BrandonsZ

Everyone needs a break every now and then, and again, and between breaks you need to take a break, and after all those breaks, why not take a rest, and then a 5-er and I don't smoke, so I take a smoke break at my desk while others go outside. I choose to keep myself regular so I don't take many bathroom breaks, so why not take 5 at my desk when I hear people go in the bathroom.

I got the Toyota 4x4 brakes a year ago and found it impossible to fit over the original 14x5 steel wheels. So I got some 1" spacers added to the car and off I went. Well, I could never balance the front tires, it seemed even with new tires, there was an uneven, unpredictable amount of tire shake in the steering. They felt out of balance, severly at times, but even after I balanced and rotated, no effect. Sometimes they felt perfect, then off then perfect again on different days. It certainly wasn't like that on the stock setup without spacers. So I lived with out-of-balance feeling tires for about a year. Wednesday I was on the freeway going about 65 in light traffic and my tire blew, shreaded, completely unglued. Of course the car is nicely controllable because it's balanced well so I managed to pull off the freeway. By the time I got to the nearest safe spot to park and change the tire I heard horrible grinding, pounding, and bumping noises. I managed to take the old wheel off, put on the spare and when I was tightening the lugs, after a certain point they just spun and spun, well, the studs were stripped and I was unable to take the spare back off, nor tighten the lugs properly. I limped home with a horrible grinding, and banging noise from the tire. The short of it is, my 2" studs which were needed to place on those spacers on were rocked back and fourth during the blowout and stripped them out. After 6 hours of drilling and nasty dissassembly, I managed to seperate the wheel from the hub. At the expense of the hub. Luckily I have a set of spare hubs. I will never trust spacers again, I was told the ones that bolt on were dangerous, but the sandwiched ones are just as bad. Seriuosly this is rediculous, a blowout has forced me to replace a hub and buy rims that fit over these 4x4 brakes. If I had my option a year ago, I would not have upgraded to 4x4 brakes. Even Stock 15x6 aluminum rims off a 1983 Z did not fit over these brakes wihtout 1/8-1/4" spacing. 4x4 brake upgrade for marginally better braking *thumbs down* Spacers *thumbs down*

I'm not going to online gaming... I know i'll get addicted... well, that's sound reasoning, can't find any holes in it... Yet somehow I feel unfullfilled. Does avoiding something based on a supposed additive nature, prempt trying it? If you never try it you'll never know if it's addictive, it might just be a lot of silly rot. Well, I haven't gone basediving, surfed 30+foot waves, eaten live animals, tried any illegal drugs, driven over 100mph, joined the mile high club, or the 0-gravity club. Do I have to do these things to say I've lived? Then in that case you haven't lived unless you've driven to Alaska in a 1980's chevy sprint with less than 50hp and nearly escaped being mauled by a black bear. It was exhilerating, driving to AK destroyed the car beyond repair, but exhilerating nontheless. Word of wisdom, when you see black bear cubs in the road ahead, don't get out to take their picture, just drive past them as fast as possible, oh and if you see a 500lb black bear mother waving at you, just slowly creep back to the car and get in, no sudden movements, and don't play dead, that's BAD advice, bears EAT dead things.

You mean, like it used to be, before comupter games? I'll believe it when I see it.

When do you realize that there are things out there you could never hope to acomplish? You're always told you can do anything you put your mind to, and then you see something that just boggles your mind. I do modeling for a living, and no engineering software I've used (Inventor, Solidworks, Pro-E) that could even come close to that. Dangit, then only thing I can think of is that the software must cost multi-tens of thousands instead of just thousands.

Oblivion IV is pretty Coo, really good graphics, trumps WOW. Fianlly a game where things look real again like it used to be in 2D, but in 3D.

It is sad what happened to my sister, but my niece is really cool, and my mom is really happy like she got a second chance. As you can imagine, I don't take kindly to people with drugs like Meth. Let's just say between my sister and my brother, I've had more experience with drugs than any sane person should without ever having to try any. I think if my Niece ever did anything stupid, she'd have my wife and I to contend with regardless of what my mom did, I won't have a repeat of 1992-4. I don't need any sympathy, I got plenty of it. What I believe is she's in a better place, and the person in that place is my 17 year-old sister before any of this ever happened. If she need me to vouch for her, I'd vouch for her first 17 years, the latter half of her life, I don't believe it was her. If you take anything from this, I'd say take a feeling of distain for Meth, Heroine, and any drug that takes your personality, soul and spirit and replaces it with a demonic criminal essence that drains everyone around. Do whatever you can to get someone off the stuff, but know that you may do everything within your power and still fail again and again. Rather than make it your life's sole purpose, you have to understand that someday you may have to let go. The only fate worse than being a Meth addict is taking care of one for the rest of your life. In my experiance Addicts get really good at tugging on your heart strings and they take every advantage. As a weapon know that, like any evil, get it angry and the truth comes out. Also know that there is definitive truth in the phrase "Once a tweaker, always a tweaker." If you need to self-medicate, stick to Alcohol and pot, at least you keep your soul intact.

Although my sister didn't die from Meth, Meth killed my sister. At 17 she started, by 21 she was pregnant by her dealer with twins. Her continual use caused a miscarriage of one of the twins. She had the other baby, married her dealer, then he reformed and wanted her to stop, she couldn't, as was evident when she was arrested for prostitution unbeknownst to him. They divorced, my mom got the baby (she didn't show up for child custody hearing and the deadbeat dad didn't want her). Then she went into hiding, came back every few days to burgle our house, stole our food, broke our stuff, put out cigarettes in our carpet and stole about everything else before we got a restraining order on her. She didn't come back, 10 years later in Arizona, she had remarried, moved on to prescription drugs and OTC mixing. Died from an overdose of OTC+prescription meds she got based on depression, OCD and BPD. Didn't see her or hear from her at all from the time my niece was 2, she died two years ago January, and my niece is now 14, living with my mom, 65+. When she died I was relieved, very relieved. That wasn't my sister, she died in my mind when she was 17 and tried to strangle me to death over some pocket change, luckily I passed out before I died, she got what she wanted and I recovered with just a few bruises.

Here's another one. http://album.hybridz.org/uploads/11013/EUROPA_BMW_325_is.wmv

Wow

.40, best of both worlds. Road Bike Vs. Mtn Bike

Definately small shop with cool boss. A-hole bosses suck. Let's go dark... right arm lost due to snowblower accident one eye lost by a darting accident.

PC, more hacked programs Lindsay Lohan cleans your house in a french maid outfit, or both Olsen Twins same getup. (which is worse rather)

Road Racing, more skill IMO Stuck on a deserted island like "Cast Away" with Jessica Alba as "Dark Angel" or Alissa Milano as Phoebe in "Charmed" (at same age) One can see the future and kick ass, the other is just bad ass.

You were further along on your Rotary Z before I became a memeber here then you are now, am I right? What's up with that? I've been driving my SBC for over a year now! Getter done!

R-TARD!

And if you are as old a gamer as I, you know what the heck Will Wright is talking about when he says "Populous" Yeah, I played the heck out of that one, of course you could only play against the computer or if you hooked up with a friend who had it over a 9.6k or better modem, that was sweet. Nope, sorry no internet access in 1989, unless you call bulletin boards internet, and no telnet was not internet either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous Ah the memories... like yesterday, 3am playing against the hard level, killing his top warrior by drowning him. So sweet. Of course the comp kicked my a** unless I turned off all his natural disasters and ability to build, even after years of play, because he cheated dang it! Somehow he knew exactly where I was all the time and attacked me directly, that jerk, well so I had to do the same thing. But really how did he build a guy with like full gold bars when all I could muster int he same alloted time was one castle and a crappy knight with full red bars. REALLY! But nothing beat X-pilot, X-pilot was the ultimate of Unix based 2-d linedrawing gameplay, you built your own ship, chatted with other players and generally designed your bombs, (yes I was the one setting off FNukes all the time). Heh heh hee, yep after saving an hour of weapons just type something like FN3GRZ45TKA or something like that and PPPOOOOOWWWWW!!! not only did it instantly fry the competitor's ship it and anyone else in the general area, and propell everyone else to their doom with the shockwave, it usually timed out everyone dialed in. the Ultimate jerk weapon especially since it was usually a suicide as well, but being directly connected tot he main server, I was able to log back in fast enough to collect a few BIG packets and gain 7 invisibility before anyone else had a chance. Ahhh the good old days.

I'd say those games do a heck of a lot more than just replace TV, they own you for months on end, you don't have to eat, or sleep, you think about it constantly, you dream about it, you go out and all you can think about is playing again. It robs you of a life, it robs you of friends, it robs you of free time, you pray to get sick so you can stay home all day and play, you barely know if it's 6pm or 6am half the time and you are sore as hell for sitting down for 16 horus straight. And it's totally worth it... Which is why I have refused to play for the last 3 months... until SPORE hits, or something better. Well, ok it wasn't cold turkey by choice really, I'm going back to college, again, and I have 0 time to do anything but study. Studing is almost as fun, at least I'm not bored. Boredom is the bane of a gammer's existence, because a lot like drug addiction, you need to be on or you crash. Crashing sux.

If it's cheaper than a simple honda motor, or if you really really like to keep your car all original (except the honken engine?)

I installed the cat in the spring, and I can honestly say it was the right thing to do. It used to stink a lot and make my eyes burn, now I can roll down the hood with the windows down and not worry a bit. No fumes, no more tears. It's a 3" high flow 3-way cat on 3" exahust. No problems.

Well, either the cat is burned in or burned out, I'm not smelling even a hint of exhaust anymore, no gas smell, no cat burning egg smell. It's nice. I almost forgot I used to have a problem.

The chin scoop and spoiler. I didn't notice them the first time, they'd have to come off. I can imagine that scene at the dealer. ME- "Do you have one without the whale tail and ball holder?" IDIOT- "Naaa man, those allow the car to stay stuck to e road, you wat those." ME- "No, I'd prefer you paint the car pink and put a fluffy bunny tail on it." IDIOT- "Serious?"

I'd love it, but like the TDI they'll no doubt not sell it in Cali. BASTARDS!

Best thing to do is remove it, use some brillo pads on it, clean it off, paint it (mask the non-sliding parts) grease ut up, and add it back.

Thanks. So it was just a matter of stating my assumptions, before making a statement. Now all we really need is plans for a solar distillery. There's lots of sunshine here in So Cal. Pennies from heaven if you like. All this discussion is fine but aren't we all here to ?