How to build a SEMA car in 20 days: Batlground Diary

[mikespeed95]

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mikespeed95, redGT, Tracy, ballistic08, ICUH8N, siegelracing

dan quit loggint in as tracy!!

scott its past your bed time!

were going over the misssissippi river!!!!!!!!!!


this post occurred in TWO different states!!

how about them apples!

exclamation point!!

[mikespeed95]

wow this page is 26 pages.






















































lets take it to the limit one more time!!!














its the final count down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11




























































































































green acres is the place for me.

[speedminded]

wow this page is 26 pages.

lets take it to the limit one more time!!!

its the final count down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

green acres is the place for me.Does the rig have nitrous or propane injection? I think he's lost it, you might wanna check for leaks... :tongue:

[jimmycricket]

I really want to see pics of the final product, and I'm seriously taking my car up to BG for you guys to get me one of those custom exhausts, but in a 3.5" :)

[BTLFED]

Mike, that was real nice of you to say! We appreciate ya ;) That 2 week trip that the staff will all take to Jamaica on Batlground's dime in December will hopefully make up for this :D We work hard as a team...we party hard as a team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would also like to thank everyone who came in and out of here for the past couple of weeks. I will say some names and I am sure I will forget some, but don't be mad. You know I love ya!!!! A few of these people have pulled all nighters for us. That's amazing and totally unexpected.

Thanks to:
Baller, Bucky, Brandon, Mike, Mike Peters, Scott Siegel, Kelby, Lee Ann (fawk you), Peter, Jason (speedminded), Kevin Keegan, Brady, Yousef, Justin (B@d @pple), Allen Chen....that's all I can think of for now besides the couple of people who I don't know that are friends with Scott and Jason.

Thanks to everyone who followed the build. Your support and excitement is awesome. We have a few offers for coverage of the car, so look for that announcement.

It's been a rough 20 days. It will all be worth it. This is what we live for. Go big or go home :D I think that's the right saying for this occasion.


P.S. we are trailering our own car. We get some compensation for gas and our hotels are taken care of.

I helped some too! :cry:

[speedminded]

I helped some too! :cry:When Tracy was there?

[Big Baller]

[B]Thanks to:
Baller.

Youre welcome

[BTLFED]

When Tracy was there?

I can't remember LOL!

It doesn't matter. I know Tracy loves me. :D

The car looked so bad ass I almost peed myself! Then I thought better of it and peed on Mike instead. :tongue1:

[Tracy]

Thanks Ellingwood pie!

I drove from 4:30pm until 10 am. I want to die!

[BTLFED]

Thanks Ellingwood pie!

I drove from 4:30pm until 10 am. I want to die!

You can't die! I won't let you! :cry:

[Tracy]

Wow. Just saw the final pic that speedmided took. PHUCKING AMAZING!

[v-empire]

tracy, drive safe.
come home soon.
woooo!

[Tracy]

AWWWWW thanks!!!!^^^^^ Pray for me to get my FD license, too please.

[Kevykev]

Must be a very good feeling to have people selflessly lend a helping hand!


Props to those who helped out!

[Tracy]

Must be a very good feeling to have people selflessly lend a helping hand!


Props to those who helped out!

It wasn't selfless. They got to hang out with the princess :crazy:

[Kevykev]

It wasn't selfless. They got to hang out with the princess :crazy:

Wow



- I retract my statement then!

[BTLFED]

It wasn't selfless. They got to hang out with the princess :crazy:

I only came over to hang out with Wrath. :ninja:

[Tracy]

I only came over to hang out with Wrath. :ninja:Like I said, the princess :D

I love how everyone was so awesome about not whoring up the thread until it was over :D VIVA IA! We put a big ass IA sticker back on the car, too.

[speedminded]

It wasn't selfless. They got to hang out with the princess :crazy:I'm pretty sure this is all i heard...

:blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :cussing: :smackass: :boxing: :cry: (<-- Dan) then more :cussing: then :burnout:


:tongue:

[Maniaç]

Looks like alot of hard work, im sure the finished product will look tight.

[Tracy]

I'm pretty sure this is all i heard...

:blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :cussing: :smackass: :boxing: :cry: (<-- Dan) then more :cussing: then :burnout:


:tongue:

Oh yea, definitely a lot of all that------->:blah: :blah: :blah: :blah: :cussing: :smackass: :boxing: :cry:

You got to see how the BG family really gets down when the going gets tough. We yell and scream and cry until it's beer time. Then it's all good.

[speedminded]

You got to see how the BG family really gets down when the going gets tough. We yell and scream and cry until it's beer time. Then it's all good.I have adoption papers! :D

sign here: X___________________

[ProjectWidow]

Congrats on finishing the car in time! Looks good. The color is sexy! ;)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f279/CarbonGS/11-18-06%20DF_Finals/df_finals43.jpg

[Tracy]

Congrats on finishing the car in time! Looks good. The color is sexy! ;)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f279/CarbonGS/11-18-06%20DF_Finals/df_finals43.jpg
Hey Gene! Long time.....



Good ole Ernie Manansala.

[ProjectWidow]

Hey Gene! Long time.....



Good ole Ernie Manansala.
Yeh it has been a long time!

Gotta love Ernie! Tell him I said What's up.

[Tracy]

I have adoption papers! :D

sign here: X___________________ The stress and hours (and my bossy attitude :D) have been known to make a few BG employee's pack up and leave. I try to run a tight ship since we are always so busy. Efficiency is always a must.

There was this one time...we were trying to get my Evo ready for IS. We stayed up for 3 days straight working on the car, in between on day 2 we drove to a wedding in TN and back (we stayed at the wedding for like 3 hours)....when we got back to ATL we all picked a customer car at the shop to sleep in for a few minutes before we got back to work...only to find out that the turbo was bad from the manny. We worked until it was too late. We didn't make it to that race. Baller was there.

Brandon is one of the most hardcore MFers I have come across. I think he has been with us for almost 6 years????? Poor baby. It takes a hard ass to stick around and do what we do.

[The Ren]

thats for sure.. I miss hanging out up there all the time.. I know you guys miss my annoying ass and my troublesome pos car

[v-empire]

well, you guys started a following. the other team (other competing thread)is building a Ninja Turtle in 2 days.
impressive...


and
i ve never seen you bossy.

[Tracy]

thats for sure.. I miss hanging out up there all the time.. I know you guys miss my annoying ass and my troublesome pos carI miss having a woman to b!tch and gossip with more :)


V-don't lie. I know you have been to DF.

[v-empire]

yes, but i dont think you were bossy.

i always either see you crying or smiling...:)

if you were bossy, well...
you were just doing your job.
if there is no one being bossy, **** doesnt get done and accidents happen.

plus, you look naughty in a race suit.

and i think the Ninja Turtle team has finished their build.

[Tracy]

yes, but i dont think you were bossy.

i always either see you crying or smiling...:)

if you were bossy, well...
you were just doing your job.
if there is no one being bossy, **** doesnt get done and accidents happen.

plus, you look naughty in a race suit.

and i think the Ninja Turtle team has finished their build.

I am very emotional...or passionate...whatever you like better :D

Thanks for understanding the **** doesn't get done part! Sometimes I feel like no one gets it.

[v-empire]

ok,

joking........

maybe you re just bossy!

xoxo

[Big Baller]

The stress and hours (and my bossy attitude :D) have been known to make a few BG employee's pack up and leave. I try to run a tight ship since we are always so busy. Efficiency is always a must.

There was this one time...we were trying to get my Evo ready for IS. We stayed up for 3 days straight working on the car, in between on day 2 we drove to a wedding in TN and back (we stayed at the wedding for like 3 hours)....when we got back to ATL we all picked a customer car at the shop to sleep in for a few minutes before we got back to work...only to find out that the turbo was bad from the manny. We worked until it was too late. We didn't make it to that race. Baller was there.

Brandon is one of the most hardcore MFers I have come across. I think he has been with us for almost 6 years????? Poor baby. It takes a hard ass to stick around and do what we do.


Brandon is the most hardcore MFer you know, I think he and I spent almost 48 hours straight at the shop trying to get Jeremys car done for Import Showdown one year. It takes both hands and a foot to count the number of times we have all pulled all nighters to make it somewhere and I can think of twice that we didn't make it.

Matt

[The Ren]

I miss having a woman to b!tch and gossip with more :)


V-don't lie. I know you have been to DF.

I do really miss those days we would shoot the **** and the fun drives in the old evo where we met the gt2 :D

[speedminded]

I do really miss those days we would shoot the **** and the fun drives in the old evo where we met the gt2 :DRumor has it Cleve's building a new car...don't know if i can say what it is though :ninja:

[The Ren]

So I heard.. he is the coolest dude though, and we had a blast that day

[Vteckidd]

Rumor has it Cleve's building a new car...don't know if i can say what it is though :ninja:
oooo oooo i KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!!

Brandon is the best tech evar! i seriously dont know what we would do without him.

[The Ren]

Hopefully I will have a reason to get up there soon..

[mikespeed95]

we're currently at exit 26 on i40 in new mexico. listening to dan drink rockstar, me typing, clicking, and aim'ing, and tracy watching longest yard.

theres a dennys to my right, a nothing to my left, and i dont have any dirt to dust off of my shoulder.

[The Ren]

is she watching the new one or the old one?

[civicmantim]

Looking good!!!!!!!!!

[gobraves00]

so whats the estimated time of arrival?

[Tracy]

Well....let me tell you my Friday story. We left the shop yesterday at 4:30 pm and we have been driving ever since (we have not stopped for a hotel). I drove the first 17 hours while only stopping for gas...I still have not slept and it's 11:00 pm. Our truck has been throwing a code for about 10 hours which has made us stop about every 2 hours. The truck is brand new but we cant find a Chevy dealership anywhere to help us (I think we are going to trade it in while we are out here). We are in the middle of the dessert and there is nothing out here to help us. We can't check into our hotel room until 3 pm tomorrow and all of the hotels for 3 hours around Vegas are sold out, so we will probably sleep in the truck tonight if we ever make it there.

That's the short version :)

P.S. I was watching Coach Carter.
P.P.S. I haven't showered in 4 days and I look and smell like a lot lizard with matted greasy hair.

[The Ren]

Damn girl...take it easy huh

[Tracy]

The good news, me and Dan only fought once today.

[The BUCKY]

lol really gonna trade the truck?

[Big Baller]

Tracy, call me if you need me to find you a hotel

[Tracy]

lol really gonna trade the truck?Seriously thinking about it. It has been nothing but trouble. One problem after the other. We have a week out here before our event in Laughlin, NV. We will prolly scope it out and see if we can get a deal.

[The BUCKY]

F650 yo

if you want i can prob get you a hook up on a 650 back here. not sure though

[Tracy]

F650 yo

if you want i can prob get you a hook up on a 650 back here. not sure thoughDude I want one BAD, but we can't tow with that...can we? The bed is too tall for the goose neck.

[Big Baller]

No rooms under 300 bucks anywhere. Everyone is booked, ohhhh hold on

[Tracy]

No rooms under 300 bucks anywhere. Everyone is booked, ohhhh hold onOh please, blonde Jesus....save us!!!

[Big Baller]

Nope you are ****ed my children....may chaos be with you

[Crazy Asian]

You can camp in the desert. Sure you wont be pampared but at least your sheltered unless Hills Have Eyes people start to raid you guys.\

4 Days of shower...pft try 1 month without shower and wearing the same boxer. OH HELL YA THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!

[gobraves00]

i dont know how you can do all that driving, im good for a couple hours and i start getting tired

[The Ren]

Eh I cant get in touch with any of my peeps in vegas from work until monday...

[SPOOLIN]

f650 can tow that goosekneck, you are now driving a time bomb. :ninja:

[USMC_is300]

IF ANYONE HAS TRACYS NUMBER CALL HER I FOUND THEM A HOTEL IF THEY WILL HURRY UP AND CALL THEM. THEY CANCHECK IN ASAP. ITS A MOTEL 6 BUT THEY CAN GET A SHOWER AND STRETCH OUT UNTIL THEY CAN CHECK IN TOMMORROW.

-15 at W Tropicana Avenue, Exit #37
195 E Tropicana Avenue
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702)798-0728


HOPE IT HELPS I JSUT TALKED TO THE LADY AT THE DESK AND THEY SAID THEY HAVE 4 ROOMS VACANT.

[Big Baller]

Cool, man Tracy says THANKS

[USMC_is300]

no problem hopefully they call and can get a room

[Big Baller]

She hung up with me quick so that she could call, they were pretty excited about the prospect of getting sleep

[The Ren]

I bet they were... if worse comes to worse matt let me know.. I have a friend who lives in Vegas... I can see if they could crash at his place even if it is for a few hours

[Big Baller]

She would have calle me back by now if they didn't get the room.

I'm pretty sure they are good to go.

Matt

[k20siboii]

daymnnnnnn this car is effin amazing

[The Ren]

Good...

[BTLFED]

Ahh the power of IA. If this thread doesn't show that we support the **** out of Batlground I dunno what would LOL :lmfao: :drink:

[Evil Goat]

no, this thread sucks....where the **** is the finished product? im getting impatient now....i tried to get my cousin to do his wedding around sema so we could go, he lives in san diego and were flying out in 3 weeks instead of this week....gay

[speedminded]

no, this thread sucks....where the **** is the finished product? im getting impatient now....i tried to get my cousin to do his wedding around sema so we could go, he lives in san diego and were flying out in 3 weeks instead of this week....gayThe final product is my laptops wallpaper :tongue:

[BTLFED]

The final product is my laptops wallpaper :tongue:

Mike's Laptop too. ;)

[speedminded]

Mike's Laptop too. ;)ah, he needs the larger version then!

[BTLFED]

He needs to put toilet paper in his guest bathroom, actually. :lmfao:

[Evil Goat]

i dont give two ****s what it looks like to be honest....keep it to yourself...















































































that reverse psychology working on anyone?

[The Ren]

One of my supra buddies just moved to vegas from florida... I told him to sneak me pics lol

[Tracy]

We didn't get that room, but thanks for checking into it for us. That was really nice of you to do that. They said they had booked all of their rooms the day before. We found a room in Boulder City..THANK GOD. I was ready to kill someone!!!! I slept so good! We are heading to the Convention center right now. 2 more days until y'all can see the final pics :) I'm sure someone loading in may post sneak peeks somewhere.


WE LOVE IA!!!!! Even when they are mad at us sometimes :) Reppin' the A f0 LyFe

[The Ren]

Anything to help ya out babe..

[BTLFED]

We didn't get that room, but thanks for checking into it for us. That was really nice of you to do that. They said they had booked all of their rooms the day before. We found a room in Boulder City..THANK GOD. I was ready to kill someone!!!! I slept so good! We are heading to the Convention center right now. 2 more days until y'all can see the final pics :) I'm sure someone loading in may post sneak peeks somewhere.


WE LOVE IA!!!!! Even when they are mad at us sometimes :) Reppin' the A f0 LyFe

And I love you Tracy! (And Brandon, sometimes Dan, but not in a gay way :lmfao: )

[Tracy]

And I love you Tracy! (And Brandon, sometimes Dan, but not in a gay way :lmfao: )Chris, you are one of my BFF's :D

I think Mikespeed and Brandon may have a relationship going on. You need to ask Brandon about that.

[BTLFED]

Chris, you are one of my BFF's :D

I think Mikespeed and Brandon may have a relationship going on. You need to ask Brandon about that.

OMFG I'm kicking his ass! :slap:

[The Ren]

bwhahaha mike and brandon.. tracy I can do some investigative work for you to find out lmao..

[BLK JDM]

What kind of truck do yall have now??

[gobraves00]

so how many miles was it there?

[Tracy]

We have a Chevy 4500 (Kodiak).

I don't know how many miles it was...FAR is my best calculation. :)

[The Ren]

lmao... you guys in a hotel and everything now? If not I can call David...

[v-empire]

I think Mikespeed and Brandon may have a relationship going on. You need to ask Brandon about that.


oooooo.......i can see them two very happy together. love is a mudafugker.



red sox nation! woo

[mikespeed95]

thats our dirty little secret.

heres the route we took to avoid mountains and take the most westward northerly route from 20 to 40, and having to avoid the hoover dam.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=629444723549079213,33.965870,-98.677450&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=Atlanta,+GA&daddr=US-287+N+%4033.965870,+-98.677450+to:35.38905,-114.873047+to:las+vegas&mra=dpe&mrcr=1,2&mrsp=2&sz=5&sll=32.7688,-103.842773&sspn=15.124351,29.882813&ie=UTF8&z=5&om=1

were at ihop right now, getting a couple stickers that we ran out of vynil or something on , and going to finish setting up and detailing the cars.

thanks for helping with the hotel room. when we were about 2 hours away i went into im tired of this **** and ill just take care of it mode, started calling every hotel on google maps till i found one. stayed at hacienda hotel and casino in boulder city, actually wasnt a bad place on the entrance to vegas if you go over the dam, but since we didnt go over the dam we were pleased to find out it was south vegas, although the ******** at the counter gave us the worse directoins ever and i was happy when i watched the news that mornign and saw a jihadist had blown up the operators car the night before then urinated on it.

we rode the nascar coaster last night, its kinda lame but it makes you semi sick so it was worth it. hung out with some maxxis people and went to bed. i took a shower this morning. im wearing some wrangler boot cuts, a drift empire shirt, my new trucker hat that you put business cards in, big lots underwear, ankle socks with hi top converse black shoes with white/blue flames, and my stick on sideburns

[mikespeed95]

im also wearing deodorant, chap stick, and chewing orbit gum after brushing me teeth this morning. i mlooking at a taco bell on my left and a mc donalds on my right right now.

[speedminded]

im wearing some wrangler boot cuts, a drift empire shirt, my new trucker hat that you put business cards in, big lots underwear, ankle socks with hi top converse black shoes with white/blue flames, and my stick on sideburnsLOL! Gotta wait until tomorrow for pics of that too?!

[Big Baller]

Mike you ....are gay

[Vteckidd]

im also wearing deodorant, chap stick, and chewing orbit gum after brushing me teeth this morning. i mlooking at a taco bell on my left and a mc donalds on my right right now.
MAIL ME SOME FATBURGER YO!

[v-empire]

we rode the nascar coaster last night, its kinda lame but it makes you semi sick so it was worth it. hung out with some maxxis people and went to bed. i took a shower this morning. im wearing some wrangler boot cuts, a drift empire shirt, my new trucker hat that you put business cards in, big lots underwear, ankle socks with hi top converse black shoes with white/blue flames, and my stick on sideburns

i rode in it a couple of times... i bet at the top of the run, vertically, the ride stops for a few seconds before the reverse free fall, there is a silent moment usually, then you hear, " OH SHIAT!" from everyone else......hah!

[Big Baller]

MAIL ME SOME FATBURGER YO!

Mike, you....are also gay

[speedminded]

MAIL ME SOME FATBURGER YO!Don't you mean Whataburger? :tongue:

[Vteckidd]

DEL TACO OR JACK IN THE BOX WILL DO TOO!

[Tyl0rWeaver]

damn... get me some del taco.... I'll take a bacon double del.. no secret sauce plz :ninja:

[mikespeed95]

dont be gay.

[Tyl0rWeaver]

for real.. i hate that secret sauce they put on those... it's like big mac sauce (thousand island) but worse.... lol

[puregroove]

DEL TACO OR JACK IN THE BOX WILL DO TOO!

El Pollo Loco pwnz all!!! ... no, no, no.. King Taco!!!

[Crazy Asian]

OMG JACK IN THE BOX!! SOURDOUGH JACK WITH BACON CHEDDAR WEDGES AND 3 MONSTER TACOS!!!!!

[sakasaku]

OMG that is amazing!!!!