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Cars: autocross at least twice track day at least once Some very minor mods Personal: Solo apartment LTR 100km ride every month 3+ 100mi rides half if not full marathon 1 USPSA event per month in Q2/Q3. - basically "be busy"
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Cars: 1. Swap the eibachs for the FM springs on the miata in hopes of not scraping my driveway with chassis braces. 2. Complete a whole autocross season. 3. Full detail and paint correction including paint chip repair on the miata and the wife's mazda3. 4. Keep those cars looking good with Wash and wax on the reg. Life: 1. Don't screw up cause everything work related is going awesome. 2. Get more in shape so I don't feel tired so often. 3. Make a real effort to be more involved with my niece and nephews.
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kastein posted:plus getting the 5-ton on the road so I can haul building materials easily again. I improved your resolutions, hth.
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For 2016, I'm going to attempt to continue to be a good poster on the Something Awful forums. I'll also do car stuff.
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Install new injectors and get e85 flex tune 4 track days Do a drifting class and to learn how to drift (while also learning how to correct unexpected oversteer) All new bushes Have enough cash to get car resprayed fully. Hopefully not kill the engine but if I do, complete an RB conversion. All reliant on the one core goal of: getting a loving job.
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meatpotato posted:* Get my BMW 2002 running, safely (and post a thread about it). Right on, I hope you do post a thread man! Especially since my resolutions are - Continue to improve at TIG welding - Patch up the floor pan of my rusty 2002 (new thread?) - Get the interior at least partially complete, and maybe the trunk too - Cruise much more next year than I did this year - Keep figuring out what I want the car to be and look like
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1. Go for a road trip in the Fit. 2. Sell the del Sol. 3. Work hard. Have fun. 4. Clean up the garage. 5. Tune in to AI every now and then. That should do.
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Reposted: 1. Clean garage, remove civic/old truck/VW parts. Complete rearrange of garage/side room. Wood tools out to garage, metal into side room. 2. Move lathe and milling machine into garage side room. 3. Learn some manual machining techniques. 4. Continue to support old product lines, but I need to develop one new product this year for my company. 5. Not let crushing depression of current family/friend situations gently caress me up like this year. 6. Exercise and lose some loving weight. Ugh. I'm back to #245, should be at #215 or so. Bike trainer, walks at lunch, whatever. Stop eating carbs, delicious, delicious carbs. 7. Make a baby? Maybe.
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Cars: WRX- replace gauge cluster lens, fix lock issues, fix/replace stereo, all 4 brakes, valve cover gaskets, Replace AC compressor and goodies, decent tires. Accord-full trans flush, balance tires. keep being awesome little guy, best 500 I've spent in years. Other- purchase cheap beater so girlfriend doesn't have to drive an Escort on the verge of death. Or, DD the WRX once its sorted and give her the Accord for most days. Parent's Blazer: diff and trans fluid, maybe replace airbag sensor to fix DTC code.
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I am making a personal commitment to import an AZ1 this year. Failure is not an option.
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Late, but I'm curious to see if I can make any of these happen: 1) Buy EF Civic Si/CRX Si with a friend and build an STS autoX car (Fallback plan is miata). Do thread about it. 2) Sell my E36 M3 while the lovely canadian dollar is attractive to americans 3) Complete '99 Civic chumpcar and finish both 8 hour races 4) Get regional race license and do some sprint races And unlikely goals: 5) Win regional autoslalom championship 6) Finish top 10 in canadian national autoslalom championship
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Doing well so far!Left Ventricle posted:
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:*Buy a house with a proper garage/workshop space so I'm not fixing cars on my driveway with a garage full of bits of car. gently caress yeah, progress!
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blk posted:I am making a personal commitment to import an AZ1 this year. Failure is not an option. This is the best resolution of all. 
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1500quidporsche posted:-Get the kart sorted and in a semi-competitive state. Fixed because three weeks in this has already gone horrifically off the rails.
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Somehow missed this for a whole month. Auto stuff:
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Cars: Get brave, do the timing belt and water pump on the multipla. Block off the EGR if I feel really brave. Start building a cycle car. Rebuild the carb on the lawnmower. Start a no-shameing garage thread. Non car: join a club of some sort to get out the house, continue woodworking hobby to learn manual skills.
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Start driving my Organize the garage. Finish some light electrical in the garage. Pay someone to install a subpanel in the garage. I really want 220v in there for a welder. Current breaker panel is maxed out with twins. Lift the XJ. Install new speakers in XJ.
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iForge posted:
Do you have me on Steam? I'm Sandbagger SA. 
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Time to start tallying everything up!IOwnCalculus posted:2016 resolutions for me: I still have time on the first one, but I should be good. I don't want the first time I burn through a whole tank to be on the way down to Tucson for the Zip Tie drags. I think I hit dirt in the WJ... five times, maaaaaybe six this year. Two to new-to-me trails, three times on my nearby go-to. Much of this was lumped into the beginning of the year. WJ repair and maintenance costs combined, YTD: $1335.65. Given how much of that is various purely-maintenance fluid changes, and another $300 of that was doing the brakes all the way around (wear item, sure, but the pads weren't anywhere near worn - the rotors were just shredded), I'll call that a win.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Either get a second job, get full time hours or find a way to supplement income First one out of the park, went from driver to asst in a year. Paint was still hosed on the truck, but it was down to evap codes and a speed sensor by june. Calling this a win. Sold the truck for the mazda I plan to have fun with. Oil was changed in the merc, time to do it again. And buy it a battery. Gun is no go and no room in garage to play with the welder. Failed. Waved my arms feebly in the direction of the boat, then promptly sold my vehicle capable of towing it. Good job me. gently caress, not too shabby.
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sadnessboner posted:- Sell my current fleet of reliable, enjoyable, fit-for-purpose vehicles That's a pretty lofty goal with three weeks left
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Seminal Flu posted:For 2016, I'm going to attempt to continue to be a good poster on the Something Awful forums. I'll also do car stuff. I killed a deer (and a GMC Envoy (that I had just lifted and caught up on deferred maintenance) in the process) I flew from Ohio to South Carolina to buy an Escalade. I did a lot of deferred maintenance to the Escalade. I bought a non-running 2000 Toyota Avalon and towed it to my house. Got it running and did a lot of deferred maintenance. Basically, I went through about 20 gallons of fluids. There's a joke there, somewhere. And I continued to be a good poster on the Something Awful forums, objective fact. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Make the Subaru stop spooky steering like dog poo poo Seat Safety Switch posted:Race the Civic in at least one event Seat Safety Switch posted:Get not garbage at corner entry
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blk posted:I am making a personal commitment to import an AZ1 this year. Failure is not an option. Didn't get the AZ1 but I had a baby, remodeled a bathroom and started a new career that I like more
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:- Finish Nova suspension - Done - Also done - Not so much, but I'm drat close - Done, but earlier in the year than expected 75%. That's a pass!
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cursedshitbox posted:1. Buy a M715 1. Strike: Bricknos'd it. 2. Strike. 3. Stuuuuuriiiiiike. 4. Pass. 5. Strike. jesus gently caress what a loving year.
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1500quidporsche posted:-Get the kart sorted and in a semi-competitive state. 1. I'm going to count it as a pass, but I could've done more and need to for next year. 2. Didn't happen, need to get a job that I don't absolutely hate first so I know what what I can afford. 3. Didn't happen, bought an RX7 with a good body like 3 weeks into this year though and that looks promising. The scirocco is now condemned to die a slow and painful death though 
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kastein posted:1. become debt free, period. I'm so goddamn close now I can feel it. 1. Hahahahahaha nope. Getting closer though. About half gone since last year. 2.  yeah no.3. loving SUCCESS. Drove that festering heap until end of July, when I realized it was so rusted the rear strut towers were flexing in and out and were moving the inner wheel wells 3/4" over the suspension travel relative to the outer wheel wells. Immediately replaced it with a $500 2001 Forester with less rust and cut the 2000 up for parts. 4. nope. But the blue MJ went from "has been dead in the yard for 5 years aside from that time 3 years ago when I drove it 300 feet and it broke again" to fixed, insured, registered, and INSPECTED so I'm calling that a pass.5. nope  6. Sadly nope. 7. Sorta? Got the blue MJ stuck and dragged it out of a mudhole barehanded while  MY WIFE drove. Need to finish the 4wd swap.2.5-3 out of 7. Good thing I didn't toxx myself I suppose.
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meatpotato posted:* Get my BMW 2002 running, safely (and post a thread about it). Utterly failed at both this year  My work schedule got the better of me for most of this year but despite the lack of AI-related pursuits 2016 was positive.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Bringing over a few from 2015 that I didn't manage: So sold some stuff, bought some stuff and otherwise not much to report. Oh well maybe 2017 will be the year I sell the 928...that I bought in 2014? to sell
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Larrymer posted:Well, this is optimistic but I need to aim high in hopes of achieving...something. The shotgun approach. Sad status report for me. Not great but the goal posts sort of changed. I almost sold my truck so I didn't do much more to it. Got the house better cleaned up inside and out and did more poo poo with it this year than anything. I bought a Volvo V70 and fixed every little thing wrong with it, then sold it and bought a low mile G35 coupe 6MT. Been doing some little stuff with that and doing more sim racing this year rather than real racing. I still want to get back on track and do a couple track days with the G this year after I fix the stupid front end clunk (3 ball joints and lovely OEM bushings on the front corners,  ). My strength of my hips and glutes is getting better and I'm trying to get back into running more. Still weak but trying to run at least twice a week but I can only do a mile or so (did a half marathon before surgery, ran 3-5 miles a couple times a week). When not trying to run as much I started lifting more and got an impingement in my shoulder so I can't really lift now either. Rotator cuff is getting frayed a bit but I don't think I need surgery. PT and stretching continues. But really even with all this I don't think this year has been bad. First year of marriage so that's been fun figuring out. Suburban Dad fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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I didn't commit to anything for this year because I knew it'd be a festering shithole in regards to anything AI. Did not disappoint. I'll call that a win. Also 2016 was just a festering shithole in general. So not quite a win, but we'll see what next year brings.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Cars: Got a newer multipla, nothing needs doing. Yay. Was counting on being given another lawnmower for the cycle car, forgot to ever chase it up. Carb wasn't bad, auto throttle was terrible. Now string operated and a million miles better. Garage thread started, other people posted in it. Yay. Non AI: joined an archery club, got good. Well pleased. Did a little woodworking, need to clear the garage and start again. Not terrible, needs more AI content though.
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