meangalant

Screwing the corprate world...stupid corprate invented holidays.....

2006-02-15T04:25:05Z

Agreeing with a friend of mine, Valentine's Day is just a corprate invented holiday, to make people spend obscene ammounts of money so they can make 1 person happy for about a week, give or take. So i figure, seeing as im not serious with anyone currently, i should find some other way to blow my money on valentine's day. Deciding to screw the corprate system, i decide to blow a stupid ammount of cash on my car, probably the closest thing i have to a girlfriend (seeing as i spend more money on it then most people do on their boyfriend/gilrfriend). As im driving home im trying to decide what i should spend the money on, and i notice that my gas gague is below the quarter tank line. With a plan forming in my head, i pulled into the next gas station that i saw and filled the entire tank with 97 octane gas, something like $30 worth. Thinking it should give me a moderate power boost, i set off for home once again. Then i decided to head to AutoZone to see what i could find. After walking around for a bit, i bought 1 bottle of injector cleaner, and 4 bottles of octane booster. Directions say you are supposed to use half a bottle of octane booster per tank of gas. So i was like, awww what the hell.....,and dumped them all in the tank, along with the injector cleaner. So then i spent 5 minutes driving around the parking lot trying to shake the stuff into the gas tank evenly. After ive done that, i did some quick math in my head, and figured that the gas in my tank is probably about 104 octane by now, assuming that its evenly distributed. So i pulled out onto the main road and pulled up to the stop light. the light goes green and i slam the gas down, listening in amazement as the tires squeal all the way up to the 2nd gear shift point. pulling up to the next light, i revved the engine a few times, and i actually heard my compact engine backfire, and i swear the exhaust actually shot flame, cuz the guy next to me started staring openmouthed at the back end of my car. The best part was when i launched off that light, i actually saw the temperature gague start to noticeably climb toward the upper part of the temp.

So all in all, not a bad way to blow 50 bucks, and to top it all i didnt give a single cent to the corprate induced holiday.

On a sidenote i saw two cop cars stopped by a Acura Integra that had somehow spun itself into a light pole. Im pretty sure the fool was trying to race, because there were peel out marks all they way up to the pole.

Really bored this weekend

2006-01-15T04:49:03Z

Yeah, its been a while since i've posted on here, but I've been buisy. You know, World of Warcraft..... I definately recommend it. I was looking forward to this weekend for quite a while. My friends and i had a car meet/install planned for saturday. We were going to rip apart my friend's Mugen RSX (JDM Integra Type-R swap), and install new coilover springs. Well thanks to the wonderful effectiveness of the ordering computer for the grocery department of my store the order for 800 pieces somehow got doubled to 1600. So i had to go to work during the time when i was supposed to be underneath a RSX with a wrench. I get to work and find out that there is almost nothing for me to do. So i did what my boss needed me to do and booked home. By the time i got there the meet had already left for sanford, so i was really pissed off, because i could have gotten that work done during a normal sunday shift.

Rice burners make me laugh

2005-11-30T03:10:37Z

So on the way home I'm sitting at a light on Kildare waiting patiently for it to go green. Behold the king of all rice! A red civic pulls up next to me and just sits there. Both of our cars were idiling and his exaust was so excessive that my car was vibrating. Cheap body kit, massive wing, cheap chrome rims, single wiper blade, neons, the works..... Slightly annoyed, I kicked my car to neutral and tap revved it all the way to redline, and let it die back down. He noticed and looks over at me, and kinda frowns at me and my "sleeper". I pushed it back into 1st and locked the e-brake and floored it, sitting in one place and spinning the front wheels. He responds by revving his engine up so lound, I swear all wildlife within 3 miles ran. I saw the light for the opposite flow of traffic go yellow so i popped off the brake and started to inch forward. He responds by doing the same thing, and as the light goes green i popped the brake up with my left foot and smashed the gas down with my right foot. (On a sidenote a Civic has a 1.8 liter dual cam engine putting out 120 horsepower. My galant has a 2.4 liter single cam putting out 172......you do the math) I beat him off the line and withing a few seconds had a 3 car length lead, so i cut in front of him as the road went to single lane. We immediately came up on a tight corner so naturally i accelerated even more. I hit 80mph and perfectly slid thru the corner. Watching in my rearview mirror i see him follow pretty close for a few seconds and then all of the sudden he starts understeering and skidding out of control for the outside of the corner. last i saw of him he flew off the side of the road and into the corn field. The lesson of this story: Next time one of you freaking ricer idiots messes with my car, remember that my engine is nearly twice as big, i have more horsepower, and unless you have a scramjet engine under that non-functional hood scoop, there is no way in hell that you will beat me. Always remember kids: your bottle of pepsi has more displacement than that civic's engine!

My mom wrecked her SUV!

2005-11-22T15:29:13Z

Yeah, so my mom smashed up the front end of her truck. So this means that the car we usually use to go on vacation is now at the repair shop. So guess which car we are now using to go to Baltimore? You guessed it; mine. While normally i would be happy to take my own car on vacation, because I'm more comfortable driving it, this time im not too pleased. The problem is that i just installed a high performance suspension in my car, thus the car now has 3-4 inches of ground clearance. Add 4 people and their luggage to that mix, and I'm afraid that my car is going to be bottoming out on bumps all the way there. I've already told my parents that if they hit a bumper and damage it, they will pay for the repairs; because I've warned them that this isnt gong to work too well. Another thing that annoys me is that my dad is too lazy to get a rental car instead. I understand the fact that my parents paid for half my car, but they think that every time something is wrong with their car they can just take my keys and use my car without consulting with me first. Anyway, I'm gonna pray that my car makes it to Baltimore with all of its bodywork intact, and undamaged.