St. Mary's County newbie

[1BADGTO]

Hey everyone, just joined the forum yesterday and this is my first post. I live in Lexington Park and own a red 2005 GTO.

I've lived in Calvert County since late 1996 and moved to Florida early last year. After spending a little over a year in Florida I realized the area I that was in wasn't for me and I had a great job opportunity waiting for me up here so I just got moved back up here in the area back in May of this year.

I don't daily drive the GTO (I use my beater '96 Taurus SHO), so you locals won't see it too often. Some of you may have seen it around though since I've been back in town, but it only gets taken out here and there. I love to drag race though... I spent a lot of time at MIR with my '04 GTO that I used to own, and while down in Florida I made plenty of passes at both Gainesville and Bradenton in my current '05.

Street racing is something I try strongly to avoid, and I very much like to keep my racing strictly at the track. I don't need any trouble with the law, plus my car has traction problems on the street even when I swap my Mickey Thompsons on the rear so it's kinda pointless for me, thankfully. I can get along with pretty much anybody, but I don't care for the ignorant import (or even domestic) crowd. Not that I don't like imports-- I just don't care for ignorant people. Nothing annoys me more than someone with a 1973 Civic, with a 5" fart can and an intake thinking that they're fast. Same thing goes with fellow domestic owners, but there just seems to be a little less of that sort of ignorance from the domestic crowd. But again, I get along with anyone that has the passion for performance and I'm not the kind of person that has a "big head" or anything.

I should be making quite a few appearances back at MIR starting later this summer and on through the winter. I had my car tuned down in Tampa and it's been running a bit rich now that I have it up here in Md, and it's hitting the rev limiter on the 2-3 upshift before going into gear (auto trans), which it never did before so I have to get a re-tune here soon before I start running it hard again. But you'll still catch me driving it around once in a while in the meantime.

Well I hope to see some of you around, and if you all see me driving feel free to say "hey" or something.

-Andrew

[Mike]

Welcome. There was a GTO that looks JUST like yours at the track this past friday.

[Mach]

So what blower are you running?

[Floyd]

Do you live in the Greens? I think I saw a SHO in there the other day.

[burke]

welcome. i thought i saw you on base the other day, but i don't think it was. it was a chick driving.

[ron]

Welcome....

Mike said your a good guy.. so thats a good thing !!!

[CustomX]

you stopped in by target a week ago? had track numbers on your window? i had the green integra and i left with a silver supra and a red caliber, im pretty sure that was you but whats up man very nice car

[1BADGTO]

Thanks for all of the "welcome's" so far everyone.

Welcome. There was a GTO that looks JUST like yours at the track this past friday.

Yeah that was me actually. Had the stocker rear wheels with bald drag radials on ;)

So what blower are you running?

Magnacharger

Do you live in the Greens? I think I saw a SHO in there the other day.

No, not sure where the Greens is but I live near the Wawa in Lex Park

[Floyd]

No, not sure where the Greens is but I live near the Wawa in Lex Park

Its off off Great Mills Rd.
Welcome to the site!

[1BADGTO]

welcome. i thought i saw you on base the other day, but i don't think it was. it was a chick driving.

Yeah I've heard about this chick w/GTO from a buddy... apparently she's a hottie but I haven't seen her yet. :mad:

Welcome....

Mike said your a good guy.. so thats a good thing !!!

That doesn't mean much... Mike has low expectations for friends haha.

you stopped in by target a week ago? had track numbers on your window? i had the green integra and i left with a silver supra and a red caliber, im pretty sure that was you but whats up man very nice car

Yeah that was me, was just passing through after a crappy night at the track haha. Thanks for the comment! Marty said that you're pretty fast. Do you go to MIR much?

[1BADGTO]

Its off off Great Mills Rd.
Welcome to the site!

Thanks! Oh and then yeah you're just right around the corner from where I live pretty much.

[burke]

Yeah I've heard about this chick w/GTO from a buddy... apparently she's a hottie but I haven't seen her yet. :mad:




she's definately a hottie. to bad she had a ring on her finger. lol

[CustomX]

Yeah I've heard about this chick w/GTO from a buddy... apparently she's a hottie but I haven't seen her yet. :mad:



That doesn't mean much... Mike has low expectations for friends haha.



Yeah that was me, was just passing through after a crappy night at the track haha. Thanks for the comment! Marty said that you're pretty fast. Do you go to MIR much?



yeah im usually there every weekend, this friday we should be there with the race car, im usually there every real street night

[CustomX]

to bad she had a ring on her finger. lol


so... hahahah

[1BADGTO]

she's definately a hottie. to bad she had a ring on her finger. lol

Oh damn that sucks lol. Oh well, I'm gonna have to see what she looks like still :love5: haha

yeah im usually there every weekend, this friday we should be there with the race car, im usually there every real street night

Every weekend? Nice haha. I'm gonna wait til it cools back down some, and I need to go on days that they lay down VHT. Track prep this past Friday kinda blew. I managed to squeeze out a couple 1.53x 60's but had to ease into it on the launch and still had a little spin. Do they sray VHT on Sundays?? Or only for actual events? I miss Gainesville and Bradenton... VHT any and every night!

So what's the race car? Is that the Integra or do you race something else as well?

[Mach]

MIR always sprays down VHT... I've never had traction problems

[CustomX]

So what's the race car? Is that the Integra or do you race something else as well?

no no the integra i drive is my daily lol i have that and a bike

the shop i work at we have an 800+whp integra

[Acesrt04]

That doesn't mean much... Mike has low expectations for friends haha.


I do. :p

[burke]

no no the integra i drive is my daily lol i have that and a bike

the shop i work at we have an 800+whp integra


i've yet to see this integra.. where is a video of it, i didn't see it last friday night and i won't be going to the track tomorrow.

[Mike]

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=2235302&page=1 tempest integra

[BCP]

Welcome, nice looking GTO. I used to have a 96 SHO as well, made a decent daily driver.

[blk91s10]

that teg is awesome. havent seen it run but i have seen it in person... the turbo is probably bigger than my head

[ron]

that teg is awesome. havent seen it run but i have seen it in person... the turbo is probably bigger than my ass

fixed...

[1BADGTO]

MIR always sprays down VHT... I've never had traction problems

I don't think they do it on Friday nights though, do they?? This past Friday at MIR was the sloppiest bunch of launches that this car has made in the past 20+ passes I've done with it. My best launch Friday was stalling up to only 1600 RPM and working my way into full throttle off the line. I can usually leave at 2100-2200 RPM and not have to work into the throttle hardly. My Mickey's were bald from my last track day back in January though, so a new set should take care of the traction issues I hope.

no no the integra i drive is my daily lol i have that and a bike

the shop i work at we have an 800+whp integra

800whp?? niiiiiice... that's gotta be sick! I don't fuck with riding bikes though. My buddy hit a deer on one 2 months ago, and wrecked under the Solomons bridge 2 days ago. Too damn dangerous for me haha.

I do. :p

You do... have low expectations. haha. Can't wait to install those pulleys on your girly-car :female:

[Acesrt04]

You do... have low expectations. haha. Can't wait to install those pulleys on your girly-car :female:
Pulleys will give me that extra power I need to pull away from Ron's tank of a car. :p

[glhs837]

Hmm, just pullies? Thats going to be enough?

[Acesrt04]

Hmm, just pullies? Thats going to be enough?

Depending on what pulleys you are thinking could be plenty to pull away.

[Floyd]

Depending on what pulleys you are thinking could be plenty to pull away.

My Neon has got a pulley y0 ;)

[Mike]

Welcome to the site and I assume you found this from Mike. Be sure you smack him for selling his goat as I did :p It's def nice having more LSX powered vehicles


too bad most are broken now. cough younkevin cough.



:p JK man

[1BADGTO]

Welcome, nice looking GTO. I used to have a 96 SHO as well, made a decent daily driver.

Thanks, thanks! Yeah Gen III SHO's aren't all too bad. I started off with a '92 SHO back in 2004. It was an MTX and I modded the piss out of it. Did a 3.2 swap.. using a very low mileage 3.2 block and had the cylinders bored out to 93mm (3.3 liters). Threw is some custom Diamond racing forged aluminum pistons, had the internals fully balanced and the crank journals polished. Then finished it off with the following:

Big bore butterflies, ported primary and secondary intake runners, 5-angle valve job, adjusted the valve lash, Pro-M 80mm MAF with high flow intake, Midwest SHO high flow Y-pipe, Fidanza flywheel, SPEC Stage 2+ clutch kit, ported throttle body, APS under-drive pulley kit, Walbro 190 lb/hr fuel pump, reinforced differential and new half-shafts, SHOrt shifter, Tokico Struts, Intrax lowering springs, Moog lower control arms, aluminum subframe bushings, TPR control arm and strut rod busings, and probably a good couple of other things that I'm forgetting. Needless to say, it was a nasty little N/A SHO haha.

The new block ended up having a broken oil ring that scored the cylinder, so I had to tear the new 3.3 motor back down and get another block. I hadn't really had a chance to drive the car because it was smoking so bad, and after almost 2 years of working on this engine swap (the engines sat in the machine shops for months before the work was done) I finally had the second 3.3 motor in and running just fine. Was tearing up the streets down in Florida with the car and some old idiot hit me (back in March of this year) head-on less than a month after getting the car back out on the road again. The car got totaled and I finally got my settlement check a few weeks ago. I provided just over $11k in receipts on non-maintenance items that I've spent on the car to the claims adjuster of the other guy's insurance company, only to get a check for $3,200 back. The car was in awesome condition and I loved the hell out of that car.

I did get to keep the car, and it's now in my garage up here in Md. The engine wasn't touched in the accident so I'll be parting out one bad-ass SHO motor here soon. But after that car got totaled I didn't want to spend all that money in buying another one and trasferring over all of those parts, so I recently bought the '96 for a damn good price and after I get the brakes and oil leak(s) taken care of it'll make for a pretty decent daily driver compared to the last SHO. Well, now you all know the long history on my beloved '92 SHO haha.

[glhs837]

Depending on what pulleys you are thinking could be plenty to pull away.


If one of thems wrapped around a blower, then ya, that might just do it. :occasion:But otherwise, the Z can just sit back and look purty, its good at that. ;)

[1BADGTO]

Pulleys will give me that extra power I need to pull away from Ron's tank of a car. :p

A 300C definitely IS a tank of a car.... but probably still gonna outrun you. You'll need to get a little bit of a tune on that Z4!

Welcome to the site and I assume you found this from Mike. Be sure you smack him for selling his goat as I did :p It's def nice having more LSX powered vehicles

Thanks, and yeah Mike gave me the link to this forum like 3 times in the past 3 years.... but every time I tried to register I got an error saying that the image verification was not correct... though there was no image nor field to type into for the image verification. Mike pulled some strings I guess and got me this username setup haha. Thanks again Mike!

Yeah I'm still pissed that he sold that car. It doesn't matter though, he couldn't drive it for sh*t lol. But yeah, it was at least another LSx to have around.

[CrashTest]

You do... have low expectations. haha. Can't wait to install those pulleys on your girly-car :female:

I saw a Z4 coupe the other day for the first time. The coupe looks good. In fact, I didn't even know what it was till I saw the Z4 emblem. It looks a lot less girly.

[BCP]

Thanks, thanks! Yeah Gen III SHO's aren't all too bad. I started off with a '92 SHO back in 2004. It was an MTX and I modded the piss out of it. Did a 3.2 swap.. using a very low mileage 3.2 block and had the cylinders bored out to 93mm (3.3 liters). Threw is some custom Diamond racing forged aluminum pistons, had the internals fully balanced and the crank journals polished. Then finished it off with the following:

Big bore butterflies, ported primary and secondary intake runners, 5-angle valve job, adjusted the valve lash, Pro-M 80mm MAF with high flow intake, Midwest SHO high flow Y-pipe, Fidanza flywheel, SPEC Stage 2+ clutch kit, ported throttle body, APS under-drive pulley kit, Walbro 190 lb/hr fuel pump, reinforced differential and new half-shafts, SHOrt shifter, Tokico Struts, Intrax lowering springs, Moog lower control arms, aluminum subframe bushings, TPR control arm and strut rod busings, and probably a good couple of other things that I'm forgetting. Needless to say, it was a nasty little N/A SHO haha.

The new block ended up having a broken oil ring that scored the cylinder, so I had to tear the new 3.3 motor back down and get another block. I hadn't really had a chance to drive the car because it was smoking so bad, and after almost 2 years of working on this engine swap (the engines sat in the machine shops for months before the work was done) I finally had the second 3.3 motor in and running just fine. Was tearing up the streets down in Florida with the car and some old idiot hit me (back in March of this year) head-on less than a month after getting the car back out on the road again. The car got totaled and I finally got my settlement check a few weeks ago. I provided just over $11k in receipts on non-maintenance items that I've spent on the car to the claims adjuster of the other guy's insurance company, only to get a check for $3,200 back. The car was in awesome condition and I loved the hell out of that car.

I did get to keep the car, and it's now in my garage up here in Md. The engine wasn't touched in the accident so I'll be parting out one bad-ass SHO motor here soon. But after that car got totaled I didn't want to spend all that money in buying another one and trasferring over all of those parts, so I recently bought the '96 for a damn good price and after I get the brakes and oil leak(s) taken care of it'll make for a pretty decent daily driver compared to the last SHO. Well, now you all know the long history on my beloved '92 SHO haha.

Sounds like your old SHO was a pretty fun ride, sucks it got hit and you got raped on the settlement!

[BlownFieroGT]

Yeaaaa! Another blown Pontiac on this forum! That makes 3 that I know of. What kinda times are you getting with that setup? I will one day own a GTO, hopefully. Make mine an 06 Brazen Orange one! Hope to see you at the track in the fall, too hot for me right now.

[Acesrt04]

A 300C definitely IS a tank of a car.... but probably still gonna outrun you. You'll need to get a little bit of a tune on that Z4!



Thanks, and yeah Mike gave me the link to this forum like 3 times in the past 3 years.... but every time I tried to register I got an error saying that the image verification was not correct... though there was no image nor field to type into for the image verification. Mike pulled some strings I guess and got me this username setup haha. Thanks again Mike!

Yeah I'm still pissed that he sold that car. It doesn't matter though, he couldn't drive it for sh*t lol. But yeah, it was at least another LSx to have around.

At least when I drove my GTO the radio stay IN. ;)

[ron]

Ron needs to fix this because I keep getting A LOT of people telling me this. Your in now though so, welcome to the insanity lol

its fixed

[1BADGTO]

At least when I drove my GTO the radio stay IN. ;)

Haha, I'm sorry that your previous installer was anticipating that the weight of the radio itself would hold it in the dash! And had that piece of crap not fell out on to the shifter in the middle of my 1-2 shift in your car then that would have been a 12.2xx pass *cough*

[Porsche944Turbo]

Hey everyone, just joined the forum yesterday and this is my first post. I live in Lexington Park and own a red 2005 GTO.

I've lived in Calvert County since late 1996 and moved to Florida early last year. After spending a little over a year in Florida I realized the area I that was in wasn't for me and I had a great job opportunity waiting for me up here so I just got moved back up here in the area back in May of this year.

I don't daily drive the GTO (I use my beater '96 Taurus SHO), so you locals won't see it too often. Some of you may have seen it around though since I've been back in town, but it only gets taken out here and there. I love to drag race though... I spent a lot of time at MIR with my '04 GTO that I used to own, and while down in Florida I made plenty of passes at both Gainesville and Bradenton in my current '05.

Street racing is something I try strongly to avoid, and I very much like to keep my racing strictly at the track. I don't need any trouble with the law, plus my car has traction problems on the street even when I swap my Mickey Thompsons on the rear so it's kinda pointless for me, thankfully. I can get along with pretty much anybody, but I don't care for the ignorant import (or even domestic) crowd. Not that I don't like imports-- I just don't care for ignorant people. Nothing annoys me more than someone with a 1973 Civic, with a 5" fart can and an intake thinking that they're fast. Same thing goes with fellow domestic owners, but there just seems to be a little less of that sort of ignorance from the domestic crowd. But again, I get along with anyone that has the passion for performance and I'm not the kind of person that has a "big head" or anything.

I should be making quite a few appearances back at MIR starting later this summer and on through the winter. I had my car tuned down in Tampa and it's been running a bit rich now that I have it up here in Md, and it's hitting the rev limiter on the 2-3 upshift before going into gear (auto trans), which it never did before so I have to get a re-tune here soon before I start running it hard again. But you'll still catch me driving it around once in a while in the meantime.

Well I hope to see some of you around, and if you all see me driving feel free to say "hey" or something.

-Andrew

So you were living in Tampa? Where in relation to the 60 Bridge?

I just relocated back up here from Orlando after about 14 years down there. I actually grew up in LP city though.

[1BADGTO]

So you were living in Tampa? Where in relation to the 60 Bridge?

I just relocated back up here from Orlando after about 14 years down there. I actually grew up in LP city though.

I actually lived southwest of Ocala, in Citrus County. I just drove down to Tampa to have it tuned and all. I got to check out Orlando a couple times while I was down there and it wasn't too bad.

[Acesrt04]

Haha, I'm sorry that your previous installer was anticipating that the weight of the radio itself would hold it in the dash! And had that piece of crap not fell out on to the shifter in the middle of my 1-2 shift in your car then that would have been a 12.2xx pass *cough*

I could have done low 12's all day long but didn't want to hurt your feelings..........well that and didn't want to shoot the rear end out the back of the car.

[1BADGTO]

please!..... more like you didn't want to hurt your hip, old fart!

[Acesrt04]

LMAO Mike is kind of old. I guess that's why he can't hang with us young bucks :p

Sick of you kids comparing who has the most pubes already. :confused:

[Acesrt04]

LMAO I only have 3 right now and hopefully I'll have 5 by the end of summer. When does mine turn grey though MIKE? :p

When you coming back by the house also fucker

I don't know when they turn gray since you said you liked it shaved smooth down there so it doesn't itch your face. :D. I'll be out at your place when I get an invite. Don't just want to "show up".

[1BADGTO]

I don't know when they turn gray since you said you liked it shaved smooth down there so it doesn't itch your face. :D.

Hahaha. oh chit...... :blackeye:

[The Stig]

LMAO!

I don't know when they turn gray since you said you liked it shaved smooth down there so it doesn't itch your face. :D.

[Mach]

I don't know when they turn gray since you said you liked it shaved smooth down there so it doesn't itch your face. :D. I'll be out at your place when I get an invite. Don't just want to "show up".
God must not have blessed you. Everyone knows Squid has a gag reflex and he can't get anywhere near my pubes if he tried.

[smoothmarine187]

hahaha I hear you fucker. Just show up. Besides, April said she wants to see how gay you've become by selling the goat for a girlie man's Z4

You must have me mistaken for the guy that gave you the welcome mat tattoo on your ass. Don't be mad at me because your not tall enough to reach the gas pedal in your car to push it all the way down and actually run 11's

Roflmao :occasion:

[Mach]

You must have me mistaken for the guy that gave you the welcome mat tattoo on your ass. Don't be mad at me because your not tall enough to reach the gas pedal in your car to push it all the way down and actually run 11's
Then how the hell did I run 10's?

[Acesrt04]

Then how the hell did I run 10's?

Guessing you had something pushing your ass off the seat so you could reach? Don't want to know what it is.

[ron]

Lmfao.........

[Mach]

200 shot and your hooker boots you wear on great mills road on friday nights
I did it with a 150 shot and leave my sting operation with the sheriff's department off the internet. I'm supposed to remain undercover :p

[ron]

I did it with a 150 shot and leave my sting operation with the sheriff's department off the internet. I'm supposed to remain undercover :p

you dont want st marys today finding out again do you ?

[1BADGTO]

200 shot and your hooker boots you wear on great mills road on friday nights

I did it with a 150 shot and leave my sting operation with the sheriff's department off the internet. I'm supposed to remain undercover :p

you dont want st marys today finding out again do you ?

oh god this is great lol. he now goes by "Masked Harlot", btw :wink: