We stopped at the Casey Jones Museum a couple years ago, if you get a chance to go there, it is a neat little place.
Maggie’s What's Your View II
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Thanks guys that will keep him busy.
Won't be long he will have every detail memorized, seriously.
Make modle engine.
Trying to get him interested in the stock market. Lol
Won't be long he will have every detail memorized, seriously.
Make modle engine.
Trying to get him interested in the stock market. Lol
Final photo dump from a training on the west coast… Cool but I’ll take my oak dominated dry sites….
Dicked off in Eugene and followed the Animal House tour… sad how most of the area changed….
Omega house
“Food King”
Delta house is torn down but John Belushi did gods work fighting the man on this spot
Omega house
“Food King”
Delta house is torn down but John Belushi did gods work fighting the man on this spot
Ooh! That last picture gives me the itchies! The Poison Oak is still green there.
We were farther South today and the Poison Oak had changed to a brilliant Red in the Yolla Bolly Mountains.
Took my father Road Hunting (he’s disabled) in the Northern Yolla Bolly Mountains. A few tracks, but nothing tagable. Most of the area that we drove has been nuked by the mega fires in the last 10 years.
lol your not the only person that has told me that. I'm lucky enough to not react to it. I'm lucky on that side. Type 1 beetus offsets it lol
Finally got finger fuck it lol.... Off to GAP this week..
Also came home to a nice book from the Fiance
Also came home to a nice book from the Fiance
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Some snaps from today’s excursion.
Kinda cool to come across a true mining claim!
Kinda cool to come across a true mining claim!
Pictures from the annual Harvest Festival. Biggest crop around here other than timber is hay, which is harvested in June. Anyway it has become a large car show, with over 100 entries. Here are a few:
32 Ford Coupe. Talked to the owner, engine is a bored and stroked 331 cubic inch putting out 435 hp. With a fiberglass body, the car weighs 1950 lbs. He said "it gets kind of squirrelly when you put your foot into it".
36 Chevy pickup. The flame detail on the door was incredible.
41 Willys with a Ford 427 SOHC.
50 Studebaker pickup
32 Ford Coupe. Talked to the owner, engine is a bored and stroked 331 cubic inch putting out 435 hp. With a fiberglass body, the car weighs 1950 lbs. He said "it gets kind of squirrelly when you put your foot into it".
36 Chevy pickup. The flame detail on the door was incredible.
41 Willys with a Ford 427 SOHC.
50 Studebaker pickup
Some more from the car show.
64 Nova with a 427 big block.
A 'Hot Rod Lincoln' with a flathead engine.
69 Mustang. Woman who owns the car now said it had been her parents car and they bought it new.
Parked on a side street because of its size, one of my favorites. 1960 Diamond T log truck. From when it was bought new it was driven by one man who put 3,000,000 miles, yes 3 million miles, on it over 30 years or so. Beautiful truck.
64 Nova with a 427 big block.
A 'Hot Rod Lincoln' with a flathead engine.
69 Mustang. Woman who owns the car now said it had been her parents car and they bought it new.
Parked on a side street because of its size, one of my favorites. 1960 Diamond T log truck. From when it was bought new it was driven by one man who put 3,000,000 miles, yes 3 million miles, on it over 30 years or so. Beautiful truck.
My Tac ops rifle.
Coming up next week he will be four.
Long way from 73 days in the NICU.
According to his grandmother he kissed all three girls on the school van .
Tore apart an old xbox360 today.. replaced the thermal paste and runs like a champ…. The power button is a little wonky may need to disconnect the ribbon and turn it on/off with the controller…
lol I thought you were joking, I didn’t realize that was an option. I’m not sure if it’s the same or not. It may have zinc oxide in it. I know it forms sort of like form your own gasket putty.
Everything has big tires in AK… Little 350ish’ strip in the Wrangell-St range.
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I had 9 skunks take up residence under a porch at the back of my house. Caught 3 with a live trap until they got smart and avoided it ….even with some tuna as bait.
So I got some short pieces of rebar and stuck in the ground vertically by their exit , wrapped it with fishing line and treble hooks. Called it “ The Halo of Death “ ! Their only escape was a fatal funnel.
Got them one by one until all were all gone. Did the final wet work with .22 shorts to their head. Yep ….ALL of them sprayed , I have a gas mask that worked.
They make a product called “ Skunk Off” that breaks down the foul stench somehow when sprayed liberally mixed with h20. Filled their entrance with cement , no more skunks
Yessir. I had to head out early in the trip but my buddies shot this guy a couple days later. 58”, antlers are dark because he’s been living in the thick shit.
My first encounter with a Z06 in the wild! Pretty amazing car….
Due to the aggressive toe in on Corvettes(especially the Z06s/GS/ZR1s), for improved cornering, they are known to go wear front tires much more quickly than the rears.
Kansas City shuffle on some lights. Picked up a SF Scout in a trade so put it on the CQBR blaster. Swapped a custom built body light to the PCC.
Tearing apart my new (to me) lathe... Happy happy joy joy... Buddy says maybe more shit weld will fix it.. lol
It's only money....
It's only money....
On my C5 track car we ran toe out on the front and a bit of toe in on the rear.
Were you meaning camber?
And the rears wore twice as fast as fronts
Do you mean toe in or negative camber? Toe in = slower turn in = understeer; the opposite of improved cornering unless your back end is completely out of control. And even then, I’d focus on taming the back end before turning my track car into a snow plow.
Most of my track setups actually have slight toe out, or neutral if I’m using it on the road a lot…
Sorry to be a pedantic ass, but this is kinda my thing.
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My C5 is transforming into a truck
My C5 is transforming into a truck
Do you mean toe in or negative camber? Toe in = slower turn in = understeer; the opposite of improved cornering unless your back end is completely out of control. And even then, I’d focus on taming the back end before turning my track car into a snow plow.
Most of my track setups actually have slight toe out, or neutral if I’m using it on the road a lot…
Sorry to be a pedantic ass, but this is kinda my thing.
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It's possible that it was tow out, I can't recall exactly the alignment specs that caused this issue. It was discussed ad nauseam on the C5 forums when I had my GS. And I had to replace the fronts long before the rears. Which gave me some opportunities to do some burnouts shortly before replacement. This was an issue when I sold the car w/ low miles. The buyer who eventually bought it was initially concerned about why there was a tire replacement w/ so low miles. The broker that sold my car had to show the buyer "evidence" that this was in fact true.
From Google AI:
This is a known and common characteristic of the C5 Corvette Grand Sport (as well as the Z06) due to its specialized factory alignment
. While most rear-wheel-drive cars wear their rear tires faster, the aggressive, track-focused alignment on these high-performance models causes the front tires to wear out more quickly.
Here are the primary reasons for this front tire wear:
- Factory track alignment. The Grand Sport and Z06 models from the factory have a more aggressive alignment that is beneficial for high-performance handling and cornering on a track. This alignment typically includes a more aggressive "toe" and "camber" setting.
- Excessive negative toe. The toe setting refers to how much the tires point inward or outward when viewed from above. The factory alignment for the Grand Sport uses a negative toe, or toe-out, setting. This causes the front tires to "scrub" sideways as the car drives straight down the road, increasing wear. While great for turn-in response on a racetrack, it leads to rapid tire degradation during normal street driving.
- High negative camber. Camber is the angle at which the tires tilt inward or outward when viewed from the front of the car. Performance vehicles are set with negative camber, where the top of the tire tilts inward. While this keeps more of the tire on the road during hard cornering, it puts most of the load on the inner edge of the front tire during straight-line driving, causing accelerated wear on the inside edge.
In my lower pic you can see almost 3* of camber, that would definitely wear out tires on a street car.
Man, I wish I could get 3* on my Cayman! I’m able to get just under 2* up front, and ~2.5* out back.
Will probably do camber plates up front, and adjustable GT3 lower control arms out back this Winter, but almost afraid to do that because I’ll be tempted to go nuts “since I’m in there” and I’m not ready to drop $20K in suspension and brake parts on my track car right now.
Gotta finish my truck rebuild first!
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