Sums up my life pretty well lol.

we got snow already to. Temps have plummeted and I need to put a new tent up to cover the car. Damn roofers put a 12" gash right through the roof! ugh.

 

i went to take my car to the shop the other day didnt notice the rear tire was flat till i walked around to the other side of the car to get in it .

was hoping i could just blow it up but it broke the bead , next warmish day we have ill have to jack the car up and take the tire off and take it over to the shop to reseat the bead

i think the bolt in valve stem is leaking so ill have to check that out while i got it off

 

getting a pretty good snowstorm right now ourselves , tq arm part is here , so now i gota dig the dana 60 out and start fabbing. as much as i wanted to to use the 70 it needed a gearset and the dana 60 doesnt , so to save money ill use the 60 , the 60 should be plenty strong anyways

 

picked up a sponsor for 2017, 2k to go racing in vegas , should pay for 4-5 track outings

 

A sponsor?

-- Joe

 

yup going to have to put a big *** ugly sticker on the car , but hey if it helps get me to the track this year its all good

 

well this kind of sucks , i need to put the car back into DD status , i love driving it , but we get some pretty damn bad weather this time of year,im im thinking i may make a block off plate for the turbine housing so i can pull the center section of the turbo and put the plate in place so the ex still goes out the downpipes.

either that or just wire the wastegates wide open


stock front wheels are what 15x7? and what back spacing ? i wanna take the front pizza cutters off for now

 

What? Bad weather so you want to daily drive a thirdgen?

I drive my 2012 GMC 2500HD when the weather sucks. My cars don't have 4x4...

-- Joe

 

camaro is all i got atm, need to work on other things

 

Maybe you should park it for a while and get a truck?

I've never considered these cars daily drivers. Even when they were new, they were rattle boxes with slow power windows and caused driver fatigue.

-- Joe

 

just need to fix what i have already , getting something new is pointless as in about 1.5 months ill be back to riding the bike everywere again, really hard to beat a bike that gets about 70mpg

was actually using the bike up until just over a week ago when i about ate it on some black ice going about 50/55mph, not worth the risk if i crash again and go down on my left shoulder again its pretty much done for at that point


but a sfar as the camaro as a daily driver i love it when the weather is good , the rattles and slow windows dont bother me one bit

 

I got rid of my bagger a few months ago, because it was a 2012 and I had only put 1500 miles on it since new. I never road it. It either rains, or I need to go somewhere after work that I can't use a bike, and then their is the constant risk of getting creamed by Boston drivers.

I like power everything, navigation, back up camera, bluetooth, and all the creature comforts that come with newer vehicles. The Fbody's and Ybody's are fun for weekend cars for short trips to the beach and so on, but for daily driving in traffic I prefer something more comfortable.

-- Joe

 

I would have a stroke if i had to drive my car in snow/shitty weather. Got myself a $400 volvo s60 to drive all winter/when the camaro is down.

 

well my luck is just horrible , had the gagt to drive , hop in it this morning and the ****ing outter ring of the harmonic balance just fell the hell off


since my driving is only a couple of miles ( 4 miles each way) i dont mind driving the camaro in not so nice weather , its not a far drive and its a dead stright flat road , if i had to actually drive far and up or down any of the mountian roads around here that would be a different story

the downside to having to drive the camaro is it puts all the winter work i had planned on hold

 

If you are only driving it 8 miles a day, why make any changes at all to the turbo/wastegate ?

-- Joe

 

If you are goin to own a modded camaro, you absolutely need another stock driver of some sort. Beater car or preferably truck to haul parts

 

if the car looses traction u wouldnt belive how fast that t76 thats on it spools up , my thinking was to keep it from doing that in the event i have to drive wit when its really slick out


ive got the gagt sorted out so doesnt look like ill have to drive the camaro in this nasty weather

its going to be -20* tonight and 1* out tommorow

 

couple more weeks till it starts to warm up , cant friggen wait , i really need to get my *** in gear and get the rear end under the car , the tq arm pieces i needed got here so i have everything i need to start fabing the mount for the tq arm

 

Still waiting for winter to arrive. Paid a fortune getting the sleds registered, tracks studded, etc. Grass is greener than it was all summer. wtf

-- Joe

 

we got hit by those 2 nasty storms cali got , i never did pull the sleds out and at this point i dont even want to im over the snow already. now im looking forward to dirtbike season

alot of work to do on the farm come mid february

weather really doenst clear up till end of march or so so ive got time to do what i need to on the car , i think the first thing is going to install that ms relay panel

i also need to finish wet sanding the car to see if i need to respray any panels , want to get that done by april before we get our heatwave , if ive got to repaint anything id like it to be no more then 70* out when i do it

 

Still alive Dave?

 

Damn bro, I was only teasing with that question but now I'm starting to think something bad happened. There's no other way to get in touch with you either, I lost your phone number on my old phone. Holla back Dave. Don't make me call the Trump train to come looking for you lol...

 

Dave (Project89) has been off the board for 3 month now. Anyone know how to reach him? Maybe if we find where in Utah we can send someone around to check in on him. I have a bad feeling about it. He was complaining of health issues a while back.

 

His health issues were related to a bike injury AFAIK, not anything too serious.

-- Joe

 

He was on the beginning of March, so it's only been a little over a month. Knowing him the way I do, he either sold the car, or wrecked it. He'll take a brief hiatus when he has no third gen to post about, he's done it before as well. I'm sure he is okay...

 

Dave, update this freaking thread already, you got everyone here thinking you're dead when I think I am the only one on here that knows you're still alive lmao. You're still updating on the other website, but you abandoned this one for some reason...

- Rob

 

Leave it be

 

Leave what be? Guys following this thread are curious where he left off, and some who are his friends on here PM'ed me and were worried that something happened to him. This is to let everyone know that he is fine, nothing to leave be...

 

They been curious for years lol dead thread should stay that way imo

 

I hear ya, but it was more of a question if he was even alive at this point. Quite a few members reached out to me, for whatever reason he wasn't answering them. Dunno. I do know he lost his sign in years ago, then created that Project89 account. Possible it happened again, but who knows. Anyways though, he's alive as you guys can see, but the thread is dead. If anybody wants to talk to him I suggest reaching out to his new youtube account...

- Rob