Howdy Everyone
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:23 pm
Hello everyone. I wanted to say hey since I know it has been a while. Things are going great out here. Anna's and my life has completely changed. We are far more relaxed than I could ever image. We feel like we just have so much more free time and able to do things on a whim. We are renting a 2 bed 2 bath place with a garage. We just have a handful of pictures left to put up and we are all done getting everything setup here. Our place faces south and almost every morning we get some amazing sunrises. Anna's been posting a ton of them on FB and her blog. Work is great too. The environment is so relaxed. We get our tasks and then we are left alone to work on them in peace. There isn't really a deadline on anything, but we still work really hard to keep it that way. I'm primarily doing network administration now, which is good because that was a bit of a hole in my knowledge. The rest is Linux administration. It is frowned upon here to use Windows . The culture is great too. We back up to a mountain and several of the guys will take off in the middle of the day and go for a ride or they will go rock climbing and then come back and finish their day. I'm going to be going rock climbing with them in about two weeks. It has been several years, but I'm looking forward to it. Anna has been working really hard on her blog and posting some amazing content from food to our activities. Shameless link to her blog with amazing pictures, but I really just don't do a ton of social media. We went snowboarding at Loveland a few weeks ago. It was pretty awesome. The mountain was empty. They had fresh powder at the top, but the bottom had hard pack. It made it interesting at times. We'll probably go again in a few weeks.
Car-wise, has been interesting for me. My car was delivered in mid Dec and I immediately made an apt to get my car retuned. It was about a month out. A week beforehand, I noticed I was loosing a lot of oil. I dropped it off at the shop and my cam seal and valve gaskets were leaking pretty bad. They also did the timing belt and water pump. A couple of days later I got my car tuned and I was happy again. It was so hard not driving around with boost. I'm kind of so so on the results. I knew I would lose power, but it just feels so slow now. I know he is trying his hardest, but it is disappointing. I'm done though, outside of maintenance stuff. I just ordered a stock DP to 3" CBE adapter and am going to tackle emissions in a few weeks. Darin and I were talking about ways to get my car to pass, but turns out they do a visual inspection for cats too. So even if I pass the sniffer, I'll fail the visual. I'm going to swap the stock DP back on. Anna did her's yesterday and past easily. I have a friend who didn't have the OEM stamp on his cat, and they failed him, even though he had all the cats and passed the sniffer. We are going to go ice racing next Friday at Georgetown Lake. I'm planning on taking the GoPro and hopefully I'll have something fun to share. Twice a season they do fun days where you get as many laps as you want. I think I remember Colin posting a thread about it many moons ago. Anyway, we are looking forward to it . Before I left Darin recommended the General Arctic tires and they have been fabulous in the snow. I'm so happy with them. I don't think I'll go to another tire. Anna has Dunlop D3's on her's and they don't do nearly as well. We are going to replace them after this season.
Previous Dyno Results
Anyway, that's kind of the short version of what's been going on. I hope everyone is doing really well!
Car-wise, has been interesting for me. My car was delivered in mid Dec and I immediately made an apt to get my car retuned. It was about a month out. A week beforehand, I noticed I was loosing a lot of oil. I dropped it off at the shop and my cam seal and valve gaskets were leaking pretty bad. They also did the timing belt and water pump. A couple of days later I got my car tuned and I was happy again. It was so hard not driving around with boost. I'm kind of so so on the results. I knew I would lose power, but it just feels so slow now. I know he is trying his hardest, but it is disappointing. I'm done though, outside of maintenance stuff. I just ordered a stock DP to 3" CBE adapter and am going to tackle emissions in a few weeks. Darin and I were talking about ways to get my car to pass, but turns out they do a visual inspection for cats too. So even if I pass the sniffer, I'll fail the visual. I'm going to swap the stock DP back on. Anna did her's yesterday and past easily. I have a friend who didn't have the OEM stamp on his cat, and they failed him, even though he had all the cats and passed the sniffer. We are going to go ice racing next Friday at Georgetown Lake. I'm planning on taking the GoPro and hopefully I'll have something fun to share. Twice a season they do fun days where you get as many laps as you want. I think I remember Colin posting a thread about it many moons ago. Anyway, we are looking forward to it . Before I left Darin recommended the General Arctic tires and they have been fabulous in the snow. I'm so happy with them. I don't think I'll go to another tire. Anna has Dunlop D3's on her's and they don't do nearly as well. We are going to replace them after this season.
Previous Dyno Results
Anyway, that's kind of the short version of what's been going on. I hope everyone is doing really well!