Thread: Quick question for some of ya.

Now don't get me wrong but I know cars are the greatest thing since sliced bread, and whiskey but
I run into people all day who have all these huge plans for their cars and tell me about how they want to do this and that, then turn around and ask how to install a boost gauge or a set of lowering springs..........WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't do computers for the simple reason I don't know much about them, and I don't care to.
So I don't mess with them.
Now I am not trying to set up this huge crazy super computer in my garage to take over the world if I can't even put a picture in this post.

So my beef is If you are going to mess with your car at least get to know the basic working of it, the City colleges have basic automotive classes you can take at night for $19 a unit.
Heck take a Engine Performance class at ARC with Mr. Green (the guy was an F1 Engine tech for BMW in the 80's!!)
You will be blown away, Plus you will save money in the long run working on your own car and not screwing it up, and I will not get asked EVERY DAY and I quote "I want to do a 4g63t swap into my 96' Eclipse non turbo what do I need???" I always have the same reply......If you have to ask....you should not even be thinking about doing it!!

haha... hey Jonathan. I'll be up Saturday to come pick up those parts. Jose called and said that you found them.

Yea all those bolts and that starter pate shit, yea I have it sitting right here.

right on man. thanks for finding it all. they took me out to what they called "Jonathan Land" and had me try to help them find it all. but they wouldn't let me search on my own.

i know exactly what you mean.when i lived in florida there was a guy that had a busted up mazda mx-3 and he said he was gonna be running 11's,i was like yeah sure,you got bout 50k,lol.he use to always askme how fast my NT was,and i use to always say the same thing,about as fast as a caravan :P .Now i'm not a mechanic,since i only worked there for 3 years,but i can do any repairs that i might need to do that i don't need a plant for.Call me lazy or spoiled,but i will not drop a tranny in a bakyard.Now tuning i suck,all i know how to read is my O2 readings,but hey i gotta learn sometime.The funny thing was that guys gave up on his 1.8 L v-6 monster and vrought in one of those drift R/C cars and started braggin on on how his car was so fast in "Scale " speed.man,there are some crazy people out there.I've ever pulled a motor out by myself,but i have helped on alot of them.the main thing here is to try and get your hands dirty a little bit and you will enjoy the fruits of your mods so much more then just ordering parts online and say here put em in.

Originally Posted by ZenkaiRacerDsM

How bout the guys that come up and ask "what stage turbo you got yo!?"

ugh... i hate that... "YO WUT STAGE TUBRO U GOTZ??!? me HOMEBOI GOTZ DA STAGE 6 TUBRO"

you know what i hate more than that? when people type ghetto... and they can't spell obviously easy words and A) proud of it B) so ignorant that they think it was spelled right

Don't start me on bench racing stories, there must be 100 10 Saturns in Sacramento and about a thousand 9 second DSM's!!!!

Then I go out to look at there car........gasp...90% stock running 25psi on pump gas!!! yep 10 seconds.......before you fry it!!!

I have one customer that comes that swears he has a low 11 second NON TURBO 3000gt....... after I show him the list of the top ten fastest TURBO 3KGT's in the US only 4 of them were in the 10's I said now your telling me that you have a N-T car that is faster than half of the fastest turbo 3kgts in the country........yea buddy sure ya do. "wanna race an RX-7 its NT also......" :twisted: