Hey everyone, I'm a returning poster with an account so old I don't remember anything about it. I wanted to reintroduce myself to the forum (or what's left of it).


My name is Kevin. I have a 2008 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT with a 6 speed. It's not the most enthusiastic of enthusiast cars, but I own it, and it's got less than 50,000 miles. I've done some things to it already; nothing to radical, and I hope to do more until I have to sell the car out of necessity.


I've always loved cars, and I'm hoping to find a couple of things here: enthusiasts who haven't given up the dream of FWD performance, and respectable vendors I can use to help with work I can't handle and bring my vision to reality.

 

Kevin,
Welcome again to Tampa Racing.com

If you have some pictures, here is a place to post a few:
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/members-rides/

-Bob

 

 

 

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Don't have many pictures yet; the ones I do have don't really represent my car as it looks now. But I'm going to try to make the breakfast this weekend. Unfortunately it falls on the same day as my work holiday party (TBH, I've been lurking for about two months and meant to make the November one but I had to fly out for work that weekend). Definitely need to get more exposure though.

 

If you stop by probably you won't recognize anyone.... lol

We are all different people now but no one criticizes anyone any more.

 

I didn't know anybody the first time; I never went to meet-and-greets. I used to have a Lancer when I was here before that had an automatic, and being a poor college student, lacked any appropriate resources to do anything major.

I still don't have a garage, but I've had some good luck finding affordable upgrade bolt-ons for my car. I just want to find reputable shop willing to tackle the jobs. Preferably one that can do on-site fabrication for some of my bigger aspirations.

 

 

Ok, couldn't make the last one; I created an electrical issue trying to install a backup camera that took me all morning to solve.

But I'm not here empty-handed, here's my whip. Her name is Jen, like Jennifer Walters, AKA She-Hulk