Erodz 63 belair- project flat liner

[waynieZ]

Amen Greg.

[MaxHarvard]

Can you leave anything stock Erik?!?!?

LOL, jk. Have fun with the new toy and looks like your boy is going to have a cool project

[E.rodz]

Originally Posted by waynieZ

when its going to empty your pockets you realize time is easier to part with than cash at his age.

lol. i had to put it in a way he could understand he is starting his first job at $10 an hr and had him get a price on getting his brakes done and a fuel pump then the light came on at a rapid pace!lol.

Originally Posted by GregWeld

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA --- we've all learned that valuable lesson in life!! at that age they think that everything is free which is partly my fault too. just a couple simple examples of how long you would have to work to pay for that was all it took!


This stuff is measured in cubic time or cubic money.... or both!

Originally Posted by MaxHarvard

Can you leave anything stock Erik?!?!?

LOL, jk. Have fun with the new toy and looks like your boy is going to have a cool project

what is this stock that you speak of ok so I have some issues with that kind of thing.lol

[E.rodz]

I really hate cutting things up that I thought were done.I decided to try to get more front grip and having a 4,700# car with a 118" wheelbase the car tends to push hard into tight corners.I picked up a great deal on some used 285/35/20 tires and they are the same size as i am running in the rear now and looks like a couple modifications are in order. like the sway bar brackets,front shock brackets tie rod ends moved to help correct the Ackramen. after measuring the rear tires and wheels it appears that i might be able to run the same tire and wheel in the front too! well looks like it is time to cut more stuff apart!





255/35/20 compared to the 285/35/20

[E.rodz]

well everything went well for last weekend running on a couple of hrs of sleep for a week to get this boat back on the road for the street machine challenge . the whole idea was to get a 285 35 20 tire in the front and then all 4 tires will be the same size. two days before the event the guy from tire pros called me and told me something slipped through the cracks and the wheels never got ordered! they did agree on 2 day shipping the wheels and got them mounted on fri night and ran them Saturday. upgrades also included new QA1 4 way adjustable shocks. still improving a ton and still room for more improvements!
concept to reality

[E.rodz]

well the street machine nationals already flew by and it was a very successful thrashing session! finished up everything at 3;30 am slept for a couple of hrs. then headed to the Qa1 open house to check out there whole facility wow.! what an impressive place! love seeing how things are made,inspected and tested and my philosophy is if you love to see manufacturing in this country you must buy things that are made in this country! Turns out everyone at Qa1 loved the Belair and everyone signed the car and we ended up taking the ride of the year award from Qa1 how cool is that already all the effort seemed worth while and still have not even had a chance to test the car out yet! still really frustrated with Tire pros for messing up my wheel order and Not getting my new front wheels here when promised because of forgetting to order the wheels! had to argue to get them to ship them 2 day and they showed up on Friday afternoon day of the show. got them mounted and balanced for running autocross on Saturday the coarse was super tight for a huge car and the turbo's did Not help a bit. still pulled a 634whp. on the dyno which put me in second place for the real street eliminator competition. and I have no idea how the whole thing played out but still had a blast in any case and the car felt awesome! more not so good news coming up soon just trying to get thing caught up again.

[E.rodz]

i pulled the belair out the other day and made up a new list of **** to do to the car this year and it is a big list. looked at my thread and realized that i never even posted up the rest of last yeas adventures put on over 7,000 miles on the car camping,drag racing,road racing,autocrossing and cruising. this years schedule and it is going to be a busy year of driving too!

[E.rodz]

lol. wow looks like i have some updating to get this thread back up to date!

whats everyone using for photo hosting nowadays? i really got boned by photobucket and don't want to ever use them again!

[SSLance]

I switched to SmugMug back then and have used it ever since. Not free but certainly worth the small investment.

[NOT A TA]

Not a popular opinion I know but you can just pay photobucket and since they still have your photos (unless you removed them) they'll just reactivate third party hosting again and raise your storage limits. Gone is the $400.00 yearly fee that got everyone upset. Plans start at like .20 cents a day. So the easy button might be to just buy one of their entry level plans.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. I read all the "terms of service" for all of the photo hosting sites I could find when considering jumping off the Pbucket ship and every one has a clause that would allow them to make the same stupid financial move Pbucket did.

I'd been a paid Pbucket user since back in the early 2000's when they started but like everyone else got upset when they instituted the $400.00 nonsense even though my third party hosting did not get shut off like all the free accounts because I was already paying for a mid level account. I now have well over 10,000 pics so I have to pay somewhere, I can't really expect a company to store, host third party, etc. for free. How would the company survive profitably? I currently have their most expensive unlimited everything plan and it's less than $150.00 a year. No ads, easy to use.

I have found it's easier/quicker to use a Flickr free account for video storage but I suspect eventually as I make more videos the free account will reach its storage limit and because there's no free lunch I'll have to pay for that service somewhere. I think Youtube saw what happened with the Pbucket debacle so they're cautiously changing their "rules" over time. Again there's no such thing as a free lunch so advertising or fees has to pay the bills.