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Keep it work safe or use when necessary. Can't believe we never had one of these threads. Let's be real, babes and cars go hand in hand. The hotter the car often the hotter the babe:

This is a video taken from an event in Sweden at Björkvik airstrip. Rolling start on 2nd gear 50-270 km/h BMW 335ia 6at steptronic e92: intercooler+downpipes+intake+Vishnu v5 autotune (no meth) BMW M3 e92 6mt manual: Intake+exhaust+Evolve tune 50-270km/h same 335 vs stock M3 for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D-HDakS5EsI#!

Hey BB, Totally testing the waters here, but im really starting to get bored of my 335i.... So, for around $30k, what fun/sports car would you buy? Mileage has to be under 60k and it can not be too un-DD-able (example: stripped interior turbo S2K wont work), and i cant buy a bike (which is my absolute top choice, but for family reasons, its a no go....) Some cars ive considered: -Mustang GT -Corvette (Base model or GS if i can find it) -STI/EVO Are there any fun AMGs or Audis at the $30k range? If i did swap cars, it has to be a car with similar performance (or potential) to the 335i.... So give me your choices! -Eric

This warrants a discussion because it confuses me when people use weird names and I am always curious. My own name for instance. Wtf, does he want to be called stinky? Or Sticky? Right, so let's hear it. I will go first. Mine is kind of long so bear with me. I've always noticed that BMW's have this smell to them. Any E46 and prior BMW I ever stepped into had this smell and I always loved it. When I started learning more and more I always wanted some sort of M car. Low and behold after 7 years of waiting I bought my E46 M3. Should have done it a lot sooner. Anyways, the smell, in a way its a stinch, so I call my BMW stinky. My mother always called me stinky and now my wife calls me stinky as well. Therefore, StinkyM.

Gentlemen, here is the master plan. With a new version of Vbulletin finally being released I can get moving on this. I hope to have this implemented in the next few months. I'm going to need to work and be chained to my computer for 16 hours a day as if I was a Chinese kid making sneakers in a Nike sweatshop. I think if I pull this off it will be a thing of beauty. Only problem? ToyotaBoost.com is taken. As is ScionBoost.com. Taken by Toyota and it's not like I can outbid them so I'll have to come up with a solution there. Also need a central site name. Take a look and tell me what you think, rough draft:

Anyone know wtf is going on?

Interesting read here. I don't even know how I missed the Libor Scandal: By Matt Taibbi April 25, 2013 1:00 PM ET Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything. You may have heard of the Libor scandal, in which at least three – and perhaps as many as 16 – of the name-brand too-big-to-fail banks have been manipulating global interest rates, in the process messing around with the prices of upward of $500 trillion (that's trillion, with a "t") worth of financial instruments. When that sprawling con burst into public view last year, it was easily the biggest financial scandal in history – MIT professor Andrew Lo even said it "dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets." That was bad enough, but now Libor may have a twin brother. Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world's largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world's largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps. Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of their use is almost unimaginably massive. It's about a $379 trillion market, meaning that any manipulation would affect a pile of assets about 100 times the size of the United States federal budget. It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks – including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland – that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates. In fact, in recent years many of these banks have already paid multimillion-dollar settlements for anti-competitive manipulation of one form or another (in addition to Libor, some were caught up in an anti-competitive scheme, detailed in Rolling Stone last year, to rig municipal-debt service auctions). Though the jumble of financial acronyms sounds like gibberish to the layperson, the fact that there may now be price-fixing scandals involving both Libor and ISDAfix suggests a single, giant mushrooming conspiracy of collusion and price-fixing hovering under the ostensibly competitive veneer of Wall Street culture. The Scam Wall Street Learned From the Mafia Why? Because Libor already affects the prices of interest-rate swaps, making this a manipulation-on-manipulation situation. If the allegations prove to be right, that will mean that swap customers have been paying for two different layers of price-fixing corruption. If you can imagine paying 20 bucks for a crappy PB&J because some evil cabal of agribusiness companies colluded to fix the prices of both peanuts and peanut butter, you come close to grasping the lunacy of financial markets where both interest rates and interest-rate swaps are being manipulated at the same time, often by the same banks. "It's a double conspiracy," says an amazed Michael Greenberger, a former director of the trading and markets division at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and now a professor at the University of Maryland. "It's the height of criminality." The bad news didn't stop with swaps and interest rates. In March, it also came out that two regulators – the CFTC here in the U.S. and the Madrid-based International Organization of Securities Commissions – were spurred by the Libor revelations to investigate the possibility of collusive manipulation of gold and silver prices. "Given the clubby manipulation efforts we saw in Libor benchmarks, I assume other benchmarks – many other benchmarks – are legit areas of inquiry," CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton said. But the biggest shock came out of a federal courtroom at the end of March – though if you follow these matters closely, it may not have been so shocking at all – when a landmark class-action civil lawsuit against the banks for Libor-related offenses was dismissed. In that case, a federal judge accepted the banker-defendants' incredible argument: If cities and towns and other investors lost money because of Libor manipulation, that was their own fault for ever thinking the banks were competing in the first place. "A farce," was one antitrust lawyer's response to the eyebrow-raising dismissal. "Incredible," says Sylvia Sokol, an attorney for Constantine Cannon, a firm that specializes in antitrust cases. All of these stories collectively pointed to the same thing: These banks, which already possess enormous power just by virtue of their financial holdings – in the United States, the top six banks, many of them the same names you see on the Libor and ISDAfix panels, own assets equivalent to 60 percent of the nation's GDP – are beginning to realize the awesome possibilities for increased profit and political might that would come with colluding instead of competing. Moreover, it's increasingly clear that both the criminal justice system and the civil courts may be impotent to stop them, even when they do get caught working together to game the system. If true, that would leave us living in an era of undisguised, real-world conspiracy, in which the prices of currencies, commodities like gold and silver, even interest rates and the value of money itself, can be and may already have been dictated from above. And those who are doing it can get away with it. Forget the Illuminati – this is the real thing, and it's no secret. You can stare right at it, anytime you want. Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425#ixzz2RWGtVXMy Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/05/49355-the-epic-sixteen-minutes-of-the-barack-obama-presidency/ MUST SEE: The Epic Presidency of Barack Obama Kyle Becker On May 1, 2013 https://twitter.com/kylenbecker The last five years of Barack Obama’s political career in the president’s own words. Set to a musical score, the video traces the arc of the enigmatic figure’s rise to world power. SHARE this video with Obama fans and your friends!

So my friend signed with Vivid and we need to pick her name. Finally guys, you get to name a pornstar. Anyway, her first name she chose and it's "Ivy." So, pick the last name. Or just go with a whole name if you want if you think it sounds better, whatever. I suggested Ivy Divine, Ivy Angel, and Ivy Bell and she didn't like any of them :(

Welcome to a real enthusiast forum hpfpupgrade.

MHP. Modern Horsepower. Andrew Cluck. These names are all known on the Mercedes-Benz forums but for the wrong reasons. For years, MHP has used forums to try to push their products stating they are the best and using drag racing records as the reasoning for this "supposed" superiority. The truth of the matter is, MHP was not doing their own M156 / 63 AMG tuning others were doing it for them which Mr. Cluck would then essentially re-sell at a premium and take credit for. If one went to the source they could get the exact same thing for less money. There literally is no reason to pay any extra money so that Andy can take his cut to then spend on forum advertising to try and get more and more people to fall for this same trap. Modern Horsepower has been thrown off several forums due to their tactics including this one. Andy is simply too difficult to deal with and uses dirty tricks to get his way. This includes multiple screennames trying to sway a discussion his way as well as asking to have an ability to pay to ban users implemented. Don't believe it? Take his own word for it then: What makes this latest episode most amusing is the tuner that MHP had to ask for help. That tuner is BenzBoost premier vendor Weistec. Yes, the same Weistec that has the record for the fastest Mercedes-Benz vehicle as well as the first company to supercharge the 63 AMG V8 motor. An accomplished tuner at the top of the Mercedes game. So what makes this funny? Well, how Andrew Cluck / MHP would put Weistec and their customers down behind their backs only to have to result to begging them for help once his other tuner told him essentially to kiss off after being sick of dealing with him just as basically anyone else who has dealt with him has: So Andy calls Weistec's work garbage, says they screwed over their customer (this same customer who claims MHP owes him something around a couple grand which has not been paid to this day), that they don't know what they are doing, and then ends up turning to Weistec to bail him out. Unbelievable really, isn't it? But hey, that's who Andrew Cluck is. It's right there, in his own words and actions. So why was Andy forced to work with a tuner he bashed behind the scenes? Because everyone else was sick of him. Literally, EVERYONE. People just had their fill of his BS and this is why he was banned from MBWorld, removed from here, and even forums that have nothing to do with Mercedes motors. Techtec is who Modern Horsepower used previously and they simply told him to get lost: When you go after just about everyone yelling and screaming on forums you eventually burn every last bridge. That is exactly what MHP managed to do. Makes you wonder how they even had business in the first place? Well, it's this use of "record" 1/4 mile runs that get people's attention. MHP specifically targets cold weather with the best possible negative density altitude to get record runs that don't apply to areas with warm weather. This is the selling point though and it worked for quite some time. Numbers make eyes light up and wallets open up. When MHP called out EVOMS to race, it ended up never happening even though EVOMS accepted due to MHP not wanting to deal with the Arizona weather which is a level playing field for two cars at the same time. MHP didn't go because the times would not match what was achieved on the East Coast: Ladies and gentlemen, this is being brought to your attention for several reasons. First of all, I wish to commend Weistec for helping out enthusiasts in need of tuning help. They could have easily just washed their hands of MHP and its customers hanging the "record holders" (one of whom was trying to get tuning for his aftermarket cams) out to dry. Instead, they helped him. That's just the way Weistec is, they will help you and do their absolute best no matter who you are. With it finally becoming public knowledge (Where are these M156 "record" holders to tell the truth about who really did the tuning? Where is their honor?) that Weistec did the tuning this matter can be publicly discussed. Also, credit can finally be given to the real record holders. Secondly, it is way overdue for the Mercedes-Benz and AMG tuning scene to move on from MHP. Andy has failed, been thrown out of basically every forum he tried to advertise on, and it's time to just move on. After meeting Andy in person last year I finally understood the mentality that caused so many issues for so many people. He even tried to take credit for my work on BenzBoost basically claiming his presence built it (claiming credit for the work of others seems to be a pattern). The man literally said he could throw me and anyone he wanted out of a window and then get them put in jail because "it's Ohio" and he knows the right people. This is not a mentally balanced person and yes this really happened. There is no reason to go to a middleman for a markup on tuning products that can be purchased directly. Exhaust products, tunes, whatever really. There is no reason to deal with MHP. Enough is enough (and believe me there is a TON more that can get posted but is it even necessary at this point?), good riddance Andy. Karma can be a you know what. Good thing you have plenty of diapers to dry those tears with. It's over.

PP performance won the third Place at the Abu Dhabi Super Street Championship DragRace with a Mercedes Benz ML63 stage 3 740hp 1100NM with a 1/4 mile time of 11.5 only being beat by two Jeep SRT8's making over 900hp. I'll try to post a video shortly Jimmy Pelka and Salah crowned third place:

Just a feeler Brand new 335is DCT Mineral white metallic paint/ Red leather 19" 313's Premium sound Nav/Apps/Assist Heated Seats Leather M3 Brakes front and rear M3 Shocks and springs Rear subframe 3.15 LSD from M3 DCT Driveshaft Axles Rear subframe and bushings All rear arms Front Thrust rods and control arms Sway bars Shocks and Springs. This is basically my dream car and IMHO the best of everything the E92 has to offer. MSRP on the car was 61k and have probably 20k worth of m3 parts on it plus labor.

well break ups suck especially when you did everything you can to make it work. nothing hurts more that knowing everything you can do to make yourself and someone else happy isn't enough. that's why I drink to forget. forget the pain. I haate the world. fuck my existence. probably isn't something this forum needs but I have nobody in my life to talk to. how do you combat depression drinking? its the worst addiction I have ever had. drinking to forget the pain. help

M6 does it again.

Just grabbed some exerts from the original thread that can be found here: http://www.gtrlife.com/forums/topic/85083-forged-performance-the-truth/ The Truth About Forged Performance This is going to be a long winded review, but my experience spans over a 22 month timeframe and I am still dealing with the repairs as I write this. I feel it is important to notate all of the details in order to properly warn my fellow GT-R owners. I would never want anyone to have to go through what I have experienced over the last couple of years. Here are the cliff notes for anyone who doesn’t want to read the entire detailed experience” • 22 month project • Over $250,000 spent at Forged Performance • Countless lies and broken promises • 300 whp below goal • Engine failure before delivery • Transmission failure shortly after delivery • 2nd Engine failure upon teardown • Hacked up turbo kit • Overcharged for the performed work • Horrible craftsmanship • Shoddy work • FP refused to compensate me for the troubles or refund me

can't confirm legitimacy of the video, but some food for thought