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    What IA car or IA person or IA club inspired you to show?
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    Honestly, No one, cause when I joined IA my car was already started and I didnt know anyone on IA when I did join, I was my own mentor...LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brett
    Honestly, No one, cause when I joined IA my car was already started and I didnt know anyone on IA when I did join, I was my own mentor...LOL

    Man its scary to think that you could be someone's mentor!!!!!
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    Bretts car. When I saw this beast I was hooked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by civic95
    Bretts car. When I saw this beast I was hooked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by civic95
    Bretts car. When I saw this beast I was hooked.
    That car used to win pretty much stock Clean as hell and only a few bolt ons.
    2008 Pontiac G8 GT (Not your Daddys 4 door)
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    Quote Originally Posted by civic95
    Bretts car. When I saw this beast I was hooked.
    Damn that seems like a lifetime ago when my car looked like that, Damn I did love those wheels
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    Halfbaked's sentra. Wow it was fast as hell. I sold my s14 for fwd sr20 power.

    Nobody honestly. Over half of the people's car on here is junk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 1439/2000
    Halfbaked's sentra. Wow it was fast as hell. I sold my s14 for fwd sr20 power.

    Nobody honestly. Over half of the people's car on here is junk.

    LOL,

    My Maxima inspired Matt.....so therefore youre inspired by me.

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    I was my own Mentor since I was already around with Perfected Images when Brian and Julio started the idea of IA. Did I mentor anyone LOL?!
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    Quote Originally Posted by vteckidd
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    I have been doing this for a decade. When I first started there was no one to "inspire" me really.
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    If it wasn't for Never_finished I would not be doin anything to my dakota.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTLFED
    VtecKidd FTW!
    EF f0 lYfE!

    I have been doing this for a decade. When I first started there was no one to "inspire" me really.
    its true , 3 or 4 years ago i was wanting to do a ZC turbo, then i saw your car as a feature, and your name then was Hung Wei Lo. I did alot of research and really liked your car/setup, it really was what i wanted to do to my car at the time. i did a zc swap , but i never went boost, i found a different calling...



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    Quote Originally Posted by vteckidd
    its true , 3 or 4 years ago i was wanting to do a ZC turbo, then i saw your car as a feature, and your name then was Hung Wei Lo. I did alot of research and really liked your car/setup, it really was what i wanted to do to my car at the time. i did a zc swap , but i never went boost, i found a different calling...



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    ohhh, lol...i always wondered what happened to Hung Wei Lo ...i guess now i know

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    Quote Originally Posted by speedminded
    ohhh, lol...i always wondered what happened to Hung Wei Lo ...i guess now i know

    he finally took a good look in the mirror and realize that was an major error

    No one really inspired me.. My dad use to fuck around with cars back in the day.. But he didnt inspired me at all.. Just said I was an idiot for blowing money away. Been doing this for so long is crazy.

    Good imagination inspired me , Of course, Alot of huge mistakes also helps with the thought.

    But having a Honda these days is hard being creative, but im sure theres something out there that hasnt been done.

    With the new Audi.. I was Convinced by paul and some other DUB guys @ the EURO dyno day at BATLG... They showed me how easy it is to make power and look good with nearly nothing.... after I saw the light, I decided to get dub... And now got this new project..

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    Quote Originally Posted by vteckidd
    its true , 3 or 4 years ago i was wanting to do a ZC turbo, then i saw your car as a feature, and your name then was Hung Wei Lo. I did alot of research and really liked your car/setup, it really was what i wanted to do to my car at the time. i did a zc swap , but i never went boost, i found a different calling...



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    I am actually flattered. I didn't think my name would come up in this thread at all lol

    A different calling, yeah.....shifting at 10,000.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfBaked
    Anytime I'm driving south of I-20 in the perimeter, I play spot the white driver.

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    if anyone remembers emil....with the yellow mr2....he inspired me to get an mr2 because his was bad ass back in the day....anyone rember him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by XLR8NMr2
    if anyone remembers emil....with the yellow mr2....he inspired me to get an mr2 because his was bad ass back in the day....anyone rember him?
    yeah i remember him, my brother was in a club with him...sucks he had to go and wrap the car around a tree


    i think jeff's yellow lego machiene opened my eyes to the fact that you could do anything you wanted to with a car...

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    Quote Originally Posted by chuck
    yeah i remember him, my brother was in a club with him...sucks he had to go and wrap the car around a tree


    i think jeff's yellow lego machiene opened my eyes to the fact that you could do anything you wanted to with a car...
    yeah around the time he wrapped his car around a tree. i got my car. Maybe months apart...He parted it out and gave some parts to me and then john..."vroom pshhh" on the mr2 board. Im still using the greddy pe exhaust till this day...

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    Actually it was Clark.. I had always wanted a supra, but when he took me for a ride in his.. he scared the living hell out of me. From then on I was determined to get one soon.. and well here I am.
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    I wanted my hatch the way it is now......
    but Peter with the gold 10sec hatch.....was the reason for me goin to the track, i wanted to have everythin that he had in his engine bay, LIRL

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    Nerp.... Mine came from going to Dallas dragstrip when I was younger.
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    just happened to find the car forsale on the side of the road... looked cool, so i bought it... friend told me about IA...hopped on.. no one really has my car. and no one around here has really done anything to them. all the REALLY modded ones are in CA, or japan. so no one relaly. i just kinda poked on line, saw what items were/are (lack there of) availble for the car.

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    I've been modding cars since 1989, so I've been at it loooong before IA was around. Later, QD.
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    I still havent done anything to my car, someone give me money!!

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    I have always been a loner, somewhat unique in my pursuits.

    First, the 3000GT VR-4. Nobody had one at the time and I went out on my own. The same holds true with my current car. There really was no inspiration from anyone else. I looked inside myself for that...
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    yeah...no one has insired me....i was inspired before i got on this site.

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    I inspire myself. I've had the image of what my car is turning into in my head since I was 16 years old. To make up this image, I took inspiration from other people's del Sols, other cars in general, and my own personal idea.

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    Mostly people on the Passat/VW forums...and the dubbers on here help too

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    julio's car the red civic, that was mine inspiration.
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    the first time i herd a turbo.. i was like i want one of those... and its down hill from there



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    I dunno if he was ever on IA, but this accord \/ was my inspiration


    mine looked like \/ before i wreckeds and got an RSX
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    Engine wise would have to be Len and his last ITR, before it went back to stock...Toda everything: VTEC killer cams, ITB's, AEM standalone, Fujitsubo exhaust, etc...screaming 9,700rpm shifts on the street

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    I always wanted a fast car.. But i had always wanted a muscle car. I was the "ill never drive a ricer civic" type of 15 year old kid. But when i got my liscense, i needed wheels, and the first thing i could afford at the time was my old White 1988 CRX.. LoL go figure. So i inspired myself i guess... Never looked back, and even though i love rwd more now (see: drift), i stil plan on modding a CRX one day. Maybe that's why i just picked up an 89 hatch...

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    i wasn't really inspired but i will say peeps like: Jeff T, Jeff G, Tim W, Greg C, Josh N, Steve K, etc... people like that make you strive to build a hot car, honestly all of these guys have been at the pinnicle of the tuner scene.

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    Quote Originally Posted by admin
    i wasn't really inspired but i will say peeps like: Jeff T, Jeff G, Tim W, Greg C, Josh N, Steve K, etc... people like that make you strive to build a hot car, honestly all of these guys have been at the pinnicle of the tuner scene.
    U 2 buddy I wasn't around!? How many of my cars was around? It wasn't a civic! I hope you get the runs for a whole week! J/K
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    One of my best friends in highschool had a AWD Talon thats kind of what got me started. As for people on here that inspired me, well I dont know if inspired me is the right word, Dan at Batlground taught me everything I know about a AEM, When I finally got my Supra, I was confident enough to tune it myself and I havent done a half bad job if I do say so myself.

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    Anyone remember in those days when East Coast Honda was around?
    2008 Pontiac G8 GT (Not your Daddys 4 door)
    2006 CBR F4i - (Sold)
    2007 Lexus IS - (Sold)
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