Shabam

New job welding/fabbing 5 minutes from my house. Finally get to practice TIG welding and hopefully get good at it. But for right now I'm a lowly MIG welder on second shift. But at least I'm all by myself so I can bust ass for the first half of my shift and make time to practice TIG'ing or do small projects. I need to source a steel intake manifold flange and maybe an exhaust flange. I'll see how hard it is to make a header from scratch.

Update in car world: going lower this weekend and hopefully getting my welded diff in. Need to get my car inspected on monday so I don't run the risk of getting pulled over when I go dicking around in the rain.

Nom Nom Nom

Koguchi kills it in every style. Kit, OEM, whatever. Wish he had an s13 with 15's so I could see how he'd pull it off. Oh well, I'm saving up my pennies for a 5-lug swap and for some schweet 17's. Still have to get my carbs finished up too. Need to source a steel intake flange so I can make my own manifold.

Hella Sunk

More of this will be in my future. Selling my wheels and mounting my tires on my stock teardrops that I will be polishing tomorrow. Will look sorta ghey but it will be worth it once new parts start rolling in. There is a laundry list of things I need to get this chassis buttoned up so hopefully someone buys my shitastic knockoff wheels and gives me the cashflow needed to make moves.

Flakers Flake

Gay temp agency got me all excited about a MIG welding job just to dick me around and say they ended up losing the contract. Ef this shit. Tomorrow I'm going anywhere and everywhere to try and find a job. Printing out stacks of resumes as I type this. I figure if I pass out 50 and half those don't go directly in the garbage then half of those are for places that are hiring and half of those are hiring for what I'm good at I might get 1 or 2 phone calls back. It's either that or get a job at Home Depot or some shit.

Unicorn part

Finally found an l-series distributor shaft and bought that ish in a heartbeat. This, combined with an l20 distributor should make the ignition side of my carb setup complete. Now all I have to do is sell my wheels and I'll have enough cash to handle the fuel side. For that I need to fab an intake manifold, re-jet my bike carbs and get an FPR that can knock the psi down so it won't flood out the carbs. Then I'll be in happy town!!!

Stock body sex

Dude's car is awesome. My wheels are up for sale so I can save up and get some 17's. Progress is slow but I'm moving in the right direction. I'm going to pull the trigger on my carb setup as soon as I can find a damn oil pump shaft from an l-series motor. Oh yea, replaced oil pan so no gay leaky leaky anymore. Happy to be driving around and not waiting for the sound of my lifters shitting out to know when to put oil in.

For more pics/info on above car check out the dude's blog @ http://jaredanding.blogspot.com/

Dazed and Confused

Just left the interview for the welding position. I don't know what I'm getting myself into. Place was an Irish non-union outfit that was salivating at the thought of getting a trained union ironworker to work for them. If they can get me a job fabbing I'll do it, but I don't think working non-union ironwork can have any outcome but bad if either my local finds out about it or my crotchety, pro-union father-in-law. They have my resume and will be getting in touch with me over the weekend. We'll see what comes of this but my trigger finger is getting itchy for fabrication work so I hope I'll be able to get back to work soon.