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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

19 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

The worry is that water got into whatever has your final drive in it 

 

 

wasnt sure if you got that or not

Btw the final drive is in the trans since it's FWD. It has a front transaxle.

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25 minutes ago, techswede said:

Been off tobacco for nine days now. Down to one crave episode a day. And i've saved the $48 that would normally be in my lungs by now.

Guess it might be time to start considering myself one of yous boring, long life having, easy breathing non smokers. 

 

Yay!!! Keep it up!!! Great job!

18 minutes ago, techswede said:

[Laughs in european] 

A full tank is closer to $90 here. 

 

On a side note. What the fuck do you guys do with all this excess oxygen? My body seems to have no clue.

lol $90... Here it entirely depends on the vehicle. a big truck can easily go over $100 a small car? $30-45

 

 

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18 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

that's like a tank of gas a week. I couldn't afford a smoking habbit.

Thats a good motivator for me to never smoke as well. I also stopped drinking because of that. 

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20 minutes ago, vetali said:

Thats a good motivator for me to never smoke as well. I also stopped drinking because of that. 

Smoking never appealed, nor did alcohol or other drugs for that matter.

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17 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

Yay!!! Keep it up!!! Great job!

lol $90... Here it entirely depends on the vehicle. a big truck can easily go over $100 a small car? $30-45

 

 

mmmm Breathe :P Create machines that use it up, burn things, kill trees so we don't have as much...

Yeah i will. Or rather. I might as well. Kept at it for this long. And it'll only get easier. 

 

Well of course it depends on the vehicle. My camaro has a fairly large tank. Hence $90. 

 

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It took my mom an hour to do 6 miles yesterday. Fuck the bay area. 

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13 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

how do you have any damn money?

A functioning economy?

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15 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

It took my mom an hour to do 6 miles yesterday. Fuck the bay area. 

Lol that's about double walking speed. 

 

Ride a bike! xD

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3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

If I get that mac pro, I'm plasti dipping some GT stripes on the side panel.

Herbie stripes?

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17 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

It took my mom an hour to do 6 miles yesterday. Fuck the bay area. 

Honestly the entire freeway system is completely fucked up. They should revamp it so there are alternative INTERSTATES (not mountain one lane roads) to use in case one jams up, maybe take after LA's freeways and make it so that if one freeway is backed up, it shouldn't back up the traffic flow from 4 cities away.

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There is only one thing i'm craving more than a smoke at the moment.

This nova

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1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

no like fender stripes.

God i could never do fender stripes.. Getting the angle right would drive me insane

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1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

Its not that hard. I've done them a few times and they come out good. I just don't have the sense to lay it on thick enough to pull the tape off to keep the edges clean so its laid on thin ish and then i rip the tape off still wet so it dries with a clean line

I know how to paint. Deciding on the exact angle and style is what would drive me nuts.

 

You could either get it oh so right

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Or you could be real off.

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1 hour ago, techswede said:

There is only one thing i'm craving more than a smoke at the moment.

This nova

-snip-

Here's what I want you to do. Take your cigarette money and get a seperate savings account (or a nice ETF or mutual fund) and start "paying yourself" the cost of the cigarettes. 

Once you have enough, which would only take a couple of years, you can get yourself that nova :P

 

or use the money for more sensible things. haha

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1 hour ago, techswede said:

I know how to paint. Deciding on the exact angle and style is what would drive me nuts.

 

You could either get it oh so right

-snip-

 

Or you could be real off.

-snip-

experiment with tape until the angle looks right. then do it for real

 

or just don't do it at all because you don't feel like it like me :P

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1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

Lol that's about double walking speed. 

 

Ride a bike! xD

Not a bike, but i told my mom to consider getting a motorcycle since lane splitting is legal here in CA. 

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2 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Richest man in babylon refrence?

nah. Just a whatever that would be called... example of something that really means something else. Analogy? idk

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6 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Here's what I want you to do. Take your cigarette money and get a seperate savings account (or a nice ETF or mutual fund) and start "paying yourself" the cost of the cigarettes. 

Once you have enough, which would only take a couple of years, you can get yourself that nova :P

 

or use the money for more sensible things. haha

What else would i do with the money? That is pretty much exactly what i'm doing. 

Except for the fact that i'm going for a third gen camaro. Nova will have to wait until i've got a house.

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

experiment with tape until the angle looks right. then do it for real

 

or just don't do it at all because you don't feel like it like me :P

Yeah but it would still take way too long. And deciding on general style,colours, patterns. Egh.. 

Its almost as bad as i am with interior decorating. 

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Just now, vinyldash303 said:

The rough quote from the book is you pay your sandalmaker for sandals, the breadmaker for bread, the whatever guy for whatever he makes, but when do you pay yourself? and then the lesson is you pay yourself 10 dollars of every 100 that you make, and you keep it, then when it adds up to something heafty, you find somewhere smart to invest it.

ah. 

 

I will add today that would work a bit differently. You don't want to wait for it to add up... you want to constantly add that amount to your investments so you can make gains based on compounding interest over time.

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3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

The rough quote from the book is you pay your sandalmaker for sandals, the breadmaker for bread, the whatever guy for whatever he makes, but when do you pay yourself? and then the lesson is you pay yourself 10 dollars of every 100 that you make, and you keep it, then when it adds up to something heafty, you find somewhere smart to invest it.

Except that in reality you get $100. Pay yourself $10. But give someone else $3.1 in employer fees. $2.3 in taxes on the remaining sum. Leaving you with $4.6.

Did that garbage in my head so it could be way off. But at least if you're self employed you get shafted over here. 

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3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Yall want some capitalism?

We've got a nice blend going over here. Not giving that up.  

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2 hours ago, techswede said:

There is only one thing i'm craving more than a smoke at the moment.

This nova

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damn thats a sexy beast!

 

14 minutes ago, techswede said:

We've got a nice blend going over here. Not giving that up.  

ahahahaha!

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4 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

damn thats a sexy beast!

The 1970 nova 2 door.  There are few cars i have trouble finding faults with.

They are also very well rounded cars. Weigh about 1500kg's. Fit in parking spaces just fine. 

I'd give mine a slight stinkbug stance and minitub it to fit 345's in the rear. 

Maybe a sharp 383 stroker, T56 magnum/Built powerglide, Big rear axle. 

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is it just me or is chrome all of a sudden using more memory than it used to now? 

and by that i mean it used to use a lot... now it's a bit more insane lol

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39 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

is it just me or is chrome all of a sudden using more memory than it used to now? 

and by that i mean it used to use a lot... now it's a bit more insane lol

no, its been using less ram since the latest major release for me. 

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