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Been Around the Block
A few years ago, GM introduced a special order Corvette, the Diablo or some such. It featured a skull emblem:
My buddy Kevan felt certain that Marvel Comics would sue the shit out of General Motors for trademark fuckery, since the emblem bears a resemblance to The Punisher's artwork:
I told him that the art was significantly different, that were was no case, and anyway, GM has bigger lawyers.
So we bet on it.
We'd give it a year, and if no suit had been brought in that time, he'd pay to get my Kerker exhaust ceramic coated by Jet Hot Coat (I'd recommended it for the exhaust manifolds in his SRT-10 Viper pickup truck, and he's been quite happy with the results).
If Marvel did sue GM, I agreed to rotate the wheels on said truck (we didn't work out how I'd get to Ohio to do the job).
A year passed, no lawsuit. He said he was ready to pay, I put him off.
"Nah, Kev, that's okay, I'm satisfied in the knowledge that I was right and you were wrong."
"No way, man, I don't back out on a bet. Take your exhaust off and take it to this address in Oklahoma City and they'll take care of it."
"No, Kevan, don't worry about it!"
This went on for a couple years.
Yesterday, I was perusing eBay, and ran across this.
I said, "Kevan, how about this? I called Jet Hot and it's $250 to coat my Kerker-"
"That's fine, let's do it."
"-OR... for less than $100, you could just get me this full stainless factory pipe, and we'll call it good."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
So right now, this thing is headed to my house.
Dig them crazy cross pipes! It's similar to what Yoshimura came up with for their KZ race bikes back in the early 80s, supposed to aid in scavenging. This exhaust system came from a 2002 Kawasaki ZR7, which represents the highest evolution of the KZ750 platform. The engine dates back to the 1976 KZ650, and was in production until just a few years ago, so there's about 40 years of factory development in the design of that pipe.
I'll post more when I get the pipe, shouldn't take but a few minutes to install it...
In the meantime, here's a video of a guy with a ZR7 who gutted his stock muffler:
http://www.youtube.com/v/nrg1A7wy3c8
Those dyno pulls make me tingly! :wink:
My buddy Kevan felt certain that Marvel Comics would sue the shit out of General Motors for trademark fuckery, since the emblem bears a resemblance to The Punisher's artwork:
I told him that the art was significantly different, that were was no case, and anyway, GM has bigger lawyers.
So we bet on it.
We'd give it a year, and if no suit had been brought in that time, he'd pay to get my Kerker exhaust ceramic coated by Jet Hot Coat (I'd recommended it for the exhaust manifolds in his SRT-10 Viper pickup truck, and he's been quite happy with the results).
If Marvel did sue GM, I agreed to rotate the wheels on said truck (we didn't work out how I'd get to Ohio to do the job).
A year passed, no lawsuit. He said he was ready to pay, I put him off.
"Nah, Kev, that's okay, I'm satisfied in the knowledge that I was right and you were wrong."
"No way, man, I don't back out on a bet. Take your exhaust off and take it to this address in Oklahoma City and they'll take care of it."
"No, Kevan, don't worry about it!"
This went on for a couple years.
Yesterday, I was perusing eBay, and ran across this.
I said, "Kevan, how about this? I called Jet Hot and it's $250 to coat my Kerker-"
"That's fine, let's do it."
"-OR... for less than $100, you could just get me this full stainless factory pipe, and we'll call it good."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
So right now, this thing is headed to my house.
Dig them crazy cross pipes! It's similar to what Yoshimura came up with for their KZ race bikes back in the early 80s, supposed to aid in scavenging. This exhaust system came from a 2002 Kawasaki ZR7, which represents the highest evolution of the KZ750 platform. The engine dates back to the 1976 KZ650, and was in production until just a few years ago, so there's about 40 years of factory development in the design of that pipe.
I'll post more when I get the pipe, shouldn't take but a few minutes to install it...
In the meantime, here's a video of a guy with a ZR7 who gutted his stock muffler:
http://www.youtube.com/v/nrg1A7wy3c8
Those dyno pulls make me tingly! :wink:
