You put money in his hand and he'll work on anything.

I joke around with TJ that he won't work on Evo's, only to keep him to myself. He's done several jobs for me.
Well, that and how bad he picks on most of the other evo guys around here on ARS. He's a very competent mechanic, and a skilled fabricator for sure. The manifolds he made for adams 240 are just pure sechs.

In fact I know he used to own an MR2, and loves to wrench on subies.

edit: I have not used the AMS upgrade path, but have some of their stuff on my car. bang for buck, you're not gonna beat most of their stuff.

 

Yeah that's kind of what I figured, with times being as tough as they are, people probably aren't turning away too much work. A competant mechanic should be able to intall just about anything, and as long as it isn't anything like tuning or engine management, I would feel confident in going to a non-Evo specialist to have something installed. But it does make it easier if you know the people before walking in to a shop thick with 'Stangs or F-bodies and ask them to install a turbo on your "Mitzybitsy"

 

APR LLC is in Opelika, AL‎ out on 280.. there like a speed shop for VW, audi, and porche.. my buddies car is there now. they do just about everything. not sure if they work on other cars, but i would 100% suggest them for major work and upgrades if they work on our cars..
the shop is huge, and very nice.

 

Oh yeah, I've heard of them. They have one of the few AWD dynos in the state. And yeah, they are heavy into Vw Audi stuff, I was thinking it was someone local you were referring too.

 

coldasice you are welcome to come to the cruise this weekend you'll meet damn near everyone in Bham area

 

What day is this cruise? I only have Thursday and Fridays off. This week I have Wednesday off for some kind of DUI training but that will be over by 3-4pm. I pick my car back up at 6pm from getting a new clutch, flywheel and all my timing components done. Never knew how hard it would be to just find a waterpump around here. Let me know what day all this happens. Maybe I can take off work to go if its Sat or Sun pending I put some miles on the new clutch.

 

cruise is the 30th (saturday)..
meeting at crackle barrel last i heard.. in trussville.. at 8am

i may not be able to come now.. my manager messed up my schedule..

 

Cool. Just keep me posted on where it is and I will see if I can get off work for Sunday night

 

r u still going to make it Ervs??

 

autox was great!!! C and Chris have a really heated battle going on. Chris got C this time by 2 100s of a second! yikes. we also had a GA Evo show up, him and his son got first and second fastest time of the day over all. Matt ran too finally and killed almost everyone with super fast times. the blue bomber did pretty good too, need to do a little work on her to get her back up to par. of course it was raining in the morning so i guess us AWD cars had a little advantage over the miatas. lol the weather was perfect after lunch though, drying up most of the course but leaving a few wet spots to keep it interesting.

next autox will be june 7th.

hope to see most of you this saturday for the mountain run!

 

Chris cheated, he have one of those Evo that "drives itself!!!" lol must raise the bar and push a lik harder at the next AX, being second is no good, it kills my alter Ego. C

 

Yes, apparently I was in the Evo that drove itself all day. Im gonna have to go with the red evo that was fastest for the day must have been driving itself cause there were several times I thought for sure they were going to spin out and they just kept smoking those tires and missing cones. It was nuts. Its amazing how quick I was while racing, and then while driving home in the rain it was all I could do to not wreck with my bald rear tires.

So next autox is on June 7th?! Thats so soon.

 

yes, its July 7th and u beter be ready!!! cos I'm not having anymore of this " Me being the 2nd person!!!" BS anymore!!! lol

 

Ha...oh you'll be 3rd actually...cause apparently im going to be second to Sara. But yeah....third...to me!...and you'll like it!

 

Time out... Where is this. I live on 280... never heard of it!!!