the yellow top...

so i picked up the yellow top battery yesterday from pann. when i got home i opened it up and put it in my car. and it looked like the same issue i had with Jon's battery. the terminals wouldnt reach. i would have to turn the battery around and flop the connectors. i didn't want to mess around with the connectors so i called one of the guy's from the shop and let him know my situation. he told me that he would look at it the following day, which is today.

so i went to the shop today to get it looked at. brad was occupied with another vehicle so keith helped me out. he did his thang and made it work out. so now im rockin a brand new optima yellow top battery! bring on the car audio stuff!

borrowing battery

i had to call into work and tell them my car situation. i sent my friend joaquin a txt and let him know whats up. so pretty much my day was shot in terms of working... no 8 hour work day for me, which means no money.... oh well.

so today i called pann auto and placed an order for a yellow top battery. thanh told me they were able to get it that day... but found out that there driver wasn't in today. so they weren't able to get it for me today. so i had to figure out how to get to work the next day and to pick up the battery.... i went down my phone list and called people. Jon, an MR2 owner said he had one. i went to his pad and picked it up. when i got home to put the battery on, the terminals were weirdly placed. i couldnt reach the terminals with my connectors. i was thinkin that the battery were made specially for boats. so i wasn't able to use that battery.

i called a few more people and had no luck... so i tried one last person. David with the red evo 9, who i met at a s2000 meet. he was at dustin's (silver evo) house working on his car. he told me that dustin has a battery i can borrow. but i need to drive up to escondido. so i decided to make the trip there. i took the echo and made the 40 min trip.

i got home and installed the battery and it works...

battery is dead...

another issue has come up on my road to going twin turbo. last night i decided to go out and get gas for my car so i wouldn't have to worry about it before i go to work in the morning. little did i know that my car wouldn't start. the little beeping sound was faint sounding and the warning lights were dim. i knew there was an issue right away. so i opened the hood and made sure all the fuses alright. so i txted my friend and told him my battery was pretty much shot. my dad suggested that we jump start the car, which didn't work. so when jarv arrived from sherilyn's place he helped us pushed my car into the drive way. i didn't want to leave my car parked on the side walk.

today i have to look for a battery. i talked to several of my friend's online and they told me just to go with the optima yellow top battery. i looked at the optima website and noticed that it was good for car audio and other gadgets. seems like im going optima. good thing this issue came up before i went turbo. i didn't want to worry about the battery dying down the road.

the email...

yesterday when i got home from the shop i got an interesting email from Yuki (the guy selling me the 2jzgte motor). anyways it says

>>"Hi JOEL

>>DO YOU REALY NEED ENGINE?

>>

>>I HAVE A CUSTOMER WHO HAS INTERESTING TO GET WITH 5SP

>>

>>PLS. UNDERSTAND I COULD NOT HOLD ENGINE FOR U WHITHOUT DEPOSIT

>>NOT MUCH TIME"

that email immediately caught my attention. i replied to his email and told him that yes I'm interested in the motor. i was slacking off and didn't send him the deposit for the motor. so i took my check book wrote down the amount and fill out the envelope and ran to the mail box (like that will speed things faster). i emailed him again and told him that the check is in the mail. i called him a few times but he didn't pick up.

so today i called him this morning and told him my situation. he said the guy who was interested in it wanted to drop it in a Toyota Cressida. But i told him that i will pick up the motor on the 9th of June (saturday). he was cool about it. the motor seems like its locked in for now.

tired of the springs...

it's been over a year now since i got my lowering springs installed. at first i was glad to see that the front was gone. but for some reason my car looks really slammed in the front and not as lowered on the rear. they are suppose to the drop the car 1.25 but it looks a bit uneven. i tried to get the car aligned and everything and it wasn't perfect. i scrap a lot if i dont slow down on the bumps and my tires seem to wear out more often. so im plannin on going back to my stock spring set up. i'll probably sell my springs on supraforums and use that money for my swap....