NOR-CAL General Chat.

[bendjeff]

anyone in the bay area traveling to the SLO area within the next couple days? I want these Alpinas really bad: http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=327105

[decay]

Lol gas mileage of a V12 with the grunt of a lawnmower. They like drinking oil too.

i like peaky engines (see sig), and it is the only modern four-seat sports car under 3000lbs.

as far as drinking oil... well, my last motorcycle was a 2-stroke. i can keep a quart in the trunk *shrug*

former coworker had one, i liked it.

[golde30]

I know a few people who owned rx8, none of them kept the car more than a year...kinda says a lot.

[Wanganstyle]

I know a few people who owned rx8, none of them kept the car more than a year...kinda says a lot.

Get a rx7 single or twin turbo if you want a real rotary - Been there done that few bmw's can compare on the track


Get the rx8 for a ls3 swap

[Cabriolet]

Hi from PNW. Clutch feed line plastic piece popped off while taking a scenic drive around Seattle. 3h later and we made it to the hotel. But pretty uneventful trip... no real break down yet. But I'm never driving that far in one day in an e30 again.

[golde30]

Why not? It's not that bad. I have done it 3yrs in a row, it's gets easier. I did it in race seats 2x, last time was semi race Recaro seats. Factory seats would be cake.

[Pantless Spency]

i cant wait to do it!!

[JinormusJ]

Get a rx7 single or twin turbo if you want a real rotary - Been there done that few bmw's can compare on the track

I was going to suggest an FD; much better platform and looks 100x better.

I have a feeling DK is looking for a newer car he doesn't have to worry(ish) about doing work, etc.



Also
Rewatching the Matrix trilogy
#sogüd

[decay]

I was going to suggest an FD; much better platform and looks 100x better.

dad had one while i was in high school. they're awesome cars, but if you're going to argue the maintenance angle, they're far more complicated and failure-prone than rx8s are.

I have a feeling DK is looking for a newer car he doesn't have to worry(ish) about doing work, etc.

yup. that's the reason i'm shopping at carmax- if i get something new, it's going to come with a 6-year warranty. i'm waffling on the idea, though; it'll make my insurance about 6x more expensive, and it is kinda nice living without debt like i've been doing for most of the past decade. my bills are rent, ATT, comcast, and PGE. i owe my mom a little money for helping out with the $5k deposit on my last move; other than that, i owe nobody nothing. it's kinda nice.

Also
Rewatching the Matrix trilogy
#sogüd

ep1: awesome
ep2: meh (but holy shit monica bellucci is hot)
ep3: absolute crap

[JinormusJ]

dad had one while i was in high school. they're awesome cars, but if you're going to argue the maintenance angle, they're far more complicated and failure-prone than rx8s are.

I never said Anything about maintenance :p
I agree though; 90% of the reason there aren't more of them n the road today are owners who picked them up and let the Rotary go to crap

Shame

yup. that's the reason i'm shopping at carmax- if i get something new, it's going to come with a 6-year warranty. i'm waffling on the idea, though; it'll make my insurance about 6x more expensive, and it is kinda nice living without debt like i've been doing for most of the past decade. my bills are rent, ATT, comcast, and PGE. i owe my mom a little money for helping out with the $5k deposit on my last move; other than that, i owe nobody nothing. it's kinda nice.

Knew it
+1 on living debt free though. I haven't moved out yet, but it is a nice feeling having a "savings" that is an actual savings and not just some debt buffer. Being right-side-up with a car thats paid off etc.
Shame I'll have to go into $50k debt for my education within the coming 3-4 years, but that's life.

ep1: awesome
ep2: meh (but holy shit monica bellucci is hot)
ep3: absolute crap

I watch the 2nd two out of pity for the first one. The last 2 sucked, but the first one was so good it kinda softens the blow

Ep2's "rave" scene was like.. What?

[decay]

Knew it
+1 on living debt free though. I haven't moved out yet, but it is a nice feeling having a "savings" that is an actual savings and not just some debt buffer. Being right-side-up with a car thats paid off etc.
Shame I'll have to go into $50k debt for my education within the coming 3-4 years, but that's life.

you could do military. the post-9/11 GI bill is a pretty good deal. when i came back from iraq i used that and the unemployment you automatically get when coming off active duty; $3k/mo just to go to school. a lot of that went into my e30 :)

been a military-movie weekend for me. zero dark thirty last night, act of valor tonight.

i kinda miss that shit, but it's a young man's game, and i'm 36 in a month.

[JinormusJ]

you could do military. the post-9/11 GI bill is a pretty good deal. when i came back from iraq i used that and the unemployment you automatically get when coming off active duty; $3k/mo just to go to school. a lot of that went into my e30 :)

been a military-movie weekend for me. zero dark thirty last night, act of valor tonight.

i kinda miss that shit, but it's a young man's game, and i'm 36 in a month.

I'd be lying if I said the thought hadn't crossed my mind
But mentally, I am not prepared for that world. My whole life has revolved around medical and while the mentalities are similar, they are two completely different lines of work. Gotta pay-to-play for any career medical related nowadays

Plus I grew up in a community whose culture/tradition (Communist Romania, Circa Ceaucescu 1989) where war is bad, guns are frowned upon, and anything Army-related makes you a baby-killer.
Doing Military is pretty much social suicide for me



Saw Saving Private Ryan, Letters to Imo Jima, and Inglorious Bastards over the past couple days, so I've been feeling the Militry vibe as well :p

[decay]

68W (medic) is a good MOS to have; that was the first of four that i earned. (after that; combat engineer, signal, and logistics.) IIRC you've already got your EMT-B so you'd skip the first 6 weeks of training after basic.

that said, understood; my social circle before i joined up was the rave scene in the late 90s/early 2ks. lost a lot of friends when i swore in because they didn't accept the idea either. the few who kept in touch have proven themselves my real friends, but i get not wanting to make that choice.

my favorite picture from that time (live-fire exercises always put a shit-eating grin on my face):

[JinormusJ]

I've come at odds with the idea that I'd lose about 80% of my social circle if I swore in; the part that worries me is that my parents would enter that "corner-of-shame" in the same community, and at this point in their life, it's pretty much all they have. It's not something I'd exactly what either of us to deal with.

But I can't say I'm really not content with life as it sits now though. Paychecks coming in, I'm traveling/vacationing for free, both e30s are running, losing weight, etc. etc. etc.

I guess I'm just coming to grips with the fact that I'm hitting 22 next month and I thought by now I'd have something a little more substantial. Chasing down and keeping a medical job in the market has been almost impossible the last year or so

EDIT:
Got a buddy in the Force stationed out in NC. Keep in touch every now and then; love seeing pictures/hearing stories. Thanks for sharing

[decay]

I guess I'm just coming to grips with the fact that I'm hitting 22 next month and I thought by now I'd have something a little more substantial. Chasing down and keeping a medical job in the market has been almost impossible the last year or so

dude you're barely legal to drink, and you turned 18 in the middle of the great recession. establishing yourself takes time. you've got lots of it.

i've only started trying to save up for retirement over the past couple years, and i actually just moved all of my savings into an investment account this week. some guys from socal made an app that rounds up all your purchases to the next dollar and builds a portfolio for you. http://www.acorns.com/ i like the fact that it's automated, and that they have a nobel prize-winning economist as an advisor. pretty sure he'd still be smarter than me, even if i tried to make a full-time job of it. LA Times story on them: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...529-story.html

now i have a habit of checking my net worth in USD and Bitcoin a couple times a day. watching your money make money is kinda fun, it turns out.

edit: another deployment story- so engineers and infantry are both combat arms, but infantry guys think their shit don't stink and engineers are second-rate. caught a lot of shit while i was in an infantry unit. "EFK" are the three basic needs of an infantryman; eat, fuck, kill. i decided that acronym needed redefining and tagged up all the unit humvees: