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Strangest thing happened yesterday. Bought some paint from HD called Dark Storm Cloud. Looked to be a medium grey.
Here is a photo in my shed under led lights ( 8 ft twin row LEDs.. 2 dual bulb fixtures).
Straight on shot.
Shot angled to the floor.
My family all see the blue paint.
HD mixed up a darker color.
Still looks more blue that the pic shows, to me anyway. More of a Cowboys grey/ blue.
Wierd. And no I did not take any drugs popular in the 60s today.
and this is for the Cadillac owners or golfers here at Hammy's……………………..
A man and his wife were driving through the country on his way from New York to California.
Looking at his fuel gauge, he decided to stop at the next gasoline station and fill it up.
About 15 minutes later, he spots a Mobil station and pulls over to the high octane pump.
"What can I do for y'all?" asks the attendant.
"Fill 'er up with high test," replies the driver.
While the attendant is filling up the tank, he's looking the car up and down.
"What kinda car is this?" he asks. "I never seen one like it before."
"Well," responds the driver, his chest swelling up with pride, "This, my boy is a 2019 Cadillac DeVille."
"What features does it have?" asks the attendant.
"Well," says the driver, "It has everything.
It's loaded with power steering, power seats, power sun roof, power mirrors, AM/FM radio with a 10 deck CD player in the trunk with 100 watts per channel, 8 speaker stereo, rack and pinion steering, disk brakes all around, leather interior, digital instrument package, and best of all, an 8.8 liter V12 engine."
"Wow," says the attendant, "That's really something!"
"How much do I owe you for the gasoline?" asks the driver.
"That'll be $30.17," says the attendant.
The driver pulls out his money clip and peels off a $20 and a $10.
He goes into his other pocket and pulls out a handful of change.
Mixed up with the change are a few golf tees.
"What are those little wooden things?" asks the attendant.
"That's what I put my ***** on when I drive," says the driver.
"Wow," says the attendant, "Those Cadillac people think of everything!"
Scientists have worked tirelessly to determine just how closely gorillas and humans are linked, but it only took a park ranger with a smartphone to provide the overwhelming evidence needed to prove it. The way these two grown primates posed for a selfie with him essentially confirms that we share an overwhelmingly similar predisposition to mug for the camera.
This now-iconic photo of a pair of female gorillas sassily posing upright was captured last week by Ranger Mathieu Shamavu, who works at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, it's the story behind the selfie that adds an especially charming dimension to how and why they seem to be such naturals in front of the camera.
Shamavu, who works in an anti-poaching unit at the park, took the photo inside a special gorilla sanctuary at Virunga where the two females -- Ndakazi and Ndeze -- were taken in as months-old orphans in 2007 after their parents were killed. The two have been raised in the sanctuary around the rangers who rescued them and have come to treat them as their parents, according to the BBC. In fact, they're so comfortable around them that they try and imitate them, explained Virunga's Deputy Director Innocent Mburanumwe, who spoke with the BBC. Standing up and posing as they are is their way of "learning to be humans," he said.
"I was very surprised to see it... so it's very funny," he said. "It's very curious to see how a gorilla can imitate a human and stand up."
The photo went viral shortly after it was posted on the anti-poaching unit's official Facebook page last week. As of publication, over 30,000 folks have liked or reacted to it. Though, some questioned whether it was even real, so Virunga's official Instagram and Facebook pages have since reposted it to verify that it is indeed authentic.
"YES, it’s real! Those gorilla gals are always acting cheeky so this was the perfect shot of their true personalities!" the Instagram post's caption reads.
As lighthearted as the photo may make the work of these rangers seem, it is anything but. As the BBC points out, being a ranger at Virunga is exceedingly dangerous work due to both poaching activity and political unrest. Just last year, five rangers were killed there by suspected rebels and more than 130 have been killed since 1996.
In any case, let's hear it for Ndakazi and Ndeze's remarkably polished posing skills.
Hoxxy.....I'm sure what we discuss on here will be so technical that very few out there will be able to understand anyway so here goes........................
Ok...... I am running long tube headers by Stainless Works with no Cats. There is an X pipe that leads into the Corsa Sport mufflers. There is a functioning Snow Performance meth injection system running boost juice at a 50-50 blend. The intake manifold is stock and the Induction system is a Super Bee set up with a Bee Hive. I am looking for a dual mode muffler set up to run on this to keep it quiet on the highway. It is loud...... I will leave the cats off if the mufflers do the trick.
There is a custom dyno tune and the car is making 400 hp and 400 tq rwhp........
I would welcome your sage advice on squeezing a few more pony's out of Baby....... what you's got?
Didn't forget you. Just got busy.
I'm guessing the Corsa has 2.5" pipes that were designed to match up to an OEM X pipe and you trashed your stock mufflers. The simple solution is to acquire the NPP option mufflers (with over-the-axle pipes) from a '09-'13, since that's a straight bolt on. The '08 NPP option mufflers are a direct bolt on for the left side, but need some hammer/torch work to make the right side angle match your X-pipe. A bit more involved direction would be to find someone's '09-'13 base mufflers to get the 2.5" pipes that will have the correct angle to match your X-pipe and some Z06/ZR1 mufflers. The '06-'11 Z06 mufflers are fairly plentiful and the '12-'13 ones have the same non-perforated straight through pipe like the NPP option does. Cut the base muffler pipes off the mufflers close to the can and cut the Z06/ZR1 mufflers off about 3/4" from the can. Put the 2.5" base pipes into the Z06/ZR1 cans and weld in place. If you scribe the 2.5" pipes to line up with the bottom seam of the mufflers before you cut them off, you can just line up the scribe marks with the seam on the Z06/ZR1 mufflers to tack weld. If a test fit looks good, then do the full weld.
Look on the parts forum for the mufflers if you can't find any locally. If they are Z06/ZR1's, ask the seller to cut off the 3" pipes (leaving 3/4") for shipping reasons.
The easy way to control the valves, is to buy the NPP-in-a-Box kit. It's easy to install and comes with 2 remotes. Hide 1 in your garage, so the wife only thinks you have one. I mounted my remote under the armrest on the driver door panel below the mirror switch with a small piece of Velcro. It's easy to access and won't get lost. I ran my vacuum hose and wiring through the firewall high on the right side and then down under the carpet alongside the door sill and over the hump into the hatch where I mounted the control box in the right side cubby. Since you have a battery there, you'll need to find another place for the box. Flip the switch on the box to "open" on startup. Then you can close it as desired or required.
You can probably sell the Corsa exhaust for more than you spent for the whole rest of the stuff. That way, you'll have enough left for a 6 pack of PBR.
04-22-2019, 06:15 PM
maybe too many PBR's and you are having flashbacks to years gone bye for 'DemBoys................ 
part 1 of 2...………… 
