Build Thread Enola- Finishing touches

stykthyn · Aug 8, 2016

a91what said:
eerrrr uhhh thanks?

i guess

WTF...... summers-eve mofo's

Just keepin it fresh

Boosted92LX · Aug 8, 2016

stykthyn said:
2 turntables and a microphone

Where it's at.

Boosted92LX · Aug 8, 2016

@a91what where did the turbo plan go?

a91what · Aug 8, 2016

Boosted92LX said:
@a91what where did the turbo plan go?

WIFE. ..... yup there it went.

For now, she wants me to "enjoy" my car instead of working on it.... I didn't know those too things were different.

But.... apparently they are. For now it's cosmetic bull chit, until I get my shop done. then her 72vw bus..... then my turbo....

Boosted92LX · Aug 8, 2016

a91what said:
WIFE. ..... yup there it went.

For now, she wants me to "enjoy" my car instead of working on it.... I didn't know those too things were different.

But.... apparently they are. For now it's cosmetic bull chit, until I get my shop done. then her 72vw bus..... then my turbo....

Soooooo... no turbo.

a91what · Aug 8, 2016

Boosted92LX said:
Soooooo... no turbo.

at least not for a little while.

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 8, 2016

a91what said:
at least not for a little while.

Good, that means that we all have that much time left on Earth before Steve creates the Mother of All Bombs.....

My advice up until then,.....

Bottled water,..and M.R.E.s. Lot's of it. Stored in a blast proof, ventilated, sub-terrainian shelter.

Stock up before Steve forces compressed air into another machine that compresses air, and basically starts what will come to be known as Judgement day,IV...The Resurgence of Windsor.

Winter's coming,....and the night is dark, and full of terrors....

a91what · Aug 8, 2016

Mike you must be a real trip to hang out with.

Boosted92LX · Aug 8, 2016

a91what said:
Mike you must be a real trip to hang out with.

I want to sit and drink with him. Still regretting not stopping in a few years back when I was on that end of the country. Schedule was killing me and I couldn't.

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 8, 2016

a91what said:
Mike you must be a real trip to hang out with.

I'm nothing special w/o the benefit of a keyboard.

Unless of course you just happen to have a cardboard box.

Then I'll put that on my head so you wont take compromising pics of me sitting w/ a finger in my compressor.

Davedacarpainter · Aug 8, 2016

Don't listen to that bs, both he and his wife are great people.

Yes, he is a smartas s. But a clever one.

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 8, 2016

Davedacarpainter said:
Don't listen to that bs, both he and his wife are great people.

Yes, he is a smartas s. But a clever one.

Smart enough to know that the language filter doesnt give a rat's red bunion hole about the word...

Smart ass

Your over thinking things Dave.

stykthyn · Aug 9, 2016

madmike1157 said:
Good, that means that we all have that much time left on Earth before Steve creates the Mother of All Bombs.....

My advice up until then,.....

Bottled water,..and M.R.E.s. Lot's of it. Stored in a blast proof, ventilated, sub-terrainian shelter.

Stock up before Steve forces compressed air into another machine that compresses air, and basically starts what will come to be known as Judgement day,IV...The Resurgence of Windsor.

Winter's coming,....and the night is dark, and full of terrors....

krazedstang · Aug 11, 2016

HOLY CHIT, It took me a few days but I got through all 41 pages of this! Some of you may have noticed me randomly liking a comment from way back when.

mikestang63 · Aug 11, 2016

krazedstang said:
HOLY CHIT, It took me a few days but I got through all 41 pages of this! Some of you may have noticed me randomly liking a comment from way back when.

We just thought you are a really slow reader

krazedstang · Aug 11, 2016

mikestang63 said:
We just thought you are a really slow reader

I thought that was a given?

a91what · Aug 19, 2016

Okay guys so I think the car officially needs a cage. I had a meeting after work one town over had enough time to go home and get a shower so I decided to take the Mustang. The meeting took forever almost 5 hours and it rained while I was inside. About two hours after it quit raining I was on my way home and merging onto the Interstate. Traffic in the center lane was coming up very fast so I downshift into 4th gear at about 45 miles an hour and lay my foot into it. At about 2500 rpm the tires broke loose and the car started bouncing off the rev limiter luckily I kept my cool and just push the clutch in to keep the car from ending up in the center median. After I shifted into 5th gear I was doing about 80 miles an hour and it occurred to me that this thing makes way too much power to roll around without a cage if I hadn't kept my composure I might not be here right now. Definitely need to respect the car more

stykthyn · Aug 19, 2016

Not disagreeing with safety precautions but don't most cages and crash bars become shrapnel on a street vehicle?

CarMichael Angelo · Aug 20, 2016

I think a cage in a street car is no different than a cage in a race car. Stock cars get T-boned by other stock cars all the time, as well as absorbing the impact of that ar, these cars also slam into walls t almost 200 MPH. Only difference is,...a typical stock car cage is way different than a typical drag race cage. I don't have to tell you that a stock car cage is like a jungle of bars,...and that would probably be weight, cost, aesthetics, and convenience restrictive to even consider.

So that brings us back to the typical 10 pt drag race cage.

The problem with that when it comes to putting in a 10pt (or more ) cage is that now, even though it could be welded sufficiently to not break when impacted,....Parts of your body will make violent contact with those bars,...Specifically your head. In a race car, you cannot get by w/o wearing a helmet. In a street car, you know you'd never be caught dead wearing one. (literally).

That, and the impact of shoulders, knees and hips, (bone on steel) when the side bars bend when you get side impacted make the whole idea of a cage in a street car a really bad idea.

Better to stay out of the gas on a freshly dried up road, and avoid the median,..than to put a 10 pt bar in there under the pretense that you'll be good when you hit it.

There are thousands of cars running around w/ at least a 6-8 pt roll bar w/ standard diagonals running to the floor. Alot of those bars have been bent to make getting in/out of the seat more easy.
I'd be inclined to say that a bar like this would be "safer" than a version that has a halo above your head, and the standard diag bars that will just be beggin' to make contact with the side of your body when Granma runs a redlight, while textin her BFF.

a91what · Aug 20, 2016

Well seeing that it's a convertible I never considered a full cage. A 6 point at most. Couple the fact that my wife wants to drive the car as well.... I don't think she could have recovered the car from 70+mph wheel spin.

Build Thread Enola- Finishing touches

stykthyn

I want to measure mine. It doesn't look that tall.

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

a91what

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Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

a91what

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CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

a91what

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Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

Davedacarpainter

Chicks can make things hard if they’re inspired...

CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

stykthyn

I want to measure mine. It doesn't look that tall.

krazedstang

mikestang63

krazedstang

a91what

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stykthyn

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CarMichael Angelo

my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

a91what

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