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Funny how most people posting here are 30+.

The 20 year olds are all on the Facebook car groups and don't even use forums like this one anymore.

Sad, really.

I'm more on this forum than I am any social media. The people on Facebook drove me crazy when they ask questions and don't like your answers. they want to here an easy fix. etc etc. or even better you get the d**k swinging contests, people thinking they know it all over the top dogs. it's great entertainment sometimes but for the most part people are annoying. Oh. and 25 here. got into dsm's when I was 18.
 
I'll be 31 in March. Learned a lot about wrenching from my dad cause he was huge into old Japanese and British motorcycles. I wanted an Evo BAD after watching that Top Gear episode where Jeremy keeps up with a Lamborghini in a gray Evo.
There was no way I could afford an Evo at the time but then I discovered DSMs were like a rabid cousin of the Evolution series (and didn't have four doors). So picked up a junker DSM for $500 and never looked back.
 
Just logged into this site after an 8 year hiatus. I'm 29 now. My 99 GSX broke my heart and wallet time after time when I was still in college and had almost no money. I ended up buying a whole new engine, dropping it in and letting go of my 99 GSX. I'm itching to get back into it!.
 
Just logged into this site after an 8 year hiatus. I'm 29 now. My 99 GSX broke my heart and wallet time after time when I was still in college and had almost no money. I ended up buying a whole new engine, dropping it in and letting go of my 99 GSX. I'm itching to get back into it!.

Welcome back!
 
20 plus year's no guru but I know enough about this platform. Its,' fun and interesting on others opinions or ideas.
 
34, so you've got some years on me. A lot of the "new" crew is pretty damn sad IMHO. Most of the young guys don't want to learn or have the attention span to build something that isn't a cookie cutter Subaru any more.
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33 about to be 34, been at it since 17yrs old with my first being a 90 GST, then 91 Tsi AWD which I still have and is sitting because that's what they do, as well as a few other 2g GSX/GST that I have, and my gf who is getting turned into a DSMer by me at the age of 20 with her 97 Spyder GST which she now loves driving :) (she HATED driving prior to owning this car).

Its humbling and refreshing to see how many dedicated DSMers we have still around. Sorry for bumping an old thread. BUT due to my newly acquired desk job I am now able to stroll the internet all day...and of course....beloved DSMtuners LOL

And I couldn't agree more with the comment im quoting. It seems the new generation are lazy and don't want to put in the actual work or research we did...when we didn't have half the resources they currently do. I mean they literally are spoon fed with Google, YouTube, Facebook, and others....and STILL cant figure out how to do some of the simplest things! L O L
 
I'm 34 now, and I've been in the game for about 15 years. My father was big into muscle cars, so I grew up with an interest. When I was a teen, my buddy had a 3g Eclipse, which got me into Mitsubishi and Japanese sports cars in general (the styling of the 3g was really fresh and cool around the turn of the millennium), but when I learned about the older AWD turbo models, I quickly lost interest in the 3g. Still, even though I lusted after them, turbo DSMs were way out of my price range.

In '03 I bought a '93 Eclipse GS 1.8L and dailyed that for a few years before selling it and buying my first AWD turbo DSM, my '96, in '06. I added the '97 to my collection in 2011.
 
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Lol@ old timers. I will be 44 this year. I can hardly see what I am working on and everything hurts. I never learn much either. I am not much smarter on these cars than when I started working on them many years ago. Oh well, LOL
 
Interesting thread! Now I don't feel too bad about my age & years of involvement with these things... 42 years on the clock here, with 20 years of them owning my Talon & a few more before than in my old NT Eclipse (got to start somewhere right?) I wouldn't have that any other way!

I have to agree with many others here, the new kids on this block seek instant gratification. They don't take the time to learn anything about these cars, let alone actually work on them themselves.

I had the misfortune of helping a local 'kid' with replacing a blown 18G turbo in his GVR4... dude was on a budget, so we were as frugal as can be when it came to sourcing a replacement; a $75 T25 off of a 2G, compliments of the local Pick-n-Pull. The thing had some POS home-made o2 elimination downpipe on it that couldn't be transferred to the T25, so he ordered a generic downpipe off of ebay... longer story short, he ordered it for a 2G, instead of a 1G & it rubbed on the oil pan slightly... he got so bent out of shape over it not fitting right, yet withheld the info about erroneously ordering a 2G downpipe at first... when I called him out about it later, he acted like it wasn't his fault for ordering the wrong part & just wanted to make it work... so we did. It was still better off than it was, but still a hack job, by my standards. I gained a few more grey hairs that day, but at least it ran :toobad: :ohdamn:
 
Purchased my first and only DSM in Sept 1989, a 1990 GSX. I've had it almost 29 years and only 33K miles. Drove it new off the dealer's lot when I was 39. Just upgraded the suspension and brakes and it's going to Mid-Ohio sports Car Course for some track days next month. You can't be to old to have fun.
 
Purchased my first and only DSM in Sept 1989, a 1990 GSX. I've had it almost 29 years and only 33K miles. Drove it new off the dealer's lot when I was 39. Just upgraded the suspension and brakes and it's going to Mid-Ohio sports Car Course for some track days next month. You can't be to old to have fun.

John, way to make most of us feel young! Thanks! :)
 
Purchased my first and only DSM in Sept 1989, a 1990 GSX. I've had it almost 29 years and only 33K miles. Drove it new off the dealer's lot when I was 39. Just upgraded the suspension and brakes and it's going to Mid-Ohio sports Car Course for some track days next month. You can't be to old to have fun.

I'm glad there are a few original owner DSMers out there.
 
Purchased my first and only DSM in Sept 1989, a 1990 GSX. I've had it almost 29 years and only 33K miles. Drove it new off the dealer's lot when I was 39. Just upgraded the suspension and brakes and it's going to Mid-Ohio sports Car Course for some track days next month. You can't be to old to have fun.

Pics or BS :)
 
I'm glad there are a few original owner DSMers out there.

Seriously! The only original local DSMer I know is Luis H. He still has his 1992 Talon AWD. Luis was a regular contributor on MITSOG (if anyone still remembers that newsletter, ran by ALAMO) and then on Talon Digest.

I have owned a 1990 GSX, back in 1991-1993, but I wasn't its original owner and... I have owned ~20 DSMs since then...
 
I'm not sure if I'd be an old-timer or not but my big brother gave me my first car/dsm when I was 17 in 2001. It was a 1991 fwd laser and I loved the hell out of it cutting my teeth learning how to work on cars. I was in a weird situation where they built this new high school far way but they sent my neighborhood to it(lower middle class). The majority of the high school was comprised of a lot wealthy kids and they all had brand new cars and trucks. I was so happy to have that laser my senior year and be like all the other kids who didn't have to take the bus to school. I took about a 10 year break as I completed two degrees at UT Austin and now I'm back with my best dsm yet!
 
21 years doing the DSM thing, was 17 when I got my first AWD Talon.

Had approx 17 of these cars and been to 19 straight DSM shootouts.

As expensive as racing is, these cars make it cheap to keep the ball rolling, fancy cars can go faster but unless you have an unlimited bank supply eventually the $10K bills for XYZ get tiring and people quit the game.

The DSM is probably the single greatest tuner car of all time...yeah I said it f*** off Mustangs. Heck went to a local car gathering last night and sure enough there was another guy there currently putting his 1g laser together...doesn't matter where I go there is always somebody building a DSM some where.
 
I laugh at your comments and join dates. You have no idea the fire and spite that was dsmtalk. The damned that use to roam this forum tormented by the demon or the cursed cars. Those member of such bitchiness and hatred. You all complain of the youth on Facebook, yet your fear to drop the fire of the hatred that use to be on this site. I remember a time when dsmtalk refused to let new members register for their site because they were convinced new dsm owners were idiots and did not need to join thier site

I blame you all for not bashing the Facebook kids like you should. Not roasting them and making fun of their inabilities to perform simple google searches.

I've had herpes of the knuckles since I could drive. Occasionally it flares up and I have to do something stupid to the over engineered engine Mitsubishi designed in 1986? and manufactured for 20 years with only minor changes
 
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I laugh at your comments and join dates. You have no idea the fire and spite that was dsmtalk.

Ha, F'ing newbie... I want Defiant back. Then there would be at least one adult here...
 
Kids.....:cool:
 
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