the HA forum. LOL
i recently purchased an '85 GN and have been lurking/studying/asking lots of questions in the HA part of this site. wow. what an experience. i made the mistake of posting the wrong goals for my car. man. did that set people off.
all i wanted was an intercooler. LOL
and when i mentioned i have experience building Hondas? well.. that started a whole new list of names to be called.
my friends and i have built many supercharged and turbocharged cars in our day. we've always intercooled because.. well.. it makes sense. i'm pretty sure that's why GM went with an intercooler on the '86/87 GNs.
anyway, i decided i'm not hard-core HA enough for that part of the board. i did get some AWESOME help from a few members here (thanks guys!) but the rest were just really, really upset that i would change the configuration of my '85.
well.. kinda. they were okay with adding alcohol or e85.. just no intercooler. i thought that was kinda weird. i could add slicks.. traction bars.. anything. just NO INTERCOOLER!
anyway.. it seems the HA forum is for pure HA setups only (....other than alcohol and e85) and that's just not me. i like to upgrade, rebuild, improve, etc.
soooo.. rather than pissing off all those guys, i just decided to become a convert. i'm purchasing an '87 top end to swap and make things easy on myself. it seems the HA stuff takes a LOT of time and effort to make work well and those guys take a lot of pride in that. awesome, but that's not my goal here.
i hope to eventually learn enough here so that i can become a contributing member. the guys at our shop are very good and problem solving and helping others (we've been doing it for years, with other platforms) so, hopefully i'll be able to give as much as i receive!
in a nutshell, here i am starting over. i've deleted my HA subscriptions. any info i need i'll search for. i'm just gonna stick with the part of the board i feel comfortable with. so "hello", guys. i'm Jason from Fresno, CA
i look forward to being a part of this board. i've already learned so much! i went from looking to upgrade everything i can on the car to seeing that i may be happy with a conversion, injectors, fuel pump, exhaust and tune. that's pretty damned sweet.
i finally have a grip on what my car needs, where to get it, and what to expect. thanks, again, to all that have been helping me along the way.
so.. that's it. i guess this is like an updated "introduction" post. thanks for reading!
jason
i recently purchased an '85 GN and have been lurking/studying/asking lots of questions in the HA part of this site. wow. what an experience. i made the mistake of posting the wrong goals for my car. man. did that set people off.
all i wanted was an intercooler. LOL
and when i mentioned i have experience building Hondas? well.. that started a whole new list of names to be called.
my friends and i have built many supercharged and turbocharged cars in our day. we've always intercooled because.. well.. it makes sense. i'm pretty sure that's why GM went with an intercooler on the '86/87 GNs.
anyway, i decided i'm not hard-core HA enough for that part of the board. i did get some AWESOME help from a few members here (thanks guys!) but the rest were just really, really upset that i would change the configuration of my '85.
well.. kinda. they were okay with adding alcohol or e85.. just no intercooler. i thought that was kinda weird. i could add slicks.. traction bars.. anything. just NO INTERCOOLER!
anyway.. it seems the HA forum is for pure HA setups only (....other than alcohol and e85) and that's just not me. i like to upgrade, rebuild, improve, etc.
soooo.. rather than pissing off all those guys, i just decided to become a convert. i'm purchasing an '87 top end to swap and make things easy on myself. it seems the HA stuff takes a LOT of time and effort to make work well and those guys take a lot of pride in that. awesome, but that's not my goal here.
i hope to eventually learn enough here so that i can become a contributing member. the guys at our shop are very good and problem solving and helping others (we've been doing it for years, with other platforms) so, hopefully i'll be able to give as much as i receive!
in a nutshell, here i am starting over. i've deleted my HA subscriptions. any info i need i'll search for. i'm just gonna stick with the part of the board i feel comfortable with. so "hello", guys. i'm Jason from Fresno, CA
i look forward to being a part of this board. i've already learned so much! i went from looking to upgrade everything i can on the car to seeing that i may be happy with a conversion, injectors, fuel pump, exhaust and tune. that's pretty damned sweet.
i finally have a grip on what my car needs, where to get it, and what to expect. thanks, again, to all that have been helping me along the way.
so.. that's it. i guess this is like an updated "introduction" post. thanks for reading!
jason