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Well that was perhaps the lamest drag races I've ever seen. 1/16 of a mile. Stupid and completely boring. I figured it would be 1/8 which is still kinda dull if you ask me. The day's highlight was figuring the mustang's gas mileage on the way home. It's the first time I've done a long stretch of freeway miles. We took a round about course so i could see some land my cousin bought near Bullhead City. It was 90% freeway, a few stoplights, and 12ish miles of dirt road to his land and back to the freeway. 117miles by the odometer, 109 by mapquest or whatever my cousin used to double check the return trip distance. (I'm using the last available speedo gear for the aod trans and low rear end gears before the actual speedo would need recalibrated. I kept it between 75 and 80 on the freeway. 80mph is exactly 2500rpm. 4.79gallons, at 117 miles that's 24.42mpg, at 109 miles it's 22.75mpg. And that's with a mechanical secondary 650 carb I threw on in place of the 570 vacume unit I had been using regularly. (but I was being mindful to keep the secondaries from opening aside from once or twice passing) I'm pretty impressed. I forget what the mileage was the last time I checked with an even mix of freeway and city driving + plenty of nonsense with the right foot, but it was somewhere between 15 and 17mpg. This ain't bad for a car that should get into the high twelves when I get the traction sorted out.

"I say go for it." - Mickey Knox

gloves... don't leave home without them

btw, ... the pic I see, only shows your fingertips...

hah, the Obama picture is pretty funny.

I hope you get fixed.

Did you go?
I had to work last night, but I got off at midnight, ... if I had seen this earlier, and I had a better way way off getting in touch with you, I would have gone out, as I had to "burn the midnight oil", ... so I can sleep all day today, for an all-nighter tonight.

Steelers/Browns games are always fun to watch. It's good to have rivals. Those three seasons the Browns didn't exist really sucked.

No, they didn't put stockula on ignore by default. You clicked on this link in the Alaska thread. If you look at the link location, you can see what it is.

Yeah, they are. I lived in Las Vegas from about 2000 until 2005. I had a class with the bassist at UNLV.

Oh suck.

I wish you would have noticed me about the Strip....

It only shows up the once.

I've been close to feeling like you are with work before. I am assuming you work for yourself and have guys working for you doing the grunt work while you keep the business end of it working and deal with the customers? I was in that spot, well I worked for somebody else but you get the picture, up until the upheaval at work and I was getting stir crazy and did not even realize it until everything was turned on it's ear and now I am back to turning wrenches most of the day. Surprisingly enough it really livened up my attitude, I feel much better about work now and much happier in general; the the point that when we get up and runnign agian I think I am going to hire a person to do my parts ordering, invoicing and office work before I bring on my first extra mechanic so I get to STAY in the field; it's a much more fulfilling job for me, I'm a little like you seem to to be in that I like to see a product at the end of the day and know I did something.

Both custom and production work are hard to get started in, you have to build a name first. I tried to do it once, and may do it again, but it was rough going and I ended up not being able to make the grade, I did learn a ton though.

Take the welding class, sell the business, take the road trip, move to Colorado, get the hippy girlfriend and buy into Maniacles' motorcycle building business... or compete with him!

You're my hero, E.

lol, no i'm accually in so cal. yeah i've tried several different tires. the best traction i've had are from remington's. no joke. i spent a ton of money on goodyear eagle's and burnt'em up in 3 month's. the remingtons were a third of the price. it was a daily driver also, the only reason i stopped is i drive two hours a day for work and needed something reliable. i accually built it for drag and track. i installed gt suspension as well as front and rear sway bar's. that's why the front sit's a little high. the gt front springs are stiffer. it ride's a little rougher than stock but it corner's way way better than stock. in the future i'm redoing the out side again to do kind of a gone in 60 sec. version but a coupe. let me know if you have any more questions. good luck!

Guy with the largest record collection. Thought you might like this.

Go Browns!!!