I havent done much with my truck lately except drive it periodically. I have a lot on my plate right now, and have not worked on the barracuda either for over a year. Kinda sucks when your kid has major mental health issues at 16 and is completely off the chain. In less than 30 days shes 17, and that's a game changer as far as the police are concerned. She stole my wifes damn near brand new impala and wrecked it. I had her arrested. Car goes into the repair shop on monday.
Juvenile crime dept is a joke here in Abilene. She has 6 months probation, and breaks that all the time. We call into probation officer, they dont care. Kicking the can down the road until she commits a crime at 17, and she can be put in "big girl time out". As far as the mental health issues, it's been ongoing since she was little. It started really manifesting itself beginning at age 8 with rage episodes, and running away. Kid is a narcissist, and a sociopath. She will lie to you straight to your face. As long as she gets what she wants at the time, she doesnt care who it hurts, and she is always the victim.
This kid cloned her boyfriends phone, and my wifes phone, then played both of them against one another. I took my wifes phone and checked it out. It pinged in 2 locations at once. I told her the kid probably blue jacked it with your bluetooth setting. Easy enough to do if you have your bluetooth turned on , on your phone, and the blue jackers phone is in proximity. They dont even need to touch the damn thing. I have used this information to my advantage. My wife and I only discuss in text the things we want this kid to know, or stuff to screw with her head. Otherwise we just talk in person.
The way the system is, it's like she has more rights than the parents. I'm tired of the little Beeha. I want her gone, and ironically, so does my wife. When she leaves, she doesnt get to come back. This is all super crazy ****, but at least I went to my doctor and got some chemical help to deal with it so I dont go nuts.
Anyhoo, now that my rant is over. This Hurricane I'm dealing with is about to come to an end. Awhile back in this thread I mentioned that I bought a 2022 Ford Maverick XLT AWD for a daily driver. Fantastic little truck. Perfect for my every day needs, plus 30.2 mpg straight highway, and 26mpg combined city highway. My old Chevy HHR is shot. Worth $450 as a trade in. Only costs $200 per year to insure. Worth more to me as a beater. Ecotec 2.2 still sings at 200k, but burns 2 quarts of oil every 3K. Not worth fixing. Keeping it as a foul weather beater for awhile.
As far as Betsy goes, I am considering a set of bolt on shorty headers. She has one O2 sensor on the left bank, and no air pump. Any ideas on a decent set with thick flanges that wont warp?
The other thing I am considering is ditching the 60/40 bench for buckets and a homemade console. I heard park avenue buckets and bonneville buckets bolt directly to the truck bucket seat mounts, but which years of these cars, and does Katzkin offer covers, so I can recover them to my liking. I am thinking about cutting and lowering the bucket seat mounts about 2" since at 6'-1"I want to sit a bit lower in the cab.
Any thoughts
Matt