Hope you enjoyed the ride
Man, you guys sound rough. Start taking care of yourselves, eh? I kid, I kid. I'm an overweight middle aged man who also makes lifestyle promises to myself. :P
I built a fence over the last few weeks. I posted it to my stupid website where I'm going to start documenting my diy stuff. The primary focus of the site is to help me find a job. I want to make it look like I'm not afraid to take on a project. I haven't uploaded any e39 stuff yet, but it's coming.
https://www.andystuff.com/home/privacy-fence
I had promised myself that I was going to smoke some dino ribs (beef short ribs) after I finished that pickup truck, but the guy that mows my lawn invited us over for dinner, so I smoked a brisket instead. I then took on this fence project, and again I promised myself I'd smoke some dino ribs. Well I finished the fence yesterday and bought the ribs today. I had to travel out of town to the big butcher shop to get them. Super expensive, but I'm pumped.
So I don't go out much. The e39 is my daily driver and ever since I got laid off on December 30, I've filled up the gas tank twice. I'm almost due for another fill up, but whatever. Anyway, I'm driving back from picking up ribs and the mild traffic I'm in starts slowing down because of road work. This little yellow 3rd gen Ford Focus comes up behind me and passes me. We're both stuck in the same slow moving traffic as we cross the bridge, but as soon as it frees up, most people take the exit, but we keep going straight. Usually this is where I usually give it some throttle to liberate myself from being caught in construction traffic. Well, the little Focus does too, so I keep up with him.
The road we're on is a highway type road where the 4 lanes are separated by a huge grass median. Traffic is super light too, and all the other cars we encounter are at stop lights, so conditions are perfect. After the bridge, the road goes up hill for a mile or so until a stop light. I keep up with him and pull up behind him at the stop light. I notice he's got a little snail sticker on the rear window and his exhaust is annoyingly loud. The light turns green and he normally drives through the intersection and opens it up, and I keep up with him. He starts breaking away and I start to think I'm going too fast so I slow down. We're like the only 2 on the road, but I start worrying about hidden cops. We approach the next stop light, which is actually my turn off, but I wanted to see if we could do it again. So I pull up behind him again, but this time he guns it as soon as the light changes. I keep up, and I'm having a great time, but I look down and we're doing 100mph, but at this point I'm getting further from home and that's fast enough so I take the next exit. As I was passing him I tried to wave, but he refused to make eye contact. Kind of a bummer, but it was fun.
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Hope you enjoyed the ride
The ribs turned out great! I'll probably not be smoking them again though. Ridiculously rich and really expensive.
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Damn those look incredible. Now I'm hungry for some good ribs and beer and its 830 in the morning...
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Those ribs look mouth watering, I’ll be right over with the beer!
Nice job on the fence, you deserved those ribs.
Hope you find a job soon.
Last edited by JimLev; 04-15-2021 at 08:57 AM.
Hope you enjoyed the ride
Haha! Thanks guys.
2003 540i/6
Dismembered
Holy crap! Having lunch right now...... those ribs make my lunch look...... I need me some ribs!
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Hope you enjoyed the ride
Haha! I wouldn't eat them at work. They'll make you pass out. BTW, I saw your Scooby Doo / Subaru comment and It made me LOL.Originally Posted by BimmrMeUpSnotty
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Yabbadubbadoo!!! It’s Friday! Wait a minute..... That’s freakin Fred Flintstone, I’m getting goofy in my older age.
So yeah, ScoobyDoos are Subaru’s, and KIA’s are Killed In Action, come place your loved ones in our overpriced Hyundai’s, and they can become a statistic..... That would make for great marketing....
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Anybody know a lick about dry aging beef? Trying to get cultured.
Also turned 20 on 4/20 lol
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Last edited by seagreen323i; 04-22-2021 at 02:03 PM.
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Happy birthday, youngster.
How you making out on the vanos swap?
Probably find all you wanted to know about dry aging on Google.
We just got back from TexasRoadhouse, had a nice 12 oz ribeye.
I usually get the filet but decided to try something different this time.
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Got a tri-power setup and cam for those? They were pretty quick street fighters back in the late 60’s.
IIRC a stock 340 w/tri-power put out about 290HP.
Fast forward to my LS3, only 37 more cubes and it puts out 430HP.
Last edited by JimLev; 04-25-2021 at 05:40 PM.
Scotty don't!
Happy birthday mate.
I think I started on the forums when I was like 18 or something. Where does the time go
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Scotty don't!
Who you talkin to jimbo
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He was talking to me. But back to the regular bmw content.Who you talkin to jimbo
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So Wagons, why are you deleting your content? It’s always good stuff, at least I think so.
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Was wondering as well. Good posts.
98 540i 6, 525 whp, 120 mph 1/4, V3 Si S/C'er @16 psi, W/A I/C, Water/Meth, Supersprint Headers, HJS Cats, 3" Custom Exhaust, UUC Twin Disc, Wavetrac LSD, GC Coil Overs, Monoball TA, AEM FP, Aeromotive FPR, AEM Failsafe AFR/Boost, Style 65's w/275's, M5 Steering Box, Eibach Sways, M3 Shifter, Evans Coolant, 85 Deg Stat, PWM Fan, 10" Subs, B.A. speakers, Grom Aux/BT, Still Rolling as my DD!
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Still dealing with wheels, looking like another 2 weeks. If I knew it was going to be this bad I would of fixed the stock ones.....
Turns out these wheels don't come in the advertised center bore, doesn't exist. That was after the whole tire fiasco. So now I'm getting a diffrent offset sent my way in order to run adapter spacers. It ain't perfect but at this point if its round and turns going down the road I don't care what I have to do.
These paperweights are frustrating to see every day.
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Last edited by seagreen323i; 04-30-2021 at 07:08 AM.
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What's the bore on those BBS and what are you fitting them on?Still dealing with wheels, looking like another 2 weeks. If I knew it was going to be this bad I would of fixed the stock ones.....
Turns out these wheels don't come in the advertised center bore, doesn't exist. That was after the whole tire fiasco. So now I'm getting a diffrent offset sent my way in order to run adapter spacers. It ain't perfect but at this point if its round and turns going down the road I don't care what I have to do.
These paperweights are frustrating to see every day.
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They are reps lol, they are standard bmw bore 72.56. They where marketed as 74.10 they are not.
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Gentlemen, ladies, whatever one you feel is applicable to yourself. I have now moved on from community College and got accepted at a university for full time! Electrical engineering is what I'm going for but I might double up and take mechanical as well.
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Congrats Seagreen, take both if you can swing it.
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Very nice. Can't go wrong with a solid engineering degree!
98 540i 6, 525 whp, 120 mph 1/4, V3 Si S/C'er @16 psi, W/A I/C, Water/Meth, Supersprint Headers, HJS Cats, 3" Custom Exhaust, UUC Twin Disc, Wavetrac LSD, GC Coil Overs, Monoball TA, AEM FP, Aeromotive FPR, AEM Failsafe AFR/Boost, Style 65's w/275's, M5 Steering Box, Eibach Sways, M3 Shifter, Evans Coolant, 85 Deg Stat, PWM Fan, 10" Subs, B.A. speakers, Grom Aux/BT, Still Rolling as my DD!
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Hey! Congrats kid!
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Nice! I just applied for graduation for my manufacturing engineering B.S. Definitely attempt to take some mechanical course. I wish I would have stuck with my BS in Mechanical
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Congrats man!
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