How long is your commute? How much time?
How many hours a day?

As you know I go from Springfield to Chantilly

Wake at 6am( try to)
Leave house at 7am
Sometimes take a lunch, sometimes not
Leave at 4:15-4:45pm
Commute is 23 miles one way. Takes 45, 50mins

I left today at 5:30pm took an hour.

My ultimate record was like 33 minutes leaving at 3:45pm-4pm

Selling my turbo Quantum Wagon. Think mid-eighties all wheel drive (quattro) passat.

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Needs major frame repair or to be re-shelled, I have a friend in Winchester with a straight shell, white. His shell is dirty, no sunroof, manual windows. Needs cleaning and the motor/drivetrain/suspension out of my car listed in auction link above.

Swapping between two shells is easy just need tall jackstands or lift, and you unbolt subframe, and rear diff carrier, as well as strut tops all teh way around. Then bolt up to other car. The EFI will swap with a little work...or you could modernize it with a megasquirt etc.

Then Haltech F3 that is on it is ancient...and performance could be very much imporved with a modern EFI.

Jeremy

will end auction for local sale...I am askin 2300 which is a deal for the parts....you could part it out for far more money. I don't have time. Graduating moving statrting at VT in the fall. have work this summer starting next week in NC!!!

Whichever side of the political spectrum you fall on, you have to agree that having Stephen Colbert roast the president at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner was a very bad idea.

I've got to give the man credit, that took gigantic titanium plated balls to say what he did straight to the president's face. He also dissed the media pretty hard too which might explain why the roast didn't get much coverage. So I've linked the video since I doubt anyone here watches C-SPAN.

Colbert Wrote:So don't pay attention to the approval ratings that say 68% of Americans disapprove of the job this man is doing. I ask you this, does that not also logically mean that 68% approve of the job he's not doing? Think about it. I haven't.

Nick, Rex, and I rode down to Staunton to the gun store and picked up a new toy...



This is a Hi-Point 9mm Carbine. ItÔÇÖs basically a blowback action pistol with a long barrel and a goofy looking stock. They are made in Ohio and are known for being cheap but accurate and a good value. IÔÇÖm going out shooting tomorrow so I will write a review of it. I paid $138 for the gun itself w/ sling and two mags (talked them out of the second one). There are currently no real hi-cap mags available but I will be ordering the largest made (15rnd) Monday along with a muzzle brake.

NEW PRICE $200.

There is nothing wrong with this mixing desk. It's more than i need as an individual recording and playing for fun (and i need money). I acquired it from my girlfriends brother who used it and loved it. He was upgrading to 2, 24 channels mixers because he ran out of inputs. He DJ's sometimes in the D.C. area and does his own music plus doing things for others. He used this board with no problems or gripes and it's quiet for its age. It's an old workhorse and is built like one. Perfect for a small band looking for a road worthy mixer. It has some marks on the veneer, but nothing to hinder performance. Last pic is of the worst mark. Don't have pics of back, but an image of it can be found by looking in manual. http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/pa/e.../M916E.pdf

I don't have a case, but getting one for travel wouldn't be hard.


Also, I prefer "NOT" shipping this item. It's too risky and i wouldn't trust parcel service with it. I can drive to meet someone or you can come to pick it up. It measures 32 wide, 29 deep, 11 high and is 95lbs


Yamaha Professional Series Mixer (circa 1980). Model number M916. Each channel has a pair of switch-selectable inputs. That’s 16 for a possible total of 32. It is capable of 11 mixing busses (including 6X4 matrix). Equipped with a 25 volt, on board power supply.

Instrument channel strip has …
Cue button
100mm fader
Input level switch with peak indicators (green and red) Levels are +4db, -10db, -20db, -35db, -50db, -60db
Foldback 1 & 2 level controls with pre/post switch
Echo (Effects) 1 & 2 level controls with pre/post switch
High Pass Filter switch 18db @80Hz
EQ with 15db boost/cut
----Low EQ with 100Hz/250Hz select switch
----Mid EQ with 0.5kHz, 0.7kHz, 1kHz, 1.6kHz, 2.5kHz, 3.5kHz selectable switch
----High EQ @ 10kHz
Pan pot
Master Output Section
Program Left/Right faders and Cue buttons
Foldback 1 & 2 faders and Cue buttons
Echo Send Master Level Controls
Effects Return Section
Effects In Level Controls
Effects 1 & 2 Pan Controls
Matrix Channels 1-4 each with
----Matrix Input Level
----Foldback 1
----Foldback 2
----Program Left
----Program Right
----Matrix Master
Headphone Source Select
Matrix 1
Matrix 2
Matrix 3
Matrix 4
Echo 1
Echo 2
Cue bus
Talkback Assign
Matrix 1
Matrix 2
Matrix 3
Matrix 4
Program left
Program right
Echo 1
Echo 2
Foldback 1
Foldback 2

Talkback XLR Input connector with Level Select +4db/-50db
Talkback Input level control
Talkback on/off switch
VU Meters (5)

So who will be in H-burg or is coming in for graduation this weekend? I'll be there Friday night til Sunday morning.

Before some of you jackasses make comments about the shitty condition of my pink car, I'm posting this up for those of you that still have nice paint.

Chad, you got a new paint job earlier this year right?

Apparently, you spray it on like regular paint but you can peel it off.

http://www.protint.com/QuickPeel.ivnu

These are some pretty good quality videos that I thought you guys would like. There are videos from VIR and multiple other awsome tracks around the country. I thought these two drivers are really skilled and we could all learn a thing or two from watching these videos on what to do and what not to do (since a lot of us have been/tracked our cars at VIR).
This first link are videos from all diff tracks (don't know what is done to the car, prob raced perpared if I had to guess) BTW both of these links are videos of some pretty serious Rx-7s.
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This second link is also to a fully raced prepared Rx-7 (I am guessing). This guy really knows how to drive, so pay attention, also most of his videos are of VIR, Enjoy!!:
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Ryan

Looks like my brother hit up the NY Auto Show, pics:
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Enjoy!

Ryan

....okay, i think it use to be one.

was doing some grading of the land today and saw something metal sticking out of the side of the embankment. the wheel is about 3-4 inches wide and around 8 inches round, seems like one of the old school mini bikes

this is what i pulled out after 5 minutes of struggling.