AZ BS Thread 4²0

If you got a garage I think it could happen. Its that baking in the sun on hot asphalt that gets me.

 

Gotta start at like 5am. Lol

 

I have still been working on the Z but just little bits at a time. Can't stay in the garage very long at all.

 

I’m debating whether or not I want to pull the bumper off of the civic this weekend, I have a carbon fiber grille for it and LED fog lights too, and both require dropping the bumper.

But there’s a company that’s supposed to be making an intercooler for the Si that is an actual improvement over stock in terms of pressure drop. They’ve said “soon” for like 2 damn months now and I know the second I give up they’re gonna release it

 

I have never heard anyone put more thought into shit than you. Just do it and get it over with. You will be happy you did and when the intercooler comes out it will be an easy job because you had done it before.

 

Too hot in the garage to much of anything! Plan for tomorrow is to start early to get my Dillon swapped over to 10mm and some guns cleaned up. It was 90 in the garage at 7:30 today!

 

You going to be home later? Mind if I swing by if so?

 

Yeah alright I guess I will get up early and get it done.

Also don’t get me started on the overthink, I developed spacers for a speaker install to make sure the grille still laid perfectly flat with aftermarket speakers last weekend.

 

You gonna be doing any overlanding while you’re there? I can’t wait for my big overlanding trip starting next Wednesday.

 

+1

 

I think July 5th should be an automatic day off....

 

Everything has gotten more expensive over the years but wages/salaries have not kept pace. If you are making 46k a year and have all the financial / life obligations that most of us do, you probably shouldn’t be looking at a 38k car.

 

People aren't outright buying those 38K cars, they are rolling those 38K cars into 56K cars after interest, and stonefaced taking it where the sun don't shine when a financier offers them some eye-watering interest rate in the double digits.

And in a few years once that car is clapped out from neglect, they roll their negative equity into a different car. Repeat until the cycle buckles under its own weight.

But at that point the financiers couldn't give less of a shit because they've collected their take and sold the rest of the debt off to some consolidator.

We're playing the same hot potato game with credit on cars as we did with subprime mortgages. Only again, it's not a hot potato, it's a frag grenade and the people who aren't holding the potato are still going to die when it goes off.

 

Was thinking about this the other day was not too terribly long ago $40k would have bought you a brand new M3 now you get a midsize pickup for that price.

 

There is an increase in auto loan default now because of this. Also, I have heard they offer 6 or 7 year car loans? Bad idea

 

I-17 a shit show fire around the Anthem outlets

 

Speaking of that, bought this thing today. Now I just need the motor it mounts to, wrapped around by a truck

 

Wife and I have two completely different takes on the heat
Me: Fuck this I'm going to Flagstaff for the weekend
Her: Finally it's warm enough to go on a 6 mile walk

 

Cart before the horse?

 

It was $800