Undr8d Empire: MFest Las Vegas 2013

[e30polak]

Hi Everyone,

So just like my Bimmerfest coverage, I've been too busy to get through all my pics from MFest till now. I finally got Adobe Lightroom 5 the other day, and WOW what a life saver it is! I found that batch processing all my pics from events in Photoshop was a huge waste of time. I'm glad I had the time to learn to edit my photos a bit more in depth by using Photoshop, but with the number of shots I've been taking at events (anywhere between 500-1,400) it took me way too much time to do the same exact thing to almost every photo, which typically took between 5-7 minutes per photo....


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Anyhow, even though I'm not as happy with the product, I can focus more time on the shots that I really like now. Lightroom more importantly allows me to better organize all my RAW files, and get them ready and posted on the web in a timely fashion. Anyway, enough blabbing and onto the goods!So Mike Radowski and Luke King from Maximum PSI had made the trip out from New Jersey this year, shipping out their shop's factory DME turbo E46 M3, to show off at both Bimmerfest 2013 and Mfest. Needless to say, the two of them made this year's trip to MFest that much more memorable.

Last year's MFest was my first real event with my SLR and I really enjoyed the photography practice. I was really happy with a lot of the shots I took, and not having my car with me/having to drive, allowed me to get more practice with rolling shots (which I haven't done since last year's MFest). Over the past year I bought 3 lenses, and a tripod, and have gotten quite a bit better with my angles, my composition, and my editing. As a result, I was really excited to work on my photography further this year.

So, as usual we left LA from the West LA caravan spot, bright and early Friday morning. Ironically the right before we all got on the 405 North, an E39 - 540, had flipped in the right lane of traffic, right by the entrance. Initially many of us thought that this was an MFest participant, but we later found out it wasn't. This caused quite a bit of traffic and split up the West LA caravan from the get go.

Unfortunately these are the only 2 shots I have of the accident and they're pretty poor quality. This looked pretty bad....






Once we got on the 101, I hopped in the backseat of my buddy's M3 and started snapping away:








A few Canadians drove down for Bimmerfest, stayed the week and rolled out to Vegas as well. All 3 cars were very nicely set-up:
























Brady's awesome 500hp Dinan 535 Turbo, built by Miller Performance









A bunch of randoms

















The caravan made a quick pit-stop for gas, and a short breakfast break





Chris unveiled his new beauty - Liberty Walk Performance wide body E92 M3, with a VF supercharger kit.






































Love this Daytona Violet E34 M5!











One of my favorite E39s I've seen









My chauffeur and buddy Peter (m3maker)



So I wanted some shots out of the sunroof...



Unfortunately someone didn't want their picture taken and we got pulled over. Got a seat belt ticket, oh well..

[e30polak]

We caught back up in time to roll into Vegas with the caravan. We had private parking on the 3rd floor of the Palms parking structure.





Mike Radowski from Maximum PSI talking to someone about their shop's 700whp factory DME turbo E46 M3, girlfriend was getting bored, lol. :razz:



Peter's techno violet chariot that we rolled in



Kyle's gorgeous E30 M3 on OZ Futuras



And his brother's awesome MBZ 190E Cosworth









Loved these 2 E92 M3 IND cars





Ben's 600+whp turbo E36 M3





























Meisterschaft's turbo back F10 M5 exhaust sounded AMAZING!!!

















One of the sickest E90 M3s around - Dakar FTW!





















MFest Chris's amazing Liberty Walk Performance widebody, VF Supercharged E92 M3. Custom vinyl wrap done by Republic Wraps and Customs in Marina Del Rey.



























Peter's technoviolet E36 M3 sedan


























Garrett's M3 - One of the guys that came from Canada

[e30polak]

So that night there was the drag strip event, which was a HUGE disappointment. MFest as an organization REALLY dropped the ball on this portion of the event this year! The races were supposed to be from 6pm - 9pm as they are EVERY YEAR, and they were supposed to be FOR MFEST ONLY. Well I don't know why this happened, but everyone that showed up at 6pm was told that the event wasn't happening till 9pm and that we were simply a part of the local Midnight Drag Races....

This is total BS, especially for vendors like Maximum PSI and other companies that use the drag strip to showcase how their cars perform. Everyone that showed up for 6pm (the majority of the MFest participants) never came back for the event later that night. That's a HUGE let down for the vendors, as no one was really there to watch what the amazing cars could do. On top of that there were long waits between runs because there was like 100 local cars there competing as well...

Ok done with my rant.

I found Brett's crazy 10 second E30 waiting to run







My friend's Brady and Ben waiting to run their turbo monsters





Oh hey, it's Mike Radowski!







Sadly this is the only pic I got of Ben's run



A few of Brady's 500hp Dinan 535 turbo, built by Miller Performance















I didn't get many clean shots of Mike's passes throughout the night, but something is better then nothing























Luke (of Maximum PSI) - nuff said




Brett's turn! Sadly he snapped multiple axles that night because the car was hooking so hard on the prepped track. He never got a real pass unfortunately...

[e30polak]

Saturday was the track day at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Maximum PSI and all the other vendors had booths, showing off their products and cars.











Maximum PSI's beautiful E46 M3 turbo kit. Factory DME tuned - by Nick G. of Technique Tuning









Maximum PSI was raffling off one of their kits that day, pretty amazing price if you ask me!









My favorite cars from the whole weekend - Liberty Walk Performance's 2 beautiful widebody E92 M3s!



















Probably my favorite 1 series I've seen other than the Dakar Yellow one in SoCal









I can never get enough of this Dakar Yellow E90 M3



Rodney's E39 touring on display at the Nutek wheel booth

















Kyle and Tyler's amazing DTM Legends!

[e30polak]

Impressive Wrap's blue chrome M6





This E39 photographs SO well!









More of Chris' amazing VF supercharged, LB Performance widebody E92 M3







Oh ya, I forgot this was a track day





This thing was sick!





Two amazing individual E92 M3s

















Paul's Canadian spec E34 M5







Oh hey, it's Brett (turbo325is) from Race Republic in Utah and his 10 second E30









Cam (highboostingm3), Brett (Boots), Brett (turbo325i) and the crew





Oh hey it's Jordan from RK Tunes





Oh wow, Colby Colbs showed up too!



Mike Radowski was busy selling raffle tickets for their turbo kit



And the lucky winner of the raffle



It will be going on this e46





Group pic!

[e30polak]

Track day started to wind down, so I grabbed a few more pics before leaving











Peter's M3







And because I couldn't get enough of them - the LB Performance widebody E92 M3s



















The guys from LB Performance Japan



The next day Mike and Luke began to pack up, to head home









And the last shots of the weekend

[e30polak]

probably enough

[E30 Wagen]

Such awesome pictures, thanks for sharing! I love the blue e39 M5 on the CH's.

[e30polak]

Such awesome pictures, thanks for sharing! I love the blue e39 M5 on the CH's.

Thanks! I wish I had time to edit every single one of them, but they look good enough.

Still getting a bunch of them on here, so stay tuned!

MORE TO COME TONIGHT AND TOMORROW

[Herr Faust Schinken]

More of that Daytona M5 please

[freeride53]

i wanted to say more pics of a certain car, but then realized i want more pics of everything.

[SteadyAim.]

Great coverage! :grin:

[bobross]

Thanks for the pics!

[robrez]

Appreciate the great pics Chris. Thanks.

[e30polak]

FINALLY ALL PICS ARE UP!!!!

More of that Daytona M5 please

Sorry don't have any more....

i wanted to say more pics of a certain car, but then realized i want more pics of everything.

:razz:

Great coverage! :grin:

Thanks Kyle! :grin:

Thanks for the pics!

Appreciate the great pics Chris. Thanks.