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Matt C

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About Me

I’m an English man living in America. I moved to the US in 2001. I spend most of my time working on admiring driving or talking about European cars especially VWs. I drive a 2003 VW 1.8T GTi (See the pictures below It’s a working progress).

Current Modifications

APR Remapped ECU, ACT Flywheel & Clutch, Turbo XS DV, ESE Cold Air Intake, Tein Basic Street Coilovers, OZ Super Tourismo GT 18"8 Wheels, PZero Nero M&S Tires, ECS Dog Bone Engine Mount, OEM Short Shift From a TT, ECS Drilled and Slotted Front and Rear Brake Rotors, Performance Brake Pads, Front Upper Lower and Rear Stress Bars, Front and Rear Sway Bars, Halo Lights, Smoked Side Markers, Window Tint, OEM Badges Removed, Momo Carbon Fiber Gear Knob, Pioneer Amp and 4 Way Speakers, Rockford Punch 10" Sub, JVC 2xDin DVD Player

Future Modifications

Euro Plate, Colour Matched Badgeless Grill, Colour Matched Ground Effects, APR Full Turbo Back Exhaust, K04 Turbo, Front Mount Intercooler, Engine Internals, and all the other stuff I can't afford

My Interests

Interests

Cars, Music, Beer, Girls, Hanging out with friends and family, FootBall (Soccer), PC Games, Films, etc.


I'd like to meet:

Cool People

Music:

Music

Trance, Hard House, Punk Rock, Ska, any thing really

Basically I’ll listen to anything EXCEPT Rap and country!

Cool Ska Bands:

StreetLight Manifesto, Catch 22, The Mad caddies, Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Suburban Legends, Madness, The Mighty Mighty Boss Tones

Movies:

Films

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Layer Cake, Formula 51, Boon Dock Saints, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, The Matrix, Under World, Blade

Television:

Telly

Red Dwarf, The Fast Show, Spaced, Black Adder, The Simpson's, The Family Guy, CSI, Myth Busters, Scrap Heap Challenge, Monty Python, Farscape, Bottom, The Young Ones, Goodness Gracious me

Books:

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 98 million miles is an untterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended live forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." Douglas Adams

Heroes:

Heroes..

My Blog

Not being seen

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Posted by Matt C on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:32:00 PST

Dead Parrot

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Posted by Matt C on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:30:00 PST

Very, very, Drunk!

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Posted by Matt C on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:01:00 PST

Layer Cake

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Posted by Matt C on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:41:00 PST

Im tired of explaining my job to people

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), is one of several methods of thin-film deposition. In solid-source MBE, ultra-pure elements such as gallium and arsenic are heated in separate quasi-knudsen effusion cell...
Posted by Matt C on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:29:00 PST