Hey guys, I just implemented a subscription feature for cars, setups and home page posts. First, the car subscription:

If you're a member of gtvault.com you can now get e-mail notification when a new setup for a given car is posted to the site. Go to the Preferences page and select the car(s) you want to get notification on. You can subscribe to as many cars as you wish.

Second and third are setup and home page post subscription. This feature is very similar to the auto e-mail subscription features of many forums on the web. Whenever you post a comment on another's setup or on a home page post you will be automatically subscribed to that setup/post. You will receive an e-mail when a user posts the next comment. The e-mail will have a direct link to the setup/post and also an unsubscription link. The auto subscription feature can be turned on/off via the Preferences page. I have defaulted everyone's status to "on".

I'm still updating the FAQ, but I wanted to get this one out there since I spent the past week solid on it.

Kerr

Well folks, today we hit the 1000 member mark. Thanks to all who have contributed to gtvault.com. This site would be nothing without the active particiaption of the GT tuning community. I'm working on some site enhancements, although with the nice weather it's coming along rather slowly. Keep the setups comin!

Oh yeah, I was toying around with redesigning the site, or at least maybe the color scheme. What do you guys think?

Feel free to try out some of AlphaOmegaSid's setups. He's only been here a week and has already posted 86 setups. Let him know what you think by leaving a comment.

Kerr

Don't get me wrong, this isn't a e/n site, but I have to vent. I live downtown in the city and went out to the suburbs for a party last night. While I was out there some jackasses in a riced out Civic drove by, threw a beer bottle at my car and shattered the back window. I found the bottle intact, so I called the police who took over an hour to drive from the doughnut shop down the street. I described what I saw (make, model, color, appx. year but didn't see the plate) so they wrote up a worthless report and pretty much told me I was screwed. My tax dollars hard at work.

Nothing happens to my property downtown, but the minute I venture out to the burbs I'm out $800. I can't think of anything the world needs more than a bunch of drunk, spoiled burb bitches cruising around defacing other people's hard earned property. I hope they had fun, because if I ever see that car again retribution will surely be paid.

Feel free to share your thoughts and/or vandalism stories. I'd especially like to hear any story involving revenge on the perpetrators!

Kerr

What's up guys,

Godson9888 sent me a SharkPort save file which has a Corvette C5-R he worked on. I haven't messed with it yet, but he said it has 9000HP! I bet even SS tires wear out quickly with this thing. If you're interested, grab the file from the SharkPort Saves link on the left. Feel free to post your thoughts...

Kerr

Hey folks, I had 4 guys over to my place last Saturday for some I-Link Battle racing. It was the first time I'd I-Linked, and I have to say it was the most challenging and fun racing I've seen yet. You have to get used to the physics in Arcade mode (I play Sim mode all the time) but once you get past that it's a blast.

I meant to take some pics of the 5 PS2's we had set up and running but I totally forgot. Maybe next time. Anyway, if you haven't I-Linked yet - DO IT NOW!

Kerr

Hey folks, I received updated SharkPort saves from Skidmark awhile back and have finally gotten around to posting the new zip file. You can find it at the SharkPort Saves link in the left margin.

On another note, I was messing around with the Tommy Kaira ZZII last night - man that is a hell of a car. Try it out fully tuned and with RSKeisuke's great setup.

Hey, if anyone has a good setup for the Jaguar XJ220 Race Car feel free to post it on the site.

Kerr

Hey guys, just got back from a road trip from KC to Denver & back. I got a new car awhile back and this was the first chance I've had to really see what it was capable of. We made it to Denver pretty quick, 600 miles in 6 1/2 hours. We had a strong headwind, but we managed two 5 mile runs at 130mph. I expect I could've gotten 140-145mph out of the car without the headwind. Not bad for a four door!

Here are a couple of pics:

My Car
Denver Sunrise
Garden of the Gods

If any of you ever plan to haul ass across Kansas, make sure you take a radar detector. Hi-po is everywhere out there!

This is for you tuners who have played GT1 and GT2 extensively. I remember each game had one car that just kicked the crap out of every other car, then in the next game in the series that same car pretty much sucked. So, badass car in GT1 = crappy car in GT2 and the same went for a second car in GT2 then GT3.

Anyone remember the two cars I'm talking about? A free pat on the back goes to whoever gets it right first. I'm outta here til Tuesday, see ya then.

Kerr

I finally got a SharkPort the other day and I've been tinkering with this Hybrid editor which allows you to take parts from one car and put them on another. It's pretty fun seeing what you can do with it. After some tweaking I managed to get an F090/S up to 3524 HP! I hit a true 380mph on the test track and got the sucker to run 45's on Midfield. The only drawback is that your tires wear out VERY quickly.

Has anyone else delved into hybrid editing yet?

UPDATE: I obtained the hybrid editor from This site