Holy smokes! Having never even been in a turbo'd car, I didn't know what to expect when I started tearing into my baby. I can't even find the right words to describe it. I wish I would have known about it sooner.

After stumbling accross this board a little over two years ago while looking for a centercap for my OZ wheels for my '99 (hahaha) I was opened up to a new world. I started reading and reading and wanting and wanting, so I started saving and saving...and saving and saving...and saving some more. Over the past two years I've accumulated Most everything I could want for my car to experience the thing they call "boost". I know I could have done it cheaper by shopping around for all of the pieces, but after this long, money spent is money forgotten. I knew I would want to run a fair amount of boost so I ordered the rebuild kit from Howell for the top and bottom end. I got the crane 14's ( I know some people say they suck, but I'm diggin' em) with it and the 8.6 JE's(noisy bastards). I bought a block off some guy from a '98 neon and sent it away to the machine shop to be "taken care of". I got it back and me and my cousin assembled the bottom end and the head (p&p etc.) I had bought a 5spd from some dude that had a brand new Quaiffe LSD in it, so we popped the spec stage III in and dropped the engine and tranny in.

I ordered the Hahn stage II kit with the 20g and FMIC, and the portfueler "programmed", ha!, for 500cc injectors. I changed out everything you all have said needs to go from the HRC kit, I then picked up a Fluidyne rad., some FAL fans, stage II axles from the driveshaftshop.com, Zeitronix wideband, 3" turbo back exhaust from Hahn with the TRD catback and 3" hi-flow cat, and an MSD programmable DIS-2. I picked up the bells and whistles: Greddy p/h gauges,type RS bov, profec b spec II from 'Aggression'.

Over the last two weeks my cousin Mike and I have been fighting my car tooth and nail to get all this stuff put on. I think I invented some new curse words during this time. I think my car was just afraid of the change. :) The hahn map for the portfueler was attempting to drown my engine, and in a fit of rage and insanity,(and a touchy ass laptop) I accidentally deleted it.oops. Mike stuck me on axle duty while he created a map from scratch. It took a while of testing and tweaking but OMG the finished product is sooo much more than I expected!

We started out with 10psi and I was shitting my pants(first boosted ride). We then tweaked into the night, and by 12:30am we had her boosting at 18psi and making me afraid of myself. This thing pulls so incredibly hard(thanks in part to the awesome solid front mount I bought from Matt (XtremeRS). I hit 140mph in 5th gear last night and still had pedal and power coming!!! I know this is really really long, but I can't get over how awesome boosting is.

I just want to say again, thanks to ALL of you who help me on this message board, you answer just about all of my question throught the search key. It feels great to know what it feels like to boost, I thought I loved my car before. That was puppy love, this is full on porno now! }(


Bryan