The All About My Kids Thread (and other random things)...

[motorhead]

Soooo... I was promoted to the rank of Major today.  I knew it was coming but I am still waiting for it to sink in.

[larrym]

Congratulation s!

[Pyro6]

Good job!!!!!!!

[TexasT]

Nice.

[daveismissing]

So that would make you a major motorhead? makes sense...
congrats!

[xpander343]

congrats!!

[good2win22]

Congrats!  Will you be on staff now or still leading troops?

[motorhead]

Thanks guys!  "Major PITA" seems to be the running gag nickname right now.

Congrats!  Will you be on staff now or still leading troops?

Both actually.  I hold a full-time position in Army HQ and a part-time role with a local Reserve Infantry unit so I will still be able to command at the tactical-level with a Company.

[motorhead]

Being a cheap shit and not particularly worried about the amount of mileage/use this car gets (only 10K kms in the last year), I drank the Kool-Aid and bought Hankook Optimo 4S All-Weather (not all-season) tires for the Toreass from Crappy Tire (on sale, mail in rebate, and deferred financing, plus one-stop shopping).  We couldn't handle another Winter on balding Summer tires.

Here is the theory behind the AW tires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzlDGRULvi8

[motorhead]

TBSS progress, damn you China headers: http://www.tbssowners.com/forums/2990490-post124.html

http://www.tbssowners.com/forums/2990498-post125.html

[nocooler]

Welding that china SS is fun eh? I found with my welder, turning the gas off and turning it to the lowest setting worked the best.
The TBSS are tight underneath. I do miss mine - it was a hoot in the winter.

Are you going to try and enter the TBSS in drag week? I know you have a few cars in your arsenal to choose from!

[motorhead]

Welding that china SS is fun eh? I found with my welder, turning the gas off and turning it to the lowest setting worked the best.
The TBSS are tight underneath. I do miss mine - it was a hoot in the winter.

Are you going to try and enter the TBSS in drag week? I know you have a few cars in your arsenal to choose from!

Funny, I set the MIG to kill and used fluxcore wire - same method for the O2 bung I added - no issues.  The TBSS is definitely an option for Drag Week; I have a pros/cons list for each of the cars - but, it is definitely the most versatile.  But, at the end of the day I just want to stop driving the Toreass everyday because it feels like punishment - so this truck needs to get done soon.

[motorhead]

Took a week off to travel and do family things over Christmas - good times. Got back to it on the 29th and buttoned it up underneath (y-pipe, trans cross member, driveshaft, etc). Yesterday I slapped the intake on and did a bunch of plumbing and crap; and that continued today along with some wire routing. Needless to say nothing is ever a bolt-on; but, at least the stuff I mocked up months ago is working out alright.

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other... that is what they told me in basic training.

Yesterday I finished up the vac lines, catch can and bracket, evap line and bracket, rad and fans, redid the tranny cooler lines, modded the oil fill cap with an AN fitting, pulled the propane line, painted some crap, and so on... I hope to crank it over in the next 2-3 days. After that I can move on to the suspension, and maybe drive it one day.

I might even drive it around with the hood off. Heh.
 

[TexasT]

Solid!

[motorhead]

Solid!

Thanks! And fully emissions legal... more or less.