RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) what other hobbies do u guys enjoy mine are guns/shooting , dirtbikes , drag racing , desert racing , land speed racing , and all around perfomance engine work yesterday and this is my baby 737 hp at the tire on the street tune hope to make boneville with it this year, im also building 2x turbo charged bikes , one is a street legal honda xl250r , the other is a street type bike with a 250 cc chinesse engine that i plan to run at Bonneville this year to try to break the current record of 123mph in the class im building for http://i.imgur.com/XoIN2mp.jpg heres the honda in mockup stages hoping i can get it and the other bike in time for Bonneville , the honda should go about 175 ,and the chinesse motored bike should go just fast enough to take the record in that class heres a peak under the hood of my car ( 352ci sbc only thing stock is the block) and has a 76mm turbo hanging off the front for the street and an 80mm for the trackhttp://i.imgur.com/OorwB6p.jpg and my last hobby is bitcoin mining ( this also pays for all my other hobbys ) http://i.imgur.com/19C7G95.jpg so theres a bunch of mine what do u guys do Edited July 31, 2017 by RiderX 1
dynomike1 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Just bought me a 74 Nova Friday, going to build another street rod. I thought about putting an LS3 in it but i think i am going to stay close to original. 1
RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Author Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) Just bought me a 74 Nova Friday, going to build another street rod. I thought about putting an LS3 in it but i think i am going to stay close to original.very nice the ls series is a great motor , but to me they lack that sound of the gen 1 sbc , if u wanna do something cheap and cool i can give u all the info u need on the gm 2.8/3.1/3.4 60* v6 engines , as this is my specialty this car runs 10.60-10.90's now with a 3.1L v6 all stock except for cam , everything else is off the shelf parts except the head studs , u can get a complete motor for roughly 200-400$ , another 800$ in parts and it will haul ,, oh yeah still knocks down over 30mpg in a 3,300 pound car they also sound really good , almost like an exotic heres one from the launch side i cant wait to actually build another to put in an s10 pickuphttp://i.imgur.com/Rdv6tAC.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/NCCtBgs.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/yf6AllN.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/PRezpWb.jpg Edited July 31, 2017 by RiderX 1
PeteyPyro Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Got back from a hog cull. Working on the '65 Chevelle SS upholstery too. Waiting for some extruded charcoal stars to dry too. Busier in "retirement' than I thought. I guess pyros have many varied interests. Maybe just born curious about things in general... how stuff works. 1
RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Author Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) very nice, we dont have hogs or pigs here but we have millions of jack rabbits , coyotes , and my personal fav caus ei can eat them is antelope , alf-alfa fed antelop tastes really good , just really hard to get close to them on the farm to shoot them , this one was between 550-600 yard shot, dropped it with a 7mm rem mag we get roughly 12-15 depravation tags a year and it kinda sucks cause noone will take them to eat , and we dont have a choice but to shoot them cause the y do alot of damage to the crops we have a heard of 33 on the farm right now but cant start shooting them till august 1st http://i.imgur.com/JpFaZ9m.jpg heres a turbo kit i did on a 3.4L v6 even kept the ac http://i.imgur.com/aPYSwCG.jpg Edited July 31, 2017 by RiderX 1
PeteyPyro Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 RiderX, what general area are you located? Nice dinner you have ready to field dress on the engine hoist. Isnt August 1st soon? Need any help with those antelope? I don't see those here in Florida.
RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Author Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) RiderX, what general area are you located? Nice dinner you have ready to field dress on the engine hoist. Isnt August 1st soon? Need any help with those antelope? I don't see those here in Florida.just south of central utah , and yup tuesday = bad time to be an antelope lol, We have tried to actually get ppl to come out and help witht he antelope but no one wants them ppl have offered to come out and shoot them but we would rather just do it ourselves so the dont go trampling our crops just to shoot one for fun., The church wont even take them to give out because of the liability last year i took one , my buddy took one and his brother in law took one , so far this year just me and my buddy each want one to eat , id take more but i dont have enough storage Edited July 31, 2017 by RiderX 1
PeteyPyro Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Aww...RiderX, wish I was there. I smoked the brown hog at our 4th of July party, saving the black piggy on ice, until labor day. We waste little here, except the tail & cloven hooves <grin>. I tread lightly anyway :;:;:;:;:;: 1
OldMarine Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Hmm.. just realized most of my other hobbies are food related: Hunting, fishing, gardening and cooking. My only other non-food hobby is rock collecting.
RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Author Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) this is why i have my screen name that i do lol theres 4 more that arent in the picture Most expensive hobby ever!!!! ( dont by motocross bikes repairs are costly atleast on the 4 strokes ) http://i.imgur.com/KnKusyi.jpg Edited July 31, 2017 by RiderX
dynomike1 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 (edited) Here is the car my grandson is running now. Alcohol burner set at 87 mph. PP i wished you hadn't said anything about a chevelle, now i got to start kicking my ass again for selling mine.Pretty impressive for a camero.. Edited July 31, 2017 by dynomike1 1
PeteyPyro Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 DM, that's a nice 'rail' that your grandson get to run! Mine is just learning to drive at 16. Oh, to be young again.
nater Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 My other hobbies are mountain biking and I have been getting into RC aircraft as it is something I can build indoors. 1
dynomike1 Posted July 31, 2017 Posted July 31, 2017 Where did you get the turbo? There not cheap around here.
RiderX Posted July 31, 2017 Author Posted July 31, 2017 Where did you get the turbo? There not cheap around here.ebay , there are very good ebay turbos and there are junk ones , i can point u to the good ones if u ever need , the turbo on my v6 car was 129$ shipped , the 76mm on my z-28 was 300$ nut i also have a 675$ borg warner turbo for the camaro for the track to push it up over 1,000 hp at the tire ive been using ebay turbos for about 12 years now and only had 1 failure and it was my fault for not checking the oil line on install
taiwanluthiers Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 I do gunsmithing... I made my own Remington 700 actions. One working, another one is complete, while I inlet existing stocks to fit them. The working one I did without any broaching at all (I used end mills to get the raceway close, then file until it fits) while the other I had someone EDM them out. The EDM option is very expensive though... 1
RiderX Posted August 2, 2017 Author Posted August 2, 2017 I do gunsmithing... I made my own Remington 700 actions. One working, another one is complete, while I inlet existing stocks to fit them. The working one I did without any broaching at all (I used end mills to get the raceway close, then file until it fits) while the other I had someone EDM them out. The EDM option is very expensive though... 001.JPG001.JPG001.JPG nice work , closest ill get to something like that , is when i mill my 80% lower to put my 50 bmg upper on , which isnt near as hard as what ur doing lol
taiwanluthiers Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 Well, the good news is nothing blew up yet. The 30-06 rifle (my first action) actually shoots a decent group. Considering how Khyber Pass they are, it's remarkably accurate. I plan on getting a lathe which will allow me to do better as far as completing an action and modifying existing barrels to fit the custom action. Milling 4140 steel really taxes the crap out of my mill and puts my skills to the test. Both actions were completed without a lathe. By the way about bitcoin mining, how exactly does it work, and does it even profit at all? I notice you need a bunch of those little "computers" to mine, and each cost between 400-2000 dollars. What else do you need, a dedicated motherboard for each mining devices?
RiderX Posted August 2, 2017 Author Posted August 2, 2017 By the way about bitcoin mining, how exactly does it work, and does it even profit at all? I notice you need a bunch of those little "computers" to mine, and each cost between 400-2000 dollars. What else do you need, a dedicated motherboard for each mining devices?u dont need many machines necessarily it all depends on how much u wanna make the most important thing u need to make money at mining bitcoins is cheap power i pay just under 4 cents per kwh , so lets take the bitmain s9 miner for an example since its the most efficiant miner out there bitmain s9 cost = 1200$ as of right now the s9 will make you =12$ per day which = 100 days to get ur 1,200$ back but now we need to figure pout the cost per day to run the thing at 4 cents per kwh cost per day = 1.34 so 12$ - 1.34 = 10.66 cents it makes a day = 112.5 days to get ur money back before it turns a profit at 10 cents per kwh ( which is the usa's avg power cost)it costs 3.36 per day to run so 12.00 - 3.36 = 8.64 per daywhich now means it will take 132.88 days to make ur intial money back before it makes a profit alls the machines need is power and internet to run , they have built in controllers and have no need to be hooked to a computer , each machine has its own webpage u can goto over ur lan to configure and check stats on each machine thats just a quick basic rundown
taiwanluthiers Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 It also sounds like we're assuming the relatively high exchange rate with bitcoins... which honestly has seen some serious bubbles. I have my doubts honestly because I could spend thousands on mining hardware and BOOM, bitcoin value drops like a stone. It just seems like a gamble sometimes (may have better luck in Vegas)
RiderX Posted August 2, 2017 Author Posted August 2, 2017 (edited) It also sounds like we're assuming the relatively high exchange rate with bitcoins... which honestly has seen some serious bubbles. I have my doubts honestly because I could spend thousands on mining hardware and BOOM, bitcoin value drops like a stone. It just seems like a gamble sometimes (may have better luck in Vegas)i used the current exchange rate when i wrote that . expect bitcoing to go from 2,800$ to 3,300$ in the next 2-3 weeks there is no bubble , price must climb along with the difficulty increases to keep mining going/profitable , we the miners set the price not the market like everyone thinks price drops come from when ppl who invest a large amount of money into bitcoin decide to cash out and take there profit , also when big companys like bitmain sell a few thousand pieces of hardware and makes 1-2 million in bitcoins form the sales and sell the oins this also causes the drops, but it has always rebounded ust recently we went form 2,850$ to 2,300$ smart ppl held onto there coins and waited for the rebound before selling. paniced ppl sold at 2,300$ and lost there money ive been doing this for a long time now with bitcoin#2 rule with bitcoin dont invest or spend more then u can afford to loose , it is a gamble but its proven to be a pretty safe one Edited August 2, 2017 by RiderX
taiwanluthiers Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 (edited) I'm bored.. so I decided to play a record No good records were harmed (the record in question was some POS hip pop I found on the street) Edited August 2, 2017 by taiwanluthiers 1
PeteyPyro Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 Nice one, taiwanluthiers. It seems a lot of us like firearms and the related gunsmithing/reloading too. BTW, what stylus did you use? (I store my termite on top of my disco LPs✴)
PeteyPyro Posted August 2, 2017 Posted August 2, 2017 Petey P What kind of tomatoes are you raising?Mike, I'm raising heirlooms organically. Roma for sauce and Beefsteak for eating. I use the greenhouse in the winter for them. The greenhouse comes in handy for drying certain things (BP and non-photochemically sensitive comps) in the summer.
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