The Chronicles of SneakySnake Vol III

[slowhatch]

I didnt read, but is the stingray a manual?

Do they make them in anything else?



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You didn't pull shit boi

[cashcorn]

How long does it take for the 15w-50 to get up to 165, from a cold start? thanks for sharing..

[slowhatch]

How long does it take for the 15w-50 to get up to 165, from a cold start? thanks for sharing..

I will check for you tonight. Keep in mind in Houston, the ambient temperature is usually 165.

[slowhatch]

Last 2 weeks were quite a ride. I was on vacation in Yellowstone the week of the Hurricane's arrival (watching the full eclipse), and since I was out of cell range 90% of the time, didn't really know too much about the storm until I arrived at the airport last friday morning (the hurrican was scheduled to hit that evening). We immediately headed home, tried to stock up on supplies (local stores had already been gone through like the world was coming to an end), and decided to move the cars up from the lower level garage to the 2nd floor. Our apartments are built on the bayou, but sit on a slab thats higher than pretty much anything in the surrounding area. Even the lower level of the garage is at least 10ft above the maximum bank of the bayous. I assumed that there is no way in hell the water would get that high, I was wrong.

Kids huddled together on the upper level;




The first night the storm hit, the bayous were already over capacity and had flooded the local park and all of its trails.



I'm standing on the lower level of the parking garage looking out behind our complex, the water was already over the treelines of the lower ditch (about 30ft deep), but still a solid 10ft from the lower garage.



I came back downstairs to check on things around 2am, water was only a foot or so below the lower garage level. At this rate I started to worry about the cars even on the second level.



Woke up the next morning to further flooding. Bayou was near overtaking the lower bridges.



PS. This is what normal bayou level looks like from inside the park. Note the height to the pedestrian bridge;



North feeder was completely underwater, as were many vehicles, and the surrounding neighborhoods had taken on feet of water.








Water level had crested the lower level garage and was continuing to rise. The water had also had its way with the auxiliary water pumps for the complex (which some genius placed in the lower level), so our community was now without any water.

[slowhatch]

Our neighbors to the east were faring worse. Their complex was older, and in the floodplain, they lost electricity and water almost immeadiatly, and started taking on water;






Rain bands kept pummling the city for days;



With no end in sight, myself and few other neighbors with toys started to worry that even the 2nd level could flood, so we decided to "build" some insurance into our position. I moved all the cars to the highest point on the upper level of the garage, and we scoured the property for something we could place the cars on top of. It was also at this point I realized that the storage closet holding all of my spare parts, pressure washer, leaf blower, jack, tools, etc was flooded on the lower garage and inaccessible. Lucky me.

We ended up stealing cinder blocks which were used in landscaping our garden--they'll get over it. With no real jack, and a collection of shi*ty scissor jacks from all the neighbors, it took hours to get the cars up. We got it done in the end, and had a slightly more positive outlook. If they flooded now, it wouldn't be for a lack of trying.

[slowhatch]

Rising water levels overnight;









Checking on the cars the next morning, flood waters were around 4ft below the upper level garage;






Overall the next week or so was a combination of helping barricade things around the complex, watching police helicopters hunt looters from our roof, and watching coast guard Dauphines pluck people off of their roofs. Luckily the power remained on for the first 7 days (although it would later be turned off by centerpoint as there was an unfortunate loss of life in our neighborhood due to electrocution), but we had no water. We ended up hauling water from the pool to our units every morning, boiling it, and using it for household tasks and personal hygiene.



As flood waters built, you can see on the far end of this pic, the feeder walls collapsed into the beltway, using it as run-off, and flooded the beltway like a bathtub.



This genius ran through a cop barricade, being chased by a cruiser, was barreling down the feeder to the high water. I said to myself, surely he will slow down to traverse the high water. He did not. Truck flooded out right as he was making his exit. He would of gotten away too, if he would have just took it easy.



This was around day 5 or 6, the storm had passed but the overflowing local reservoirs were actually causing the flooding to increase locally;

[slowhatch]

So we drank the pain away;



Neighborhood watch;




Chinooks were flying all over the place, here you can see a fleet of UH60's (there was around 5 of them), circling around while being in-flight air-refuled by a C130.



Another Blackhawk



FEMA, DEA, and FBI arrived around day 6 to "voluntarily" evacuate the people remaining from our complex. We still had power at this point, so we decided to stick it out;

[slowhatch]

Still not looking good for those living next door over;




On day 8, with the city ordering a mandatory evacuation for our area, we decided to leave. Grabbed the neighbors cats (which were fun to catch), packed some things, looked out one last time, and hopped into a boat.






A boat and a national guard truck later, we were finally free from our little island.

[GTSilver]

Good to know you and the family are safe and sound Alex. Hopefully the worst is over by now. Houston was in and still in our prayers.

[serpent]

Hey Alex, good to know you and your gf and family are okay. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to what you do next with the blue viper!!!

[XSTAR]

Wow! Terrible situation and looks like Irma is next for others.

[slowhatch]

Good to know you and the family are safe and sound Alex. Hopefully the worst is over by now. Houston was in and still in our prayers.

Hey Alex, good to know you and your gf and family are okay. Thanks for sharing. Look forward to what you do next with the blue viper!!!

Wow! Terrible situation and looks like Irma is next for others.

This whole ordeal was a relative vacation for us, given what some others in the city had to go through so we are definitely thankful for our situation.

[Mark1107]

Hopefully you and your family are fine, and your blue Viper baby survives high on blocks and dry.

[slowhatch]

Water has receded enough for us to move back in tomorrow, we are excited!

Should be back on the streets soon

[slowhatch]

Made the switch from the Corsa catback to a Belanger system. It was something I wanted to do ever since I bought the car, as I missed the sound of my old gen 4 (which had full belanger). The Corsa is outstanding at being loud wide open, and being drone free and tame below 3k rpm. The only problem is it does this at the expense of tone. I never liked the corsa at idle, nor part throttle, it was just hollow sounding. On the other hand the Belangers sound deep and smooth at all rpm and just brings this bellowy tone to the rev range thats hard to describe. For that however, you do get some resonance between 2-3k rpm. I honestly don't think its possible to have an exhaust sound that deep and not have it drone, so it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.

Coolin' the beast down;



Pulling the sills off. Just a bunch of fasteners, mostly just time consuming super easy work. Only pain is having to pull the rear wheels to get access to the fender liner, pulling that back, and getting to 2 bolts on the inside of the sill on the back end.





Corsa Extremes



Belanger on the left, Corsa on the right. Quite the size difference in the muffler, and the Belangers feel like they weigh half of the Corsas.



Getting the Belangers on;




While I was tooling around, the other half was busy putting multiple coats of engine temp rated rattle can black over the Belanger tips. Matches my black painted exhaust valences well.



Got it all buttoned up and took it for a drive. Absolutely love the sound at start-up and idle now. At the risk of being cliche, it no longer sounds like a "dump truck", it sounds like a dump truck with exhaust

Here is a before/after video, I highly recommend getting speakers or headphones for it as computer speakers do not put out the low frequencies and you'll be hard pressed to hear the difference between the setups.

[slowhatch]

Buddy wanted to bring his NSX out to see how it stacked up against the snake. Dont really know why, but he thought it would be a good race. It was about a football field. Looked cool though.

[slowhatch]

Cleaned the car up for a night out on the town

Just absolutely love this color;

[serpent]

Have any videos of the nsx run?

Also, what did you use for wheels to make cleaning them a breeze?

[slowhatch]

Have any videos of the nsx run?

Also, what did you use for wheels to make cleaning them a breeze?

Here is the video of the NSX run: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZb_HFQg...y=sneakysnakes

My wheels are sealed with CQuartz so just rinsing them with a high pressure washer does the trick for me.

[esm_viper]

Looks good and sounds good! Similar to my car with stock manifolds and the Belanger single cat exhaust.

[slowhatch]

Its been some miles since we tore into the top end for the dead lifter, and I wanted to check the health level of the motor. I want to do some more modding but definitely want to make sure the engine is healthy before I do so. When I made the switch from the factory weight to the 15W50 I sent off a sample to Blackstone to see if any bearing material or any other contaminants were present.

Oil report came back perfect (was interesting, the note about the silicon content, obviously from the new gaskets on the top end re-installation). Not bad for an early VIN '13 car on the original motor. Looks like we're ready to go faster

[Stealth78]

What does "Looks like we're ready to go faster" include???

[serpent]

9L + H&C package call it the Phat one. #TeamGirth

[slowhatch]

What does "Looks like we're ready to go faster" include???

Heads/cam

9L + H&C package call it the Phat one. #TeamGirth

That'd be a hefty check to write all in one sitting for poor ol' me.

[Stealth78]

Heads/cam

Oh sweet Jesus! Congrats brother that's going to be one bad ass whip!