12/10/12

I'm trying to remember what all we got done on Saturday.  I know John got his front brakes done on his 1200, "Timmy!" and we swapped the studs in the Falcon axle for Lil' Wiggly.  I drilled the holes for mounting the rotors to the axle and we discovered we have to embiggen the holes in the wheels as well.  Well, we probably DON’T have to embiggen them, once the studs get pulled straight, but we embiggened them nonetheless.  Oh, here’s an amoosing bit.  Remember how we were talking about using the 620 frame for a Track T project?  John used almost that exact same sentence and followed it with, “The guy is coming to pick it up in an hour.”  Said guy showed up with two others and we loaded the 620 on a trailer with them.  They wound up hanging out with us all day, looking at all of our projects and stuff.  One dude really wants to buy Super Karate-Monkey Death-Car.  When they joined us for sushi, he spent the entire time on his smart phone looking at Datsun 1200s.  He’s hooked.  So now we need to re-think the wide body idea.  I suggested to John that we just ditch the billion-dollar turbo engine, put the VG-33 and 8.8” Ford axle in George, and build IT as the wide body 1200.  John said, “I ain’t agin’ it.”  I suppose I could be talked into doing the wide body with the Chickenhawk, but it already has the flares from a Dodge Omni on there, looking all bad ass and stuff.  Ok, here’s a wacky idea: Wide body VG George, and the turbo engine in Herman as the Slowster… which might not be all that slow after all.  Hmm.  I'll see what John has to say when he reads this tonight.  I was about to consider the idea of looking at Herman for the wide body, but then remembered that the rear glass is gone and the windshield is broken.  It is perfect Slowster fodder.  Yes, I think George “needs” the VG with the wide body treatment.  No, that would make George faster than the Chickenhawk.  Hmm, I need to do some more cipherin’ and figgerin’ on these plans.  I just don’t know.  I guess I otter let sleeping dogs lie until we finish Lil' Wiggly and probably the Spit’.  Of course we could always forget the wide body and put the VG in the Chickenhawk with the Omni flares over the 200SX axle I already have in the car.  I believe John has said it would handle the torque.  I'm sure he’ll correct me if that is not the case.  Yeah, that does seem like a better plan.  I just erased a list of the cars, in sort of the order they would get “done,” saying what engine, transmission, and rear axle would be in what.  It stopped flowing very well and started becoming a boring list of crap which would probably become obsolete before the end of the year.  And speaking of boring crap, I think I'm just about through with this one for today.  Yeah, I'm going to go take a nap or something.