Well, I work the next 5 nights til 10:00pm... that won't be fun...

I ordered my exhaust!!!   Spugen Dual Oval cat-back.... $550 shipped.  Dang I'm gonna love it!  I miss the sound of exhaust so much from my RX-7... I just need the noise.  Ooooh yeah! 

Got new tires on, Fuzion ZRi's.... 205/55/16 up front and 245/45/16 in back... the rears on my last set were TOAST!  I had some fun burnin them off before the change.  I'm going to sell my old front ones.   The new tires are less than half the price of my old set, so they aren't as good, but they still handle great!! More body roll and less steering response due to the softer sidewalls of these tires... but they grip the same as the others it feels!  Really happy with them.  I'll post a pic of the tread pattern when I get a chance, it looks pretty cool.

My puppy is sick... Man I love that dog, she rules. Much bigger now, I'll have to show some pics of her too!!

Ok that's not her... but that dog rules too.

Autocross was AWESOME!

Times:

• Troy - Stock S2000 - 67.40
  
• Mike - Stock EVO - 67.43
  
• Andy (my bro)- Z06 w/ exhaust & intake - 59.01
  
• Jerome - Supercharged S2000 - 80.02 (he's learnin)
  
• Full-race 911RS - 65.32

There were like 12 more cars there... can't remember all the times.  Mike and I had it out though!

Here's the course that I drew out... kinda crappy but I didn't feel like spendin all day with it!  -- click to see larger view.

Well, at the blue X I was going 70-75mph, where I then downshifted to 2nd and contined all around the course every run I had.  I could really stick it on Hairpin 1, nice constant throttle throughout... probably going 40-50mph.  Hairpin 2 however, damn that SOB is tough... had to go pretty slow on that one... probably 25-30mph, and that was with understeer at first and then oversteer coming out of it.  Later I dropped the front tire pressure 2 PSI and it helped a bunch on that turn.  The green X is where I spun out and went into the grass on my 2nd run of the day... eh no biggie, just went in a little too hot.  And of course at the finish you have to brake like hell so you don't scare the bystanders to your left which consist of people and their cars... (the gray area)

August 22nd!!! Can't wait til that day... the next autocross baby!

Big day tomorrow...   Got work 4-10, and there is a party tonight... however its way the hell out there and I need to get to bed at like 1 or so.  I have Autocross tomorrow!!!!!!  I will bring my camera and post some pics, it will be a blast.   Hopefully some of my friends join me.

Ok this is gonna be a long ass post...

Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning at 4:00am I went ahead and came from my house about a mile down the road to where my friends were racing their cars, testing out my G-Meter on each of their own.  I got there after everyone had already ran, and when I got there Paul went ahead and did two more runs in his WRX... 

• Paul - '02 WRX - Quarter Mile - 14.58sec    0-60mph - 6.00sec
  
• Troy - '01 S2000 - Quarter Mile - 14.40sec   0-60mph - 5.83sec
  
• Josh - '97 Integra GSR - Quarter Mile - 15.35sec   0-60mph - 7.35sec
  
• Adrienne - '01 Toyota Solara - Quarter Mile - 18.31sec  0-60mph - slow
  
• Chris - '87 Toyota Supra - Quarter Mile - 16.85sec   0-60mph - 8.0sec

I'm assuming one of the local neighbors in my neighborhood heard the tires squealing on Coltrane and called the cops.   A female cop pulls up and up comes another one about 3 minutes later.  I was the only one that was under 18... so I was in violation of curfew.  Both of the cops were looking for alcohol in the surrounding grass and in each of our cars.  None to be found so they really didn't have anything to go on.  They didn't catch us racing, we were just "hangin out" -- I luckily got out of curfew violation and they just told us all to go home.

Tonight (Wednesday Night) I got off work and headed over to the car wash on 2nd and Coltrane... Josh had his Dad's S2000 so I knew it was gonna be a fun night.  We all washed our cars.  Just a little tip, when you're washing the top of your car with a high pressure water gun, grab the other end with your hand.  Don't one-hand it!  It kinda went psycho and sprayed my wrist almost point-blank.   Stung like a biznatch, look! 

Doesn't hurt anymore, just cool to look at and feel... haha

Well, none of us had towels to dry our cars with, so we went with the air-dry (high-speed) cruising technique.  We all got on to the highway, I was in front.  I punched it and entered the highway going 92mph in a 70... I looked in my rear-view mirror and I suddenly see the silhouette of a Crown Vic with a significant bar on top... Now at this point I'm just panicked and I'm pretty much just cussing myself out in my mind.  I brake hard, slowed down to probably 60 in a split second.   I turn the car off, take my radar off my dash and put it in my passenger seat, cop comes up and taps on my window.  I roll it down and he tells me to come talk to him, and to watch out for traffic as I exit my car. 

• Do you know why I pulled you over? (Yes Sir I do)
  
• Do you know how fast you were going? (No sir I was watching the road... *I was going 93*)
  
• Well hop into my passenger seat

I sit down inside, he looks up my information.

• What kind of car is that? (It's a Honda S2000)
  
• Did you pay for that yourself? (I am paying all but $10000)
  
• Do you have a job? (Yes sir,  I work at Target -luckily wearing target shirt-)
  
• How many hours do you work? (Well at first 35-40 a week, but now they are giving me 10-20 hours per week and I am searching for another job)
  
• Where do you go to school? (Edmond North High School)
  
• You make good grades? (Yes sir, 3.89GPA)

He goes on and starts telling me about how he sees kids in fast cars getting killed, and that I just might have smashed into a semi going at 90mph on the on-ramp.  I would never push my car to that extreme, I know what it can and can't do...   -- I explained I was with a couple friends who were behind me, and that we were air-drying our cars   -- I told him the other S2000 had "S" badges instead of "H" badges and how it fools everyone who wonders what kind of car it is.  He got a kick out of that.  I asked him how much HP his car had and he didn't know but he told me to look it up online!  "Now I understand if you're on the highway at 4:00am with no traffic and decide to punch it a bit, just better hope that one of us isn't sitting their with a beeper!  Now I'm going to let you go with a warning, just be careful out there"  -- I then shook his hand...  Officer Minter... Gahh that guy is so badass, seriously the coolest cop ever.

We all went cruising on Broadway after that, going the speed limit.  Colette, Audrey, and Steven show up in Colette's Taurus.  Steven yelled "Your car sucks, Troy!"  -- I knew he was kidding... but in good fun I went ahead and passed Colette, got in front of her and slowed down to 25...  Little did I know that the cop that turned right at the stoplight before  did a U-ey and ended up following us.  So what happens? He passes Colette also and behind me, flips on his lights... WTF!  I pull over, and it's a black cop this time... 

• I've been off for 8 days, and this is my 1st day back, and I have to deal with shit like this? (Uhhh....)
  
• Why were you impeding traffic? (One of my friends yelled at me through the window and I pulled in front of them all in fun, Sir)
  
• Did you buy that car? (Yes sir, half)
  
• Weren't you pulled over the night before last or last night?  (Well, I was spoken to for a curfew vio----)
  
• Were you caught by a badged officer or not?!? (Yes Sir)
  
• You think that you can just have all the attention in the world with your new silver sports car don't you?  You think that you can just putt around doing whatever the hell you want don't you?  Well let me tell you, there will always be one of us around to catch you! (Uhhh)
  
• Get the hell out of here

Officer Jackass.... is a complete jackass.  Seriously... I doubt he could have even written me a ticket anyways.  And how the hell did he know that I was spoken to last night?  I, myself, think he was just fishing for more information on me.... little did he know I was just pulled over 30min before!

So that makes 3 encounters with the PO Leece in 19 hours.  My friends laughed their asses off. We'll end this with an array of pictures.

Daniel Sposito and Paul Kernan with their birthday sombrero's on... in two different mexican restaraunts...

Mustang Rice - A BIG NO NO (Same day, same area... Penn Square Mall)  Good times Joshers!

Last night I had Keeb, Tony, and Max over to LAN it up playing Counter Strike... that was grand.  Stayed up 'til 6:30 too!

Tonight I went to 39th with...

• Josh Perkins- 1997 Integra GSR
  
• Paul Farmer - 1993 Prelude Si
  
• Paul Kernan - 2002 WRX
  
• Cary - 2003 RSX Type-S
  
• Andrew Devine - 1990 Camaro Z28
  
• Zach Glasgow - 1998 Camaro Z28

Black Steven would've been there in his Prelude but his transmission blew!  Sorry Steve!

We cruised around and then went to Memorial & Portland/Hefner Parkway... 40 cars there... Carey and some Spec V raced... Carey won.

I raced a Neon SRT-4 and got my ass whooped... those things are damn fast.  I'm launching at 6000RPM Next time!!!   Mmk I'm goin to bed!

Yet another week goes by... It's just going by too fast!

The 4th was fun, went to Lake Hiwasee...

Had the guys over again last night for poker/ping pong...  I suck at poker right now considering I just started... I lost $3 to the pot.  Then we played ping pong and I won $7... so I came out $4 on top... AWESOME! Betting is too much fun.

S2Ki.com is up and running again... that is, the S2000 Community forum (S2000 International)  -- it's like my second home.  Oh well!  Got a short night at work 6-10 and hopefully maybe more poker afterwards somewhere?  Hellio I don't know.   I've got a bunch of pics to post up, so check back later.

Daaang.... Went over to Trevor's and had a hell of a ping pong tournament... Max and Kyle Taylor were also there... I'd say the order of pwnage went as follows... Kyle, Trevor, and Max and I are pretty even.  Good games though, I almost lost $16... but won it back     We played ping pong for a good 5 hours.

My racing helmet came in today...   You know for Autocross, Hallet, and things like that!Since I have a freakin huge head, I got the freakin huge XXL size... looks huge!  Good helmet though, very good.

Ohhh!  Almost a week ago Josh got to take his dads S2000 out!  We had some GREAT races... dead even, it was fun.   Yellow vs. Silverstone:

And we'll finish with what I think is a great pic of Jess!

This is sorta getting to be a once-a-week kinda deal... oh well!  Can't really remember the past few days... the only thing worth noting is the get together at my house to play Poker and Ping Pong.... $2 buy in for poker, and yeah I lost... oh well! Ping Pong however was a different story.  Keeb and I  battled it out and we're pretty much dead even I'd say... but we'll have to see.  I see a big tournament with money in the future!  Possibly tonight???

Went to work at 6am for the first time ever this morning... we open at 8am, but the store needed to have this weeks ad hanged, so me and two other girls did it.  I must say I didn't mind coming in at 6, because I left at 3:00pm instead of 4:30 or 5:00pm... more of the day to enjoy.  However, it does require getting enough sleep the night before.... I think it's worth it though.  I'm off the next FOUR freaking days, so that will be a blast...  Who's hosting the party????

Oooh!  I clayed and waxed my sisters Mustang... I took a 'before' picture, but not an 'after' one... It looks good though! Shiny yellow stang thang!

Ok I'll try to make my next post really interesting with a lot of pics, since I paid $25 for this thing... I gotta use and abuse Xanga's hosting ability to get my money's worth!

Hmm... It's been a week since I posted...

Things are OK at work now, still not the best.  The lezzy Teresa still pisses me off hardcore! I get the next three days off though so it's all good.

I bought XBOX Live and Sega GT Online, and damn they are fun things to play.  Hmm...

Car news, I should probably be able to order my exhaust soon by my next paycheck (This Friday)  And I will also need some new rear tires.  It's just SO Hard not to get the rear end a little happy... I'm just addicted to the fishtailing!  That's why I want it to rain, so I can do that without much tire wear.  Those tires are $150 a pop!

My dog Molly won't quit biting, she's a teething little mofo.  Gotta get her trained on that!

Nothing else to report really! OHHH!! The guy down the street got TP'd like all hell... check it out... Took these early in the morn' at around 7:50am... I was 5min late to work, but it was worth it.

AAaaand a quick little reflection shot with the crappy cell phone camera.

Mmmk... Had a great night last night... besides work.    

Lately everyone's been keeping tabs on me, even the people that aren't above me in leadership.  I'm getting pissed.  Always telling me to make sure to do this, and ask "How's that coming along" as if I had forgotten about it and am just standing reading a magazine or outside smoking a doobie... (Don't worry, Troy is drug free, the only way to be)    ----   I mean I've been working there for 10 months, and they act as if I don't know what to do... and why?  I'll tell you why, it's because of this bitch Alicia.  SUPPOSEDLY I gave off the vibe that I thought I was better than her.  I've been hearing what she has been saying, like "Oh Troy thinks he's so much better than me just because he is in Electronics now"  and stuff like that... Yep, didn't even say one word about me being "better".   I've heard that from others though, they all think she sucks at her job.  

I'm gonna have a chat with one of my managers about this, it just sucks.  Oh that whore is going DOWN!!!

So anyways, aftewards I met up with Aud and Colette... sat in front of megan's house for a while, and then decided to meet up with some friends at 39th.  Well I believe that was an awesome idea.... it was awesome.  JeeD rode in my car and we had some good races.  I mainly raced Carey (hope that's how you spell it) -- He has a blue RSX-S with intake and exhaust.  Good races, beat him every time, although it's not really a very fair race, even if my car is bone stock.  Raced Paul Kernan in his '02 WRX... races were good from a roll, about even.  From a stop, he got me off the line (AWD) but then I passed him.  Both races he gave some excuse about him not able to shift into 3rd.  This was later proven when Carey drove his car and shifted it just fine...  Oh well.... we'll have another race sometime!

JeeD has decided he's gonna run his 1996 Nissan Pickup against a very crappy Honda CRX... that oughta be a good race.    Off to work now, c-ya later... I'm arriving with fury!