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Hello, my name is Robb, I also go by Bert. I am 22 and I'm from Findlay and I am a student at the University of Findlay. I joined this site to broaden my automotive knowledge and to see what other people are doing with their cars to give me ideas for building mine. I used to own a 1992 Mazda Protege http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/2485369_10.jpg and a 1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse non-turbo. http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/Eclipse2.jpg I traded them in a year ago for my new toy. http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/Mustang2.jpg http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/Mustang.jpg http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/IMG00018.jpg http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/utf-8BMzczMzk5NDk4OV9jODdlMTZlMzE1X.jpg Its a 2006 Ford Mustang GT, the only mod it has is a Flowmaster Exhaust system. I enjoy it and its my first domestic. I drive a Geo Tracker 4X4 for winter, its not really that special so I dont have any pics of it. I picked up a 1982 Dodge Rampage last spring and its currently sitting in my driveway awaiting repairs http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/0510081244-1.jpg My other hobby is playing Warhammer 40k and here is a pic of one of the models I built http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/greenthunder88/Vindicator.jpg If you guys have any more questions feel free to ask!

The story of my Camaro and me is a long hard road of learning things the hard way, and figuring things out on my own. To talk about where the car is now and where it's going I'll have to give a little backround on the subject. I bought the car a low mileage used car back in 2003 in as close to perfect condition as anyone could find. My career as an electrician was coming to an end so I hadn't nearly as much experience working on cars at that time. I had a company vehicle so I wasn't going to use it as a daily, but as something fun to have. My wife traded her Grand Prix in so I could have it. At the begining I wasn't intent on modding it more then a catback and tune, but boy how things change. The first few years this is all I did and enjoyed the car, and even though it had been beat up a few times I had it fixed nicely in the body shop. Then between finding CR and going to the dragstrip a few times the bug bit me. So I dove head first into swapping in a mild cam. This led into learning so many things about modding a modern car, because I didn't want to let anyone else do any of the work, whats the fun in that? I immediatly needed to learn how to tune, so without realizing what kind of mountain I was about to climb I got my hands on EFIlive and quite a few books on the topic and went to work. Once I got the car to start working okay and many weeks of trial and error, i took it to the track to finally break into the 12s, running back to back 12.92 passes. I thought I had this all figured out. Well I was only scratching the surface, screwing up the trans tuning it burnt up the 2-4 band a couple weeks after making it into the 12s, and the reasearch continued. I had the trans rebuilt and bought a TCI converter and went to my first CR track day. I had a few mid 12 second passes before the posi stopped working and spinning one wheel. So I learned how to rebuild a 10 bolt out of a book and installed a locker and gears. After headers and working on my tuning skills I had the car running 12.0s, all on a street tune. Again i thought I had figured this shit out. All the time I had no real experience, I had never modding anything this much before, and wasn't even friends with anyone who had. The car was running good, but I still had much to learn. This is when most of you found out who I was, my dumbass decided to install a nitrous kit and beat everyone. Mistake number one, and I had no idea what I was doing. This would be when I melted down number one piston, destroyed the combustion chamber in the cylinder head, and broke two valves. By this time I was obsessed with car, and my do it myself or fuck it up trying attitude really wasn't helping. I dove deeper into more books and internet forums learning all I could, and was still determined to make this happen for myself. I built the engine thats in the car now, a stock crank 6.0 with forged rods and pistons, again I refused to let anyone else do this and only let Phillips racing do the machine work. Running out of money I had to put a stock pair of LS1 heads on the new engine, something I thought I'd have ported and got ripped off for. Once I got the new engine in the car and street tuned I finally got the car on a dyno and thanks to Brady for giving me some pointers, got it tuned right. Now I had a car putting 420hp down to the wheels. In the process I broke my tranny again, and Anthony stepped up with a tranny I could use. After repairing the pump and installing it I finnally broke into the 11s on motor by the end of last season before breaking it again. The car has never run well on spray, at first my tune was bad, and now it just won't hook up. I hope to remedy this problem this year. It also keeps breaking driveline parts, I will be fixing these issues.

Just figured I'd dig around over here, I'm from Cincy and have a 93 mustang with a stock block, silver spray painted e7's and 3.27's . This better? http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/bad306lx/IMG_1728.jpg http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/bad306lx/IMG_1727.jpg http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/bad306lx/IMG_1726.jpg http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/bad306lx/IMG_1715.jpg Also picked up a 1991 MR2 for a daily driver over the weekend while I was up at the IFO event. It's my 3rd one and these are my absolute favorite cars to drive. JDM Gen II swapped and in need of paint haha.

yeah it's the purple s13

Lol thanks for the welcome. I do miss my old Mazda but it was at the point where it was nickel and diming me

Thanks! The Rampage has the stock 2.2L engine in it right now, I'm hoping to either put the turbocharged 2.2L in it or maybe something a little bit bigger

this gives you a better idea of the color http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a60/matt_pound/CIMG0058.jpg

Hi guys I'm adam, I currently work a pretty lame job at Ohio State and Nationwide originally from Cincy as I'm a Bengals Fan! But recently acquired my first Porsche 2001, and was hoping to meet some younger porsche drivers. My previous cars were mainly Japanese imports, haven't gotten around to starting a family yet which is probably a good thing if I want to continue the ideas of picking up expensive fun hobbies and traveling around the world but we'll see, I just got back from Japan. http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/547/c8cfb728.jpg http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8563/35b4d149.jpg http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6058/87eeb603.jpg http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1856/59944ff6.jpg http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/521/debb8b57.jpg

names matt, from pataskala drive an 89 240sx single cam I/H/E fuel cell in back, warlboro 255 in line, tein springs, kyb struts, stripped and slammed drift car bassically. gonna be doing a 5.3 lm7 swap over the winter

hey my names Eric, new on this forum i am on others but now since ive moved to ohio for school might as well get on Ohio forums too, i drive a 95 240sx, im here in Lima now for school http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo138/stevens1092/100_4575.jpg http://i369.photobucket.com/albums/oo138/stevens1092/July2009006.jpg