yea, yea. Havent updated in a while. I've been busyliving my life. It's a good thing, you know? Not needing the computer for entertainment. I dont even hardly remember last week. Meri stayed over monday night. I dont really remember much of it. I stayed at her place Wednesday night. We're making a routine of it. Thursday night I went out on a cruise with the boys and we tried to film some footage, but didnt really get anything good, except Osamu drifting his miata. I blew an exhaust/downpipe clamp. My car sounds really badass now. Friday night Dave and I tried to install my autotech short shifter. No luck with that. We drove into the underground garage and parked half on a curb and jacked the other half:
Wecould only get the 3-4-5 gates to work so we figured we'd fix it in the morning. No such luck. ended up back in the garage without dave and I had to experiment welding up my own shift linkage. Because im just the baddest motherfucker you ever met:
We cut out the back seat backing and I used the scrap metal to fabricate an extention on one of the linkages. We got to driving it around and came to realize how fucked the suspension was. At least the shifter kinda worked for all the gears around 1AM.
My brother came for the night to go racing sunday with us. Quite the adventure. Took about an hour to get to the race and we were doin about 90 the whole way. Had to slow down because the engine was overheating but we made it just fine, on totally fucked suspension. As soon as we got there, dave pulled a broken coil and we figured we could twist the springs back into the strut perches. Now I can say the jetta is legit lowered. We welded the springs into the perches so we wouldnt lose them in a corner or anything and the tech guys at the track, although skeptical, said we were good to race. I won first place in street mod. Here are some pictures of my sexy car:
The conditions were a little wet. So I pulled some insane drifts that left the crowd both scratching their heads and cheering. Good times. I only took 2 runs of 6 and I still beat everyone. suckers. just wait till next spring, when the slicks have some serious bite! Anyhoo. that was sunday. I basically got no sleep all weekend. Meri came over monday night and I did a pretty good job entertaining her. Today is tuesday. nothing exciting. I skipped a test. Makeup is on the 28th. I'd have bombed if I went. I know the shit, but i havent done the reading which i'd need to push me over the top. I think I'll try to get some serious sleep tonite. 12 hours maybe.
Wecould only get the 3-4-5 gates to work so we figured we'd fix it in the morning. No such luck. ended up back in the garage without dave and I had to experiment welding up my own shift linkage. Because im just the baddest motherfucker you ever met:
We cut out the back seat backing and I used the scrap metal to fabricate an extention on one of the linkages. We got to driving it around and came to realize how fucked the suspension was. At least the shifter kinda worked for all the gears around 1AM.
My brother came for the night to go racing sunday with us. Quite the adventure. Took about an hour to get to the race and we were doin about 90 the whole way. Had to slow down because the engine was overheating but we made it just fine, on totally fucked suspension. As soon as we got there, dave pulled a broken coil and we figured we could twist the springs back into the strut perches. Now I can say the jetta is legit lowered. We welded the springs into the perches so we wouldnt lose them in a corner or anything and the tech guys at the track, although skeptical, said we were good to race. I won first place in street mod. Here are some pictures of my sexy car:
The conditions were a little wet. So I pulled some insane drifts that left the crowd both scratching their heads and cheering. Good times. I only took 2 runs of 6 and I still beat everyone. suckers. just wait till next spring, when the slicks have some serious bite! Anyhoo. that was sunday. I basically got no sleep all weekend. Meri came over monday night and I did a pretty good job entertaining her. Today is tuesday. nothing exciting. I skipped a test. Makeup is on the 28th. I'd have bombed if I went. I know the shit, but i havent done the reading which i'd need to push me over the top. I think I'll try to get some serious sleep tonite. 12 hours maybe.