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[Squerly]

Here's your chance to get some free advertising for your business (or for the company you work for.)

I own an ACH Processing company. We have a small IT department that creates specialized software that converts paper checks into electronic transactions, and then we process these transactions through the ACH network or Check 21 networks.

What do the rest of you do? (insert shameless plugs below...)

[Squerly]

11 views and not even one post. What... you all unemployed?

[panozracing]

I am a custom Home Builder and sub contractor to other builders.

[feqrags]

Farm wheat and grain sorgum--day job own and operate farm equipment dealership. And its 300 miles to the nearest track (eagles canyon, decater tx) Bill (we will ship!!)

[Craig245]

Originally Posted by Squerly

11 views and not even one post. What... you all unemployed?

I retired 4 years ago from an engineering company I owned. Now it seems that all I do is break cars. This month I broke three in three consecutive weekends, a GT-350 at Laguna Seca (the SBF, 289, just gave up and dropped 3 out of four webs), the next weekend it was my 427 Cobra while touring Wine Country in Santa Barbara, it sheared the distributor gear drive pin and required a 180 mile tow home, the last one was the Panoz, blew a head gasket and then over heated at Willow Springs on Mothers day. My girlfriend, a mother of two teenagers, wanted to spend the day at the track driving the Panoz. How lucky can a guy get. So I think my job is fixing cars. I don't have time for a regular job.

Craig

[NZGTRA17]

Originally Posted by Squerly

11 views and not even one post. What... you all unemployed?

Retired from the Air Force at age 38 after serving 19 years an Aircraft Engineer (specialised in structural repair).

Now an independent business consultant mostly specialising in purchasing related negotiations.

Kel.

[NZGTRA17]

Originally Posted by Craig245

I retired 4 years ago from an engineering company I owned. Now it seems that all I do is break cars. This month I broke three in three consecutive weekends, a GT-350 at Laguna Seca (the SBF, 289, just gave up and dropped 3 out of four webs), the next weekend it was my 427 Cobra while touring Wine Country in Santa Barbara, it sheared the distributor gear drive pin and required a 180 mile tow home, the last one was the Panoz, blew a head gasket and then over heated at Willow Springs on Mothers day. My girlfriend, a mother of two teenagers, wanted to spend the day at the track driving the Panoz. How lucky can a guy get. So I think my job is fixing cars. I don't have time for a regular job.

Craig

Jeez Craig, sorry to hear about the 289. Thats what I was expecting my Panoz's 347 to do at the 6 hour. Obviously waiting for a bigger audience.......!!

How many race hours approx do you think the 289 had on it? What sort of rpm's do you turn it to? What sort of hp?

Kel.

[Craig245]

Originally Posted by NZGTRA17

Jeez Craig, sorry to hear about the 289. Thats what I was expecting my Panoz's 347 to do at the 6 hour. Obviously waiting for a bigger audience.......!!

How many race hours approx do you think the 289 had on it? What sort of rpm's do you turn it to? What sort of hp?

Kel.

I race vintage which is strict about originality, so it was a 1966 block. Cams and porting are open but we have to use stock rocker arms and no roller cams. Even so, we figure out how to get 480 hp at 7200 rpm. Eventually those thin two bolt webs give up. I was going to pull it apart at the end of the weekend. I almost had the timing right. The engine had about 30 hours on it.

Craig

[Cobrafang]

By day I work for uncle Sam as an engineer in telecommunications...by night I am trying to raise 4 kids and keep my wife happy...and for three glorious weekends a year I get to pretend to be Mario Andretti.

[Paul Buxe]

I worked for 31 years at Pratt Whitney designing fighter jet gas turbines, the engines that are in the F15, F16 and F22. I now work for a gas turbine engineering out source company designing gas turbines for anybody willing to pay (GE, Pratt Whitney, Rolls Royce, Solar, Honeywell, and a bunch of crazy people that come in with very strange ideas and $$$), hoping to retire next year and spend my children’s inheritance.

[Panoz26]

I come from a Technology background - currently employed to sell, design, implement DataCenter Infrastructure Solutions (Hardware, Software, Services).

I see a ton of Engineers on here - this explains the quality and detail of the posts and intelligence on this board! (that was a compliment).

[Cobra4B]

I'm a financial analyst for a local petroleum company.... my father, who posts once in awhile, is the President of a regional textile company.

[eric1h]

Originally Posted by NZGTRA17

Retired from the Air Force at age 38 after serving 19 years an Aircraft Engineer (specialised in structural repair).

Now an independent business consultant mostly specialising in purchasing related negotiations.

Kel.

New Zealand has an air force? I thought they just had an army of trolls and hobbits! ;-)

[eric1h]

I'm a drug dealer...

At least that's what most of my neighbors think!

I work for the biggest, most influential software since Microsoft and Google, that almost no one has ever heard of called VMware.
I manage co-engineering(IT engineering/architecture) between my company and IBM.

Mostly I just stay home and work on the race car!

[NZGTRA17]

Originally Posted by eric1h

New Zealand has an air force? I thought they just had an army of trolls and hobbits! ;-)

Yes Eric, hard to believe but true!!

Just think of it a bit like the sort of air force the US would have put on a tiny atoll back in 1970........... Huey helicopters, C130 Hercs, P3 Orions, Seasprite helicopters and of course we used to have A4 Skyhawks until a previous Labour government scrapped the strike force. Do you know how many sheep a country has to sell to buy a decent strike aircraft these days??!!

But the really good bit Eric, is that even though the gear may be old, most of it is in better condition than a lot of far newer stuff they operate with and against in exercises. They regularly beat out other top air forces (US included) for top awards for flying skill and ground crew performance.

Nice to hear that you have watched the Lord of The Rings trilogy. Pretty good huh? Possibly our best export, except perhaps for Scott Dixon