The Bench (Old)

[JG4tr]

Morning B!

I had a great time runnin' with some of the MInc crew last night and it ended much too soon for me. I'm really glad that I followed you over here and look forward to getting involved even more in the future.

I think that with a little more experience tuning and practice driving these MInc spec hotrods, I'll be able to hold my own on the track. The ZR-1 I brought out last night was a little too much of a light weight/ low HP build for most of the tracks we ran but, it was well mannered and had a pretty good showing at MapleValley. Overall, not bad for my first trip to the dancefloor.

Thanks again to you and the rest of the MInc community for all that you do.

[Blooze]

We appreciate that JG.  You fit in well, the type of guy that Muscle Inc. is about.  We're glad that you've joined up. 

LOL Fit!  WIP!  Ain't that the truth.  This new Wb thing is hitting every car in my garage, even the ones I thought I had dialed in.

I down loaded the new cars last night and just went a looking around.  All the cars.  Looking at the Porsches.  Man, I haven't even touched them yet.  I want to build them all.  The new cars in D and C...  The Class A tuners... like the Focus and this new Seat jobby, Then the Hondas..  And the GT cars...

It can be a little overwhelming.  All the projects - MInc cars, ALS cars, tune 'em, paint 'em, learn to take decent pictures of them.  Get organized to start selling some of my tuned cars.  And this site.  It is as big a part of the game as any of the cars, in my mind.

What a game...

$

[Blooze]

Heh, the coffee's on - grab a cup an' sit down.

So, like I's sayin', I got to lookin' through the garage and saw all these cars, all these different cars and they looked so good, like so much fun.  So I decided its time to give the Muscle cars a rest for a while.

No, I ain't goin' no where.  Just won't be running the old iron for awhile.  I have a career to finish, a cherry leaderboard thanks to Turn 10, and all sorts of things I want to test out with other types of drives and car configurations.

Boy, that being a purveyor of tuned automobiles is work!  I don't want to do that very often.  It was sort of fun for a while though - like a wild woman goin' to take a crap - sold 15 cars in about 2 hours.  Trying to get it all sorted out was crazy.  I still have half of them to deliver.

My first project is going to build out a C class Wings West Civic in chunks and pieces.  I want to see how much car I can get with just a minimum of parts.  Which parts will I choose first?  The thing starts out in D.  How much car can I get in D before taking it to C.  Before I'm done, I plan to be the Wings West Civic Guru.  Ain't nobody gonna know more about that car than me...

And of course all the other stuff will still be goin' on...

$

[Ske]

Hmm, I think I'll have a look at the WW Civic as well - I noticed mine was sitting at C550 right now for some reason... I don't think I've taken it for a spin in this condition, so it's time to see if I can make it beat my Mini.

[Hoplee]

Civics and Integras? Where does it end Blooze???

Next thing you know you're going to be singing the praises of the Miata.

*cough* !girl cars! *cough*

[Blooze]

And I'm gonna paint 'em PINK too!!  So there!! 

  $

[Big Mooing Cow]

*cough* !girl cars! *cough*

Wait a minute... aren't you the guy who likes the 2000GT!?!?

[Hoplee]

Big Moo, you're off the farm if you think an Integra and 2000GT are apples to apples.

[Blooze]

Well crap... now don't you guys go to breakin' up the furniture...

[Spiny Anteater]

My first project is going to build out a C class Wings West Civic in chunks and pieces.  I want to see how much car I can get with just a minimum of parts.  Which parts will I choose first?  The thing starts out in D.  How much car can I get in D before taking it to C.  Before I'm done, I plan to be the Wings West Civic Guru.  Ain't nobody gonna know more about that car than me...

And of course all the other stuff will still be goin' on...

$

I'll be interested to see what you find with this car given all the bad press it seems to get over at the official site. I've not run it for ages but from memory it was one of the best handling cars in D Class, even though you can hardly put anything on it due to PI constraints. It was the car I used for the D Class enduro at Tsukuba and, as I lapped the field, it can't have been too bad. Bear in mind that this was in the first week with the game too so my driving must have improved since then. I can't help feeling that most of the naysayers just can't drive the thing properly to get the best out of the handling and make up for the lack of power.

As I said, I'll be interested to see if you end up with a similar feeling about it.

[Big Mooing Cow]

Big Moo, you're off the farm if you think an Integra and 2000GT are apples to apples.

I'm not comparing the Integra and 2000GT....  I'm saying that if the Integra and Miata are girl cars, then the 2000GT is the leader of the cheerleading squad!

Wanna fight? 

[Hoplee]

*throws beer can and ducks for cover*

[Blooze]

** grabs the Rooster Cookie jar and cuddles it protectively, not so much cause he likes the cookie jar, but because he just filled it with Pecan Sandies and he likes Pecan Sandies... **

Awright you two, knock it off dammit!! 

 

[Big Mooing Cow]

Hey, thanks for the beer!

Shoulda thrown an empty one... good thing I caught it before it hit Blooze's Godfather GTO!

[Blooze]

Oh... 

Ole Eph would have disassembled ya right on the spot...