This must have been right before the point that you conked out and went to sleep. Your 3 or 4 posts in a row were entertaining, especially by the timestamp. When you planning on getting all the new toys? I want to help!

 

I'm planning on having the transmission rebuilt sometime this month. The driveshaft is probably going to be either this month or January. The reman engine is semi-wishful thinking semi-I'm-gonna-get-the-damn-thing. I wouldn't want to have all the major stuff fixed, but have it all attached to a weak engine. Blowing up my engine on the Dragon would make me cry.

 

Honestly I would be more comfortable around midnight than at 7 pm. Dusk and just after dusk are the worst times for deer. that is when they are most active. At 12 they are pretty much asleep.


BC

 

Deer can't stop nailbats, but they can stop cars.

 

That was a pointless post.

 

And yet another...I'm done.

 

Someone's post-whoring, HAHAHA. Phil, you must be off your rocker these days, get some sleep buddy, lol.

 

Muah ha ha ha ha...Guess what?! I hunted down a beautiful white ~'90ish 7 today. I saw the car parked at Best Buy while I was buying a stylus for my computer (which is awesome, though I'm still getting used to it.) Anyway, as I'm coming back I notice the 7 is gone and so I figure I wouldn't get the chance to chat. Well, as I'm pulling out, I see it. After some quick lane changes and stalking, I pull up next to them at Circuit City. Saw this young guy and his father in the car. The car belongs to the "kid" and so I just tell him about this thread and our meetings. I let him know about our drive this Saturday and hopefully he'll show up. Another thing, I know I shouldn't have done this, but do you guys remember the Porsche guy that showed up at one of the meets? Anyway, I was talking about the drive and he seemed really interested in it since we've been trying to decipher the Bert Map. Now that we are doing the drive, I knew he'd like to come along. Of course he'll stay in the back since this is OUR thing.

 

Seriously if it was someone with something like a Mustang or another car that didn't look anything like ours, I'd say hell no.

 

Also, Bert, when you got your engine rebuilt did you go the reman route? I'm researching and trying to figure out what REALLY constitutes a "reman" engine vs. a rebuild. I'd like to get more than a year out of my "new" engine...

 

okay, not that it is even exciting anymore, but the car should be making her debut this weekend. going to the exhaust and alignment this week. other than that she is done, more or less, we'll just say she runs without problems.

i changed jobs, so now i have all my weekends again. i should be able to actually make some meets. that is if i am allowed. lol

 

Not cool. I don't want to have my *** handed to me on the drive. Wait, Eric and everyone else could do that.

 

Phil, Burt and I both took our cars to RotorSports Racing. They have 4 different levels of "rebuilding" along with other options he does along with tuning and such. He's not cheap and some people would say he's expensive. We've both been running a few years on the rebuilds and you've seen how we drive our cars.

 

Finally Josh, DAMN! Haha. Well, I have some so-so news. I may not be able to make the Holiday Laps Friday, for one because I'm not sure if I can get off work (I can if I can get all my work done for the exercise next week), and two because we're having our Christmas dinner Friday night. So, if I can get all my work done, go to VIR and get back for Christmas dinner, it's a go. About what time is the earliest person planning on heading back, has anyone decided yet? We were going to have the dinner on Saturday but I expressed concern that I wasn't going to be able to make the dinner because of the drive, but I made the same comment about Friday too though, haha. We'll see. My car got a little squirrelly yesterday in the rain when my second turbo kicked in, I was so happy, haha. It feels like it has so much kick now, I'm ecstatic. Can't wait for Friday and/or Saturday.

Also, we lost another person this weekend. That's two in 3 months time, the young Airman that died in the crash on Sept 1st and the TSgt this weekend that died from a number of things. She was sick in the hospital for a long time. She's had Jaundice for years, she was always going to Bragg for blood transfusions, and she went to the hospital months ago for a bone marrow transplant and got chemo treatment afterward, which killed her immune system and when she got an infection in one of her lungs she was unable to fight it, so she passed away this Sat. afternoon. It's starting to feel like Final Destination around here, I'm just wondering who's next.

 

It will be once we get rolling and pick up some 15 year old chicks in it dude!

Ummm... you're not thinking about going to VIR Friday are you? Not that I don't want to see your car running up there I just don't want to see it go...BOOM! Don't you need to break in that piston engine thingy for a few hundred miles before being tempted to push it? For sure bring it out Saturday night, can't wait to see and hear the old girl along with whoever you are...

Yeah , just have to park at the end of the line...

 

That sounds great. Do you think you could PM me how much it cost and what was done if it isn't too great in detail. I don't want to inconvenience you.

 

I'll follow your semi-tasteless joke with another. You do own an FD so I'd be careful if I were you. Muah ha ha...ok...tastelessness is done.

 

Ok, you guys have been given long enough to think of cheap mufflers for me. Could I get away with anything from say Midas or Meineke (spelling?) or do I need something specific to make my car sound less like a hive of bumblebees in my ear. I know we have lawnmowers, but damn, mine are a little TOO loud.

 

Happy birthday ERIC! because its your birthday I won't even comment on you excuses.
Hope to see you soon have a good one


Johny

 

Ha ha! It's your birthday?!?! Loser! You'd better be going to VIR. I need a car that I can scream inside while zooming around the track. I think my apex seals are scared of the track.

 

I'm in the same boat, I have a Christmas dinner that night at 7:30, so I'll probably be leaving VIR at around 4:00-4:30.

Do you work in an Air Force hospital? I have a good friend that's in the Air Force and works as a RT in their hospitals.

 

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/816043/7

Parts/labor/tuning was around 5 grand if I recall, was 6 years ago... worth every penny.

 

(lisp) You can always ride with me Phil!

 

Also, Happy Birthday Eric!!! Hey, just think...now that you're gettin' older, you'll have just one more thing in common with Bert and Greg and Johny and Wilford Brimley! LOL!!!

 

Also, Happy Birthday Eric!!! Hey, just think...now that you're gettin' older, you'll have just one more thing in common with Bert and Greg and Johny and Wilford Brimley! LOL!!!