PG's Blog

Sunday, January 23, 2011

NFL Division champ games

Went to cool beans for the games. Great folks and a great time once again. Too bad the pissbowl was the outcome.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Put new crush washers on the oil cooler feed and return lines for the oil filter housing to eliminate the oil leak. Didn't work so back to the drawing board. Change the oil for the first time since the build as well.

Icebears!

Went to the icebears game with Travis, Lauern, Chris, Steph. Had awesome seats as you can see. Great time and look forward to going again. Michael, Tyler, Jason and Jobe were there too, on the ice as well. Jimmy (Latitude 35 partner/owner) showed up too. We got the tickets from him.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Hookah bar

Went to the Mirage tonight with some folks. Strange but fun place. Had a great time and look forward to going back.

Wheels for the evo, part 2

If you'll recall I posted up about wanting a certain pair of wheels for the Evo. That was on Feb. 23rd 2010 Well with patience, time and situational advantage taking (I need tires bad!). I have reached the point where it's time to set operation wheel purchase into motion. Today around 12:45pm I place an order for Rota Grids in 18x9.5 +20 offset in matte bronze. The last pair they had in stock. After some research and questioning folks I decided on 255/35 Yokahama S Drive tires to wrap them in. The car will need to be slightly modified to accommodate these wheels. I will have to roll the fenders, possibly cut some fender will rubber and pull the fenders a tad. They are coming for WheelDude in CA. Super nice guys with great customer service.

Not my Evo but these are the exact wheels.

Some folks don't understand and some just don't care but to a car crazed man adding wheels to a car is like the sun coming up on a perfect morning, that point where da Vinci put the finishing touches on the mona lisa. It's indescribable... it's more than just wheels and tires. If you have never walked away for your car and turn to look at it mutliple times to just check it out one last time its hard to comprehended.

The countdown begins. They should hopefully ship out Friday and arrive here next Thursday or Friday.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Random stuffs

On ice tickets for the Ice Bears this weekend courtesy of Jimmy. Travis Lauren Mary and I are going. Looking forward to it!

Since I got my "leak free evo" back it has been slowly leaking oil and since the guy that built it apparently fell off the earth so I will be repairing it myself. These are 4 washers that we think need to be replaced. Hopefully doing that this weekend.

Working on a tune for the Evo and needed a way to log air/fuel ratios. The gauge leads to a serial port so I need a serial to USB converter. Well, apparently there is only a hand few that work and this one isn't one of them. Currently waiting on a new one to arrive. Should be here this week.