Took pics of my new hood

 

Nice!^^^ Are you gonna paint it?

 

I dunno .. I'm waiting for the PhotoShop gurus to do some magic for me in the Photo section and give me some ideas. I suck at PS and until I see what it looks like, I don't wanna paint anything.

 

I grabbed my wallet out of the car and went to lowes

now I have a C-clamp that is adjustable. It can go to like 8 inches, but it's thin enough that I should be able to slip it in there. I'm clean right now though, dunno if I want to get dirty just yet. .. maybe after dinner.

I can't wait to re-exert my manliness on my car and show that bitch who is the boss of this relationship!!

 

He has a small *****.


Naa man, I just feel like I've been reading that same question once every couple of days the last week or so, and I keep responding "No, it's very neutral" ... "No, it's very neutral." I can only answer the same question so many times. Was it you asking the question each time? No idea. And I really don't feel like going back and checking lol. If it wasn't, please accept this certain person's un-hostile apology.

Can we kiss and make up now plz?

 

haha.. muff wants a kiss.. nice... noticed it wasnt :hug and make up:


anyway, installed my "deep cupholders" in my wife's car, simplest install EVA!

anyone wanta black "lided" cupholder?

 

this is true. pm for pics

 

 

^ Does anyone see the pic I posted above? It looks blank to me ..

 

nope. Because this is what was inside the img tags:
http://rift.speckz.net/catz/index.html
Totally not an image

 

Left the house at 7:30am, dropped the kid off, and went to a carolinamazdas meet in highpoint. Tons of folks there! There were like 20 plus vehicles from N and S Carolina...God, am I sunburned now!!

 

Well that makes sense now

 

did some of this stuff:
clamped down my bushing brackets


here's another pic showing the positioning of the clamp that worked:


here's a bolt ACTUALLY THREADING IN!!!

it took about an hour to get it to that point.. not only did I have to bend the bracket down, I had to turn it, squeeze it, etc.. I was using two clamps at a time, and plenty of 'omg clamp popped off under full tension' fingertips smashed.

here is another hour later:

yeah it's baaaaarely any different, but it is threaded in a little more. Even with my narrow angle ratchets, I can only move one click each time.. it was taking FOREVER to get anywhere.

The driver's side (all previous pics are the passenger side), for whatever reason, is way more difficult to work on.. it's basically the same thing as the other side, just mirrored, but I have such a hard time reaching and getting my hands where they need to be. Perhaps it's a left-handed vs. right-handed thing (I'm a leftie) and I just kept trying to use the wrong hand for the job.

It was a pain in the butt to clamp on the bracket because of the fuel lines that happen to run right there.

yeeeeah zipties. was trying and trying to pull the bolt into position. I managed to get it threaded in a bit.

No time to finish tonight, and gotta go to Toronto tomorrow. We'll see how things hold up (neither bolt is more than 1/3 of the way threaded in). I drove for like 3 miles on it and wow. seriously feels like a totally new (by new I mean.. different) car. Turn in feels amazing and there's no.. suspension noise.. at all

 

I installed the Mazda iPod link to my stock HU today. Works like a charm, it's about a billion times better than the FM transmitter I had before! Now I actually switch songs/playlists using the stock HU controls instead of scrolling around in circles with zero precision.

 

Meh, no worries. I don't take my internets too seriously anyways, haha. No, I don't think I've asked before, this is the first I've heard any discussion of leaving the front RB bar out.

I've actually bought them both already, and am not realizing that I may be stuck with a front bar I don't even need.

I guess I can see how that certain nooby question most likely comes up alot.