Geeto67

Dad's done the bigger birds (around 20 lbs), he even bought a bigger pot to do the bigger ones. Never had a problem with the taste (except for that one time he forgot to remove the plastic bag of giblettes) There isn't an issue with under-cooking the center, you just cook longer. The rule of thumb is 3 minutes per lb plus 5 minutes for the bird so at 21 lbs you'd be looking at a cook time of around an hour (68 minutes). With the bigger birds however I find the internal temp is more important than timing it - you want to see a 165 degree internal temp so right around the 50 min hour mark poke it with a meat thermometer. Some people like to do the first five at 325 degrees and then ramp it up to 350 for the remainder, I don't see the point to it. As far as overcooking the outside I personally don't see how, oil and water don't mix so the hot oil will sear the juice into the bird, not pull it out and dry it out like oven roasting will. any escaping juice will sink to the bottom until it becomes steam.

Here are a few of my quick thoughts: 1) Accounting: Keep it separate from your personal finances. Separate bank account, separate books, the whole thing completely separate from your life. Pay yourself a wage out of the account, but don't touch the money until the customer has signed off that the work was done and they are happy with it in case you have to give a refund. Most shops operate with insurance for poor work, but you are self insured doing side work, protect yourself by letting the first couple of jobs build up in the bank account in case you have to pay out. 2) Paperwork: Since this isn't a "legit" business and you don't want to call attention to working out of your garage in a res neighborhood you aren't going to have a standard repair order like a shop would. However, you do want some kind of person to person agreement between the you and the customer to keep the shitbags, I mean angry customers from beating you out of their bill by calling the cops and saying you stole their car. You also want some paperwork in case the customer abandons a car on you and you have to go after them for the money and to take their bucket. Usually these read like "person to person" service contracts (e.g. "I agree to work for this person doing the following jobs to their car...etc") without a specified location. I'll look to see if there are any forms you can use. The other way to do it is to not put anything in writing at all - and just accept that some customers are going to beat you out of money. But they also can't prove you worked on their car without something either (you can't sue them and it's hard for them to sue you). 3) Customers: People fucking suck. I try to see the best in everyone but let's face it there are some people out there that are going to try and fuck you over, and since this is out of your house you don't have the protections of debt collections laws or most courts. Also you don't really want to be working on the brake pads on the local meth head's 1989 Lumina where he tries to pay you in bottlecaps and hep C laden gum heavy blow jobs. To that end my suggestion is to stick to enthusiast groups. I'm sure you know corvette and F body people, and there are like 6 million forums for those cars alone. Let them know you do local side work on the forum including perf work. Once you get a few customers, your rep will grow and more will come. Also work the CCC group, and your close friends and family. It takes time to build a customer base, so don't worry if it seems slow at first. You may not have the protection of the courts, but communities can offer some protection. Also working inside communities keeps the risk exposure lower. you are interviewing the people, not just taking all comers, to figure out if they are going to give you a hard time.

car looks great. How's the clear bra holding up?

I don't know if that's completely true. I think when it comes to old muscle cars a lot of the new generation just got priced out. Personally I am priced out - if I didn't have the the GTO and the collection of parts I have, I don't think I could justify spending the kind of cash one spends on a toy at this stage in my life, even project real GTO's are over $10K, and some of those need really expensive bodywork. This is part of the reason I am actually kind of pissed C3 corvettes are starting to go up in price - they are the last really good chassis muscle/sports cars that were somewhat affordable - 2 years ago running C3's were like $3K and you could have all the same fun as a $40-50K c2 (because they are the same chassis) without the look of the c2. Plus there is the fact that we are all spoiled by how good new cars have gotten. I used to carry a change of clothes with me (at least a shirt) in the GTO because with no A/C and having to run the heat sometimes in summer to keep from overheating I would get out of that car everywhere looking like I just swam the english channel and didn't dry off. I was willing to put up with it in my 20's but as a pirate looks at 40 I start pricing out vintage air setups and looking at how to put junkyard AC in that bucket (or in this case, keep it in deep storage until I get to a place where I can just use it as a weekend toy). As much as a little part of me dies inside when I have to agree with grant on anything - he's right about one thing: he doesn't need a hellkitten crate when he can get everything he needs out of a supra that costs a 1/10th of what a project that uses the hellcrate would cost. I still think he's delusional that he thinks he can build anything as good as the hellcat with his supra - but honestly he doesn't have to for him to get all the enjoyment he needs out of it. People are always going to be into cars, but how they are into cars is constantly evolving. The B18 powered honda civics have been the '27 model T's of the "new generation" for almost 20 years now. Supras, MR2s, WRXs, Fox and SN95 mustangs, EVOs, LS powered anything from the early 2000s - these are the new hot rods. This thing about "millennials" not being into cars is pure bullshit - they just aren't into cars like us middle aged guys were when we were their age because they got priced out and never got the chance to spend time around carbs and v8s. Through out the history of hot rodding nobody started out with any money. Those old 1920's and 30's bomb rods were built because you could buy model T's and A's for $15-$30 in the 1950's and 60's. And even when they were finished they weren't worth all that much. The future of hot rodding used to be entirely driven by those of meager means, that's changed some, but there will always be guys with more innovation than cash willing to make old junk go fast - it's just different junk.

price to pay for being baller as fuck. I don't think the stock ones are a "true" beadlock - they can be converted to a true beadlock with the ford racing beadlock rings but as they come they shouldn't require the periodic re-torquing

most were GL1000/GL1100 Gold Wing powered, though I have seen at least one CB750 engined one. If I remember correctly you take the forks off the bike and literally bolt the rest of the motorycle from the neck to the rear tire to the tri-magnum chassis. here is a GL1100 powered one: http://barnfinds.com/honda-goldwing-powered-1984-tri-magnum/ apparently they are still for sale: https://www.rqriley.com/tri-mag.html

there is a guy here in Cbus with one. He used to come to some of our motorcycle meets. There is also a Pulsar and my buddy bruce owns a tri-hawk (citroen powered).

I'm just kidding...(though at one point in the 1990's I did almost purchase a set of these for my jeep - you would not believe what a chick magnet they are). I personally feel like the Raptor needs a beadlocking wheel. It's the ultimate OEM 4x4 - it needs ultimate offroad wheels. I kinda like these Weld Racing Rekon XT B58 Beadlock Wheels: http://b.cdnbrm.com/images/products/rell/wheels/rekon_xt_b58_beadlock_wheels_f150_raptor_lifestyle.jpg http://b.cdnbrm.com/images/products/large/wheels/rekon_xt_b58_beadlock_wheels_hero.jpg the lettering on the wheel is cheesy I know, and they are a little flashy, but I dunno - I kinda like 'em. I like these also: http://b.cdnbrm.com/images/products/rell/wheels/rekon_xt_b57_beadlock_wheels_raptor_lifestyle.jpg Rekon XT B57 wheels http://b.cdnbrm.com/images/products/large/wheels/rekon_xt_b57_beadlock_wheels_hero.jpg

It's statements like these that make me glad you don't work in politics and aren't anybody that can shape public policy. Fortunately your opinion is objectively shit - if he held a job (and he did) and paid into our economy he has the same value as any other American doing the same thing. You just don't like him because he's a brown immigrant from a country you can't spell. We need less ill informed angry white guys than we need immigrants. Then don't say so much ill informed, outright ignorant shit.

you buy drugs. Or pay an international ransom.

Ah...misunderstanding of the constitution...the refuge of any modern scoundrel. Let's start with your dumbest statement: How much do you really know about this individual? How about this let me walk you through some highlights: - he's been here for 7 years. - he had prior family here (most of whom live in Miamisburg and Cleveland) - He held a commercial Truck driver's license - he was an uber driver - he passed many background checks - he owned his own business in the past (selling cars) - every single person interviewed who knew him describes him as "hardworking" - he has a wife and kids. You always talk about "merit based" and "background checks" and assimilation, but from the looks of things he wouldn't have had a problem passing any of these prior to this incident. He was a fully functioning member of society, contributed to our society, and assimilated, hardly sounds like "no reason". So I am just going to go out on a limb here and say you are just talking out of your ass and you don't know what you are talking about. Maybe, but highly unlikely through immigration I am going to go out on a limb and just outright say you don't know anything about the diversity visa lottery at all other than the name and your vague understanding of how lotteries work from the one scratcher someone probably gives you on your birthday. The program grants visas to countries that have the lowest immigration rates into the US. Why? because our strength in this nation is our diversity, not our isolationism...oh never-mind...it's just better for everybody involved if we have people in this country that have a different point of view. Is the lottery random? yeah....it randomly selects people who have already met the US's rigorous eligibility and security requirements (which are already really good to the point that despite his bluster trump has not been able to improve on them). Additionally program lottery winners must have the equivalent of a high school education and training or 2 years work experience in a trade (there is that merit you keep harping about) above and beyond what other US immigrants are eligible for. You look at this and you say "Look at this immigration problem" because you literally work hard at ignoring facts that don't support your particular brand of sneaky isolationist racism. Others look at this and see a different problem, the problem of internal radical religious recruitment within the US. It's not a Muslim problem - White supremacists are for the most part christian organizations and contribute the lion's share to the problem. The problem isn't outside our walls, it's inside. Now as for his rights - he was here for 7 years. Whether your ignorant ass thinks he should have been here in the first place or not is irrelevant. He was a valid green card holder on the path to citizenship - he's protected by the constitution as much as you me or anybody else. 27% of the US population are recent immigrants, 2.4 million people immigrated to the US alone in 2016, and yet acts of terror committed by immigrants are the fewest number of acts of terror committed in the US (White supremacists are #1). He didn't come here specifically to do this - the immigration argument has sailed. You are willing to accept a body count for a perceived "right" that nobody gave a shit about until black people started arming themselves, but you are not willing to accept a body count for how this country continues to shit on the rights of others? you want to make a fair comparison: this isn't any different than what happened in Charlottesville, just the flag is different. Same conditions lead to the same conclusions and immigration had nothing to do with it. Funny how Ohio had to do with both though and is also a state struggling with racism and human rights issues. If you are going to accept a body count for 2A, you have to accept a body count from vehicular terrorism as the cost of having cars.

So this is a cost you won't accept but Vegas is a cost you are willing to accept?

I am pretty sure (like 100%) the Bush Era Republicans used the tragedy of 9/11 to push through the patriot act so by your logic they win the gold medal at the "social justice warrior" Olympics. Logic...lol like that's logic. Still waiting for you to express more compassion for the victims than someone would text to their friend about their dog getting shots at the vet. at least we can agree on this.

nobody knows what you are thinking but you...I'm just telling you how you sound to other people.

nothing you said qualifies as a fact. It's all just your opinion. And it isn't focused on sympathy for the injured or dead - but more on your disdain for laws and cynicism toward the current state of the world - no assumptions necessary when your words are as plain as day.

not sure why anybody would open this topic and then say stuff like this anywhere but in the kitchen. Way to be insensitive in putting your political opinion ahead of showing concern for victims. You aren't a "cool" or "tough" for being a cycnic, you are just adding to the unwanted and unnecessary nose with this attitude. I didn't realize you were french, wouldn't think you would surrender so easily to thinking that nothing can be done. Not saying laws are necessarily the way to prevent this but nice defeatist attitude you have there. By the way, most of these kinds of "attacks" are stopped not with laws but with landscaping. Bollards, concrete barriers, even curb design and plant placement all serve to deter these kinds of attacks. When it's done effectively you hardly notice it is there. Also not a "new" phenomenon or the "new world" we live in. People have been using cars as weapons since there have been cars. There were plenty of instances in the 1960's and 70's of people using cars as battering rams to break up civil rights demonstrations or to go on rampages. We didn't stat classifying it as terrorist motivated until the 1980's but there were plenty going back to 1980 once we did. There is nothing new under the sun, this isn't the "new world" - shit has been this way for a while, what has changed is the may media has spread and is consumed which is now making you more aware of things that you aren't usually exposed to. My heart goes out to those injured and the families of those who were killed. this is a terrible tragedy and one that will take them a long time to heal. I have been meaning to ask, is ignorance really bliss? I figure I should ask someone with first hand experience. It certainly makes you salty, so is that a by product?

eh...ever see an original Dodge 440 Wedge oil pan? It's about the same size and the hump location is in the same place. It all depends on the car - if it is going into a 383 or 440 powered Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth car it's probably a bolt in. Putting one in a Hemi Mopar, chevy, or ford? probably gonna need to do some fab work.

I just drove from Cbus to Lake Gorge last month and passed by Buffalo and Rochester without having to pay a single toll. I just set the GPS to avoid tolls and it added 20 minutes total to an 8 hour drive. For that it's worth it. Still, if you want to take the toll road, I believe the NYS thruway still takes cash (they did as of a year ago). You don't need exact change, there will be a toll booth that says "Cash" on it and it won't be hard to spot - it usually has the longest line. They do not take credit cards. here is the NYS thruway toll calculator: http://www.thruway.ny.gov/travelers/tolls/calc/index.html when I used to go from NYC to Rochester it used to cost me $20 in tolls, but I don't think you'll need anywhere near that. If I had to guess you'll probably pay about $5 each way but carry some cash just in case - it's always a good idea.

used or new? If you are looking at a ridgeline, can I suggest a Nissan Frontier? $30K gets you a really well optioned new one, it comes in stick, and it's been on the market forever and is stone reliable. The other two trucks you are looking at (f-150, tundra) are fullsize, but the ridgeline isn't a fullsize, it's a mid-size in the same realm as the tacoma, frontier, and colorado so it fits. That being said, I've had about 3 rental eco-boost F150s in the last 2 years and loved every one of them, but then again I only drove them for a week at a time (little more than a 1000 miles each time going to NY and back). It's getting close to that time of year where I see the GM dealers put the $10K off sale signs on their pickups (I think they call it "Truck Month"). http://www.chevrolet.com/ I come from a GM family so I am obligated to say buy a silverado.

no mets, no care. good for the 'Stroes knocking out the Yankees. Go Dodgers! So here is something I have been wondering about - recently we have been seeing a lot of teams that haven't won a pennant in a long time or at all going to the world series. Last year it was between two teams that hadn't won in 108 and 68 years, this year it is never and 29 years. Is this one of the effects of "Money Ball" in that the same teams aren't making the world series over and over again anymore? Or is something else changing? (in b4 someone says baseball is rigged).

Yeah, I do. Or at least their customer does. Maybe they get some help from Dodge as a sponsor in terms of a discount and priority in terms of speeding up delivery, but Mopar isn't just making hellcrates rain like a bachelor party in a strip club. Actually the financing of those TV shows are really fascinating. People think that just because it is on TV that some network is throwing buckets of money at those shops, but really those shows are made as cheaply as humanly possible. One of the ways they make up for being on a shoe string budget is by letting the shop keep the merchandising rights and revenues, or at least the lions share of them. But the network is rarely paying for the cars/bikes. Either the shop is paying out of pocket or they have a customer underwriting the bill. This is really where you see how not stupid Richard Rawlings is: He merchandises everything. He went from a piddly shop to a pro facility with a gift shop you have to walk through to get in and out of the place. He opened a theme restaurant, he took on a partner (that blonde surfer dude) and got his money making machine up to speed as fast as possible so as not to lose any time in the lime light. His merch is at walmart, he's got deals with hot wheels for some of the show's cars. Most of the time the stars of these shows are pretty conservative but not Double R - dude is aggressively chasing every nickel because he knows it's on a timer an it's only a matter of time before he is the next OCC. not now, but the hobby is in a bit of a recession. It ebbs and flows and it will come back. Also you'd be surprised at how many people start these big money projects, get halfway in, and bail.

Old rich guys. Same people who bought $20K crate 426 hemis, or $15K 572 ci GM performance crate big blocks. People who want to spend $100K+ on a "hot rod" and want something impressive that works. Now that "restomods" are starting to bring actual money over their 100% restored stock counterparts you'll see people buying these, putting them in 1968-70 chargers, Superbees, and other higher end muscle cars, and then see those cars rolling across barrett jackson or Mecum's auction block 2 years later. Believe it or not, but if you are spending multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars having a high end G-machine car built to a high standard, a crate package like this saves you a lot of money over having an engine and trans specially built and then tuned to make the same power. when Dad and I were restoring the '57 vette the first time, rebuilding the original 283 fuelie engine was a huge expense. Getting the correct date coded block, all the machining (including hot tanking and magnifluxing), finding all the correct fuel injector pieces, etc...it's like a third of the cost of the restoration and that was just to make 283 hp. If we could have dropped one of those $10K zz4 crate ramjet 350s that are dummied up to look like early fuel injected vette motors and still preserved the value of the car we would have done it in a heartbeat and saved tens of thousands of dollars.

There weren't laws about safety glass back then so the windshields were fabricated by devlin in various configurations in plexiglass. (what they used to call "safety plastic"). the "deluxe" street windshield bears a striking resemblance to plexi boat winshields used on a lot of outboard boats in the late 1950's-early 1960's like glasscraft, dorsett, and carver, but actually the boat windshields are too wide. I think the original windshields Devin made were molded from a highly modified Glasspar G3 ski boat windshield from the early 1960's. Considering that these cars were built on a variety of chassis, some of them british, many people used other windscreens like brooklands windshields, cut down plexi deflectors, and any other thing they could make fit. It's a kit car so anything goes. Another interesting feature was that the body was laid up in sections and modular - so the "size" of the body could be adjusted to the chassis if needed by replacing some of the sections with longer or shorter pieces. A great example of this are the noses, some are short, some long, some have a grille opening and some don't, but they all have the same headlights.

holy crap!!!! a Devin!!!! https://cleveland.craigslist.org/cto/d/1960-devin-sports-car/6360222858.html ok story time: When I was in high school (early 90's), I had a neighbor who I think made a living restoring vintage formula 1 cars. He always had something neat like a BRM hanging about, but he was also a corvair freak and had a 1966 turbo monza convertible (which I later bought when he passed away, scared myself with by spinning it in the rain, and then sold), a corvair powered meyers manx, and a corvair powered devin. The Devin was the most awesome because the car was tiny and even with the 140hp carb motor he had in it the thing flew. He told me back then that Devin used to make a special model called the SS that used the same body but had it's own chassis, not a bug chassis, that was an amazing racer. I think they were chevy powered. here is the Devin S/S for reference: http://www.devinspecial.com/uploads/2/9/1/9/2919428/3054724_orig.jpg After he died (my senior year of high school), his widow sold off everything at bargain basement prices. I got a set of 9 fin 1957 corvette fuelie valve covers for $40 and picked a whole turbo corvair motor out of a dumpster. After that I never saw another Devin in the flesh. They are a funny car - they can be horrendously ugly or achingly beautiful depending simply on how they are painted and the lights placed. case in point look at how pretty this VW framed, porsche powered one is: http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/images/gallery/quail2009/18270.jpg unfortunately, these cars are tiny, like smaller than a 356 tiny. You don't drive it you wear it. which is probably why I will never own one.

https://louisville.craigslist.org/cto/d/1989-toyota-cressida-mx83-w58/6348806658.html This sounds kinda fun: I'd call it a sleeper but without a turbo it's probably still slow.