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This is an enormous loss to the DSM community. His social media pages are full of photos of him living life to the fullest and being well-liked by everyone. He helped hundreds of us make our 4G63 dreams come true, and I'm sure everyone around him is heartbroken and in shock at this senseless incident. What an absolute tragedy. Rest in peace, Curt.
 
That should definitely bring some much needed attention and publicity to the shootout. Get people’s mind of this covid mess. Great idea for the shootout. Definitely a great loss in dsm community. Was always fair and honest when I dealt with’m. Will definitely be missed
 
Remember walking over to his pit at the Shootout just to say hello. This was when he ran the Black 1gb and noticed this pile of "stuff" there. I kind of glanced around for him and all the sudden I hear this scraping noise... he was pulling his entire exhaust off too! Thought it was pretty great, wished him well and was on my way.
 
Curt was an amazing person, super knowledgeable and friendly. He will be missed by so many. This is one of the last pieces I got back from him servicing. Evo 3 intake that he ported and a smiley face on the inside of the freeze plug.
 

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Tomorrow is NOT GUARANTEED, so tell those that stand out in your life that they matter to you now, don't put it off.
I never had the pleasure but when that name was mentioned, I always respected it!
Thanks for all you did in life for and from all of us. Rest in peace CB!
I live by those words, I make some people and probably most people uneasy sometimes I'm guessing when I tell them how I feel about them or give them a decent bear hug, but I dont want to have that regret after having lost enough people in my life without the possibility of getting one last hug or to get that one last chance to tell them what they are to me, end of the day a few seconds of awkwardness when we are having a good day, is better than a lifetime of regret, and I have a feeling that people are people and it feels good to know that your buddy does love you just like blood family whether you know how to deal with that bombshell at the time or not, as Marty said man, dont miss that moment in time, tell them.
 
Shootout 2007. First one I had been to since 2000. Went on a whim, couldn't get a hotel room for the event. Saturday night, it starts raining like hell, somehow Curt had heard that me and my two buddies who were with me didn't have a room. Told me to come chill in his room and have a couple beers. I had only crossed paths with him one other time before this at my local track (I live about an hour from where he lives), but he invited us up, no questions asked where we sat and drank a few Blue Moons with the guys from IMVFilms.

Gave me some advice on my build at the time, a few hours later I thanked him and shook his hand, and we took off.

Stand up guy. He will be missed for sure.
 
This is a huge loss to the DSM community - he was a legend. RIP Curt
 
Shootout 2007. First one I had been to since 2000. Went on a whim, couldn't get a hotel room for the event. Saturday night, it starts raining like hell, somehow Curt had heard that me and my two buddies who were with me didn't have a room. Told me to come chill in his room and have a couple beers. I had only crossed paths with him one other time before this at my local track (I live about an hour from where he lives), but he invited us up, no questions asked where we sat and drank a few Blue Moons with the guys from IMVFilms.

Gave me some advice on my build at the time, a few hours later I thanked him and shook his hand, and we took off.

Stand up guy. He will be missed for sure.

Amazing story. I love this.
 
Remember walking over to his pit at the Shootout just to say hello. This was when he ran the Black 1gb and noticed this pile of "stuff" there. I kind of glanced around for him and all the sudden I hear this scraping noise... he was pulling his entire exhaust off too! Thought it was pretty great, wished him well and was on my way.
He seemed to take some sick pleasure in not making it known that he was Curt Brown, my buddy was telling me the other day that he answered an ad for Dsm parts on Craigslist, went over to the guys house, was in the house looking through tons of stuff and my buddy said "man you really seem to be into these cars" and the guy said "well yeah I do some business through the mail etc etc" and obviously my buddy was like "well whats the name of the business?" and of course he was forced to say Curt Brown Racing, and my buddy was like "ohhh, ok yeah I know your work etc" but he did seem to not name drop for some reason, either he thought he was a celebrity and didn't want the fans mobbing him everywhere he went or he didn't think that he was much of anything special and didn't think it was worthy of mentioning, I'm guessing that it was the latter, sometimes people don't know the difference that they make in the world, they live oblivious to the mark that they make, we all leave a mark, everyone of us.
 
Thought this was a cool idea....

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I have had some contact with David B through this, I had thought of mentioning that idea the day after this happened, with the current mess with Norwalk and what the schedule will be I figured it was too soon to have that discussion but its in my mind.
 
Didn't know much about him, but I knew it meant something when a head or manifold was for sale and its "Curt Brown ported". I did see a bone stock amazing showroom condition 2Gb GSX for sale on car gurus with 38,000 miles on it a year or so ago. I drooled over it for days unable to swing the cost but called trying to make a deal. The dealer told me it used to be Curt's and even tho I didn't know much about the guy except that he was well known in the DSM community, it made me want it that much more. I hope his family gets the support they need to cope with their loss.
Race In Paradise Curt
 
I knew Curt but not from the car scene, I knew him from the bike racing scene. I knew he worked on cars and loved cars but he never bragged about it while on bike rides other then mild conversation, it was clearly a passion but he never put me down when I tried to talk to him about it and now I clearly understand (from reading comments here) how little I truly understood about that part of his life and how patient he was being.

I really enjoyed reading the stories here about him and it fits the guy I knew to a T so I thought I'd share a story or two about his bike riding.

The man is a absolute cycling legend in Pittsburgh. Most cyclist use a piece of software to track their rides/activities called Strava. In Strava there are these things called KOMs (King Of the Mountain). These KOMs were segments of roads where people competed for the fastest time, it could be a hill climb, a screaming decent, a flat Time Trial, it didn't matter, Curt was obsessed with taking these crowns. It was truly amazing the dedication, I'd go all out trying to take one of these KOMs and finally get it, i'd go home, shower, go into to work and then at lunch i'd get a email, "Uh oh! Curt just stole your KOM!", he would already have taken it back. He was relentless at defending his titles, any cyclist in Pittsburgh probably has a similar story. If he couldn't take it back that day he would wait for the right wind to help take it... if that wasn't enough he would set up his bike specifically for THAT ONE segment and go take it back. It rarely mattered how hard you went, he always found a way to squeeze just a little more speed out of the segment.

To put it in Perspective, I'm on the better side of average for a competitive cyclist here and I have maybe 80 Koms, Curt has/had north of 1300! of them, it was staggering!

It wasn't just cars that he could squeeze speed out of, he has giving me advice over the years on how to squeeze a few extra watts of speed out of my Time Trial bike. It's crazy when I read the stories here about him and they seem so familiar but in a completely different medium. I'm convinced the vehicle doesn't matter, if it had been sailboats, kite surfing, marble racing.... I am certain Curt Brown's would have been the fastest.

Rest In Peace Curt, you'll be missed.
 
I knew Curt but not from the car scene, I knew him from the bike racing scene. I knew he worked on cars and loved cars but he never bragged about it while on bike rides other then mild conversation, it was clearly a passion but he never put me down when I tried to talk to him about it and now I clearly understand (from reading comments here) how little I truly understood about that part of his life and how patient he was being.

I really enjoyed reading the stories here about him and it fits the guy I knew to a T so I thought I'd share a story or two about his bike riding.

The man is a absolute cycling legend in Pittsburgh. Most cyclist use a piece of software to track their rides/activities called Strava. In Strava there are these things called KOMs (King Of the Mountain). These KOMs were segments of roads where people competed for the fastest time, it could be a hill climb, a screaming decent, a flat Time Trial, it didn't matter, Curt was obsessed with taking these crowns. It was truly amazing the dedication, I'd go all out trying to take one of these KOMs and finally get it, i'd go home, shower, go into to work and then at lunch i'd get a email, "Uh oh! Curt just stole your KOM!", he would already have taken it back. He was relentless at defending his titles, any cyclist in Pittsburgh probably has a similar story. If he couldn't take it back that day he would wait for the right wind to help take it... if that wasn't enough he would set up his bike specifically for THAT ONE segment and go take it back. It rarely mattered how hard you went, he always found a way to squeeze just a little more speed out of the segment.

To put it in Perspective, I'm on the better side of average for a competitive cyclist here and I have maybe 80 Koms, Curt has/had north of 1300! of them, it was staggering!

It wasn't just cars that he could squeeze speed out of, he has giving me advice over the years on how to squeeze a few extra watts of speed out of my Time Trial bike. It's crazy when I read the stories here about him and they seem so familiar but in a completely different medium. I'm convinced the vehicle doesn't matter, if it had been sailboats, kite surfing, marble racing.... I am certain Curt Brown's would have been the fastest.

Rest In Peace Curt, you'll be missed.
Thats an amazing story and I hope that his family and friends get to come here and read these and tell a couple of their own, I do believe that Curt would have really loved to hear how people felt about him like that, it goes back to the idea that people shouldn't hold back on telling these things to people when they are still around to hear them! I hope to hear more and I'm glad that you went to the hassle of signing up just to post your own story.
 
I knew Curt but not from the car scene, I knew him from the bike racing scene. I knew he worked on cars and loved cars but he never bragged about it while on bike rides other then mild conversation, it was clearly a passion but he never put me down when I tried to talk to him about it and now I clearly understand (from reading comments here) how little I truly understood about that part of his life and how patient he was being.

I really enjoyed reading the stories here about him and it fits the guy I knew to a T so I thought I'd share a story or two about his bike riding.

The man is a absolute cycling legend in Pittsburgh. Most cyclist use a piece of software to track their rides/activities called Strava. In Strava there are these things called KOMs (King Of the Mountain). These KOMs were segments of roads where people competed for the fastest time, it could be a hill climb, a screaming decent, a flat Time Trial, it didn't matter, Curt was obsessed with taking these crowns. It was truly amazing the dedication, I'd go all out trying to take one of these KOMs and finally get it, i'd go home, shower, go into to work and then at lunch i'd get a email, "Uh oh! Curt just stole your KOM!", he would already have taken it back. He was relentless at defending his titles, any cyclist in Pittsburgh probably has a similar story. If he couldn't take it back that day he would wait for the right wind to help take it... if that wasn't enough he would set up his bike specifically for THAT ONE segment and go take it back. It rarely mattered how hard you went, he always found a way to squeeze just a little more speed out of the segment.

To put it in Perspective, I'm on the better side of average for a competitive cyclist here and I have maybe 80 Koms, Curt has/had north of 1300! of them, it was staggering!

It wasn't just cars that he could squeeze speed out of, he has giving me advice over the years on how to squeeze a few extra watts of speed out of my Time Trial bike. It's crazy when I read the stories here about him and they seem so familiar but in a completely different medium. I'm convinced the vehicle doesn't matter, if it had been sailboats, kite surfing, marble racing.... I am certain Curt Brown's would have been the fastest.

Rest In Peace Curt, you'll be missed.
@PittsburghCyclist - thank you so much for taking the time to register here just to share this story. Really appreciate it. Gives everyone here another side of Curt they probably didn't know about.
 
Wow. This was in my DSMTuners "New posts from the DSM community" E-mail - I saw it and nearly fell out of my chair. What an absolute tragedy. I've never dealt with Curt personally but was looking to send my spare 7-bolt head to him last year, just ran out of time. His name has been a constant in my nearly 18-years of being in the DSM Game, and when I was looking to build my dream setup I scoured the forums and found that 15-years on he was still the obvious choice for the head work. Based on what was said by his friend PittsburghCyclist you can tell he was one of those special people in the world who had an inner drive to push the limits of the possible, not for the purpose of boosting his ego but for the purpose of satisfying his internal drive. I recently just finished watching the 10-part documentary about the 90's Bulls, and when I read that post from PittsburghCyclist about how Curt was obsessed with the KOMs made me think of MJ.

So sad to think that such a person was put to rest from crossing paths with his polar opposite; a hit-and-run by a worthless heroin junkie driving west in the eastbound lane.
My deepest condolonces to his friends and family for this loss. 51 years young. RIP.:(
 
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