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

[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

[Black'Rado]

well i thank my dad for getting me into the auto world since he has his own shop and always had something cool

and as far as getting onto the site.....well i saw videos of parish's turbo truck on youtube and went out looking for a single cab but found a ext cab for a good deal and got it.....and immediatly started reading up and modifying it.

skeet is one of my top motivators as well as virgil and quik

[SLO TRUCK]

Tons of people on this site have helped me out. The short list would be Mic has helped me more times than I can remember, Allen, Greg, Virgil, Moze, Kurt, Jon but lots of others for sure. But as far as getting me into modifying my truck would have to be the fact that my brother-n-law has always trick out his rides. Also the fact that 2yrs ago he didn't really thing that these trucks could be fast.... He has since changed his mind. But yeah i would thank him he is super smart and always helping me.

[cjriojas]

i never had an influence to push me through the automotive world. I am into chevy cuz i learned to drive in my dad's 87 silvy. i started to really get into it when i had a 95 dodge ram that needed new head gaskets. after i found out that motors are really big legos, it all fell into place. my engineering drive keeps me motivated as well as just reading the joy someone has when they complete their build. This site overflows with information and thanks to everyone for answering my questions and putting up with my crap and a special thanks to rob (robt34) for always lending a hand and mark (slo truck) for lending a garage

[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.