Not a white sedan… think he’s ok.

Does @Rochester need a race car project?

 

^^Lets hope it's shipped right side up.......

 

Anyone have experience with 10k/8k vs 12k/10k spring rates? Obviously softer will ride closer to OEM but wondering if 12/10k will be too much. I probably would like how the 12/10k will handle but will it beat me up? hah

 

Besides some computer parts I bought a few things from Z1 for their BF sale.
their oil cooler kit
dual oil catch can kit
master hose kit
and some diff fluid

Saved a few hundred dollars. $250 off the oil catch can kit alone.

 

I didn't see much of interest on Z1 - and they got *roasted* on social media for how mediocre their sale was.

Honestly, I didn't have it in me to shop much for Black Fridayweek or Cyberweek this year - nothing I needed/wanted was on sale both car-related and otherwise. I've been capitalismed out - which doesn't bode well for my enjoyment of Christmas season.

I think what I need most this year is time - and there ain't none.

 

I think they updated it after the first two days to add more and even lower some prices. It seemed very cool to me considering the automotive world doesn't do good sales very often. I was extremely pleased myself. Order only a few items and saved over $300, can't complain about that.

 

You, sir, need a long vacation.

 

Could not have said it better myself. Contrary to the media's biased slant when it comes to holiday spending in general, I did not see as much enthusiasm, or deals, as was portrayed. Absolutely nothing I was interested in was on sale. So, I gave up.

Capitalism has long since ruined the Christmas holiday season for many. But, that is a different topic entirely.

Oh well, I know someone who will be much happier when the credit card bill comes due in January...

 

Black "Friday" has been a joke for years now, they just increase the prices in October and then drop them again for the entire month of November.

 

'Struth.

I think my next free weekend is in March.

 

After swapping snow tires a few weeks ago, the Vossens were sitting in my family room (which is just a renovated basement we rarely use anymore). Anyway, there they've sat, mocking me and begging to get detailed. So I finally got around to it this past weekend and then some. Cleaned, clay barred, sealed and buffed. Just finished the last one yesterday, and then stored 3 of them under the stairs, leaving one out so that I can admire it over the winter.

I've been doing this dance every year for the last 8 years and nearly 40k miles, and I have to say it's been worth it. They still look brand new. Love, love, LOVE these wheels.

I should take a picture.

For sidewall conditioning, I spray them with Meguiars tire shine (covering the wheels themselves with a wheel shield), and let that sit for a few hours before buffing them out. Then I apply tire gel and buff that out too. The sidewalls are this deep, uniform matte black. It's very nice.

 

I feel bad for you. If you excuse my faith based commentary, The real meaning of Christmas has nothing to do with capitalism or retail therapy or any of this secular crap or society pushes on everyone. I think Rochester might be right, a vacation might be in order

 

My distaste for Christmas capitalism comes and goes - some years are worse than others. Now, my *personal* Christmas stuff with my family - those I love. Those aren't related to presents. That doesn't change, and we gift based on creativity but I don't usually kill myself looking for sales. However, between getting together with friends and extended family for various traditions such as cookie baking, gingerbread housemaking, our annual group family photos, office mandatory fun parties, holiday parades, galas, awards banquets and such, and my daughter's school events on weekends... we're literally booked until late Feb. There's actually a vacation in there to Universal in Florida late January, but that's all for my 11-year old's birthday (Harry Potter World) and not me - I'm basically the driver and sherpa.... now that I write it down, it seems like I'm complaining of having a very 1st world life, and I don't mean to. But time to sit down and look at the stars is few and far between.

What gets me down about the season is the whole Christmas marketing machine. It's omnipresent (even without broadcast TV and it's commercials) but dude... everywhere. For everything. Do people really need a new bigscreen TV every year, like pairs of socks? Dunno. When I was working on an MBA to keep the GI Bill flowing, my Marketing final paper discussed how marketing as a concept was the root of much of the world's suffering. Fully supported by psych research and properly cited. Got an F. Appealed to the dean, got an A-. Still stand by my synthesis of other's analyses LOL.

What I DO find funny, since you brought up faith, is that my paralegal and I are both non-christian - her agnostic, myself buddhist, and we're the only two in the office that exchange presents LOL.

 

Ho Ho Ho

 

This morning I found myself repeatedly catching up to a Challenger Hellcat as he sprinted from stoplight to stoplight. Nobody was challenging him (no pun), he was doing that all one his own, just wailing on the car. It was hunter green, with grey racing stripes, green halos in the headlights, all kinds of aero all around, and these incredibly wide tires. And I think that was all stock, but IDK.

OMG the noise and speed that thing makes is ridiculous. I don't think there's any way to drive a Hellcat that doesn't make you an ahole to all the other cars on the road.

Wow, just wow.