Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by OceanBlue2000 » Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:26 pm

FRUNKenstein wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:20 pm Watching Jaws now. I have decided that I now want to be Captain Sam Quint when I grow up.


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Jaws scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid, not least because I grew up about 20 minutes from the water and we were always in the water or out on boats. The sea is full of monsters already, not including 20 foot sharks. Tuna and bluefish can both be aggressive shits, and the first time I saw a shark after watching this movie (a harmless sand shark) we almost beat it to death. I fell off a jetty once and almost drowned.
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 5chn3ll » Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:56 pm

Arrgh...Discount Tire fucked up one of my wheels.

Lighting them up on teh twitter...that seems the best way to get larger corporations' attention these days.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 32wildbilly » Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:48 pm

Outside or inside?
5chn3ll wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:56 pm Arrgh...Discount Tire fucked up one of my wheels.

Lighting them up on teh twitter...that seems the best way to get larger corporations' attention these days.
Never gonna make you cry...

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:28 am

OceanBlue2000 wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:26 pm
FRUNKenstein wrote: Tue Jan 18, 2022 7:20 pm Watching Jaws now. I have decided that I now want to be Captain Sam Quint when I grow up.


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Jaws scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid, not least because I grew up about 20 minutes from the water and we were always in the water or out on boats. The sea is full of monsters already, not including 20 foot sharks. Tuna and bluefish can both be aggressive shits, and the first time I saw a shark after watching this movie (a harmless sand shark) we almost beat it to death. I fell off a jetty once and almost drowned.
Back before the internet, there were still wild rumors. A common one was that some crazy person brought a "freshwater shark" from South America and put it in "fill in the blank name" local lake. I remember my 11 year old self being scared to death that a shark fin would pop up next to me while waiting for the boat to come back around while waterskiing.

I also remember sitting next to a girl at the local movie theatre (as 11 years old probably have no business doing), and the movie totally freaked her out, as in she became hysterical. It put a serious dent in the make-out activity.

Awesome movie. According to IMDB, it is credited as "the first ever summer blockbuster movie." The shark was fake, but the fear was real.


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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:29 am

gnat wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:30 am
32wildbilly wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:15 am Any diagnosis, prognosis and treatment plan from the Indy yet?
Nope. Charged the battery while I waited, then I drove off for a 45 minute romp through the higher RPMs.

Will just keep an eye on it doing more weird shit and go from there.
I'm sure you thought of this already, but whenever "weird shit" and electrical get mentioned with a 996 . . .
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by gnat » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:41 am

FRUNKenstein wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:29 am
gnat wrote: Wed Jan 19, 2022 6:30 am
Nope. Charged the battery while I waited, then I drove off for a 45 minute romp through the higher RPMs.

Will just keep an eye on it doing more weird shit and go from there.
I'm sure you thought of this already, but whenever "weird shit" and electrical get mentioned with a 996 . . .
Yeah we talked about that one too. To my knowledge and his all the weird shit caused by that only happens after you insert something into a small dark hole.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:25 am

Sometimes you have to wiggle it around a little to get things going...
gnat wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:41 am Yeah we talked about that one too. To my knowledge and his all the weird shit caused by that only happens after you insert something into a small dark hole.

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by gnat » Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:03 am

5chn3ll wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:25 am Sometimes you have to wiggle it around a little to get things going...
gnat wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:41 am Yeah we talked about that one too. To my knowledge and his all the weird shit caused by that only happens after you insert something into a small dark hole.
I've heard a little lubrication can help get things moving properly too.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:30 pm




The Outhere Bros also provided the soundtrack to my favorite-ever TV commercial. *explicit* Wanna learn English?



Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com

Post by FRUNKenstein » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:41 pm

5chn3ll wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:30 pm


The Outhere Bros also provided the soundtrack to my favorite-ever TV commercial. *explicit* Wanna learn English?


You know, you could've used the time you spent watching the "Wiggle, Wiggle" video to do something useful, like, oh, using your Photoshop skills for a worthy non-profit.

(hint - make me a rotating auto museum logo. viewtopic.php?t=1214 )
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