that was soooo easy thanks to your info.....took me longer to go to lowes and come back with the stuff then it did to do the mod hahahalol anyways heres the pic

 

I was, in a concerned and restrained manner, merely voicing an opinion based on my nearly 50 years of safe driving. It was intended to make a point for safety sake based on my experience. Take it or leave it. You don't have to go on a long rude rant to voice a different opinion. Your "conversational" style (again, in my semi-humble opinion) runs contrary to the good will shown in the vast majority of posts on NAM.

Mark

 

Since I ride a motorcycle frequently, I DO look for eye contact with other drivers, especially at intersections. It allows me to see if they are:
1. drunk drivers
2. texting drivers
3. drivers talking on their phone
4. drivers eating breakfast/lunch/dinner
5. teen drivers
6. very old drivers with the reaction time of a sloth
8. distracted soccer moms in suburbans yelling at their 6 kids in the back
9. drivers in a constant state of road rage
So, 8 out of 10 just by being able to see the other driver.

 

That's exactly what I've been looking for!
1. Where did you get it?
2. Do they make one to fit the Gen2 MINI?

 

Tire rotation, oil change, JCW Strut tower brace and DDM Work Intake. Psst...

 

I got it here: http://www.hotrodshiftknob.com

You can choose from various colors, sizes (I went with 2 1/8", just a tad smaller than a cue ball), patterns, etc etc etc. They offer them threaded or non-threaded which is what we need. The non-threaded option has a small ring underneath with 3 sets screws and a few nylon sleeves to get a good fit (I used the slimmest of the 3, on my old cars I needed the thicker ones). It looks and feels great, now if I can just figure out how to get rid of that ugly black plastic sleeve on the shaft where the boot zip ties to I'd love to polish the shaft and let the boot sag but with that there it kind of kills that idea.

 

Oh the possibilities in double entendre`...

instead of polishing your shaft, consider putting a chrome or polished sleeve OVER the shaft, perhaps some sort of chrome (or machined, or ??) tube that covers the shaft, then you can let the boot sag...

 

glad someone picked up on that.

The issue is that black plastic doo-hickey is pretty thik at the thickest parts (top/bottom) so a sleeve would have to be pretty large, I don't think I'd like that. On 2 of my last 3 cars the shafts were plain metal and polished up really nice without much effort (the last car I stuck with a more traditional ****/boot combo).

 

When I did mine (1st one known with this ****) I was using the Craven shifter. Now that shifter comes polished for some reason, I had to strip the black off and put the work into it. It is a verry good looking combo.

 

That's a nice looking shaft and ****

 

Well yesterday I painted my intercooler cover and may bar metallic blue :D



What do you guys think?

 

Nice!

 

Fantastic! Thanks!

Perhaps I'll opt for this one:

 

I like it! A lot!

 

Nice I like that one! Must be a new style.

 

Cassie91 - looks really nice. Looks like it matches the paint job closely.

 

Had new tires put on, I have my Alta CAI setting next to me to install today and Sunday....Viper stripes.

 

Installed a Quaife ATB diff and got new Star Specs...

 

Fixed my rear wiper sprayer from stuff I learned at NAM :}

 

First, the bad

Left work early today at noon, stopped at Starbucks in a shopping center before getting on the hwy. I'm inside for less than 5 minutes and walking out notice a woman in a large Mercedes SUV backing out of the space next to me (which was empty when I pulled in just a few minutes prior), I also notice a man pacing around my car with a phone in his hand and immediately have a feeling I'm about to get bad news. Sure enough, as I get close to my car I notice the rear corner scuffed pretty bad and the marker light smashed, I ask the guy if the suv just hit me and he says yeah and starts giving me the plate #. Luckily it's a busy lot and the suv didn't get far, I was able to run over 4 rows and stop the lady to question her. She was an older woman and played dumb, I didn't buy it and called my insurance co and filed a claim against her (luckily we both had the same insurance so I don't have to worry about any deductible or anything). It's nothing major but the bumper is gouged a bit, needs to be smoothed and re-painted at the very least, more than enough to **** me off (esp. with the first show of the season in just a few weeks, Dubs on Defrost in CT).


And the good... finally painted a set of s-lites I've had laying around. I prepped them yesterday and put the paint on today (why I left work early). This shot was after the first coat of clear. The tires are shot and will be coming off which is why I didn't bother masking them, I know they may get nicked up during mounting and balancing the new tires but in my experience the guys I use are really good.

 

Replaced fuel filter at 90k miles... still had security tape on it, telling me it had never been done.

 

Waxd her up and took a few new pics

 

Xstart - sorry to hear about your mishap. At least you got her.
People*%&*+#

 

hummmm i did this with some plastidip

btw it used to be indi blue

I j

 

Your car has changed my opinion of the chocolate color. I now love it