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You Am I posted:Due to my dad's Alzheimer's and the fact his home care aren't really caring about him, I get the task to tell dad, who is currently in hospital, that he can't go home. That sucks dude, sorry you have to do that  But to be honest if it were me in the hospital I'd want to hear it from my son not some doctor or something. Hopefully my son will be around, can't imagine going through that alone.
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does anyone else ever just make a spreadsheet to figure something out i just made one to calculate potential final grades for one of my classes where the loving professor changed the grading scale a week and a half before the end of class. I tend to optimize my efforts towards what's worth the most, so naturally this hurt me, but after making a spreadsheet the damage is not as bad as i thought; maximum of like 1% difference between old and new scales. it's almost fun
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So I've noticed that in a lot of different threads people complain about car interiors being lovely. GM makes cheap, plastic interiors, even for their high end cars. Nissan's interiors look cheap. Ford and Subarus always have rattles. So my question is, who makes good interiors?
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Dec 8, 2015 00:38
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Mazda has been my favorite lately, awesome interiors.
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Dec 8, 2015 00:41
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My Hyundai's interior is actually a gently caress ton nicer than my SS/SC's was. Dunno how good it will be 10 years from now though.
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Dec 8, 2015 00:47
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KozmoNaut posted:Good point, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a taxi, since foil probably wouldn't transfer color like that. The 1E7 on the housing sticker is a paint code for a toyota. The fact that the date on the glass is much more recent than the date on the housing leads me to guess that they were in an another accident where they broke the glass but the housing was salvageable and a shop when with whatever was closest that they could get quickly. You're probably looking for mid 2000's toyota sedan thats been repaired several times instead of a recently released bmw that would be much easier to find. Sorry.
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Dec 8, 2015 00:48
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You Am I posted:In it, voted whatever. That sucks man. I fought tooth and nail to keep my grandmother out of a home as several others in the family wanted her in one.
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Dec 8, 2015 00:52
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mariooncrack posted:So I've noticed that in a lot of different threads people complain about car interiors being lovely. GM makes cheap, plastic interiors, even for their high end cars. Nissan's interiors look cheap. Ford and Subarus always have rattles. So my question is, who makes good interiors? The only things missing from the interior of my base-model VW Golf are adequate cup holders. Other than that, it's 12 years old and holding up very well.
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Dec 8, 2015 01:04
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The interior on my girl's old MK4 Jetta was a lot nicer than her's and my roommate's 2013 Jettas IMO.
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Dec 8, 2015 01:06
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Super Aggro Crag posted:The interior on my girl's old MK4 Jetta was a lot nicer than her's and my roommate's 2013 Jettas IMO. My MK4 interior is holding up surprisingly well despite me really not doing much to care for it. Cloth on the doors is getting a little loose and one of the edges came up the other day but otherwise it still looks fine and cleans up really nice. Newer VW's I've had as rentals and loaners felt cheap in comparison but that seems to be common among new cars. Compared to say early BMW E36 interior that starts falling apart when they rolled off the assembly line. Think Dad has reattached his a few times and it still creaks and rattles like a mofo.
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Dec 8, 2015 01:50
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My friend just bought a 2015 Jetta with the two-tone sport interior at a pretty insane price (like, $10.5k cash out the door, he capitalized on the VW brand image issues when the emissions thing first hit hard) and the interior is really nice. Soft in the right places, textured differently depending on where you're looking (unlike GM or Chrysler interiors that are 100% that faux-leather plastic imprint). I'd be happy with it. Of course, I thought that my 1997 Outback interior was okay, if only a little drab 
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Dec 8, 2015 01:59
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Enourmo posted:does anyone else ever just make a spreadsheet to figure something out This is basically myjob.xls. I had to figure out a logic table last week, and I basically brute forced it on paper with pencil and had a half of a dozen hand drawn tables floating around to solve it. I started to make an Excel sheet to be able to pump parameters into my solution, but I had already proved it works and I had to focus on getting the Lexus ready for the race.
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Dec 8, 2015 02:01
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Adiabatic posted:Aaaaaaand now I have to get into reloading. Ozmiander posted:Do you want that reloading press Motronic ended up not snagging? Does this do anything for you? Cast marks say LYMAN ALL-AMERICAN PRESS "TURRET" It's got 270 win mag dies on it, which may not be there anymore if I don't have them otherwise "in stock". 
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Dec 8, 2015 02:29
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Enourmo posted:does anyone else ever just make a spreadsheet to figure something out Absolutely. I found an error in the answer sheet of my daughter's homework with one, because it was a compound interest question and we couldn't get the formula to match the answer, ever. So I ran it out manually using excel and sure enough, whoever wrote the answer key transposed two numbers and she did it right the first time. I ordered odd numbers of waterjet parts this week for a friend and myself, and I made a quick spreadsheet to figure out how much each of us owes on the bill, since I'm getting one each of three parts, two each of two parts, and he's getting one part plus two of one of the same parts I'm getting. That and at my last job I replaced basic calculus with a spreadsheet where I sampled data and simply dumped the data into excel and summed the area under each data point to get area under the curve. I also track all my project part number data and cost in spreadsheets. And yes, when you get it working nicely it is almost fun. Grumbletron 4000 posted:
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Dec 8, 2015 02:31
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My roommate hasn't left his room since the Pats lost last night. He didn't even go to work. If I don't see him tomorrow morning I am gonna make sure he didn't commit seppuku.
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Dec 8, 2015 02:43
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LloydDobler posted:I ordered odd numbers of waterjet parts this week for a friend and myself, and I made a quick spreadsheet to figure out how much each of us owes on the bill, since I'm getting one each of three parts, two each of two parts, and he's getting one part plus two of one of the same parts I'm getting. You have a waterjet? Or access to one?
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mariooncrack posted:So I've noticed that in a lot of different threads people complain about car interiors being lovely. GM makes cheap, plastic interiors, even for their high end cars. Nissan's interiors look cheap. Ford and Subarus always have rattles. So my question is, who makes good interiors? Play in the Sheep Game and find out! 
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mafoose posted:You have a waterjet? with Big Blue Saw, everyone has a waterjet!
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CommieGIR posted:The AHU is really cheap and common, and parts tend to be extremely easy to get ahold of. The ALH is a little more rare and pricey because they tend to come on Automatics and have the larger injection pumps, I took a risk when I bought mine for $200 out of that Beetle that had a head on collision. Displacement can be replaced, but there are sacrifices to be made when you do. When the biggest downside of an LS swap is "its another boring LS swap" its a pretty solid deal overall.
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Let us know how it turns out! As for figuring out costs on a file with multiple parts: try looking at the high quantity (50 part) cost on each individual file.
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CommieGIR posted:Everybody does it. And then they act as if they've done something amazing. Muffinpox and I saw an FD driving around, and we pulled up behind it, and of course it had a 5.7 sticker on the back. I suppose the less reliable the original motor, the more likely one you see on the road will have an LS motor.
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ilkhan posted:Show me an N/A 3 liter I6 with 400-500HP. 500 HP is not some holy number, and there are 250-350 HP motors that can wipe the slate of 500 HP motors. 500 HP doesn't really mean anything, and the whole "500 HP N/A now what?"  poo poo is really old.I'm sorry you dislike forced induction?
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Dec 8, 2015 04:20
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Super Aggro Crag posted:My roommate hasn't left his room since the Pats lost last night. He didn't even go to work. If I don't see him tomorrow morning I am gonna make sure he didn't commit seppuku. A guy I used to be friends with was arrested after he flipped a table when the Lions hosed themselves the other night.
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CommieGIR posted:500 HP is not some holy number, and there are 250-350 HP motors that can wipe the slate of 500 HP motors. 500 HP doesn't really mean anything, and the whole "500 HP N/A now what?" Yeah....but it's fun.
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CommieGIR posted:500 HP is not some holy number, and there are 250-350 HP motors that can wipe the slate of 500 HP motors. 500 HP doesn't really mean anything, and the whole "500 HP N/A now what?" I'm not against FI, but I do keep in mind there are downsides to it as well as benefits.
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ilkhan posted:350hp motors that can wipe the slate of 500hp motors? Like? A 350hp Supra will wipe the floor with a 500hp fully loaded tractor trailer.
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I like projects that keep true to the spirit of the car, which is my primary resistance with the whole LS swap thing. I once asked a bunch of autocross guys what a good FWD car to buy was and they almost all in unison replied "a miata". I would think/hope that car people defaulting to the most basic obvious choice without thinking of something with a little personality is the bigger issue Commie is getting at here. If your goal is straight power that's fine, but you're going to lose some of the essence of what that car originally was in the process, which is why I'm uncomfortable with LS swap being applied to everything. For example I'd personally find a Renesis swapped NSU Ro80 more interesting than an LS swapped RX7.
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Dec 8, 2015 05:25
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someday i'll own a rotary swapped C4
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1500quidporsche posted:I like projects that keep true to the spirit of the car, which is my primary resistance with the whole LS swap thing. I think buying a fwd converted Miata would have already killed the ~*Soul of The Car*~.
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LS swap everything, gently caress the haters That being said, I still want to swap a 7.3L Power Stroke into my Crown Vic one day, just because 
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Ozmiander posted:I think buying a fwd converted Miata would have already killed the ~*Soul of The Car*~. I think you'll find the 90s Lotus Elan is the most soulful and introspective of cars avaliable in the used car market today.
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1500quidporsche posted:I think you'll find the 90s Lotus Elan is the most soulful and introspective of cars avaliable in the used car market today. But how much better would it be if it just did ZOMG:BRUM?
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Elmnt80 posted:The 1E7 on the housing sticker is a paint code for a toyota. The fact that the date on the glass is much more recent than the date on the housing leads me to guess that they were in an another accident where they broke the glass but the housing was salvageable and a shop when with whatever was closest that they could get quickly. You're probably looking for mid 2000's toyota sedan thats been repaired several times instead of a recently released bmw that would be much easier to find. Sorry. The mirror is a fancy electronic dimmable one, which costs like €200 second hand. Who in the world would put that on a Toyota with a busted mirror? It's not like Toyota parts are hard to come by 
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christ i'm gonna regret touching this argument / beating this dead horseCommieGIR posted:Everybody does it. And then they act as if they've done something amazing. Emphasis mine. 1500quidporsche posted:I like projects that keep true to the spirit of the car, which is my primary resistance with the whole LS swap thing. Agree with this. Where's the fun in doing something thousands of people have done before? If your goal is a certain ET, or a certain laptime, skidpad G-load, or whatever, sure, go right ahead! But if your goal is to build something interesting that you can be proud of, show off at meets/shows, make peoples' jaws drop, then "I TOOK [ALREADY PRETTY GOOD CAR] AND PUT AN LS3 IN IT" isn't going to get you there without you doing anything else. The problem isn't the LS swaps. If you want to do an LS swap, go right ahead - I'm just sick of the people who act like they're gods of motoring because they put an LS in something. This is why my (slightly-stalled) Subaru build is keeping the sequential twin turbo setup if at all possible; there's dozens of Gen3 TT legacies (here and in japan at least) with single-turbo swapped motors in them. It's played out. It's not interesting, it's not unique, it doesn't involve any actual creativity. If I was chasing numbers, it's no doubt the way I'd go - but I'm not chasing numbers, I'm chasing a 'feel' (for lack of a better word), so the twins stay.
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Well I had no call from the hospital, even after calling them. What a wasted day
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Safety Dance posted:A 350hp Supra will wipe the floor with a 500hp fully loaded tractor trailer. 1500quidporsche posted:I like projects that keep true to the spirit of the car, which is my primary resistance with the whole LS swap thing. But there are certainly more niche choices for various chassis. If 20B's didn't bust a rotor seal when you look at them funny or snack on oil with every tank and were available in stacks at every junkyard nationwide they'd be competition. But they're not. ilkhan fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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zundfolge posted:The transmissions are usually the most troublesome part in that generation of Volvo but if you test drive it and it shifts well (no delay going into gear, no flaring, no harsh or delayed shifts) it should be fine as long as you change the fluid regularly. There are a couple electrical modules that can fail and the replacements have to be coded to the car by the dealer. Since that one is AWD keep in mind that the transfer case, propshaft, and control module are several hundred dollars each just for parts if they fail. On the basic maintenance front, that one is due for a timing belt ASAP if it hasn't been replaced-the interval is every 10 years or 100K. It's a $1K job at most shops so you might use that as a bargaining chip. Thanks a lot! That's about what I figured. I really like the look of that car so it definitely on my list. I got the call today about my GTP and the verdict is... Drum roll.... Totally hosed just like I was expecting. Apparently the water pump is worse off than I thought as well so I'm definitely buying a car this week. I have about $12k, max to spend. I decided that I really like not having a payment so I'm going to limit myself to that. I'm probably not going to get any of the cars from my brothers lot. I just don't like anything he has there right now. That Fusion was nice but its a little too spendy. I was looking around and I think I found one that I really, really like. It's a 2007 Legacy Limited. 2.5 liter, no turbo. 73k miles. Looks to be optioned out well. Leather, sunroof, heated seats and I even like the stock wheels. It's got all the stuff I like. It looks to be super clean in the photos and the tires look good. It's $11k which seems like a good price. http://www.appleautomotive.com/mobile/Used-2007-Subaru-Legacy-25-i-Limited-York-PA/vd/31619239 I really love this generation Legacy too. My girlfriend has a 2010 Legacy that's nice but its always struck me being a little puffy looking. I'm going to go check it out tomorrow to see how it drives, make sure it isn't crusty underneath and maybe look at some other stuff on that lot. If that Legacy is a bummer and I don't see anything else there, that Volvo is my #2 and I'll go look over to Lancaster and check that out this weekend. I'll stop annoying everybody with my car shopping frenzy once I finally buy something but for now, can anybody give me the quick and dirty on those Legacys? If somebody can look up the VIN for me it'd be much appreciated... 4S3BL626X77212233
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