New here, hello
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Just signed up and figured I'd say a quick thing or two about myself. My name is Brandon. I actually live in the Twin Cities, but I'm up in Fargo quite a bit since my girlfriend lives up there. And if things go well with us in the future, I may be moving there eventually, but we'll see.
Anyhow, I'm 25. Spent most of my life after high school outside the midwest while I served in the Marines active duty for 5 years. I then got out, came home to the cities, and now work for Westinghouse Nuclear, which is where I am still at today. My backround in vehicles is mainly with DSM's, but also enjoy helping my buddies out by turning a wrench where they tell me to on whatever cars they may have. I purchased my first DSM in 1999, but never really got into modding them until I bought my second one in 2001.
My current toy is my 3rd DSM, a 1991 Talon. In a nutshell, it's a built 2.0, Very mildly ported FFWD head with Crower springs and HKS 272's, bolt on 50-trim, DSMLink, E85, Eibach Sportlines and AGX's, and the typical supporting mods to go with all that. This was my car from AZ, and is completely rust free. I store it every winter to keep it that way. The car also retains all the creature comforts (ie: A/C, power steering, Cruise Control). The factory leather seats are pretty tore up and in my garage, but I plan on getting them reupholstered so I can put those back in as well. I don't enjoy driving around a tin box, so I try to keep it fast, yet still retain as much creature comforts as possible. Everything in the engine bay I powder coated myself out of my house.
I do have more plans for it in the future. This winter I will hopefully get on my new SLS T3 manifold along with a BW S362. There's a couple other things I'll have to upgrade along with that, but that'll be the new setup hopefully this next summer.
And that's really it. If you see this car around this next summer, you'll know who it is. Maybe some of you have seen it already if you went to the Mitsu cookout in Rogers, MN. I ended up taking 3rd in the 1G category.
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welcom nice to have another dsm'r here
2001 GSX-R 1000- one wheel wonder
1976 Chevy K5- lifted beater
1995 240sx- DDD, daily driven drifter
1995 Eagle Talon- wire tuck,shaved bay.. project in the works
2006 Honda CRF50-stunt machine
1993 Eagle Talon tsi-5spd swap,wire tuck, holset hx35. on E85...SOLD
2000 Ford F250 7.3L powerstroke...SOLD
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welcome... I work in a powder coating shop. When you powder coated your stuff out of your house did you use your oven? And what did you use for a gun?? Or did you do like many people and just throw it on?? just wondering
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Welcome, thats one of the nicest 1g dsm i've seen in a while.
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Welcome to the site!
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you -
Thanks everyone. It's far from perfect, but I try to keep it as clean as possible. And like all DSM's, it has it's bugs that need to be worked out.
As for the powder coating question, it's just a hobby of mine. I do it out of my garage. My little setup basically consists of an Eastwood hobby gun, an air compressor (same one I use for my impact tools), and an electric kitchen oven I got for free off Craigs List. It works just fine for me.
Anyhow, thanks for the comments and the nice welcome!
Here's a quick clip someone took of it on LSE's dyno this past spring. It was pretty untuned. We had just got done converting it over to E85, and did some quick street tuning on the way to the Dyno Day. Made 366awhp on their dyno dynamics on that run. It was my only run because as you can see from the vid, the radiator cap decided to crap out on me while on the dyno.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9DnJ8IKnfKo
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