Bro...I've got V withdrawals!
Had to settle for traditional V in the meantime!

 

JT, I was looking closer at your powdercoat color on my bigger screen at home and MAN that looks awesome! Good choice!

 

if I had a black car I would for sure do pink calipers. or like a candy raspberry

 

Thanks, and like you that isn't the original color I wanted. I was actually thinking of this thread yesterday, so after a drive I took a pic of them in the sun to see if I could get a good representation of what they look like in person. And now all I have is another pic that looks nothing like they do in person..

And I know what you're going through because I go through withdrawls on a weekly basis since I rarely drive it Mon-Fri.... So you get the wheels back tomorrow??

 

Well, the PC guy isn't great with communication and I don't want to bother him...
he said if he got the order in Thursday they were shipping either Friday or Monday so it might take until Wed or Thursday!
I know what you mean though...usually to get color, I have to do DSLR and then lightroom edit to get it to what I'm actually seeing in person.
PS...joke's on me...that G35 wheel color I posted ended up being galazy grey 3 like Dennis suggested it came up as one of the first pics when I searched Burton.
Oh well...the color I'm ending up with is this...which I'm sure will be fine since there are no high res good shots of it.

 

I took Andrew's suggestion to heart...since the car was down, I cleaned and degreased the brakes...and got all the dust from Oklahoma out of the wheel wells!

Oh forgot to share this...the tread left on the front pilot sport a/s 3

and rear MPSS...still got some beef on there...it'll last a few more months before swapping to the Continental


Gave Betty's car my first service...gravy train on maintenance to 50K miles is over
Rotated, clean engine bay, cleaned air filter, air in tires, oil change, B12 chemtool


15000 interval with m1 ep and the synthetic filter...not sure I'm okay with that but I may push past the usual 5K interval now.

Filthy!


pads got tons of life left


cleaned

and waxed with collinite



lastly, I moved my Mom's car yesterday and noticed a puddle of oil.
turns out her oil change dude must have hit with an impact and cracked the pan. Which I didn't see initially and when I snugged up made it worse.
Got the link on amazon for a new pan but she's going to try and get her mechanic that did the damage to begin with to change it out. In the meantime, a healthy dose of rtv high temp silicone and it seemed to be stopping the leak.

her engine bay was filthy, probably never cleaned...so I did that.

 

nice and clean!!!

 

Baller Je-Remy has




Quite the shop setup, Boss.

 

Thanks Andrew
Derek,
Funny, I figured someone would notice that...
Oddly, I was at capacity too with the V on all my jackstands and needing to do a rotation for the wife.
I was going to replace one jack, so I bought another so I'd have 2...then I figured out purging the air in the one I thought was cooked after I bought the other one so I kept it.
The funny thing is how often I have a NEED for 3!

 

Are they Harbour Freight pieces, or something more fancy?

I have been wanting to get one for the MDX and a low profile one for the A-Spec, but, biding my time until I really NEED to get at least two.

Would make things alot quicker if I had three for the MDX, but, I can always borrow until I pull the trigger on purchasing.

 

All 3 are harbor freight...
I bought a better quality one from costco that was part steel, part aluminum but it weighed more, couldn't get under the TL and didn't go as high.
Wait for the crazy parking lot sales...the $120 ones are down to like $79 IIRC

This one

 

Ok, good to know.

I have seen the $79 sale, but I don't recall if it was for the same jack. Will have to keep an eye out for that again.

That looks like the low profile one, which would be perfect.

Even with the exchange, for $79, it would be worth it, but just barely......the CDN loonie is making it hard to justify cross-border shopping for some things right now.

 

Black Friday HF usually has a decent deal. I want to say I've seen a low pro 2.5 ton go all the way down to 59...

 

Damm you've been keeping busy... The calipers look great cleaned and polished, did you use the 845 Collinite on them??

BTW- unless they made a 2001 CTS-V that I am unaware of, you may want to fix your signature..LOL

2001 CTS-V Wagon Black W/5 doors

 

Looking at your calipers makes me want to clean up mine ...

I wish I had your kinda drive, the amount you get done on your cars is very respectable.

 

Hey I have that same exact floor jack! Does that make us jacking buddies?

 

Only in the hot tub.. when the wives are inside, having conversations

 

Jeremy & Todd jacking together huh?

 

I'll never beat Majofo.

F*&$, that is bidirectional.

S#$%, that is too.

 

:theghey: :gheylaugh:

 

 

Wait, you didn't hear?

A bunch of us chipped in on hiring a P.I...

Turns out J pays a small army of hard working Mexicans to take care of all his cars... As well as his garage, his yard, his house exterior, his mailbox, his laundry, his child, his dogs, his photography, his...

 

They terk er JERBS!

 

Did you start a Gofundme?

fixed.. he's in South Florida after all Mexicans are all working for me in SoCal

 

They all look the same to me

 

Ok, I confess. I paid jeffucboi $12.65/hr to sit outside Js place and report back with what he finds.

Hes actually been doing it for years now. I bet I've paid him close to 40k over the years...

 

No wonder he was able to afford all those vacations!


If he had just saved all that money up like a good boi.. he wouldn't be in his current predicament...

 

 

 

Oh, hi all...
Not much new to report.
1/4" spacers have arrived...bolts ons were making rubs. I don't want rubs.
These are about half the size but are small enough to leave plenty of lug nut threading visible and don't even hide the hub.
Should be a good compromise.

 

who doesn't like rub?

 

Bolt ons eh?

 

No, slip on.

 

But but hella flush yo!

 

Alas, I'm a wuss!

 

fixed

 

No wonder I'm walking funny today!
Go easy on me!

 

1/4" isn't worth it IMO. I ran my spacers for months and was never happy because they threw the balance ever so slightly off on my wheels. Drove me bat sh*t crazy until I finally got rid of them.

 

On the Dodge did they cover the entire hub assembly to where you had to rely on the lugs to center the wheel?
These don't...the cadillac hubs stick out pretty far. Still probably a quarter in sticking out with the spacer on.

 

I have it too! 3-way jackers