work sux …but video games keep me going

the long awaited Need for speed Carbon review is here at last!

The 10th installment in the Need for Speed series, Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of street racing and will challenge players to face the ultimate test of driving skill on treacherous canyon roads.

What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed: Carbon immerses you into the world’s most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals’ neighborhoods one block at a time.

Need for Speed Carbon delivers the next generation of customization giving you the power to design and tweak your crews’ cars in every way using the ground-breaking new AutoSculpt technology. Autosculpt is the revolutionary customization system in Need for Speed Carbon where you can tweak every aspect of your ride, from lowering the bumpers to changing the number of spokes on the rims. There are 10 zones on the car that can be changed. As for the vinyls and decals, you can use vector scoping to widen, change the angle of, and turn vinyls, and for the decals, vector scoping helps you put the decal wherever you want on the car.

AutoSculpting video

# AutoSculpt™ technology that allows you to literally morph and sculpt your car.
# 50+ fully customizable cars
# Three distinctly different car classes (Tuner, Muscle, Exotic)
# Crew racing experience
# Night time racing
# Enhanced police experience

its a heck of a game. I’m currently working on unlocking one of my favorite cars of all time the 1986 trueno or corolla for us in the states.

GW:EN (warning possible spoiler)

i’ll telling you now, but this happens with in the first 5 mins of game play. go no further if you dont want to know

you meet some one from your past …..

you remember that annoying little girl that followed you around while you get her flute, cape and what ever that third thing was in the fluffy lands.

well i guess she is a bad ass now … and a hottie

time for every thing…..

Ecclesiastes 3 1-8 (KJV)

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

I read a passage today, normally I don’t really express my beliefs on my blog, but today is going to be different. I was reading my bible this morning and I was in Ecclesiastes. every one complains about not having enough time to do anything anymore; I know I’m one of those people. I get so wound up busy doing stuff, mostly work, that I forget to just sit down and thank the lord for the day time he has given me. He reminded me this morning that there is time for everything!

work in progress part II

ok the WAI is now finished!!!

Finished WAI

now its on to this !!!!

Hood Scoop

okay I’m just kidding, in the near future i may decide to do that. First however i’m going to be adding a lowering kit to lower my car. also i need to upgrade my exhaust …no I’m not putting a stupid “fart can” on my car those are retarded. they are for only one thing, for ppl who want their cars to sound somewhat like a racing car only problem is that the sound is coming from the exhaust not the engine!

work in progress

EDIT: I need to make a correction i’m actually installing whats call a WAI or Warm Air Intake not a CAI (Cold Air Intake). there is a difference and let me try to explain:

Cold air intakes will produce more power, and will save gas if the engine operates only at Wide Open Throttle.

However, under 90% of driving, Warm Air Intakes are more efficient because the engine is throttled and under less than full load.

WAI does two things:

1) Fuel evaporates more quickly, increasing combustion speed. Fast burn engines improves the amount of pressure generated and expansion work available for a given amount of fuel.

2) With oxygen sensors, engines run at stoichiometric air/fuel ratios. For any given amount of fuel, a corresponding mass of oxygen is admitted. WAI lowers the density of air, meaning that a higher volume of air must be let into the engine for a given fuel input. So with WAI, the throttle must be opened further for a given output, and this lowers the “pumping” work of pulling air past the throttle.

before the filter

as you can see above thats my engine compartment of my car. its very boring i know. well i have started to piece my WAI together. however i ran into a small problem my 90 degree elbow i have is too big. so i dont have enough clearance for my hood to close. i have to find some smaller elbows.

but not all is lost i was able to at least replace the air filter!

CAI Filter

paintball … life …and all the rest

its been awhile alot has happened.

Last Friday and weekend i went and visited Carver and Emily up in P-Burg. Friday night we watched Hauru no ugoku shiro (Howl’s moving castle – USA), it was a great film, but what do you expect its a work of Hayao Miyazaki.

just to list a few of his greats you have:

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away – USA),
Mononoke-hime (Princess Mononoke -USA),
Majo no takkyûbin (Kiki’s Delivery Service – USA)
and last but not least
Kaze no tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds – USA)

Saturday morning Carver and I went paint balling for the most part it was alot of fun except when the Baka! (japanese for idiot) high school kids that would continue to shoot you once you yelled out you were hit and got up to leave the field, oh they pissed me off, but despite the the dumb asses and the millions of mosquito bites i got it was alot of fun. later that evening we went and watched the latest harry potter movie and i must admit that the movies are getting better as they go on i was not much of a fan of the first movie but as i watched the other they just seemed to get better and better.

Sunday i slept in at least then carver, Emily, and I played Mario Kart. i was trying to unlock some stuff for them, but i found out real quick how out of practice i was with that game =P i sucked royally haha!

the rest of this week has been just a blur nothing but work and no time for anything else. i have sunday off so ill be gaming most likely; plus doing laundry! woo hoo!

also i have decided i’m saving up some cash i want to put a cold air intake on my car i can get the kit off eBay for 40 bucks shipped so i cant complain since the last shop that i had take a look at my car they were suppose to do a tune-up; broke my air filter and intake and failed to tell me so this is a major reason why i’m upgrading right now its just rigged to temporaraly fix the solution. duct tape is a life saver! =P

ready to paintball

welp ive updated the paintball kit. i bought a new marker to replace my old trusty silver eagle raptor. one lil part in this old marker of mine broke its a small pin that basically holds the gun together. i had been putting off buying the part since i’ve been in school and such and really havn’t had time to play. well i was invited to go paintballing the 14th this month and i went online to buy the part i needed to fix my marker. well the company decided to discontinue the part. it was only then available in the upgrade kit which happened to be on manufacture back order. so i decided to fore go the headache and bought a new marker.

let me introduce to you the View Loader Triton II
Triton II

Triton II