LOL, I'm a software engineer without a degree. I've been coding off and on since the early 80's. Then 8 years ago my fiancee(now wife) got pregnant, so I had to ditch the pizza delivery job and start getting paid for coding.
I used to be a electrical forklift mechanic, so that's where I get my few wrenching skills.
Now I write web based applications on top of BPM( business process management) engines. With four growing kids, I have no free time. Once in a while I'll take the wife out and scare her on the twisties.

 

LOL, After my first wife got the heck out of my house, thats when I was a motivated Rx enthusiest. I had a silver Rx 2nd gen with blue stripes (many here who know me remember that car). It had a ported 6 port running a full dual exhaust (OMG LOUD) and a DHLA Dellort'o carb amongst many many other mods. It was quick, but it got old so I went turbo. Then I met my fiance and things have been slow since. I have alomost enough parts to finish my TII project (new every thing, when I say everything, I MEAN EVERTHING from brakes, bushings, rotor housings, side housgs, custom manifold {Rich, I need to finish welding it up}, custom built 60-1 BB turbo {I build turbos too}, wheels, etc etc etc. Its all in a huge expensive pile here at work and my garage lol. I'll be getting off my *** soon (I hope).



Pic for those who said I'd never be able to stuff 265 under the fenders without modding them. no clearance issues at all :P and 235 up front.

~Mike...............

 

LOL, get your car done BEFORE you get married again and start makin' kids. Ask Kenny bout that, . I got interested in 7's after my first wife and I split up. Only took 10 years to actually buy one. Funny how so many 7 owners are engineers.

 

havent seen you in a long time mike i called you like way back in the day about that other car you had for like 300 bucks it was just a shell of it i lost your number....and come to find out i wont need that shell after all sorry. but good to hear from you again.

 

refresh my memory, name?

~Mike........

 

monty is the name and i called you from blacksburg at the time and i was heading into town for my court date and we never really got to see the car lol.

 

Ahhh!!, I remember, ever get a 7?

 

i have a 86 se with a jdm turbo2 swap in it and itll be finished by next mounth . but wanted that car for my dad cause he wants a rx7 also i was goign to fix it up for my pops

if you scroll back there is a few pics of her in this section of the forum like 379 page back cause im in here most of the time

 

Cool, wish my dad was into projects like he used to be. Now he drives a BMW M3 and won't even change his own oil

~Mike..............

 

Hey mike ,glad to see you stick your head in here . We had a blast last night , but once again no RX7's running . I do have good news , I SOLD MY CAR TODAY $ 4600.00 to a guy in Norlfolk . He just got back from Japan and wants to make it a drift car ?? Now I just need to finish up with the interrior of the convert and get it sold .

Thanks again everyone

 

Sweet! Congrats dude!

 

Which one did you sell???

Anyway, was Jake there running his Turbo Volvo? He is an RX7 guy..... He has said he was gonna bring his GSLSE, but obviously he didn't..

I am planning on two weeks. I am trying to get tires and If I do, then I will go in two weeks. I have the Hoosiers, but I don't want to drive it over there on them.

 

I wish that was my payday!!!!!!!!!!!

 

With that nice house, garage, and toys, I think that IS Kenny's regular payday! Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if he's got the med bills I have.

 

I need to get back to the scheme of things and instead of fixing them, stripping them down again. My weakness right now is that I get these old school cars and for some reason I get attached to them. Today for example, I saw a brand new GTI at work, man that is a sweet ride. 2.0 lt turbo, 200 hp of pure fun, I like how that new VW GTI looks and it won't break you. Average price is about $21-23000. I am in need of something newer and A/C. I tired of driving the van, even thought the a/c feels good. Especailly since I have two systems in it.

 

Screw that! Buy an older WRX or STI. About the same price range, but more power, AWD, and it's a Subaru. I have an 96 Outback, parts are a bit pricey, but I just changed the oil in it for the first time in 6 years.... Runs great!

 

I live about 2 minutes from Langley Speedway. You can swap tires in my driveway, if you like. Shawn actually trailered his car here, unloaded and drove it to langley on 710s

 

Damn, you're as close as I am.

 

well good thing i didnt take the truck to wacky wednesdays

when i left work tonight i slammed on the brakes in the parking lot and i heard somethin pop

i look up under there and the u bolt that holds the lower front control arm bent and cracked

 

damn that sucks. and I'm with yoshi on the subaru haha. I actually have never seen one broken down (aside from in WRC events) I have a friend who bought an 02 wrx and it runs great, only thing i dont car for like most AWD cars, its front heavy and generally heavy all around unless you buy a really old model

 

I might take you up on that. I really am wanting to get a set of these:

http://www.vulcantire.com/azenis_rt615_t.htm

or these

http://www.edgeracing.com/cmdhankook

for street tires. If I do then I can drive it over there on them.

I love Ann Coulter!!!

The Hankook's are available in exactly the sizes I want, while the Falkens are very close, but not exactly the size I want.

 

those hankook tires are really nice

 

They aren't as good as these:

http://www.hankooktireusa.com/produc...ail.asp?pid=58

but I do want them as daily driver tires

 

get the falken's, the hankooks don't last for ****...mine exploded when I was driving through the metal part of the downtown tunnel bridge.

 

Really? Damn!! I was thinkin' of the Bridgeston Potenza's or maybe another set of Toyo's...