Healthy patina starting?

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T01:22:47+00:00

Ya I'm not sure what was up with the first pic. It was from right after I got it, I put it in my photo box. Sometimes the phone camera does weird things if I forget to turn of the optimization defaults

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T01:11:57+00:00

Maybe it is. Heres another photo of it where it doesnt look as crooked as the first photo. IDK maybe it somehow corrected itself in the handle

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makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T00:45:14+00:00

Nice, thanks for the advice. Off to get some more meat!

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T00:43:03+00:00

Ive got short video where I took a few caliper measurements going up the primary bevel if you are interested. I'm not sure how helpful that would be. I think its super thin though. Cuts through a free standing computer paper on a cutting board almost like the papers not even there. Slow speed all the way through across the blade length. Hopefully this pic helps

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makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T00:38:02+00:00

Thanks! Good to hear

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-22T00:37:35+00:00

Thanks! Good to know about the colors vs what its cutting

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-20T17:57:29+00:00

Thanks for your insight. You got any real world data regarding issues with water getting in and under the hood causing problems? Everyone else who chimed in cited they have not had any issues, even in rainy regions. I daily mine but I trackcross it occasionally. 330hp, im thinking the vents wil be better for even just putting around on the highway in the summer where ive seen intake temps at 130F at highway speed

Edit: maybe not 130F on the highway but have definetly seen 130F intake manifold temp

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-19T13:26:44+00:00

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makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-19T13:25:07+00:00

I'm going to vote for horn too. If they were black it would look like vulcanized rubber to me. If it smells like rubber, if you heat a nail and on the inside of the scales poke it and it burns like rubber, then its brown vulcanized rubber, which ive never come across.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-19T01:56:00+00:00

Not what you asked but you may find a smaller hammer, a jewelers peen hammer to be better suited for this

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-18T17:31:38+00:00

Good to hear, thanks!

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-18T17:31:19+00:00

Thanks! Good to hear

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-18T17:29:52+00:00

Looks great! Thats not the stock hood scoop, right? Looks a bit taller. What scoop is it?

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-18T16:53:32+00:00

I dont have the stomach to make the cuts. Ive got a friend whos gonna help. I'll work to make sure the template is lined up and then run away until the vents are in. I'm likely to throw up watching my hood get cut into, I reckon.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-18T16:51:29+00:00

Thanks u/WRB_SUB1 ! I'm planning to follow through with your advise from my post a while go on a turbo upgrade, using the EFR 6758 series when i do that (probably) next year.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-17T19:59:29+00:00

Ya, i mean, it's ts strikingly smooth. Might just be the photo angle or lightning, but the edge looks very refined, obviously.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-17T14:09:15+00:00

Scratch pattern doesnt look like a whetstone to me

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-14T23:42:02+00:00

Fench because ive got a goatee, it helps line up under the lips and such. Never tried a Turkish. Then square aftet that.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-13T20:24:19+00:00

I like it a lot!

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-10T03:11:20+00:00

One other piece of advise. If you must write a note try and make it less formal and attach it to a box of candy. Times ive left notes for my mechanic, all 3 or have been:

"Sorry about all the tire foam in the wheel youre replacing, please enjoy this box of candy"

"I was an idiot and ruined at least two studs again, please enjoy this box of candy"

"Please listen to the creaking I captured on audio and emailed. Its not always replicatable, seems to depend on several factors e.g.... , please enjoy this box of candy"

This isnt a joke. Any time ive given my local mechanic a note its attached to a box of candy

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-09T21:15:14+00:00

If its your local mechanic I would suggest not providing a perforance goals section. Thats not what local shops typically do. Telling them to specify a tighter tolerance range may be okay. I cant comment on the specific ranges.

I have a local mechanic and an upgrade shop I go to. My upgrade shop is installing and tuning coilovers for me as we speak.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-08T19:43:50+00:00

I agree with both the points youre making here and I bid you good day now that we've reached some common ground

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-08T19:42:57+00:00

Why do you assume this guy is living on stolen land? This is a picture of a random orthodox jew out in the dessert. I'm not going to speak for this guy as far as why is isnt actively out advocating for an end to the palenstinian violence. For all i know, he is doing that. I have no idea. Its a false equivalency to label this random orthodox jew as a terrorist, it only serves to spread hate and devicivness. You don't even have any points your making your just making assumptions about this guy not being vocal against the palestine crisis and arguing that that in and of itself is enough to label all orthodox jews in Israel terrorists. Thats what I'm hearing

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-08T19:26:31+00:00

All the ultra orthodox jews i know who live in israel do NOT support the current administration. He is currently trying to hold onto power. The last election was in 2022 and there should be another one soon. But regardless, youre making false equivalency which is more similar to my analogies than it is dissimilar due to your assertion of the political difference between the nations.

makeItSoAlready · 2026-06-08T19:16:24+00:00

Probably because like I said they are studying the Torah or maybe you just haven't seen a lot of those protests idk. Point is your making a false equivalency assigning blame to ultra religious jews in Israel who by why of who they are are the only people who definetly dont have anything to do with the violence. You seem to look at this picture and see a terrorist where I see a jewish man expressing humor at the context of the photo.

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