100 Day Challenge: Day 22
This one is a lot later than I've posted the last three, but the good news is that the video will hopefully look better without the natural light flooding in through the kitchen.
I realized after I finished recording that I started talking about a big win and then got sidetracked and never finished with what the win was. So here it is: I spent 300 miles in the driver seat of my future Mustang while I was going back and forth across the state. It was really great to get behind the wheel of a stick shift, even better was that this one has some get up and go. Yes, it's got a V-6 but a friend was telling me that that generation had around 180 horsepower from the factory. (Go figure there's almost no restriction on the factory air intake and it pulls it from the fender well. It's also got distributor-less ignition and to top it off headers from the factory. The upper and lower intake plenum look a lot different than the previous generation (the runners look shorter). All in all the engine is pretty free-revving. Although it will be more so when I get a hold of it.
I found a coil pack upgrade, the site selling them said they bolted it on and it dropped .33 of it's quarter mile time. Hell if it does half that, imagine what it will do for fuel economy. I also found a Fuel Injection Performance Kit from Summit Racing. It's the K&N Kit without the K&N logo on it. It'll save me $40 bucks over going with the version with the logo. From there, I'm not sure what else I'll do. Probably go with a FlowMaster dual exhaust system, maybe some ceramic coated headers, and a computer upgrade. Hit might be better to go with the computer first but I'll have to do some more research on it.
Oh yeah, I also got registered for classes for next semester. As well I seem to have hit an understanding with Algebra, suddenly it's making a lot more sense. So that's helping with my math class and being able to move on. On the registration side, I'm actually signed up for two math classes. Math 1050 (Actual college level Algebra) and Math 1060 (Trig). I'm also signed up to take Japanese 1020 again. I'm still debating about Japanese, I may put it off taking it again until next year. By then I should have my 1000 level classes out of the way and from what I've been told 1000 level courses are generally the hardest because the professors are told to make the fresh-out-of-high-schoolers sweat. Nevermind those of us who have to work while we're there.
With that said I found a new respect for what my dad did while he was going to school. He worked 50 hours a week driving shuttle at the meet packing plant, went to school full time, and still managed to find some time to juggle a wife and five kids in there!
Well with that all said, I'm feeling a lot better than I was when I recorded my update. Now I need to go crawl into bed.
Everyone make it a great one!