It all started on a warm summer day on the Central Coast of California. The year was 2005. 
It was nearing the end of my freshman year in college, I was a bit tired of my Scion xB and I wanted something cheap that could go quick. I had previously owned a nitrous fed 97 Civic when I was 16 and now had the nitrous fed xB. At this time I was 19.
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After searching for a while, I decided that I wanted a DSM. About a month later, July 2005, I ended up with my first (the first of many as I would later find out.) She was a black 93 Tsi AWD. She wasn’t too pretty, but it was a start. I learned a quite a bit from this car, from just doing all the maintenance to get her running well, free mods, etc. I learned how to port on this car, how to fab up i/c piping the right way, and how to do wiring.
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I was pretty happy with myself until I blew my 14b on my way to a dyno day @ Full Function www.FFTEC.com. Sean, the owner, was nice enough to hook me up with another 14b and a few days later I was back up and running after hours and hours of porting (at the time I thought it would be worth it…). I got to take it to the track the week before I sold it after taking the suspension back off it, clicked off a 13.6 with a 1.80 60’. Stock turbo, supra smic, 650s, 100ct, untuned. Then bye bye car.
In this time, I met a few local DSMers and would like to thank them for guiding my n00b ass..haha. But they did inspire me and help get me where I was today. Mahesh, Sean (FFTEC), Kamil & Raul from www.HiRevPerformance.net, as well as all the other local guys. And my best friends Nat & Charles for always helping with whatever misc things needed to be done.
(Checkpoint: July 2006)
To be continued...
It was nearing the end of my freshman year in college, I was a bit tired of my Scion xB and I wanted something cheap that could go quick. I had previously owned a nitrous fed 97 Civic when I was 16 and now had the nitrous fed xB. At this time I was 19.
After searching for a while, I decided that I wanted a DSM. About a month later, July 2005, I ended up with my first (the first of many as I would later find out.) She was a black 93 Tsi AWD. She wasn’t too pretty, but it was a start. I learned a quite a bit from this car, from just doing all the maintenance to get her running well, free mods, etc. I learned how to port on this car, how to fab up i/c piping the right way, and how to do wiring.
I was pretty happy with myself until I blew my 14b on my way to a dyno day @ Full Function www.FFTEC.com. Sean, the owner, was nice enough to hook me up with another 14b and a few days later I was back up and running after hours and hours of porting (at the time I thought it would be worth it…). I got to take it to the track the week before I sold it after taking the suspension back off it, clicked off a 13.6 with a 1.80 60’. Stock turbo, supra smic, 650s, 100ct, untuned. Then bye bye car.
In this time, I met a few local DSMers and would like to thank them for guiding my n00b ass..haha. But they did inspire me and help get me where I was today. Mahesh, Sean (FFTEC), Kamil & Raul from www.HiRevPerformance.net, as well as all the other local guys. And my best friends Nat & Charles for always helping with whatever misc things needed to be done.
(Checkpoint: July 2006)
To be continued...
