Hey everyone I know I don’t talk that much on the forum so I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Anthony, I am a sophomore accounting major and I would like to run for club treasurer.

I drive a blue kia forte koup and I’ve been in MM for both years that I have been at JMU. I went to literally everything my freshman year so you’ve probably seen me last year or sometime this year. I am very organized and good at managing money, hence the major. The two biggest things I want to improve is the timeliness of decisions to do things and increasing our funds. We could possibly work on setting things up at least a work or two in advance so people know when the events are and schedule around them. We could also look up dates at the beginning of the semester pick a few days at the drag strip or wherever and send an email out to everyone seeing their availability for different days. Doodle works amazing when it comes that stuff and takes five seconds to check a box. Just an idea. The other thing is club funds. We are broke 95% of the time. When we discussed the car show I noticed that a lot of things weren’t possible because we didn’t have the money. I noticed we didn’t sell many autocross shirts. I was thinking we could make annual car show shirts rather than the auto x ones. We can also look into putting sponsors on the back of the car show shirts or the regular shirts members have since there is nothing on the backs of them anyways. Then of course we would continue with the raffles and things we did this year.

Other smaller things. We could always have more social events. Like Kline’s cruises, dinners, whatever, just to get the members out to meet with each other. Other than that I think the officers all did a great job this year and I look forward to another successful year.

The title says it all. I'm going to be curious what kind of gains my car is going to have after I install my go-fast parts. Google is not being particularly helpful for me.

Does the subaru place in winchester still have a dyno? I think it is/was an awd one, but you can use these for rwd cars too right?

I think I heard that Harrisonburg used to have one at Dryft motorsports when that was still a thing. I guess that dyno is long gone?

Otherwise, it looks like Richmond might be the closest.

This one might even be better than the Toyota recall http://www.mmsports.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8831

NPR has a good history of the issue:

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And now GM has the nerve to say it wasn't NEW GM that willfully ignored the problem for 10 years, that was OLD GM! Oh wow, the balls. :bow:

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So this is pretty horrible:

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But like the Toyota issue, I'd still like someone to explain to me why this isn't 95% driver error. Having the engine die does not require crashing. I would be dead so many times over by now. So would my wife. Tell me if I'm missing something, but the steering wheel isn't getting locked, so they're just losing power brakes and steering, and then, I can only guess, freaking out and going into jesus-take-the-wheel mode. :dunno:

Hey folks, let me just go into PSA mode again here, but this is an education problem. Don't bet your life on your car always doing what it's supposed to do. Familiarize yourself with the controls, put both your hands on the wheel, and please take the job of operating the weapon seriously.

Your thoughts?

Hey guys! I've been told I can make up positions (in more professional terms) and I feel like this is the perfect position to run for. I'm good at talking, since I do it a lot, and I feel as though I have a few good connections I can always expand on when MM wants something. I love reaching out to new people and I REALLY REALLY want to get the word of MM out to the world, including JMU's campus. I'm pretty obsessed with MM, and I'm very excited that I joined as a freshmen and made so many friends already. Now I've got at least 3 more years of fun ahead! One more than a lot of people

I really want to focus on more people knowing about MM. I have quite a few ideas like working on some shirts, which I've made a few designs, that say "Madison Motorsports - JMU Driver's club" or something similar. Just like the other club shirts. No one knows we're a club, and we need to change that. I want a bigger/better presence at Student Org night so freshmen know to look forward to joining us.

I see that MM doesn't really act as a club as much other clubs do, and I want to work on getting MM to feel like one large group of friends instead of a few cliques. I want new members to feel very welcome and not have to FORCE themselves into social situations within the club. We all should reach out to new members and take them under our wings. Maybe even have a Big-Little system. There's a reason clubs have them, and to such a great success. I'd HAPPILY have a little freshmen I drove around to all of our stuff and helped with anything he needed. Kinda like Sam, Ryan, and Chris did for me this year.

I also am opening my house in Copper for MM events next year. I want to have more club dinners, Maybe even a thanksgiving event like CCVT did. I can always get a hookup on some bulk, discounted food from Cracker Barrel, but I'm willing to cook, with some help.

I also want to make the car show even bigger and next year. I'm a stickler for planning ahead and I really want to be in an official position to help next year. As always, I'll be the guy with the truck to haul stuff around. I'm sure I can get even more stuff donated for raffles, and hopefully draw a bigger offroad crowd next year too. I can definitely get us the RTI ramp again, which was awesome.

I'm sure there are tons more I can/should say, but I'm rushing to get this typed before heading to work, so I'll answer any questions y'all can throw at me!

VOTE FOR PED-- TAYLOR!

Hey all!

I'm sure at this point you've at least heard my name but in the event you haven't I'll give you a quick introduction. My names Garrett Hughes, I'm a junior currently and am pursuing a double degree in Finance and Intelligence Analysis. I've been involved in Madison Motorsports since I first came to JMU in 2011 with Cody as captain. I've watched MM grow through my years and progress in a better direction. I've owned quite a few cars ranging from a Civic to WRX to E30 and even my automatic station wagon (selling by the way). I have way too many interests to name through on here but some of my favorites are biking, photography, and snowboarding.

Anyway onto my campaign speech:

I said last year that we would have more attendance and I believe I succeeded in that. This year we managed to raise $1,200 at our spring car show with over 100 cars registering. Awesome turnout and something even I wasn't expecting. I want to continue this and expand it even more to the whole entire convo lot (last minute restraints caused this and some other difficulties). I also believe that we succeeded with more social gatherings throughout the year. These included cruises, Klines, and some drinking. Now I'm not going to sit back and say we had a perfect year, because we did not. Some things we could have done better/ should improve next year are posting on the home page (we slacked hard on this), getting people to the track, and getting people on the forum. I'm not quite sure how to fix this problem. I'm thinking next year we won't give you your sticker/shirt until I see you registered on the forum (is that too far?). The track I just can't seem to understand why people don't come. It's free for the most part and a blast. I'm brainstorming ways to fix this problem. Although we did have amazing attendance to the college solo and Ray said it was the best one in a long time, so maybe it's a time issue. Another thing we did okay was on fundraising. We made a few errors with number of shirts etc (especially the college solo shirts) and we were cutting it close at the end of the year but all in all we are starting with the same balance as we started with last summer and we won't have to order stickers and a whole new order of shirts so that's a plus. All in all I believe that this year has been a success and want to continue with this momentum into the next one.

Preparing myself for the barrage of questions/ hate/ love/ suggestions. Flame suit on, go!

Alright, hi.

It's about that time of year where officer elections start getting discussed. Naturally, all of us aluMMni want to see who's running as we do get a vote in the election process.

So! Post up with your name, who you are/what you do, what you're running for, how you want things to change/improve/remain the same/etc for the upcoming school year, and be ready to answer questions from errybody on this forum.

I have no idea when elections are this year, but presumably someone else will post up with that date so we all know when to have our e-votes in by. Or maybe I'll have to hunt someone down. Either way, get to it!

Just saw it driving by and pulled in. Looks like they are going till about 2pm.

I think we have a Harbor Freight specific thread but not for tools in general..

I'm in the market for a cordless impact. A quick glance at the local Depot was nothing shy of 1/4" impacts everywhere.. Not gonna cut it.

I'm looking for a solid 1/2" impact to do lug nuts and other minor tasks on the jeep. I currently have the new 18v series drill from Milwaukee and would like to keep one battery setup for many tools, but my online searches have shown mixed reviews of the Milawaukee 1/2" drive.

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Dewalt seems like a solid choice and I have some experience with it.

I'm looking to keep it around $200. Of course I'll have to pay more for a kit with multiple batteries.

What say you MM? What's on your workbench?

So on Sunday this past week, I managed to get out to a local autox. I have been dying to get back into one, and seeing as this would be a double-header (8 runs instead of 4), I pulled my car up there. I even convinced the girlfriend (Jess) to try it out.

This is Jess' reaction (her driving, wait till the end)
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She was very enthusiastic, and by the end of the autox I realized I was in trouble. :lol:

Friends of mine, Dean and Sasha came out to watch and ride along for this video

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stock exhaust manifold, all heat shields intact. removed it years ago when i installed an aftermarket one. it's been wrapped tight in heavy packing paper and kept dry in a garage so its in great shape. Should fit N/A legacies and fozzies from 96-05 but i'd recommend checking that just in case.

looks just like this one.


$35.00, if you're going to anything at VIR i might be able to deliver it to you there.