Ok everyone I'm off on a 16 day detachment to Italy. I get to go drive some wimpy ole turbo diesels around the Sicilian country side man I'm gonna miss my GTP. I won't be on much but I'll get on when I can. I hope you all can survive without me. and while you can.

Have fun and be careful!

Be safe, have fun, enjoy the women and drink some vino for me!

Best wishes, Herc.

when in rome...but I guess sicily will have to do...hey man find out if thats really where thick bread pizza came from!

Be careful, thanks again for your advice. How do those Flowmasters sound?

hope you have a good trip, be careful!!

I dont think pizza came from itally for real i read that somewhere but herc you have some homework to do. First the pizza thing next you have to tell us 0-60 ets and 1/4 ets of the wimpy diesels..

Ciao HercMan!
Eat some pasta for us, stay away from the pizza as you'll find the 'Americanized' version is much better.

Ok I'm in Sicily now. I'll see what I can come up with for the Pizza issue. My rental car is a Renault forgot the dang model name. It's a 5 door that seats 5. It has a 1.9L turbo diesel with a six speed. So far I've only had it upto about 120 km/h. The car sucks for performance. 0-100km/h is about 12 secs. The dang car has a rev limiter set at 5k. I can chirp the tires going into second but that's the only time I can. The gearing on the car sucks. It doesn't need a six speed at 100km/h the rpm difference between 5 and six is only 300 rpms. I'll have some pics for ya when I get home.

Is it a Speck?

Best of luck in Italy!! Be safe!! Rip up that little Renault!

... I want your job.

Ok another update. The rental car is a Scenic man what a dog I'd rather drive a Grand Ma. As for the pizza. The pizza margahrita (not a drink you fools)was the original pizza first made in Naples Italy. Pizza as we know it was started in New York. Yesterday we had to make a trip to the middle of Turkey man that was a long day. Like I said I'll have some pics when I get home.

Ok another update. Spent monday night in Elgin Scotland. Man those guys can make some scotch.

Mmmm... single malt scotch...

anyone else thirsty???

Well im still in Sicily. One more week before we head home. Broke the plane yesterday in Malta. We lost an access panel and inturn it chewed up one of the props pretty good. So we waited 13 hours in Malta waiting for parts. We were able to temp fix the prop to get back to our detachment site. And today the maintenance folks are spending the day replacing the old prop. Fun Fun.

Ok went back to Malta on saturday evening and guess what. The plane broke down again. This time a different motor was experiencing compressor stall. With a jet engine basically like a severe miss with lots of back fire. can you say 10 foot fireball out the back of the motor? So we had to spend the night and wait till sunday eveaning because we got locked into the middle of an International Airshow. Ran the motor up again for further troubleshooting and the problem was gone. Very strange we thing the problem was too much water ingestion since we were in the middle of a deluge. Man has this been a strange detachment.

Got Parachutes?

Hahaahaha, NICE!!

Put a type-R sticker on the Renault. Maybe that would help

BTW, How do those flowmasters sound? My resonator shield is rusting out plus I got some other issues with the exhaust so I may change it.

I'm home I'm home. Damn it's good to be back. As for the flowmasters they were just what I was looking for. They got a decent amount of growl durring acceleration and mellow out while cruising. You can still here em though so some people don't like that. But that's what I was looking for. Just don't make the mistake I did and try driving with out some sort of tip extending the exhaust past the bumper cover. The sound was great but deafening after five minutes.

Glad you made i through another safe trip Herc.