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Improvement!

Alcohol (revisited)

Looking through the archives of past posts I came across a list oh my favorite alcohols.  It was funny to me to see the differences and similarities in what I drink now compared to 4 years ago.

It said

2010:

 "I must list pretty randomly my favorite Alcohols...

Beer- Guinness, Rolling rock, Ice house, Heineken light
Whiskey- Jameson
Scotch- Glenlivet
Gin - Tanqueray
Rum - Captain Morgan Silver
Tequila - Patron Silver
Viva Alcohol!"

So now I have to update.   I can't put my favorite alcohols.  My tastes and what i'm in the mood for changes often.  So here is a list a what I am drinking currently when I am in the mood for said alcohol category.

2014:

Beer- Yuengling light, Orlando Brewing 'right on red,' Corona light, Cigar city 'maduro,' Sweetwater '420,' 

Whiskey- Jack Daniels

Bourbon- Jim Beam, Bulliet

Scotch- Glenmorangie

Gin- Beefeater

Rum- Captain Morgan White, Sailor Jerry

Tequila- Patron Silver, Patron anejo

Project drift s14 (part 3)

Today consisted of jb plastic welding the cracked gas tank and several hours of banging on the subframe with a small sledge (the candy hammer) and a screwdriver. What..a..pain..in..the..ass..   I'm sure I'm doing something wrong to make this so difficult but I do have 3 out of four subframe bushings changed.  Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the last bushing changed and start bolting everything back into place.

Project Blue Truck (part 1)

So this is my 1964 Chevy c10 step side pickup truck. It has seen better days as it has been sitting for the last 20 years in my stepdad's mom's back property.  It is sitting next to his dad's 1965 version.  He wants to restore his dad's but he gave me his. Hell Yeah!  Now I am a huge fan of the ratrod style of vehicles so this truck makes me happier than a kid at Christmas.  It took my grandpa and myself several trips to unearth this baby from where it had settled.  It required moving a giant fuel tank off the bed,  removing the wheels and tires, replacing three tires and one rim and tire, disassembling the seized brakes, strapping the roof down to stop it from pealing back like a tin can lid, and hand cranking the truck inch by inch onto my car dolly with a come-along. Whew.  But now it is at the house.  I removed 4 full trash bags of leaves, and sticks, and carpet, and rusted metal, and spiders, and an actual rat.  Which is fitting for a ratrod.  I'm really excited about this project and my current goal for it is to be a sick, low, loud, dirty, and mean daily driver. Upon measuring the space in the engine and the placement of the existing motor mounts on the p.o.s. straight 6, my nissan sr20det motor should fit right in snug as a bug. I think that would be a sick hybrid which is perfect for this hodge-podge style of vehicle building.  Plus it would save me a few bucks in buying a new motor. Always a plus.  Also being able to swap the motor back and forth between the s14 and the blue truck would be awesome.  Imagine pulling up to an race or show (albeit early) with the blue truck pulling the the s14, swapping the motor into the s14, and then swapping it back to go home.  Sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but it sounds pretty cool to me.  I think it would draw a pretty big crowd. Maybe i'm a glutton for punishment, maybe i'm poor, maybe they go hand in hand. oh well, we shall see.

custom air vents...^

Project Drift S14 (part 1)

So this is to give a little back story on my most current project.  Its not that it is the newest project but it is the one that is taking the most of my attention at the moment.  I work in phases like that with my interests.  I may put something to the side but then I will come back to it later and pick up where i left off.  My interests usually cycle in 6 month to 2 year intervals.

Back to the topic at hand. This is my 1995 Nissan 240sx se. I have owned it for over 10 years. It is my baby.  Although i have been neglecting my baby the past few years that is due to my life situations that i have freed myself from. In the beginning I financed the car and used a insurance check from my totaled Honda crx to buy a used sr20det motor from Japan.
 

I drove the car around on the stock motor while collecting parts for the sr20. When the old ka24 finally kicked, which happened to be getting off of i4 onto international drive in Orlando, I towed the car to my friend Buddy's Grandpa's airplane hanger and learned how to swap my first engine. Three months, and a maxed credit card, later she was road worthy. It took several months to iron the kinks out but it wasn't long before I was tearing up the streets with her.  My main focus was drifting. We spent a lot of time hanging out at my friend Zack's and tinkering with various cars.  Saturday nights we would hit up strategic parking lots in ocala to bull shit with other street racers and organize where the racing, drifting, or chilling spot would be for the night.  This continued on for many years with a smattering of autocross, drift events, car shows, and more street racing thrown in.  All good things come to an end as they say. Of course life takes over for most people at some point and you reside yourself to the fact that you will never be able to do the things you love anymore and that's just the way it is.  F@$# that! I'm being selfish and living my life the way I want to. So my son Austin and I went down to Orlando to watch a pro/am drifting practice, mainly to see if the scene was still kicking.

It was.

So now between my car enthusiast friend Jesse (pictured below), and my soon to have his learners permit son Austin (shown in the video), and my ridiculously supportive and wonderful girlfriend Amber, I am hell bent on getting my baby running again and doing some more stupid shit with her like I used to
 do.  So far we have pulled the motor.


Stripped the interior.

and started fixing all the shit wrong with her from years of very very hard daily driving and street racing.  Now we are going to rebuild her better than before and twice as sassy. That's right is said sassy.  At the moment my vision for the S14 is a barely street-able track prepped drifter.  Follow us on this journey into tire-smoking, money sucking, overgrown man-child madness.

Project drift s14 (part 2)

So my son austin and I tackled a part of the car rebuild that had really been the straw that broke the camel's back for putting the car down. the gas tank had a small crack in it that only allowed a gallon and a half of gas to be put in before it started leaking out.  in order to get at the gas tank we have to drop the entire subframe. upon inspection of the subframe  bushings we discovered there was barely anything left of them, the rubber was completely shot.  the chassis does have 300k plus miles on it. Now I have ordered some Energy Suspension black subframe bushings and will be putting them in soon.  Stay tuned.

'The beginning: projects post...

This is the post that starts it all.  Or at least starts it in the beginning of where I am in the countless list of projects that I am constantly tinkering with and adding to.  So I am attempting to catalog my progress through these adventures.  Currently the projects on the forefront of my list are...

• getting my nissan 240sx running and racing again
• getting my 1964 chevy c10 ratrod running
• turning my 21ft scatcraft boat into a tiki bar
• building my ar15
• brewing beer
• crafting spirits
• my wiener dog
• etc

So my plan is to log my progress on these projects and share my successes and failures with you. Cheers!