The Search is On

I am hunting for pistons! I'm looking for the best price on JE custom pistons. They have a sportsman line known as SRP. The machinest told me to get part number 142995 by SRP. The best price I've found is about $517 for all 8. Nice that it's cheaper than the $700 JE pistons that I was looking at :)

502 update

Crank maged good, no cracks. Block needs to be bored .30 over. That's a bummer because the parts are expensive and I'll have to buy new pistons. $$$ + $$$ = $$$$$$

"OPEN"

Isaiah said his first word on Thanksgiving. "Open" was his word of choice. He has said it 3 times so far. Then yesterday he said "bye" and waved several times. I think he's planning on doing an open reading of the Declaration of Independence next Saturday if anyone is available.

Ummmm yeah

It's been a while. Latest news""""""502!!!!"""""" Chevy 502 cubic inch big block motor in my nova!!!! Hopefully some day anyway. I was building a 454 but my dad found the 502. A guy at my dads work was selling it for one hell of a deal! So I got it.
Me fisting my motor:

Dropping the block off at the machine shop:

New Toy

Radio Shack Pro 97 Scanner. Hopefully it'll help me learn the "Greek" that cops speak, and some 10- codes too. If not, it's fun to listen to what's going on around us. Plus I can listen to weather, traffic, and event coverage (like if I go to a Nascar event I can listen to their radio chatter).

I want one

Copperhead Cobra!!! Sweet! More on this car Click Here

Lame big block

Well, I tried again to take my big block down to the engine builder, and again he wasn't there. Some day I'll get this 454 built I hope. If I didn't work 55 hours a week I'd be able to swing it by there in the evening. Oh well.
Below is what it might look like some day:

This is just cool

Hot August Nights 2006

Pictures are up! Check them out here ~> Hot August Nights on Flickr
Sorry there are so many...255 I think....I got trigger happy I guess.

Hot August Nights Time!

Just got back from Hot August Nights where thousands of beautiful classics gather each year in Reno, NV to hang out and have a good time. Couple hundred pics on their way to Flickr.com soon. Here's a few favorites:

Bridge to Bridge speed runs

Here's a couple vids of the boats on speed runs.
Faster speed run (9Megabytes)
Another speed run (4MB)

Bridge to Bridge Sacramento boat races

Once a year Sacramento has a boat event on the river in front of Old Town. Some boats hit speeds close to 150 mph in the short stretch between bridges. There are also drag boat races and other cool events. Info here: http://www.discovergold.org/bridge2bridge/ Here are a few pics I got while standing in the water or on the bank:

Lake Don Pedro

Had a great time at Lake Don Pedro thanks to Phil and Kim. Wakeboarded for the first time and it was fun. Pictures on Flickr.

Cool Technology: Hover Creeper

Check out the Hover Creeper. Every mechanic is going to want this. Float around under your car, air tool attachments handy, and you can even be 300 lbs. and it'll still lift your big butt.

Flying Solo

Yup, just playing Home Alone this weekend. Regina and Isaiah have headed up to Tahoe to camp with some friends. I had planned to go, but was informed last minute that FedEx is having a management class on Saturday. So, to do the proper thing I stayed home to do something for our future. It would be great to get into management with FedEx for a period of time so that I could have that on my resume since FedEx has a lot of good things going for them and you learn a lot really fast as an Ops Manager for them. The perk this weekend is that I get to play paintball on Sunday :) Other than that, it was lonely coming home to an empty house with 2 nutty dogs. (where are they anyway?)

Old and Busted vs. New Hotness

Fathers Day Gift.....Thanks Regina!! Craftsman mower with a 6.0 hp Briggs & Stratton motor. Mows like a dream, nice and smooth.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

My first official father's day (kinda). Here's why: We found out that Regina was preggo last year on father's day. The cool thing was that we had the family together celebrating our fathers, but we surprised the mothers instead. Here's a video of how things went down. (Sorry about the bad vid quality, but I'm trying to keep the size small) 1.7 MB
BABY BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

More baby pics for the Grandmas

I just added 70 new pictures of Isaiah to satisfy the grandmothers' hunger for........whatever it is I don't understand ;)

70 new pics

Long time, no post

Yeah, so. I've been busy and haven't had anything exciting to share, and Regina keeps hogging the camera to take pics of Isaiah. Actually there is something exciting to share, James and Lynsey had their baby Emma (Lynsey had her, James watched). HUGE Congrats!!!

Snowboard season ended in what seemed like record time :( I didn't get in as much boarding as I'd planned, but I did get to go to Northstar and I'm extremely impressed. Looking forward to going there next year.

Isaiah is at 18 lbs. now and wearing 12 month old clothes even though he's only 3 months old.

King of the Hill

Isaiah stole the throne! He some how snuck into grandpa's lazyboy ;)