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August 29, PNW.

YYYYEEEEESSSS!!!!!!!! I was this > < close to registering, but I can't decide which car to drive. Guess I'll wait to see what the weather will be like. See you there! (see you monday at Carter too, wanna jabber for a sec)

Todd's brat is an 82. He "discovered" it about 10 years ago.

The last couple of times when people were asked to give their input on a place, a huge debate started. We tried to avoid it. We've had pretty good success with planning HP meets by simply giving everybody a date and place. If there was gonna be no chance of a RallyX, we would have held it in WA. Will definitely ask you for a favor or two on down the line Richie. We'll be in town to reconoiter (sp?) the place in a couple of weeks. Maybe you can caravan out to the place with those of us who go. . .

I should be able to go.

Should be able to find what you need here. http://www.hoodriver.org/HRCCC_MemberTemplate.asp?MemberINDX=68&CategoryINDX=19

Well, went and tested the welded diff. Pretty baddass results, the little hatch climbs like never before!!!!!! Mike, you're 0 for 1 so far for this year's funruns.

I think you're probably about 15 minutes ahead of Qman's big announcement. I'll save it for him to do. hehe But yeah, date and place are set! Gimme a call if you like PK, I'll fill you in a little.

Yeah, sorry Ken, the cell took a crap. Will get muddy!

We'll be headed out bright and early for a day's worth of 4 wheeling on the penninsula. My Father has property in Chimacum, 'bout 20 minutes South of Port Townsend. 20 minute's drive from the ferry. We leave my house at 8 a.m. for the Edmonds Kingston ferry. We plan to come back tomorrow/Saturday evening to keep V-day obligations with our respective better halves. If you feel like joining us, gimme an email or a call if you all ready have my # chairotsu@earthlink.net Zap

That's the one that's been for sale for a while now. Every few weeks the owner comes back and tries it again.

I'll ride with you. I call shotgun.

Definitely a beauty John, we out-did ourselves bigtime. (toot toot) It was a big step doing this to an 04 Baha T! They cool thing is, it all just bolts right on!!!! No mangling anything to get it to fit. Jut take off the bumper and its skin, add this bumper to the existing mounts. Should you need to pick up the inlaws at the airport, the old bumper and skin will bolt right back on in under an hour. The airbag sensors remains intact, untouched, unmoved. (I'm taking a stab to guess that you also managed to use the existing wiring for the fog lights. Plug and play baby.) The finished version is really gonna blow some minds, not to let on what will coat it. Remember, this is just the p r o t o t y p e.

Ummm. . . John bent it and welded it, but there were 5 of us putting in ideas and stuff. It took at least 3 sets of eyes to get it all straight and stuff. John's buddy Mike deserves a big "You go Boy" for his badass mounting brackets. Mike also did most of the work keeping the angles right on the bends. Randy did his fair share too. Pinch hitting for the late baby sitter. It was Sean's idea to fill in the back of the bumper with the perferated steel. When he brought it up, we knew it was a killer idea. Sean also had the idea with the lights so as to hide a big gap between the head light and the grill. My big idea was to put the upper bar in front of the lower one by an inch or so. Very sexy! The skid plate was a colaberation as well. Extra special thanks to Paul Eklund for waking up fairly early Sunday morning to supply the spur of the moment "Primitive Racing" skid plate.

Trip to Moxee motors is definitely in order soon! We should make it a day trip on one of the next few weekends. I gotta see your stuff in person Jerry, it's been a while.

http://usmb.net/gallery/BahaBumper Fun with gaining approach angle on a '04 Turbo Baha. And yes, I had a chance to drive it, ALL of your ea82ts would fall, it friggin' SCREAMS!!!! I hunted down a WRX and whipped him 3 times. WOW! Need one!!

Here's photos of the prototyping of the bumper done this last weekend. Finished up, it will really look sharp. Tomorrow they will tie in the skid plate. http://usmb.net/gallery/BahaBumper Delivered as promised John. :-p

I'm betting the dealer wouldn't have a clue what you even meant by asking about raising the front suspension. If you walked around the place and took a poll, 9 out of ten people there would answer with a blank look. 21 mm is the one. A 19 will raise the rear.

A small group of us actually plan to go to the cabin next weekend. I'll have my welded diff in finally, want to test it out. Mike, you're welcome to join us if you like. As for a long term thing, I had planned on trying to set up another HP Meet (not a show!! ) as oon as we can set a date for the WCSS6 (is a show ) Planning for an HP Meet is pretty cut and dry. 1. Here's the place 2. this is the time 3. disclaimer (you'll get muddy) 4. see you there. I really like EC for the Hp Meet Venue. It's hard to beat it.

I call shotgun with Jared!

If we plan one. . . will you swear to make it, no excuses. . ? I'm all for a separate function for just the offroaders in the hills somewhere. We'll make a weekend of it. The Dungeness area sounds like my favorite of the bunch, it's close to the cabin. Those 21 and up can camp there, probably as many as 20 people would be welcome.

I put a Sabb's TURBO emblem above the 4WD emblem on the back of one of my hatches. Didn't even have a turbo. Raised a lot of eyebrows though. People thought it looked pretty cool. I only felt bad cuz I used a Saab emblem on my Subaru. I have a Hatch Patrol Sticker on the back of my Impreza, it doesn't have a lift kit or big tires.

Aaron's Auto Wrecking usually has one of the VLSDs sitting around. But, you'll think a hundred bucks for a 3.7 lsd is cheap comparitively. Tom also sells them on ebay, know what they're worth.

If it's broken, it's not gonna make much noise. I can show you where it's at if you want Caleb. Shoot me a call after your work. We can use the one in the blue hatch for now.

Shean, you have mail.