7/26/06

Ok, I knew the “y'all” in that last sentence yesterday was too much. I debated using the proper term “you” in its stead but went for quaint colloquialism. It didn’t scan properly and I apologize. It sounded a bit too “George Lucas” or “Ed Wood” to be natural. Someone once said about George Lucas’ scripts that, “You may be able to type these words, but you cannot speak them.” I believe it was Sir Alec Guiness, but I could be mistaken. He probably stole it from Shakespeare anyway. Shakespeare probably stole it from the bible somehow as well, if tradition holds true. So, where was I going with that? I have no idea. Well, we didn’t go to Not Texas last night after all. I'm not sure what fell through but it’s cool because upon reflection, I didn’t really want to go all that bad. I mean, I did want to go, but thinking about it I know I would have been tired of all those rice-boys and their bolt-on modified cars pretty quickly. John, thank you for sparing me from myself. Ok, I've been giving Matilda some thought. I think I'm going to stop with simple bolt-on modifications. Oh shut up, I'm a hypocrite, get over it. Where was I? I think I'm going to do a short-ram or preferably a cold-air intake of some sort and a slightly rorty zorst then call it done. I'm not going to go nuts and try to make the car more, well not much more, than it is. I might not even go very rorty with the zorst. I think a little intake honk and I'll be happy. What I'd like to replicate is the sound of my old Shelby Charger. The intake had a really nice growl from ¾ throttle or more. The zorst sounded really nice but wasn’t loud in the cockpit. I know it was due to the “spinney muffler” because the rest of the system was a catalytic converter and glass pack tips. Basically, I had a Neon SRT-4 setup fifteen years ahead of its time! Who knew? I doubt I can make that happen though since bigger pipes mean bigger resonance in the cabin. I learned that with the Scooby-Doo and the Pimpmobile. Well, I already knew it but I experienced it firsthand in those cars. I guess I could add the Chickenhawk to that list of loud cockpit cars. Oh crap, its time for lunch! And we’re back. John wants to do shop night on Thursday again this week. That’s cool with me. I'll be going down there on Saturday as well anyway so Thursday gives me one more day to not get any work done on any of my projects. Oh, we’ll probably make a Lowe’s run for pipefittings and I'll finish up Mr. Wiggly’s gauge installation, but I won’t get any work done on George I'll bet. Have I mentioned how cool George looks on the Cragar SS wheels? Well, it looks really cool. I may have to abandon the turbine wheels on George for a little while. Perhaps if I can get Mr. Wiggly “finished” Thursday night, I can devote Saturday and Sunday to George again. Yeah, like that is going to happen! We’ll see. Well, I think I'm just about through with y’all for today. I have become addicted to a stupid waste of time “game” on the internot. I think I'll go burn up the rest of the afternoon playing that. Buh bye.