my car "Skeeter"

[Guest]

We have homeschooled both of my youngest boys now 15 and 18 and have since they were like 6 and 9. Travis my 18yr old just passed the exit TAAS test online without any problem.. he didn't ace it, but he did better than average.

[skeeters_keeper]

Well, i'm back, and verry glad to be here :lol:
JIC you didn't catch the recent chain of events, over the summer my family moved from Eastern PA to Central VA. Over the summer Skeeter made the trip at least 4 times, treating us very well

On the trip when we moved down, i was driving it with my brother as a passenger. we had a bunch of my dads books in the back, and two bikes on the hatch. My mom was in the van w/ a boat trailer and pack on the roof, and my dad was in the 24' truck... we were all loaded down, but skeeter showed it the most as you can see in this shot (the last picture before we headed on the road to arrive in time for closing on our house the next morning):

^^... the poor thing sat at least 4" lower in the back than in the front! it looked even funnier than it does in the picture. made it the whole way tho, one tank of gass, 450+miles, 52 MPG :twisted:

The trip down wasn't compleatly uneventful, as the packed-to-the-brim 24' rental truck we were using slid backwords down the hill our new house is located at the top of into the ditch, and then took two tow trucks to get it out, but thats another story....

In the month that its been since we moved down here I had some work to do on Skeeter. It had to get inspected, and needed some stuff. first off were the brakes. some spots the pads/shoes were down the the metal... it got new pads and shoes on all around, still looking fwrd to an Aspire swap sometime tho. at least now it stops.


^^getting the brakes worked on. while i was at it i switched the rear and front tires around b/c the rear ones had better tread..

then it needed a new muffler... there was nothing holding the old one on exept the rubber hangers :!:

^^you can see the back of the old muffler...


^^the old one, w/ the peice i hack-sawed off, and the new 2" glass pack ($23 from Advanced Auto)


^^the new one installed... it looks perty good and sounds nice, hope it improves the MPG a lil and lasts a long time.


^^lastly it needed a new horn (the old one hasn't been working for months), so I went all out... its a higher pitch than i'da expected, but its sure louder


^^heres a pic of it at our new house... its perty happy here

-------------------
drat! HTML is turned off... and i hate using thoz image tags b/c you can't resize the picS....... is there ny way to turn the HTML on? for now i just went back and re-did it all w/ IMG tags but then the pics are big for most ppls screens....

[BPpower]

eh man, good luck.. im 14 and workin on my car.. good luck dude (none yall ever said 2 me good luck, you just said i was ignorant no-nothing kid worth shit.. WELL IM NOT YOU HEAR!!!) i need another advil... lol...

[qaking]

Nate, you are going to learn to hate the Virginia state inspections, unless you find the "right" place to do yours. Look for a "Mom and Pop" type of garage to do the inspections as the "Name brand" style places will always find something wrong that needs to be fixed! :wink:

[skeeters_keeper]

Kevin, you are probobly right... but out neighbrs recomended a place and thats where i got it done. its a real small place, family owned, and they new we had 4 vehicles comming in, so they did want to turn us away if ya know what i mean ;-)
I know for a fact that they didn't test the horn, i was sitting on the other side of the wall w/ the door open... they did take 2 wheels off, but my guess it wasn't too thorough. thats good!!!

BP- thanks for the kudos, and good luck to you too... i started working on mine when i was 15, but I never had ambitions like yours... i've always takin it as i could, and tried not to get ahead of myself... i'm not saying you can't handle a BP swap or anything, but your going to have a hard time convincing people of it till they see something. My suggestion to you: don't listen to what ppl are saying now, if/when you come out w/ teh finished project they will bite themselves... of course, if it never hapens they've been right all along and...

In other news, yeasterday (my 17th b-day) i got from my fam a new steering wheal cover, and some chrome magnetic flames... lol! the steering wheal has always felt a lil funy, so it should be nicer now... and the flames at some spice to the car

[Safety Guy]

Nate, if I can take care of business like you do, I'll do fine.

Keep up the good work!

And BP, keep dreaming! They might come true and you'll surprise all of us. Good luck!

And yeah, I still think you outta start with a B6 like I am. :lol:

Karl