So the wife and i got a baby sitter tonight and headed out to the BIG city (RedDeer) for supper and a movie. I finally seem to have my car figured out after 4 yep 4 crank sensors I have one that works fine and the car runs like a fine swiss watch. Due to the past crank sensors working not at all or intermittently my tuner and i have been unable to get a solid tune on it. But I have the basic it runs 14.5AFR on the hiway and starts ok but idles at 13-1500rpm due to the sensors causing it to stall at idle we turned it up. It was about 2am Friday night when i got this sensor in and my skid plate back on so i thought in point starting to mess with the tune although that is usually when Cam and i go tuning when our families go to bed

Anyway to my story, i am trying to get a couple thousand miles on the new engine for break in so we can tune it for power. I am at about 500miles and want about 2,000 prior to putting it on the dyno I was hoping to make this before it snows. Anyway I said to the wife the car is running good and it is one of the last few nice nights lets take my car.

So we went for a nice supper then headed over to the movie theater. Along the way we seen a diesel truck....typical RedDeer truck lift kit, big tires, pillar full of gauges and a 6" exhaust. Every light he would floor it and make it puke ridiculous amounts of black smoke. My wife and i were laughing the guys that drive these trucks wear white sunglasses and straight brimmed hats seriously I always profile them and 98% of the time they fit the bill. Anyway as we were laughing I said that thing almost smokes as bad as my car. On de-cell my AFR go off my gauge to 9 or less so it lets a cloud of smoke go and on initial acceleration if I am on the gas hard at all it also smokes a bit as it can get into the 11s.

Anyway to make a short story long we come out of the movie theater (Footloose is junk without Kevin Bacon) and there is a note on my car I said to my wife ooh a love note. It read "i drive a tuned Diesel and my truck smokes less than your piece of ****" . Since that truck followed us 1/2 way across town i will guess it was him at one point you go from 60km/hr to 110km/hr(i may have went slightly faster than the posted limit) to merge onto the hiway I lost him there i guess he couldnt keep up to my peice of **** stay classy RedDeer

PS a quick update I am living in Calgary during the week for all of the Calgary Locals if anyone wants to get together during the week i am a big shot down town Calgary now and i am out of our BB group work gave me one of those fancy new i-phones so drop me an email or pm I am living in the Sandman down town.

Big post for a lame story but i havent been on here much and felt like sharing the RedDeer mentality with everyone and that is not uncommon unless it is a domestic or Diesel truck it is a piece of ****

 

bahahah

 

great story Gord. I can picture that dude in the truck right now. I saw more of those trucks then anything else while I was out there this summer. It was one of them that chipped my windshield when he was throwing rocks from his huge mudders.

I think the poor guy was a wee bit jealous.

 

Hey Gord, if you are interested, i'm available for a mini meet, as long as it's after 6pm if you have the G here, there is a awesome roof top parking in downtown for pics

 

Seems the reddeer crowd is making their way over here as well.. So many lifted trucks with mudders on thinking they can blow our doors off.. haha. Good story Gord, keep it classy :P

Btw, I hope footloose was the wifes pick...

 

LOL keep it classy...

 

This came to me while reading part of your story....

 

Saw the title and had to read it. Great story and funny video. ^^^

 

Oh myyyy that would suck hah

 

That is our "tuning scene" to a T. I have way more diesel trucks try to coax me into a race than cars about 10:1 and the cars that try are usually stock mustangs

I did laugh because my car does smoke like crazy right now, but to take the time to find my car in a parking lot and write a note telling me it was a POS

Yes Footloose was Mindys pick, I wanted to see money ball but didnt really car if i saw it or not, we go to what I want 99.98% of the time so I thought I could give her this one and it was ok if I was being generous. The original was way better this one nothing really worked for it IMO.

I doubt the car will be in Calgary this week I had it down last week but I have to leave it out side down town for a week at a time and every morning I expect to find it on blocks missing the wheels and BBK. But I am free most evenings as I work till 5 or so and don't have much else going on after that.

 

It IS true...Bacon DOES make everything better!

 

^^ LOL. I'm up for a GTG one evening, Gord. PM me your cell number (I know I have it somewhere).

 

Oh the best part is I can't even give out my cell number on Friday I left at noon to beat the traffic and get home at a decent time. The office assistant canceled my blackberry and got me an i-phone...with out letting me know so I had no phone email over the weekend, what ever my counter part was in Vegas so I am sure he enjoyed all of the phone calls! So I called the office assistant from my wives phone to get me my hotel for the week it is right across from our office so it couldn't be better.....only she never booked me my room. I got in to Calgary at 11pm last night went to the office to pick up my phone....the only thing there was an empty i-phone box WTF then I pack all of My gear to the hotel and they don't have a reservation for me and I don't have a confirmation number if there even was one because I don't have a phone or email of course they are booked.....to top it all off my kids are not used to me being gone so they cry their eyes out Sunday nights when I leave for the week. It gets better though we just listed our house in sylvan and we are down way over $100,000 from what we bought it for not to mention all the rennos we did.....life is good! I might change my SN to the born loser. LOL

 

Man that sucks when people don't do their job right, i guess that office assistant has got to go. Still I PMed you my phone number, let me know if you are interested in meeting up, one of these nights.

 

Wow... talk about a weekend from hell. Hopefully you got all the bad crap out of the way for awhile. We've got some "admin assistants" as well who are actually more handy at wrenching on cars than doing their jobs- and believe me, none of them have EVER wrenched on a car before.

Hope the rest of heading to Calgary is better.