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Tongboy

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Life isn't going to wait so get your ass up and go find it, take it camping, cook it dinner, have a few drinks with it, because when it's gone you don't want to regret not spending time with it.

My Interests

Driving too fast, Photography, Barbequing, Fondue, Cooking, Camping, Hiking, Snowboarding, Fishing, Technology, Deep conversations about innocuous things, World domination, Looking at the stars, Walking in to somewhere you've walked by a 100 times just to see what's inside, SCUBA Diving

I'd like to meet:

People that know when to laugh, when to have a good time and even though they don't want to do it know when to be serious. Even if it's only for 30 seconds before they can't help but crack a smile.

Music:

This Weeks top 6 artists: Incubus, +44, Rise Against, AFI, Fall Out Boy, Coheed & Cambria

Movies:

Equilibrium, Lock Stock, Batman Begins, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Wedding Crashers, Super Troopers, Emperors New Groove, Aladdin, Boondock Saints, Leon, A History of Violence, Dude Where's my Car?, Dr Strangelove, the 51st State, Ghost in the Shell, Pulp Fiction

Television:

Futurama, Tripping the Rift, Law & order (SVU, CI, original), Harvey Birdman, Sealab, Modern Marvels, Penn and Teller Bullshit, Macgyver, Scrubs, Venture Brothers, The Colbert Report, Talespin, Dilbert, Daria, Threshold

Books:

Battlefield Earth, The Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness, Shel Silverstein, Clive Cussler, Frank Miller, Terry Goodkind

Heroes:

My dad - he's just so kickass. Jimmy (nobody tell him).

My Blog

Rabbit - Day 1 - More wiring problems

alright, this is day 1 - tomorrow is the day it's set to be cited and the penelties start adding up FASTwe started early - boss actually kicked me out early since I've been so tired from going ot bed ...
Posted by Tongboy on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:30:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 2 (EEK!) - tried to start the car - didnt start!

Not much to say today, was too busy working to get a lot of camera shots and the pictures that were taken by friends I don't ahve copies of yet... we buttoned up the vacuum lines, made some SUPER ghet...
Posted by Tongboy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 3 - Wiring madness & buttoning up

Today felt really wasted but when I look back what we got done it all needed to be done and it took as long as it did.today was also lgbr's birthday - let's all take a moment to celebrate that, person...
Posted by Tongboy on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 4 - Motor is IN and harness works!

BEST FUCKING DAY YET!As a continuation from last night had to move the motor over 1/2 an inch to clearance the axle, go look at the motor this morning and notice that the rubber is pulling out of hte ...
Posted by Tongboy on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:06:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 5 - the motor is IN the car!

Today has been a very good day, no major problems, all the parts, oh yeah, 3 good days in a row!Timing belt all on & good ot gotiming covers on, obviously trimmed for the mountmounted and dragging...
Posted by Tongboy on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:35:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 6 - Motor & tranny are together again

The parts we so desperately needed :cool:After a very successful (and long!) day I hope you guys realize what i'm giving up to bring this to you (my sleep damnit!)anways, on to itstarted by getting th...
Posted by Tongboy on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:44:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 7 - more success on the engine front

[QUOTE=Izanagi]Is this the 130HP 1.9L TDI? Wikipedia listed a few HP outputs in the 1.9L[/QUOTE]this is a 90hp/155ft/lb 1.9l engine code ALHthe 130 is only available as PD (pump duse) and has a differ...
Posted by Tongboy on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:00 PST

Rabbit - Day 8 - the motor is together (and working!)

Alright, good stuff yesterday & today, well, in the end....bought a ton of misc shit today and actually had a lot of success and no snags for oncewe'll start with last nightinstalled the pedal clu...
Posted by Tongboy on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:05:00 PST

Rabbit - 10 days left - will it ever end?

we were moving the piston rings from the 3 good piston/rod setups to the new complete set of gorgeous matched pistons and the very last one snapped in half :(after swearing a lot we put the other 3 in...
Posted by Tongboy on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:25:00 PST

Rabbit project: day 23 to day 17 lots of problems!

Alright, this is a bunch of posts from the car forum this is originally put on rolled into one so it may not make 100% sense. in general things have been progressing but with lots of setbacks as you'l...
Posted by Tongboy on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:09:00 PST