Hello to all.
I'm a simple bearing engineer haling from the eastern hills of Pennsylania, Macungie, PA to be exact. By day I play a bearing expert supporting the compressor industry and by night... Well I could be doing anything however I do spend a fair amount of time in the garage. I have a number of cars ranging from 1987 IROC-Z, 1993 GMC pickup, 1999 Saturn SC2 and a 2001 Corvette. My wife has a 2009 CTS that I take care of and I also help my brother and father-in-law with their projects, a 1970 Big Block Chevelle and a 1964 Impala SS. My father-in-law bought the '64 brand new when he came out of the service so it's a one owner car which is neat.
I first heard of this site through internet searches and the thirdgen.org site.
The camaro and truck are the two tuning candidates but who know what the future will bring. My camaro started life as a 305 TPI car but it's now a blue prinnted and balanced 355 TPI that I built with the Lingenfelter runners and baseplate, I ported the plenum. I think the Lingenfelter parts were actually first cast by Accel but then altered and marketed by Lingenfelter. Either way it's been a great motor. 10 years ago when I did all this work I didn't know much about chips and tuning so I just called up JET and they sent me a chip "custom" for my car. Fast forward I still use my car for various cruise nights and auto-x's but now I want to install a new set of headers without the AIR system. As part of this I plan to update the tuning because I've learned on the thirdgen.org that the ECM makes an adjustment for the AIR system that I want to avoid, also I heard the JET chip probably just tuned for WOT. Second project is I want to change the motor in my truck soon since it has 200,000 miles and I have no plans to keep that stock so I'll have to figure out a tune for the TBI motor. I'm 100% new to tuning etc and first I plan to just figure out data-logging and we'll go from there.
Other interest areas are everything outdoors, my wife (Jenn) and I like to go hiking out west, whitewater canoeing, swimming, skiing, biking and camping. Hanging out with friends and the other usual stuff. I love working with my hands around house and in the yard too. We don't have kids but we have a crazy goldendoodle named Tessa.
Anything else you want to know just let me know.
-George
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