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Made the back more kid friendly. The guy who made the roll cage obviously didn't have kids. Look at the angle he put the belt bolt on point. Could have been straight up and down.

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Stayed up til 11 wiping it down for C&C this morning

 

Then I see this

 

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Which actually means 100%

 

:(

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LSA is kind of a rip off when you look at other GM crate engines. That doesn't eve include the wiring harness and ecu, another 2k at least. You can get a 525HP LS3 WITH all the electronics for 10K, and its all motor.

 

A lot of Camaro guys are getting used LQ 6.0 engines and harnesses for 2K for cheap LS based swaps.

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Woke up, watched the weather(you already know where this is going) local weather says slight chance of rain, all the major stuff has passed, Tulsa might get a shower in the next hour, otherwise everything will happen west of Tulsa County.

 

So I drive the bird to work. All is well, the showers never showed up. So I see some clouds to the east( I work east of Tulsa)..hmmmm....hour later, I see rain east of Tulsa. Uh oh. I check weather channel app and look at radar, its raining at home. Oh well, says it will end soon and temp will shoot up, roads will be dry by the time I get there. 10% of any more rain. I'm about ready to leave work and the skies are darkening. Weather channel future radar says it will be fine. I walk out to my car, the skies were mostly blue 15 minutes before. The sun is gone and its a complete downpour. Before I get home I hit a spot with flash flood inducing rain. I get home, spend almost an hour drying and quick waxing my car. ITS STILL POURING RAIN AS I TYPE.

 

So yeah, only 10% chance of light showers, west of Tulsa today.

 

The toy dump truck(err, bed of it) was empty this morning. That's almost 2" of water.

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Woke up, watched the weather(you already know where this is going) local weather says slight chance of rain, all the major stuff has passed, Tulsa might get a shower in the next hour, otherwise everything will happen west of Tulsa County.

 

So I drive the bird to work. All is well, the showers never showed up. So I see some clouds to the east( I work east of Tulsa)..hmmmm....hour later, I see rain east of Tulsa. Uh oh. I check weather channel app and look at radar, its raining at home. Oh well, says it will end soon and temp will shoot up, roads will be dry by the time I get there. 10% of any more rain. I'm about ready to leave work and the skies are darkening. Weather channel future radar says it will be fine. I walk out to my car, the skies were mostly blue 15 minutes before. The sun is gone and its a complete downpour. Before I get home I hit a spot with flash flood inducing rain. I get home, spend almost an hour drying and quick waxing my car. ITS STILL POURING RAIN AS I TYPE.

 

So yeah, only 10% chance of light showers, west of Tulsa today.

You have just described the weather here for the whole summer. Even if the forecast says 0% chance of rain you cannot bet on it for more than a couple of hours. Amazing how the torrential downpours and storms pop up out of nowhere nearly every afternoon. I have given up on scraping the driveways back into shape until November because they have been washed out more times than I can count this summer.

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Cleaned and conditioned leather..... :cheers:

 

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Today we had a 20% chance of rain.

 

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This is why most weathercasters only live here a few years. They have to go into witness protection after that.

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It better not rain saturday

 

Going up to cars and coffee

 

 

Ryan

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It better not rain saturday

 

Going up to cars and coffee

 

 

Ryan

Not the Lingenfelter one right? That's a hell of a drive!

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