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Old Nov 16, 2014 | 02:17 PM
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thats an awesome story, welcome back!
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 11:22 AM
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thanks, finally got to drive it last night and this morning. it feels awesome. i forgot how a supercharged car feels. it's a different kind of fast from my wrx.
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 12:50 PM
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I love being sc. I keep toying with turbo ideas but I would hate to see my car not sc. Let us know when your Going to head up to smg, he moved to a diff location
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 01:05 PM
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I'm working on selling my wrx, then i can start looking at cobalt mods lol. where did he move to? it'd be cool to have a small meet with some of us from back in the day again.

i love the torque curve of the supercharger, my wrx makes 320tq and i swapped in a sti 6 speed so it goes pretty good. the cobalt just feels faster, i found myself speeding on the way home not meaning too. where as the wrx i always know where i'm at for speed.
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 01:09 PM
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What year wrx?
Could be faster, the bug and hawk eye wrx isnt that fast even with the sti trans. I always ran them in my LSJ.
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 01:23 PM
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it's an 08, with no 08 parts lol.. rebuilt forged motor, vf52 turbo and 05 sti transmission. it made 280hp/320tq. it's pretty fast with the short geared 6 speed.
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 04:12 PM
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He moved to his own shop less than 1 mile from the old place you dynoed at.
I'm down for a meet.
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 05:09 PM
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ok cool, yeah i'd like to check it out sometime. it would be good to meet up with everyone again. we'd probably have to tell him that we want to have a meet at his shop lol
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Old Nov 18, 2014 | 05:29 PM
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Welcome back!
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Old Nov 19, 2014 | 07:41 AM
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Welcome back!
Thank you.
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Old Nov 20, 2014 | 12:05 AM
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Heres an old dyno vid i got for you

http://vid48.photobucket.com/albums/...y/MVI_0007.mp4
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Old Nov 20, 2014 | 08:17 AM
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that's awesome thank you.
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Old Nov 20, 2014 | 08:22 AM
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Nice video. Can't wait for more
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Old Nov 20, 2014 | 08:38 AM
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i got some videos of it too





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Old Dec 8, 2014 | 09:55 AM
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Dec 27th big car show. I'd love to show up with some cobalts
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Old Dec 8, 2014 | 10:38 AM
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This is pretty cool. Glad to see you got her back
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