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iwentdoodie posted:You're also a big guy. I'd probably take the DRZ also, but if I was buying either one for just city riding and the occasional trail and never the highway, it'd be the 250.  Didn't even factor that in! I'd pound the city with a 250. I rode quasimoto to pasadena last night. I'm a sore sonofabitch this morning. goddamn. E: VVVV: In my garage.
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T1g4h posted:I really need to play it again, but reading the changelong makes it sound like they've added a bunch of obnoxious, annoying features that nobody really asked for. Difflock damage that stalls your truck? Errrgh. I'm still hoping at some point they'll reinstitute mod support. Driving a Mitsubishi Evo around spin tires maps was hilarious and awesome. http://youtu.be/5wlIKpZtM_I Sandbagger SA fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jan 17, 2015 |
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If you ever go out Palm Springs way, or wanna do a ride around LA/SD hit me up. I'm in the rear end hole of nowhere, but always up for a good canyon bomb. Bet you were freezing your balls off too.
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iwentdoodie posted:If you ever go out Palm Springs way, or wanna do a ride around LA/SD hit me up. I'm in the rear end hole of nowhere, but always up for a good canyon bomb. Hell yeah! I'm due to visit PS this spring to throw a 5 speed in cageapalooza. Still can't find em. was in the 30s-40s over some of the passes and windy as all hell.
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No, no, nonono. We're having a GOOD year. ExplodingSims posted::2015isawesome.gif Yes, this.
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Sandbagger SA posted:I spun some tires last night Just threw another 3 hours into it. Playing leap-frog-truck repair hauling broken poo poo through rivers to get them to gas tanks to fill them up to haul a gas trailer up a hill to fill up a larger truck and and and... I can't believe I'm at like 45 hours into this game. Its so zen for me.
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cursedshitbox posted:the trip or goatse? She did make me watch mean girls after being in the car for 30 hours...
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Holdbrooks posted:She did make me watch mean girls after being in the car for 30 hours... I owe her beers for this. 
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Got a bonus yesterday from 2014 being an excellent year at work. Celebrated by eating a whole rack of ribs, going to buy some new jeans today, and will be funding/starting my Roth IRA Congrats! I've been looking into starting a Roth IRA for a few weeks now. If I can get a halfway decent paying job in my new trade that's the first thing I've doing, is opening up a retirement account. Second Item, a new car. Also, I forgot how much fun job searching is. Especially when you have no real history with working with HVAC or Refrigeration stuff. My instructor's been a little less helpful than I assumed he would be in finding job placement. Oh well, something''s gotta come up eventually. Anything better than what I have, 12 hours a week in foodservice. Although, if nothing comes up it means more time to focus on college, so I guess it all works out.
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Holdbrooks posted:She did make me watch mean girls after being in the car for 30 hours... What did you think of it?
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mariooncrack posted:What did you think of it? It wasn't terrible I guess but I couldn't really relate since I went to a HS with a graduating class of like 35 people. And in looking forward to my 10 year in August.
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Goober Peas posted:AI has some pro Snapchaters. Just sayin'. To not empty quote, adiabatic's snap when the forums went down a while back had me in stitches, could not find it not funny no matter how many times I played it.
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I leave the house for an hour and I get a snapchat of my lovely little dog cuddling with Holdbrooks. I thought what we had was special, Harry.
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For years, I clearly misunderstood what people meant about Jack Russells being surprisingly fast movers.
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 gently caress dude, glad you're ok. RIP E30
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 Goddamn. RIP E30. Glad you're aight.
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No, not an E30! At least you should be able to part it out if it's terminal. What's the insurance situation?
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I had liability only, I paid a thousand bucks for it and the condition was fair at best so it wasn't worth putting full coverage on it. I really feel like loving crying, I loved that car and my stupid rear end mistake loving killed it
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 So much for future E30's.  just after you sorted out the GDCS too.
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Junkyard junkies, if you spot a 1970-1974 MG Midget with an intact grille or a decent center console, please snag that for me...rscott posted:yep, i was gonna install basically a whole new ignition system on it tomorrow and i stopped at the grocery store to buy poo poo to wash it with and it gave its life leaving me more or less unscathed Glad you came out of it ok, drat shame about the car though.
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 Looking at the thread title, I'm calling it -- IOC is a witch.
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 Noooooooooo....Glad you are okay though. This is my biggest fear of driving my Audi...
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Jesus rscott. Glad you're alright, RIP to your poor E30
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it was pretty much the only inanimate object that i had an attachment to and the only thing that i could feel reasonably proud about but just like everything else in my life i hosed it up
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Then rebuild it. If it needs a shell, there's got to be a mechanically shot one around somewhere.
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If you want an automatic convertible with a shot interior I conveniently have one I want out of my loving life now now now now now
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Well, I didn't know there was two January chat threads, and necromanced the other one..... so here's a cross postVikingSkull posted:Holy poo poo, someone just got a screaming deal at Barrett-Jackson on the '55 Chevy gasser from Two-Lane Blacktop/American Graffiti (restored to the Two-Lane Blacktop car). $145,000 seems about $100,000 too low, to me. That's one of the most recognizable hot rods or movie cars in the world, right up there with the Dukes Charger or BAN-ONE VikingSkull posted:Now Richard Rawlings from Gas Monkey sold his black F40 for $585,000 and turned around and spent $300,000 on the Ring Bros. Pantera Craziest Barrett-Jackson I've watched in awhile. I think the economy is finally back, haha
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I ate too much today. Alla-Seltzer to the rescue. (boy it was good though - Steak, skewered veggies, baked potato, Oreo Pie)
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So my glacially-paced car shopping adventure took me to a Ford dealer today. I lucked out again and got a salesman who actually knows some poo poo mechanically, which is always nice. Focus and Fiesta gave me a crowded feeling that I didn't even get in my Festiva, it just feels like the cabin is full of junk. And I don't think I could live with a Mustang, I don't do trunks (plus they are a little outside my budget). But after reading some of Powershift's posts and poking around of Ford's B&P I found it was possible to do a build sheet for a 2.7EB, big sway bars and 3.73/elocker in a poverty-spec SWB 2WD F150 to make a ludicrously cheap neo-Lightning/Tremor-lite within my budget, and I drove a '15. Unfortunately the 2.7s still haven't shipped yet but a v8 in a crew cab with 4x4 gives it roughly the same power to weight ratio and is thus close enough to get the idea. The idea holds water. After the drive I'm convinced you could make one of these trucks actually handle without much money, but the locker would have to go- it needs an LSD badly, and it could use a little more sway bar out back. But the cornering it can pull off as-is with me not wanting to push an unfamiliar vehicle too hard is loving bonkers for a truck. I shall not piss on the car-ification of pickup trucks any longer, that poo poo blew my mind. I don't mind the slushbox-only factor on this thing as much as I thought I would, it shifts uncannily well and exactly when I'd want it to. Sport mode is a bit weird but apparently not available on a 2.7 truck anyway so . But one caveat that the salesman pointed out would be that all the options that would make this a speedy truck also factor in heavily to the spring rate table since they're technically towing options and not Ricky Bobby stuff, and you can't cherry-pick a spring rate (or even see the exact correlation between options loadout and spring rate beyond what they've posted as a GVW table). So it might result in a truck with way too much spring out back and thus a pretty unstable tail. I've got some more research to do there. Now excuse me while I contemplate how ridiculous it is that I cross-shopped a new pickup truck with an automatic while looking at used Subarus and the pickup truck may actually win me over.
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drat, replacing the battery in the Z06 took forever. It sits in a well with about 2cm clearance on each side, and the factory AC Delco battery doesn't have a handle on top. After several attempts at trying to haul it up with outstretched fingers (skinning a few knuckles), I gave up and did like someone else presented on the Corvette forums -- work a strap under the battery and then pull it up that way. Even that took a few tries as the thick battery cables kept getting in the way. And of course I snapped the vent L fitting on the way out. At least the replacement battery has a handle.
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rscott posted:welp I wrecked the E30, got tboned in the driver door by a focus going ~40 Master cylinder in the 928 isn't happening with the tools I have, just not enough space. So deal with the leak for now unless I feel like taking it to a shop. Started working on the E21 then got called in. Spent 5 hours mostly waiting on work orders and people to say "ok you can do xxx"...frustrating. What should have taken less than an hour ate up that much time. Tomorrow I'll try to get the 5-speed mounted and maybe get the rest of the drive line in. Need to figure out how to elongate the holes on the new brake calipers, broke the nice router bit I bought to do it.
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