What up man Im in iraq too!!! Im in AR ramadi what about you???? Im gonna put a 2jz in mine when i get home. Tank mechanic huh... I drove the abrams once in Ft. Stewart in 03 on a deployment. 12 of us had to train on it so our battalion would have personnel that where qualified to drive it in the event that it had to be offloaded. I got lucky. Awesome machine. Anyway nice to know that im not the only one. Good luck!!! HuaH!!!!!