Grand Am Off Topic Thread

[grfnkl]

Still here... Survived the 21st, Christmas and new years... Now just waiting on the baby to arrive. I love my little turbo suv! It's better then driving the Gokart civic. My wife has been using it though leaving me to the civic. It's been on and off cold here. No snow though! Not sure if we will see any this year or not... Kind of want some so I can test out the AWD on the rdx. Not that I haven't tested it on dry pavement with some wheel squeal! Good luck with the Miata gir.... Sounds like a little bit of a money pit but hopefully it'll get better after you fix everything!

[xeroinfinity]

Hey grfnkl, you get any of that blizzard that rolled up the east coast ??

Stuff looked horrible upper north east! Though they are accustomed to a lot of snow, i think this one set some new records!

Its warm here one day, and zero the next.
Waiting on a front to move in thursday evening/night, hope we get a little more snow.

[xeroinfinity]

just upgraded to win 7 ultimate 64 bit on my home pc, WOW! Its a great boost !!

So who's ready for summer ???

[grfnkl]

I guess win 7 ultimate is so great you had to post it 7 times! Lol. We didn't that blizzard here. Just missed us. We did get a flurry though. For the locals that's a blizzard! Lol.

[xeroinfinity]

Originally Posted by grfnkl

I guess win 7 ultimate is so great you had to post it 7 times! Lol. We didn't that blizzard here. Just missed us. We did get a flurry though. For the locals that's a blizzard! Lol.

it was giving me a hard time an not wanting to post, guess its a good thing i didnt click it 1000X.!

thats good you missed all that snow the upper new england got this year.

I cant believe this time last year it was in the 80s here. maybe it wont be so hot this summer....

[Vipey1337]

sleepy forums!

[xeroinfinity]

sorry i was napping.

yea its been a little slow on here. i try and make it over to see whats going or not on here.
Ive been super busy non-stop it seems for over a year. Summer breaks coming up so some of my brats will be home from college.

Hows things going with everyone else ??

My GA is doing great, only drive it thru the summer months now. Bought a couple older GAs to play around and do some MODS.

Saw PFYC has some new LED dash light bulbs to change the colors. just need to know exactly which size and how many...Im not certain myself. lol

[xeroinfinity]

i forgot to tell you guys, i almost bought a 2010 Nissan GTR a few months back.
Someone in Tennessee had one for sale for $65,000, low miles and looked great. It was a dark brown/bronze color, if it would have been black or even white, I'd prob have bought it.

I did take it for a short drive and i fell in love with the power and control it has. though they do ride a little stiff in the sport settings.

the owner was rather paranoid, he called to verify my insurance and license was good before he allowed me to drive it. and of coarse he went along, but he said drive it like it was mine. hehehe

[grfnkl]

I'm around....been very busy as well with the little one. She's 5 months old now man time flies! No changes in cars here. We had to change daycares so the civic went from being used maybe once a month to more often depending on our schedules. The bad part is the brakes are shot in that car and I have had no time to get to work on them, the front brakes were done 50k miles ago and rear well hasn't been done since we bought the car more then 70k miles ago... I've stomped on he brakes before and the car slows but keeps going... I can't even lock them up. All the brakes grab at differently causing this weird jerking diving motion all over. It's fun! Lol. The wifeys car is fine just replaced the o2 sensor on that... And my rdx had to get a new ac condenser, due to a rock smashing a hole in it! Thankfully the warranty covered it, and it happened at least while we were in jersey visiting so we could get to a Acura dealer easily. If not its a two hour drive to the closest Acura dealer from our house in nc! Otherwise we are doing well. I've been on the search for a cheap good newer car for my aunt. Her 01 deville finally bit the big one. Over 200k miles on the engine and trans, finally blew the original head gasket. The sad part is my aunt can't even afford to buy any car so I've been on the hunt for her... Hopefully something will come up. Till next time everyone!

[Vipey1337]

Originally Posted by xeroinfinity

i forgot to tell you guys, i almost bought a 2010 Nissan GTR a few months back.
Someone in Tennessee had one for sale for $65,000, low miles and looked great. It was a dark brown/bronze color, if it would have been black or even white, I'd prob have bought it.

I did take it for a short drive and i fell in love with the power and control it has. though they do ride a little stiff in the sport settings.

the owner was rather paranoid, he called to verify my insurance and license was good before he allowed me to drive it. and of coarse he went along, but he said drive it like it was mine. hehehe

I want a GTR

[Gir-_-]

Win 7, I hope to make that leap soon lol. I will go all out on that PC build


nothing new really, making payments on the msm miata

I had the motor resealed, the turbo resealed

still have an oil leak, my instinct points me to the valves or other head related issue,

Still able to drive to work everyday, but it sucks I haven't touched boost since when I first bought the car...

to help the slow of oil loss I've been allowing the motor to warm up in the morning and before I drive home. A shop owner I spoke with also mentioned it may be the pistons letting oil through Hopefully that is not the case. At this point it looks like I might as well as start planning for a full rebuild / performance upgrade

oh and, grand am still drives just fine... da beast has been sitting a lot lately. Soon Im going to arrange it to be picked up on the cheap, nobody is going to want my 237k miles on craigslist lol

[Vipey1337]

How's life everyone? It's been a while!

My wife and I are about to close on a condo and finally have a place that is larger than 700 sq ft. Looking forward to being able to move around instead of being smashed in with all our stuff. Our cats will probably be happier too.

[xeroinfinity]

Sounds like youre moving on up Vipey! lol so you still living in Chicago?
You get any storms up their Sunday Nov `17 ?

We had a few tornados roll thru here! think thier was 23 of them in Indiana. Luckily no deaths just property damage.

We had a tornado close to Rensselaer, i had 72 MPH winds for a little bit. Ripped a few shingles off my house and laid my wind generator pole at a 45 deg angle. Glad it and my panels survived it all! Moved a small shed i have about a foot.
Shit was crazy for a few! My kids and some friends were over when it all went down, we took cover just to be safe.

Crazy November weather. Why didnt you warn us Vipey ?? lmao

[Vipey1337]

Oooooops

Yeah it was nasty around here. I used to live near Washington, IL. Actually the tornadoes that went through went only a couple miles from where I used to live... terrifying. I know people that lost their homes and everything. I'll be down there next week on Friday and might be helping with cleanup efforts since the company I work for practically owns the entire area (largest employer in Peoria) and I want to help.

Tornadoes came near here but didn't get here. It was our first day moved in to the condo when the storms came... we have an underground garage now so we would have just went down there and we would have been fine... piles of steel and concrete around you is pretty safe.

Glad to hear you guys are alright... I heard on the news there was a tornado going near Rensselaer and I was thinking "oh shit hope XI is okay."

Keep on drivin'!

[xeroinfinity]

Hell has froze over !
cold snow cold then more snow!