[Scott Shumaker]

While showing my boys the other day how the lights worked, they started asking me to do a burnout. So, after refusing for a little while, I finally relented and told them I would. The boys(ages 12, 9, and 5) started jumping up and down with excitement. So, being the good dad, I fired the car up, warmed it up good, and proceeded to do a good burnout in my garage. Unknowing to me, my taillight assemblys fell out when I did this, so when I backed it up I ran over them and crushed 'em. Am I a dumb [email protected]#t or what??? Anybody else done something stupid like this? IT WAS STILL WORTH IT JUST TO SEE THE SMILES ON THEIR FACES!!!
Scott

 

[mikiec]

Well,
At least the kids won't ask for a burnout after this......

Mike

 

[Horizon200]

You mean like laying under the donor and saying to yourself man I'm in a bad position if this H-pipe falls...all as you continue turning the last bolt holding it in?! Oh by the way...It fell! Right into my mouth! Had a fat lip for a week!

 

[teamfour]

I forgot to attach the speedo cable to the speedometer. When I backed the car up, I ran over the end of the cable and ripped it out of the tranny.

 

[Jcolman]

I did see a certain person, who works for a certain kit car company, do a burn out in a BB car leaving about 50'of rubber, lose it, hit the curb, bounce over the curb, narrowly miss a couple of rocks and come to rest in the dirt. No damage to the car, just to the pride.

As for me, does exiting turn one and four at Gateway international while traveling backwards count??

Cheers
Jim

[ December 23, 2002, 02:03 PM: Message edited by: Jcolman ]

 

[Jack ffr1846]

Since I have not seen posts about this in a while...just a word of caution to those building and looking forward to the first cruise in the driveway with the body on. The hood will lift and fly just as you realise that it's not fastened in place. I've yet to hear of anyone being hurt by a flying hood, but have seen telltale dammage....even on finished cars. (front corner of hood dammage). Been there, lucky it was still in Gel Coat.

 

[Aaron Silidker]

I didnt bolt the wheel on and went for a go kart ride, you can figure out the rest.

I drilled a hole in my finger while putting the fan in. It was not fun at all.
I used a pepsi bottle as a temporary overflow bottle and it blew right off covering the car in water.

 

[Richard Oben]

This is easy. WE ALL HAVE. I think I do something stupid on every car we build. Just something little but dumb none the less. Cheers Richard.

 

[Daytona]

That is too funny, I forgot to pin the hood. Heard a couple of squeaks, then gone. Took all the chrome off the hood handles.

 

[Frank n Sons]

Are you kidding? I don't have enough time to post all the stupidity I've done this week!

However, my favorite may be the time I was die grinding some steel piece on the bench right over the open gas tank filler. Yup, you guessed it, up to my ass in flames. Set the gas tank, of all things, on fire. Kart was on jackstands and I could not even push it out of the garage. If it wasn't for a fire extinguisher mounted on the wall of the garage, I would have lost the car and most likely the entire house. The hair on my legs has grown back nicely since, thank you. I now have two extinguishers in the car. Two big ones mounted at opposite ends of the garage, one just inside the laundry room door into the garage and one in the kitchen. (I actually set it one fire again by crossing some wires, but that is another story).

Frank n Sons.

 

[Horizon200]

heheheh Frank also keeps a fully loaded Marshmallow skewer on his workbench and kitchen counter!

 

[GregR]

Stupid is just a matter of perspective.

After my first gocart ride (no seats, no side pipes, no back aluminum, wide open and shifting like a mad man) I pulled back into my garage to see my wife standing there yelling "Are you f***ing stupid?" I couldn't do anything but smile and laugh. To her it was stupid, to me it was just too cool.

Greg

 

[baumann]

Originally posted by Aaron SIlidker:
I drilled a hole in my finger while putting the fan in.

How about through? Left index finger - right at the middle knuckle from the side, dead center. Saw the bit go in, swore it went right into the knuckle itself. Then, hey, that didn't hurt too bad. Went in, bandaged the finger, went back out to the garage to finish putting the fan in. Dang, where's all this blood coming from? Not bleeding through the bandage... oh.. the hole on the *other* side of the finger. Off to urgent care. Somehow I managed to pass behind all the tendons and nerves and in front of the bone/knuckle with minimum damage to either. Doc just shook his head.

 

[Dior55]

My crate engine came with a flexplate. When I switched to a McLeod flywheel, I of course bought new ARP flywheel bolts because the flexplate bolts were woefully too short. After installing and torquing up the ARP's, I then installed the clutch/pp, scattershield, TKO, etc. and installed the engine. Wired it up, installed fuel, etc etc.

Went to turn her over for her first test, and my brand new crate engine was FROZEN!!!!! Nothing would turn it over, not even a giant breaker bar on the front pulley. Pulled the plugs and nada.

Eventually started ripping everything out of the car. Of course, I'm "throwing up" during this entire episode, thinking all the worst thoughts and how much $$$$ I'll be spending to get out of this mess. To make a LONG ordeal short, yup, you got it. My ARP's were about 1 mm too long, and when I torqued them up, I never even gave it a second thought. The ARP's were rubbing up against the back of the engine block. Had I spent 2 minutes turning the engine over BEFORE even installing the clutch I would have saved myself about 2 weeks of hard work and untold hours of nervous wrangling.

 

[Frank n Sons]

Goodness, I love reading this stuff.

Frank n Sons.

 

[jleas524]

Oh Boy... the things I have to look forward to...

 

[Go Hard or Go Home]

Originally posted by Frank n Sons:
Goodness, I love reading this stuff.

Frank n Sons.

It is fun to read some of this stuff, but I hate reading it. I am doomed to do every one of them just because it will be stuck in my subconsious. You would think it would help me not do them, but no for some reason I seem to forget until its to late.

 

[jvoight]

Stupid..... That’s my middle name.... Was so excited about my new T-5 I dragged the dam thing right over my big toe.... Took the nail right off.... Ouch...

Kind of like getting a MAP gas torch after finishing stripping down my donor parts.... Or installing my rear-end only to say, ya I am gunna pull it to change the gears later (lost a month of good driving weather this summer)....
This list would never end if I liked typing....

 

[Steve Dunkel]

After redoing my whole fuel system I couldn't fill up at the pumps! They would put the nozzle in and the pump would just shut off! Vapor lock? No it turned out to be the rag that I left in the fill nozzle when I removed the gas tank.

 

[JerryH]

I hated to admit it to the guys at work but had to explain the knot on my forehead, figured may as well tell the truth. I was using the drill with a buffing pad on the aluminum panels. Had it laying on the workbench with the cord plugged into the wall just behind the bench. Got a little too close to the cord with the buffing pad. Pulled the cord out, wrapped around the drill and the end smacked me square in the forehead. Actually buckled my knees and had me dazed for a little while. They still bring it up at work. It's been over a year now.