Nonsense Thread

[McGyver]

I'm keeping my resolutions practical:

1) Finish building out the garage (epoxy the floor, install heater, install sink, set up tools/tables, hang stuff on walls) - DONE
2) Build the new engine and get it in the car and running - In Progress
4) Hit 250 miles running, run a timed 10k, run a timed half marathon - Calling it DONE

I've told myself for many years, I would run 365 miles in a year to average 1 mile a day. Have never made it. And believe me, all my excuses were very valid!

1) Floor is done

2) Engine is being built and I plan to put it in over the winter

3) I crushed the running goal!

I ran 177 miles last year and set out for 250 this year. I hit that target on 4/18 this year. Then I set a stretch goal of 365 miles for the year, and hit that yesterday (8/21). My final stretch goal is 500 miles for the year, so I only need to average 7.2 miles/week to hit that.

I skipped running a timed 10k and went straight to a half marathon. My goals were to 1) finish, 2) be under 2 hours (9:09 min/mile), and 3) be under 1:50:00 (8:23 min/mile). I ended up running it in 1:41:48, so averaged 7:46 min/mile. My fastest long run (12.5 miles) was 8:03 min/mile, so I was SHOCKED to be so fast for the race!!!

[Northern]

I felt like my ESM wheels never looked quite right. I talked to a guy a The Vintage 10+ years ago who tried to balance a set on a brand new Hunter 3D machine and couldn't get it true. He apparently emailed EMS to let them know their supplier were fucking them with bad quality parts, the response was to threaten him with a lawsuit if he posted about it. That was my first and last set of ESM wheels, which was before they went extra cheap trying to sell 5x120 and 4x100 patterns on the same wheel. Super fucking sketchy.

Mine balanced fine/drove true, just felt really made the car feel bigger/clumsier than the RZs - I assume due to the extra weight. Maybe I just got lucky.
I don't like how my new Dekagrams look, but they certainly are light enough for me to look past it.

[2mAn]

Ive always been a "weight weenie" as Sh3rpak!ng calls me... but damn these wheels looked good







However, going from those ESM wheels back to my SSRs was a significant weight drop, -1" wheel width but man it was like night and day on that car in terms of performance.







I always prefer function > form

[McGyver]

I bought those ESM 007 CCW knockoffs back when they came out because my Euroweave/RZ set were all bent to fuck, the new wheels were like $100 each, and I was drunk.
At one point I threw the old wheels back on the car and was like "wait a second, these feel great"

I felt like my ESM wheels never looked quite right. I talked to a guy a The Vintage 10+ years ago who tried to balance a set on a brand new Hunter 3D machine and couldn't get it true. He apparently emailed EMS to let them know their supplier were fucking them with bad quality parts, the response was to threaten him with a lawsuit if he posted about it. That was my first and last set of ESM wheels, which was before they went extra cheap trying to sell 5x120 and 4x100 patterns on the same wheel. Super fucking sketchy.

[2mAn]

I assume fog lights?

LOL nope, not me