She's a Keeper

In reply to Teqnyck:

Showoff !!

I donno. The liking FWD thing is a huge negative. But I suppose I can see around that if you want to make this work.

I do have a thing for 6cyls of all types. I guess thats why I have a RB20DET and am putting a VQ30DE +T in my other 240sx.

~Alex

Ahem. You have seen my #1 beater haven't you?

Teqnyck wrote: she bought me wheels and race tires for christmas............Did I win?

Yes

In reply to Lesley:

Ok you won me over. where do I sign?

~Alex

Rustspecs13 wrote: In reply to Lesley: Ok you won me over. where do I sign? ~Alex

Just take a number, sir. The line forms to the left...

By the way, the line currently stretches from the Great State of Canada, to, ummm, San Diego.

where's DollRaves in all this ? the one she dumped has to be one of the worlds biggest idiots .......

I'll only say one thing:

The reason the KLZE-Escort is coming to fruition is because she wants something entertaining to autocross.

Lesley wrote: I did a little dance this week after finally tracking down a set of heads with the right valve spring keepers for my KLZE swap. Does that put me on the "keeper" list??

Were you wearing anything at the time?

LOL, you guys are hilarious. Glad my shameless bid for attention worked. :-)

In reply to Lesley:

I'll shamelessly admit I'm looking forward to being right behind you (on the leader board).

Last night, about 10:30 or 11:00 pm I was talking with my wife. We were in the local slightly gentrified dive bar not far from the house we've been renovating together every waking hour for the past 4-1/2 months. I'll add that she aggressively sold me on the notion that we/I could totally renovate ~another~ house and sell the one we've finished due to the new one having a vastly larger garage and space for my machine shop.

Anyway - we're sitting in the Quarry House having burgers and beers and generally basking in the glow that the massive trim carpentry job is done and how we're just paint away from being ready to move in.

Understand that while this huge renovation has been going on, we've had 2 mortgages. We had house #1 sold and the miserable E36 M3berkeleyers voided the contract hours before they'd have forfeited their massive earnest money deposit. We've both got good jobs, and aren't dying financially, but have been on an austerity plan since about October.

I begin to ruminate on a very minor quandary that's been on my mind, namely, an associate's father has offered me an astonishing deal on a Radical Club Sport. Now, a liter-bike powered D Sports Racer in which I could take race school, do time trials and B mod autocross is pretty much my personal nirvana, holy grail, and white whale.

I have about half the discretionary funds to buy the car and was talking about what I could offload to come up with the balance. Extremely rare 7" punk rock singles, vintage skateboards and bicycles, a KT100 powered Margay Cougar A/C race kart. One of my KTM motorbikes...

And she says: "Our old house ~will~ sell. It sold quickly before, it'll sell again." "Ok" "And when it does, we'll be very liquid. Very" "Sure - but it's just not responsible for a person to buy a race car using their not-discretionary money when they have 2 mortgages" "Well - you're going to have to buy it eventually. When do you "need" it?" "Umm..."need" is a strong term when there's people starving in this world, but my SCCA region double race school is mid-March. I'd have to get the car, a set of tires, and something to tow it on together a couple weeks before then. There's a track day and TT a week before that'd be good to shake it down and learn how it goes. But again - It wouldn't be the most responsible thing I've ever done"

"You're just going to have to nut up and buy it" she says.

So by the GRM community barometer -

• She not only can drive manual trans - she will only own manual trans cars.
• She points out other NA Miatas when we're out in ours.
• She can tell a Sprite from a Midget from a Spitfire from an MGB.
• She watches MotoGP and pro bicycle racing and knows the players.

And - She helps me move machine tools. She's worked as hard and as many hors as I have on our first and second houses. Most recently this means demolishing everything but the walls and floors (leaving kitchen and baths for later) and making it all a house again in 4 months part time.

And finally, as stated above; She just told me I have to buy a race car.

She's beyond keeper.

My wife accompanied me to the Detroit Auto show on Saturday and she wants to learn to drive a stick.

I'm happy.

My wife is a massage therapist.

She also told me I had to buy my ms3 because I wasn't going to be happy til I had one. She bought the current set of wheels on that car. When we went shopping for a MINI for her, she actually turned down the one she had ordered so she could get the supercharged r53 we found used. She has yet to complain about the increasing spread of car parts on our floor at our apt.

I think she's pretty alright.

My wife and I have an agreement.

I'm allowed to be a car nut and she is allowed to make fun of me for it.

My wife told me to build her the LS1 MGB as her grocery getter. She considers the M5 to have just the right power/weight ratio. She wants me to take her to Le Mans. And she's my rally navigator.

She works in the construction industry. As you can imagine, she gets underestimated a lot by guys who simply think women are there to take phone calls. One guy was bragging about how fast his GTO was, trying to impress her. She replied "Any idiot can go fast in a straight line, you should try driving on a track". I think you would have been able to see his weenie shrink from space.

Curmudgeon wrote:

Lesley wrote: I did a little dance this week after finally tracking down a set of heads with the right valve spring keepers for my KLZE swap. Does that put me on the "keeper" list??

Were you wearing anything at the time?

If you were, please describe it Slowly !....

My fiance is a definite keeper. She loves Z cars, agrees fully with my desire for manual cars, she plays GT5 (with a G25 wheel and uses the stick/clutch), during a conversation about redoing my old E-150 she mentioned "crate engine", "turbo" and "stick shift" and never mentioned "heated seats" or anything in the interior, except how we might go about fitting a shifter in there, she never complains about my small living room having 4 dirty wheels leaning against the coffee table, thinks my RX8 should be turbocharged (and the van, too, for that matter), and doesn't like to pay people to do stuff she can learn to do herself. That last one will be useful during my annual summer "combat the rust on this old van" week long event. Maybe. At least i'll see if she likes body work.

motomoron wrote: last night, about 10:30 or 11:00 pm I was talking with my wife. We we in the local slightly gentrified dive bar not far from the house we've been renovating together every waking hour for the past 4-1/2 months. I'll add that she aggressively sold me on the notion that we/I could totally renovate ~another~ house and sell the one we've finished due to the new one having a vastly larger garage and space for my machine shop. Anyway - we're sitting in the Quarry House having burgers and beers and generally basking in the glow that the massive trim carpentry job is done and how we're just paint away from being ready to move in. Understand that while this huge renovation has been going on, we've had 2 mortgages. We had house #1 sold and the miserable E36 M3berkeleyers voided the contract hours before they'd have forfeited their massive earnest money deposit. We've both got good jobs, and aren't dying financially, but have been on an austerity plan since about October. I begin to ruminate on a very minor quandary that's been on my mind, namely, an associate's father has offered me an astonishing deal on a Radical Club Sport. Now, a liter-bike powered D Sports Racer in which I could take race school, do time trials and B mod autocross is pretty much my personal nirvana, holy grail, and white whale. I have about half the discretionary funds to buy the car and was talking about what I could offload to come up with the balance. Extremely rare 7" punk rock singles, vintage skateboards and bicycles, a KT100 powered Margay Cougar A/C race kart. One of my KTM motorbikes... And she says: "Our old house ~will~ sell. It sold quickly before, it'll sell again." "Ok" "And when it does, we'll be very liquid. Very" "Sure - but it's just not responsible for a person to buy a race car using their not-discretionary money when they have 2 mortgages" "Well - you're going to have to buy it eventually. When do you "need" it?" "Umm..."need" is a strong term when there's people starving in this world, but my SCCA region double race school is mid-March. I'd have to get the car, a set of tires, and something to tow it on together a couple weeks before then. There's a track day and TT a week before that'd be good to shake it down and learn how it goes. But again - It wouldn't be the most responsible thing I've ever done" "You're just going to have to nut up and buy it" she says. So by the GRM community barometer - - She not only can drive manual trans - she will only own manual trans cars. - She points out other NA Miatas when we're out in ours. - She can tell a Sprite from a Midget from a Spitfire from an MGB. - She watches MotoGP and pro bicycle racing and knows the players. And - She helps me move machine tools. She's worked as hard and as many hors as I have on our first and second houses. Most recently this means demolishing everything but the walls and floors (leaving kitchen and baths for later) and making it all a house again in 4 months part time. And finally, as stated above; She just told me I have to buy a race car. She's beyond keeper.

Well.....OK......but we're going to have to see pictures of the KTM

I joke to the wife that I'd love to have an El Camino, because I learned to drive in one and have always had a soft spot for those things.

Obviously I wasn't joking sounding enough because she will then spend the next two hours on Craigslist looking for El Caminos in a 200 mile radius. She'll find the one she thinks is ideal and show me.

It's a '69 SS, and it sure is pretty, and it's $9000

So I say that's great, but not what I had in mind, if I really did have a hankering for an El Camino, which would be a ludicrious thing to have around in the first place, if there was a place to put it even. Besides, once I drove one I'd remember why I was in so much of a hurry to get away from dad's El Camino and into my own car back when I was a teenager.

She's not buying it. "Why haven't you emailed about the El Camino I showed you?" Because I don't want a $9000 truck. I don't really want any truck. "Why are you being difficult?"

It's not really a bad situation to be in, because when I do find something I'd like to have and can't justify it to myself, she tells me it's OK to get it.

And she's letting me throw a bunch of fun parts at her Miata. It's fun for me to pick out the bits and pieces and get my hands dirty putting it together, but her real motivation is that she wants her car to be faster than mine. And I'm going to make sure that's the case.

And then I'm going to ask her to share it.

My wife divorced me, I kept everything. I won

Now the new g/f changed her own oil this weekend with very little assistance, that's a good sign

My girlfriend really wants a '89 Shelby Daytona.

My fiancee saw a 1970 Camaro on the road during our first date, and identified it as such as said, "Did that have a 350 or 396?"

I'm pretty sure I've never come closer to crashing a car.

And I still don't know what engine those had, by the way. Haha, pretty sure they had 350s by then.

4eyes wrote:

motomoron wrote: last night, about 10:30 or 11:00 pm I was talking with my wife. We we in the local slightly gentrified dive bar not far from the house we've been renovating together every waking hour for the past 4-1/2 months. I'll add that she aggressively sold me on the notion that we/I could totally renovate ~another~ house and sell the one we've finished due to the new one having a vastly larger garage and space for my machine shop. Anyway - we're sitting in the Quarry House having burgers and beers and generally basking in the glow that the massive trim carpentry job is done and how we're just paint away from being ready to move in. Understand that while this huge renovation has been going on, we've had 2 mortgages. We had house #1 sold and the miserable E36 M3berkeleyers voided the contract hours before they'd have forfeited their massive earnest money deposit. We've both got good jobs, and aren't dying financially, but have been on an austerity plan since about October. I begin to ruminate on a very minor quandary that's been on my mind, namely, an associate's father has offered me an astonishing deal on a Radical Club Sport. Now, a liter-bike powered D Sports Racer in which I could take race school, do time trials and B mod autocross is pretty much my personal nirvana, holy grail, and white whale. I have about half the discretionary funds to buy the car and was talking about what I could offload to come up with the balance. Extremely rare 7" punk rock singles, vintage skateboards and bicycles, a KT100 powered Margay Cougar A/C race kart. One of my KTM motorbikes... And she says: "Our old house ~will~ sell. It sold quickly before, it'll sell again." "Ok" "And when it does, we'll be very liquid. Very" "Sure - but it's just not responsible for a person to buy a race car using their not-discretionary money when they have 2 mortgages" "Well - you're going to have to buy it eventually. When do you "need" it?" "Umm..."need" is a strong term when there's people starving in this world, but my SCCA region double race school is mid-March. I'd have to get the car, a set of tires, and something to tow it on together a couple weeks before then. There's a track day and TT a week before that'd be good to shake it down and learn how it goes. But again - It wouldn't be the most responsible thing I've ever done" "You're just going to have to nut up and buy it" she says. So by the GRM community barometer - - She not only can drive manual trans - she will only own manual trans cars. - She points out other NA Miatas when we're out in ours. - She can tell a Sprite from a Midget from a Spitfire from an MGB. - She watches MotoGP and pro bicycle racing and knows the players. And - She helps me move machine tools. She's worked as hard and as many hors as I have on our first and second houses. Most recently this means demolishing everything but the walls and floors (leaving kitchen and baths for later) and making it all a house again in 4 months part time. And finally, as stated above; She just told me I have to buy a race car. She's beyond keeper.

Well.....OK......but we're going to have to see pictures of the KTM

Ok. 2008 690 SMC - Wings pipe, DNA filter and frame, Akrapovic tune.

2006 950 Supermoto, Wings pipes, long, painful rejet process, cannister, evap removed, smaller front sprocket, etc.