Well I got a bunch of stuff in for my car today and installed some of it. MAN what a difference!

Firstly I got my new adjustable Tokico struts and shocks, and my cut-down Ebay Eibachs installed. Suspension is way slammed! Still have yet to alter the strut towers for even more lowness.

Of course lest my "seat of the pants" driving style literally mean the seat of my pants was scraping the ground, I had to change the tire/wheel combo. So on went the 19" wheels and 235/35 tires! They rubbed a bit (well okay, a lot) so I rolled the fender lips outward a bit (well okay, a lot) using the good ole baseball bat. Cracked the paint some, but that's okay since I'm going to have the car repainted. Can't decide between Panther Pink or Sub-Lime.

This also works well for my interior... I replaced the spare tire with a single 18" subwoofer and the bin area is full of the mongo amplifier (from the flea market) that drives it. Now I have the BOOM to go with my new tape deck!

Didn't have enough time to install the rest of the stuff (undercar neons and the inSANE body kit) but man, what a day for all my stuff to come in!

 

Thats a score.....

 

sweet, lets see some pics!

 

Sounds like B.S. till i see some pics.

 

Wait..."tape" deck? Why not just throw in a 8-track player while you're at it!? (: JFWY

 

Come on guys..no one else pick this up as a april fools joke? Or maybe he has insanely bad judgement...

 

Bingo.

- Pete (Suspension travel and 13" wheels are WHERE IT'S AT!)

 

You edited your post after I responded...........

The first one said you gave two girls a ride home today after work.........now your working on the car......

Whats up with that........

 

haha... funny thing is i know a guy that has done all that with his 4 door honda accord... mwaha... 19" chrome rims none the less..

 

i was about to never use this forum again. that was pretty damn funny, you silly fooler you

 

April Fools

 

April Fools

 

you can say that again!


We strapped/chained/shrink-wrapped up one of our fellow mechanic friends' in our course (heavy duty mechanics) toolbox and hoisted it to the limit of the shop crane.... it was about 15 feet off the ground, then we locked out the crane power supply (need a key to turn back on), and then closed the door to the instructor's office (also locked)....

oh man, the look on his face....

 

hahaha

as I'm reading peejays post I'm like WTF? did peejay go insane? Is peejay a victim of identity theft? There is no way in h3ll he did any of this stuff. I mean come-on..... He's gonna get the car painted? ha ha ha ...now THAT's funny, afterall, we all know peejay's broke.

Good one peejay!

 

Woah Peej, you had me totally scared for a second!

I think the *baseball bat* was the giveaway for me... lol.. sub-lime... *chuckles to himself* ... I must admit though, the idea of a GIANT 18" sub where the spare goes is a funky one... God I'm gonna be laughing for days.

Jon

 

When he said his suspension was way slammed, I figured something was up. He likes stock ride height. Then I looked at the date of the first post in this thread.

 

damnit! thats twice in one day... I gotta be less trusting on april 1st...

 

Actually baseball bats are useful for flaring fenders out a bit more. You put the bat between the tire and the fender lip, apply a bit of downard pressure, and roll the car forwards.

And the tape deck was not part of the april fool's joke I hate CD players for cars, the CDs get scratched really quickly and they skip all the time unless you are driving something like a Buick with worn out shocks. Tapes are self contained (no scratching) and they don't skip. If I was to move away from tapes, it'd be towards minidiscs, but that is A) expensive, and B) they still skip, since they only read 4 seconds ahead.

What I wanna know is, how come there are no car MP3 players that use those simple USB memory stick thingies instead of a fragile, skip-happy CD? That would be the best of all worlds.

 

there are cd players that let you put the mp3's from your mp3 player play through the speakers.

 

So I'd have to buy not only a new CD player but an MP3 player as well?

I'll stick to tapes.

 

I'm going to run a car PC. The only thing that might skip is a hard disk (it's old so if it crashes, oh well). All I'd need to do is to find the wires in a keyboard for winamp's play controls and build a small wired remote and place it within easy reach. A monitor is not even needed (just a wire connecting VGA pins 10 and 11 I belive). This is similar to my garage PC where I only use keyboard buttons ZXCVB and a couple others for playing MP3s etc without ever needing to turn the monitor on, unless I'm adjusting the playlist, adding some songs etc.

 

Jeff, do what one of my friends did when he ran a PC in his car. Get a metric shitload of memory. (a metric shitload is ten SAE shitloads) I think he had nearly 512 megs, but that was a lot back then. Then make a big virtual disk and load your MP3s onto it at bootup. If you have more MP3s than virtual disks, you can make music packages to load, say with ZIP files that you unzip into the virtual disk. Kinda like having virtual albums. Then - and here's the important part - you power down the hard disk so it can't get damaged. (If you need to change the music, spin the HD back up and change the music in the virtual disk)

Hell I remember playing Doom II on a friend's computer, on 1 meg of memory when his hard drive crashed. He had 16 megs of memory, 15 of which was virtual disk. He'd boot up DOS 5.0 from floppy, set up the virtual disk, then install the game from floppies (or maybe he had a CD-ROM). Who needs a hard drive?

- Pete (And then there's time time his monitor died and he'd go BBS'ing using the PRINTER... just like the ole teletype days... I am not making any of this up!)

 

I put my stock 2-post AM/FM radio back in my '79, along with the stock long-throw shifter.... very cool, I want to restore my '79GS back to the way it was originally, except with a few changes under the hood (header, no emissions, aftermarket carb, etc)

 

The SA shifter has approximately the same throw as the FB shifter, since it's also longer below the pivot ball. It's just at a nicer angle and height than the FB lightswitch, err I mean shifter.

 

Wow, I wish I had paid more attention to making virtual disks in the past. That sounds like a very good idea. I guess I could set the HD to shut after 3 minutes (that's the lowest setting avaliable as far as I know).

Too bad the most RAM I have is 384MB in the comp I'm using right now. It was built in '00, and is the newest PC I have. All the rest are older and slower with less RAM. My garage PC is a P60 with 40MB RAM. It takes a few seconds longer to boot up and shut down, but has done quite well since I first set it up out there in '01. I'd like to upgrade to a P200 with 64MB or more RAM so I can also more easily take picture with Snappy and my little security camera.

I thinkI was only going to have around 64 to 128MB RAM in my car PC and just hope the hard disk won't crash for now. I'll definetly look into a newer motherboard that can hold more RAM. Hmm, I might have one I could use...