hes probably going to resell them at his parents 5&10 store for more money of course. basically taking advantage of the people who don't have transportation to get to the major stores and are forced to do their holiday shopping around the corner from their house. Thats the Asian Gangsta Paradise

 

you know it. Hopefully simmons will drive his miata this week. Give Ben and I a chance for 4th.

Are you going ben?

you must have studied american politics in college.

 

Remind me never to do preventive maintenance on my truck! Its Wed. and my truck is still in the shop after I basically broke it doing a simple intercooler boot and clamp change. The truck is ten years old, oil was all over the boots, it is a common problem to have them start to crack and fail. What a pain in the *** this turned into. Ford has a strange intake design where it is shaped like an X with a large tube on back. The X get 4 boots and the big tube connects to the turbo, metal to metal flanges on each side, Ford use a v clamp to secure the to pieces together. Prior to tightening the clamp you have to seat the turbo and pipe perfectly or there will be a leak, quite a big one for that matter. After some research I come to find this is a common problem and the only way to do it right is to completely loosen the turbo, the up-pipes that go to the exhaust manifold and all clamps on x pipe, WTF. I tried to do this without loosening the manifold bolts because they were completely rusted. That was a bad move because now I caused a leak at the top of up-pipe that is only accessible if turbo is completely removed. There is a gasket that is pretty weak to begin with from Ford and usually eventually starts to leak on its own. So whatever, I ended up messing with exhaust manifold bolt on up-pipe to be able to make this connection at turbo and wouldn't you know I almost stripped the heads of 3 of 4 bolts then managed to snap one in half. Funny it is impossible to remove the bolt because it long and hits the pipe itself and the exhaust downpipe. It has to be cut out and when installing new bolt you would flip it and it would fit.

After all that I gave up and took it to my local bail out shop (been there many times over the years), I need a lift and proper tools to get it done. I know I could get it done, but not in my driveway. The truck is so high I have to use a friqqin ladder and the bumper to work on it.

So all I can say after all this is REALLY....

 

Simmonz is in my car this event, he did a bunch of stuff to my truck, I owe him.

 

not worth it since you will spend about 25-30 in gas and time.

 

mike, that sucks. it really sucks when the car you use as a tool needs money and love.

 

this is ridiculous.

 

after reading that I guess I shouldn't complain about the time I had to spend crawling under my sliverado replacing all those brake lines.

I'm so sick of working on cars now... Once I get this EVO done hopefully all I'll have to do for a while is drive. Wishful thinking I'm sure.

 

i texted josh yesterday saying "i hate cars. i'm giving them up."

that was after my wife informed me that a light was on in her bmw. i go to look at it and is logs how long the light has been on and it was 1800 miles and happened to be the "low oil pressure" light. her coolant was also extremely low. after random things in this car having just up and broke out of nowhere, i wasn't putting it past anything if the oil pump just started to go. i, of course, assumed the worst to mentally prepare for what could be the result. they did a compression test and scoped the motor and found no coolant leaks and they couldn't find out why the oil pressure light was on. they changed oil and air filter under warranty and washed it and gave it back yesterday. warranty's are good sometimes. i thought i was cooked though since it showed she ignored the light for nearly 2000 miles. women + cars = .

that may have been too much boring and noobish info so just skip it if you'd like.

 

so many amusing threads.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...look-like.html

 

chu where did u get this deal and how come you didn't tell me about it lol. i would have bought like 10

 

is this a good deal? i dunno

 

he ended up buying kdw2's. that thread was terrible.

 

Trying to answer all the questions in one response. 160gig PS3, new slim version. They retail for 300 each.

 

i have 9 vacation days left
what to do...