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Bogey

the open road is begging and calling for us

About Me

...i'm bogey. you should already know that.

Flight progress @ FlyBlog

My Interests

Aviation. Cars, American mostly, and working on them. Music which includes, but is not limited to, playing guitar, studio recording, live shows, etc. i like baseball and hockey. when i say i like baseball, i mean i like the LA Dodgers, i could care less about other teams. and i like going to vegas. vegas is my friend.

I'd like to meet:

shit, i dont know. im not desperate.

Music:

i love ska. i really love ska. let me say it again....I REALLY LOVE SKA.
and punk and classic rock too. by classic i mean 70's rock mostly, i dont like 80's buttrock. a few of the bands i listen to are.....
Green Day, Rancid, Rage Against the Machine, Reel Big Fish, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Mad Caddies, Suburban Legends, Sugar Ray, Zwan, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Sublime, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steve Miller Band, Clash, Ramones, CCR, BTO, Steppenwolf, Tom Petty
...the list goes on and on.....

Movies:

The 40 Year Old Virgin, Waiting, Dumb and Dumber, Super Troopers, Beerfest, Boondock Saints, 5th Element, Van Wilder, Snatch, Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Ace Ventura. mostly comedy and guy movies.

Television:

any hockey game or Dodger games. those are the only things worth putting up with commercials for at least.

Books:

i dont read books unless they have lots of pictures of airplanes.

Heroes:


Tim Armstrong
(Rancid, Operation Ivy, Transplants)

Aaron Barrett
(Reel Big Fish)

Bradley Nowell, RIP.
(Sublime)

Billie Joe
(Green Day)

Rivers Cuomo
(Weezer)

Tom Morello
(Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave)

Billy Corgan
(Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan)

My Blog

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, .......

ugh. ok. the motor is in. i got it in all by myself. i was pretty stoked. its taken a few days but ive got all the widgets reattached to the motor and filled up all the fluids. ok, so today is the day...
Posted by Bogey on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:16:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, Long Block

getting the short block to a long block sure doesnt take much....except for like 36 bolts needing torqued to 65 ft/lbsgot the rockers installed too. im just gonna use the stock stamped rockers for now...
Posted by Bogey on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:15:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, Short Block

about time! i got the short block all put together! (ie crank, bearings, pistons, rods, block) next is the valve train, ill be done with that real quick like so you can see more pictures...
Posted by Bogey on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:25:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, Update

i got a 350 motor yesterday. its in very good shape minus a tiny bit of rust in the cylinders. nothing that cant be bored out. today i got all the pistons out and the crank out, etc. tomorrow ill take...
Posted by Bogey on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:55:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, All Stop

horrible news. im so pissed. i took the engine block to the machine shop to have it cleaned and bored out. the guy talked me into have it inspected for cracks....well guess what, it has a big crack in...
Posted by Bogey on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild, Motor Extraction

A huge thank you goes out to the politicians and lawmakers of the 70's and 80's that created laws forcing GM to attach a ton of garbage to their motors. Engines are so so so simple, but yet theyve att...
Posted by Bogey on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:32:00 PST

Operation: Firebird Rebuild

so i just ordered $2500 worth of parts for my car. Operation: Firebird Rebuild is underway. you may not hear/see much of me for a month. ill be tearing this thing apart, interior and all. cleaning it ...
Posted by Bogey on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:37:00 PST

the final straw

thats it. roseburg utterly and completely sucks.dont get me wrong, i already knew it was pretty lame.nothing fun to do, no pilot jobs, no decent ladies, no good bars.....but now this....NO FIREWORKS O...
Posted by Bogey on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:29:00 PST

links

i've started a couple new NON-MYSPACE things. (is it just me or is myspace getting really old)the first is a blog, which i've geared towards flying.the second is an online logbook. not that anyone is ...
Posted by Bogey on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:48:00 PST

progress..

after MONTHS of this project going nowhere, ive finally done something. i already had the boxes put together and other pieces cut out. ive painted the grill and interiors, installed the speakers, and ...
Posted by Bogey on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:04:00 PST