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growler_southLast night was- interesting? Expensive?
I went and worked off some frustration on Paul's poor Escort. It loved it, of course. Not that I'm a hoon or anything, just sometimes. I think I owe Paul a new set of rear tyres though. D'oh!
Yeah I'm bad and self-destructive, I know.
The nice thing about driving is that you get time to process stuff in the background- 'Reverie' I think Nick called it. While you're concentrating on tricky physical stuff (going *round* the roundabout instead of *over* it, keeping the front of the car pointing forwards, that sort of thing) your subconscious is sorting out the emotional guff.
And heres what I came up with- its pretty simple actually. Up here in Auckland I get to hear whenever the boys have a disagreement. Oh Boy do I hear about it... anyway, I hardly ever hear when they make up. So my perception of what's happening is a little skewed. On weekends when Im there I get to see the whole dynamic, and I guess im having trouble comparing what I percieve during the week to what I see during the weekend. It's tripping my dishonest-o-meter on a subconscious level. That, combined with Mo's recent slightly zombied-out mood due to his doc changing his meds, has been concerning the hell out of me.
So. Now I understand whats going on in my head, why I've been feeling uneasy despite *knowing* that everything's ok.
Paul's just not going to understand.
I went and worked off some frustration on Paul's poor Escort. It loved it, of course. Not that I'm a hoon or anything, just sometimes. I think I owe Paul a new set of rear tyres though. D'oh!
Yeah I'm bad and self-destructive, I know.
The nice thing about driving is that you get time to process stuff in the background- 'Reverie' I think Nick called it. While you're concentrating on tricky physical stuff (going *round* the roundabout instead of *over* it, keeping the front of the car pointing forwards, that sort of thing) your subconscious is sorting out the emotional guff.
And heres what I came up with- its pretty simple actually. Up here in Auckland I get to hear whenever the boys have a disagreement. Oh Boy do I hear about it... anyway, I hardly ever hear when they make up. So my perception of what's happening is a little skewed. On weekends when Im there I get to see the whole dynamic, and I guess im having trouble comparing what I percieve during the week to what I see during the weekend. It's tripping my dishonest-o-meter on a subconscious level. That, combined with Mo's recent slightly zombied-out mood due to his doc changing his meds, has been concerning the hell out of me.
So. Now I understand whats going on in my head, why I've been feeling uneasy despite *knowing* that everything's ok.
Paul's just not going to understand.
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Date: 2004-09-23 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 02:50 pm (UTC)Besides this is just *my* head messing with me- and I only figured out what was going on last night...
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Date: 2004-09-23 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 05:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-23 05:40 pm (UTC)I completely agree about the driving and thinking part. But what were you listening to?
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Date: 2004-09-23 06:07 pm (UTC)I fitted Continental ContiPremiumContact tyres to my Impulse after testing a couple of different sets from my tyre shop- the rounded shoulder and compliant sidewalls give plenty of feedback and a gentle breakaway, making the Impulse a little easier to handle. The set of SportContact tyres I tried were lethal- grippy as hell but when they went it was impossible to catch.
For the Escort I'd go with something that has a stiffer sidewall- the Escort's too light and upright for roly-poly tyres, maybe a budget Pirelli sport (if they come in 175/60/13) or a Dunlop for the period look...
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Date: 2004-09-23 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-24 09:06 am (UTC)All my tire comparisons (car and motorcycle and bikes) come from people who've actually shelled out the cash for them, which (I think) tends to color their opinions since people are less likely to be perfectly objective about (say) the awful Yokohamas that just ate next month's rent. The net has helped with that immensely, but it's still a bit of a crapshoot.
I need to spend some time in a country where the Escort wasn't such a piece of crap. (I know there are reviews of the US Escort that speak of it in pleasant terms, but after dealing with a half dozen awful specimens, I'd as soon set one on fire as drive it.) Didn't think a scatter cam worked well on an inline 4, but most of my (not very large) go-faster experience has been with VWs, and the idea of a scatter cam on an 16 valve interference VW inline worries me immensely (although probably not for any good reason).
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Date: 2004-09-24 04:32 pm (UTC)My tyre shop rocks- they always recommend the best tyres, but let me compare them to a different set just in case. Not sure if they do that for everyone, maybe I'm just more vocal ;-) They tighten lugnuts with a torque wrench, and actually look up the correct settings first.
I didnt think scatter pattern cams worked particularly well in I-4's either (except in British Leyland's A-series where they make quite a difference) and to be honest it feels like your typical fast road cam. Apparently the lobe timing has been adjusted slightly to compensate for the different manifold lengths, but the rest of the engine is fairly standard so its probably overkill...