"A fence post" why not just go and buy the correct piping? I'm serious, are you trying to use ingenuity, save money? I'm just trying to get an angle on exactly where your coming from with these projects. I think your premise is spot-on, it's your the execution that has me rollin' on floor..

 

If you look at it a little differently.... this is all prototyping for when he picks a design he likes most and then goes all out with quality parts... good looking ghetto parts!

 

If you look at my sig, in the bottom left, you can see my fence post charge pipe leading to the intercooler. It's really no different than the overpriced crap they sell for the 'correct purpose'. If I bought the correct piping, I could not take pride in it.


Not to go on a huge philosophical tangent but you see, life is devoid of intrinsic meaning. Fight it as you might, this simple fact is inescapable. Now sure some of us, most of us, lack the objectivity and intellectual rigor required to arive at that conclusion. Truly, they are the lucky ones. Because once you pass that precipice into the void, you can never go back. It is the intrapersonal equivalent of taking the red pill. You realize that all your values, beliefs, morals, standards, etc. lack a leg to stand on. Each one is just a borrowed construct handed to you by your enviornment, society, family, etc. When faced with the dilema of creating your own constructs a certain paradox ensues.

A. We require a value, standard, belief, moral, operating whatever type of system to function coherently while we are alive (because as agents we must appear to choose between multiple posibilites, you can think of the value system or the construct as the decision logic that appears to guide our psuedo-choices)
B. All value systems exist for a reason but lack true greater meaning
C. I must create my own value system since I have long ago rejected my borrowed values.
D. No value system is truly superior to another without putting it in the context of it's own (or other's) values
E. SHIT!
F. However, some values persist out of the necessity of existence. I can't sit here and ponder values if I am dead.
G. So that gives us self-preservation, a good start
H. Some things are hard coded into our being. Pleasure and Pain are easy examples.
I. Under most, but not all, circumstances Pain is not desirable and Pleasure is.
J. Great, so now we have: Stay Alive, Seek Pleasure, Avoid Pain. (wow, it's like through a series of mental sommersaults I've arrived back at the level of a prehistoric man.)
K. These things, although laking external justification are sufficent for internal motivation.
L. As a social creature, society's impossed values (and my decision to accept or reject them) can cause me pain or pleasure.
M. Since I cannot always find pleasure in society's values I should reject them when they cause me pain.
N. I can even substitute my own values to cause pleasure under circumstances where otherwise I would not.

So, in other words, I can excercise a form of conscious cognitive dissonance. I actively command my value systems to produce the optimum internal pleasure outcome based on my abilities and circumstances.


What I'm trying to say is that based on my current situation, creating a construct for myself where I glorify my redneckitude is optimum.

This also gives me the flexibility to change my value system on a whim. If I found that present construct caused me more discomfort than comfort I could easily 'decide' on some other value system. What really sucks is that through it all, a part of my mind constantly reminds me that the excercise of actively changing my constructs is in and of itself a construct but I have no choice but to ignore that flaw. If I fail to ignore it, I lose my raison d'etre. (which is a construct too, crap)


Also, you mentioned earlier you had not seen my turbo build? It's here (sort of, it's also spread throughout the forum):

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/2nd-...completed.html

Everything is pretty legit.

Also, If you google:

"turbocharged usdm GE8"

I'm the first result


P.S. Returning back to the charge pipe. I can choose between two value systems. Either I choose to value high quality name brand parts or I choose to value creative, inventive, and ultimately hacked parts. For reasons that take too long to type, and also because my innate abilites favor it, the second value system causes me more pleasure than the former.

 

I was reading your post all seriously, and then

 

I get it Lyon.. It's kind of like making and drinking "white trash margaritas", using mezcal, Everclear, and Kroger brand frozen lime aid, when you can afford to do it up using the accepted ingredients and triple distilled tequila.... I think I'll make a pitcher of some frozen ones right now, it's 109 degrees outside with cloud cover so I'm damn sure not leaving the house.

 

We just had a monster storm roll in. No body is working, just watching the rain. Probably gonna bust out the beers as soon as someone gets balls to run to the truck

 

Wow, deep! (Hands up bowing ) Not easy to be a cutting edge trailblazer. Go go go!

Yup, me too...

 

Hey, I always pony up for the name brand lime aid. That said, no way am I wasting money on good booze in a frozen drink. A true margarita I'll bust out my good tequila for, but not something you can't tell the difference in anyway. But that's kinda the general point anyway, sometime the cheaper option is as good or better because it's cheaper.

 

I drink the good stuff straight up. If I know I am going to be drinking for awhile I'll have a water chaser but only during the warm months... I really don't drink much at all but every so often it's the right thing to do. I don't let it cause any problems for myself or other folks like some feel like they obligated to do after over doing it.

 

I only do real drinking while either on the boat fishing, at the cabin(s) working/cooking, or in the woods hunting/camping.

Only time I get to have a cigar as well.

Start with beer or wine, then move on to scotch or cognac. Mmm. Want to go back up north already...

 

Gave the Fit an oil change.

 

Ditto.

Twas ezpz.

 

was driving home today and developed a bad miss. Car barely ran. Very slowly tried to drive home. Car behind me is a white mini van. Very nice person gave me plenty of room to slowly drive and make my way home. Then suddenly, in a no passing zone, a huge black f150 comes barreling past that nice white van and starts riding my ass. I know he can't hear my engine sputtering over his big retarded diesel engine. I try to wave him to pass me at the intersection but he just ignores me. Then I take off like I'm on running on 3 cylinders (because I am) so he starts riding my ass. Then I try to pull to the side of the road so he can pass me and finally he does but not without me letting out a giant "FU$& YOU!" then when he hears that the asshole stops in front of me. Since he stopped I know know he's not in a hurry to get to the hospital or stop a fire. Of course he's got a bunch of marines stickers on his bumper but I'm pissed beyond belief. I start letting out explicative after explicative pointing at my car trying to explain why I wanted him to die. I must have looked like a rabid dog. Then he finally drove off and I was back to put putting my way home.

Now, I feel a small bit of regret, but not much. I haven't been so angry in a long long time. Reminded me of being a teenager when emotions felt less dull. It felt pretty good actually. Time to gorge myself on some CiCis pizza.
O and on top of that the power went out in this heat.

Miss was just a fouled plug.

I wonder if TC has had any outages during this heat wave, I'm sure power demand has to be crazy with temps as high as he's seeing.

 

Don't feel any regret. Every asshole with a big truck and marine stickers think they are a badass and can do what they want...Fuck em.

 

By no means is my previous post a slam on Marines or any armed forces

 

GOOD! Thanks for qualifying your last statement. Yup, there are bullies everywhere from cyberspace... supermarket lines... to road ragers...
One trait that is non-descriminating... without borders... Sorry to say

 

No I understand, I'm grateful for the people who keep us safe so I can maintain my easy going style of life. But at the same time, we're all still human and some humans just suck.

 

I have a small sticker the shape and colors of a Vietnam service medal with the Marine Corps EGA logo about the size of a quarter in the center of it and disabled veteran license plate... I have to deal with the kind of people that tailgate in beg diesel powered trucks covered with military, political, religious, Masonic or all of the former, stickers on the rear window, tailgate and bumper... They piss me off too.

 

Took my Fit to Vegas!!!

Where will I be tomorrow?

 

Hoover Dam.... Don't you remember???