what did you do to your non-Protege today?

[CODY004WD]

Nice Chris!

[atomicEGT]

went to East Coast Bash yesterday.

second run of the day, this happened:



not only was he keeping up with competition cars (both of which having at least 150hp on him), but he did it while the car was on fire. he said when the car in front of him checked up for the hairpin (on the straight right before this picture was taken) he felt a huge blast of heat from the back of the car and figured something was up, but didn't realize the car was on fire until the flames blew past him coming out of this corner. managed to get out of the car and with his fire extinguisher and a couple borrowed from the next two cars by (Tony Angelo and Geoff Stoneback) had the fire mostly out by the time the ambulance got there.

tank and rubber lines are toast, one of the brand new Origin overs is damaged, right and center lights are ****ed, but everything else will clean up just fine and we'll have the car back together for the next event in a couple weeks.

[atomicEGT]

[CODY004WD]

That's awesome. Sucks, but made for some cool photos!

[atomicEGT]

There's a picture floating around that shows his "OUTATIME" plate while the car is trailing fire.

So dope.

[CODY004WD]

Here are pics as of today.



















Oh yeah, the reason for the new wheels:

[FE3-323]

stretched tires hurt my eyes!!!

[atomicEGT]

the ****? that's barely stretched, like when you put a 205/50 on a 15x7...

[CODY004WD]

Lol. I don't think the guys at discount enjoyed them much either. They quoted me 30 mins. 2 hours later I finally drove away. Meh whatever. Those 205's were all I had, and I'm not spending money on tires right now.

Matt, the pics are deceptive. They're not crazy, but they're 205/45's on 16x8's. They're stretchin'.

[atomicEGT]

We do 205/40s on the track car's 17x9s all the time, takes like 10-15 tops...

[CODY004WD]

Yeah, I'm not claiming these guys were competent. I've seen 175's stretched on 10" wheels on several occasions. A 205 on a 8" shouldn't have been a challenge.

[atomicEGT]

In their defense, they were more concerned about not scratching your new wheels, while we're more concerned with not tying up the tire machine/getting the car back out as quickly as possible...

[Georonimo]

stretched tires hurt my eyes!!!

[Georonimo]

I bled some blood all over my Money Green door panel messing with a window regulator issue:



1968 Galaxie wagon with a fuel efficient big block...

[atomicEGT]

that Galaxie is so dope.