TurboDriver

Thats awesome guys. Most of the cars I've had ran fuel injection, so none of the really-cool musclecars or imported track toys. That Rousch sounds awesome. I had an '89 LX 5.0 for a few years. I bled chevy blue, but after two Camaros, I was sick of the 305 that had no power (And I refused to drive an Auto so the 350 was not available). I loved my mustang. Never had so many impromptu races. I ended up getting two more Camaros afterward, a 94 Z28 with an auto (Ended up giving it to my wife) and I had another 94 Z28 with a Corvette Grand-Sport cam in it, 4.10 gears, 6 speed, and a few other small mods. I never ran it, but the guy I bought it from ran it, his best was about a 13.2 @ 110 mph. It had a lousy 60' time, but the 7-5/8" rear housings are no where near as strong at the 8.8 the mustangs have. I sure am liking the new 2011 with the Coyote engine. Yeah I can't wait to loose some weight. I went through a lot to lighten my srt-4, can't weight to do the "driver" mod and drop quite a bit of weight on it.

First of all I'm a noob on here. Just found this sub forum on accident. It's awesome that this is here. Okay, well I haven't had the surgery yet. I've already had the consult, now I am waiting to get the upper GI, and the psych clearance. I have PPO insurance, so the only question the doc told me is whether or not I have to do the 3-month diet. I'm being proactive and doing it anyway figuring it's going to take a few months for the upper GI, and for the insurance company to figure out if they are going to approve it without the 3-month diet. Enough with the intro. So are their any car guys on here? I'm in my early thirties, but I've owned thirty cars so far. Nope, not rich, just get bored with them, sell 'em and get something different. My toy car is a stage-3 Dodge SRT-4. Haven't taken it to the track because I need a new clutch. I guess thats the problem with putting around 350 foot-pounds of torque into the stock clutch does I am making an informal agreement with myself. When I get to my goal weight, going to look into getting me a used Lotus Elise. My buddy has an Exige S, and it is phenomenal. Got to drive it for about 2 hours on a closed track (Streets of Willow) and :thumbup::drool: Best part about the deal, is that the car forces you to stay in a healthy weight. I actually had my wife snap pics of me struggling to get in and out of his car (I have a bad back as well). I figure when I get to the right weight, it will be easy enough for me to use as a daily driver. Ok well this was long enough...I'll pass the gas can...Who's next, what do you got under the hood? :car:

Thanks Cocoabean - You read my mind. I checked it out this morning, scanning for 65/35 and hit a good section about preferred vs. participating providers. Looks like for my plan, participating providers are covered at 65%. I've decided to switch to try being banded at cedar-sinai since they are a center of excellence, and I (presume) have surgeons that are preferred as well. I have registered for their first step (seminar/consult) on july 7th. Wish me luck! :thumbup:

I have Fep BCBS PPO Standard...Looks like some people on here have the same thing, but not sure if it's HMO or PPO. I'm based in CA so I think it is 'handled' by Anthem Blue Cross...But I could be wrong. I already went in for the initial weigh-in, seminar, and consultation and I got a call from the center today that my insurance does not exclude it, but they did say something about 65/35. Just curious, does that mean I have to pay for 35% of the total costs? Does that sound like what other people have heard? I have a BMI of 40.0, but I think they miswrote it at 41.3. Either case, they told me that I need to get 5 years ( :biggrin: ) of medical records from my PCP (to document my weights). Then I need to get an upper endoscopy, and sleep study. Then they can put it together as a "package" and get an estimate for my out of pocket costs. Does this sound familiar either? It sounds like what I'm going through is more complicated than what others have. I don't have a problem getting the info (Been a BMI of 30+ for probably the last 20 years) but just curious... Sorry for another question......Are there other fees that sneak up on you? In other words, 65/35....if that means I pay 35%...Then is that just the deductible and there are other fees on top of that, or is that probably it? Reason why....When I spoke with the insurance person they briefly said that cash patients pay $16k and insurance gets a higher rate ($20k)....Keep in mind this is CA so costs are high here....Anyways...35%(20k) ~ $7000. I see lots of ads on this webpage for quite a bit less than that -cash- so I'm trying to do the math in my head. What I'm afraid of is that they have a good idea of what it's going to cost me, but they want me to invest more time in the program (e.g. getting the 5 years records, endoscopy and sleep study) so that I don't "price" other surgeons (And not waste time going through their process) Thanks for any advice and input. Sorry this is so long.

Just wanted to drop in and say hi to everyone. I just joined today. I have just started the process. I have federal employee BCBS PPO (Standard). Just curious if anyone else has went through the process with it. I am planning to have Dr. James Nazarian M.D. do the surgery in Beverly Hills. Yesterday I went to the seminar and he was very nice, yet very much a Dr. (Which is what I like) opposed to a "presenter" as I've seen when I went to 1-800-get-thin. I am a very methodical person, and I've studied various forms of surgery for the past 5 years or so. Being so close to Mexico, I've been extremely tempted to go there. I've trolled many forums for quite a while, read "Lap band for Life" and watched so many surgeries on you-tube, I could probably perform them myself :smile2: I travel quite often, so I will confess I am slightly concerned about running into a bad situation where I would need to uncompress the band, yet find myself in an area where my only choice of care is a hospital. The Dr. yesterday told me that it is very simple and most hospitals should be able to figure it out, even if they don't deal with the lap band there....Just curious on opinions on that... Not sure how much of my profile shows up, but I'm a BMI of 40.0. My problem has never been getting the weight off, but I just can't seem to keep it off. Off topic, but I am a very big car guy, so feel free to chat about that as well! Well enough with the intro...Happy Father's day to everyone out there and I look forward to any advise and thoughts you may have.