Orange County CAF's: up to no good

Dude my cousin works for trek in Wisconsin. He is a custom airbrush painter. Does all there team bikes and such. They have a train park for then employees to hit during work if they get too stressed... jealous.

 

Nice! That reminds me of stuff I hear places like Google offer there employees as "incentives ". Heard they have like a game room with Playstation's n such. And also a place to take a nap if they are too tired!
...I was thinking, like really? Stuff like that exists in the work place?

 

Sounds typical and i know you need your water bro!

 

IT really is a strange place to the modern non-IT employee, especially a software company like Google. They value creativity more than hours. Good work > More work is kind of the policy or method. A lot of IT companies like that are actually experimenting with unlimited time off as well! They realize that happy employees are creative and work harder at a place that values them rather than clocking in 8-5 and having to answer for calling in sick, etc.

It's also highly competitive both from a company and employee perspective. Companies need to hold onto quality people or some other company may offer something nicer to lure them away.

 

I'm keeping the idea open to that later down the road in a few years maybe. I want to try to understand the design better first so if I do make a 4 link the truck is going to handle like a dream. Plus keeping the stock gas tank is a huge priority to me right now. I might turn it into a 3 link with a pan hard. The thing is the truck handles amazing with leafs right now.



On the topic of careers I'm a mechanical engineer doing design and prototype testing of optical communication. Been doing this for about 4 years. Passively looking to switch to a larger company in the future just to make a change. Plus larger companies have more expensive toys to play with.

 

An interesting read about linked suspensions....
http://www.offroadxtreme.com/engine-tech/brakes-suspension/off-road-suspension-101-an-inside-look/

 

Why is keeping your stock gas tank a big deal?

 

Can you be street legal in California with a relocated fuel tank?

 

Lol Idk?! My truck doesnt have to worry about that shit lol

 

Oh yeah good stuff in there to get you started. I'm looking for more technical information like roll center, anti squat, and physical geometry design limitations. What to see how all that goes together and make a really stable great handling small truck. Nothing more fun than seeing a little garage fab truck just rip it out in the dirt. I've been reading Carroll Smith tune to win book. It's for street cars but you can take bits of info and apply it to dirt. It seems like the dirt industry is a bit of a secret in suspension design.

Emissions even though it doesn't seem like my truck cares about it.

 

I saw one guy move his tank to his bed and said he passed smog. It seems like a gray area to me. 3 link could work for me though.

 

@MuricaTaco if you're going to holy Jim this week just go to the general store around the corner and pick up an adventure pass, they sell em there

 

What good does an adventure pass do?

 

@ODNAREM

Fuck you fuck you fuck you

Yeah? Is my BMX bike from when I was little allowed? I used to ride down all sorts of shit I shouldn't have on that thing lol

This coming from the guy that works at a ski resort where they give you passes for free? Lol

Depends where you go. Some smog guys don't care

 

It's looking like (you know how CA is...) rain Th/F/Sa but I dunno? @MuricaTaco

Let's you park on national park land. Otherwise it's a shitty ticket.

 

Okay thanks never knew that was a thing.

And since we're talking about careers, I'm a certified welder. So if anyone's shit breaks just give me a holler

 

Haha same.

 

I don't really have a clue how to fix it, clean it up, remove rust and weld a plate of steel there to fish the bolt back through...? Its connecting my crash beam to the weird thin mount in front of my radiator. Im not entirely sure what purpose it's serving

 

Your guess is a good as mine with that one haha. I've never seen that before. The material looks pretty light guage so any welding on it wouldn't be too hard