trancemission

well said, which is why its much more personal for us to do our own. Hell I think since Ive known G hes owned like 8 fucking cars since his Acura.

RUF87

No offense was taken or nor did I feel there was reason to. I was really just agreeing with your points, but that it was funny how 2 of us coming out from time to time were a couple of older guys.

For me anyway, it's always been about the cars so I go to all sorts of meets. If I don't meet enough cool guys (regardless of age) I don't go back. So I can totally understand how you feel when some of the knuckle heads out there spoil the deal for others. And this past Wednesday was some of the dumbest crap I've seen. If the first meet was like that I would not have come back out to see if the next meet was any better. The difference here is that there are a few Acura guys and the guys NAiL introduced me to were cool, and NAiL is always good to pump for some tips or insight and this is a key point for me on why I like to go from time to time. Ha, even an old dog like me can and likes to learn new things I can try on my car.

All that said, if what happened this past week happens some more . . . I expect Plano police and or Sam's will shut it down.

RUF87

Agreed . . . we've had several guys over the years get a different car brand, but once part of the group/family . . . always part of the family.

And Trance, I'm serious . . . we need a special emoticon to use for you . . . something with grillin'

Ruf

RUF87

Hey HP, where's that thread with the sound clip of the 3rd gen with straight pipes . . . me no find it.

Ruf

NAiL05

Yep I am getting tired of meets that you just stand around all the time...Sometimes its good to have some time off, you know just sit around and chit chat like on wednesday nights to catch up on people and see how they are doing, and go out to mexico.

But if I wanted a specific car meet I would like to do something else other than looking at similar cars. I have been through that phase one too many times and I know it gets boring...especially if your a family man or you have your girlfriend around. Usually they just keep to themselves. My new take on meets is to get everyone involved depending on how much they are willing to spend. Usually I try to go the cheaper the better.

The last meet I created was the major cb7 (90-93 accord) meet and we met out in Austin...Chilled for a while around the grill then went over to round rock raceway in Austin to have some fun. Then after that some dinner then out in the country for a small drive and pictures at the end of the day. I want to try something like that for Dallas but I cannot find any good areas...Could do a bar meet but not a lot of people are of age and its kind of a bad mix lol for those people that cant control what they consume =D.

Anyway supposedly there is a new indoor E-kart track opening around Dallas. Dunno where but it would be something to go have some fun there. If all else fails I will just create a track meet or a cruise meet from other forums. The last cruise we took FM 420 as I recall basically 150 miles round trip of twisties going through muenster and a few other small towns up north. Just give me ideas and what people are willing to do and I can try and setup something. Other than that its kinda hard to gauge what people like to do.

Rick_TL-S

I agree as well. I met a couple DI guys during my first visit, & they were pretty much the sole reason I went back, so I see what you mean.

As for what happened, guess I'll have to browse the DI forums again to find out. Always love seeing their views on what happens.

This sounds like my kind of fun as long as people don't mind me being the young guy.
A cruise sounds fun since the Texas Cannonball isn't looking to get its crap together. Just gotta save up the miles now.

Silver Bullet

^^^ All that being said now... I'll be out again this next wednesday. I'll get there shortly after 9p and will hang for a little while to see who shows. Where's the preferred spot for us again?

Silver Bullet

Here are 3 that I know of but this guy also has a s/c.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLheE2DmdDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgm2sg1Tvi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_l3C8nLWCQ

trancemission

The best part in my opinion is that you actually make friends. Every single person in this thread at some point has become my friend. Which is why you'll see them refer to me by my name.

When we get together we truly enjoy each others company. Our wives and girlfriends hangout, instead of just standing there like some fuckin arm candy.

Peter goes all out for his meets, simply because he feels the exact same way I do, he loves seeing all of us and he loves to provide a place and an atmosphere for us to hang out and our wives (or girlfriends) to feel comfortable as well.

This is exactly why I get nothing out of a weekly meet in a parking lot. I can watch you tube videos that will cover that.

trancemission

Those videos were fucking stupid, not only do I think its a waste of money to S/C our cars but to see a lady just crossing the street with her dog before that idiot drove by makes my blood boil.

This is why I like to pick and choose who I hang out with.

NAiL05

Yep its a friend making experience for sure. But I will see. Anyone like spirited cruises? Seems like the s2k/miata guys do this often. I dunno how everyone feels about that. I usually go on them because you meet new people and a mature crowd that share the same interests. But anyway off to Austin today and back later today gotta go to a meet over by mansfield dam lol.

trancemission

Maybe its just me but S/C a front wheel drive car seems like a complete waste.

trancemission

Mark (silver), you need to add more pictures to your profile.

I only saw one come up on the main page

trancemission

For anyone interested, Im throwing a party at my place this afternoon, anyone interested in some BBQ and swimming and drinking just let me know

Rick_TL-S

I wouldn't wander too far into the 3Gen forums then. That's one of our member's cars.

As for the S/C, I would have liked to, but the guy who did it to his Type S didn't really provide any information how he did with the CT model, plus the whine from YT vids. wasn't pleasing.

But, there's always snail power coming now.

trancemission

Look on the main page of that forum. I wrote the rules for it.

I dont go in there as much as I used to. I end up banning some idioit everytime

Silver Bullet

some day

pmptx

Thank you sir.
We will do it again soon.

If I can get an F'in job, I might be able to get a nice 2 seater vert.

A bit o garage candy with some VTEC kick and an 8 or 9K redline.

YUMMY.

NAiL05

Back from the ATX...I think my motor mounts are gone =(...Oh well time to upgrade. Brakes work wonderfully at lime creek I must say lol.

NAiL05

Just one from the dam....Holy crap it was hot today trying to take pics out there....Zaino seems like it works well when my friend applied it...Reflects a lot better than what I used before. Humid heat is failocaust. Need to get a TL shoot for the locals some time speaking of which.

Rick_TL-S

May not be out there with you guys Wednesday. Apparently, some fucker or something decided to hit my passenger window while I was at a party.

ka8_Type I

i think i saw you yesterday i live in the area of Mansfield damn , well before it [Steiner Ranch]..but anyway sweet car, i wish i would have known i would have loved to stop by and look at the car.

and a little off topic: Okay yesterday here in Austin there where loads and loads of Honda's and Acura's [mostly riced out Cb7s and there bad dangerous drivers effin idiots] but there were few nice cars every now and then [prelude's , s2000's, 350 Z's, TL's [loads and loads of them] anyone got any info?

NAiL05

Yea there was a cb7 meet. I was with them...I was lost like hell. I saw a few TL's laying around but mostly older people driving. I drove down 620 a lot lol so might have. There were a lot of riced out cars at the dam...People were dogging me as I pulled into the dam...I was like wtf I didnt do anything.

MarbleGT

We do spirited driving meets all the time...but honestly, those roads would be absolutely no fun in any Acura. I did the first one in my COMPLETELY modded out CLS and I couldn't hang. Too much power, to much weight, to sharp of turns....this list goes on. Plus you can't do that stuff anywhere near the metroplex. The majority of the S2ki, and Miata.net drives are in remote Arkansas mt towns.

Theres no way I'd take my Acura up there. Im not trying to be degrading towards the cars...Trying to keep up isn't much fun.

Lime Creek is half as intense as those roads, btw. Narrower, Tighter....think of switchbacks so tight that they car in front of you disappears.

Silver Bullet

Happy Father's Day to all the AZ Dads out there!

!6niss foyoass

I planning to be out there Wednesday where everybody with a TL park at? Yall don't mind if i park with yall?

NAiL05

I understand where you are coming from. Would you happen to know Tom? Turbo IS300 with a big single pushing around 700rwhp? He usually informs me of these cruises. He goes to a lot of s2ki/miata events. Usually I go around the metroplex north of here around denton. It was fun IMO not as many hard turns as I would like but it was fun...It was more high speed than anything other than a certain s2k accidentally overcorrecting himself.

We usually park together if we can find each other. I park near the clublexus people if I dont see anyone. I think the new corner might be next to that euro shop next to sams. Park close to that direction but I dunno...I will see how the turnout is and go from there.

Rick_TL-S

The roads around South Fork aren't bad. A good stretch of straights & such, along with hills & all kinds of curves.

Only problem is 90% of it is 1 lane, with nearly no way to pass slower cars.

ka8_Type I

yeah one of those damn Ricer CB7s cut in front of me..pissed me off soo much.

NAiL05

Sorry to hear that. We were pretty spread apart. I dunno when. There were a couple bad apples in the pack. YOu remember what color cut you off? We had like 3 boosted and 4 swapped the rest were pretty much stock. Actually you can pull out which one did lol. I took pics of all the cars at the meet anyway. Its not much to see compared to a TL but yea...Its where I started and I know pretty much everyone...Usually we dont do anything dangerous and we tell people not to do anything stupid, but there were quite a bit of new people that I did not know attending this one so it wasnt too controllable on my part.

http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=137831

ka8_Type I

the one that cut me off, was a black CB7 coupe it looked like the rear was raised 2inches Hispanic driver i think. not only did he cut me off , he was weaving in and out of traffic like a mad man switching lanes aggressively.

NAiL05

I know who your talking about then...I dunno what he was honestly he did look hispanic...Yea he kinda swerved everywhere and so on unsafe...But I guess there are always a few bad apples at every meet. Nothing can ever be perfect if you know what I mean. I apologize for that happening man. He was also one of the new guys.

ka8_Type I

yeah, it's all good....

so how about some good news, how was the meet? i looked at the pics on CB7tuner and there were a few clean Accords and a really nice S2000.

and your TL looked good as usual.

NAiL05

Thanks, it wasn't too bad. Lime creek was fun it was pretty empty so that made it better. Got to finally put the Acura into some nice tight bends and handles pretty well...The RB ET500/Slotted rotors stopped consistently with no brake fade whatsoever. I was satisfied. I didnt stay there after LIme creek I kinda just left lol because I needed to get back in town...After all today was fathers day cant miss out on that. It was also scorching hot so didnt take many pictures lol. I got at least a shade darker.

ka8_Type I

awesome! Lime creek is a fun road i love driving it, i wish my car could peform the way your TL does, i mean my Legend's handling isn't horrible but it's definitely not the best it does well for being 100% stock.

haha a tan is always good (well not for me lol). i'll be blacker than Tar

NAiL05

Yea I was purposely trying to see what the TL would do under "certain" conditions and surprisingly performed really well...Some things such as purposely gassing it more into a corner lol...Grips really well but it could also be my tires helping 10x too. The BFG's are wonderful...Only good part on this car not a fan of the rims though need to get rid of those.

ka8_Type I

haha aren't they AMG wheels? what wheels are you looking to get next?

Rick_TL-S

NAiL, were you rolling through Rowlett today on 66 around 10:30? I could have sworn I'd seen a black TL with rims like your's heading towards Garland on 66.

NAiL05

ka8 - They are ASA ST3 but they look like the AMG wheels lol. They are heavy at 28lbs each without tire so gonna get rid of that.

Rick - Not that I know of. I wasnt in that direction today.

ATXTSX

E,
Lets do a meet and i will drive up. Maybe we could even get Andy,G, and the others that have disappeared to com.

A