Gas Monkey LS Powered 911
10-24-2016, 06:26 PM
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Gas Monkey LS Powered 911
Anyone tuning in tonight to catch Fast N Loud build a LS powered 911? Been done many times but I am curious to see what Aaron comes up with. Believe it's 996 bodied car.
10-24-2016, 10:06 PM
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I'll record it and watch later. I really do like the show, and you can catch a nice green 911 in the background sometimes.
10-24-2016, 10:09 PM
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I'm watching it now. I think I'll be turning the sound off. These guys sound like a bunch of ****-ant whiners. Like most car shows, the tech stuff is non-existent, and it's all about the face time of the people in the show.
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10-25-2016, 02:19 AM
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Former Vendor
Yeah.. They called here looking for an engine for free before they did the LS.. Learned my lesson with these TV people a decade ago. No way!
That 996 was a 2000, it had Y2K syndrome, not a "bad head gasket"!!!
Shows are such a joke.
That 996 was a 2000, it had Y2K syndrome, not a "bad head gasket"!!!
Shows are such a joke.
10-25-2016, 08:39 AM
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Instructor
Ugh, sounds bad and I haven't watched it yet.
10-25-2016, 09:03 AM
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I just caught the end of the show... Eh...
10-25-2016, 10:02 AM
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1. Don't have a lot of money and upfront about their limited budget or,
2. Tell us what they'd like to produce and are willing to pay a fair price to accomplish it.
3. Have tons of money, but aren't willing to admit it and push for freebies
I'd rather work with person #1 and #2 all day. Most of them are very humble, kind people that are honest up front and thankful for what we're willing to offer and usually more than happy with the results.
However, the third type of person is one that has deep pockets, cloud 9 expectations, and love to manipulate for their own benefit. The proverbial "tightwad". It's not uncommon for these types to try to convince us that it would be financially beneficial to have our names on the credit roll associated with their group and/or on-camera talent. Therefore, they'd say we should take the project on pro bono just for the experience. Those people are almost always the first to complain and the last to show appreciation.
For example, we were asked to conduct a TelePromper recording session of President Carter in Atlanta. The group first was wanting us to consider doing it for free just because it was "The President" and it would look good on our vita. I told them tactfully that my family's worst ever vote was for President Carter. Nuff said. They ended up paying us.
Regarding production groups that represent big wig talent like Richard Rawlings and the Monkey group. No doubt he's an entertaining type of guy that has become very popular in the auto world, but give me a break!
Folks trust me... there is nothing "real" about reality TV... it should be called "Scripted Reality". All of the shows are planned and scripted from start to finish and mostly funded by brand placement. The networks (i.e. Discovery) get most of their money from commercials and usually give the top dogs (i.e. Richard Rawlings) a contracted fee for each episode. It's the production companies that create shows for the networks that look for ways to cut costs via brand placement and barter deals. Ask yourself how many times have you seen a show with humble, simple beginnings turn into a commercial nightmare where every scene has some form of "brand placement". The worst in recent history is ABC's Extreme Home Makeover. They had brand placement contracts with everyone! And I'm sure no one on the set had to pay for any of the appliances, furnishings, or even the raw building materials. Heck, even all the builders were volunteer and they'd usually always give away a Ford vehicle and pay off the owner's mortgage. It was a good show in the beginning, but it turned into a commercial circus.
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10-25-2016, 10:18 AM
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Former Vendor
Its a 2000 with intermix. It has a cracked cylinder head. This happens so often that I coined the term Y2K Syndrome for Mode Of Failure #6.
As far as the TV shows go, well I was an idiot. I fell for it. It was back in 2007 for the Speed Channel.
We built a car from scratch in 3 weeks... Including the engine and transaxle. We drove cross country to haul it to the site where we'd be competing against other cars... At 0600 on the morning of the filming, all the rules changed... Suddenly the producers realized that no one played by the rules that they set forth, (except us!) and then what do they do? Change the rules! Now, the rules are against us, instead of for us.
It was a HUGE Clusterf**k and was an organizational disaster. The show producers were complete idiots, and liars.
What I realized after that was these shows use people that want to be on TV as a source for all of their content. They take advantage of this, and they USE people like rag dolls.
If anyone ever asks you to be on TV for a show like this, go ahead and slap them.
As far as the TV shows go, well I was an idiot. I fell for it. It was back in 2007 for the Speed Channel.
We built a car from scratch in 3 weeks... Including the engine and transaxle. We drove cross country to haul it to the site where we'd be competing against other cars... At 0600 on the morning of the filming, all the rules changed... Suddenly the producers realized that no one played by the rules that they set forth, (except us!) and then what do they do? Change the rules! Now, the rules are against us, instead of for us.
It was a HUGE Clusterf**k and was an organizational disaster. The show producers were complete idiots, and liars.
What I realized after that was these shows use people that want to be on TV as a source for all of their content. They take advantage of this, and they USE people like rag dolls.
If anyone ever asks you to be on TV for a show like this, go ahead and slap them.