A little something! :p

Some picture modification:





 

  And some backtail lights:

Test :p

Not realy a winter sleep jet! :D

Yea...
Haven't done what I have planned to do last week, 'cus the car is still moving and it's repaired, well... almoust - this morning I found out that I have flat tire and as I didn't have any spare time I haven't checked and repaired the tire, but this is not why I'm writting.
Last friday was my first real experience with 250HP, iced road and RWD - it was a bit slippery! :D
For the first time I was glad, that there are plenty people who are driving realy realy slowly - not faster than 50 kmph, because every time I tried to accelerate rear wheels just went crazy and I was standing in one place although spedometer showed about 30-45 kmph... :D burnout without tire nor soul burning.
Few pictures from first snowy days! :)

Winter sleep = upgrades?!

It looks like the winter is coming very fast, so it's time to start thinking about putting my Firebird to winter sleep 'cus this is only summer time car and no driving in winter in salty snow!!! I think I will wash it, wax it several times, clean everything I can so that in spring when I'm "waking" her up she'll be ready to go with no problems!
I'll add some pictures later. :)
Have a nice day!

Crocodile race!!!

The summer season for American cars have been closed this year! :)
The event was quite interesting - small races, some burnouts and speeding in cart track. My car was tested very much. The weather was perfect for this event - sunny, without clouds, warm and very good people. Estonians where were you? Lithuanians were in full cavalry, Finnish people also were there, Belorussians and Russians were also here.
We are waiting more and more people for next season! :)
The morning was very interesting also - I came out from house and I can see only about 20m further - fog :D I thought - is it worth it to drive to the meeting so early or maybe I should drive later. Nooo IT IS worth it. And then, 1.2.3... and I'm ready to go, slowly carefuly and when I got out of my town, the fog was gone! and nice sun showed up in the sky.
Road from Riga through Berģi to racing track "333" near Ropaži.
All the 3 Firebird from our family together for the first time in such a meeting. Hopefully not for the last time, although I have plans to sell my Birdy and buy a new one - fully project car, this or previous generation, but that's only idea.
Despite the biggest problem - my camera was low on battery and when I copied pictures to PC I suddenly erased some 20 pictures, for a shame, those were pictures with my car, my driving, all the cars together and some videos... :(
But still there're some left so here you go.

More pictures coming soon! :)

Tāpat vien

Pāris dienas iepriekš no rīta sanāca tāds smuks skats. Iznāku ārā, viegla migliņa, rasa visur un mašīnai visi stikli aizsvīduši - sajūta, ka mašīnā kāds būtu sēdējis visu nakti. :D Bet tā rīta saulīte tik smuki spīdēja virsū, ka tā vien prasījās nobildēt. :)



























Kā arī vakardiena, lija tāds smuks lietutiņš un tad nu es izdomāju paskatīties cik labs ir vasks uz mašīnas. :p

Gatavojamies sezonas noslēgšanai

Labs vakars!
Ļoti svarīga ziņa visiem Amerikāņu auto cienītājiem!
Šo sestdien, 02.10.2010., sacensību trasē "333" (skaties zemāk kartē) notiks Amerikāņu auto vasaras sezonas noslēguma pasākums!
Precīzāka informācija šeit!
Tiekamies tur! :))

Good evening!
A very important message for all American car enthusiasts!
This Saturday, 02/10/2010., in Race track "333" (look below the map) will take place the American auto summer season closing event!
Detailed information here!
See you there! :))


Skatīt lielāku karti

... :D

Yello.
I heard from some people that they would like to see more pictures and less text. Let it be like that.
Just a few and random pictures. :)
hmm... nice color in the sunset. :)trunk, bags... hmmm.. a little to small for some ... :D

This was last winter. Garage was full with different things...

Whops... where's the front?
How do I look now with BMW wheel?

Are these LED lights realy to dark?














MM... Some nasty Firebird taste... :p

All 3 Firebirds and owners! :))

American Spirit Part III Mini Slalom

And here's the other video with mini slalom.

Palanga 10'part2 dublis 2 from Haralds grib on Vimeo.

Songs & Artists:
1) AC/DC - Back in Black
2) Traffic - Dj Tiesto

Video - me :)

American Spirit Part II

Here's the first video.

American Spirit 2010 meeting Palanga from ORGS on Vimeo.

Songs & artists:
1) Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
2) Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
3) Paula DeAnda - Easy

Foto - me :)

American Spirit 10th anniversary meeting Palanga 2010

Haiz!

So atlast I'm home from a very very big and nice weekend. This weekend was spent in Palanga. why? Because there was american vehicle meeting organized by American Spirit (http://www.americanspirit.lt/) Lithuania american vehicle federation.
First day:
I couldn't decide when to arrive on friday or early in the morning on saturday. Then my dad told me that there will be few cars who drives to Palanga on friday and have a little cruise around Lithuania. So i decided to go on Friday and guess what - it was a very good idea! :)
So we were in old Cross Hill, then in Plunge and then we arrived in Palanga. And guess what - lithuanians gave us to taste their beer for free! because we arrived on friday! :)) Cheers!
Then we had a little night cruising to Palanga. A little tire burning and drifting to cheer up little town!
And then came the night - I with my buddy Roberts went to see how lithuanians spend friday evenings. And the answer is - the same as we! :D
Met two very beatifull lithuanian girls - Martyna and Grieta.
Went together for a night swimming - and then came the storm! :@ but still it was a quite good night! :) went to the bed at about 4:00 AM.

Second day:
I woke up at about 7:20 to get ready for the day. It was very hard, but I did it! So we placed our cars in camping place parking lot and then we had the first competition - engine sound testing. I had no idea how loud is my cars engine, but I thought that it's one of the lowest, but for a surprise it was one of the loudest - 104,8 dB. The most loudest engine was Ford Mustang turbo 4.8L V6 engine - 118,6 dB and the lowest was 84,4 Chrysler 300C with 6.2L stock engine. Some cars had louder mufflers than engines! :p
Then we had the first cruise to Sventoje. There we had the next competition - mini slalom. About that - see the videos later! ;)
Then we cruised back to Palanga and set up in the main walking Basanavičiaus street. Then there was rewarding time for best cars and audience award. Some prizes were really earned, but some... well... it's only mi opinion.
And the came the night life again. Date with Martyna and Grieta. Dancing, some cocktails and sitting in the beach - watching stars, talking and diong some stupid things... some sands in the eyes and some ankle sprain - we are young and do many ... things :))
went to bed at about 6:00 thinking about good time I had and about that I have to leave tomorrow...

Third day:

My dad woke me up at about 7:40... damnet... :D I want to sleep...
Then I found otu, that Roberts have left my t-shirt and his swimming shorts with Grieta and we succeeded to meet the girls again! :)

That's it for now. I'll publish the videos as soon as I can! :)

The old and the new exhaust... rrr... :p

Sooo... 2 months on the "lovely" LV roads and one of the exhaust muflers just fell of, because of the bad condition... There's a picture below... The sound was very quite - the engine made more noise.

The new exhaust system with old muflers and new pipes. New sound below. :)



Some more pictures will added some time later :)

ABCS Haapsalu part II

And here's the video with impressions and cars. :)

Thanks to:

Vimeo for upload support.

Artists for songs:

1) Crazy Town - Butterfly

2) E-Rotic - The horniest single in the world

3) E-Rotic - Max don't have 6 with your X

4) Armin van Buuren - Broken tonight

5) Armin van Buuren -Burned with desire

5) Armin van Buuren - In and out of love

6) Armin van Buuren - Never say never

ABCS - First part

Yello!
So this is going to be the first part of my big adventure with my Firebird and also the first big story in english for the new Estionian guys and girls! :)
So for those who doesn't know ABSC means American Beauty Car Show (www.american.ee) and it's taking part in Estonia.
After the previous car show in Saulkrasti which was made by www.uscars.lv I and my dad thought why not to go and see what our neighbours can make and what cars do they have at shows.
So it was the big testing for my car and a nice adventure.
A little shame was that we wanted to participate in the show as participants, but there was a little misunderstandings with the main persons, but on the other hand it's good that we didn't get in. We met soooo many Firebirds as I have never seen before! :))
There were about 20 Firebirds in all the show, but as it was very hot dad's phones battery died and we couldn't make pictures of all the cars.
This car show was a very nice adventure, with nice and friendly people, cool cars the only problem was - a little bit to less girls! :p
But in general the show was very good and we think to take part also next year only with two or even three cars (all Firebirds hopefully).
And now I'm going to make a little movie about my impressions at the car show!
just wait a little bit! ;)
See ya later!

Saulkrasti 10' uscars.lv 10 gadu jubileja.

Hello!
So the first test and car show with my car. :)
This car show was made by uscars.lv - US car meeting Saulkrasti 2010.
The first part of the test was the road - a little speeding but mainly will the car survive the heat and the road.
The second part of the tests was - people sympathy about my car.
The result of the tests is - car survived the test of course there was an adventure with police and my LED DRL, but it's a long story - I was talking to police officers for about 25 minutes and only then when they felt that I won't "pay" for their breakfast they let me go. :D
But the biggest delight was when the results of the car sympathy competition was declared. Adn guess what? My car won! :)))))))) And the prise was 20L of gasoline :p
So - my car is beatifull, comfortable and it's enough powerfull to take out some BMW or other "spicy" guys on the road! ;)

Tehniskās apskates piedzīvojumi

Pirms nepilniem diviem gadiem sanāca iesākt pinķerēties ar šo auto un tad nu beidzot vakara mēģināju iziet tehnisko apskati - auto nebija kārtīgi kustināts kopš 2005. gada un likās, ka varētu būt diezgan lielas "šaizes", bet tomēr nebija tik traki - godīgi sakot daudz labāk kā cerēts.
Stāsts ir kārtējo reizi ar sekām - pierādījums, ka CSDD T.A. darbinieki, protams, ne visi, bet ir nekvalificēti un nepārzina daudzas lietas, kā arī nepārzina noteikumus...
Vārdu sakot stāsts ir šāds - autiņu taisīju, ieliku pāris jaunas elektronikas lietas - LED dienas gaitas lampas, elektriski aizveramos logus pie signalizācijas aizvēršanas, jaunu radio un antenu, atpakaļgaitas sensorus un vēl šo to. Aizbraucu 40 min nostāvēju līdz iebraukšanai boksā - nu labi nav tik traki.
Iebraucu iekšā un radās neliels uztraukums - kaut neviena lampiņa nebūtu izdegusi - kā nelaimi piemin tā uzreiz klāt - izdega viena daļa no papildus bremžu signāla, bet nu vismaz dega, kā arī izdega priekšējais kreisais gabarīts.
Tad kā nākošo prasīju atgāzu rādītājus - viss normas robežās un nav nekādu problēmu - pēc pāris testēšanas reizēm likās, ka atgāzes varētu būt pāri, bet tomēr viss ir kārtībā.
Tad darbinieks kāpj iekšā un nolasa visus rādītājus. Tad pēkšņi man tika uzdots tāds interesants jautājums - kā jums strādā stikla birstītes - apšļakstīšana? Tiešām interesants jautājums ņemot vērā to, ka ir tikai 1 kloķis stūres kreisajā pusē ar kuru tad arī veic visas darbības. Nu nekas gadās, ka pirmo reizi iekāpj amerikānī un to varētu nezināt, parādu un tad atverot haubi ieraudzīju, ka kaut, kas ir sācis tecēt nodomāju nu ir slikti - nekur tālāk neaizbraukšu, bet beigās izrādījās, ka ir pārplīsis stiklu šķidrumu pumpīša vārstiņš, kurš neļauj stiklu šķidrumam tecēt atpakaļ uz bačoku. Tad sekoja nākošais interesantais jautājums - jums vispār ir avārijas gaismas signalizācija? es nekur neredzu podziņu ar trijstūrīti - man viņa ir stūres labajā pusē kā daudziem amerikāņiem, jo īpaši to gadu.
Kā nākošais protams ir bremzes - nebiju pārliecināts, ka viss darbosies vienādi, lai arī lēnām braucot, atlaižot stūri un bremzējot un +/- līdzena ceļa autiņš gāja taisni. Priekšējās un pakaļējās bremzes attiecīgi 60%:40% bija normas robežās, bet stāvbremze gan izgāzās - kreisais ritenis gandrīz nebremzēja - par to, protams - 2.
No apakšas nekas traks nebija - kā tā gada autiņam pienākas: 1 pie nenozīmīgas rūsas, 1 pie vieglas eļļas noplūdes no ātrumkārbas.
Un tad sākās lielākie brīnumi - autiņš kā izrādās pēc pēdējās T.A. ir bijis pārkrāsots un nav bijis aizdzīts uz numuru salīdzināšanu, kā rezultātā pateica, lai braucu un salīdzinu un, lai tur pasaka, kāda tad īsti autiņam ir krāsa - sarkana vai sarkana toņmaiņas. Pa to laiku kamēr T.A. skatījās krāsu pienāca klāt vēl 4 cilvēki no blakus boksiem un arī sāka pētīt autiņu. Tad izvērtās lielākās diskusijas - par LED lampām, kuras ieliku - vai tās ir dienas gaitas vai tomēr gabarīti. Uz kurām virsū ir marķējums E4, kas kā vēlāk noskaidroju ir Nīderlandē ar ANO un EEK kopkomiteju apstiprināts ES standarts lampām. Bet man pateica, ka tās lampas ir kā gabarīti līdz ar ko uzskatīja, ka esmu ielicis 4 gabarītus un jau otrais 2.
Tad devos uz numuru salīdzināšanu, kur rindā pavadīju vēl 1,5 stundu. Uztaisīju jaunu tehnisko pasi un braucu atpakaļ. Kur iedeva slimības lapu.
Tagad kārtējo reizi apstiprinās tas, ka T.A. bieži strādā cilvēki, kuri neko nejēdz vai sajēdz ļoti maz ko no mašīnām... Tāpēc pievērsiet uzmanību tam, ko dariet ar autiņu un sekojiet līdzi tam, ko saka T.A. darbinieki!
Veiksmīgu ceļu! :)

Sniegotā ziema

Sniedziņš snieg un bērniem lielais prieks, bet šoferiem īstākais murgs. LC nedara savu darbu un tik kārtējo reizi sūdzas par naudas trūkumu, kaut pa visu šo ziemu esmu redzējis tikai 4 tīrītājus, no kuriem tikai 2 šķūrēja ceļu. Pie kam ceļi līdz Rīgai ir salīdzinoši izbraucami - galvenie lielceļi, bet Rīgā - bez kārtība džipa vai augsta Quattro vieglā nav ko īpaši darīt. Variants ir vēl viens cits - sniega lāpsta unspainis ar smiltīm bagāžniekā un tad var braukt, savādāk sniegs un kupenas līdz durvju logiem - iestiedz un paliec mašīnā, jo nevari pat izkāpt. Bet tas jau ir cits stāsts.
Sanāca aizdzīt līdz elektriķiem sarkano Firebirdu un beidzot vismaz elektronika ir kārtībā - vismaz tā vajadzētu būt. Vēl atliek piečubināt salonu līdz galam, sagaidīt pavasari - līdz izzudīs sniegs un tad jau varēs izbraukt un paskatīties kā iet pa asfaltu.

Sveiciens Jaunajā gadā

Sen neko neesmu rakstījis, jo nav sanācis neko padarīt ar un ap nevienu Firebirdu...
Bet viena lieta, gan ir notikusies un jau tuvākajā laikā savu auto dzīšu pie meistariem, lai veiktu pagaidām pēdējos labojumus un tad jau redzēs, ko un kā darīsimies tālāk, jo pateicoties politiķiem un jaunajiem nodokļiem ar pašreizējiem līdzekļiem nav iespēja pat iziet TA, kur nu vēl OCTA un pabarot lielo mutīti...
Ja izdosies ielīst kādā daba vietiņā, tad jau arī varēs domāt vēl kādus papildu plānus vai arī braukāšanu.
Plāni, kurus vēl neesmu izdomājis līdz galam, bet tikai apdomājis veikt kaut, kad tālākā nākotnē ir karburatora nomaiņa, jo esošais savu ir gandrīz nokalpojis un deguna nāsu izveide motora pārsegā gaisa pieplūdei, jo ir redzēts un dzirdēts pa pāris stāstiņiem par šiem putniņiem ziemas apstākļos, jo īpaši uz mūsu "tīrītajiem" ceļiem... Ka vienīgā gaisa piekļuve notiek zem bufera, pa motora apakšu un braucot pa sniegu visa apakša tiek piemesta ar sniegu, motors pārkarst un esi sveicināts serviss! Tāpēc doma ir izveidot smukāku deguntiņu, lai ziemās neveidotos šādas problēmas.
Nu, ko! Kad būs veiktas lielākās nepieciešamās modifikācijas un labojumi, ielikšu kādu svaigāku bildīti.
Pagaidām - Veiksmīgu nupat iesākušos jauno 2010. Tīģera gadu. Lai izdodas pabeigt iesākto un tiekamies uz ceļa! :)