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you should have seen all the rat shit that was in my engine bay when i got my 91
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I helped one of our club members install some sort of blinker modification (the one that is always posted on m.net) for the front of her car. A few weeks later she said her lights stopped working. I looked at her stuff and her headlight wires were all chewed up. I had her take the car to a shop to get the wires replaced. She had her car towed to the shop. When they popped the hood a rat jumped out from under the car (he went along for the ride on the tow truck). She got the wires fixed and a month or so later showed up at one of our club's tech days. This is what I found under her hood (of course, her shit was all chewed up again):
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Originally Posted by rmcelwee
(Post 202371)
When I was younger, I never did get much 1 on 1 time with my father. He was always working and never available. When I hit 40 last year I told him that it had always been a dream of mine to work on a project with him. I asked him (he is 65) if he wanted to build a Factory5 Cobra kit with me. I figured it would be nice to enjoy his company while he can still get around and do stuff (hard to build a car when you are 85). He pretty much told me to pound sand (didn't want to spend the time to build it) !
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Originally Posted by rmcelwee
(Post 202400)
I helped one of our club members install some sort of blinker modification (the one that is always posted on m.net) for the front of her car. A few weeks later she said her lights stopped working. I looked at her stuff and her headlight wires were all chewed up. I had her take the car to a shop to get the wires replaced. She had her car towed to the shop. When they popped the hood a rat jumped out from under the car (he went along for the ride on the tow truck). She got the wires fixed and a month or so later showed up at one of our club's tech days. This is what I found under her hood (of course, her shit was all chewed up again):
http://www.lightweightmiata.com/misc/miatarat.jpg http://www.lightweightmiata.com/misc/miatarat2.jpg |
that IS frightening
Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 202108)
Joe, you think a louder exhaust would have kept the mice out? :D
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Well, some fill there engine bay with foam to get the intake temps down... this is at least more ecologic!
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Originally Posted by m2cupcar
(Post 202413)
Yeah, I was thinking his car was quicker than mouse.
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seeing all this shit i finaly understand why i found a big ass cat under my hood when my car wouldnt run good...it was running on 2-3 cyl and i popped the hood and this cat just jumps out and scared the shit out of me (figuratively)
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You reminded me of a neighbor I had about 5 years ago. He's got this little compact pickup truck, 4 cyl, like a Ranger or an S-10 or something.
Anyway, we had a few stray cats in the neighborhood. One morning, Les (the neighbor) goes out, starts up the truck, hears an odd squealing sound for just a sec, but it goes away. Drives off, gets where he was going, parks, and smells something burning. Pops the hood and finds the rear half of a cat sitting upon the exhaust manifold. The front half of the cat is nowhere to be found. It was apparently resting across the serpentine belt when the engine was started, which caused the cat to be rather neatly cut in half by the power steering pulley, amazingly without throwing off the belt. It was pretty messy under the hood. There's a surprisingly large amount of stuff inside a cat. |
Originally Posted by rmcelwee
(Post 202371)
When I was younger, I never did get much 1 on 1 time with my father. He was always working and never available. When I hit 40 last year I told him that it had always been a dream of mine to work on a project with him. I asked him (he is 65) if he wanted to build a Factory5 Cobra kit with me. I figured it would be nice to enjoy his company while he can still get around and do stuff (hard to build a car when you are 85). He pretty much told me to pound sand (didn't want to spend the time to build it) !
Be thankful for the time you spent with your dad on that project... :) my dad was going to sell the miata in 1999 before I got into cars. I never spent time with him since I was really little as he's had a handful of problems: krone's disease, the flesh eating virus, a liver transplant in 2000, a few trips to the hospital for things i cant remember. long story short we've built and reconditioned ours up together, (well, usually he sits and watches me piss and curse), and he enjoys the fruits of my labor. He used to autox with me for a few years and we'd share the car, but now he just spectates. We still share it, as I drive it 90% of the time, but he absolutely loves everything I do to it. Except for crashing it into a pole. |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 202442)
You reminded me of a neighbor I had about 5 years ago. He's got this little compact pickup truck, 4 cyl, like a Ranger or an S-10 or something.
Anyway, we had a few stray cats in the neighborhood. One morning, Les (the neighbor) goes out, starts up the truck, hears an odd squealing sound for just a sec, but it goes away. Drives off, gets where he was going, parks, and smells something burning. Pops the hood and finds the rear half of a cat sitting upon the exhaust manifold. The front half of the cat is nowhere to be found. It was apparently resting across the serpentine belt when the engine was started, which caused the cat to be rather neatly cut in half by the power steering pulley, amazingly without throwing off the belt. It was pretty messy under the hood. There's a surprisingly large amount of stuff inside a cat. the surprise the cat left me was the worst smelling turd ever, good thing i have a hose in my parents driveway, it came in real handy |
I rebuilt MGs with my dad growing up. Now, he's jealous that my project car runs most of the time.
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