really run since then.

tony-

I've got my pumps wired direct bypassing the ECU and it works great...but my car situation may be a little different than yours.

If you wanna email me to chat more, hit me up: kjlindgr@gmail.com. I don't want to clutter this thread too much.

I think you should come for sure

Age has nothing to do with this meet, its about people with 240's and other cars to come and talk about each others rides.

I really want to see your car

i thought it was NISSAN and others meet not a 240 and others meet? You know there's people into nissans that aren't 240s? as crazy as that can be to understand.

It's an IMPORT car meet that is starting on a Nissan board. It's not a 240 meet in particular but I'm sure there will be a few there.

I know its a nissan meet, but i was just saying it doesnt matter what your age is, we all are there because we have interest in the same types of cars. is that better?

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You Illinois guys are most welcome to come!!!

I got a big group of Wisconsin Z guys coming too!

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No big boobied girlfriend this time tho

I will love you better than she ever did.

Wait, I mean, I hope you show up!!

well crap, I finally looked at the race schedule, and there's a high speed autocross at BlackHawkFarms that day.

http://www.myautoevents.com/pl...=8752

I rarely miss a chance to get more track time in. But I might just this one time...