Banter Thread Part 3 (Back with a Vengeance, this time its personal)

Trance seems to be more mellow and soothing to me... Techno is more upbeat and jump around music. lol

haha, on X doesnt everything seem better? :P

i actually use the terms interchangeably.. but techno is more pumpy..and bam! and trance is..trance-like. its smooth

so, me and Jason (the guy i work with) have been running the tyre shop alone this week, and we've made a $7,275 turnover this week (with 3 quiet days) plus some money in cash. today alone we turned over more than $3,200.

we'll be running it alone next week too, as the boss doesn't get back until the 3rd. we're doing damn well, and the boss is well pleased!

Send some of that cash my way.

i only have my nice $400 pile of cash.. :grinno:

i think i should buy myself some nice tyre levers, and sell them to my boss' business partner for twice the price.

we have a nice tyre lever and a shitty one. usually you only need one, but sometimes for low profiles and run-flats you need two people, and two levers.

usually, you only need the lever to take the tyre off.

Yeah, well, I need some food. I haven't eaten anything in 12 hours. I ate breakfast, worked, got home, worked out, and have been sitting on my ass since. I did consume some creatine though.

I just slept for 15 hours... It was crazy, but it felt good after going a few days with only an hour here or there...

Now its back to work for another 3 days in an hour here... :(

I seriously need a new job...

Speaking of sleep, I just woke up from a nap. I nap too much, but it was good. Now I won't be able to sleep tonight. Oh well...

So what the heck is up with all the new people?

It seems like we have had 20 people all start posting in here in the last week. Most of them seem like idiots, except for Mr. and Mrs. Azrael who seem like awesome people.

Yeah, that portland person has some irritating questions. But I'm sure I did too when I first joined. I miss some of the old members.

Ya know, back in the day I started out here in the F-body section when I joined. The guys way back then were really super nice. They didn't bash on me or anything when I was new. They accepted me and treated me as I was the same as any of them. It was a good feeling...

Of course that was pre fast and furious days... After that, it just seemed to bring out the ricer in most... :disappoin

I try not to judge any members right away, cause you never know what kind of knowledge a new member may bring with them. But sometimes we do have to weed out the bad ones...

As for portland5... Wow... I just don't know what to say about him... But I'm not gonna jump into any major conclusions yet. I wanna see how he explains to me the purpose of his most recent thread... :uhoh:

i'm bored, and very lonely.

this sucks.

i just got back from an engineering camping thing, i haven't been sober since friday at 2pm, it was amazing.

my muffler fell off my car, i had to reattach it but i think it broke a hole somewhere because it sounds like a fucking ricer POS. also i had to push-start it today because someone left the key in with the radio going and stuff

ooh.. my mum bought me some nice new Sennheiser headphones.

and i just spent $400 on tools. a top-quality 22-piece metric combination spanner (wrench) set. and two tyre levers.

i'm going to try flog the levers to my boss, sell them for twice the price..

ooh.. my mum bought me some nice new Sennheiser headphones.

and i just spent $400 on tools. a top-quality 22-piece metric combination spanner (wrench) set. and two tyre levers.

i'm going to try flog the levers to my boss, sell them for twice the price..

LOL at "mum," "tyre," and "flog"

Ya know, back in the day I started out here in the F-body section when I joined. The guys way back then were really super nice. They didn't bash on me or anything when I was new. They accepted me and treated me as I was the same as any of them. It was a good feeling...

Of course that was pre fast and furious days... After that, it just seemed to bring out the ricer in most... :disappoin

I try not to judge any members right away, cause you never know what kind of knowledge a new member may bring with them. But sometimes we do have to weed out the bad ones...

As for portland5... Wow... I just don't know what to say about him... But I'm not gonna jump into any major conclusions yet. I wanna see how he explains to me the purpose of his most recent thread... :uhoh:


STFU riceboy!!!

:uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh:

LOL at "mum," "tyre," and "flog"

when i move, i'll educate North America on how to speak, read and write proper English.

^Are those words actually in the dictionary? lol

yes..

when i move, i'll educate North America on how to speak, read and write proper English.

An english guy came into my hardware store and asked for a 11mm spanner... I stared at him for probably 5 seconds, with a blank look on my face until I realized he was asking for a wrench.

you're not so bright, huh?

i paid the extra $25 for next-day delivery, because i'm impatient.

hehe! my spanners arrive tomorrow.

lol .so thats why my fobby asian dad calls them spanners.. ill be darned. =P


i was always like eh? where did 'spanners' come from? since american(better) english uses 'wrenches'

lol jk ;P

i want to learn to speak with a british accent.. not one of those fakey ones eithier. i want to live there for a bit just to pick it up..

and then pick up chicks with it;]

lmao

i want to learn to speak with a british accent.. not one of those fakey ones eithier. i want to live there for a bit just to pick it up..


Same here. Actually I want to pick up an Irish accent. I freakin love the movie Boondock Saints. I might take a 2 week vacation to Ireland to get one.

that movie was on spike yesterday. gotta love the bartender with terrets :lol: . i got a relitive coming from australia in october for a visit. i bet i'll start randomly using australian words.

i want to learn to speak with a british accent.. not one of those fakey ones eithier. i want to live there for a bit just to pick it up..

and then pick up chicks with it;]

lmao

Having a british accent is cheating.

1 - you can't pick up an accent in 2 weeks, it takes years if you can pick one up at all.

2 - Irish accent won't help you pick up chicks.

hehe you'd be suprised abt it..

i live in hawaii and most of us speak two or more languages.. whenever i speak with someone w. an accent i somehow find myself speaking back to them in the same accent. its weird.. maybe its cuz i speak jap.. and english..and when im using engRish.. i have a jap accent.. lolz

1 - you can't pick up an accent in 2 weeks, it takes years if you can pick one up at all.
When my cousins visit from Texas for about a month, I always end up picking it up from being around them...

hehehe..

i bought two tyre levers for £35.60 and sold them to my boss for £50!

yes wai.

ooh.. my mum bought me some nice new Sennheiser headphones.

and i just spent $400 on tools. a top-quality 22-piece metric combination spanner (wrench) set. and two tyre levers.

i'm going to try flog the levers to my boss, sell them for twice the price..

What model of cans did you get?

I personally use the HD580's.

you bastid! im tellin the boss (try say it with the italian accent so it sounds like a gangster movie..)

:P

What model of cans did you get?

I personally use the HD580's.

cans? headphones?

i have no idea. they're black in-ear ones with the rubbery thing to get rid of outside noise.

cans? headphones?

i have no idea. they're black in-ear ones with the rubbery thing to get rid of outside noise.

Yes, cans is another term for headphones, although it used mostly by audio nuts like myself.

I was thinking headphones as the nice sennheiser over hear home ones, not the ear bud ones. :banghead:

YAY! The movie '300' comes out on DVD tomorrow. A friend and I are going to get it in the morning, then watch it after we get off work. Sweet movie. Only movie better that it is Transformers; which I need to see in theaters again.

300 was an awesome movie... I just wish it could have gone longer into more of the history before and after... because there was a lot more to it

300 was good, don't know if i'll go right out and buy it though. i got a copy of transformers, after seeing it in theaters 4 times. it had to have been filmed in a theater over seas cause you can hear people in the audience speaking in sweedish :lol:

YAY! The movie '300' comes out on DVD tomorrow. A friend and I are going to get it in the morning, then watch it after we get off work. Sweet movie. Only movie better that it is Transformers; which I need to see in theaters again.

I've had it on dvd for ~1.5months.....:uhoh:

Well, I'm a lawful citizen who doesn't have it yet...but I will in about 10 hours. I think I appreciate the movie more because of its history, but even if it was a fiction film, I still would have enjoyed it because the action sequences were freakin' amazing.

Shit...

I think I killed my Firebird on the way home from work this morning... I stopped at an intersection and I lost all oil pressure, but it was too late. It went BANG! and started smoking a lot... Despite this, I gave it the most hardcore drive ever from that intersection to my house since I was only like 2 minutes away...

Yeah, something blew out under the hood and I had oil all over the drivers side of the motor and surrounding accessories and in the front of the motor... The entire exhaust is covered in oil and the backside of the car has a good bit on it...

It was truly an amazing final run and it was completely gutless the whole way. lol

So, it looks like I am gonna be in need of a new car a lot sooner than I was expecting... I was hoping on getting my Talon finished before this would happen, but its still got at least 2 or 3 more weeks to go... (If this one company would ever send me the damn wiring harness I need for it)

So... I wonder what I should look at getting... If I get another car thats only getting 15.8mpg then it better be a Z28 or a Trans Am. lol

Ah what a wonderful day... lol

Tossed a rod no doubt. :eek:

Damn, that sucks. Hell of a coincidence though, my 89 bird almost suffered the same fate last monday morning. I stopped at an intersection, heard a rapid tic-tic-tic, looked at my oil pressure gauge, and it was at zero. SHIT! I pull into the gas station on the corner, check the oil and it was empty. I went in, bought some, and filled it up, and it was fine after that. Odd thing was i had checked the oil 2 days before and it was full, and it never lost any this week after the incident.

i like putting tyres on with levers. it's a hell of a lot harder than using the machine, but it's challenging and satisfying when it's done.

i was doing a tyre earlier, and the tyre wasn't going on right, partly because of the tyre soap (we use it to help get the tyre on the wheel) so the wheel was turning but the tyre was stationary. for this, you take a lever (or in this particular case, two.) and get the end in udrer the toe of the wheel, hold it levering down, and rotate the turntable. once that was mostly on, the guide popped off, and to prevent risking damaging the tyre, i finished it with just a lever. carefully levering it bit by bit until it went "pop" and slipped on.

i was happy. i turned to the guy watching me and went "just like that.."

i love my job.

Tossed a rod no doubt. :eek:
No, its not that extreme...

I checked it all out here after I woke up and it seems to have blown out some gasket or something maybe? At first I thought maybe it was a head gasket or something, but I can't find any signs of oil and coolant mixing anywhere. Even if that was the case, it still doesn't explain the bang I heard... I put oil in it and checked to see if it was running out anywhere extreme and saw nothing... So I started it and I didn't have oil pressure at first but then it shot right up where it was supposed to be... Checked for leaks again and nothin... It has a slight ticking to it now, but nothing like if it would be a thrown rod... It seemed to rev and idle alright... I'm afraid to drive it anywhere now... Its just time to retire it now... :disappoin

when i was closing up shop at work a kid came up to me and asked if i could fit a head gasket on a Rover Coupé Turbo.

i think he'd taken his parents' car for a spin when they were away and blew the head gasket, or something like that. there's no way he'd get insured in it, i doubt he was even my age.

well, i think i failed my dynamics test. so yay. :)

fuck:(

Geez its dead around this place lately... Nobody has even posted in the Banter Thread for over 6 hours... I had to break the silence. lol

lol sorry if i ruined the mood with my cheery annoucement of my failing :(

well, i guess im on a different time sched. from you guys so thast my excuse :P
btw, anyone have any GOOD (background sized) Z06 pictures? the C6, not the 5.. i love the C6...cept for the headlights.. not to mention the 100more hp the z06 has..

god. im such a fanboy. if chevy would give a corvette to the kid who wanted it the most, im sure id be up there on the list... :P

lol sorry if i ruined the mood with my cheery annoucement of my failing :(
Ahhhh! Thats not good dude... And why did you fail?


btw, anyone have any GOOD (background sized) Z06 pictures? the C6, not the 5.. i love the C6...cept for the headlights.. not to mention the 100more hp the z06 has..
Here are some nice ones from Google...

Pic1 (http://autoimage.autoweb.cz/ostatni/Chevrolet-Corvette-C6-Z06-014.jpg)
Pic2 (http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/050/937/20060811/dyn004_original_1024_768_pjpeg_50937_7297038926524 5d1655d603d5ed1d5b8.jpg)
Pic3 (http://www.image-serveur.com/uploads/ce5d8074ee.jpg)
Pic4 (http://www.fast-autos.net/data/images/2088.jpg)

And... A few with more of an art aspect to them...

Pic5 (http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/024/d/5/Corvette_Z06_at_New_York_Part3_by_dmanbluesfreak.j pg)(I know its not a c6, but its still a damn sweet picture...)
Pic6 (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs6/f/2006/351/1/e/2007_Z06_Vette_by_Omega300m.jpg)
Pic7 (http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/030/f/3/Modded_Z06_Finished_by_krazykohla.jpg)(Wasn't all too sure on this one, but it looked different so I threw it into the mix here.)

Enjoy! :thumbsup:

I have a bunch of pics of the C6 Z06, but I'm too lazy to upload any.
So, I bought 300 yesterday and my friend had a bunch of people over and we had a 'movie' night. It was fun as hell. I got so hyped after the movie, I started beating people with pillows, I put a girl in a full boston crab, and I stabbed a kid with a needle-nose. It was a good night. And the best part, this chick that I flirt with at work showed up all dressed up and shit. She looked sooo good. I didn't say much to her because everyone was around and she has a b/f. But I just hit on her for fun, but she likes it. :naughty:
And then, after the movie and some goofing around, we watch Eurotrip. We didn't leave his house till 4 in the morning. Never had so much fun staying in. But it was a good break from all the volleyball and basketball that we play almost every night.

i haven't posted much because i'm working so much. got to work at 8:20 this morning, got home at 7:30.

i'm tyred.

I actually got a day off today. I cleaned my room. I just need to run up to autozone and see if their Haynes manual can help me out on my Z. I still can't get a straight answer if the intake manifold bolts/studs are different lengths. The dealership can't help me out because my cars too old. But I've heard that there are specific lengths for specific spots, and I don't know which. I need to know before I finish putting it back together. This sucks.

i'm tyred.
Somehow I saw that cheesy line coming from you... :disappoin :lol: :icon16:

poor, i can help you out, just give me a sec..

http://shbox.com/ci/intake_bolts.jpg
does that help you at all?

Ahhhh! Thats not good dude... And why did you fail?



Here are some nice ones from Google...

Pic1 (http://autoimage.autoweb.cz/ostatni/Chevrolet-Corvette-C6-Z06-014.jpg)
Pic2 (http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images_v2/000/050/937/20060811/dyn004_original_1024_768_pjpeg_50937_7297038926524 5d1655d603d5ed1d5b8.jpg)
Pic3 (http://www.image-serveur.com/uploads/ce5d8074ee.jpg)
Pic4 (http://www.fast-autos.net/data/images/2088.jpg)

And... A few with more of an art aspect to them...

Pic5 (http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/024/d/5/Corvette_Z06_at_New_York_Part3_by_dmanbluesfreak.j pg)(I know its not a c6, but its still a damn sweet picture...)
Pic6 (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs6/f/2006/351/1/e/2007_Z06_Vette_by_Omega300m.jpg)
Pic7 (http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/030/f/3/Modded_Z06_Finished_by_krazykohla.jpg)(Wasn't all too sure on this one, but it looked different so I threw it into the mix here.)

Enjoy! :thumbsup:


thanks! pretty sick pictures.. lol i just photoshopped one to look green..

ahah. ill post it up after i get it on photobucket in multimedia or something..

god i want a z06 already.. yeah, its not good i failed dynamics test.. im getting it back today.. hope its not too low..

Fastener Application -Intake Manifold Bolts/Studs
Torque Value - 71 lb. in. first pass, 35 lb. ft. 2nd pass
Wrench Size - 9/16"
Thread/Pitch/Length(if appl.) - 3/8"-16 x 1.38"

http://shbox.com/ci/intake_sequence.jpg
Install intake manifold. Use of locating studs or dowels on one side will allow you to set the manifold on without wallowing it around and ruining the RTV seal in the middle. (9/16 bolts/studs with thread sealant on them- torque to 71 lb. in. first pass and 35 lb. ft. second pass. Follow the proper sequence for tightening)
It is generally recommended that you let the intake sit 24 hrs for the RTV to cure before you fire it up.

http://shbox.com/ci/ci295.jpg

thanks! pretty sick pictures.. lol i just photoshopped one to look green..

ahah. ill post it up after i get it on photobucket in multimedia or something..

god i want a z06 already.. yeah, its not good i failed dynamics test.. im getting it back today.. hope its not too low..
Ah, your probably one of those kids who were always like, shit I failed it... And then get your paper back with an A on it. lol


I wanna see this picture! Which one did you photoshop?