COVID- buying stupid shit and stuff

Blk91stang

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Wow man! Awesome stuff. That camaro is beautiful and amazing! I love that interior!

What seats are those? They look very clean


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Much appreciated! I wanted white seats to match the white interior the best I could and the only company that came through was Braum Racing. They were super helpful, made to order bespoke (instead of buying a seat, ripping it apart, then re-upholstering it $$$) it was very inexpensive ($125 per seat) to customize their seats (material, piping, stitching, logo, seat back) as you wish. These specific seats are FIA certified, 5 point harness ready, fixed back, and feel great so far. I had an issue with the sliders not mounting properly but I decided not to use them anyways for head clearance. It ended up working out great and just missing the roll cage.

I plan on re-wrapping the back seats to match and get rid of the houndstooth. I tried keeping it but it became simply too custom and too costly to do so while keeping costs within reason. These were $450 a seat + $125 to customize it. Including planted seat brackets, the total came to $1450.

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If you don't want to mess with rusting, go aluminum. If you just want a trailer to beat up and don't care how it looks in the long run, go steel. Both do the same job but aluminum you have to be more strategic about mounting things to it. It's not as easy as welding on extra supports for a winch or drilling into it and mounting something without much worry.
 
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Some nice stuff going on in here!

I’ve purchased two vehicles in the last month. Finally got back into a diesel. 2005 f350 crew cab short bed lariat 6.0, one owner, beautiful condition. Already started doing stuff to the 6.0 including a live wire and custom tunes and upgraded tow mirrors. Bought the wife a 2010 Tacoma double cab 4x4. also bought an RC car, a traxxas rustler 4x4 brushless.
 

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Thankfully work hasn't slowed down at all for me. I've actually picked up a lot of OT because I have to cover some lowlifes that are taking advantage of the "covid leave without question" clause my work put into place. Anyway, the extra OT has allowed me to buy a new 20ft car hauler. And I'm about to drop around $5k on a new paint job on my 98 Cobra.
 

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Front brakes, caliper studs, front tires, alignment( That one wasn't online), window tint coming. Boss's kid has 20" rims and tires coming for his Audi. Boss has a shit ton of stuff coming for his A4 build. I keep telling him and his kid they Audi know better than to buy a problem, but they love the Nazi cars.
 

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Mavic Air 2 drone, 7.5k generator, Husqavarna Rancher 460 chainsaw, and a GT350R.
 
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Mavic Air 2 drone, 7.5k generator, Husqavarna Rancher 460 chainsaw, now haggling over a GT350R price, which is dumb because I don’t have my GT500 listed yet.
I truly hope you have better luck out of your 460 than I did. The one I had would dull chains before I would even put it to a tree. After 4 years I finally had enough and chucked it across the woods in aggravation. I went Stihl this time around mainly because of the dealer support network. Husky has gone majorly retail based.

My buddy next door has a Husky 370XP and that thing is a monster. He's also eying a Mavic Mini to get some cool shots for our YouTube channel.



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i've been buying tons of stuff. bought an sct x4 and getting an E85 and flex fuel dyno tune at AED next week. bought steeda strut tower brace. new front splitter. 20mm spacers. some other random car parts

as far as non car related stuff since this all started...new TV, TV stand (too big for my old one), new ray bans (old ones were worn to hell, do not buy the matte black rubberized finish), random clothes and new work shoes (cole haan grand ox most comfortable office shoes ever)
 

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Ive been trying to but jackasses wont answer... tried to get in touch with 3 different people so far about some quads and not one response.
 

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Ive been trying to but jackasses wont answer... tried to get in touch with 3 different people so far about some quads and not one response.

Went through that shit with two or three cars now. One I wanted to choke. Messaged the ****** about three or four times about the Cobra he had for sale. Trying to get the lines of communication open and get a better idea on a listed problem. Definitely wasn’t a deal breaker and was ready to make an offer. A week later and still no response from any of my messages he posted some other for sale post on the car. Pissed me off.


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I ordered a standing desk on 29MAR when I knew I was going to have a lot of telework shifts. ****er still hasn't even shipped... They were real quick to collect their $$$ though.
 

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Ive been trying to but jackasses wont answer... tried to get in touch with 3 different people so far about some quads and not one response.

If you would have been closer, I just sold my 2018 YFZ450r for half price of a new one and it had less than 10 hours on it. I got tired of looking at it, I wanted the ****er gone.
 

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I have been looking at that one. What do you think about it?
I've only used it twice, but I like it. Successfully smoked a tenderloin and chicken wings on my first try. Hamburgers turned out a bit dry.

There is some difference between the heat probe controlling the auger and the barrel thermometer, so I will have to learn how to adjust accordingly to make sure I'm at the right temperature. The heat probe seemed to read higher than actual temp.

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