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Nice rack Chris! Is your wheel fixed up yet?? How bad was it bent from the impact?

I think I remember you saying you had a set of scales for weighing all 4 corners . Could I bring a pair of shocks up to your place some time in exchange for some time on those scales, possibly??

I just got back from dropping off the tires and scoping out the rims...I'll get them back tomorrow! They're pretty rough finish, but shiny - looks like they milled the wheel clean after aggressive mediablasting - but left some tooling marks - better than a poke in the eye at least. I don't believe they suffered any bending actually - I weighed them at 23lbs apiece I think - sturdy...hopefully the invoice tomorrow notes a run-out measurement.

I'll get the ball rolling on acquiring the scales, try to locate them this weekend ...but I've got to do some serious garage cleaning. Yesterday I decide to move ~everything in our shop - trying to get the garage in ship-shape before Dad retires. I'm a little excited to say, for the first time in a long time we'll be able to have a car in the garge with a door fully-open I should have a nearly 12' wide space ~22' deep cleaned out.

It's been a hard week already, our dog (well, my girls) ran out of the yard just before I was heading to the PGP karting track at Pacific Raceways...and the weekend went to hell. Monday a nearby vet told us they had the body If it wasn't bad enough they called the girl to let her know just a couple hours into her first orientation class at her new job...and now it looks like we're heading to Oly Saturday to get a new dog after going back-and-forth with a breeder the past couple days

Man, sorry to hear about your dog. I hope you find a good replacement down in Oly. I know I'm in for a mess of heartache when our Lab's time comes, it's the first dog my fiance's had and I think she's more attatched to him than she is to me. I've had quite few pets over the years, a few were hit by cars and Dad had to deliver lead poisoning to end the suffering...he's oldschool. Personally, I balled like a girl when I had to put a cat down a few years ago that was only 8 months old...cats are different.

Give me a hollar next time you're headed to that go-kart track, it's down the street from me .

turbobaja wrote:Man, sorry to hear about your dog.

Give me a hollar next time you're headed to that go-kart track, it's down the street from me .

X2 on that Chris

Sounds like you've had a lot on your plate.

I know the feeling...

Keep up the good work, man.

Thanks guys, here's the new boy we're hopefully gonna' bring home tomorrow:



I should have an update later after I can grab the rims...and hopefully I get my gussets/tabs to work on the roof rack, but only after I put a head-unit in my cousin's Ford as I've been lucky enough to have him building us a new firewood shed.

Well, the sun is coming up after having rained cats & dogs last night...and our new puppy, Chester, is napping between my forearms as I type...he's a cool little dude, very quiet, smart, & well behaved - we've already sent a couple of e-mails to the breeder to tell them how happy we are.

I got the Ansens/Yoko's back from Les Schwab - where the tech was nice enough to scratch & dent the finish on both of the rims during tire mounting...it's just a Baja, but it's irritating...

My racing buddy surprised me with a 132K BTU Reznor heater for the garage yesterday, so it should be a warm, warm winter! I couldn't keep working away on the garage with it just sitting there, so we made a trip to Lowes for supplies- the one in Lynnwood is pathetic, wound-up in Everett before coming home with enough Uni-strut and 3/8" all-thread to get the thing in the air (8'-11')...still need to order the natural-gas to propane conversion kit and plumb the 8" exhaust out the roof.

Also took a bunch of misc chemicals out of the garage and to the free drop-off out in Woodinville...and built a ~9' long tire rack 8' off the ground over the high-bay. Made a not so quick steel-wheel bench-grinder-stand out of an old 13x10 Aero wheel/Type III hub/944 stub/and the Type IV joint from the Baja - it was welded up solid.

Still no car in the garage - but hopefully by the end of today.

Some poop I'd just never do if it weren't for my buddy, he came over and we got busy this evening

Took a few attempts, but finally got a picture while it was both dry and daylight out My Uncle, who painted the thing and drove it daily ~20 years ago swung by tonight as well - he was excited to see the wheels/tires looking so good - when he had it, the front rims were 13" at first and then 14" mags.

Nice! Well worth the wait.

Nice shoes!

Dang!!! those look good....let's get em dirty

I've always been partial to slots. Looks good and looks right; very cool!

Lee

I still can't believe it's the same pair of wheels! Getting them muddy is a high priority, where we going?

Made some progress on the roof rack today...still no lights, but that's coming up, finally





I looked into PGP karts (my coupon expired)...They're open all winter 9AM-4:30PM Wed-Sun

A little further along this morning...