Off-Topic Thread...

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A lot of people have never heard of protons, enzymes, Mike Ness or any other of the basic building blocks of life.

Social D rocks...

sup guys, how u all been. Just stoppin in to say wussup. Yeah i havent been on in like a few months but ive been busy with porfolios and finals so ya know how it is.




btw, the new tool album is pretty tight

^haha yea, it's been awhile, no ones been on lately, it's pretty much just me DZ, and broke

Hell i read this forum all the time. But as you all know im only a Z PHanATic so I can't say too much interesting stuff about the cars, because I don't own one. By the way I dont live in America any more so I don't know what's going on there now, and blablabla, and I even don't have a drivers liscence so who would read my posts. Click on the ignore button people.

BTW i'm working on my 1:18 scale Z project car. The body is starting to look smashing IMO, and my s2000 was lately presented in the worlds bigggggest car tuning magazine - Maxi Tuning - Polands edition of course. A link to the 300 progress thread http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=535632&page=3

Anyway I seem to love Z forums and I hope one day i'll show You guys my ride.

^it's alllll good man!!!

this place doesnt have hardly any traffic.

Well duh, traffic hasn't backed up since we installed the light rail system.


Pfft.

that was lame.

Get bent.

Geez, have a couple of beers and the whole world is a critic.

light rail system??? what's that?

Get bent.

Geez, have a couple of beers and the whole world is a critic.

i was just messing around, damn, what happened to this place since i was gone.

Wes left, LLZ hasn't been on, K3 got hurt and doesn't post too often, Probe's been out for a while, Medic's been completly MIA, Redneck comes on for the most part... and the only reason you're here is becuase 3zc's down right??? (I don't mean that in a jag-off way, so don't interpret it like that)

yeah, pretty much. with 3ZC down, i have a crapload of freetime.

Wes left, LLZ hasn't been on, K3 got hurt and doesn't post too often, Probe's been out for a while, Medic's been completly MIA, Redneck comes on for the most part... and the only reason you're here is becuase 3zc's down right??? (I don't mean that in a jag-off way, so don't interpret it like that)

Pft! Didn't even bother mentioning me, Bitch...

:wink:

Still have my hunk of junk sitting here awaiting repair...

lol yea, well ummmmmmmmmm yea??? hahah yea I know, it's just you haven't been on lately either... this whole section's really taken a turn for the worse.

yeah i found myself a good z31 forum to be on, but i'll stick around here to help who i can :P

^what forum??? the one hosted by the guy with the "black bitch"????

same thing happened to me, i found an awesome Z32 site to be on. this place was really never that heavy on Z's.

88hybrid.com best z31 site in the history of anything :p

I'M NOT DEAD YET!!!!!!

For those who still remember me that is. I just arrived in Berlin yesterday. Recent visits include Munich, Nuremberg, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Prague and Vienna. Vienna kicks ass!!! They have the most mental gothic style churches I have ever seen there. Munich is pretty awesome too. We ended up staying for a few extra nights there because it was so good. Bavarian beer in 1 Liter mugs = the shit. Sorry i havent been on in a while but its fucking hard to find time to jump on the net nowadays.

Hope everyone is still good. Ill try and post pics up soon. That is if i ever find a decent computer that has a USB port....

Have a good one guys!!!

hoooly shit yag it's been a while... good to hear things are going great :D

yag man, I was wondering when you'd post again!? did you meet up with AMNES or what??

so i got some terrible news today. I just moved home from college for the summer to work my two old jobs and when i get home i go to hug my Z when my dad telle me what has happened......

while i was gone someone broke into our garage and broke out my pas. window to get into my car. Well i have it all lovked up and the alarm worked, i even had a club on the steering wheel..... But they did jack my faceplate and broke by fuckin head-unit. so im pissed. i have to gop get a new one.. (btw: any suggestions?) so i guess me dad took my Z out to get the window replaced for me when something very complicated happened resulting a large piece of glass at the window place scrapping up the front-end of my baby. IM soooo sad right now. So im either just gunnna get it sanded and filled and buffed and painted ....... or im gunna get a new front bumper.... And i always have been real fond of the stillen front lip spoilers. So thats where im at right now.

WTF is the glass pace going to pay for it?? i'd get on their asses about that right away.... sucks about the break in man..

i like the alpine decks... i think that'll be one of my next ones

so i got a new car today.

i'm also going to make it to 400 posts.

it is the closest thing i have ever owned to a Z to date.

(although the 510 is almost 30% 280z by now)

just one more post and then i'll have 400 ! ! !

so i got some terrible news today. I just moved home from college for the summer to work my two old jobs and when i get home i go to hug my Z when my dad telle me what has happened......

while i was gone someone broke into our garage and broke out my pas. window to get into my car. Well i have it all lovked up and the alarm worked, i even had a club on the steering wheel..... But they did jack my faceplate and broke by fuckin head-unit. so im pissed. i have to gop get a new one.. (btw: any suggestions?) so i guess me dad took my Z out to get the window replaced for me when something very complicated happened resulting a large piece of glass at the window place scrapping up the front-end of my baby. IM soooo sad right now. So im either just gunnna get it sanded and filled and buffed and painted ....... or im gunna get a new front bumper.... And i always have been real fond of the stillen front lip spoilers. So thats where im at right now.

thats horrid man...im with delerious, i would get on the asses of the glass shop. those stillen front lips look awesome with the TT front bumper. but if i were you, i would just look on TT.net for a used A-spec front bumper maybe even in your color. if you get lucky, you may be able to find one in good enough condition where you dont need to paint it.

good luck...

i like panasonic and alpine decks. :D

wooooooo 400 posts!

anyway to end the suspense . .. . . .









i bought an 88 S12 200sx se-v6
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/385373200sx_front-small-med.JPG

VG30e

5speed

rwd (z31 rear suspension)

$1100.

that kicks ass dude! if it were me i'd drop down to an sr20det.... those engine bays are horrid with the vg in there.... like... twice as bad as the z31 i'd say

WOOT! 3ZC is back!!!

WOOT! 3ZC is back!!!
joy...?

^HAHAHA



How're the legs comming along/feeling Jason??

yag man, I was wondering when you'd post again!? did you meet up with AMNES or what??

Not yet, I havent. That will be on the 9th till the 13th of June that will be happening. Until then I have some serious partying in Berlin, Paris and of course Amsterdam to do :iceslolan

Good to hear form normal car people again. My girlfirend is getting pissed with me talking about cars at her :icon16:

Guess what I happened to wander past the other day...

A Bugatti store...

...with a VEYRON SITTING OUT THE FRONT OF IT!!!!

Oh yeah... Im so getting me some pics of that...

Hey Travis, Hows work going? Damm It seems like ages since I was in Canada in stupidly cold temperatures...

K3- Hows the recovery going? How the whole cash thing pan out?

Well I have to run, Im going on a tour soon showing me all the battle scars of Berlin. Should be good.

Have fun peoples!

I just sharted...

well i guess after an explination my dad is sadly moreso at fault for the scratches, so what can ya do. He said hell make everything right and feels pretty bad. But yeah itll all get worked out. Im looking at some pretty cool alpine head-units cuz a replacement face plate for my current one costs 130 bux. WTF, for a faceplate.

probe i bet you that's just for like a cold solder joint or two too...

Yag - works good man... you wouldn't believe it, but it's been fucking 30(mid 80's f) here for the last week... been absolutely beautiful lol

well my recovery is coming along...5th surgery down and hopefully no more.

money is still an issue as court hasnt started yet for my suit against workman's comp. hopefully i will come out on top but i always think the worst...

i am still working on getting the Z up and running however. hopefully i will have some videos and pictures and some good stories by the near end of summer.

yag, glad to hear your enjoying yourself...

probe, good luck bro...when i get my car running im going on a road trip and you will show me how you guys party in ohio. :cheers:

saw this and couldn't stop laughing

http://vbg.spreadshirt.com/?p=2130

saw this and couldn't stop laughing

http://vbg.spreadshirt.com/?p=2130

hahahahahahaha that made my day

i found this in the car videos section of AF, so i take no credit for it. i know you guys rarely look at other parts of AF, but i thought you wouldn't want to miss this.

a short race between all incarnations of the nissan/datsun Z (top gear)
http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/05-20-06pageNissanZbattle.htm

enjoy.:wink:

that 260 is hot!

nice! now we know the z32's faster for sure.... altho it seems that the 260 got a bit of a jump on the launch

whats there to solder? my faceplate is Gone.

k3: hells yeah man, get that 2t+2t done and get your ass over here. Chances are ill be in the process of rebuilding my Z.

whats there to solder? my faceplate is Gone.

k3: hells yeah man, get that 2t+2t done and get your ass over here. Chances are ill be in the process of rebuilding my Z.

well...im really gonna get nut bustin' on it now, especially now that i have a plan on paying for it all and the fact that i just blew the motor in the GTP. ill never buy another american car...nor will i ever buy another automatic car. i can drive a car with haf the HP as the grand prix and have more fun in it just because it is a manual. what a crap shoot....anyways, the grand prix is under warantee but it will take time to fix. hopefully it wont take them more than a week. i will definitely be headed your way when i get my car done.

LOL seriously?? that's fucking gay man...

doing 7k rpm fwd drifts again? :p

LOL seriously?? that's fucking gay man...

doing 7k rpm fwd drifts again? :p

no, it doesn't rev that high... i think it was the 4k rpm neutral drop.

but yeah...i expected a little better out of pontiac and gm. i thought it was pretty funny when it happened...but now that i thought about it, it sucks because i will be without a car for a while. on the good side, the new owner will have a fresh motor...

selling it off eh? that sucks man.... stupid crappy made cars...

Yag - works good man... you wouldn't believe it, but it's been fucking 30(mid 80's f) here for the last week... been absolutely beautiful lol

Your right. I wouldnt believe it:p

Spewing about the car Jason... It should help the sale price of it though. Whats going to be the new daily driver then?

Your right. I wouldnt believe it:p

Spewing about the car Jason... It should help the sale price of it though. Whats going to be the new daily driver then?

new daily driver will and shall be a 450rwhp 300zxTT. :D

its all good about the GTP, it sucks but its not really effecting me that much. it could have definitely came at a worse time. as soon as i get the Z running the Grand Prix is going up for sale, and it will be priced to sell fast.

no, it doesn't rev that high... i think it was the 4k rpm neutral drop.

but yeah...i expected a little better out of pontiac and gm. i thought it was pretty funny when it happened...but now that i thought about it, it sucks because i will be without a car for a while. on the good side, the new owner will have a fresh motor...

You're lucky they're covering it. If they knew about that little detail you'd probably find yourself at the short end of steep bill.

2 Izuzu NQRs in Atlanta May 17-24

aka "The Time Very Little Went According to Plan"

Go get a sandwich. Take a leak if you have to. Or just skip the text and click the pictures.

So then, there was two Izuzu NQR flatbeds in Atlanta that needed to be picked up, the plan being to stack one on top the other. Now the trucks both weigh about 8500 pounds and are grossed 18000 pounds. So if I'm not going to be overloaded I'm going to be right on the bleeding edge. I don't think it will work but whatever. The first problem came when it came out that Southwest, the airline my boss gets free miles from, doesn't fly into Atlanta. So then, I get a flight into Birmingham, Alabama the 15th and have to drive 160 some miles to Atlanta. Not a problem. So there I was at the shop picking up the chains and binders before heading out to the airport. A chunk of hacked off angle iron slides off a shelf and hits me in the chest. Five stiches, $220 and a schedule change later I have a flight out the 17th. A minor delay but a sign of things to come. I land in Chicago, get on my next flight and land in Birmingham. Wait a minute, where the **** is my bag with the chains, license plate and tools? It didn't get put on the flight. Well whatever, I get my rental car and find a hotel for the night. I get a call around 11:00 pm saying they found it and it will be there the next morning.

So then, the flight comes in at 9:30 and I get my bag. 160 miles to Atlanta, should be no problem to make it there before the place I'm picking up the trucks closes at 5:00 pm right? Except that I-20 is solid road construction to the state line. By then it's rush hour in Atlanta. And since I forgot my mapquest maps to the place at home I spend a few hours driving up and down highway 10 east of Atlanta trying to find the place. In fact it takes so long I have to call Hertz and extend my rental for a day because I can't find the place to turn it in either. Anyway, I get close to where I think the trucks are and call the guy. He's not that happy that it's now 7:30 but he agrees to meet me and I can follow him. So I pull up and see this mess:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/6638/picture0031it.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0031it.jpg)

That's my sweet ass Kia rental. Anyway, I start to get the chains out when the guy that sold them comes out and asks if I have my bosses cell phone number. He doesn't want to accept the check without having it verified first, which has to wait until 9:00 tomorrow morning. Fine, get a motel, spend another night flipping through channels.

So then the next morning I get a better look at the tires on the bottom truck, and besides the fact that the weight has damn near folded the side walls in half, they are torn to ****. Head my happy ass a mile down the road to a Goodyear store. Let me tell you something about the GVWR, the maximum weight a truck can carry, it's an imaginary number created by the marketing department to sell trucks. I could barely make 30 mph, it wouldn't shift out of second gear. Take the GVWR and subtract about 2000-4000 pounds and you'll have the practical limit. The Goodyear place can't do anything with the truck on the back so I head back to place I picked them up, called my boss and managed to convince him it just wasn't going to work. So get the other truck off loaded, drop the one I was going to drive back off to get new tires and drop the rental off. There was a pair of mid-sized Chevy utility trucks in Phoenix so the plan became for me to pick one of those up.

So then, pick the truck up and it was off on the road. This part went alright despite the fact that the mirrors were beat to shit, the trans was running hot and I could only make about 60 since as you can see from the pictures these Izuzu trucks are aerodynamic suicide. I drove all night and slept in some parking lot in Texas during that day, I didn't want to risk overheating the transmission driving during the day since it was triple digit temperatures from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. Being that it was a thousand some mile drive through Texas, I had plenty of time to think about everything that had gone wrong up to that point and what could go wrong. But then I saw something that reminded me that no matter how bad my trip was going, there is always someone who is having a worse day:

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/3175/someoneisalwayshavingaworseday.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/my.php?image=someoneisalwayshavingaworseday.jpg)

I was two lanes away doing 40 mph with the AC on and the window rolled up and I could feel the heat through the cab.

Got to a little place about 50 miles east of El Paso before I had to stop again, no sense even trying to sleep this time, it was too hot. I had a digital temperature gauge with me and I was screwing around seeing how hot stuff was getting until I pointed it at part of the open door that was in the sun.

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2787/picture0106uw.th.jpg (http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0106uw.jpg)

That **** is just not cool. No pun intended.

So then, drove all night, the transmission fluid had finally dropped from a suicidal 240 degrees to a more normal 170 and got to Tuscon before I decided I was too tired to drive ("Wait...why are there ten lines on the road..."). Got a motel and started out early what was now Monday morning. Since the transmission was running cooler I figured it would be alright to drive during the day, being in southern Arizona not withstanding. Ran into a huge dust storm on the way, tumbleweeds flying everywhere, which is actually kind of cool because they are like brittle sticks so they explode with you hit them.

One of the things that is kind of unique to the southwest that I've seen is the amount of abandoned **** there is. On the outskirts of every town there is always a few homes just boarded up, roofs collapsed. Buses just out in the middle of the desert. Old brick buildings with crumbling walls. There is always the home or two around each town that is like a mini junkyard of cars, tractors, farm equipment and who knows what else. It's kind of weird but it's interesting to see it all.

Got to the Chevy dealership in Phoenix and had to talk to a few different people before anyone knew what the hell I was talking about. The problem now was the truck I was picking up was on the back of a tow truck that had died. It would have been pretty easy to back my flatbed up to the tow truck if the lift arm on the tow truck wasn't in the way, and since it was dead (engine torn down "hey-look-at-the-pistons dead") it couldn't be moved. But I found another tow truck driver with a truck that could back up to it that just happened to be dropping a van off and he helped me transfer the truck around for no charge. Jimmy with TriStar towing in Phoenix is a nice guy.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5807/picture0149de.th.jpg (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0149de.jpg)

On the road, this next 1600 some miles was fairly uneventful. I was on I-10 til I hit San Bernadino. There I ran into the mother of all head winds and since the truck was straining to do 40 mph I pulled off for the night. Thankfully it died down by the morning and I was able to get to I-15 and head north to Barstow to cut through the Mojave desert instead of driving through the utter hell that is LA. I forget what the place is called but it's one of the few gas stations out there, it's at a four way cross roads and gas was $4.29 for a gallon of 87 octane. But it's not like you could get it anywhere else out there. All the long way up California and through Oregon was boring as usual but it was the home stretch on what was damn near a 4000 mile trip so it's all good.

Just another eight days on the road.

Oh, and one last thing. You know those pictures you see on the net where someone has driven off with gas pump nozzle still hanging off the car? I saw it happen. I was sitting in a burger joint/gas station east of El Paso and just happened to look over as some guy in a Cherokee drove off with the nozzle still shoved in his car.

You're lucky they're covering it. If they knew about that little detail you'd probably find yourself at the short end of steep bill.
yes your probably right...

but come to find out, it wasnt the motor at all. it was a pre-cat that broke itself in pieces right under the engine. so its RPM dependent and it sounds like a fatal engine problem but its no big deal.

i will get it fixed someday as it is really annoying. eh...

as for you story, as always a very joyful and entertaining read. thats funny about them thinking that you could drive with those trucks on top of each other like that. people just want things done and do whatever it takes no matter how practical it is, expecially true with business managers. :lol:

but come to find out, it wasnt the motor at all. it was a pre-cat that broke itself in pieces right under the engine. so its RPM dependent and it sounds like a fatal engine problem but its no big deal.

What are the engine mounts like in that car? If they allowed the motor to jerk around a lot when you dropped it into gear then that's probably what did it.

as for you story, as always a very joyful and entertaining read. thats funny about them thinking that you could drive with those trucks on top of each other like that. people just want things done and do whatever it takes no matter how practical it is, expecially true with business managers. :lol:

Good to know someone gets a laugh out of all the stuff that happens out there. I figured stacking the trucks wasn't going to work but I can see where he's coming from on that one. Between paying me, the fuel bill (almost $1000) and the other expenses (hotel rooms, the rental and some parts I had to pick up) it cost him almost $2500 to get that truck back from Atlanta and the other one is still back east. But apparently he just bought a bigger flatbed about 100 miles away from the other Izuzu that he can bring it back with.

What are the engine mounts like in that car? If they allowed the motor to jerk around a lot when you dropped it into gear then that's probably what did it.


i dont know about the lower mounts but the 2 upper mounts have quite a bit of play in them. you could very well be correct. what are ya gonna do... :D

solid mounts :D

solid mounts :D

ehh...with solid mounts i doubt there would be anything left of my tranmission. :D f***in' pontiac...

hahaha true



fuck the fast and the furious 3.... (just saw a commercial for it)

fuck the fast and the furious 3.... (just saw a commercial for it)

http://www.starterupsteve.com/flash/html/3_3ast_3_3urious.shtml

:iceslolan

you probably already saw that, but its funny

hahaha not until now... that's awesome