Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[nikitopo]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Very true. I’m pretty sure I won’t buy one... just bored at home w extra money, I’m just having wishful thinking

Lol. Pretty much the same.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Haha you have more extra money than I do! You sleep whole day lol

Well, I don't spend money while I'm sleeping -

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Nope. I never cared to add more power than stock power. If I wanted more than +60hp from stock power, I wouldn’t of bought it.

Shaving weight in other hand, I was looking into few cf parts.

You save the most weight by simply removing parts though. I mean, do you really need fenders and a hood?

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You save the most weight by simply removing parts though. I mean, do you really need fenders and a hood?

To look good, yes lol

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by nikitopo

Lol. Pretty much the same.

Ya, well, to you and @ichitaka05, I remember the hard times when I was about your age - and we didn't have the internet, or smart phones to entertain us. And it was usually raining or snowing and the roads were all muddy and uphill both ways -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You save the most weight by simply removing parts though. I mean, do you really need fenders and a hood?

daaaaaaaa...... how many beers have you had tonight?

[spike021]

Originally Posted by nikitopo

Lol. Pretty much the same.

lol same..

Plus I actually did order some stuff from Japan two weeks ago, and it's still sitting in Kanagawa ... Normally EMS air freight car parts arrive in ~3 days between timezone changes and customs. Almost literally overnighted from Japan. Craziness.

[Kiske]

Originally Posted by spike021

lol same..

Plus I actually did order some stuff from Japan two weeks ago, and it's still sitting in Kanagawa ... Normally EMS air freight car parts arrive in ~3 days between timezone changes and customs. Almost literally overnighted from Japan. Craziness.

I heard that round 2 of Covid19 is doing Japan quite a bit more damage than the first time or possibly the over-worked based ecomony is finally taking more percautions.



EMS is quite amazing but, quite costly. Kind of odd they don't really have a middle-speed mail post for international. Japan Post rarely ships overseas. EMS or SAL. You never know with SAL though, 3 weeks or possibly 6 months. A mistake you don't make twice.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Kiske

I heard that round 2 of Covid19 is doing Japan quite a bit more damage than the first time or possibly the over-worked based ecomony is finally taking more percautions.



EMS is quite amazing but, quite costly. Kind of odd they don't really have a middle-speed mail post for international. Japan Post rarely ships overseas. EMS or SAL. You never know with SAL though, 3 weeks or possibly 6 months. A mistake you don't make twice.

The place I order from has different shipping options depending on the items. Usually larger ones end up being air freight at a minimum, but the prices on the items are so good that even air freight isn't too bad. They do have Fedex as well, but it gets prohibitively expensive, so EMS isn't too bad.

I heard/read somewhere that Japan is limiting planes coming from a bunch of countries, and because of that it's possible that a lot less throughput is available for outgoing parcels. So everything's probably queued up.

Fortunately I'm not in a rush and mostly trust it sitting in a Japanese warehouse, versus being held by Fedex or UPS in the US.

[Captain Snooze]

I know this is car related but I didn't consider it important enough to post in the car related forum.



I was looking at cars I would like to buy after I win a lottery that I never play and I came across (not literally) this Cayman. Low kilometers, not white, black or grey. Advert says part of private collection. Looking through the pics OMG!! Is this the owner's garage?!? *sigh* Never mind about the car, just look at where it's parked.


Can someone tell me what those things are mounted on the walls?

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Can someone tell me what those things are mounted on the walls?

LED lights

[Captain Snooze]

Originally Posted by Boomerang

LED lights

Ffs. Kinda obvious now with the light cones on the floor.


Strange. My garage doesn't seem to have those.

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

Ffs. Kinda obvious now with the light cones on the floor.


Strange. My garage doesn't seem to have those.

What's under the car in the second photo though?
A hoist or a dyno?

Or both!

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by cjd

That's how I organize my shop. I will say, it's horrible if you're not me. I don't have a parts catalog saying 'shelf unit Q spot B14' for that hydro-spanner, so no one but me knows where it is. What can you do.

The section they are organizing that way is all pretty equal distance to the shipping area, it is just where we store all our small components. So with this little area it doesn't matter if it is organized by usage. I used to keep it organized by grouping the isles into like parts. So you could usually guess without having to look up the location and have pretty good luck doing it. Now it is all mixed up. Drive parts are mixed with fluid control parts, and Honda engine parts, and electronics...........