Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Drove to school and back, as usual. Scraped ice from my windows for the first time which was fun...

In my class they've got a 3800 bored over .020" that they're going to turbo. It's just the block right now but we have the new pistons and rings.

Steal it and swap it in yours?

I wish lol. Then I'd need to run over to the trans room and steal a rebuilt 4t65e too.

where do you go to school?

filled it with gas. $3.24 for premium isn't to bad.

I go to macomb community college, they have a pretty large automotive building. Bigger than many other colleges I've seen, all kinds of tools and machines there. We deck and bore blocks, and "bake" cast iron blocks and use the shot blaster to clean a block up like new.

Here's half of the shop. This was at an open house, and ford had some of their new vehicle there. You can see the white 2013 Mustang GT 500. Behind me was more bays/lifts

My car was clean for 3 days. Damn snow.

I filled the pig up today.

I've been to Macomb, it's a pretty nice school.

Yeah it is. It's a bit underrated because it has the word "community" in the name, but it outshines baker college's shop by far. (which is where a friend of mine will be going for automotive classes, I visited but passed on it.) Macomb is NATEF and ASE certified.

All community means is that you generally pay less for classes and have smaller classes

They generally seem to have less credibility too, but I think that's because many others have a reason to. Macomb is probably the best community college as far as automotive divisions go. I was looking at oakland community college but they weren't ASE certified.

ASE certification is crap. I know probably 20 mechanics who are NOT ASE certified who could run circle around ASE certified techs at any of the shops that I have ever dealt with.

My uncle had to be certified to work at the shop he worked at before he retired. He was in the garage with me one time and told me that none of the techs at his shop had half the knowledge I did.

I don't need to be certified to work on my own cars. I will never get stuck working in a shop fixing other people's beaters.

Originally Posted by Nates94

I don't need to be certified to work on my own cars. I will never get stuck working in a shop fixing other people's beaters.

And THAT is exactly how I feel. I've been offered jobs to work in different shops. My buddy owns a performance shop and asked me to come work for him, but I declined. Even though I didn't have to get certified to work for him, I didn't want to work on other people's projects.

Originally Posted by stealthee

ASE certification is crap. I know probably 20 mechanics who are NOT ASE certified who could run circle around ASE certified techs at any of the shops that I have ever dealt with.

That's true. Just saying Macomb has the credibility.

I put the stock intake back into the GTP and moved it out of the garage for a couple of atvs I picked off craigslist.

Put a qrt of oil in it last night, cleaned ice and snow off this morning and drove it to and from work.

Originally Posted by stealthee

And THAT is exactly how I feel. I've been offered jobs to work in different shops. My buddy owns a performance shop and asked me to come work for him, but I declined. Even though I didn't have to get certified to work for him, I didn't want to work on other people's projects.

I have a big enough headache working on my cars. To start on someone else's mess isn't fun.

Originally Posted by dsmuts

filled it with gas. $3.24 for premium isn't to bad.

freaking lucky the cheap crap is just about that here.

Its still around $3.50 a gallon down here in FL sadly. But its a whole lot better then last year or a few months ago, im saving nearly $10 from when gas was $4.24 a gallon.