I can't remember the last time I blogged here, but oh wells. I never was great keeping it going. Anyway, to recap what has been going on, let's see.... I'm still friggin unemployed although it I think it will change soon. I submitted my resume out to a few more companies, I'm just hoping one will bite. I got interviewed for a part time job at a gym, but the bastages changed the original agreement of 3 days a week to 6! I wouldn't have minded except all 6 days start at 0445 in the morning... Hell no I'm not waking up at 0330 everyday. That's suicide right there. Stupid thing is they already signed me up for the job, I go in for training, and then poof, I'm told by the head honcho, "Oh we've made a slight adjustment to your schedule." Oh, well I'm not one for letting people f*ck me in the ass either, so I told them no thanks.

Yeah, so that's the latest on the job front. Who'd thought that the economy slowing would make finding a real job so hard. I mean I can always find a burger flipper job, but that's not what I went to college for... In the mean time, I've been messing with the Z as usual. I swapped out the old automatic climate control system to a manual system, and it's nice being able to turn on my heater and fan whenever I want. The old setup would only turn on the fan if it was below 50 degrees outside. Other than that, it'd never turn on. Pretty pathetic eh? I never had a heater either since the previous owner cut the heater hoses, and never told me about the bad heater valve either. Oh well, I'm not complaining now that I have the ability to roast myself in the winter, and cool off a bit during the summer. I still need to get a new blower motor amplifier as the old one is glitchy and sometimes stops the fan from working. It's an easy fix though.

Yep, so all in all, I'm just trying to get my foot in the door for some kinda job related to my degree, and I'm anxiously waiting for my gf to arrive from Japan in the new few days. It'll be nice since we haven't seen each other since October. Who knows when we'll see each again after her visit is over. Man, long distance relationships are rough!

Yay it's finals time! Well, sorta kinda it is. I have one on Monday and then my remaining two on the 16th. I had two this past Wednesday. I can't wait for it all to be over with. I do have to say that this semester has flown by. I swear it feels like I've just now started to get comfortable with the classes and it's over.

I had a 3" downpipe made on Thursday. It's full stainless steel, even the flange! It starts off as a 2.5" flared coupler that mates to a 3" 90* bend, and then one more 90* bend. While my Z was at the shop, I noticed that the turbo outlet gasket was installed upside down! Now who coulda done that? It was blocking part of the exhaust stream. Needless to say, that got fixed real fast. The power at the top end wasn't noticeably improved at stock boost levels, but at high boost, it was definitely easy to notice! Who would have thought a simple downpipe modification would make such a huge difference in power?

I'm going to get the current setup dynoed on May 19th. I still have the 60mm HKS catback exhaust, and it's the last bottleneck for the exhaust stream. I'm debating on what kind of muffler to get. I really don't want to do an N1 muffler again. It was way too loud without the silencer in, and I don't want to run with a silencer since it kills all the power you gained from installing a larger exhaust. I was thinking of a 30" Magnaflow with a 3" inlet and 2.5" tips. That way the muffler wouldn't get the wrong attention, and it would do a great job at shutting up the db of the exhaust.

I'm also in the middle of installing an alarm system on my Z since my bro's car got broken into for the 2nd time. I can't stand thieves... I don't have much ICE in my Z, but still, I don't want some jackass ripping me off. I'm about 1/2 way done with the installation. It's not too bad, but boy is it time consuming! I did get my door poppers to work again too. I'm so happy I don't have to crawl through the hatch anymore to open my doors! Now I just push a button on my remote, and the doors open. Other than that, not much else! I have to get back to studying now, bleah!!!