Celebrate a big win lately? Let's hear about it.

A not-so-big win I'm proud of? One of the brackets that holds the top rack in our dishwasher broke.

The rack could still hold dishes, but if you tried to pull it out too far, it would just about fall.

My wife and I aren't the most mechanically inclined, but we managed to order the correct replacement piece (bonus points because it was a 2-pack) and replace the bracket ourselves.

Finally replaced my daily driver with something a little nicer, a 2012 Volvo C30 T5 R-Design.  Wanted one for years and found one locally in reasonable shape with thorough maintenance records.

Probably gonna post the old car for sale on the forums soon when I get around to it.

A friend an I recently rebuilt the Carter 4 bbl carburetor that had never been off the car in 60 years.  That may not sound like much, but I've never done that before.

11 months after moving in I finally got all my toolboxes in a row and accessible. 

I got released to drive again. Like, drive drive. Headed to Topeka Friday to put that to the test. E36 M3 is still broken but it's usable and damnit I need this win.

Installed a Whipple intercooler on the ex wife's explorer st with minimal bolt breakage.

finally...my apply polish, receive hardware plan has paid off! Received a top 30 trophy at the last car show i had planned to attend for the 2023 season

I've lost 42 pounds.

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

Good for you 310guy. Especially if it's your own body weight, not the Datsuns. A little tip from me and this is not to be racially motivated but cut out everything "white"  in your diet.. white bread, white rice, whole milk Etc.. please don't think chocolate milk is ok because it's not white. I hope you stay the course and don't fret about set backs just always return to trying to achieve your desired weight .

     Good luck!! 

So, a little more to the story.

I picked up the car at the end of the day, and upon turning the key realized that someone (me) left the car flat out of gas. So I slogged through rush hour traffic to gas up and get home. The car drives so much better now, by the way. (And updates to come on the Classic Motorsports site.)

A day or so later, I remembered that I hadn’t yet checked out the new hood struts so, of course, I had to run into the garage and experience them. 

My current project/daily gets 24 mpg... when I drive like my 16 year old self. 

It's too much fun for me to try driving it like my 40 year old self "should".

Son finally got the head off of the crap can car we got as a father/son project.  Nether of us has thrown a wrench so that's a win!

In reply to Mobi2112 :

I don't drink milk - a lot of it was the bread I was eating and portion control.  More salads, veggies and fruit too.  I also watch those evening snacks - also if we eat out my wife and I are splitting a meal w/a cup of soup. 

On the road I hit up a Chick-fil-A salad or the Culver's kids meal - grilled cheese sandwich, small fry, drink and a cup of ice cream.  It holds me full until dinner at 6pm.

Todays lunch is some rice and veggies from our steamer. 

My stalemated 99 Intrepid project got rolled into the sunlight last week and had a thorough cleaning done to the interior. It had been previously stored in a shop space not full water tight and was exposed to a LOT of moisture. The interior no longer smells of musty fabric. Going to wash the exterior and see if I can get it to stay running then get it ready for winter storage and *hopefully* finally drive it again after 5+ years of it being of the road due to paint / life happening. 

I'm not dead.

One more to add to the tally. 

When I went out this afternoon, I noticed the flag separated from the mailbox. 

After passing by an Ace Hardware later in the day, I now see they sell a replacement for less than Amazon.

Grr.

But, wait, I found the hardware on the ground and, surprise, nothing seems broken.

Free mailbox flag. 

I finished my first full season of vintage motocross in first place (Pre-74 250 INT), despite missing the last race of the series with a lingering hand injury.  Hand is slowly feeling better, and the winter mx and indoor flat track seasons start in just a handful of weeks.  

The dermatologist didn't think the lesion I have worried about for the past few weeks was any concern. 
 

I still have a biopsy pending from another site. 

Recently drove the Ring at pace in the rain....did not crash/die.  Was both terrific and terrifying.

Graduated from A&M in August. Got big boy job on Monday. 

Took my son to Burgerfi last night. Ordered him a cookies and cream icecream and instead they gave me caramel fudge ... the kid realized his mistake and told me to keep the caramel fudge and also gave me a new cookies and cream icecream :)

Managed to install a helicoil in the cylinder head and torque the exhaust manifold in the GC without pulling the head. 
 

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

The dermatologist didn't think the lesion I have worried about for the past few weeks was any concern. 
I still have a biopsy pending from another site. 

Hopefully the biopsy is negative. I'm pulling for you.

A week after irish44j dropped the 90% complete e30 resto off, I had it plated and running well enough to drive around the block. My goal was to make it a driver as quickly as possible, so check!  Now onto really taking care of that last "10%" many of us are familiar with.

Big win was getting my face surgery at the end of August and now being on this side of the worst of the recovery.

18 years ago today I married StilettoSS, beautiful, awesome, fantastic car girl.

Some highlights:

"Who is that handsome guy who just saved rolling over backwards in his 304 v8 CJ-7 while he and the copilot are laughing their asses off?"

"I'm going to steal your girl."

"Yes I will marry you."

"Take out that 'Obey" bit, my wife must never just blindly obey me, christ, WTF."

"Your first car was that cool? We need to buy another one of those so I can drive it."

"I want a Miata do drive in the summer."

"Why don't you just buy a Tacoma and get that vintage Porsche? Then maybe you'll STFU and make a decision on a new DD."

"I like the Cayman over the g50 911, buy that."

"Significantly."

"I've been in this thing for 20 hours over 2 days and my butt doesn't hurt. I like this car a lot."

"Now that the Miata is dead I think I want a TT."

"I can't believe there is not another Porsche in the yard!?!"

"The TT is broken I want the more powerful one."

"Wow, not only did that beautiful piece of E36 M3 make the 80mi drive home but I can't believe you even passed someone on a hill. I so thought we were calling AAA for sure."

"So, I am 1/2 way through Muir's book. I feel like I need to stop and get a 1600 dual port to rebuild."

"You want to name the Boxers Karmann and Ghia? BRILLIANT!"

"I don't know why you don't just build your dream truck."

"I want to buy that 1968 Ghia, OK?"

And so many more...

preach said:

18 years ago today I married StilettoSS, beautiful, awesome, fantastic car girl. -Aww, your pretty swell too! :)

Some highlights:

"Who is that handsome guy who just saved rolling over backwards in his 304 v8 CJ-7 while he and the copilot are laughing their asses off?" -That guy's crazy! I like that!

"I'm going to steal your girl.""-Oh noes! This could go very badly!

"Yes I will marry you."-This went pretty good, I would not only recommend it I would do it again.

"Take out that 'Obey" bit, my wife must never just blindly obey me, christ, WTF." -Right?! It's mutual.

"Your first car was that cool? We need to buy another one of those so I can drive it." -Still haven't driven it...

"I want a Miata do drive in the summer." -Good times, good times!

"Why don't you just buy a Tacoma and get that vintage Porsche? Then maybe you'll STFU and make a decision on a new DD."-Still no decision, but a nice Porsche.

"I like the Cayman over the g50 911, buy that."-Still do, and still happy you bought it.

"Significantly."-Quite a...

"I've been in this thing for 20 hours over 2 days and my butt doesn't hurt. I like this car a lot."-Cayman is the E36 M3.

"Now that the Miata is dead I think I want a TT."-Never a bad idea.

"I can't believe there is not another Porsche in the yard!?!"-Will never hear the end of this.

"The TT is broken I want the more powerful one."-Done, and it was a huge mistake selling it.

"Wow, not only did that beautiful piece of E36 M3 make the 80mi drive home but I can't believe you even passed someone on a hill. I so thought we were calling AAA for sure."-Still in shock!

"So, I am 1/2 way through Muir's book. I feel like I need to stop and get a 1600 dual port to rebuild."-Still need to do!

"You want to name the Boxers Karmann and Ghia? BRILLIANT!"-BRILLIANT!!!!

"I don't know why you don't just build your dream truck."-Get to work!

"I want to buy that 1968 Ghia, OK?"-So happy you supported me in this, I am still in disbelief.

And so many more...- Yes, it's been a good ride and we're still not there yet. I'm happy you're driving.

I completed HRDW for the second time. No tools, no trailer, no "problem".

3000 miles in 7 days. It was 1000 miles one way just to compete this year.

Grateful for pit neighbors that lended me jacks and tools to fix my exhaust.

But it's time to run something different.

So I wanted to wait until after my race weekend:

I manged to drag the little Datsun up to tenth overall (out of 24 cars) at a vintage race this past weekend.

That may not sound like much but the car is making 80whp (at best) and I get mauled on the straights.

Also note I was running used tires.

I'm now only 3 seconds a lap down on the front running Mini (it was 7-10) so there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel.