Last I remember-there’s a new ring and pinion set/Tarc lok rebuild kit sitting on the shelf- talk the Beamer shop manager into having the techs change it for ya this week
Oh,and +1 on the knock off muffler-my Thrush-Masters have looked new for at least three years now
Traction loc was rebuilt after I had the loose bolt incident last year. I also upgraded the stock damaged rear cover where a ring gear bolt shot through when it got flung at the cover) to a girdle style.
Drain, inspect, refill (assuming you find nothing wrong), you could get that done in a night or two after work? Youre starting to sound like me... Torque box reinforcements have taken me 6 weeks and counting.
I intend to do that very thing.
You cannot use my example when comparing each other. Unless you either wanna wait 30 more years, when you'll be 60, or have me compare my work ethic when I was 30 something.
let's use me at 35. ( I'll probably never see 90)
Well make this a Father's Day themed thing.
When I was 35 #1 was born. #2 came 5 years later.
When I was 35 I had the black/white zep that is my avatar. I sold that car w/I months of him being born thinking that " fathers had to be responsible, and shouldn't be wasting time and money on a toy now that a new baby was in the picture".
I had 10k in that car,....it was my very first work of "Mike art", it was my first mini tub, it's where I learned to weld, my first interior swap from a different donor, it was my first roller cammed car, my first Windsor with a set of aftermarket heads, My first car with a race prepped c4, it was my first 11 second car.
I sold it for 5500.
After Sean was sleeping through the night, and life stopped being hell, I very quickly realized that nothing in my life had really changed.......except I didn't have that car.
I bought my very first fox one year later. A 1980 4 cylinder notch. In 1993.
By 1995 the car was running. It was the polar opposite of the zep.
It had a flat tappet cam , vacuum secondary carb, dual plane intake, stock rebuild 460 police interceptor with two stacked nitrous plates, a c4, and a narrowed 9". It had a tri-color MAACO paint job, ( a kind of "gay pride" theme that was pink champagne, purple and maroon) and A very expensive set of Centerline set of wheels.
(The moral to the above was that the entire car was built in less than two years)
It was faster on the motor than the zep was sprayed. I wrecked it at the drag strip one month later trying to use the second stage nitrous system in a grudge race against a friend. " I guess I should've kept my mouth shut when I started to brag about my car."
I had the car towed home, found a new recipient, (a Fairmont shell that was owned by the guy that made the name Holman and Moody a legend in the 60's) Ralph Moody was sitting on the car in anticipation of using it as a drag car. I was calling him to ask for advice as to why he thought I kept blowing the freeze plugs out of the 460 every time I attempted to use the second stage)
I went to Atlanta with a trailer, paid the man 200.00 for the Futura shell, learned about Excessive nitrous use vs too much timing, and not enough octane and proceeded to transfer the running gear out of the wrecked "gay stang" into the ex-moody fairmont.
By 1997 the car was recampained. Only this time with a seperate fuel system for the nitrous and a timing retard box. This time sporting aluminum mini spares as front runners, weld drag lites that I turned shiny side in ( because the back spacing was better that way) and....painted Porsche Guards red....by,....MAACO.
It got named........ashamedly......."FireFox"
It was my first 9 second car, it was my first really violent wheel stand, it was my first catastrophic engine failure.
It got sold for 6000.
( The moral to the above story was that ANOTHER car got completely scratch built in under two years)
I could go on, as there will be another car every two years, but I'll just list them to shorten the story.
Blue/white Zephyr 1999 drag car
White purple Mitsubishi Starion 2003 drag car
Blue Black Chrysler Conquest in 2005 street car
Drag race version of the above car ( the one you've seen in the pics) 2007.
Orange Black 86 Mustang Drag car 2008
1953 Studebaker street rod 2008-2010
Red 89 mustang Mach 1.
Current orange Monster.
And,...in between all of that are 2 2005 Pontiac GTO's, a 2008 Pontiac G8, and of course the shortest lived car I ever owned..
A 2003 Cobra.
All this to say that "When I was your age, you didn't see me sitting around playing video games, and texting your BFF's, so stop your
footin around, and get your car done,...you damn kids!"
I play video games every once in a while. Usually online with my nephew or maybe a cousin from out of state. I dont see an issue with being gamer, but these days people make it their entire existence. So maybe in moderation?