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[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I'm upset with my girlfriend right now. I've been with her for 4 years now, and she still doesn't understand my passion for cars. You can all read what I've bought for my car in my info. It isn't much. But for some reason she thinks I buy stuff for it all the time. I was telling her I was thinking about bidding on a header online for my car and she got really mad at me. She said, "you don't even need a header, why are you wasting your money?" I just had a birthday, and I felt I should be aloud to maybe buy myself something for a birthday/chirstmas present. I've talked to everyone else in my life, friends and grandpa and mother. They all say, "it's your money, and if that's what you want to spend it on it's okay." I told my girlfriend that all those people said that, but it didn't matter really, because it doesn't matter what anyone else said she is the most important person in my life I can't do something unless she says it's okay. I can't stand her being mad at me. I told her I felt like she's controllling sometimes because she gets mad at me if I don't do exactly what she wants. She got mad at me and told me to spend my money on whatever I wanted and stop caring about what she thought, and it was irritating what I was doing. It feels like no matter what I do, she's mad at me and I can't make her happy. I love her. How do I get her to understand me, and except me?

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I'm not surprised, once I was at a local performance shop ordering suspension parts and a guy came in and ordered 3g worth of turbo kit stuff for his festiva, nothing surprises me anymore.

sure, a list of mods would be cool

I had a balanced crank, new rods, bigger pistons, ported and polished head, everything not nessisary removed, some kind of chip, stage 2 clutch, lightened and balance flywheel, Isuzu Impulse rear disk brakes, pacesetter header, bosch platnum 4 plugs, front and rear strut bars, full 2 inch strate through exhaust with no muffler, custom short shifter, racing steering wheel, removed plastic and carpet some times. All weight that could have been taken off the car was. Some things I know more about than others. Work was done by NAPA, on crank and port job. It was chipped, or so the guy said, before I got it. He blew the motor, so we just put another 1.8 liter in it. My uncle did all the motor work then, I had no clue how to do that stuff back then. I forgot it had ebach pro lowering springs. I kept the stock 15inch wheels. Same size and the Celica's. It was 205/50/15 on the tire though. Shifted at 7500rpm, and pulled hard hear too. It felt like it had more, but it would bounce off the limiter. Had a CAI too. There's probably more I forgot. I'm not sure.

no power steering or a/c or radio or backseat how the hell did you cope???

I was as happy as a bug in a rud in that car. It was so fast and so light. Boy, it sucked in the winter though. It took me 25 min to get to school in the mornings, and the car had no defrost either. lol, that was pretty sucky about it.

EDIT: Girlfriend and I talked about it. Neither one of us is mad now. I'm not sure were we got to. I think her understanding is a little better now. We'll see. I'll bring this thread back up if it happens again.

This post has been edited by Bigmeanbulldog55: Nov 28, 2005 - 11:13 PM