Cotton eyed Joe

LOL Something like This Old Drag Car. And have them build it from raw steel tubing all the way to hand laying the carbon fiber body.

I agree all the way across the board. JJ is a great fabricator though. He needs to drop the attitude. AC is good for a couple reasons, but not big reasons. It lets me know that I don't need a high dollar shop to accomplish the same things they do. The Teutels look like they have spent too much time in the make up trailer getting their eyebrows waxed. Cool tools.....not much else for me Boyd....MORON!! Its all about showing how old, er I mean cool Boyd Coddington is. Look! Boyd wants another car made. Wow. Call one of your best welders a fuck up. How about that? Oh I know....give them an impossible deadline, then get pissed off when the shop is a mess. I wouldn't work for any of the aforementioned if it meant going through what the employees seem to go through on each and every episode. The cool factor for me is when they shut the fuck up and show the tools. I could watch a show of nothing but fabrication, no talking....just fabbing.

I remember once about 2 years ago I approached my wife and said oh so sly "If you were Michael Jackson, would you molest me?" She replied "No." I then said "What?? I though I was kinda hot! Whats your problem?" She retorts "You're too old." I can't win.

Childmolester or not, he's still one weird mother fucker. If all that is going on on the outside, I can't imagine the turmoil and battle that rages within that freak. On the parents: Anyone that would allow a child to sleep with a grown "man" needs to be placed in prison. ANY ADULT that loves sleeping with children (in his own words "It isn't sexual, you're thinking sexual") needs to be locked up as well. Personally I think he's going down the ol shitter anyway with his financial problems. Eventually he'll be so broke no one will care one way or the other about his crooked cock or his plastic face.

If they happen to get a search warrant for your house, and anyone elses house that may be hiding the bike, when they find it, out comes the acid to etch the powder off the frame. They will find the vin number. (My dad saw this done back in the 60's on a stolen car his uncle had. Wasn't powder coat, but it took off what ever they had put on the frame to hide #'s) Personally I wouldn't try to hide shit. Take all of your parts off because they will take them with the frame. When a house gets reposessed they don't say "Oh, go ahead and pack up all of your stuff." Fuck no, they put locks on all the doors, and these little red tabs. If you break one of those tabs you're ass is going to jail. They don't give a fuck, they are just there to do their job. They don't and can't take personal feelings into the matter. The matter is a stolen frame. They need it back. They will take it back wether or not your parts, or even you, are on that frame. Go buy some good tools and get to work.

Maybe so they can be correctly ported to the specs needed for running a turbo??

That aint nothin. I make aluiminum cams. Light weight, so less rotational mass, means higher HP. I sell them with titanium spring retainers, high ratio rockers, and hole through pushrods. You have to use taller valve covers on the Banshee due to the increased rocker height. $40.00 for the whole kit. But its $40 to ship it, ($80.00 total) because It will be a little bigger than an ordinary red house brick. Probably weigh about the same as a brick too. But your cam kit will be inside thats for sure, and not a brick.

For some reason as I read your post all I could think of was Boolean Circles. I think this is how it all breaks down.

You could have mentioned the trail/dune thing...but yes.. Well said!

You can do it yourself. Pressed in means that there is about .002-.005 press fit. If they weren't the outer race would spin. If there is much more than .005 the bearing would seize. You need a brass drift, and a heavy hammer. You GENTLY tap from the opposite side, on the outer or inner race of the bearing which ever you can get to. Doesn't matter much if its a junked bearing, working in a circle to get it out evenly. Once you get one side out, the other side is much easier to get at. If you need some bearings I got some in stock.

LOL around here you'd have the FD and PD down on your ass in about 37 seconds.

Yes. Bring extra gas. From Egin Lake campground to Choke Cherry used alot of gas once I put pipes on. We make a few runs, bullshit, then head back. The serious drag bikes actually trailer the bikes down the road to another spot closer to the hill, unload and ride to Choke Cherry that way.

Put a big white basket on the front of your bike. That will help keep the front end down.

Jesus Christ man.....I keep my gun at work in case someone shady walks in...how the fuck do you go to work every day knowing about 40 different people are packing too? Out of 2 people in my shop, 2 are packing, pretty easy to keep track of when you know who it is, and you know he ain't gonna shoot you. Even though he's quitting smoking cold turkey and irritable as hell my pops wouldn't put the blast out on my white ass.

Cool deal. If you haven't been, check out Thunder Mtn. You'll find a kind of sand highway headed away from camp. Follow that until you hear drag bikes. Its over the big hill to your right. You'll know what I'm talking about when you get there. Just be carfull if you run up it. I know 2 people that have went over the top and it wasn't pretty. I saw one guy that was camped next to me get carried off in the ghetto bird.

Dominoes pizza is shit too. They musta been some hard core fuckers to shoot someone over that. Now maybe if it was a God Fathers Pizza I could understand. I guess it would be the equivalent of me slapping my old lady over a Little Caesers Pizza, which is essentially a slab of flat stale bread with some old cheese and bad tomato sauce dumped on it. ::barf emoticon that doesn't exist at the HQ:: My best friends dad just died from cancer, and he never touched shit his whole life. Cleanest living guy I've ever known. Started out in his kidney, so they took it out. 2 months later he had a brain tumour. They took it out. 4 months later he had it in his lymph glands, lungs, stomach, pancreas, spine, legs and bladder. He had cancer for less than a year. I think genetics plays a huge role in what gets you. Granted, smoking can probably set off a genetic marker, but so can eating too much fat, breathing really bad air, and a bunch of other shit that don't matter. They keep talking about cell phones and cancer because of "the energy" or something. Same with powerlines. I know 10 different welders, none of which have the slightest health problems. If someone living 600 feet from a high tension powerline is "getting cancer" from it, I think someone running a high freq on a TIG welder 3 feet from his head would 10x sooner.

Doing anything to a carb that involves a drill "one bit size bigger" is trouble in my book. Other than boring the carbs out to the size of the slide, there ain't much else you can do.

Thats what I was thinkin. I really had planned on getting my rear subframe chromed on my project bike. I might have to get ahold of Nyuk to see about getting the powder done if I can't find it here.

Where are you camping at? Oasis?

Yep. Awesome guy to deal with. Helped me out quite a bit in the last few months.

Sorry man. I have engine mounts and shit like that, but I must have tossed the rest.