Had to post this!

[Vteckidd]

Funny enough those Honda guys imitate what they see as US style since in Japan its all standard for them anyway. Where we were looking to JDM fronts for ITRs they where looking to get the Acura Integra bug eye look.

i remember seeing a UK magazine that had a car on the front that had the USDM FRONT END lol dude actually sought out our US front end and sold his JDM front end. POcketed like $2000 US at the time.

Whats your name?

Hell Tom Hornsbys car was light years ahead of what anyone was doing back then, or Cory Garcias hatch.

Going back to Gregg , its going to take someone who actively takes the reigns and starts showcasing what they can do. I believe Stretch and Midnight have everything that Mainstream had in its heyday (A tuner, honda customers, big power to make) etc. They just need to market themselves better IMO. Mainstream still does a ton of work, but they dont put it out there like they did when i was there. Same with BG which has all but disappeared.

The only shop that REALLY markets well, is FORGED IMO. They dont care to sell anything on here cause everyones broke, but on other boards they are VERY active.

[stretch]

i remember seeing a UK magazine that had a car on the front that had the USDM FRONT END lol dude actually sought out our US front end and sold his JDM front end. POcketed like $2000 US at the time.

Whats your name?

Hell Tom Hornsbys car was light years ahead of what anyone was doing back then, or Cory Garcias hatch.

Going back to Gregg , its going to take someone who actively takes the reigns and starts showcasing what they can do. I believe Stretch and Midnight have everything that Mainstream had in its heyday (A tuner, honda customers, big power to make) etc. They just need to market themselves better IMO. Mainstream still does a ton of work, but they dont put it out there like they did when i was there. Same with BG which has all but disappeared.

The only shop that REALLY markets well, is FORGED IMO. They dont care to sell anything on here cause everyones broke, but on other boards they are VERY active.

I tried working with IA, still waiting for them to get back to me. But honestly speaking , not bashing, the scene on this site is dead. I users to support everyone and for the most part I still do, but the scene is dying. It's almost not worth it anymore. Wat other home guy or shop take their 750hp Honda to dunk days just to show and spice up the event........that would be Midnight.......wat shop or individuals besides Stover goes to every event and have multiple cars........Midnight........who has been winning all motor pro with a bone stock bottom end car even beating built cars.......Midnight........etc. wat has it gotten me? Nothing more than "hey man ur care is sick" or damn yall build some good motors" or damn that guy morris can tune his ass off. Everybody wants to spectate nowadays, and nobody wants to participate. Bell we about to go all the way to Honda day with the black hatch next week. I'm doing wat I can with wat I have, buy the sceneacks interest in my opinion......

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i remember seeing a UK magazine that had a car on the front that had the USDM FRONT END lol dude actually sought out our US front end and sold his JDM front end. POcketed like $2000 US at the time.

Whats your name?

Hell Tom Hornsbys car was light years ahead of what anyone was doing back then, or Cory Garcias hatch.

Going back to Gregg , its going to take someone who actively takes the reigns and starts showcasing what they can do. I believe Stretch and Midnight have everything that Mainstream had in its heyday (A tuner, honda customers, big power to make) etc. They just need to market themselves better IMO. Mainstream still does a ton of work, but they dont put it out there like they did when i was there. Same with BG which has all but disappeared.

The only shop that REALLY markets well, is FORGED IMO. They dont care to sell anything on here cause everyones broke, but on other boards they are VERY active.

His name is Hurell Mike. He used to work at Nopi along with the rest of us. He had a white 96-97 ITR back in 99 when I met him and i had the Damn Chevy Z24 cavalier(his cousin Rob black GSR was fast back then as well) and then he had a green eg hatch(clean ass FUCK) with a jdm ITR swap with the 4.7fd(am I correct hurrell?) This was back when Tom hornsby had his black eg hatch when he had the GSR swap b4 him(tom) and this guy/mechanic name Ted(down at Acura/Honda Specialist in Jonesboro) got a full wreck ITR and Tom took the motor out of it and put it in HIS black hatch and ran a 13.9 on street tires that night at Reynolds.... Now this was back in 99-00 when we went down there ALOT!

P.S HURELL, remember when we raced that night, me in the z24 cavalier and u in Ur ITR back in 99? Remember how I had Ur ass even WITH Rob blocking me before we got on the highway ..... I shouldn't have gotton cocky and slowed down for u, I should've kept going lol... I mistake the ITR for all the 99 Si's I was beating at the time....lol...ahhhhh..... The good ol days......

[Apex i ITR]

Oh and Stretch a friend mine (Jamaican cat named Halex) is pretty cool with Morris. Always talks him up. Thats why I wanted to meet you guys. Seems like we kinda know a few of the same people. Towards the final months of living in Atlanta I didn't go out that much since i was too busy but I don't l know how we haven;t ran into each other yet.

[Apex i ITR]

Whats your name?

Hell Tom Hornsbys car was light years ahead of what anyone was doing back then, or Cory Garcias hatch.

Going back to Gregg , its going to take someone who actively takes the reigns and starts showcasing what they can do. I believe Stretch and Midnight have everything that Mainstream had in its heyday (A tuner, honda customers, big power to make) etc. They just need to market themselves better IMO. Mainstream still does a ton of work, but they dont put it out there like they did when i was there. Same with BG which has all but disappeared.

The only shop that REALLY markets well, is FORGED IMO. They dont care to sell anything on here cause everyones broke, but on other boards they are VERY active.

Yup name is Hurell.

My 98 ITR was one of the first with a Apex'i N1 exhaust and Bronze Volk SE-37K's (At the time I don't think anyone was rocking Bronze and everyone told me it would look stupid, it looked dope as fuck). I sold it and got a green hatch back that had a JDM 98 ITR motor/trans and Toda everything in it (Before Len did it). I had the weird cam locking up issue and trashed that motor just dailying and driving to work. I sold the Toda setup to Dave Blankenship and came out with enough cash to buy a brand new ITR longblock from Len and Craig at Baranco Acura.

Around the time I was building my Hatch Tom was building his silver hatch with all new stuff. We actually raced at Silver Dollar. he got me by a few tenths since his hatch was a gutted CX (Or VX can't remember) and I had a JDM interior SI. I started putting together a turbo kit for my car (Spearco IC and SFP manifold) and lost my job and had to be an adult so I sold the car to a kid in TN. I loved that car. It was SO reliable after swapping the new ITR motor in there. I think I was the only one to buy a Trust exhaust (from Takakaira.com) and then a JICMagic exhaust. I used to be all over honda-tech (and Honda-acura.net before they split).

Gregg you keep speaking of that night but I gotta be honest there was never a point I remember where your Z24 would get me unless you caught me slipping at a light or on the highway (Which was entirely possible). Hell Rob keeps telling me he beat me in his GSR and I tell him the same thing. Y'all Negro's have never beaten me. LOL. NEVER. And right now you won't either (This is gonna piss Gregg off). Remember when you and Lamar jumped me on the phone challenging the WHOLE EVO NATION. LOL.

I'm just fuckin with you. I'm too old to deal with speeding tickets and too tired of giving uncle sam my money. It takes a Vette or more for me to even risk a speeding ticket. If y'all think Atlanta is dead. Raleigh is barren. Seriously there is nothing out here. My wife has a pretty flashy 08 STi and its just her and I out here. from what I've seen. I may pass by one of their little Sonic meets but from what I gather its no better then the ones in GA. Nothing like a Varsity or North Gwinnett meet. No street racing as far as i can tell and although Rockingham isn't too far away I'm not motivated to go. I have grown man shit I'm working out and have come close to selling my car a few times because its just useless to have this kinda power in Raleigh (15+ is a misdemeanor, wtf).

I used to live on the southside (even though I was living in Austell the commute was murder). I worked part time at Nopi when I lost my system Analyst job at Georgia Pacific (they outsourced everything to India). Around that time TJ had his Yellow ITR, Craig had a cherry Prelude and then upgraded to a WRX, Len had his Black ITR, Ken with his Black ITR, Tom had his silver hatch (wife had the black Hatch with a swap), Mark had a sick EK after he wrecked/sold his Integra and had Advan's on there, Trey had a red EK. Hell I used to hang with Scott (God rest his soul) and Kisa and Ted and John since my wife was good friends with Kisa........there are a few others that had dope Honda's back in the day I'm forgetting but its slowly coming back. I won a trophy at Nopi for the highest HP 4 cyl. since no one else bothered (I think I put down 190). I got a check for 250 to spend at Nopi and a trophy and didn't realize it.


And On Forged. I know people they've screwed over car wise but the one thing you can't take away from them is that they have the R35 game on lock in the SE region. They started off using AMS but I think they are about to do their own thing. They are doing it big and I respect them for that. If you have anything then a R35......good luck.

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Yup name is Hurell.

My 98 ITR was one of the first with a Apex'i N1 exhaust and Bronze Volk SE-37K's (At the time I don't think anyone was rocking Bronze and everyone told me it would look stupid, it looked dope as fuck). I sold it and got a green hatch back that had a JDM 98 ITR motor/trans and Toda everything in it (Before Len did it). I had the weird cam locking up issue and trashed that motor just dailying and driving to work. I sold the Toda setup to Dave Blankenship and came out with enough cash to buy a brand new ITR longblock from Len and Craig at Baranco Acura.

Around the time I was building my Hatch Tom was building his silver hatch with all new stuff. We actually raced at Silver Dollar. he got me by a few tenths since his hatch was a gutted CX (Or VX can't remember) and I had a JDM interior SI. I started putting together a turbo kit for my car (Spearco IC and SFP manifold) and lost my job and had to be an adult so I sold the car to a kid in TN. I loved that car. It was SO reliable after swapping the new ITR motor in there. I think I was the only one to buy a Trust exhaust (from Takakaira.com) and then a JICMagic exhaust. I used to be all over honda-tech (and Honda-acura.net before they split).

Gregg you keep speaking of that night but I gotta be honest there was never a point I remember where your Z24 would get me unless you caught me slipping at a light or on the highway (Which was entirely possible). Hell Rob keeps telling me he beat me in his GSR and I tell him the same thing. Y'all Negro's have never beaten me. LOL. NEVER. And right now you won't either (This is gonna piss Gregg off). Remember when you and Lamar jumped me on the phone challenging the WHOLE EVO NATION. LOL.

I'm just fuckin with you. I'm too old to deal with speeding tickets and too tired of giving uncle sam my money. It takes a Vette or more for me to even risk a speeding ticket. If y'all think Atlanta is dead. Raleigh is barren. Seriously there is nothing out here. My wife has a pretty flashy 08 STi and its just her and I out here. from what I've seen. I may pass by one of their little Sonic meets but from what I gather its no better then the ones in GA. Nothing like a Varsity or North Gwinnett meet. No street racing as far as i can tell and although Rockingham isn't too far away I'm not motivated to go. I have grown man shit I'm working out and have come close to selling my car a few times because its just useless to have this kinda power in Raleigh (15+ is a misdemeanor, wtf).

I used to live on the southside (even though I was living in Austell the commute was murder). I worked part time at Nopi when I lost my system Analyst job at Georgia Pacific (they outsourced everything to India). Around that time TJ had his Yellow ITR, Craig had a cherry Prelude and then upgraded to a WRX, Len had his Black ITR, Ken with his Black ITR, Tom had his silver hatch (wife had the black Hatch with a swap), Mark had a sick EK after he wrecked/sold his Integra and had Advan's on there, Trey had a red EK. Hell I used to hang with Scott (God rest his soul) and Kisa and Ted and John since my wife was good friends with Kisa........there are a few others that had dope Honda's back in the day I'm forgetting but its slowly coming back. I won a trophy at Nopi for the highest HP 4 cyl. since no one else bothered (I think I put down 190). I got a check for 250 to spend at Nopi and a trophy and didn't realize it.


And On Forged. I know people they've screwed over car wise but the one thing you can't take away from them is that they have the R35 game on lock in the SE region. They started off using AMS but I think they are about to do their own thing. They are doing it big and I respect them for that. If you have anything then a R35......good luck.

Dammit hurell i WAS beating you that night but fucking got cocky and let you catch up to take the win and ROB DID block me at first. I know you didnt tell him but he did it anyway. lol. And i got one up on you down here in Mobile,al. Honda wise on the street i could be king with a well built B or H2b setup. Dont even need the K. Matter of fact it stated to get boring for me with the K because nobody wanted to race when they found out i had a K and when they did it was always against a V8 that has no business on the street(power/tq wise). I had one good race against a Stage 3 or 4 SRT-4 WITH NOS and i didnt know he was spraying on me till i seen the vid and he STILL lost!!....lol!!

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But in the overall picture, stretch,vteckidd adn bobby are right. There is NO REASON why the south(NC,SC,GA,TN,KY,AL,FL,TX) cannot be the same as the north with the import race scene. Like vteckidd said its just gonna take some great planning from certain shops/individuals.... and make the prize money good also. That will bring ppl as well. People are MORE LIKELY to come when they start seeing $1000+ for first place vs $1-300 for first place!!