Stripper party at CarCar's

I know I live wtf out in the sticks about 3.5 hours from North Dallas but I could really use the help of 1 or 2 to help strip the red raccoon magnet (CarCar) on a Saturday. I now have a green '99. My daughters won the vote and have named it Tinkerbell. The parts will go on it later but, I am hoping to have it ready by spring so I can do HPDE's.

Volunteers for fellowship would be great but I know it's unrealistic due to the distance, potential bloody knuckles, and I can come off as a gasbag at times. So, what I can offer is overnight lodging at our humble home, 16 oz, 7/8" thick Black Angus rib eye dry rubbed with spices then flame grilled outside over mesquite wood, roasted veggies, Mexican beans, Shiners or good German wines. Or if you rather we could jump in the Miatas and drive 30 min to historic Jefferson the scenic, curvy way and park off the square and I will buy you dinner and the first 2 rounds at a fun restaurant/bar that has live entertainment at night. Or I could just pay you what you think is fair (agreed upon before hand) but that is not as fun.

I have 3 kids, 2 daughters ages 5 and 7, 1 son age 9. If you have kids bring 'em along for a play date with mine. I live on 80 acres of woods and open pastures so plenty of room for play and adventure. I have a lovely bride. If you have a wife, girlfriend, mistress bring 'em along for girls' day out in Historic Jefferson's numerous antique, art, museum, and eatery offerings.

I have 2 air compressors and air tools. No tools are requested to be brought. CarCar is up on stands.

Parts to be stripped:
roll bar
sway bars
front sway bar bracket
coilovers
rear differential
tranny/clutch/flywheel
radiator
intercooler
supercharger
exhaust/midpipe/header

PM me please

I would but I am on call this weekend and backup oncall next weekend. Means I can't leave the metromess for any length of time.

PM Sent.

Sounds tempting, especially since my:queen: has indicated a desire to visit Jefferson on more than one occasion, but this weekend I'm still overwhelmed with storm cleanup duty. If there's time left over I'll probably be doing fluids/filters/plugs change on the "new" Escape.

I understand for tomorrow it's too short notice. Next weekend I go oncall. Following weekend of Friday 3/5/10 good to start? I just want to give anyone interested a little time to plan and the kids time to clean their rooms. I am good for tommow though if anyone else is. Since I 'm begging I'm not being choosey

I might be able to come out in March.

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Originally Posted by Nails

I might be able to come out in March.

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Would love to have you

I'll be going off oncall Friday 3/5 at 5:00pm in Tyler so I could hook up with anybody somewhere around I20 and Tyler and lead/ follow me to the homestead or just give you directions. 2 hours 15 minutes from Tyler to home.

That first weekend in March might work for me, but this weekend is out for sure.

By gosh I love the Miata community. I really thought I would be hearing crickets. You guys are great.
The other week I was sitting at the office late at night waiting oncall and somebody knocked on the door. Being not in the best part of town I all most crapped mypants. I peeked out a window and saw a 10AE hardtop parked by my green '99! A petroleum engineer from a few blocks down wanted to meet me because he had seen my red raccoon magnet parked out front previously and noticed the new green '99. We talked for over an hour and he told me it was his first Miata and he had it only a few days. It only has 35k miles on it and it's sweet.
Not too long ago I was coming back into Longview from Tyler oncall and pulled into the TacoCasa and had a guy in a purple 95M hard top pull in behind me beeping his horn. He was a mining engineer from a local university and told me he saw my red Miata with a real roll bar not a style bar and knew I must be an enthusiast and had to meet me. We talked over an hour and it really made my being oncall enjoyable that night.
That stuff never has happened to me when I have driven any of the numerous other cars I have owned. Just too cool.

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Originally Posted by CarCar

By gosh I love the Miata community. I really thought I would be hearing crickets. You guys are great.

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You don't suppose mentioning steaks and strippers had anything to do with it, do ya?;)

Weekend of Saturday 3/6/10. Wife is excited and will give us time to clean our rooms and give the kids baths.

I will be there on the 6th, likely arriving between 10 and 11.

I can make myself available next weekend and would be more than happy to not bring any tools. :) Will shoot a PM your way when I get back to town tomorrow.

edit: turns out I have family coming in from AZ, so I won't be available after all. Sorry.

I was able to get the ragtop, exhaust, and midpipe off. Disassembled the trunk and have the rear coilover mounting nuts removed. Had 4 bolts remaining to get the roll bar out and had to stop due to rain. Looking over things I am thinking it will be easier to leave the rear axle subassembly together, release the brake lines and cables, disconnect the driveshaft, and drop the whole assembly by removing 6 nuts holding it to the chasis. For a noon to about 5:30 Saturday, dropping the rear and, dropping the tranny would be a pretty full day I would think. If we can get those done with enough time left the only other thing that would be nice to get done with help is removing the front coilovers, sway bar, and brace. Somebody on each side could make quick work of those. I may be thinking to ambitiously and don't want to scare off my help...What ever can get done without getting hurt or just wore out I will be grateful for. The underhood, over the car stuff is more the one person, tedious stuff I can get. Finishing up at 5:30 should leave enough daylight to grill up and clean up? I may actually be more excited about just having some Miata people out at the house for meat grillin, beer swillin, or just plain chillin.

saturdays are out for me, but if the stripping is still going on on sunday I'll be more than happy to lend another hand

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Originally Posted by NC Eunos

saturdays are out for me, but if the stripping is still going on on sunday I'll be more than happy to lend another hand

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I will be more than happy to have your help Sunday. Just send me a PM and I will have another steak cut.

I'm going to be there. Anyone else going besides Titus? Any cool twisties to recommend?


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Originally Posted by Nails

I'm going to be there. Anyone else going besides Titus? Any cool twisties to recommend?


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If you decide to spend the night I can give you a twistie route for the way home that will make you turn around and come back just so you can do it again.

Really looking forward to having people out this weekend. drive safe on the way up.

Hopefully that twisty route comes, Sans racoon. ;)

Well that was a blast. Everyone missed out on a great weekend. Nails and I enjoyed many a twisty road along the way, met CarCar and his family, stripped some parts, drank some beer, stripped some more parts, drank some more beer, ate burgers, drank some more beer, stripped some more parts, drank some more beer, stripped some more parts, ate some great steaks, drank some more beer, and then passed out.

This morning, CarCar's beautiful wife made us a great breakfast while CarCar put together a route of twisties for our ride home. It managed to stay dry out during the good parts, only raining once we hit the interstate. Good times!

We saw lots of squashed skunks but no raccoons. We pulled the roll bar, rear end sub assembly, drive shaft, transmission, front coil overs, front sway, header, and supercharger and we only lost one nut. The biggest "problem" for us was trying to find the fifth screw that held the console in place. The window switches pop out to reveal it. Was a great time and a beautiful place. Carcar's house sits on 80 acres with only one house in sight at least a quarter mile away. I look forward to the next tech party there. Thanks for the hospitality Carcar and Mrs. Carcar!

That was one of the funnest weekends I can remember. Huge thank yous' to Titus and Nails for everything. I really enjoyed the sleep over too and am happy you did not mind the pink horsey bedding. I can not believe how much got done despite my helping.

Rollbar - out
Entire rear axle sub assembly - out
Transmission - out
Header - out
Supercharger - out
sway bars - out
sway bar brace and brackets - out
front coilovers - out
12 pack of Miller - out
12 pack of Shiner - out
2 bottles of Reisling - out
3 pounds ribeyes - out

Why am I cradling the impact like a baby in that pic and why do you guys look so interested?


And I used the camo sheets thank you very much!