Ive decided...

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Reply #30 – August 12, 2005, 12:34:53 AM

Here's an idea. Go out, have fun, and ignore those who Sh#$ talk for no reason.

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Reply #31 – August 12, 2005, 10:46:31 AM

I think he's on to something. :hick:

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Reply #32 – August 12, 2005, 01:08:59 PM

you cant ignore it hear, it follows you around, its part of life here, the only way to ignore it is to stay away from the track untill bracket racing starts, and im not a bracket racer, nor am i a drag racer, i just want to go, get a few passes in, see my times, my MPH, and call it quits

test and tune around here is a joke, its 30 bucks at the good tracks, where you actually have a half decent crowd and a nice track, 25 at the closer, ricer infested track, its turning into a load of

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Reply #33 – August 21, 2005, 02:15:06 AM

First thing I have to say is...come out to my hometrack brother, Atco Raceway...T&T is cheap as hell and nobody will talk on you.

Back on subject. I enjoy many forms of motorsport but am drawn to drag racing for many reasons. #1-It's within my budget. #2-I live 15-20mins from the track. #3-It's the industry's mearsuring stick anymore, and last but not least #4-I don't have to worry about boilin' brake fluid, destroying brand new sets of brake pads, or even the impending chance of losing control around a turn

Ah, the "Stoplight Drags". I am a regular partint in the stoplight drags because everybody thinks I have a granny car with an exhaust leak...granted now with the 10-hole rims, 265/50 rear tires and the flat black T/C hood, people are taking my car more seriously and street racing is becoming less commonplace for me. Everybody has their own thing and that's cool with me, BUT, when some shiznit talkin' import lover thinks his civic with a body kit, wing, stickers, and a fart can will "smoke" my car, THAT me off. I enjoy trying to improve upon my 1/4mi. times, trying different techniques to try and whittle down my 60' times and I love the commeraderie-spelling?(I know waaaaaay too many local 'stang guys, so I always run into someone at the track).

I want a fast street car, that's the bottom line. Building a fast, reliable, consistent car on a budget is a challenge and I enjoy every minute of it. The quarter mile is just my yardstick...another tool I use in which to measure my performance.

Just curious...how can you be a man without a little dick measuring...I think everybody with balls in every facet of life tries to better someone else in something. Example: Hey Jim, I drank 18 beers before I passed out...Oh yeah, well I can drink 22 beers before I pass out.
Example: Hey Bob, check this scar out...cut down to the bone with a chain saw...Oh yeah, well check out this scar...I took a .50 cal. bullet in my shoulder, it was shattered but I shrugged it off.

It doesn't matter where or how, but every man of every race has to be better at something or have something nicer, or faster, or bigger than the next guy(myself included). It's called pride...and when you're proud of something, you don't want to let people dismiss it and try to leave you upstaged.

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Reply #34 – August 21, 2005, 04:31:16 AM

Quote from: Sick88Tbird

Just curious...how can you be a man without a little dick measuring...I think everybody with balls in every facet of life tries to better someone else in something. Example: Hey Jim, I drank 18 beers before I passed out...Oh yeah, well I can drink 22 beers before I pass out.
Example: Hey Bob, check this scar out...cut down to the bone with a chain saw...Oh yeah, well check out this scar...I took a .50 cal. bullet in my shoulder, it was shattered but I shrugged it off.

It doesn't matter where or how, but every man of every race has to be better at something or have something nicer, or faster, or bigger than the next guy(myself included). It's called pride...and when you're proud of something, you don't want to let people dismiss it and try to leave you upstaged.

Can't speak for anyone else on this, but I find it to be a waste of time to even think about being better than someone else. There's ALWAYS going to be someone better than me, and there's ALWAYS going to be someone I'm better than.. no matter what I do, no matter what I say, this will never change. If I should be better than someone else in one thing, it's assured they're better than me in something else just as significant. So why get all worked up over it?

I enjoy what I have.. take a limited amount of pride in my work.. (because I tend to think of more than a little pride as a bad, possibly ugly emotion) because it's mine. I own it, I work on it, I make it whatever it'll become. Not because it's better than someone else's. You could have a car you sank 20 grand into, that did everything but wipe your ass and fetch your beer for you, and I still wouldn't care because it's not mine and never will be. Sure, it would be great for you, but it would have zero real impact on my life.

You could call my attitude self-centered, and I probably wouldn't argue against that label.. but really, aside from the exchanges of information and ideas that happen here, what impact (for example) is your car ever going to have on my life? What impact is my car ever going to have on your life? If yours can go faster than mine, all that means is you can get there faster than me.. but I only care whether or not I get there. For me, the journey from here to there is just me enjoying my car and what it can do for me, in avoiding a bunch of moving obstacles and doing so in reasonable comfort.. occasionally the obstacles merit looking at again and maybe even a comment like "hey, that looks nice", or "that's the sixth different '05 Mustang I've seen today".. but then it's right back to the me-and-my-car thing.

I will admit that occasionally I voice a desire to avoid driving what everyone else is driving, like all the ed Mustangs on the road.. but actually that attitude was born more out of practicality (for lack of a better term.. it's late) than anything else. I drove a black '94 Escort LX for 10 years.. it's not exactly a rare car.. I had to put unusual pinstriping on it (just that really reflective red) just to be able to tell it in a crowd sometimes. (I often forget my license plate number) I dare say that I drive the only crystal metallic clearcoat Lincoln Mark VII LSC in town w/ bad paint on the hood and roof, an '84 hood ornament, (it's an '89, didn't have hood ornaments by then) plus tinted windows. You may not think this is a big deal, but I have memory and concentration issues that are only getting worse with time. My memory was bad even before I started drinking.. which even though I stopped doing that for now, (going on a diet to ease a little of the strain on my fusing spine) probably won't ever improve.. and the concentration thing is a complicated symptom reported by some others who have this disease I have. Sugary or starchy foods often trigger some kind of reaction in me that's beyond what some might call "sugar-hyper".. it's even come to the point where I'll just lapse into staring blankly for significant chunks of time. (like 30 seconds to a minute, maybe more) I'll just leave it at that. So there's the root of the desire to not drive what everyone else is driving. (for anyone who may have read the above lines and thought to say "hey, but you said blah blah blah, etc.")

I do also give SOME credit to the opinions of those I consider to be friends.. but even then, I don't really care if my friend's car is faster than mine or mine gets better gas mileage than another friend's car or whatever. All I really care about is that my friends are happy with what they have. Any rare moment of shiznit-talking that has ever occured between my friends and I rang hollow and meaningless and usually dissolved quickly into a discussion about our ideas and plans and more productive exchanges.

I'm not saying any of this to be an ass.. you asked a question, I answered it as best I could at 4 in the morning.

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Reply #35 – August 21, 2005, 08:36:41 AM

Shawn, you could stop all the snickering if you scrounged up a set of sticky tires and made a 14-15 sec pass. And with a good tune up, that really ain't hard to do with a TC.

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Reply #36 – August 21, 2005, 11:43:26 AM

i shouldnt have a hard time making a high 14 second pass on the street tires, but im not paying 25 bucks to go race at a shiznitty track, or drive almost an hour to MIR or Cecil, pay 30 dollar, and risk breaking and not getting home

the tires i have on the car actually piss me off a bit, i sidestepped the clutch at 5K, car spun for maybe 20ft, hooked hard and went

as for a tune-up, come on Tom, you should know me better than that, you think i wouldnt keep the car tuned up and running good?

before i do any racing, i NEED a new turbo as it is, ever head an IHI supercharger? well thats what it sounds like

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Reply #37 – August 22, 2005, 12:43:15 PM

i just think shawn is bitching again:D i have most of the parts you need, now get a job you cheap !

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Reply #38 – August 22, 2005, 03:44:09 PM

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it's even come to the point where I'll just lapse into staring blankly for significant chunks of time. (like 30 seconds to a minute, maybe more)

Sounds like I have the same thing....

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Reply #39 – August 22, 2005, 04:40:43 PM

Quote from: motormenace

i just think shawn is bitching again:D i have most of the parts you need, now get a job you cheap !

cheap ? i thought thats why you kept inviting me over ;)

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Reply #40 – August 22, 2005, 04:49:55 PM

Quote from: jkirchman

Sounds like I have the same thing....

I know this sounds totally unrelated to the lapses.. but do you think you have significant amounts of back problems? Like more than just the occasional tweaked back from car work and what not?

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Reply #41 – August 22, 2005, 05:40:55 PM

i am with this post 100%. it was funny when i bought my bird i went to school the next day and there where at 40 to 50 people that came up to me and said i hear your thunderbird is just a huge hunk of shiznit .i had told a few people i was going to buy it but not that many and i have a small school about 500 kids so everyone that came up to me i said "hey it runs it was cheap and all i have to do is get it to pass the E-test and put it on the road when i get my licence" then more people started comeing up to me and sayin" ____________ say its a peice of "i just said " he dosent like it because the paint shiznitty and it dosesnt have nice wheels"

i m getting really sick all this 1/4 mile a lot of people hear me talkin about my dads capri and some smart ass says "whats it run 1/4 mile " "i dont know maybe high 16s" he s like" oh my I-roc runs 12.85" "what ever lets go for a top speed run i bet you dont have the balls to take your car over 230 (kph)" and of corse he didnt he made me slow down after the speedo bottomd out

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Reply #42 – August 22, 2005, 09:28:52 PM

Let me clarify, the only shiznit talking I do is with my friends and it's just for fun...a little bench racing...it usually ends up in some silly rediculous comment like, "hey, let's put a T88 on your '99 SHO". If I talk to people at the track I usually comment politely on their car and they ask what I drive so I show them...most people like the 'Bird. The only person that really busts my balls about it is my brother....he thinks nobody is into these cars....guess I'll have to send him a link to this site as well as a few others. You won't catch me talkin shiznit in here unless I know you really well and I'm joking around.

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Reply #43 – August 22, 2005, 11:52:48 PM

bench racing and a little shiznit talking isnt bad, many of the members on this board shiznit talk with me, and i know its all fun and games, but when people have to wave around how big their dick is(nt)...thats when it me off

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Reply #44 – August 23, 2005, 09:15:07 PM

Well said.