And now for something completely different...

I decided to take a short break from making my typical "pissed off guy with a keyboard" rants in order to spend some time posting about my car project.

As is probably obvious from a handful of my other posts, I like to drive (well I enjoy the driving part, sometimes the other people ruin it for me :P). At the beginning of the year I finally purchased a new car ('09 Yaris, which I spoke of in a prior post). One excellent benefit of this being that it allowed me to start work on my old car (the one which the Yaris replaced for "work car" duty). It's a 1989 Nissan 240SX, I purchased the car back in 2005 *top picture* for $1000, which at the time I thought was an amazing deal since drifting was really starting to get popular and even totally trashed 240's were "e-baying" for $2500+.



Over the years I used it as a work car I did a few modifications to it (suspension, wheels, exhaust, etc.) *pictured above in Aug. 2007*, but nothing really substantial, since it needed to be drivable for the next time I needed to get to work. However with the purchase of the Yaris, I now finally have the time to give it a proper build. Current plans for the car are to set it up for Autocross (SCCA), and possibly some drift events, while making it still reliable enough to drive to the race and back home in one piece.

I plan to rebuild the stock engine (a SOHC KA24E) to make somewhere in the neighborhood of 180-200HP, which combined with the cars current weight of ~2500lbs. should make for a pretty quick track car, without being so powerful that it's a pain in the ass to keep control over. The KA24 series motor gets a lot of shit for being a "truck motor", but I really think it holds a lot of potental, so I'm uninterested in swaping to any of the common replacements (SR20, RB20, CA18, etc.). Current plans are to change the motor from fuel injected to a dual Weber side draft carb setup (either 40 or 45 DCOE). Giving me basically all of the control as a ITB (individual throttle body) setup, without the hassle of having to modify the factory ECU, or buy a programable ECU to control the fuel injection, but I will have to make a custom intake to mount them. Plus it's not a setup I've seen very much at all, since basically everyone stays fuel injected, so that adds a little "cool factor" to it, when someone looks under the hood, besides the fact that velocity stacks look awesome :).

Hopefully this will become a segment of the blog I keep updated fairly often (1-2 a month) whenever I make any major steps in the projects completion. Plus it should make a nice change of pace from my usual angry rants to something a little more relaxing.

For those interested, here are a few shots of the projects current status...

bumper stickers and other shit.

It's actually kinda late in the year for this little rant, but I feel like it, if you don't, get bent ;).

Last year around Christmas this sticker above was seemingly all the rage around here, I must have seen 100 of them on various vehicles. I can only assume all these people shop at the same place, I guessing the fundamentalist douchebag section of Wal-mart. I'm not really sure what it was about the sticker that pissed me off, I guess it's just the whole "bawwww christmas is under attack" bullshit. No one fucking cares about your holiday, keep that shit to yourself. On that note, I made my own version.

I put these right up there with "jesus fish" (you know the dorky little fish shaped cutouts that say "jesus" inside that people stick on their cars). I can only imagine the kinda people that seriously put this shit on their cars, it's probably the same douche bags that think dancing is a "sin" and rock music is the devil. Give me a fucking break, are you still scared of the boogeyman too?

I wanna make it clear here that I don't hold any real grudge toward "religious" people. I just don't like the whole "I'm better than you are cause I believe in an invisible sky man, and his zombie son". Cram that right in your ass. If I'm happy believing in nothing, or in something different than you, do me a favor, accept that people are different.

Now I know people are saying, "But Grandmaster it's freedom of speech, it's the first amendment". Yep your absolutely right, it's also my right to say your a fucking douche, you know we also have the right to privacy, and the right to shut the fuck up... I just wish people would excersize those a little more often.

Don't think I'm just picking on the Christians (well ok I was, but they make it so easy). I hate "darwin fish" and "buddha fish" and whatever other "fish" there are. Well actually scratch that, there's one fish that would be awesome. A fish with his big 'ol fish dick hanging out. It'd be the official fish of oralism, the religion of giving good oral sex. With that on your car people would have something they could agree on "wow that chick likes sucking cock, awesome" or "that dude likes to munch carpet, I wonder if he's single". Plus your a lot less likely to get your car keyed with a symbol for oral sex on your car than a symbol of some selfish, violent religion.