Comments by "Thump Er the Sweaty Fat Guy" (@SweatyFatGuy) on "" video.

  1. A lot of what you say in this is what I am doing. As I was waiting for my divorce to be final in 2013 I bought some land, and closed on it the week after the D was final. Started building in 2015 when the child support indenture ended to the first ex. I cleared the trees and did the foundation work myself, with a borrowed Kubota and rented skid steers. Lots of work for a 46 year old crippled guy. Built my 32x48 shop first, cleared 3 acres and used the straightest trees to build the shop. I built my shop and house, hired a couple guys to help with the roof, but I was doing the work along with them, and I did everything else. I bought an Allis Chalmers One Eighty this spring, its been getting a work out moving dirt, yanking trees, moving rusty trucks, and grading the driveway. Its not a small tractor to city people, but it is to farmers. Equipment like that is a good investment when you own several acres in the middle of nowhere. I was seeing a girl from '14 to '18 who lived 7 hours away, and we did lots of fun stuff, she knew there was zero chance of getting married or any sort of commitment from me. That will probably be the last time I will date, just not worth the effort. Paid off all my debt in Feb 2021, and now I can do whatever I damn well please. So I build old muscle cars. This year I went a bit nuts on an engine for one of them, a 99% aftermarket 505 inch Pontiac that can easily handle 20psi, and it will make around 1500 to 2000hp with that much boost. Have a 6-71 supercharger sitting here to go on it next summer, just for fun and science. The front timing cover is the only factory piece on the entire engine. I don't need anyone around most of the time, having an extra set of hands to help with some things is nice, but for the most part I go weeks without speaking to other humans face to face. Two divorces and I am done, I am not losing all of this to another lying cheating harpy. I find doing this car thing, making videos of what I do, and enjoying my life driving the cars I build is the most satisfying thing I have ever done. Next summer I am going racing again. Provided we aren't in a declared war or something. The last time I made a pass down a dragstrip was 2005, right before I got out of the USAF on a medical. They broke me in 2004 on my last deployment. I decided to get debt free when the potato was 'elected' because I do not want any bank or other as****e coming and telling me I don't own it anymore. Same reason I am never letting a girl live with me again. I am having fun doing what I want to do, how I want to do it. I wish I had decided to live for me and not allow females in way back in 1992 when I got out of the USAF the first time. Would be a lot farther ahead.
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  2.  @Kevin-qj7fp  I wrestled in high school and at the base level in Europe against the Army guys, its one of the best things you can do in your youth as it teaches not only discipline and skills you can use to defend yourself, it teaches you self reliance as well. Its up to you if you win or lose, not how well the rest of the team does. Its the individual's skills, knowledge, and training that matters. As for depression, I have lived with it nearly my entire life. I stay busy doing things I want to do rather than things others tell me I must do. I worked all manner of crap jobs, no food service or retail though, but technical, dangerous, dirty, and physically demanding... usually all at the same time. The job isn't what motivated me, it wasn't what satisfied me either, it was what paid my bills and enabled me to earn enough to do things I wanted to do. That was the car thing mainly. You put in the time doing things you don't want to do, so you can do the things you want to do later, pay the bill first, then enjoy what you worked for. Its delayed gratification. You do not win a match without training and putting in the work first, the other guy who has trained and worked his ass off will kick you all over the world if you don't train first. Everything in life is like that, and that is why combat sports are so beneficial to men.
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  3.  @Kevin-qj7fp  togowack is exactly right. Putting in physical effort to the point of getting the endorphin rush and keeping it going is the best thing for depression. When you get old like Joker and I am, staying active is VERY important, things hurt so much more when you are sedentary, staying very active hurts less when you are old, and trust me I live with pain from the military. It destroyed most of my joints and messed up a lot of me, so staying active is difficult. Its worse when I can't get up and do stuff to raise my heart rate.
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  4.  @bob995  I'm not, 20-psi would be with turbos, a roots blower like that will be lucky to get 15psi spinning the snot out of it, and it would need teflon strips which negates street driving. It should make between 7 and 10 psi. I should have been more clear, I thought about that after I hit the big blue reply button. At most it would make 1000hp with the 6-71, and that would be pushing it. 850 to 900hp would be more realistic. The HP isn't the impressive thing about this build, the torque will be the impressive thing. 1000ftlbs is very possible, especially on E85/E100.
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  5.  @ilovebutterstuff  trade which Pontiac? I own eleven Firebirds, four Trans Ams, six Formulas, and a 68 Bird. Four GTOs, 65, 69, 70, 72, and 65, 68, 71, and 72 LeMans, plus a 72 Ventura and a 1938 two door sedan. Not really that into the G body, they are ok, but not really my thing. Might throw a 4.8 or 5.3 in my sister's 79 Malibu, it was my grandma's car for a long time. I have the LS engines sitting around, take them out of rusty trucks to put in other trucks. Have 76 and 80 C10s, both are getting 6.0s, and I swapped a 6.0 into a 2007 GMC 1500 crew cab earlier this year, want it to pull my trailer around the country and haul the dogs and I without being cramped like in an extended cab. I'm not putting the blower on yet, because winter is coming and stuff sticking out of the hood causes issues with that. I need to build another shed to store the hotrods in winter. The snow is kinda epic here, 150 to 300 inches every winter, my cars sitting outside get buried completely by January. I see them again in April. Stuff sticking out of the hood lets water in when it gets buried under snow. It finally stopped raining today so I can move stuff around and work on the lean to. That crew cab needs another transmission, 4L60Es aren't known for being overly robust. Will probably rebuild one of the 4L80Es for it over the winter... if I get the shop insulated and warm enough to work in it. I kinda do the car thing... you can see what I am working on by clicking my name if you want. I don't make much content like Joker and the other guys, I make videos of things I enjoy.
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