The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working

There's not much more fear of losing it in the corners with a FWD then there is with a RWD other than how the handling is done. In a FWD car you enter the corner a little hard, turning in later and if you have proper power and gearing nail it. The ass will come around and you'll pull her through the curve. You push it to the edge of understeering and then pull the ass in line by pointing the front where you want to go.

As I said, I've done a 5 day course at Bondurant twice and in both cases we did the whole FWD vs RWD and the FWD cars in the hands of a capable driver were on the ass end of the instructors in the RWD car the whole time. When we as students took over, the FWD cars actually pulled way more successful laps than you might think. Real world, real people so skills varied. The real fun was watching the instructors fight it out. We're talking to the edge of the capabilities of these cars and man it really opens your eyes to the fact that a few tenths of a second isn't much of a huge difference.

The first time we had SRT-4 Neons, Cobra Mustangs and Vipers. In 2005 we did Grand Prix GXP's, CTS-V's, and ZO6's. The only reason the CTS-V beat my times was because it was pulling down 400hp vs 303hp. Otherwise, I was on his ass in the curves. I ended up buying one because the instructors actually showed me how to make the car perform. I apply the same to my MS3 and at Nelson Ledges here in Ohio, there are a number of MR2's, RX-7's that with everyday track guys like me driving that are shocked when they see me on their asses in the twistiest like I am.


Yeah... you're right. But... It's fun to use "proper wheel drive" as to why my car's better. Haha.
 
Forgive me while I rant...

But since when has Megan Racing, Vibrant, OBX and all these other s*** brands been any good? I've been working on imports since 2000, and I'm sure some of you cats have been working on them before me. I remember ordering go fast parts for my CRX before the first F&F movie hit theaters. And all those forementioned brands simply sold cheap, knock off products of REAL quality products on eBay. Now it seems like a lot of members on here buy all their parts from eBay instead of using quality parts from brand names that have been around for decades and have been involved in racing.

Sure, eBay is great to find hard to find bits and pieces and even some things that are just an easy fix or whatnot. But I just don't think ordering your catback exhaust from an eBay store of some knock off brand is a good idea.

Okay, I'm done. It jsut urks me when members are like "Go with (insert cheap-ass crap brand here) for your application. You'll love it, trust me.)
 
Man you need to stick to this Ohio section! You get all irritable-like if you venture out where the idiots are! For me, I am new to the tuner scene so it is difficult for me to determine whether some of these brands are good or not. But I pretty much only go by what a few reputable sites sell (PG, SU, etc.) No ebay or other junk for me.
 
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not rich by any means. And I don't have a top of the line anything on my car. And I buy parts used if they are in good shape.

I can't really comment on PG and SU because I've never dealt with them. PG never had any parts I want in stock so I just stopped looking at their site. And I was looking for fog deletes for my P5 and SU had them for $80. Thankfully a member pointed me to OnlineMazdaParts.com where they had them for $40. So I don't order from SU either. But I really like Corksport, even though I've only ordered several small orders from them, they have great customers service, great products and even develop their own parts and stand behind them.
 
Hahaha! I know, I know. But you know what I mean. Hell, I just bought a license plate bracket on eBay for $10 and it's a suprsingly nice piece.
 
Forgive me while I rant...

But since when has Megan Racing, Vibrant, OBX and all these other s*** brands been any good? I've been working on imports since 2000, and I'm sure some of you cats have been working on them before me. I remember ordering go fast parts for my CRX before the first F&F movie hit theaters. And all those forementioned brands simply sold cheap, knock off products of REAL quality products on eBay. Now it seems like a lot of members on here buy all their parts from eBay instead of using quality parts from brand names that have been around for decades and have been involved in racing.

Sure, eBay is great to find hard to find bits and pieces and even some things that are just an easy fix or whatnot. But I just don't think ordering your catback exhaust from an eBay store of some knock off brand is a good idea.

Okay, I'm done. It jsut urks me when members are like "Go with (insert cheap-ass crap brand here) for your application. You'll love it, trust me.)

That's their own problem if they want to buy s***, not yours. Who cares what they buy dude?
 
Hey ya, so the plug that connects to my maf sensor has a stupid wire that has torn out. *stupid cai* anywhose, does anyone know where i can get this plug? I have looked all over but cant find one.. prolly because i dont know what it is called besides the plug that goes into the maf. Any help from anyone would be saweet!
 
Go cut one off of the junkyard. I see in your cbus with me. Go down to Pick-n-Pull and cutt one off of a protege and splice back to gether or see if you can get the harness for the MAF
 

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