I dont come on the forum to often. and post even less. Seems like almost everyone who posts up is alumni (which is all good) Im just trying to see who is still at JMU or living in the burg. At the meeting i saw TONS of new faces and wanted to put an AIM name and car with your face.

post up what you drive (or what you have) and your AIM name. Im trying to figure out who are actually here. My roomates and freinds always go on drives, wrench on our cars etc etc. always down to have more people into cars hanging out and whatnot.

So I guess Ill start

AIM name - Yelloa3gti

ME


MY CARS



yea.. this post is kinda cheezy.. just trying to see whos around here

PEACE OUT SUCKAS

Here is a great deal going on for V-stacks($185) retail = $230

Check it out here, I am jumping on it!

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Okay, so I came home today and there were not one, but TWO tickets on my bike. One for no valid inspection and one for no county tax sticker. Fuckers

$80 total.

Damn fucking meter maids.

Did I mention that I hate this county?

So, I need a friend who works at a shop that does inspections... I need an inspection sticker. I'll pay for it, I just need a no questions asked one

Anybody help?

Since the Z is gone, and the bike is basically bulletproof (until I bin it), I need something to work on and drop $$$ into. After carefully looking over the WRX, my Gravely 5240 Tractor, and an assortment of weed whackers - I settled on the biggest, baddest vehicle in the stable. So begins the "Project Lightning" thread...

The best word to describe the current state of the L is "tired". I bought it in excellent condition almost 4 years ago, then drove the piss out of it for the 60k miles. Between life, love, and 2-3 other cars, the Lightning always came last.

It looks like hell. Paint is faded, from being parked outside (and also from being "decorated" at the wedding). Previous owner(s) installed all sorts of taped on accent trim, and most of that has fallen off, leaving behind ugliness. I dropped the tonneau cover and scratched up the outside of the bed. Had a trailer jump up and ding the tailgate as a car was being loaded. The list goes on and on... No rust though Needless to say, theres probably some body work and paint in the not too distant future. And I hate the wheels - for some unknown reason a previous owner sold the original Lightning wheels and put some stupid M/T wheels on it. Those will have to go.

The interior is reasonable. Carpet was stained up and got some oil spilled on it. Seats are in great shape. Most of the interior trim and plastics are holding up well. Stereo is fine.

Mechanically, things aren't horrible, but they're not getting any better. I *have* kept up with most of the maintenance, so the engine is in pretty good shape. The transmission is typical high-mileage E4OD - shifting intermittently, dying slowly. Don't know about the rearend. One of the rear axle seals was leaking, but has since stopped (maybe it sealed itself back up, or maybe it ran out of stuff to leak). A/C compressor froze up on the way back from VIR last February, and I removed the whole system. Front brakes are good, rears probably need new shoes. Suspension is really worn out. Steering box is on life support. I found most of a swaybar endlink bushing sitting in the driveway the other day.

So what am I going to do about it? This is my short list of things to be accomplished in the next month or so.

* Clean, polish the exterior. I've got a new Porter Cable random orbital buffer and some Megiuars products to try out this weekend. This should provide a good baseline for the actual condition of the paint.
* Re-aim foglights (currently they only illuminate fog about 12 ft. above the road :lol
* Repair 3 (!) big chips in the windshield.
* Install new carpet (ordered a couple days ago, should be here next week), sound deadening (haven't decided on what yet), and some misc interior pieces (new rear-window latch, door sills, etc).
* Install new shocks (ordered some Bilsteins today - they were stock on the Gen 2's and *dirt* cheap)
* Install new bushings all around (probably Energy Suspension and some misc pieces)
* Install new hitch receiver (already have this)
* Investigate the condition of the transmission and rearend. Probably will plan on at least changing the diff fluid, which gives me a good excuse to pull the cover off the pumpkin. Who knows what I might find...
* Change rear brake shoes

Pictures to follow as things get done. I'll try to get one of the current condition of the truck too, so we can all *gasp* in agony.

So my "mother-in-law" as we could call her telephones me last night to inform me of an interesting phenomenon. There are people who keep coming to look at the Omni. She has observed them once... 2 older people in a white Jeep. And the neighbors went out of their way to tell her yesterday that there have been other folks coming, parking in the driveway, looking at the car, and then leaving. ItÔÇÖs rather odd. I wonder who these various people are and why they are looking at my pile. Any ideas? We were thinking it was reported to the county has having no tags and it is "those people" coming to serve us with papers to cover it or tag it.

I refrained from reminding him to put cover sheets on his TPS reports

Thinking about getting a set of used Sparco Speed seats for 400 including base/sliders. Do you guys know anything about them and is it a good price/seat? I sat in the sprints at OG, and they were pretty comfortable and those who have met me know I'm a skinny guy.

Anyone have one they wouldnt mind letting me borrow for a saturday sometime?

Hey Boobies! Nick! I know Sean's got one. It's the E30 Bible!

Covers 1984-1990 E30's: 318i, 325, 325e, 325es, 325i, 325is, and 325i 'vert. Not M3, I suppose.

For obvious reasons, I have no use for it, so I thought I'd offer it up to MM'ers.

25 bucks or an interesting trade.

It's probably been read, but no greasemarks, torn pages, dogeared pages or anything like that. More likely sat on a shop shelf and gathered dust. Still has the Bentley order card in it.

So, like I said: 25 bucks or trade for something cool.

Here are some ideas for plates for my bike (whenever I can close a deal).

MM 56 (my current fav)
RC211V
NSR500
MMRYDR
HYDN69
HRCPWR
GO HRC

For some reason it won't let me do RC166 or RC181