well…we have the same car. His has about 20,000 more miles on it than mine, and turns out his is kinda slow. So, I like my car better. To each his own.
What are these ‘nice mods’ that mick has that I’m jealous of?
Wheels? Well he basically runs stock wheels or some cheap track wheels (good ones, but certainly not worthy of jealousy).
Tune/Exhaust - well those are no good I thought…? So why would I be jealous of those?
Suspension? - I kind of like DRC just the way it is, but his car looks nice and low. Of course when you’re smashing your exhaust on stuff, being low stops sounding quite so cool…especially for me when I live in a place that gets a foot of snow a few days a year
Paint? - maybe you mean that groovy ti package paint colour he painted his trim? That does look cool…but it’s paint.
Intake spacers - I’m jealous of those. They’re a great part.
Speed? - certainly not. Mick’s car seems to constantly have issues. When he went to the dragstrip his traptimes were always a good bit below where they ought to be for his mods (whether stock, mildly modded or fully modded as he is now)
So there you have it. I’m jealous of his intake spacers. A $160 part. That’s what has led me to slap mick back into reality all these times over the years. Oh…and his racing suit that he wears to HPDE. That’s another thing I wish I had…a fireproof racing suit.
Truth though? Mick came after JHM a long time ago for something that was totally not their fault (his shop charged him over and over and over when they couldn’t install his JHM shifter) and he would bring that up to hurt JHM whenever he could. I always thought that was really lame. He did it again when that same shop couldn’t install his JHM clutch. I mean why you’d go back there after they couldn’t install a shifter (but charged $1000 for it!) I have no idea but hey…they have shiny floors and work on Porsches, so they must be good right? Anyway, he eventually relented on the forums and admitted his shop was FUCKED and that he had done JHM wrong, and when he did I reached out to him and cleared the air (or thought I did) and left it alone. I actualy stuck up for him on quattrofail under REVLIS SUVA when the B5 and B8 hounds were slamming him. Of course he continued to trash talk me behind close doors and on quattrofail, but that’s another story.
This past year he bought his JHM stuff and actually spoke well of the company, but this past few weeks with his bullshit about the tune, when in fact all of his ‘issues’ were from his car being in shit shape and getting beat on, not the damn tune…and the one where he logged his car IDLING and showed lean spikes then started a thread freaking about how lean his JHM tune was (suddenly, even though the file was written ages ago and worked flawlessly until he had problems that were maintenance related). Truth is his car showed those spikes because the car shuts off the injectors when you get off the throttle with no load. It spikes lean, then normalises…and this is true on a stock or JHM tuned or GIAC tuned car. Or a Honda Accord.
So I like the JHM guys, and I hate seeing people make unfounded accusations against them. Want to complain how fucking slow they are to return calls and process emails? I’m with you on that, and when mick bitches about that, I say nothing because I’ve been there. Ask count vohn and jay@jhm and Dan about how I blow up their fucking email (v8@jhmotorsports.com) when I see people getting shit service on the forums. If I’m going to stand up for these guys, I’ll also let them know that they’re not doing what they need to. I guarantee I’ve bitched them out more than Mick and the rest of the quattroworld guys COMBINED. Just ask them. But if you want to question their parts to explain away your car’s problems, or your shop’s problems, I think someone should call you out on that.
p.s. my car just did this today. It’s bone stock, has never been carbon cleaned in 35,000 miles, and was full weight, full interior etc. (as the video will show later this week when its up). Considering that mick has never run ANYWHERE NEAR that time (12.75), and only trapped 1 MPH more than my car, when he had JHM tune/clutch./flywheel/exhaust…which we know should be good for 12.2-12.4 @ 111-112…well it’s pretty clear that there’s no fucking way I’d want Mick’s car. It’s a slow lemon.
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