View Poll Results: What is the essence of HMT?
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The essence of HMT
01-04-2009, 08:54 PM
#41
3.0 BAR
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 2,651
Re: The essence of HMT
Originally Posted by xenocron
I disagree, slightly...economics are what cause 98% people here to go this route, and then when they learn something and are satisfied from doing it themselves, they receive a different kind of euphoria than they had originally imagined.
I know this by just looking in the Classified Section here, all of the CDM parts for sale and wanted makes me sick, but its a supply and demand system.
I know this by just looking in the Classified Section here, all of the CDM parts for sale and wanted makes me sick, but its a supply and demand system.
01-04-2009, 11:57 PM
#42
3.0 BAR
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: NE-PA
Posts: 4,666
Re: The essence of HMT
HMT now is a lot different than HMT when it first began. When it first began there wasn't any real options for manifolds, there wasn't any ebay CDM crap for honda/etc, and there wasn't any viable or cost effective means of tuning. Those were the days of HF manifolds and homemade bird ---- logs because we did what we had to do, audi wastegates and dsm diverter valves were the mainstay as well as any other type of junkyard part because that's all that was available for a guy on a budget. If CDM hadn't come around, a lot of you guys might still be in that same situation, or learned to step up your A game to quality manifolds/bov's/wastegates. I'm not hatin' on you guys that use cdm stuff, but the beginnings have been lost over time from learning fabrication and learning how to perfect it to more or less turning a wrench and mindlessly bolting things together. In my travels to car shows and meets I've seen so many Honda's/Acura's with the same cdm crap on them over and over again it sickens me. Only once and while (very rarely) do I see a Honda with something that's homemade with good quality, and those are the people I respect the most. That's the HMT way.
01-05-2009, 12:06 AM
#43
3.0 BAR
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 2,808
Re: The essence of HMT
Originally Posted by slo_crx1
In my travels to car shows and meets I've seen so many Honda's/Acura's with the same cdm crap on them over and over again it sickens me. Only once and while (very rarely) do I see a Honda with something that's homemade with good quality, and those are the people I respect the most. That's the HMT way.
01-05-2009, 12:17 AM
#44
0.0 BAR
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 0
Re: The essence of HMT
Originally Posted by slo_crx1
HMT now is a lot different than HMT when it first began. When it first began there wasn't any real options for manifolds, there wasn't any ebay CDM crap for honda/etc, and there wasn't any viable or cost effective means of tuning. Those were the days of HF manifolds and homemade bird ---- logs because we did what we had to do, audi wastegates and dsm diverter valves were the mainstay as well as any other type of junkyard part because that's all that was available for a guy on a budget. If CDM hadn't come around, a lot of you guys might still be in that same situation, or learned to step up your A game to quality manifolds/bov's/wastegates. I'm not hatin' on you guys that use cdm stuff, but the beginnings have been lost over time from learning fabrication and learning how to perfect it to more or less turning a wrench and mindlessly bolting things together. In my travels to car shows and meets I've seen so many Honda's/Acura's with the same cdm crap on them over and over again it sickens me. Only once and while (very rarely) do I see a Honda with something that's homemade with good quality, and those are the people I respect the most. That's the HMT way.
01-05-2009, 02:33 AM
#49
1.5 BAR
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 694
Re: The essence of HMT
My objective is to get rid of the CDM cheap ---- and put on a shelf for a later cheaper build. I'm off to a better start with major help from nogs"spike,JD,randy,J.H.,Dennis,Blundell" coming around and giving me alot of hell for the past 3 years or so. Next and last to change out is the 40mm CDM wastegate and stepping up to a better/larger unit and it's not Synapse this time. I'd just like to say thanks to those *******. AND THE BLUE DASH RULES lol
