StatutoryApe

What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4) - DJ Shadow

88 has two profiles on here now? lol. jk. nice lookin rig though.

aight, i got all the wiring and the dash in. all body parts are on minus the doors. i still gotta swap over the power windows and lox. i'm gonna drive w/o doors for a while since it's still pretty hot and i don't have ac. i'm leaving most of the interior off so that if i have any electrical problems, i'll have easier access to the wires. oh, and the brush guard is on too, i just don't have a pic of it on. i still need to put in coolant and some more atf before i start 'er up. and a chair or two. lol. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P9010134.jpg damn gas struts still don't work. although the red hatch is significantly heavier than the black one. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P9010135.jpg somehow the deck came out crooked http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P9010136.jpg that gap in between the turn signal and the headlight on the right bugs me real bad. there's not much i can do about it though cuz the body's kinda tweaked right there. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P9010137.jpg

well, everyone could drive a 0dr like he has! :tonguefinger:

defensive? that was a straight offensive answer to a simple question.

lol. caRTI

what are those vertical tubes for anyway?

weren't you planning this trip on XOC too? how come i don't see any X's? and nice pix!

welcome, bro!

i'm paying for my school as well so i have about the same hours at work. community colleges rock! I also take only 6-9 hardcore units and at least 3 units in a " class" as i call it. weekends are party time for me as well since i'm only takin ~12 units. and idk too much about beers, but makin your own sounds sweet! lol. you shoulda got your money back

then it's time to SAS!

welcome! what kinda fronty do you have?

dammit, both you guys sound just like me! or i'm a mix of what both of you guys said. lol. i'm not sure what my book smarts/street smarts split is (close to 50/50), but i think it's leaning towards the street smarts side, which may not be the best for engineering, but i'm sure i can do what i put my mind to. i'm just lazy is all as far as schooling goes, i already took calc 1 and 2 and an intro to physx class in high school. so when i took calc 2 again in college (i wanted to redo calc 2 but not calc 1 cuz both calcs in high school were a joke. way too easy) i failed it cuz i didn't try at all cuz i figured it'd be a breeze. and in my physx class last semester (called "principles of physx: mechanics) i was fine for the first half of the class, which was just your basic mechanical stuff that i had learned in high school. then we started learning about rotational stuff and i didn't really study at home so i dropped the class cuz i wasn't really ready to go on after not really learning rotational stuff. i'm now on academic probation as well. i can't be on it for this upcoming semester otherwise i can't go to school! lol. so i'm retaking both those classes this upcoming semester, which starts a week from today. i just need to push through and actually try. i heard that most ME's go into management. which would be fine with me cuz i'm good at giving orders and knowing how to get stuff done. when my friends come to help work on my pathies, i put those slaves to WORK! i'll have the general plan in my head and i'll start telling ppl what to do. i tell them "figure out how to do it. if you can't, find me and i'll show you" in the meantime i'll be workin on something else that requires my special knowledge of whatever. uncc, you're crazy! that's a ton of school and work to be handling at the same time. i only work about 20 hours a week or so, so work shouldn't interfere with my schooling. and mws, tell us about this beer

i don't have that steering setup, but i take my pathy into firestone. i got the lifetime alignment deal there for only like 140 (the price of about 2 regular alignments) they didn't do it right the first time, so i made them do it again

i'm actually a mechanical engineering major. only my second year of college tho and i haven't done much ME stuff. mostly general ed so far. i'd like to say that i have the instincts without tooting my own horn. i'm always trying to do stuff the easiest/least amount of effort way while still doing it right. i have to admit that a-frame idea was my dad's. i just built them but if my dad hadn't thought of it first, i would've later. lol.

oh and also i have a torn CV boot!

so i got the black body on the red one's frame yesterday and bolted it in today. it fit quite nicely. not much hassle getting it into place. here's the pix. gettin it off the black one's frame (that guy's my dad) http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160135.jpg got wood? don't mind my dumb hat. it was sunny/hot out http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160136.jpg i tried to get both bodies and both frames in this shot. kinda hard to see the red one's frame (behind the black one) http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160137.jpg red frame slid in easily http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160139.jpg wtf! idk how this happened. maybe because the suspension was topped out all the time w/o the body. and i was washing my frame w/ a pressure washer. lol. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160141.jpg black body on red frame (not quite bolted in at that point, but it is now) http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/P8160142.jpg

welcome! that's a damn nice lookin truck. lotsa customization.

omg, they put the steering wheel on the wrong side! they can't get anything right!

gahhh, i was just about to say that! i clicked on the button to view the thread, but got distracted by my friend on messenger!

yeah, there's a good chance that i'm not going. i gots lotsa expenses coming up, mainly tuition for my upcoming semester and boox too. there's also tons of concerts that i wanna go to. goin down south'll cost me an assload in gas. next time, eh? Nissan west coast meet fo sho!

so after my friend got done d!cking around, he told me that we couldn't use his dad's forklift. no big deal. it's not like he owed me anything. so my dad and i made these a-frames and used come alongs and ratcheting tie-downs to lift the body. after we lifted the body, my friends and i slid the frame out from under the body. check it. http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/a.jpg bigass body lift! http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/d.jpg http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/b.jpg http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b95/ch620/c.jpg

nice!

gahh, i was gonna say that!

ROFLMAO!