Hey everyone.
My name is Justin and I'm from Troy, MI (about 1/2 hour north of Detroit). I've been reading GRM for a few years now and have stumbled across ths discussion board a lot lately due to all of the "Learn Me" threads.
Unfortunately, I've been a DSM guy since I got license. My first car was a 1993 Eagle Talon TSi AWD that I still own. In a nutshell, I've swapped it from AT to MT, swapped in a 6-bolt motor, been through 3 different motors, modded and de-modded it numerous times and it's sat broken for longer than a year on more occasions than I care to count. Currently, it was on the road for the tail end of the summer after sitting since the fall of '08, and even made it to it's first DSM Shootout without a hickup. As it sits, it has a lightly built 6 bolt motor that is .020 over with 2G 8.5:1 pistons on 1G rods and no balance shafts. The only mods are a 2G exhaust manifold, eBay o2 housing with dump, eBay 3" downpipe, catless testpipe and 3" catback. The alternator went a couple months ago, so I packed it up for winter. It's waiting for the alt., a new clutch, some head work, and some suspension work when it gets nicer out.
My other ride is a 2006 Saturn Ion Redline. I bought this car back in Jan. 2009 to serve as my daily driver. Something it has done very well. Even though I said I wouldn't, I ended up getting the mod bug with it. It has a ZZP S3 heat exchanger, ZZP 3" CAI, 60# injectors, 2.9" S/C pulley, ZZP 3" catless longtube header, Thermal catback, and custom HP-Tuners tune. It also at one point had a Saturn Motorsports front strut bar and Progress rear sway bar. I had the car dynoed on a Dynojet with just an air filter and it did 208HP and 195TQ. With a ZZP catless DP, ZZP 3" CAI and Thermal CB it ran a 14.8@98 with an awful 2.4 60' on a nasty humid day. With all of the current mods, the car did 248HP and 233TQ on the same dyno. The track however, wasn't so kind. It ran a 15.0@100 with a still crappy 2.4 60' on a run where I forgot to turn off the A/C after I was using it to keep the intake temps down due to a non-working intercooler pump. Temps on the run were between 140-190 degrees....
At the moment the car is being returned to stock so I can sell it. I have a company truck now, and no longer wish to make payments on a car I won't be driving much. However, after the Saturn is sold off I'm going to have some money to play around with and would like to get a daily driver that I can have some fun with.
