Do you have hobbies other than guitars, gear, or music.

Don O said:
I hear ya. I bought the 2010 Camaro in October of 2009. The local drag strip, Fontana’s AutoClub, had street legal drag days once a month. Bone stock, with the paper tags still on it I did a 13.3. Then I did the mods below over time and either drag raced it or Dino-Ed it after each mod. Then the drag strip,closed down for street legal drags :mad:

Cold air intake
Kooks long tube headers
Kooks hi flow cats
3” inch aluminum exhaust pipes (IIRC)
Magnaflow hi flow mufflers
changed rear gears from 3.27 to 3.70
Eibach springs and bars, lowered the car about an inch
numerous tunes (and auto trans tune)
drag radials
ported throttle body
engine bling (OK, didn’t help on drag times but sure is pretty)

Best 1/4 mile time was 12.75 after all this.

And this was my DD for 8 years.
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Awesome ride. But yeah, that's a lot of cash and work to gain half a second. We used to race at Pomona, Firebird and Oceanside. Always wanted to get up to Fontana but never did.
 
So, here’s my latest one. The wax is cooling off.

I decided to go with a single-wick design because soy wax melts at a lower temperature than paraffin. As the wicks burn further down into the container, so much wax can melt that it drowns the wicks. So, to keep the heat buildup a little lower, I opted for just one wick.

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Don O said:
Oh, and I jumped out of a perfectly good airplane once !

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Was supposed to do this last year and it fell thru for some reason or another, but is still on the table possibly this year. Ive done 3 indoor jumps and each counts towards real jumps apparently ( how i will never know lol) and they were a blast. But nothing beats the real thing!
 
Clockworkmike said:
Was supposed to do this last year and it fell thru for some reason or another, but is still on the table possibly this year. Ive done 3 indoor jumps and each counts towards real jumps apparently ( how i will never know lol) and they were a blast. But nothing beats the real thing!
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Did it on my 30th birthday. Talked 3 other friends into doing it with me. My older brother was into it big timers the late 70s and 80s, he worked 4 10 hour days and had 3 day weekends for years. Him and his buddies would go out to a remove place in western MD where a small plane could land. They’d do 6 or 8 jumps a day. He “retired” from the sport after about 1500 jumps. The decision to quit came a few weeks after he had to use his reserve in back to back jumps.

I have a video I should post sometime. I paid a photographer to jump with us and he documented some of the training, the ride up, the jump from the plane, the free fall and then he dove to the ground so he could film the landing.
 
smitty_p said:
So, here’s my latest one. The wax is cooling off.

I decided to go with a single-wick design because soy wax melts at a lower temperature than paraffin. As the wicks burn further down into the container, so much wax can melt that it drowns the wicks. So, to keep the heat buildup a little lower, I opted for just one wick.

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That's a strange pickup...but at least it will not squeal...
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
Indoor jumps
sounds both comfortable and suicidal.
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Lol its like being in that bubble fizzy lifting drink chamber in Willy Wonka. You got two massive fans, one caged below but one open above you and you fly around, banging into a 40ft tube, spit flying everywhere if you open your mouth ( which i regrettably did). Whole time your wondering if you are gonna fly up into the fan and give the place a brand new paint job lol
 
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