Say Thanks Thread !... To the Person who got you Hooked

[Red03SilSS]

Well mine would have to be Cody (1slow01z71). With out him my truck would still be stock. Hes taught me everythng I know which isnt a hell of alot but it gets me by.

[ducky]

Jeff Smallen (First guy I met at SAR right when I bought the truck. He had the 81 out there, met him and Jeff Betts in the staging lanes)
Jeff Betts (IDK where the effe he is)
Allen Nelson (Tuned my V6, got me hooked on the swap and the website)

[CHEVROLADE]

Thanks to my Dad,always took me to alamo dragway when i was waaay younger in his 81' chevy rcsb.

[DamnYankee]

hmmm....when I first got on looking for performance stuff, my first move was to get Pin 42 turned on for the electric fans (that I got from Dale), by Allen. This is when he was still a mile north of Mexico (haha). Got a mile down the road and turned around and went back and got a tune.

After that, Billy at TRT played a huge roll in helping me with stuff....cam swaps, springs, pushrods, torque convert(s)(s)(s), etc.

During that time I also ran into Virgil at the track...didn't meet him but 'met' his truck. Played leap frog with him all the way back from Ennis. Saw him later on at a Wells Fargo and finally met him and had a look at the old black truck (wish he still had it - I loved that truck). After that, we spent a lot of time helping each other on projects - our own and other folks from the forum.

Around that same time, Tyler was also a huge help on any projects. Dude has more energy than anyone I know. It would be midnight and he would still be ready to keep on working.

Greg was also a huge part in helping me learn the game and was always more than willing to help on projects and trouble-shooting.

Once I went turbo, enter Louis Gigliotti. He's an amazing tuner and it was a pleasure and privilege to have him work on my stuff.

There are others, but my break is over, so if you aren't in the list, don't get your feelings hurt.

Out of all of those that helped me mentioned above, I'm glad to call all of them friends. They're always ready to help out and I'm always happy to do the same for them.

[jetmech]

Billy at TRT played a huge roll in helping me with stuff....cam swaps, springs, pushrods, torque convert(s)(s)(s), etc.

Billy sure is an awesome guy. I got my entire setup from him.....Turbo, fuel system, gauges and all. When my friends and I were installing it all, he always picked up his phone and answered all my "installation questions". Thanks Billy......and thanks to Moze for the stickers

[tanz45]

Guess it started when my dad showed me how to change oil when i was youngin. Then it simply progressed when I bought my 86 F150 when i was 15 as my first project. Then it has just gone on since then.

But as for the LSx series....I guess i could thank many members on this site for broadening my horizons. And it all started with a simple header question. So to all of those who help empty my bank account THANKS!

[Botlfed]

I guess I'd have to say Garrisson got me here... but I already had the 69 built long before that. So really my Dad got me into building/modifying, even though he doesn't know a thing about it. One day he just decided it'd be a cool project to sit back and watch me do.

I couldn't thank the people here enough though... some of you guys are like family to me.

awe love you to buddy

guess my buddy Chick had alot to do with it, i was into trucks but the wrong side i was all about the rice all the dumb crap guys do to trucks i did believe me eeverything dumb. anyways chick had me check out this site, i never had a problem changing parts or working on a truck to make it run, but not for performance, well i jumped on the shout box and started talking to virgil and moze about how my truck was bad ass then dale and greg, ducky still had a v6 and was itching for his swap, but what really got me hooked was when moze bought lucille and was doing the 6.0 swap so me and chick drove down to dallas to lend a hand, we worked all day and we left at like 1230 am and about 30 mins down the road virgil calls and says listen to this, thats when i decided it was time, and from then on me and moze had a nice rivalry goin on, and now me and chick do alot of stuff up here, and thanks to all the guys that post up all the info and stickies its really helped me get rid of most of my ricer tendencies

but thanks to big Chick cus my truck wouldnt even be around without him, even though i cant depend on him for crap


SEE he's always losing



http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h4...t=IMGP5198.flv

http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h4...t=MVI_3596.flv

i looked for our street race from years back when we were side by side, but i couldnt find it, or that pick of me and you when virgil was flagging us, or the one at SAR when we were lined up next to eachother, cant find any of my good pics and to moze's defense he spun badly when we raced.


oh and GATORS truck is what really got me goin that thing sounded mean, im still rockin the DRs he had

[Wtfan18]

id have to say i thank google lol! i randomly decided i didnt want the 4.3 anymore and was going to put a 5.7 vortec into my 98 OBS, did some google searches and ended up here. i put up one post and thanks to GREG (REDHEARTBEAT) my plans for a 5.7 vortec quickly turned genIII 5.3, after A LOT of reading and a LOT of money it was "done" and the breaking of stuff began. 2 years later i sold the truck and bought the RST, luckily its still around town and some kid who knows NOTHING about ANYTHING owns it and beats it to this day and all i hear about is how nasty of a truck it is. so im grateful to this site and all who answered my questions as i knew NOTHING about motors or these trucks before and somehow built something noone around here is used to seeing. thanks all.

[bartjo06]

Well I'd say thanks to everyone on the site, I was originally curious about making my OBS V6 a little faster, then got turned onto the swap stuff by ducky. Even though I never got around to doing the swap in my 97, I've learned a TON from just reading and lurking around. So, thanks to all of LS1Truck and a side "thank you" to ducky for giving me some guidance, even if I was too poor to follow through.

[oleshifty]

hmm... i have to thank everyone who constantly tells me "trucks are slow...especially lifted ones" it's good motivation.


My grandpa got me into cars. My dad is a mechanical god, but it's a 'job' for him, and says I am just wasting money. He outgrew the 'modify cars' stage when he met my mom. Had a daily driver 9 second nova...sold it to buy an apartment. IDIOT lol. He still helps out whenever I get stuck though. Which is nice. Good way to learn. I can try it myself, and when it doesn't work right, he fixes it and points out what I did wrong lol.