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74courier · Apr 22, 2006

anyone catch them talking about moving pir on the fox12 news tonight? due to people bitching about the noise levels. i wasnt aware of the noise being a problem around here considering i live 5 blocks away from pir.

MTMMAN · Apr 22, 2006

I always love how people buy a house full well knowing a race track is near by. The tracks were there before the houses. Then they bitch about the noise. For me having a road course right around the corner would be a buying point. I would love to be able to drive my car down the street for an O/T or race day. Of course I'm a little weird like that. The thing is the land becomes worth more than the track itself.

ddonaca351 · Apr 26, 2006

Yeah the tracks been there since like 1960 or 61, I think.

Heck they only let em hold like 3-4 "major" events there each year. Probably only 12-15 even if ya count all the little races (excludes fri-sat drags).

Guess they think that building another housing development there (so a bunch more people can die) is a good idea.

Long live the memory of Vanport.

DD

gospeedgo · Apr 26, 2006

I thought PIR was opened in '48 and I have pics of racing at portland speedway in the '40's- pretty sure it went back to the '20's

Heres one: (note the nice new drive in screen, dont see many of those anymore either! )

ASD · Apr 26, 2006

ddonaca351 said:
Long live the memory of Vanport.

Thanks for the local history lesson. I never knew any of this.
http://www.universitypark.org/vanport/

ddonaca351 · Apr 26, 2006

gospeedgo said:
I thought PIR was opened in '48 and I have pics of racing at portland speedway in the '40's- pretty sure it went back to the '20's

Heres one: (note the nice new drive in screen, dont see many of those anymore either! )

Yeha portland speedway is old school, but its on the other side of I-5, (i know you know that, Im just saying...) PIR itself is on the site of a town that flooded back in like the 40s (i think, my grandma used to tell us stories about it as a kid) Whole bunch of people died...

Hey, wait a min.... (opens second i-net window...)

4:05pm May 30th 1948: 15 dead - dozens injured - 18,000 homeless.
"The Portland Jaycees saw that the abandoned roads of Vanport had the potential to become a road race course and convinced the Rose Festival that they should sponsor a race during their annual celebration. The first Rose Cup races were held in June of 1961, starting a tradition that continues today. Soon after that first race both Go Kart and Motorcycle enthusiasts started race programs of their own with Drag Racers starting about four years later. "
-pir's website

DD

gospeedgo · Apr 26, 2006

ASD said:
Thanks for the local history lesson. I never knew any of this.

seriously? J/K, I just heard about how it all came to be recently too. They dont teach this stuff in school. Pretty crazy to think all that was under water.

And Dave, I know...its just my feeble attempt to say WTF people...you dont like the noise, go away. Instead, we now have a very quiet dirt lot where the old track used to be. Maybe we need another flood to get rid of the whiners

ASD · Apr 27, 2006

gospeedgo said:
seriously? J/K, I just heard about how it all came to be recently too. They dont teach this stuff in school. Pretty crazy to think all that was under water.

I was raised like the kids in the movie "The Village". My parents told us to never cross the water due to the bad people and things on the other side. So, I stayed on the Westside.

Juiced87Notch · Apr 27, 2006

gospeedgo said:
Maybe we need another flood to get rid of the whiners

hmmm... how can we make it look like an accident

nathaall · Apr 27, 2006

yeah, that's ****ty

i want to run open cutouts for tomorrow night.. but it shows that 90dB is the limit

uh, **** that.
if they won't allow me to run open exhaust.. they better refund my money...

WaterPog · Apr 27, 2006

you can run up to 103db before 10pm, after 10 it's 90db, but they still require mufflers on all vehicles even if they are below the noise limit. 'course if you're below the limit they probably won't ever check.....

nathaall · Apr 27, 2006

WaterPog said:
you can run up to 103db before 10pm, after 10 it's 90db, but they still require mufflers on all vehicles even if they are below the noise limit. 'course if you're below the limit they probably won't ever check.....

so how far is the noise metered? (like how far from the car)

WaterPog · Apr 27, 2006

They have a fixed measurment point around half track on the tower side, the distance depends on which lane you're in and where your exhaust is pointed

nathaall · Apr 27, 2006

well, i'm pretty much screwed then.
a cutout on each side pointed outward

pretty sure it will surpass the 103dB limit as well.

nathaall · Apr 29, 2006

and yeah

i just want to say **** PIR.

that is all.

Repostyle · Apr 29, 2006

PIR is too loud? I live at Jantzen Beach and everyonce in a while I hear something going on over there. But if people want N. Portland to be more quiet, then move the airport, not the race track.

74courier · Apr 29, 2006

Repostyle said:
PIR is too loud? I live at Jantzen Beach and everyonce in a while I hear something going on over there. But if people want N. Portland to be more quiet, then move the airport, not the race track.

werd the airport nosie is horrible my house rattles when they send planes over this way. they started doing that cause of all the people that bitched about it that live on the river.

ddonaca351 · Apr 29, 2006

74courier said:
werd the airport nosie is horrible my house rattles when they send planes over this way. they started doing that cause of all the people that bitched about it that live on the river.

Every Monday morning at 3:00am there is one that comes over my place... a turbo prop by the sound of it, probably out of Boise or somewhere.

DD

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