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We haven't been on the same course in a few years, and I have never seen Mark's Corvette race, so whenever you want to make that a callout?

So you race people who don't know you're racing? If that's not about the most ricer shit. Tell your wife to loan you your balls and buy a cheap toy. :lolguy:

Well a lot of people have more then one car, or their daily is something "fun" or whatever. Why do you think I have 2 cars? Just need to make the Camaro fast again.

Well you and your Dad are cool, but I've never participated at an event where I felt less invited. I mean I'm just such a likable guy and all. and Miata people are the fucking worst, made me hate owning one. A lot of Corvette owners suck too, but it's not nearly as bad.

So I'm sure this will end up in the kitchen anyway, so I'm just going to put my flame suit on and post some dumb shit. I've been thinking alot about some fun activities to occupy my free time and it all comes back to cars. I know that I need to pick something that is fun but also will have people there to be friendly with. I could never get enough street racing back 5-6 year ago, but most of the people I hung out with moved on and I lost my licence so I don't really do that anymore. Drag racing isn't as much fun for me as autocrossing, but the people are way nicer to be around. So my question is this, why are all you autocross fags such dickheads? and why won't any of you drag race guys come try autocrossing? alot of you drag race guys even have the cars that can autocross without issue.

Come on man, where do you think they get the cars that get certified? There will be plenty more.

You could afford autocrossing too, they are very realistic options for anyone. The problem comes about when you're dumb enough to think you can do both, and you have to decide what to spend money on. Of course you could do both with the same stock vehicle, but what's the fun in that?

So if I get my shit together to head to few roadcourses this year are you going?

I was going for what you personally like to do. I've had a lot of fun doing all kinds of stuff, drag racing, street racing, and autocross, but I'd have to vote for road racing edging out drag racing. Both are a blast, and both are legal, which is why if this was discussed 5-6 years ago all I cared about was street racing.

As most of us have gotten older things change, I don't think many of us really street race anymore. So just thought it would be fun to throw up a poll on the subject.

Yeah pretty sure that didn't work out.

The thought of being a pilot has gotten very discouraging reading more and more about it. I'll keep brainstorming ideas, maybe I'll come up with something.

For the record General Motors typically pays .3 of an hour for electrical diag of a component. So while you are correct when the customer is paying, and I rarely charge more then an hour, when GM foots the bill most techs are lucky to break even. Now that's not to say you can't get GM to pay more in certain circumstances but it's few and far between, and requires alot of leg work getting it approved so it's even less beneficial to chase it down unless you have lots of time in something. What's more frustrating is when you can't figure something out, because you'll spend 20-30 minutes on the phone with GM usually getting nowhere. It's simply easier for most techs, myself included, to just throw whatever part makes the most sense. As I've gotten better over the years this has gotten fewer and farther between, but it happens everyday in shops everywhere. So to say it's a flawed system is an understatement. Doesn't help that everyone thinks we're crooks anyway, customers, and GM alike. Oh well, I wasn't going to bitch in this thread but I did anyway.

Yeah I'm not really interested in turning wrenches anymore. I'm looking for alternatives rather then continuing to bitch and whine about this shitty industry. This has alot of appeal, operating something, not trying to repair stuff, less physical stress, not really cusomer service, and not dealing with stupid people on the road. Has alot going for it.

Seems so backwards to get licensed and start instructing without much experience to get experience, but your not the first I've heard that from.

Specifically a pilot. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of getting into that field? From what I have gathered it's not cheap, but something I have an interest in. Trying to get an idea of how one would go about becoming a pilot, obviously it requires going to school as I know some smartass will post that, but I'm looking for specifics a google search isn't going to give me. TIA.

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I'm with you. I understand the thinking that has been talked about in this thread, but we have 4 of our 5 cars paid off. We have basically gotten out of debt with the exception of the house. I like the freedom that gives us financially so as things progress I'll be doing the same thing paying more towards principle. I'd rather have freedom then a bunch of debts to manage. This goes along with the way people look at retirement, do you want a 401k relying on the market thinking your money with grow faster, or do you want your retirement in gold and bonds that is much more of a sure thing. Maybe it's old school versus a more modern outlook, I don't know because I'm no expert. I have little interest in buying new cars every few years, or buying another house either. So I suppose that isn't the norm much anymore either.

Well that's just sad. Never been there but I hate to see it.

UMI and BMR have both come out with watts links now, I'm on the fence about buying one because I really don't need it, but definitely worth a look. Lots more information out there for these compared to the Fays2 parts.

Unless you can find one of SLP's LS6 intakes that were modified for the EGR, that is out. Just about any camshaft is out, and I don't think it would be worth doing since it would be really mild to not have any issues with CARB. So an exhaust and a lid. Then shocks/springs/sway bars, along with SFCs, LCAs, and a panhard rod. There are a tons of options for these things and everyone has their opinions on what's best so pick whatever brand you like. Some cool wheels and tires would be good too, but that's about it for a cruiser with California restrictions.

I've seen A/C compressors lock up and do similar stuff, doubt it given the description of what happened. That video was hard to watch with such a moron. I wouldn't mind looking at it, but it's very likely to need an engine. It sucks that the valve covers aren't super easy to get off. For that reason I'd question how well this shop even diagnosed it. I mean those pay a couple hours to pull and I wouldn't do it for an hour diag, so not sure the situation but I know many techs that would look at that say "internal engien noise" and quote an engine without poping some valve covers off and making sure something didn't just come apart in the valvetrain.

Yes, another fine example of our fucking society.

I'd rather put aftermarket fuel injection on an old small block the use an LT1. LT1s are heavier, computer tech is old, aftermarket isn't fantastic, and over coming some of these shortcomings is costly. As for GM performance if not LS, then old school small block. Old school stuff is cheap and there is so much aftermarket you can buy stuff everywhere. LS stuff is awesome for many reasons, namely for the fact that it has as much performance from the factory as this old stuff that has been modded mildly.

Sadly I think I'd rather have the Ford, the Ram doesn't look all bad, but GM's direction for the last few years is just disappointing. Their cars and trucks have not gotten any more reliable, in alot of cases worse, and the styling just sucks. I guess it just comes down to knowing what to expect from the Ford, and feeling more uneasy about Chrysler products. I can't get the image of rusty ass Rams out of my head. I think the aftermarket will be able to make a Ram or F-150 look alot better, the lines on a Silverado just ruin it.