Looks like these boys need more 12As in their meet. Get the OGTA over there to represent.

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Yep yep, that's the new car.

 

Guess who's making her grand apperance at the next OGTA meet? And what ever happened to that lake house meet or something at the beginning of August? We still doing that?

Ray- You think I could come up Saturday get some expert advice on the new car?

The poster deal doesn't matter, it's just fun. Did you remember to get it Holly?

Off to the new job!

 

Looking forward to seeing the new car on Saturday Brett, come on down!

 

uh, i don't know exactly what you're trying to say here because i'm not very good at ghetto girl lingo, but if you're saying you wanna fight my girlfriend... i would advise against it. she would kick your ***. lol

 

When I go to Miata club meets, there is one meet a year (planning meet) and we have this trophy called "Iron Butt", basically it goes to the person who drove the furthest. He totally won that.

 

Yeah, Sam coming all that way to ZF is great. Sam, if you're reading this, I hope you can make it down next year.


Tim, this is only a couple of miles from my house and Jeffery's (the OGTA meet location). I am going to try to get over there and "represent".

 

We're gonna have an iron butt trophy at Crit's Lake House Event (if it ever gets organized). You Carolina boys can fight it out with Kent and Chad for that one.

The thing about Sam was he came all the way from Canada (which is a foreign country) and he was heading down to Florida (which is practically another foreign country).

In an FB.

Definitely iron butt trophy material, that Sam.

 

It's officially time to plan the lakehouse meet. I remember that we found a weekend just before the schools start back up, but I don't remember when.

 

Aug. 8/9 was the weekend that most people were thinking of. The weekend after may work too, but some were worried about getting ready for school and stuff.

 

AHHHH lakhouse event! I'll be able to make it cause I'll be done with work next week.

And Collin are those just crazy lowering springs or were the springs cut? If they are springs are you going to be parting ways with them anytime? I would like a new set of springs.

 

Similar things that have happened on August 9 back in history. Sounds like a good day to me, the forecast is cool and dry, sunshine with some cumulus clouds and an eclipse right when we approach the dam in Crit's party boat:

Events

* 48 BC – Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.
* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey. Valens is killed along with over half of his army.
* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube, after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
* 1048 – Pope Damasus II dies in Rome, after reigning for only 23 days.
* 1173 – Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete.
* 1329 – Quilon the first Indian Diocese is erected by Pope John XXII and Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop
* 1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel
* 1666 – Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
* 1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire.
* 1842 – Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain – At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
* 1877 – Indian Wars: Battle of Big Hole – A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army.
* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1902 – Edward VII is crowned king of the United Kingdom.
* 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in Southern England.
* 1925 – Kakori train robbery took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, India
* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
* 1942 – Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island – Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
* 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, "Fat Man", is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 70,000 people are killed instantly.
* 1965 – Singapore seceded from Malaysia and gained independence.
* 1965 – A fire at a Titan missile base near Searcy, Arkansas kills 53 construction workers.
* 1969 – Members of a cult led by Charles Manson brutally murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring, and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, California.
* 1971 – Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison. Twenty people die in the riots that follow.
* 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
* 1977 – The military-controlled Government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.
* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
* 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
* 1999 – The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and Kimi Ga Yo as the official national flag and national anthem.
* 2001 – US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
* 2007 – Emergence of the Financial crisis of 2007-2008 when a liquidity crisis resulted from the Subprime mortgage crisis

Births

* 232 – Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
* 1201 – Arnold Fitz Thedmar, English chronicler (d. 1274)
* 1593 – Izaak Walton, English angler (d. 1683)
* 1631 – John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
* 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
* 1653 – John Oldham, English poet (d. 1683)
* 1669 – Tsarina Eudoxia Lopukhina of Russia (d. 1731)
* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (d. 1766)
* 1722 – Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (d. 1758)
* 1726 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (d. 1778)
* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
* 1776 – Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist (d. 1856)
* 1783 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1801)
* 1797 – Charles Robert Malden, British naval officer (d. 1855)
* 1805 – Joseph Locke, English railway and civil engineer (d. 1860)
* 1809 – William Barret Travis, American Lieutenant Colonel in the Battle of the Alamo (d. 1836)
* 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian religious figure (d. 1937)
* 1847 – Queen Maria Victoria al Pozzo della Cisterna of Spain (d. 1876)
* 1871 – Leonid Andreyev, Russian writer (d. 1919)
* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
* 1874 – Reynaldo Hahn, Venezuelan composer and conductor (d. 1947)
* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer and researcher into anomalous phenomena (d. 1932)
* 1875 – Albert Ketèlbey, English conductor, composer, and pianist (d. 1959)
* 1896 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (d. 1980)
* 1896 – Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980)
* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author (d. 1996)
* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor (d. 1990)
* 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist (d. 1991)
* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944)
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1996)
* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (d. 2001)
* 1914 – Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001)
* 1914 – Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
* 1914 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (d. 1990)
* 1919 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1987)
* 1919 – Ralph Houk, American baseball player and manager
* 1920 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist and writer
* 1921 – J. James Exon, American politician (d. 2005)
* 1921 – Ernest Angley, American televangelist
* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, creator of Huffman coding (d. 1999)
* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author
* 1927 – Robert Shaw, English actor (d. 1978)
* 1928 – Bob Cousy, American basketball player
* 1930 – Jacques Parizeau, Quebec economist and politician
* 1931 – Mário Zagallo, Brazilian football coach and player
* 1931 – Chuck Essegian, American baseball player
* 1932 – John Gomery, Canadian jurist
* 1933 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
* 1935 – Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (d. 2008)
* 1936 – Julián Javier, American baseball player
* 1936 – Patrick Tse Yin, Hong Kong film director
* 1938 – Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
* 1938 – Rod Laver, Australian tennis player
* 1938 – Otto Rehhagel, German football manager
* 1939 – Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
* 1939 – Brito, Brazilian footballer
* 1941 – Way Bandy, American make-up artist (d. 1986)
* 1942 – Tommie Agee, American baseball player (d. 2001)
* 1942 – David Steinberg, Canadian comedian
* 1943 – Ken Norton, American boxer
* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor
* 1945 – Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
* 1946 – Jim Kiick, American football player
* 1947 – Barbara Mason, American soul singer
* 1947 – Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (d. 2000)
* 1947 – Roy Hodgson, English football mananger
* 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player
* 1949 – Jonathan Kellerman, American writer
* 1952 – Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Thai politician
* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach
* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician
* 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American sportswriter
* 1957 – Melanie Griffith, American actress
* 1958 – Amanda Bearse, American actress
* 1959 – Kurtis Blow, American rapper
* 1959 – Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
* 1961 – Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
* 1961 – John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand
* 1961 – Amy Stiller, American actress
* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player
* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player
* 1963 – Whitney Houston, American diva and actress
* 1964 – Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
* 1964 – Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor
* 1966 – Vinny Del Negro, American basketball player and head coach
* 1967 – Deion Sanders, American football player
* 1968 – Gillian Anderson, American actress
* 1968 – Eric Bana, Australian actor
* 1968 – Karyn Parsons, American actress
* 1968 – Sam Fogarino, American musician (Interpol)
* 1968 – Joseph McGinty Nichol, American film producer and director
* 1969 – Divine Brown, American convicted felon
* 1969 – Troy Percival, baseball player
* 1970 – Rod Brind'Amour, hockey player
* 1970 – Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
* 1970 – Thomas Lennon, American actor
* 1970 – Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
* 1971 – Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
* 1971 – Mack 10, American rapper
* 1971 – James Kim, American technology reporter (d. 2006)
* 1972 – Juanes, Colombian singer
* 1972 – A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
* 1973 – Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
* 1973 – Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
* 1974 – Mahesh Babu, Indian film actor
* 1974 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
* 1974 – Matt Morris, American baseball player
* 1974 – Kirill Reznik, American politician
* 1974 – Nicola Stapleton, English actress
* 1975 – Mike Lamb, American baseball player
* 1975 – Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
* 1976 – Jessica Capshaw, American actress
* 1976 – Rhona Mitra, English actress
* 1976 – Aled Jones, Welsh radio producer of The Chris Moyles Show
* 1977 – Jason Frasor, American baseball player
* 1977 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
* 1977 – Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
* 1977 – Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
* 1978 – Audrey Tautou, French actress
* 1980 – Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
* 1980 – Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
* 1981 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
* 1982 – Tyson Gay, American sprinter
* 1982 – Danieal Manning, American football player
* 1983 – Ashley Johnson, American actress
* 1983 – Shane O'Brien, Canadian hockey player
* 1984 – Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer
* 1984 – Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
* 1985 – Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
* 1985 – Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
* 1985 – JaMarcus Russell, American football player
* 1986 – Vanessa Morley, American actress
* 1989 – Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
* 1990 – Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
* 1991 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress
* 1994 – Forrest Landis, American child actor

Deaths

* 117 – Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
* 378 – Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
* 803 – Byzantine Empress Irene (b. 752)
* 1048 – Pope Damasus II
* 1107 – Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
* 1173 – Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
* 1250 – King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
* 1534 – Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
* 1601 – Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
* 1634 – William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
* 1720 – Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
* 1744 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
* 1816 – Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
* 1837 – Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
* 1886 – Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
* 1919 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
* 1942 – Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
* 1945 – Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
* 1945 – Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
* 1946 – Bert Vogler, Former South African cricketer (b. 1876)
* 1949 – Edward Thorndike, American psychologist (b. 1874)
* 1957 – Carl Clauberg, **** doctor (b. 1898)
* 1962 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
* 1967 – Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
* 1969 – Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
* 1969 – Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 – Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
* 1969 – Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
* 1969 – Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
* 1969 – Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
* 1974 – Bill Chase, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1934)
* 1975 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
* 1979 – Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
* 1979 – Raymond Washington, founder of Los Angeles, California gang, the Crips
* 1980 – Jacqueline Cochran, American aviatrix (b. 1906)
* 1985 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1927)
* 1988 – Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
* 1988 – Ramón Valdés, Mexican actor, played the character Don Ramón, in the TV Series El Chavo
* 1990 – Joe Mercer, English footballer (b. 1914)
* 1992 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Singer (b. 1938)
* 1995 – Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
* 1996 – Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
* 1999 – Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
* 2000 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
* 2000 – Nicholas Markowitz-kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (b. 1984)
* 2002 – Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
* 2002 – Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
* 2003 – Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
* 2003 – Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
* 2003 – Jacques Deray, French film director (b. 1929)
* 2003 – Chester Ludgin, American baritone (b. 1925)
* 2004 – Robert Lecourt, French politician and president of the European Court of Justice (b. 1908)
* 2004 – Tony Mottola, American guitarist (b. 1918)
* 2004 – David Raksin, American film director (b. 1912)
* 2005 – Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
* 2005 – Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
* 2006 – James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
* 2006 – Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
* 2007 – Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (b. 1922)
* 2008 – Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957)
* 2008 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose.(b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

* Singapore: National Day
* National Women's Day in South Africa
* International Day of the World's Indigenous People
* Feast day of the great martyr Saint Panteleimon in Russian Orthodox Church
* National Peacekeepers' Day in Canada

Roman Catholicism

* Saint Firmus and Saint Rusticus
* Saint Jean Vianney
* Saint Nathy (David), bishop of Achonry
* Saint Romanus, martyr [common] (Romanus Ostiarius, died 258)
* Saint Secundianus and companions, martyrs [Meaux]

External links
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Felix Heinrich Wankel (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and the inventor of the Wankel engine.

This settles it. If you transpose the month that Felix Wankel was born with the day that he died, you get August 9.

This has to be an omen.

 

Wow.

 

now now Ray, thats where im from. But your right no one that lives down there is from there

 

man, now that some deep crap that my boy Blue would have come up with.
Man Ray, your slacking!

 

sweet car brett. it's running well and everything now?

 

Hey Ray, I will be heading down to Atlanta this weekend. If you know anyone looking for a cheap good silver GSL with alot of Racing beat products tell them to hit me up. I know you have a few friends that want a FB.

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I may as well just take your word for it, because I'm sure you speak from first-hand experience. My bad...



Brett, you're TOTALLY not helping our master plan to over-run the OGTA with FCs!

Colin, they're cut springs, sadly. I'm going to be throwing on the set of stockers I've got lying in the garage here soon...I just can't take the ride anymore!

 

PS Ray, when can I bring back the timing light? I'm starting to feel like it's a newborn kitten you dumped on me lol

 

It's pretty sweet, for an FB The tires chirp from 1st - 2nd and from 2nd - 3rd, something a stock n/a FC with over 200K miles could never do. (But it's slower than Christmas, unlike the FC )There's this hesitation issue, too, but hopefully Ray and I can figure it out this weekend.

And this meet here should be pretty cool. I was at the first one, if you couldn't tell by the pics He's saying he's trying to get an autocross set up behind the shop for everyone in a big parking lot. I'm definitely going, so ya'll should TOO!

 

You should Saturday when I'm over there so you can see my new girl running

 

You can 'chirp' the tires in anything if you're brutal enough with your gearchanges. Whether or not you're chirping the tires from massive power or drivetrain shock is a totally different game.

I can't seem to get your link to load, Brett. Broken?

 

Whoops, two http's. Delete one and see if that doesn't fix it. With the chirpy tires deal, my FC would never do it until I got the exhaust, and rarely at that. It's just another little thing I like about the FB You should seriously come see it though, this weekend when I'm at Rays. You and Wanda

 

I share my birthday with Felix Wankel..... I feel special haha

Collin that sucks that they're cut but then again I've never seen a legitimate set of aftermarket springs lower an FC that much