joesurf79

You can have my uhaul reservation now. Found a good deal on "yon listeth of Craigery". The wife modeling the trailer while I hold the baby - what a team!

Wierd, I called uhaul at 4pm-ish and got one reserved Thursday evening through Sunday night without a hitch...Pun intended. #dadjokes 😉 Thanks for the offer BTW Cliff!!

In and instructing! Time to meet / drive with some more TJs in person ;)

I'm in. I'll be headed up from Sugar Land Friday morning I hope. Need to get a trailer rented licktey split. Actually what I need to do is buy a trailer, but time to shop for one is hard to come by these days - totally a first world problem.

So I think I found part of the water entry problem. Pulled the soft top and frame out in the effort to replace the ancient vinyl / silicone plug job I had going on. There are rumored to be supposed to be drain holes under those piles, consisting of: 1) Leaves 2) Mud 3) A carpet scrap? 4) Plastic pop clips 5) BOTH plastic seatbelt guide covers 6) Part of a Wristband...hoping it was at least track related. So as per usual car work protocol, a job that the internet said would be 3 hours, that I then instinctively budgeted 5 hours for, took all day. Finding rusty covers etc took time to strip, prime, paint, etc. Cleaned up the top frame, pained a few tiny rust spots. The random trim pieces had some small rust bubbles. All corrected. This was supposed to be the rented mule of cars. Gotten for a song and beaten mercilessly. Why can I not actually do that? Why do I have this innate need to find problems, struggle with them, solve them? Why do I love this plucky little salvage title red roadster so much?

Plus trailer...doubting the legitness now lol

Should an F350 dually with a goose neck, be towing the 5 chevy equinoxes on the two level car hauler? Not sure, but the driver was having a chat with Sugar Land's finest. I'm sure its legit.

You camera setup looks really stable, I like it! And it seems to pan a little with steering angle? What is going on there...or did someone put something in the Keurig in the break room they shouldn't have lol?

E85 tune is almost completely dialed, a little bit of splitter trimming coming, few odds and ends to round up and BAM! Car should be ready to take out again. In other news - Jake had his first track experience. Slept right through it lol

I have not laughed this much in a while...The like quota is hitting hard today! The Luby's line got me, Lobster :) I can see corvette guy's wife in a corvette jacket in the passenger seat, rambling about mac & cheese and sweet tea.

We can trade caged white cars, and I'll shoulder that crushing load of ridicule for you...I'll even wear the jorts non-ironically. Just saying.

Man! I leave for one second and someone beats me to the oxidizers ;) Hypergolics man, How do you think we got the moon? Wait - we went right?

BTW - a flaming train under the influence of gravity alone (in a vacuum), accelerates harder than a BRZ. As does a feather, and egg, and most definitely a Corvette.

Thanks for Keeping it light Dave...now I have Jalapeno Chips in my Keyboard. And it was worth it ;) Also, Ahmad, you have a Vette yet ???

Thanks man! I love my car, don't get me wrong. Even after spending corvette money to go miata "fast". If I learn to drive someday that might change... but ...i'm not under any illusions regarding where it falls in the hierarchy of fastness? I have a blast working on it, did it all my way, and enjoy the crap out of it. OP in my perfect 20/20 hindsight... ...i'm not a great driver, and the BRZ takes one to turn Corvette times. That tire shredding LS plays the "song of my people". I could turn the same lap times and have a radio to blast Slayer, trolling the other people at the grid !? ;) Your 3-4 track days a year goal in a fun street toy mandate that you BUY THE VETTE. I'll help you look