To The Metal

Almost there…

This is what VROOM looks like…

My usual IRC server has gone to a better place, in the mean time I set up an IRCD here at tothemetal.net to fill the gap – if you’re so inclined, fire up your IRC client and connect to irc.tothetal.net on port 6667.  We’re all in #chat!

That Seth Rogan guy – he’s good.

With exception to the 40 Year Old Virgin, there hasn’t been a single movie he was in that not only was a laugh riot – but also had a good moral statement on it.  The statement for Pineapple Express?  If you don’t smoke weed, you’re an effing superhero.  Watch it, tell me I’m wrong.

The plot is a little all over the place, in some points hinting of Tarantino, while others are simply the pure slapstick comedy which is wholly LACKING from modern cinema.  You can only tell the same dick and fart joke so many times before you’re found wondering why you just paid $30 to hear it yet again.

Pineapple Express doesn’t do that, it’s funny, original, and IMHO – the best comedy of 2008.

And yes, I know I suck at movie reviews, I’d rather not have cancer.

Got the headers installed on the motor yesterday, what a pain in the ASS. The driver’s side headers went right on.  The passenger side needed some significant filing in the bolt passages, and then after we put it together realized that the oil dipstick tube didn’t have the right clearance necessary to install it.  Ended up having to back the header off one last time to get it in there.

Started out the day with a trip to the local boneyard, hoping to get a few intake manifold bolts for my new motor (lost one in the sandblaster).  When I get there I tell the woman what I need to get, and she flips out.  She gets her foreman over and thats when I find out that they take each and every motor and send them off to exporters, so I can’t take any parts off of them.  Even bolts.  Talk about idiotic, they can’t tell me there wasn’t a blown motor or an old 350 sitting around that I could take a bolt from.

So I end up at Roxbury Automotive, tell them what I need, and within 5 minutes I’ve got a set of bolts in my hand, taken off a motor rotting in the yard.  How effing hard was that?  Won’t waste my time with Spechts anymore after that crap.

Should get my big Autozone shipment tomorrow, then get back to work on Wednesday on the truck.  I finished degreasing the engine bay so we can get to painting it then, and in the mean time get all the new sensors hooked up on the new motor and finally start putting the girl back together!  WOOT!

I really can’t stand white strip people.

Nothing against them personally, and my teeth are hardly pearly white, but every time I see someone on television who smiles and they’ve got this little white area surrounded by yellow – I can only wonder why they don’t just go to the dentist and get the entire mouth done, or simply brush more.  WHO KNOWS.

That’s compounded of course by annoying ads, in this case a TV ad for the latest Dell laptop which goes through a series of photos with some white strip guy posing with the same blonde in several Myspace style self-shots, only to crop her out and replace her with a brunette on his new Dell.

Tack on the whole implication of a guy cutting his ex out of a photo and then finding the next one from that cropped shot – only to create even more self-shots with the same new girl (implication is he’s an unoriginal ASSHAT) – and we’ve got a very annoying advertisement that makes me miss the pothead they had years ago.

Got the inner fender wells for the Chevy today, and to my dismay the metal had ripples in it.  I’ll take a wild guess that my Taiwanese bretheren stamped these out at 4:30pm on a Friday.  Not sure if anyone at LMC actually looked at them either, as the rippling is pretty bad.

Called them up shortly after i inspected them, they’re sending out a new pair (after checking them) and told me to scrap the ones I got.  I may try to bang out the ripples but most likely I’ll just send them to the scrap yard.

I did get the flywheel and one of the autozone sensors yesterday, and I also discovered that I botched up my email address on the original order which is why I never got any order confirmation…. Still, tomorrow I hope to get the old fender wells removed, finish detailing the engine bay, and then get the truck back up on the lift to clean up a few areas of the undercarriage.  Maybe a trip to the local boneyard to get a few intake manifold bolts as well (one of them has gone missing).  The Mr.Gasket bolts weren’t case hardened steal which allowed them to stretch slightly after torquing down.  So we ended up removing all of those and installing the originals after some cleanup.

Anyhoo… Later.

Back on July 31st I posted the following in reference to the John Edwards Shtupping Incident:

Only thing I can think of is that the leak came from the Clinton camp, and more may continue to be produced as we get closer to the Messiah Barack Hussein Obama selecting his first Apostle… But the Clintons are back burner, and no longer the darlings of the main stream media.

Check out the second story down at the PalmBeachPost (emphasis theirs):

The American Media Inc. tabloid first revealed during October’s tough Democratic primary campaign that Edwards had an affair with campaign worker Rielle Hunter. At least two characters close to the company couldn’t have been happier that the dirty laundry was being aired.

It so happens that both have ties to Hillary Clinton, who was then emerging as a front-runner, with Edwards close behind.

Mind you, it would appear that the fuse on this bombshell was a little longer than necessary, but why let a good character assassination opportunity go to waste?  Personally, I still could care less about the sexual proclivity of the Breck girl – but to each their own.

Not to mention it’s the Palm Beach Post, the people in that town can’t even use a simple butterfly ballot – so take the report however you like. I don’t think we’ve seen a campaign yet, and Obama has hardly got the nomination nailed down.  Still wish there was some come from behind Conservative ready to give McCain a run for his money, but at this point it looks like I’ll be voting 3rd party come November – as Obama, Clinton, and McCain have the collective integrity of a fart in heavy wind.

Just a snapshot of the truck after cleaning the painted surfaces in the engine bay last night.  Some of the paint managed to come off, not sure if the lestoil did it – since the bay had no clear coat that’s possible.  We’re likely going to spray the bay anyhow, but its looking pretty good without all the greased up paint!

Here’s a shot of the new motor in its current condition.  We still need to isntall the water pump as well as the crank pully from the old motor, as well as a new flywheel and a slew of new sensors.  The intake manifold has been installed, the copper color is due to copper high-tack gasket spray.  I’m going to re-spray those areas black.  I’m still waiting on my parts delivery from auto-zone.

I don’t quite get why I never got a confirmation or any tracking information from them for my Saturday order.  I ended up having to email their customer service to get the info, but there’s still no telling as to when I’ll get the parts.  Next step for me is to degrease the other engine bay components, then remove the surface rust from the frame, paint it black, and also install the new inner fender wells I ordered from LMC Truck Parts.

The body of a 29 year old Somali Muslim from Canada, Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, was found dead in a hotel room on Monday with a POUND of sodium cyanide nearby.  Online, a message board post by a person with the same name threatened death.

Is it wrong that I find that awesome?  Now despite the fact the article doesn’t even mention the word Muslim is irrelevant.  There is no terrorist threat!  I finally agree with the media pundits and every single Liberal!  How can it be a terrorist threat if these people kill themselves before they do anything?

Seriously, I think we can call the War on Terror over, and get back to the War on Drugs & Poverty.

Police: Pound Of Cyanide Found In Denver Hotel