Anticipation for car parts in the mail
I need to stop getting so excited about looking at these parts that come in the mail. Car parts although are very exciting when they're in you car, are 90% of the time boring to look at. For example, when I got my first 4.928 final drive. I was SO excited. I was like OMG OMG OMG OMG HERE IT IS!!!! But then I opened it, and yep, it was a 4.928 final drive. There's not much to do with it outside of your car. For example, you can count the teeth, or take a picture of it while it's next to something cool looking. Woohoo! 69 teeth on the ring gear, 14 teeth on the countershaft. Those liars, it's not really 4.928, it's 4.9285714285714285714285714285714

Or how about a Quaife LSD. Yeah, this piece is definitely the most expensive block of metal ever. I saved up for that thing forever. I tracked it via UPS for a week while it made it's journey via UPS ground. I rushed home for a quick lunch break that day, opened up my quaife labeled box, and there it was, another block of metal that I spent a lot of money on. Woohoo! Things you can do with a quaife while not in your car include: Looking at it, screwing the bolts into it and back out of it, taking pictures of it, and set it next to something neat looking. And that's about it. I started to wonder what was crazier. Quaife for developing a product that costs so much money? Or the fact that I am paying for it, and I'm super excited about it. I'll leave you to decide that one.

Then there's an intake manifold. Woowee, definitely not much to do with this thing. Although I am still pretty stumped at how they make them. But nevertheless, it's just a chunk of aluminum. Things to do with an intake manifold is, leave it around for your friends to admire (they won't). Polish it (it will take FOREVER and it's not worth it), look at it, take pictures of it, set it next to something cool and take pictures of it, test out the threads with screws (whaddyaknow, they screw in!) Also, I almost forgot, it's great fun when you let your friends yell out engine noises while blowing into the TB inlet. H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

AHHAHahaha, and then there's the clutch/flywheel/pressure plate. Yep, here we go again. Look at it, take pictures of it, lay it next to something cool and take pictures of it, ask yourself why you realllllllllly need all this stuff.

X engine / Y trans adapter plates. Although they're very useful in what they do, they are definitely not made to look very cool. I was way too excited about this thing. It came in the mail, I furiously opened the box. I had the expression of a kid about to open his big gift on christmas morning. I opened the box, and there it was. My excitement immediately stopped. Yep, another piece of metal. This one was blue though, which was kinda cool. And it was made of aluminum. I layed it on the table and took a picture of it. After I was done admiring how it looked (20 seconds later) I took one quick picture, wrapped it back up, placed it in it's corresponding box and placed it with the rest of the other boxes in my closet. There it was with it's family of greatness.

On the other hand, Sony PSPs are very exciting, hacked PSPs are even more exciting. I got one of these gems recently. And yeah, I got all the hacked software loaded on my PSP (cause I'm cool) These things are definitely the coolest things since sliced bread. I hate that simile by the way, anyways, this PSP of mine is definitely going to slow my car project down. I have all these sweet applications for it, and more illegally downloaded games for it than I can think of (which I of course own original legit versions of all of and these files that I download are never played and only used as learning/testing purposes only) Speaking of which, Sony's gaming division plans on losing 1.7 BILLION dollars this quarter. So that means that everyone that makes any amount of money at all during Q1 of 2007 (or at least manages to lose no more than 1,699,999,999.99 dollars) will offically make more than sony's gaming division.

Car parts, although they're very useful with their function, are otherwise worthless as anything else (: (EDIT: I take that back. I have yet discovered another very important and effective function of these blocks of metal. Yep, you got it. Impressing women.)

All right well brown santa woke me up early (UPS MAN) so I'm going back to sleep.