Boxologist

why is there always an event locally. theres a NNJ SCCA at Etown in the next month or so that I may be able to make if people are interested. possibly saturday oct 20th. other dates is sat 10/13 that i could be free on. i have no clue is extra dates into november or december will be added into NYR's new site. anyways, congrays on teh westfield. hope to C U on the blat in a few weeks.

yeah, i remember just after gradumatating from high skool was when aerosmith's Crazy video came out with her and Liv Tyler in it. I was about ready to call out across teh room here at work to find out if a coworker remembered when it came out, but he was in elementary school i believe.

maybe take the Locost and run in the other run group as well?

i was going to let Mazda drive my 7 but there was no point after he gave me a lift. he'd look at me ago," there's something wrong with ur right pedal, its like not hooked up or something." and i'd say, "no, its slow.":lol: to anyone who wants to see there cars driven the way there suposed to be, just find a regular national or pro solo driver who instructs at ur local autoX and let them co-drive. Its humbling for most of us. i'm considering offering one the chance to co-drive next season for some serious instruction. those (us novices) who saw what the 2nd run group at 7-7-07 was doing don't understand till we sit shotgun in our car and realize its not going to break.

for a subaru, Summer: bridgestone potenza 050a pole position, a friend just got them in 225 45 17, a like them a great deal better thean the s03 they replaced. a little softer sidewall, and a whole lot quieter. I will get them when i need to replace my falken Ziexs on my wagon for my summer tyres. i also have the 040 on loan to another friend, he is not fond of them, probably because they are a 215 when he is used to a 235. they are pretty good, but now there is better. the toyo proxes 4 are getting good reviews. the continental sport contact has been an excellent budget choice for the last 2-3 years. teh michelin/bf goodrich KDW2 is also really good. the stock bridgerocks will be good for a an easy winter if u don't driver aggressively in the snow. otherwise i use the Nokians. The WR willbe better suited to a Va winter, the RSi is a more inclement weather designed tread. lots a siping. makes me want to find some snow thinking about it. mmmmm mmmmm:party:

such a dirty old man.

after a 7 all views are jaundiced. joy of havng no power steering and no weight to make it an issue. power steering does eliminate most of the feel. also consider hoe much front castor u can have , that greatly influences how turn in is. Also, we have minimal body roll with the low center of gravity of a 7. even u mada!

thankfully my Lucas wiper system hasnt manifested itself yetttttt.

I wasted 20 minutes searchng and going thru rob's posts. i thought he installed that chrome switch on a steering wheel, but i may be wrong. http://www.rallylights.com/hella/intermittent_wiper_control_switches.asp my mitzvah for the year. maybe i'm cool now to go autoX on yom kippur with the local bmw club:banghead: :crazy: mazda, feel free to merge this if anyone remembers exactly where that wiper dodad thread was.

now what do we have here... http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1345/1396770933_c241858742.jpg?v=0 donk or a dax?

nearly all R Comps will have some sort of tread. most will get shaved. a few tyres are tread free. but an R comp will wear faster, and as Tom has learned, instill a confidence at taking the 7 to a farther limit. Not an ideal or responsible situation when sharing the road with tin tops.

big disparity in prices on ebay right now.

yeah, just heard about hald an hour ago. guess i'll bust out teh electrical tape armband tomorrow at atuoX.

dave, there is a caterham dealer upstate, get in touch with him to see what u need. maybe he has some pull.

yup, any 3m clearbra or laminex film. taking heat that close to a turbo, i can't say http://rockblocker.com/3m.htm some heat data, but nowhere near ur expected levels.

u gotta see how i spun my first run last SCCA autoX. even i don't know how i did it. somehow i was able to lose the front of the car.

http://www.dmv.org/ct-connecticut/custom-built-cars.php i searched thru the Ct auto code and olny found 2 mentions of "bumper". one in relation to the exhaust and the other with regards to chop shops. so yes, u will definitely need a live body for advice. once u have that person, get their name and when theya re working. ur gona want to send them something nice after the birkin is on the road.

make sure when u are toasting the new couple, u utter the phrase, "No Backsies!"

the sooner a date/location and expected budget for participants is established, the higher the turnout would be. if members of teh mother club were considering coming over for LOG next year, another USA meet may entice returnees even after the difficulties of Southwest 2005. food fof thought.

http://www.californiacaterhamclub.com/chat/ or the pacific section here.

I have a drive in mind Columbus day weekend. start will be Gouldsboro, Pa and eventually finish in port jervis, NY. i would like a mid morning start. whether we meet for breakfast or early munch and the drive has been estimated at 2:30 - 3 hours by google. despite is length, there are not that many road changes. participants: 1. Box (jon) 2. yellowss (tom

looks good to me. i'll start a thread and see who else is able to come.

those are my intentions at the moment. as it stands now. to chicagp or north indiana in one day. get a hotdog and some pizza in chicago. Yes, i will do this. and then go in smaller chunks till i get to the destination. there are too many national parks that i never had the chance to go to, and i plan to make amends for that. and what better way then with a 7. I am actively considering a trailer. i'll have to get in touch with Loren about that and what type of hitch to consider. just looking at my North America atlas made the decision easier. SD is 2/3s the way there, so i may as well go. What i am debating, and timing of the season really does play a factor in this, is what the return trip will be. i would like to hit Grand canyon NP, but i expect national 7 meet 2009 to be in the summer, and there is no way in desert that i will go into hell in the summer. no wait, i think i have that reversed. even with the tops, and going to the bigger radiator, oil coller and possibly apollo tank i'm not sure i want to risk getting stuck in 110+ degree long hauls. figure 2009 will be a big wash for at work already. i take my vacation in one lump, come back for a week of work, and then go some hernia surgery for another couple of weeks off. edit: i'm seeing alot of good banter. eventually there will have to be, as Al like to refer back to, a "Skyline" type meeting where ideas can really get hammered out. even a conference call will suffice. there are a lot of different ideas and goals being floated in this thread and i beleive that the sie of this meet will allow many of them to be actualized.:grouphug:

the big subaru forum was that way on that day as well. I had a job interview that morning, in Laurelton, which on a clear day u can see the twin towers. It was an 8:30 or 9am interview and things had not gone all surreal yet. that did not happen until the towers fell. The interview went great. Even ask the interviewer how it went and he said i did "excellent". He even said he would have normally made a call back to myself in a day or so, but he "did not know what was going to happen anymore after today." The first tower fell on my way home. there were trucks from the volunteer units on Long island still heading into the city. it wasn't till i saw it happening on TV that i could get a sense of what was happening on such scale. after the second tower fell nad they started going thru all the replays I told my family u better watch this while u can, these shots won't be seen for years. I'm sort of lucky. I'm at least 2 degrees removed from knowing anyone who was truly affected. The closest i got to the site was a week later there were some fights in either AC or Philly that i went to, and the bridges and tunnels in the NYC metro area were all running on forced carpools as of 4AM every morning and i just got in by several minutes over the Outerbridge Crossing. I then zipped back, deliberately taking the longer route so i would pass by the brooklyn and manhatten bridges so i could see the lower manhatten skyline and just get confimation that the last week had really occured. the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway stretch by the bridges has been one my favorites since i was a kid. on clear fall weekend morning its gorgeous. going north/eastbound the river and manhatten are on ur left with the rising sun reflected off them as drive in the shade on the unusually empty road that curves, dips and rises underneath the bridges. I did visit the Shanksville, Pa crash site in the Fall of 2002 when i was out for a cousin's wedding in Johnston, Pa. that site sorta got to me seeing as it was still a cratered open field. another kicker was on sept 10, 2001 i was supposed to go a yankees game. it rained that evening delaying me getting to teh stadium. the ballgame was cancelled just before i got there. i was meeting family there. after we finally were able to tracked each other down we had to replan teh evening. so we somehow decided on Nathans. THE Nathans. so off to Coney Island we go from the Bronx. I take the Westside Hwy thru Manhatten hich passes right next to teh towers. whenever i drove next to them i always rolled my window down and looked up, and this night was no different. last night i had a Met game. luckily it didn't rain out. was soaker today though. just my ramblings. not sure if its $0.02

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