- 11:07 AM, Tuesday,
October 29th, 2019:
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- Longest week.
Craziest luck. Just holy shit. I can finally take a
few fucking moments to write this out.
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- So I get up
super early on 10/23 in San Fran to tow the Time
Machine back to LA for a Marty package at noon.
They're early and are there the fucking moment
I show up. I don't even get a chance to go
into my house to take a shit. Like, I pull the
car off the flatbed and BOOM there they are.
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- We do the Marty
package and it's pretty clear my transmission issue
that I've been baby-ing for 3 months is getting worse.
I know I have to replace the transmission but
when the fuck do I have time to do this until I
have to? You have to
TAKE OUT THE ENGINE for fuck's
sake. I've got like 15 gigs this month fuckouttahere.
As I'm pulling off the highway to return home AFTER
the package I go to put it in gear and there is
no longer a gear to put it in. LMAO. Like, what a
weird feeling. You put it in gear, take off the clutch
and it's like you're still in neutral. Creepy. So I
pull over and the poor asian lady who knows hardly any
english just says "Ok? Ok?".
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- Not OK. That would
be it. And that ladies and gentleman is how close we
were to breaking the streak of gigs without missing
one. It was almost #467 but the car broke down after
the package was over, so whew. Of course I have a
gig THAT FUCKING NIGHT and Ray is
LITERALLY IN THE AIR flying here while
I'm broken down on the side of the road. Which, in
fact, is the luckiest break of all: a mechanic who is
staying with me for 5 days. So I throw him $500 and
say "let's DO THIS SHIT."
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- I tow it to
the gig and we spend the entire next day working on
the car. In fact, here's the video...
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- Left out of that
is that the only reason we even attempted to just take
out the differential and not replace the entire
transmission was because Nicholas Roedl (original
horsepower king from Fastest Delorean) posted my
predicament on the LS swap page and Josh Schattenkirk
(also at the end of Fastest Delorean) said you could
take out the differential without removing the
transmission. Holy shit. And as you saw in the video
that was indeed the issue and we got so goddamn lucky
at the Porsche place. I mean... insanely lucky.
Probably the biggest Porsche part place in the
country, happens to be 4 miles from my house... has
ONE FUCKING DIFFERENTIAL in the scrap big
that matches mine and it's in great condition. I don't
find that? We're spending $3000 and pulling the
engine. Instead? $100 and we do it in a day. Wow.
Just, wow. If you're gonna be unlucky with a car, it
pays to be lucky with parts. LMAO.
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- Of course then we
have a gig the NEXT night and then the
NEXT night. Finaly relaxing on Sunday only to
find out yesterday, ready for this? The rocker arm
that broke in Fastest Delorean? Same valve ended up
breaking the spring and unscrewing the rocker arm. We
called Texas Speed and they were abslutely befuddled
as to how that's even possible and how more damage
wasn't done. I now have to take the entire head to a
machine shop (at some point) and put the new spring in
and honestly? It will probably fail again. Don't
believe it's a coincidence that 1 of the 16 valves
broke twice. Something is off in that cylinder and I
don't have the time to figure out what that is.
I just keep driving it until it breaks
again.
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- Because this car
is a complete piece of shit and that's just what you
do. Put a band-aid on it and keep going. Fuck. We
should just take dibs on wht the gig # will be that
I finally lose my streak because it's completely
out of my control. Crazy.
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- So there you have
it. What a breakdown. Thank you for all the help, Ray.
And the adventure continues...
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- Adam
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