My only photo of Carolina Panthers Star, DeAngelo Williams in my Rat car in downtown Charlotte. I gave him a lift to the tour bus for the Miami game. He was a pretty chill cat. He loved the Rat Sedan! Yeah, he is in there, impossible to see I know.. Oh well. I have a GoPro on the dash at all times now after that though... lol
Drug her up on the rack today for a proper laser alignment. Shouts out to my boy for lettin' me sneak onto his rack last week, for the morning. (took a while)
Had to use 2 or 3 boards stacked to get the car to clear the rack's hydraulics in the center. Left some pretty mean scars on her too.. (his rack)
The little Rat is all squared up now.
Smacked my oil drain plug on the road a few hundred miles back..
It was a brand new plug too, maybe it's head was too large.
It pulled on the threads pretty good.. and started leaking. I had to replace it with a self-tapping plug.
Also, when I rolled the car off the alignment rack the front bumper got torn clean off. New bumper mount. :cool:
all better.
Here is a progression of the recent hood treatment. :encouragement:
New pics, It was a snowy week here in the South East. So the Rat has been parked.
I've been a bit busy building the CRX lately too, so no updates to speak of.
Welp, It happen. I just couldn't wait till the weekend. And looking at it propped up that extra 1/2" was bugging the living daylights out of me.
Last night I lowered the Rat some more. I ended up about an 1/8" lower than I was previously. I wound up going with 550 lb springs in the rear.
Arbitrarily, the thing rides 10 times better with the 550's!!! I'm very happy.
I has no pitchas because of the weather though. :smug: Once I shovel her out of her new snow pit I shall snap some.
Still no shots of it on level ground, but here you can see it in the snow at night.
Got snowed in last night and couldn't get the little wagon up the driveway... So I let my boredom fuel this.
Instagram Grand Master, post that shit, son!
The "RAT" one is sooo clean! U using an led flashlight? How long these exposures?
LOL I try hard not to bore my personal friend's with cars on my Instagram. Especially with such an amazing outlet like this well kept forum.
Having said that, I'm sure one will make it onto my Instagram shortly. HAHA
Yeah, I did use an LED flashlight. Exposure lengths varied from 5- seconds to 8- seconds.
I also managed to finally wrap my head around Adobe Lightroom 4. There is some really cool stuff in there, you could get lost for hours.
HAHA thanks man. I spent a few hours personalizing my roof rack today, :encouragement: updated picture when the sun rises.
I have had people ask about it's availability, It seems they are under the impression that they would get a good deal because it has no paint.. hahah imagine that.
I'm flattered that you would enjoy owning it. Honestly it runs real good, (it's a HONDA) and the ride is really NOT that bad... After all the tweaks.
Anyway, the photos were super fun! I was actually the one in the photo, (Helps that I generally wear a lot of black..) lol I've got a remote trigger that I'm holding in my hand.
In my exposure I introduced light from 3 different angles. These include the dome light in the car, the 20 something-LED flashlight in my other hand, as well as about 300 LEDs set to a soft amber glow (3200k?) just out of the frame to the right. The 300 LEDs I bounced off a 43" gold reflector. And of course we cannot forget the moon and it's light bouncing absolutely everywhere off the snow itself.
I was only able to harness all these light modifiers in the top 3 photos.
When I used to use film I would just slow down the shutter speed and set my camera on a tripod. Being further away and wearing all black does help. Try strapping some LED's to a hoola hoop or something like that; looks pretty crazy.
Finally got the Junker out for a cruise... I noticed the transmission felt a little tight when I left. F*ZK it! I took off!
Ran around and took care of business, ordered and devoured this burger..... shifter is still feeling stiff..
Went to the mall, and after about 60 miles of hoonin' everywhere, POP!!!!!!!!!! clutch cable gone.
Got her rollin with the starter motor and limped 30-some miles home with some RPM matching..
Rolled all the stop signs that stood in my way.. haha :devilish:
Here's the new ride height boys! On new, harder springs. Picture of unloaded car (no passengers).
Yesterday I decked out my cheap-y roof rack with some hemp twine and moldy planks of wood... I like the more earthy feel it has now...
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Droppin' off some other photos too!!
Had to use 2 or 3 boards stacked to get the car to clear the rack's hydraulics in the center. Left some pretty mean scars on her too.. (his rack)
The little Rat is all squared up now.
It was a brand new plug too, maybe it's head was too large.
It pulled on the threads pretty good.. and started leaking. I had to replace it with a self-tapping plug.
Also, when I rolled the car off the alignment rack the front bumper got torn clean off. New bumper mount.
all better.
Here is a progression of the recent hood treatment. :encouragement:
Front Camber: 7.0
Rear Camber: 7.5
Front Toe: 0.04
Rear toe: 0.02
All square'd up, I'm happy.
I have a lot of ambitious ideas with the suspension on this sedan..
We'll see what happens when the warm weather arrives.
I've been a bit busy building the CRX lately too, so no updates to speak of.
hoodrat sticker is awesome in that spot.......
and im thinking Scrappy could benefit from that type of alignment ....
Last night I lowered the Rat some more. I ended up about an 1/8" lower than I was previously. I wound up going with 550 lb springs in the rear.
Arbitrarily, the thing rides 10 times better with the 550's!!! I'm very happy.
I has no pitchas because of the weather though. :smug: Once I shovel her out of her new snow pit I shall snap some.
He has flown countless miles on the roof of one shitty car or another.
Got snowed in last night and couldn't get the little wagon up the driveway... So I let my boredom fuel this.
LOL thanks guys. I'm having a bunch of fun with it.
Love the long exposures
The "RAT" one is sooo clean! U using an led flashlight? How long these exposures?
Thanks dude :encouragement:
LOL I try hard not to bore my personal friend's with cars on my Instagram. Especially with such an amazing outlet like this well kept forum.
Having said that, I'm sure one will make it onto my Instagram shortly. HAHA
Yeah, I did use an LED flashlight. Exposure lengths varied from 5- seconds to 8- seconds.
I also managed to finally wrap my head around Adobe Lightroom 4. There is some really cool stuff in there, you could get lost for hours.
how did you do those light pictures without capturing the person in the shot holding the light !???
I have had people ask about it's availability, It seems they are under the impression that they would get a good deal because it has no paint.. hahah imagine that.
I'm flattered that you would enjoy owning it. Honestly it runs real good, (it's a HONDA) and the ride is really NOT that bad... After all the tweaks.
Anyway, the photos were super fun! I was actually the one in the photo, (Helps that I generally wear a lot of black..) lol I've got a remote trigger that I'm holding in my hand.
In my exposure I introduced light from 3 different angles. These include the dome light in the car, the 20 something-LED flashlight in my other hand, as well as about 300 LEDs set to a soft amber glow (3200k?) just out of the frame to the right. The 300 LEDs I bounced off a 43" gold reflector. And of course we cannot forget the moon and it's light bouncing absolutely everywhere off the snow itself.
I was only able to harness all these light modifiers in the top 3 photos.
Ran around and took care of business, ordered and devoured this burger..... shifter is still feeling stiff..
Went to the mall, and after about 60 miles of hoonin' everywhere, POP!!!!!!!!!! clutch cable gone.
Got her rollin with the starter motor and limped 30-some miles home with some RPM matching..
Rolled all the stop signs that stood in my way.. haha :devilish:
Here's the new ride height boys! On new, harder springs. Picture of unloaded car (no passengers).
Yesterday I decked out my cheap-y roof rack with some hemp twine and moldy planks of wood...