4g GT from MNSC

[A//// Guy]

Welcome :)

[BLaCk_1cE]

Holla

[bluntedelvis]

Welcome, nice whip I remember seeing it at the cookout. Im really digging the blue.

[X Factor]

Not sure where to post this question so i'll just keep from cluttering and use this thread.

I may have mentioned it somewhere else, but this is the first car i've purchased on my own and been able to proudly say is mine. I've driven literally beaters ready to die until now. So basically I never cared to learn about the internals of a car, never really cared about how the engine works.

So the last few months i've learned a TON of shit, but I still feel like a complete noob when it comes to real mechanics. What is the best way to learn? Read a few books? Take shit apart and put it back together? I know people go to school and get 2 and even 4 year degrees in this stuff, so how do I go about trying to learn?

I'm mainly interested in learning how to tune my car. Which is hard right now since there isn't much available for tuning tools. There is an AEM FI/C but it requires a lot of know how and is only still being worked on and getting figured out by some of the smarter guys. I've been reading up on it religiously but still don't really know how it all works.

Any kind of articles or books or whatever you guys can point me to would be sweet. Thanks in advance.

[scheides]

I would say just delve into the online forums, there's a few books you can read that I can recommend (mostly about turbocharging, but that's where the fun is anyways :) ), and also you can find great articles online on wikipedia and howstuffworks.com (I think?).

Just read read read, and never pretend to be a know-it-all, no one ever knows everything.

Good book:
http://product.half.ebay.com/Maximum-Boost_W0QQprZ535870QQtgZinfo
Maximum Boost, Corky Bell (seriously!)

Great sites:
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/engine2.htm
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/turbo.htm
http://wikipedia.org

[iceminion]

First off, fantastic work with the headlights, love them.

Second, I do not know what your upgrade plans are, but keep it simple on a nice new car like that, its the V6 so a turbo is going to be complicated and extremely expensive.

In my opinion, an intake and exhaust should be the only things you change.

P.S. if you want to do something extremely cool in my book, upgrade to AWD, I think you can do it with evo parts.

[X Factor]

Yeah. That is a really good point. I wanted to kind of talk to LSE and see how much a turbo would run me, but i'm thinking the time and money is going to be much more then I expect.

I was thinking I/H/E, I already got the Intake and Exhaust in the mail! I'm not sure on headers yet, but we'll see.

I would LOVE love love love to do an AWD conversion. I have no idea what that would cost, but i'm pretty sure if I did it, I would be the first. I don't know what it takes to do one, i'll do some snooping around. I hoenstly didn't even think they were worth looking into, but hey why not I guess.

Oh also, thanks for the compliment on the headlights, they were a pain in the ass!