Stolen from PammieCakes

My wife, PammieCakes, took this out of one of her posts, but since I took the picture(and because it's so cute) I'm posting it here.

EMMYLOU, EMMERSON, EMMELIA EARHART

Please enjoy this adorable picture of our cat, Emmy.

Making PammieCakes Wait

I've been tagged by my wife PammieCakes to answer 5 questions. I keep postponing it, but I think I am finally going to answer since she posted a link to my site and people might actually be looking for the Q&A.

1. RX-8 or a garage stocked with every tool and car part you could ever want? Pick one and tell me why.
This is a very hard question. I'm leaning towards the RX-8 right now because then we would have a brand new car that wouldn't have any problems. But I would really have to go with a garage stocked with every tool and car part you could ever want. This would have to be someone else's garage, since our garage is so small. Then with all these parts, I could fix up my RX-7 exactly how I wanted to, and try to do all the work myself with the new tools.

2. You are a car. What’s your make and model? Also, name three things included in your standard package, and three optional extras. Be as creative as you can.
A tricky question with endless choices and options. I'm going to have to be the Gen3 Mazda RX-7 to keep within the rotary family. The standard package would have to include a 5-speed transmission, leather interior, and twin-turbos. Optional extras would have to be a single turbo conversion to install later after I blew up the twin-turbos. Then I'd add a FrontMount InterCooler, Intake, and Exhaust. I know that this adds up to 4 extras, and it wasn't that creative, but that's been a dream car of mine for along time.

3. If you could have any job, what would it be?
Of course it would be the job where I got paid tons of money and didn't have to do any real work except browse on the internet. Really, I'd probably go away from comptuers and either try to be a real hands-on mechanic. Or I would try to be one of my first dream jobs, like a Professional Golfer or Bass Fisherman. :)

4. If you could give one piece of advice to someone, what would it be?
Don't sweat the small stuff is the line that I usually hear. I'd put it more like don't let the little things in life get you upset.

5. How come we can’t get a puppy?
Now, you're putting me on the spot. The final answer is...
We can't get a puppy until we have our own house that has a big fenced in backyard. Since you're working 12 hour days and will be in school soon, we won't have enough time to care for our puppy. So we need a house with a backyard to make it easier to care for our puppy. I do agree that we will be getting a small dog, when we finally get one.

I hope everyone was able to enjoy my answers. And I hope PammieCakes is a little happier that I finally answered the questions. This was fun because I got to read other people's blogs, and it made me put another post on my blog.

Come back soon for pictures of the RX-7's shadetree transformation.

Cougar fixed, but driveway not

Pam's car, the Cougar, has been worked on a few times the last few months. It has been leaking oil in the driveway about the past 6 months. After a few times to the shop, an oil leak and a tranmission leak have been fixed. Here's a picture of the damage that it caused on our driveway though.


Now that we fixed the leak, we need to work on the squeak. :)
It has a squeaky belt sometimes, but it still drives great after the other work was completed.

I have some concrete cleaner solution that needs to be used on our driveway soon. Since we have found time to stop the leaks, I just need to find time to clean up their mess.

2/3 cars with no leaks ain't bad. Cougar and Civic don't leak, but the RX-7 is still has a small oil leak that might be fixed someday. I just can't park it in the driveway after we clean up this oil spill. I'm getting tired of talking about things that need to be fixed, so that's the end of this post.

Virgin Blogger

My wife is so excited that I'm starting a blog. Even if it is for posting pictures of my car projects. I'll have to add more later. Just want to see how it looks now.

Here's a taste of what is to come:
1988 RX7 TurboII
1992 Civic HB DX
1996 Cougar XR7