11/28/12

All of my parts from Summit should be sitting on my front porch as I type this.  Wait, I can go check the tracking number and see if they are there or still on the truck.  They are still on the truck.  I hope like hell they didn’t require a signature.  THAT will piss me off.  Well, they otter be there when I get home.  Of course I won't have an engine to bolt them to for another couple weeks, but there are plenty of other things we need to do before then anyway.  For instance, I still need to finish up the wiring.  John and I need to get the rear axle swapped.  We need to build brackets for the brakes.  We need longer studs in the hubs and rear axle.  We need a driveshaft.  We need to remove the gas tank.  Oh, I guess if we’re removing the gas tank that wire for the fuel gauge is now superfluous, I need to remove it from the harness.  I need a volt meter for the dash.  I need to go take a crap!  Ooh!  That was sudden.  Ok, I'm back.  I guess I'll check the status of the delivery again.  Yes, I'm going to be “That Guy” today.  Grr, they are all still “Out for delivery.”  Well, I guess I can hang my hat on two things.  1) I'll still be seventeen miles away from them even when they do arrive, and b) I wouldn’t be able to install them anyway.  So, what to say now?  Well, I guess I could speculate on what would happen if I won tonight’s Powerball Lottery.  First, of course, all debts get paid off.  Then I'd probably buy the house on Burkett from mom and my siblings.  Then I'd buy a building somewhere and open “Dimlight Racing, a subsidiary of Yoyodyne Industries.”  I'd hire John and Larry, at the very least, to come work with me on… whatever the hell we think we can make money doing.  I'm thinking “Flipping” old Japanese cars would be fun.  Of course building kit cars and renovating other cars wouldn’t be bad.  By “building kit cars” I mean both: building kits by other manufacturers for customers and fabricating our own kits for sale.  I've always wanted to do that.  I think a “single donor” kit for a Datsun 240/260/280 Z-car would be pretty awesome.  I counted one time and it requires the removal of only thirty nuts and bolts to remove the entire drive train, as complete assemblies, from a Datsun Z-car.  Or more appropriately, to remove the entire rusty unibody off of a Z-car’s running gear.  Yes, I know those donors are becoming more and more rare as time goes on, but it is my fantasy AND my blog so… go grease Wheezer!  Another “single donor” idea would be to take any front wheel drive econobox and plop the engine and transaxle in the rear to make an Ariel Atom sort of thing.  The front suspension and driver cell cage thingy would be semi-universal, but there would be different rear subframe assemblies for whatever car the customer is going to start with… sort of thing.  You know, a rear subframe for a Honda Civic, one for a Chrysler Neon, one for a Nissan Sentra, one for a Toyota Camry… etc.  Then again, “one size fits all” usually doesn’t.  I don’t know.  Perhaps that bit of the fantasy wouldn’t work out.  Well, since the odds of actually winning this lottery are astronomical, I guess gassing on about it any more is pointless.  I think I'll just call it a rant with one more check on my packages.  Damn it!  Still not there.  Grr.