holy fuck that tree is eating the sky!

today i went and saw the NHRA time trials. not really into drag racing. but my boss is and he bought a suit at the local NHRA drag strip. aside from a few 4 second runs and one 3 second run, the best part was the noise. it really is a wonderful racket that the top fuel cars produce. the front engine dragsters scare the shit out of me. the driver is basically sitting on the differential. all i could think about is a differential blowing apart and the shrapnel making its way through certain parts of my body.
i should have taken pictures... but i didn't.
so here is the man that made it all happen.

yay cars

this is my corolla.

i got it about a year and a half ago when a good friend who had been in this country for over 21 years was pulled over by the police on the way home from work and they realized "his papers" were not in order... never saw him again. they planned to ship him back to jamaica with only the clothes on his back, mind you he'd been here for 21 years, people tend to accumulate a lot of stuff in that amount of time. his house currently sits empty, probably repossessed by the bank. i talked to him a couple times while he was in detention awaiting deportation and i ended up buying the car off him so he would have some traveling money.
he had owned the car since the late 80's so i knew most of the history of the car, although that meant that i know that the car had been revved to 8,000 rpm daily since the late 80's though well taken care of otherwise.

since taking control of the car i tended to keep the revs to the 7,000 mark just to be a little easier on it, however i did road race it a couple times and tried a bit of beginner drifting.

anyways, last tuesday it succumbed to a history of overly spirited driving.
cracked piston

blown head gasket

scored cam journals


this is a bummer.
here are my options:
sr20det
f20c
4agze -supercharger +turbo

right now the sr20det is winning due to the cost/power output ratio.
however, money is keeping anything from happening.
for now all i am gonna do is pull the short block/trans and clean and tidy the engine bay in preparation of whatever happens to happen in there.

more to come, hopefully.

found a pic of my car on track

i am having trouble getting my momentum going on this thing, so i think i will do some write ups om my cars to get things in gear

All I wanted to do was go get lunch with a friend, instead I gey lunch with about 15 ghostbusters. I didn't get a pic of them, but I did get a pic of the vehicle that brought them.

so, that just happened...

Welcome to the ill conceived, most likely poorly written and hopefully often updated account of the people and objects that i tend to find interesting and/or annoying. These things tend to fall loosely into the following categories:

• automotive
• skateboard
• bicycle
• motor driven anything
• general wierdness
• art and design
• music music music
• movie/tv/books
• friendship
• gadgetry

and probably a bunch of other random crud that i scrape off the bottom of my brain.


This is about as personal as i am going to get on the first date:

This is supposed to be my daily driver, but it tends to be more of a project car.
more on this in the future.








This is my track pig, it's very much a love/hate relationship.









This is supposed to be the project car. I barely look at it.












This lil' guy is my bike. It is a pain in the butt, but it keeps me from getting rounder.












This is my body. I use it to do most things.













I don't happen to have a picture of my sk8board, but i assure you, it does exist