“If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.” Hello there! My name is Steve and I am currently attending the University of Pittsburgh. I was raised in the burbs' of Philadelphia, PA. If I was asked what my love in life is (other than girls), I would answer "cars." Now, what does that mean exactly? Well its simple, I am addicted to knowing how they work, why they work, how to fix them, improve them, and most of all, I'm addicted to the thrill of speed and acceleration. I dont know when this addiction started, but it was at a young age. I used to have all the hot wheels and toy cars. When I got into my teenage years, I got in to remote controlled cars. I started with simple electric ones, and graduated to the nitro methane burning 1/8th scale trucks and cars. After about 3 years of that, I could talk for hours about how to rebuild the gas engines, how to tune them, how to keep them running good. Then on my 16th birthday, I got my car, a 1993 Mazda Miata. It was stick shift of course; I will never own an automatic car, as it takes some of the fun out of driving (although the new dual clutch automatics are very cool and quick shifting, I would consider buying a car with that transmission, my dad has a 06 GTI with one). Now thanks to my addiction to speed, the stock 98.8 horsepower wasn't adequate. The car is one of the best handling cars for so cheap (2300 lbs, full independent suspension, quick steering with good feel), it just needed more power. I started building the turbocharger kit for the car. The Garrett T3 turbo is from a Mercedes 300D, I welded the exhaust myself, I got the oil lines, intercooler, charge piping, etc. etc. until I had everything. I then ordered a megasquirt (it is a standalone computer to control the engines fuel and spark delivery, among everything else you can think of). I soldered the board together, and ended up with the fully functioning computer. Finally, to sum this up, after about a year I had the car running 14 psi of boost with around 220 horsepower and running low 13's in the quarter mile. If I had drag radials I would easily be in the 12's. Everything was done by me, with some help by friends, which is something I am proud of. The car is very quick now, a ton of fun to drive. I am at the limit of what the stock engine pistons and rods can take, so that is it for now with power. My plans for the future are to improve the cooling system, get a coil over suspension kit along with poly bushings all around, some nice 8 inch wide 6UL rims with 225 tires, and swap a 1.8L Miata's braking system. Word.