My Road Trip to Fort Collins Colorado

Melt

10-20-2002, 06:42 PM

Anyhow, just got back from my trip to fort collins, CO. Put about 2200 miles on the ride, got lots of pics, Took about 2 days to get there lol, but I did go pretty fast. I got from Napa to Salt Lake City in 9 hours. Had the cruise set around 90 the entire time. Anyways when I was in wyoming (crappy state, no offense to anyone who lives there) I decided to find out if my car has a limiter or not. Well I am happy to say it doesent. I took it up to about 120 and then backed off cause I saw some flashing lights up ahead (construction crew)

I did manage to snap this pic :D :D

kris

10-20-2002, 06:51 PM

Nice pic, crazy driver. :rolleyes: :finger:

GTA

10-20-2002, 06:55 PM

heheh....nice pic.:) have fun on your trip???

Melt

10-20-2002, 06:58 PM

Originally posted by kris
Nice pic, crazy driver. :rolleyes: :finger:

Have you been to wyoming? The entire state is by my defintion, "the cuts" Anyhow, that pic was taken at approx 7:30 AM in the morning, with no other traffic on the road, and I could see for miles, so nobody was in danger of anything. Just wanted to clear that up before people like boingo82 and taranaki come up in here and whore this thread up with bullshit about speed laws.

Now that thats out of the way, I will post more pics of my trip later.

EFsleeper

10-20-2002, 06:59 PM

I would like to point out the finely mounted cell phone in place of commonly used tach. Being an OG, Melts gotta keep dibs on his hoes! Congrats on the top end. Hope you had fun.

kris

10-20-2002, 07:01 PM

Originally posted by Melt

Have you been to wyoming? The entire state is by my defintion, "the cuts" Anyhow, that pic was taken at approx 7:30 AM in the morning, with no other traffic on the road, and I could see for miles, so nobody was in danger of anything. Just wanted to clear that up before people like boingo82 and taranaki come up in here and whore this thread up with bullshit about speed laws.

Now that thats out of the way, I will post more pics of my trip later.

lol, I have been through wyoming plenty of times. :D That's the best state to test your speedo. :D

kidrocket

10-20-2002, 07:10 PM

i test my speedo all the time in school zones, and 30 mph limits all the time. and if you think im serious, you are a dumb fuck

Melt

10-20-2002, 07:21 PM

Originally posted by EFsleeper
I would like to point out the finely mounted cell phone in place of commonly used tach. Being an OG, Melts gotta keep dibs on his hoes! Congrats on the top end. Hope you had fun.

LOL, funny thing is I didnt have any service in NV, or WY. I had the cell in the cup holder, but when ever there was a cup in the cupholder, I had to relocate it to up there. :D

Melt

10-20-2002, 07:31 PM

Originally posted by 88CiViC_DX
heheh....nice pic.:) have fun on your trip???

Yea, my trip was pretty cool, I got to check out Colorado State which is a pretty cool campus, I would never go there though, out of state tuition is 26k / year!! :eek: But I was well known on the 8th floor of Westfall Hall (dorm) by the time I left. Lots of girls, some beer, great food. Oh man, it was a good time. I went up there to visit one of my friends from high school who attends, shes gotten kinda homesick and wants to come back to CA. I had my quarter break and nothing better to do so I decided to mob up.

I might go again during 3rd quarter break (mar or apr, I aint sure) but probably wont. Lots of miles, cost about $120 in gas and then there is the $60 or so I also spent on food, a motel room, and an oil change (in wyoming it was being sluggish and my car was due, after the oil change I came to the realization that its the high elevation and not my oil)

Funny thing though, when I got to carlin NV (about halfway through NV) I stopped at a gas station and when I went to check the engine, some smoke came out which smelled like oil (I know cause my 73 MGB-GT had a blown headgasket) and I looked under and the car was leaking a little bit of oil. The engine was new at 100k miles, could it be burning oil already? I had the cruise set at 85 for about 4 hrs straight before I got to that station, could that be it? I also wont completely rule out the possibility that pepboys overfilled my car during the previous oil change. The midas guy (current oil change) said something about some main seal leaking, how hard would that be to fix?

MyFirst4G

10-20-2002, 09:17 PM

Damnit, you beat my 105 pic!!!! ERR.... well, i'll beat you damnit, if its the last thing i dooooo!!!!!!

Melt

10-21-2002, 01:19 AM

Originally posted by MyFirst4G
Damnit, you beat my 105 pic!!!! ERR.... well, i'll beat you damnit, if its the last thing i dooooo!!!!!!

Yea, take that sucka:finger:

Update on the oil thing, my dad said it could be that during one of the oil changes they spilled some and the engine hasnt had the chance to get hot enough to burn it off, and now its just getting gone, so that could be it too.

H4Bangin

10-21-2002, 06:17 AM

the tranny would have to be removed to get to the rear main seal

ya those dumb asses probly didnt clean up the oil that spilled down the back of ur block when they removed the filter.

91zc

10-21-2002, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by Melt
The midas guy (current oil change) said something about some main seal leaking, how hard would that be to fix?

Depends on which main seal you are talking about...front or rear. The front is behind the crank pulley and the rear is behind the flywheel. The front main seal obviously would be much easier to change.

Melt

10-21-2002, 07:08 PM

Aight g's, I got pictures. They are up on imagestation, heres the link, you gotta get an account to view em which is free. If you dont wanna do that bullshit, you can wait till I link em all and throw em up in here cause once they are here I will caption everything so they will make more sense. I took a lot of shots out of the car lol.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291220611

MyFirst4G

10-21-2002, 09:28 PM

Holy shit, those are some cool pics, you really do live in the boon docks!!! lol, well, there were some funny ass cars there, the funniest one was "DSC00157" because its the T-Bird with the TYPE R sticker and Kanji lettering and APC stickers all over it, madd funny! Oh, and who's the girl, she's cute...... Is she your girl??? Oh, and i like the Mountain Tunnel pics, those look cool, i wanna go through one!!!!! :)

ci5ic

10-21-2002, 09:57 PM

Melt, you'll take a picture of anything (or nothing), huh?... :silly2:

cool, sounds like you had some fun!

Really liked this picture though:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/226679typeRford.jpg

MyFirst4G

10-21-2002, 09:59 PM

Originally posted by ci5ic
Melt, you'll take a picture of anything (or nothing), huh?... :silly2:

cool, sounds like you had some fun!

Really liked this picture though:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/226679typeRford.jpg

Yea, thats the pic i was talkin about, funny rite?? HAHAHAHA, LOL

Melt

10-21-2002, 10:35 PM

None of those pics took place inside napa. I drove through the cuts to get out there.

I thought you guys would like the T-bird.

The girl is the friend I went to go visit, I wouldnt say she is "my" girl we have just been close friends for a while and shes a little homesick so I figured I would be a nice guy and shmob out there during my quarter break.

I got school tommorow :apuke: and so I will be sure to throw the pics up in here during a break or something like that.

Originally posted by ci5ic
Melt, you'll take a picture of anything (or nothing), huh?...

Yea, I know. I guess I like getting pics of the roads and stuff.

What did you guys think of the black 4th gen sedan? I thought it looked nice and clean for a DX.

H4Bangin

10-22-2002, 04:03 AM

Damn dude u sure do take alot of pics of the road:smoker:

dumpedhatch

10-22-2002, 01:44 PM

damm........thats a lot of pics of nothing. but there are some good ones. like the t-bird. i remeber living in the dorms. best time of my life.

Melt

10-22-2002, 02:42 PM

TrailerParkJake

10-22-2002, 02:50 PM

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/pa89459609c81d7de4034e922d7c324da/fd239c7c.jpg
:coolguy:

TrailerParkJake

10-22-2002, 02:51 PM

oh yeah, you gotta take that space out thats between [img] and the link so they all will work :(

Melt

10-22-2002, 02:54 PM

Fixed. :o

MyFirst4G

10-22-2002, 09:41 PM

YO, first, RA means resident advisor, its for Dorming things..... yea, and i like this pic of the antenna, its madd funny!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid36/pfaaca1b4d830cd8d1b981d066d602203/fd239a0a.jpg

Oh, and i would never see things like you have seen in your whole trip out here in NY!!!! Damn, it would be really interesting to go out west!

dfarres

10-23-2002, 12:37 PM

WOW, reminds me of my trip. I flew out to Wisconsin & drove back with my sister-in-law to help her move back home. I have some of the same pics. I also have that weird tennis ball thing. Hey Melt, did u stop at the rest stop with the Abe Lincoln statue (the highest elev. on 80)?

Melt

10-23-2002, 01:14 PM

Originally posted by dfarres
. Hey Melt, did u stop at the rest stop with the Abe Lincoln statue (the highest elev. on 80)?

Donner Summit?

Melt

11-06-2002, 12:58 AM

yet another meaninigless bump while looking for pics :p ;)

Melt

01-15-2003, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by Melt
yet another meaninigless bump while looking for pics :p ;)

And another :p :o

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My Road Trip to Fort Collins Colorado