Smokey

I guess I'm pretty food-wierd to most people. I suffer from the "have to clear my plate" issue that a few of you mentioned....I really need to break it these days too cause I'm a bit pudgy. I also like to save my favorite part of the meal for last so I can taste it the longest. I'll also many times not drink until the end of the meal...unless I'm drinking alcohol with the meal for some reason. My biggest one though is that I don't eat condiments. I'll eat BBQ sauce (only dark ones like Sweet Baby Ray's), and A1, but that's pretty much it. Nothing on my fries when I get them, and I usually eat plain burgers (this one grosses a bunch of people out). I also don't eat salad dressings, and therefore salads. Don't eat cottage cheese or sour cream either.

hahaha....no joke a girl I dated in HS her mother taught that kid in school one year. The poor girl transfered schools every year because she got made fun of so bad by the other kids. Can you imagine being a substitute in that class and reading thru the roster in the morning? That'd be a nice slip-up funny in the morning.

ouchie I'm not so hot on the wing, but it's a good looking FC and it's nice to see people are still interested in keeping them around....and rotary

so....evidently you need a 300zx to make a great intro here...weird. Great car, and I'm glad to see you came to your senses on the interior. We all make silly mistakes when we're young.

Agreed. I tend to get little rust specs of metal in the clear on the back of my M3 and they almost all come out with clay. They're a pain in the ass, but removable.

depending on how bad it is you can likely have it polished out of the clear. You might want to have a mod move your thread to the Finer Details section.

back in my bike days we always said that Nelson was a true way to improve street riding skills as you had to dodge the potholes! Andrew, in all reality while it's still a very bumpy track since they've repaved some of the worse corners it's no worse than anything you'd run into on the street ever.

nice looking car Bobby, good luck with the sale.

crashing the party on this thread to just say thanks to the NTB crew for helping me balance my tires before leaving town Friday. As always they are more than accomodating and very good prices. Sorry Andy, didn't want to start another thread as it seems like the whole damn section is devoted to them....guess that means something is going well down there huh?

kick ass Radical Mark. I'd love to see it in action sometime. Any other cars in your collection currently? I'd have a hard time believing that someone with enough of an addiction to buy a Radical wouldn't have some other cool toys.

you car is badass for sure....but damn that video almost gave me seizures. Perhaps it's time for a mod to the camera setup.

nice Z. Welcome.

always liked red Evos. Nice intro. Welcome.

eins. personally I think you should put some turbo-twists on it.

Fergus has one of the best decorated offices I've ever seen!

another option if you're willing to feel a bit "slower" would be to buy an e36 M3. It's certainly down on power from everything mentioned, but can be a great track car and can also be a GREAT car to learn to drive in. With your budget you can buy one, prep it for track use and still have plenty left over for tires and DE entry fees.

Don't think i'd go that far, but more reliable yes, especially on a road course. It's a moot point though because at 6'6" he'll never fit in one, especially with a helmet on. Andy is spot on with the turbo car comments, which is the only thing that'd deter me from an Evo9. The C5Z isn't completely perfect, with the ability to easily break rotors (which are stupid cheap to replace by the way), and the whole locking into 4th gear, but those are pretty minor gripes compared to the possible problems of other cars. The truth is that when tracking any vehicle regularly you'll expose plenty of things that need to be beefed up/upgraded/maintained more. So my vote is for the C5Z, it's relatively trouble free and lets you focus on driving more. This is of course if you're talking about just doing HPDE's...if you're planning on actually trying to race down the road we've all steered you wrong.

hahaha....how did I see that one coming?

sucks. Did you ever figure out what caused the failure? I'd say the housing and rotors are nice paperweights now.

the Elecromotive is a very nice unit, but as mentioned doesn't have all that much support in the turbocharged rotary world. Most of the people that run it have done so on N/A 3 rotors. If you have a tuner with experience with the system and you're confident that they'll do the job correctly then I would go with it. You'll also want to take a nice hard look at what you want to do with the car as well. The PFC is pretty dated by today's standards, but you can also find many more people with the experience to tune it which keeps it pretty close to plug and play. I think that the PFC can do just about anything that a car running stock twins would want/need. If you're looking to go single and big power (didn't sound that way when you said auto-x, but you also mentioned a small bridge so I'm not sure) then I'd look at a new system, but if you're staying twins and in their power range then I'd stick PFC.

back to your question Eric, I'm a bit leary but I'm sure not going to complain about it. I figure that fuel prices are following just about every other good/consumable right now that are seeing price recession. Just about everything you own is becoming less valuable by the day. I think that around spring time next year (ironically when we'll all actually want to use this nice cheap fuel) that things will return to a more "normal" state in that prices will go back up. Unfortunately I think the price of fuel will go up exponentially faster and sooner than the prices/values will return on anything else.

true, even if to just grab a few drinks.

I was thinking that you buy a cheapie mouse and keyboard and do it to them and put them in place of his stuff. You'd probably get in a crap load of trouble doing it to company stuff....as well as you'd have to time it out to where you stole his stuff and put it in jello and it cured all in one night.

^^Damnit, beat me to it. Anything encased in Jello is the best prank to play on him.

question Erik, what does it take to store/keep fuel like that and not have it go bad? Do you just need a crap-ton of Stabil? I've considered more like a 55 gallon drum, but still ran into the same questions that I didn't have answers for.