Hello fellow Ottawa DSMer's, lol.

I was just sittin here thinking how nice it is, on a friday afternoon, and figured maybe we could all get together again at Denny's for a meet sunday at 2?

I figured, if we get in the habit of the first sunday of every month, at the same place, we wont even need to have a post like this? Somewhat like the Toronto Yorkdale meets I once was a part of.

Sorry about the late notice, but it just came to mind? Anybody in?

That could work. Again, I work weekends most of the time but I'll try and pull a few strings to make it there. You DO mean this weekend, right?

DAMN! That means my Talon still won't be insured. I'm waiting for the snow to melt to bring my baby out of her slumber. Ah well, I'll just have to come by in one of the many winter beaters around here.

Just thought I'd bring this up in the new thread as well: Steve from Ottawa Fiero was wondering if we'd be at all interested in some friendly/healthy competition with some of his club members, at the track among other places. Here's a copy of his e-mail;

Give me some feedback, guys! This could be a great way to make the DSM scene explode into action this season. Hopefully if I make it to the meet we can explore this further.

Cant this weekend, but how about the weekend of the 15th, it will also give a little more chance for the snow to melt.

Shawn

Thats a possibility... any time is cool with me.

I guess that'd give more of a warning too, if some of the guys don't see this thread until the weekends over, etc.

Its up to you guys though. I guess we'll see how many ppl respond to this by saturday night.

Pete

Hey All

Im kinda new to the whole DSM thing. I just bought my Talon last week but would love to come up this sunday and meet up with fellow drivers. Sundays are great for me (no work yeah)

I probably can't this weekend because im always working at 2 t'il 6 on sundays but if we get something going on the 15th i could plan ahead and take some time off.

As for that other club im opened minded to new people but it just sounds like their club is in help of people. They dont really seem to be interested in DSM's at all.

The weekend of the 15th sounds good to me.

Last meet their were initial discussions about the 2003 shootout. Most likely we will have an Ottawa group heading down this year so if anyone is interested, bring your ideas and suggestions.

Also, I think it would be cool to have a
Ottawa-TO convoy if we can arrange it.

I'd be TOTALLY down with a Ottawa - To convo.

And for shootout, I heard the rooms were all sold out?

But otherwise, im down with going to ohio.

I guess the 15th it is then.
2 oclock, denny's parking lot.

Peter Check Andrew's post in the "shootout" section he has a whole hotel booked for us I think there is 20-25 rooms, he usually opens it up to the "Indy Stars" from Indiana later in the spring if we can't fill all the rooms. I have gone for the last 2 years and will be returning this year. Hope you guys make it from Ottawa, I know Alan P is getting lonely representing all by himself.

I see if I'll be attending...don't konw yet...I might hold off till may to pull my car our..(or at least till they clean the streets)..I might show we'll see...

Garrett

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Saw a nice Eclipse yesterday at the blockbuster on carling (one by carlingwood)

It was all white. Had a (what looked like) a blitz front bumper cw' front grille (also painted white). had a big misubishi logo on the back window. had a 3" exhasut. Was a standard and had interior detailing done (white trim) not a bad looking ride over all.

I was origonally going to get that same type of bumper but now that I've seen it on that car I think I'll keep what I've got..

any body know who this is??

I will be there the sunday March 16th sounds good!

I will see if i can also get the day off to come and meet some of the guys.

Ok, Sunday March 16th it is, at 2;00 Denny's parking lot.

I will try to be there, not sure what's happening on that weekend just yet though. On a good note the car will be back together by then, the last thing left to do is put the valve cover back on and reinstall the front strut tower brace (happening this Saturday in my garage!)

Gary

I wasn't there for your last meat, where is this Denny's?

Eric, I believe they're talking about the Denny's in South Keys, just off of Bank Street, near Hunt Club. You can't miss it, if you're heading south, it should be on the right hand side.

I should be able to go but having kids, things change rapidly. Maybe see you all there.

Alright i'll be there!

I'm always there. So 2 it is.

Crystal. Nice to see another gal join the group. Cindy is getting overwhelmed by all these males in the group. But she always has fun.

P.S. Cindy is looking for a talon. Peter. She likes yours. Heard you were selling?? good price for a 95+ talon/eclipse (prefferably FWD Turbo). Let her know.

P.S.S. Hope everyone gets one of those FRS radios. They're cheap now. No reason not to have one. (It's better than an ugly CB antenna on your car)

** Whoohoo. I'm still not a post whore. 353. very reasonable.

I got 2 of those radios for the summer

Hey Guys

I am not sure if I will show up but I'm sure the other member of the PIT STOP CREW will represent(Ali)

Later

Peters is an NT and in good shape. Remember his blindingly quick high 16 sec runs?

HAHAHAHAH, easy now Tom! lol, I think my best was 16.7 ? It was a fun first time ever at the track.

But ya, Chuck/Cindy, its a NT

Its a 1997 with 144k on it. Ive been doing too much driving to back home, which ends up being about 1000km's of highway driving each time.

Cheap on insurance though, but ya, my car is for sale, but will officially go for sale (autotrader, signs, etc) come early spring.

Blindingly quick high 16 run, lol, im still laughing, yet crying at the same time.

Sorry Pete, I could not resist.

Its all good Tom, Im hopeing by mid summer I'll have a TSi.

And it will be all go, and no show, other then suspension and maybe my 18's I have but I do like the stock rims on 97's

I for sure want a 97 or 98, im not a fan of the 95 and 96's.

Exhaust, Boost Controller, Blow off valave (I've always wanted that wooshing sound) Boost Guage, Turbo Timer, safc, etc. Will be some of the first things I do to it.

I hope to have it sold for sure by early spring, I guess every car has a buyer somewhere out there.

Yeah Peter, I might be interested in buying your car depending on how much you sell it for, but I'll have to take a look at it again since I only took a kick look inside your car last summer. So it would be great if you could send me picture of the inside, outside and the price too!!!

If anyone else knows someone who's selling an Eclipse or a Talon let me know. I'm looking for a non turbo one(I cannot really afford to buy a turbo car, not that rich!! ), automatic or standard, black or grey (not a dark grey one though), with a/c. Thank's in advance.

Hey Cindy, Chuck sent me an email, and I just responded to him.

I sent him a few exterior pictures, as for the pictures of the insdide, give me a few days, and I'll send em to you or chuck.

Are you going to the meet next sunday the 15th?
If so, I'll see you there.

I will probably be there next sunday, see you then and yes, please sent the pictures and the details to me too.

You have mail

Well I am new to the whole DSM thing too. Met another guy from this board (sorry can't remember name at the moment) at tapp the other day, on one of my many visits to see chris and the gang durning the 3 weeks i have owned my talon (new turbo, plugs, wires, still not perfect yet) . Assuming my car is running i will be there too.

Welcome aboard Adam, sometimes you get lucky with our cars others times not, I have had my 93 Talon for 2 years now and havent fixed anything accept the tranny...(my fault).

is yours fwd turbo or awd?

Shawn

Ya i think i am down to the last thing to do befor the car is in top running form. Won't start modifying until that point. Having a bad turbo was expensive but made myself feel better by just going to a Big 16G. Atleast then something good came out of it . The final thing is hopefully the balance shaft. The idle is a little 'lumpy' and there is some vibration over 4 grand. So we figure that is the cause. Won't have the balance shaft done by the time the meet is but the car still run
See you guys and girls there.

Things are looking up for the meet on Sunday. I hope to see you all there, especially the new guys.

Things to note include that I am finished with several different layouts for our local website and will be collecting opinions, comments, and suggestions. I will also be collecting some information regarding the local members to add to the web page. If you guys provide me with a couple paragraphs of personal/vehicular/whatever info, as well as some pictures of your rides in their prime, and list of mods/timeslips/etc, I'd be happy to add your details to your own section of the local site. Lastly, I will also require a valid e-mail address.

...More to be discussed at the meet, of course.

G.

Dag Nabbit! I can't make it this sunday . Boooooooooooooooo.

I guess I will pay more attention from now on so I don't miss the next one. .

What is the address of the Ottawa based DSM website? Sould be happy to supply pictures but don't have any as of yet and won't have any till the summer.

No address yet, but it's in the process. If there was already an Ottawa site, I wouldn't need to be making another one.

Speaking of the site, I may as well mention now that I am going to be determining a fee(?) with you guys at the meet in order to have our own server. Why not use a free site like Geocities, you ask? Our site will be much larger than allocated space will be on any free site, and we are going to be running our own bulletin board which will (projectedly) be more than twice our allocated bandwidth. Having our own server would eliminate these complications, and will give us the opportunity to have more powerful scripting methods (PERL, CGI-BIN, and others).

For the record, hosting a server can range between $300-500. I don't expect yearly member fees to exceed $25, nominally.

G.

Hey Adam, that was me you met at Tapps. Glad to see you may make it out. Still not sure if I will.

Gates, like I have mentioned before in other threads and to others (not to you because you are never around), I am not interestd in an Ottawa website. Sorry dude. I am never on the DSM site enough anyways. I have my own server where I host pictures, videos and use this site to communicate with a few guys on here but mostly MSN and redliners.ca to get in touch with the Ottawa car scene boys/girls (and dsm's as most are on there too) as not alot of DSM's guys browse this site here I am one of them). I do alot of things with non DSM guys so I will stick with that format.

Go ahead and continue with it if you like but I am not confident you will get too much support with a local site that costs money and with only having less than 20 local members that are on here regularly (well, kind of regularly), I cannot think it would be too busy to warrant our own server. Especially at a fee. Just my 2 cents. Good luck with it if you continue.

I will supply the server and space and dns serving if needed at no charge.

double post.

no idea how.???

Adam - I'll contact you when I get home in regards to the server.

Tom - I was only charging a fee because I won't support the entire thing on my own. As for the number of members, we would probably grow if we had something to represent us properly, and it's not like we actually have started advertising yet. That's to come in the spring, when I won't freeze my butt off distributing business cards/flyers/etc. Perhaps I should consider (re)creating(?) Club DSM Ontario in order to get a larger member-base? What do you think?

Let me know.
G.