Setup: (Noon on Friday in show parking lot)
Justin
Jeff
Nick
Goodspeed
Josh
Hunter
Adam Lee
DJ
Blair
Ryan T.
Matt
Aaron

Teardown: (After the show)
Justin
Jeff
Rex
Nick
Julie
Goodspeed
Josh
Lee
Hunter
Adam
Ryan T.
Matt
Aaron
Dave

If you can be there, post and I'll add you to the list. We still need to get roughly 5 or so more people for each session if that's possible.

...guys are racing hard today.....



....wait, when do they not hock:

So joining Moto-X and Supermoto, the summer X-Games will now feature rally racing. I was mulling over the idea of heading out there this year for Supermoto but this might make it worth the trip

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Junk you watch on Speed VOD goes though my software! Woohoo!!!

I created this thread to tell MM about my random projects outside of the Daytona. However I invite others to post their random projects here if there is not enough to say to warrent a thread.

So First off. Many might not know that Sylvia got a 01 PT Cruiser a month or two ago. "MM PT" proudly on the plates.





We got to fooling with it last weekend and the ricer in me got the better. We istalled a SRT-4 short shifter and I made :roll: a K&N short ram. Sounds and looks good considering it cost $25. Also removed all the logos and installed a sound system (that is old news, may have posted that awhile ago)

The newest folly of my money wasteing is my new car!!



Ugly huh? Well, it is a 89' Dodge Spirit, base model. It has 95,000 original miles on it. I have the records back to when it was new (Purchased from Woodstock Garage) and I have the original window sticker.

Why would I do this? Well, it has new tires, many new parts, and it was only......wait for it....wait for it.... $100!!!! It needs a new head/headgasket which I happen to have laying around.



So this weekend I am hauling it to the garage and getting it running. I'll be fixing the side moldings and maybe painting the roof (same color as sylvia's other car, it needs some paint so we will make one batch).

The other reason I got this car should be easy to figure out...




Oh yeah bitches!! Another TD! I will be fixing this one and letting it go however...if you love something...you let it go...and you make about $900 in the process!!! :twisted:

I'm looking around at the costs of ownership of a bike right now and I was wondering what everyone is paying roughly for insurance here.

Any info that could be shed on this would be great.


Nick

I'm going for a drive down 33 later today (prob 1pm) - give me a call (240-422-0291) if you want to tag along.

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Enjoy

Posted on another message board.


I bought a car in Denver and had to go pick it up. I also need to pick up my granddaughter in Colorado Springs and bring her back to IL. for the summer. No problem. I bought a 28' enclosed racecar trailer and a load leveling hitch and my 89' conversion van had a brand new crate motor so I had plenty of power. All across IL. and MO. I ran with the big boys at 75 to 80 and life was good. About 20 miles from Hays Kansas I notice a lot of haze behind me and finally figure out it's coming from me. Wife is asleep so I pull over on an exit and get out to the smell of burnt tranny fluid...A guy in a pickup stops and tells me he was gonna try and pass me and tell me I had a problem, but i oiled his windshield and he couldn't see to pass. I let it cool as the wife gets hot. We run along the edge of the road and by the time we got to hays it'd barely pull at all. I went straight to our usual motel stop (by the McD's) and I dropped the trailer and started calling tranny shops. Last place I called had a tranny and would put it in the next day, SAT..I think the name was Keins and the price was very reasonable for a traveler and they also replaced the tranny cooler with a bigger one. The tranny was built for more power than stock and was guaranteed. Next day about noon the guy comes and pickes me up, I pay and hook up the trailer. I keep the tranny out of overdrive and hold my speed to 55mph. All is well and wife is almost back to normal. Cruzing along into a 35mph wind I notice I am running a lot of throttle so i slow a little and about 4 hours out of Hays (just 1 mile short of Stratton CO. exit) the tranny goes "ping" and it's not hooked up anymore. No matter where I put the shifter it is as though it's in neutral (front pump shattered). As I coast to the side of the road my wife goes off...I get out and leave her ranting and start walking to the Stratton exit and about 300 yards into this a car honks at me and it's the county sheriff. He asks about the truck and tells me to get in and asks if there is anyone else in the truck. I tell him yes but to leave her there and let her cool off..
He calls a wrecker and the rig gets towed to the motel and he drops the trailer and puts the van at my room. For $45....The wrecker guy makes a phone call and finds there is one rental car left in the next town and makes arrangements to pick me up the next day to take me there. We get there and he won't take any money cause he said he had to go there anyway..While I am doing the paper work a guy come in and tells the lady that the car she is renting me was stolen last night from the airport. I go outside and light my pipe..Guy comes out and says there is a place that might have a car, takes me there and peels out. He does have a car. I make arrangements for the tranny shop to get my van and we head to the Springs. I cal Hertz and others for a one way rental and they want $1100 so I figure I am not gonna get my car this trip, oh, did I mention I sold the trailer to a guy in Stratton when I drove past his hot rod shop in the rented car? Only lost $1k on it...I found a deal from penske on a 16' van for $600 and rented it and headed for denver with my son-in-law. It was a brand new van and had a wood floor. it's illegal to haul a car in these and there is no way to tie it down so we made a stop at a lumber yard and bought material for ramps and to crib the wheels. We nailed it to the floor. Wife drove rental car to return it and then got in rental van which had bucket seats. We searched the town over for a lawn chair, anything to sit on as we had 3 persons. Only thing we found that would fit was a big flower pot...Wifey rode 200 miles on that upside down flower pot. The van was ready when we got back to Hays and she drove it home and I the rental truck. I have been forbidden to tow anything that includes her going. I am looking for a dolley though.
yes, it's long and I'm sure boring to most but it was an adventure.
btw..I have $9k in that $5k car and wife has her new Grand Cherokee

Well gentlemen, today I was finally accepted to grad school. I'm going to be fully funded at dartmouth for mechanical engineering if I choose to go there. I haven't actually heard from any other schools yet, but dartmouth was my first choice so there's a good chance I'll be there.


Oh, and they have a pretty good formula sae team, I'm totally going to rag the piss out of their car.