My first AR15.

That’s right. I am a gun guy that up until this weekend has never had an AR15. Sure, I have shot a couple. But I have never been able to justify the cost involved in building one. Well, this year I had to pay a lot of taxes. And it hurt. So to ease my pain, I spent some money. I bought the complete lower assembly about a month ago. And I told myself I would wait until I got the stock money at work to buy an upper. I also told myself I would not buy a .223 upper. Well, the Crossroads of the West guns show came to town and changed all that.

Cars of my past part 2

Car #2 – 1990 Nissan 240SX better known as S13

Unfortunately I have very few pictures of this car.  But my friend Matt and I put a lot of work into this baby.  And it turned out to be an amazing car that was a ton of fun to drive.  But I made 2 fatal flaws when building it that I never rectified and in the end, they were the reasons I sold it.

The story of this cars begins on ebay, then leads us to Portland, Oregon.  My friend Matt had a Nissan S13 coupe (not hatch back) that he had done the typical SR20DET swap on.  I drove it at a couple autocrosses and on the street a few times and loved it.  So, being the way I am, I decided I wanted a car as fun to drive as his only done differently since I hated to be one of those SR20DET nut swingers.  After some research I decided I wanted the CA18DET engine.  It’s a