Our caravan was blessed with one of those on our last trip to the dragon. It is like a rite of passage

 

No tickets for me. If they decide to go nuts I'll drop back.

Cheap car insurance FTW

 

Well, on the brite side, when you get a ticket in most states other than MA, if you just pay it, it won't show on your insurance. I got a ton of tickets when I used to live in VA and they never showed on my record, neither did the one last year.

 

That is true. I've had some big ones in NY. It's nice, I can hop over the border and drive like a nut. If I get a ticket big deal.

My last fine for 90 in a 55 was only $120.

 

WOW, thats dirt cheap!!!

Remember that in VA anything 20+ or 80mph is "reckless" and they can arrest or summon you in to court.

 

I'll never completely fathom the concept of speed limits. I can see them in villages/towns/suburban spralls, but so much is just open here. At 90+ I'm only endangering myself and the cowns out in the pastures.

 

Want to avoid tickets on the way to the Dragon? Let me lead your caravan!

I have no real need for speed, we'll just enjoy the scenery.

 

cowns?

what are these cowns that you speak of?

 

Sorry, typing too fast...

cowns = cows =

 

The painting is done!


Death to the ugly blinging chrome!
I hate chrome on the S2000, I just think it is all wrong, maybe ok for a poor Berlina, but on a powerful Spa, chrome does not belong! The one exception to this rule of course are the twin exhaust tips, now those in my book have to be chrome, and I mean double walled chrome so there is no chance of turning blue, as blue has no place on a Spa.

I was so thrilled last year when I put on the Team Spugen stainless steel exhaust with oval cans and oval tips because the sound of the Magnaflow mufflers are just perfect to me, a nice rumble, great noise when opened up, no drone, and very pleasant at highway cruising speed. However, I hated the polished cans, when I looked at the back of the car all I could see was a bunch of bling. The cans were so chrome I could hardly see to appreciate the oval tips. I have had a lot of work to do making the oval tips work, but since I could not afford the Supersprint with oval tips, I just had to make the Spugen work.

Sooooooooooo, I pulled the mufflers off the car about a month ago. Packed them up and drove them out to Palmyra where my powdercoater is. I could not powdercoat because that only takes about 400 degrees. I choose not to ceramic coat because we were concerned with what might happen to the chrome tips as they would be baked at 750 degrees to cure the ceramic coating. After a lot of thinking I said ok, just give them a sandblasting and I'll take it from there.

$25 for sanblasting and $12 for 2 cans of 1,200 degree paint and this is what I have now.





I'm hoping the paint holds up for a full season. I don't mind doing this each year if I have to, because having started with a sandblasted surface, I have given the paint its best chance of sticking and enduring. I can't wait to get these back on the car tonight!