Noob on a honda forum and dont even own a honda!
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:39 pmWell lets see, where do I start....I am not a tuner since i cant tune anything, I am not a master fabricator since I cant weld for the life of me not matter how much I try. So I am more of a car enthusiast, I don't hold a bias for any particular type of car, as long as you don't rice it out! Stickers, huge pointless wing, annoying exhaust that makes no power, which is excessively large! My record of car building has pretty much been everything except a Honda (that I owned myself). I have owned and built (2) 1st Gen RX-7s, a '98 GMC Sonoma, a '92 240SX, '03 Explorer, a '00 Jeep Wrangler, (2) DSMs, and lastly a '08 Mazda 3. With the RX-7s I drove them through out high school(they blew up thanks to shitty compression rotary engines!), parents bought the Wrangler, sold it after boot camp, (lifted 4" suspension, 33s, Warn winch), then bought the 240SX built it up, later it was rear-ended by some old lady who could even see over the dash (had an SR20, but ran like crap due to me not running the vacuum lines right and leaving one of the back of the motor), bought the Sonoma with my insurance money from the accident (4.3 Vortec, Flowmaster exhaust, bagged on 20s) then the DSMs, first was a 91 GSX, mostly bolt-ons, sold it after I can back from Iraq the first time, buddy ran a 12.3 in it after he bought it, then decided to buy another right before I went to Iraq the second time, while I was deployed I spent more money, almost double this time, built it right, remembering the mistake I made, and using different parts, finished the build and sold it cause I needed the money to pay off bills, and get into my new house, this car ran a 11.4 reliably and consistently. So there it is, my buddies all come to me to do the work since they know it will get done right the first time. If I don’t know how to do it, I will research it . So pretty much the last two guys took the glory for my hard work. I can honestly say I had a little part in a big Honda record, my buddy built and is currently racing the World’s Most Powerful SOHC Honda. My buddy Mike Ortiz, who I have known since High School, races it at the track here in East Carolina. I used to go over everyday after work to try and help with anything I could, when he was putting his tranny together, running the catch cans, to getting the car ready before each run at the track. I just wanted to learn the quirks that come with owning and building a Honda. This all have brought me to want a Honda, but before I do I want to learn as much as I can. I want to do it right the first time, not go for the “try and fail, then try something else” method. Money doesn’t grow on trees so why throw it away just to end up failing. I am always eager to learn and have been looking at this site for a few weeks reading any topic I can. I have read almost every “DIY” by Teal_DX and everyone else on there. They are very well written with a lot of pictures. For someone like me who is hands on, not the black and white type. I don’t know what a VTEC solenoid is or how to change it, so if you have a picture (or a few) and a good write up I can do it. So I will leave this as my first, and hopefully not my last in this forum. I am glad to be on here and when I get back from Afghanistan I will have my first Honda (definitely not my last)! 
There is a saying the DSM community:
"Turning any ordinary person into a foul mouthed, tool throwing, mechanic since 1989”
~Cause if you build it, you will break it, and you will fix it with more expensive parts, eventually breaking it again, it’s a vicious, but awesome circle!
There is a saying the DSM community:
"Turning any ordinary person into a foul mouthed, tool throwing, mechanic since 1989”
~Cause if you build it, you will break it, and you will fix it with more expensive parts, eventually breaking it again, it’s a vicious, but awesome circle!
i felt bad so I spent almost a hour re-typing it again, thanks I will try not to do that again. and thanks again for the warm welcome! i hope to have a car soon to put on here and get advice about!