danny25

Dang, I missed that meet by 20 days.
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danny25

Alright, I'll take u up on that offer. I'm gonna show up at your door one day, and you better hand over the keys.

danny25

So whatever happened to Rootbeer, and PlanoTLS?

peiqinglong

Yea and I do expect those keys and the car back also...I better not see a post here a week later telling me how it took you a drive all the way to Texas to get the true "feel" of them

danny25

Hey that would have been a good idea! No, I'd just borrow it for.....how long does it take to uninstall headers?........a few hours.

CasperTL

Actually, I got DuckBlue's email right before I left the office last night, and started kinda thinking about it in the shower this morning. I only had the first two parts when I got too work. The rest of it I wrote on the fly. But thanks.... I try to keep my comedic stamina high

CasperTL

Rootbeer only jumps onto this thread if you PM him, or at least that was the case that last meet I organized.

PlanoTLS never signed up on the CL forums. DuckBlue and I met him on the TL forums where we started out, but realized that the CL board was a bit more fun. If you go over to the TL forums and PM him, he'll reply pretty quick, or at least he did last time I tried...

mantis23

Well, the Zeals are pretty stiff. They do degrade the ride quality quite a bit. But handling improves a lot at the same time. Gotta give a little to get a little. Take a spin at the next meet, and you'll see what I'm talking about.

mantis23

I think rootbeer still visits every now and again.

PlanoTLS never had an account over here, only on A-TL. I see him every now and again on the boards.

EDIT: Damn, Casper beat me to it.

peiqinglong

Hahahaha...riiiight

DuckBlue

wow, those pics bring back old memories

mantis, did you ever post pics from the feb meet in the middle of nowhere?

i only have a few, and they are in the yahoo page in my sig

mantis23

Heh, I don't think I ever posted them.

AzN Retribution

Hiyas
Im a bit new here.
are there any new DFW area meets anytime soon?

InfernoTLS

Dude, my girlfriend is sooooooo sweet!!!

InfernoTLS

Welcome on board, AzNRet.

We are planning a race day November 22 at Ennis and a dyno day sometime around then. I need to bump the info again due to a lot of nasty post whoring that has been going on...

Inferno

AzN Retribution

Thanks! Im from AV6.com but their DFW area isnt active at all.
and the race/dyno day sounds fun..
i stopped reading this threadaround page 113 or so.
Im not a TL or CL but um, HmM I still have a J Engine. haha
and my tranny sucks too......















but... my car looks better

CasperTL

THAT'S ME!!!

Welcome aboard AzN Retribution.... interesting name btw.

If you've read any of this thread, which would take FOREVER, you'd see, we're all somewhat insane, most of us are racing fools, and we all love to have a good time with our cars...


Inferno... THANK YOU. for some reason, I couldn't find the actual date yall planned on doing the Ennis thing again and no one would post it when I asked.

I've decided to go with a y-pipe, so most likely it will be here and installed by that point (i so excited)

civic4982

man I need to get back on this thread more often... so many people now... next meet is nov. 22nd right? hopefully I get some dry weather soon so I can practice my launch ... wanna hit a 14.5 on some lowered tire pressure..

civic4982

y pipe eh? how much is that gonna set you back? I wanna get one too... I want one... o wait... you have a maxima... hehe just noticed that recently... I was thinkin' there was a Y-pipe for our car...

CasperTL

There is a company out of Canada that sells them for a little over $200 and they are getting great reviews... As I was telling Mantis, there's a site devoted to Maxima Maintenance (www.motorvate.ca) and they did a dyno before and after the y-pipe and showed a 31hp and 27ft/lbs gain in the engine. I was in shock! The company claims only around 20hp, but dyno's rarely lie.

If you guys don't have a y-pipe, what do you have...?

mantis23

Hey AzNRet, it doesn't matter if you got an Accord or not, we just like cars, period.

Hope you can make it out to the race/dyno day, I'm going to talk to the Dyno shop today to see if I can get some final numbers on the costs.

You said you transmission sucks, have you had it replaced already?

mantis23

Ohh, and one more thing AznRet, I don't see HOW in the hell you made it up to page 113. You must have sat there reading for hours. @_@

RUF87

FYI - I've edited the first page (message) letting folks know about the current events.

RUF

Hanzie

Hey mantis, where did you buy your rubbers at?? I think i'm gonna go with Toyos for my car

2KVSIX

DuckBlue

do you guys know anything about "customer appreciation week" at mcdavid? i was just chatting with a friend with an integra... she mentioned something about it


RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: did u go 2 acura customer appreciation week?
MobileDucky: didnt hear about it
MobileDucky: they dont appreciate me
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: it's this week i think
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: at david mcdavid
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: they did lots of things 4 me for free
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: and gave gifts too
MobileDucky: boo
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: u should go
MobileDucky: i didnt get invite
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: i dunno how my dad knew
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: go check it out!
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: u don't need to b invited
MobileDucky: what did they do
MobileDucky: and what did you ask for? just walk in there, and they do stuff?
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: check stuff and changed stuff
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: yes yes
MobileDucky: change... what
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: something that's suppose 2 be like 25$
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: but it was free
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: go check it out
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: i'm goin 2 eat my lunch now
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: lata
MobileDucky: i dont see anything on their web site
MobileDucky: maybe you were supposed to buy the car from them?
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: i didn't
RaCiNTeGRa 6 1 8: i bought it from vandergriff

danny25

I haven't heard anything, where is DMcD anyway?

Hanzie

Plano

mantis23

discount tire...they had to special order though.

mantis23

Customer appreciation week? I'm calling them up right now.

mantis23

I tried to call my DMD advisor, (John LaCourse), no answer. Then I tried calling the front desk to see if she knew anything about the customer appreciation week, she didn't know anything, so she transferred me to service dept. The service dept lady didn't know anything and said let me get a service advisor. I waited for about 5 mins before she came back, and she finally transferred me to someone.

He said all they do is a general inspection of the car... brakes, suspension, fluid levels and so on...

AzN Retribution

Hehe I know

and Yup, its why I'm a a member of the not so elite dead tranny club. at 22,000 miles. and thats before i had any mods. but then again i was driving 4000 - 5000 miles a month I got this car in february im close to 29,000 miles now.

CasperTL

ok, I just gotta say this....

BIN!!! You KNOW that 97% of everything that chick says is absolutely pointless or just flat out wrong...

You should have stopped at Customer Appreciation week and called DMD like Mantis did.

Ok, i'm ok now.

danny25

You make frequent trips across country or what? 4000-5000 a month is insane.

RUF87

Hanzie,

You may want to try Kaufmann Tire as well. They had my Toyos in stock.

I bet you could get the two to bid on your tires.

RUF

AzN Retribution

HmM everyone seems to say that. especially when they see my Odometer.. 28,873 or somewhere around there.

I got this in february.. so..

average of 3208 miles per month..
at one point I did do 4000 - 5000 a month
but thats when i had school
my senior year of HS i had gone to this
private school in arlington. I live in mesquite
so thats a good 40 - 50 miles one way.
both ways thats 100 miles. Some day I'd do it twice
cause I got out early. I'd go home at 10 or 11, come back at 3 to pick up my brother. Other times Id drive all the way up to north dallas to the galleria from arlington and back and then to mesquite. etc. Ive also been to houston 5 or 6 times this year so thats roughly, what 300 miles going there? not counting the 200 miles or so I spend driving around with friends when Im there..
so HmM adding all that up
yes I guess you could say I drive just a lil more then your average joe

My driving has dropped off a bit since Im in college and a real lazy@$$ now. and also my car was in the shop for a week getting tranny fixed one month.. then in the shop again another month to get bumper replaced, radiator replaced(I hit a tiretread in the middle of I20.) and then again in the shop for a week and a half getting partially repainted (Honda botched the paintjob on my car from factory and the clearcoat had started cracking in neat lil patterns).

btw Has anyone besides me had bad experiences with Vandergriff?

civic4982

I put down about 2500- 3000 miles a month...lots of trips to dallas and back to austin...

civic4982

I've had bad experiences with Vandergriff Acura... the manager there (one of them) not the general manager though, was a dick to me... I came to buy a CLS and he told me I was wasting his time if I was gonna go shop somewhere else after he gave me his deal. I told him to go fuck himself and I'd rather pay a few hundred more somewhere else then give him a dime...

civic4982

o yeah, I ended up getting the same deal somewhere else... 300 under invoice... guy was a fucker... felt bad for the salesman though, he wasn't such a bad guy...

danny25

I got my car at Vandergriff Acura and was pleased with the service. Everyone was very friendly and informative. There is one guy in the service dept that's kind of a dick. He's the bald guy, i can't remember his name though. I always call James, he's been very helpful.