11/15/12

I know I promised the tale of the VG would be told yesterday.  I didn’t get around to it.  So here it is today.  John calls me the other night to play the “Devil’s Advocate” against me.  He said there is a dude with a VG-30 in a 510 who wants to swap in an SR-20 and has the VG bits for sale.  He, the 510 dude not John, has a Hardbody truck intake converted to run a Weber DGV carburetor, a Weber DGV carburetor, and a Saudi distributor converted to use 300ZX cap and rotor.  John said the guy was asking $600.00 but was hurting and would probably take five.  I agreed to find the money somewhere.  Then John said something about shipping so I began to ask more questions.  Since the dude was swapping engines, I thought John was saying I was buying the whole shebang.  I asked if it was an engine and transmission and if so how and where were they going to be shipped.  He informed me that it was ONLY the bits I just listed.  Well, I thought it was too good a deal to be believed.  It is still a smokin’ good deal so I went through with it.  I transferred $550.00 between accounts and sent the dude $500.00 through PayPal.  John just texted me that the bits are on their way but probably won't arrive until Saturday.  Oh well, what are you going to do?  So, now we’re thinking VG-33 in the Chickenhawk… again.  I'm fishing for support for the mid-engine project but John is pushing for the standard location.  Yeah, we all know John is going to get his way and we’ll drop the thing in the Chickenhawk's engine bay the way Mother Gaia intended, but I may pout about it.  We discussed backpedaling on the V8 in Lil' Wiggly but then wondered what we would do with all that V8 stuff.  It was decided that we’d forge ahead on the 289 in Lil' Wiggly and gopher the VG-33 in the Chickenhawk.  So, there’s that going on.  Last night, changing subjects in mid-stream as I am wont to do, I saw a commercial for Google’s laptop called a Chromebook.  I immediately sent John a text and asked if it had its own operating system or was it a Windows abomination.  I was informed that it is a Linux based unit using Google’s own operating system.  I was also informed that Juan CAN get word processor and spread sheet programs for it… and that the units are cheap.  Well duh, without having to pay Tiny and Flaccid for the “privilege” of having Windows foist upon you, the laptop itself isn’t very expensive.  I remember that Dell Linux machine I bought a few years ago costing like half what a comparable Windows machine would have.  So, now I'm thinking about taking that monitor back to Best Buy and getting one of those Chromebooks.  I may try to drag John wit me to the nearest Best Buy who carries them and have a look at one.  Then again, I may not.  We’ll see.  So, what now?  Well, in gun news, I've been looking at these 75 round drum magazines for the 7.62x39 Saiga, right?  The only place I've seen one converted to work with the Saiga, and not set up for a regular AK-47, is Mississippi Auto Arms.  Everyone else has the regular drums which, for some reason, won't work in a Saiga.  Well, this morning I got the wild hair to buy one.  I went to the MAA website and had a look at them.  I remember them being in the $100.00 to $150.00 range so the $129.95 price didn’t scare me off… like it should have.  Now, what really got to me was the notation that there were only three in stock.  No, I didn’t buy all three.  What do you think I am, totally stupid?  I bought two of them though.  Yeah, I'm dumb.  But hey!  I'll be able to load up 150 more rounds of 7.62x39 ammo and be even that much more readier for the zombie apocalypse!  See, unlike a regular stick magazine, or the drums for the Saiga 12, these have a little winder thingy for the main spring.  You can load the sum-bitch up but the spring isn’t in tension until you are ready to shoost.  Well, I can't think of anything else to say so I guess I'll just call it a rant for the day.  I'll try to come talk to y'all tomorrow since I'm taking all next week off and probably won't have anything until I get back.  We’ll see.