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DrakeriderCa posted:I know there's a lot of hate on for the ecoboost right now but I've been really impressed with my truck. People are saying the 5.0 is better on gas, and it might be, but I can tell you the ecoboost does better than all of my friend's Toyotas, nissans and gmc's. If the 5.0 can be even better than that, I'll be impressed. Is it just in a pickup truck application that the 3.5L has people hating? I was under the impression that it was a really really good engine.
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McTinkerson posted:The hate from everything I've read comes from the fact that you get Eco or Boost. Never both. Most tests with the trucks show that the 3.5L gets worse fuel economy when actually boosting and doing work vs. the V8's. That makes sense, though I can't blame Ford for it. At least here in Ontario the amount of F150's that do work are greatly outnumbered by the ones that truck one dude to his office everyday.
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I'm going to guess someone previously involved with the car got pissy over the bargain basement price and is somehow making Powershifts life hell. Although I'm not sure how that would happen with an auction. So many questions
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Sep 27, 2015 17:16
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slidebite posted:The new Medicine Hat Princess is really nice too. I'd feel compelled to pick through that Princess Auto surplus area explosion
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Oct 15, 2015 01:14
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My experience with lighting is that you can never have enough T8 fixtures in a garage. Once you start adding them you always feel like there could be more.
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Oct 25, 2015 23:59
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Someone did the walls of my garage in 7/8 OSB and I'm pretty happy with it. It takes screws nicely if you need to hang something.
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jonathan posted:I also just finished insulating and drywalling my garage. Since I used to be a sparky I loving hate drywall so i hired on a guy @ 25/hr to help. He did all the measuring and cuts. I don't have an attic vent. Need to install one still, and I have my junction boxes but no lights wired in yet. I'll likely do LED's also. I've had good luck with a portable propane heater to get things warm and then a 220v electric heater chugging away to maintain the warmth. While the propane is working you warm your hands and plan your attack.
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Oct 26, 2015 06:11
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I am by no means in the drywall business but from experience repairing a splatter coat ceiling you pretty much need to shave down the entire ceiling and start over, or take down the drywall and tape and mud new stuff. It's an amazingly labour intensive process either way.
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Oct 29, 2015 07:27
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Start.ca prices can be higher for unlimited but they're also more careful not to oversell their network.
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Powershift posted:The obvious collateral damage being your average mazda won't see the end of winter. This is what Ontario is like every year 
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Nov 19, 2015 07:17
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Does Alberta not do the mandatory truck inspection station thing like Ontario does? We have inspection stations along the major highways that randomly light up signs 1-2km out telling trucks to pull in. If they try to skip the inspection a weird MOT police pickup truck chases after them.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:
I read your tumblr with my coffee every morning 
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Nov 25, 2015 05:16
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Powershift posted:princess auto has a pocket thermometer on clearance for $7 that seems to put out the same numbers as my "hunnert dollar" mastercraft one. At the London location in Ontario they had a larger gun type one on clearance for $12 as well which I picked up. I have no use for it but gently caress, $12. I went in to buy some splices and shrink wrap and walked out with a basket full of POWERFIST. Princess Auto is a dangerous place.
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I drove a BMW for 5 winters and then oddly preferred RWD after that. It's probably Stockholm syndrome but my current FWD car just doesn't feel the same. I miss steering with the throttle.
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Powershift posted:Yeah, it's nice to be able to erase understeer with a quick little boot, but losing momentum on a snowy mountain highway and struggling to get it back suuuuuuuuucks. Yes hills are the enemy of RWD, especially starting on icy ones. Other than that, embracing the idea that the rear end is going to wander around, and that you really just need to be pointed and moving in the right direction made RWD winter driving a million times less stressful for me.
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Nov 29, 2015 08:55
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The government needs to hold a gun to the head of MLS until they produce a decent public API. It's weird because Real Estate agents hate MLS just as much as consumers. Everyone everywhere hates this loving service and yet because Canada it's somehow unchallenged except maybe by Comfree.
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McTinkerson posted:I have made it my goal to visit every Burger Baron in Alberta by motorcycle. So far I have every one in a 150km radius of Edmonton covered. One thing I've never understood about motorcycles is the intense need for meat you get riding one. All it takes is a couple hours riding and I'm suddenly dismounting next to some middle of nowhere convenience store to buy 4 sticks of pepperoni.
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Powershift posted:
You forgot people asking to trade a plate set or harley pipes or a skid of pallets for it
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Someone post pics and story of what has to be the first time a Kijiji seller has held a car for someone ever
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1500quidporsche posted:edit: I can't tell exactly where it went off the rails for me The Taurus gave you your first taste of domestic car pain, leading you to seek out a Japanese car for reliability. Normally that would have worked but you bought an SVX, which further lowered your expectations and whittled away any lingering inhibitions. This led to an 80's VAG which taught you true pain and suffering, corrupting your soul and giving you a masochistic yearn for further self abuse. At that point a GMC Safari was purchased, without a second thought to the economic and emotional repercussions, it was needed to haul parts. All of these events led to today when you picked up a sub $1000 RX7 in -30C weather with a crew of equally corrupted internet people and drove it home while McTinkerson cackled in the background like a dark sith lord watching his apprentice kill his first jedi.
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There's no way thats a Canadian car... theres just no way
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I drive 200km a day through the snow belt in Ontario and the best winter I've had was a BMW E34. Reasons: 1. LSD 2. Took 8 litres of loving washer fluid 3. When it wasn't exploding cooling parts it heated very fast and got really hot 4. Glove warmer vent on the dash
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ExecuDork posted:I didn't know those facts about the e34. It's just moved up many notches on my want list. Other than a pile of internet hype about a prototype or concept-car in cabriolet, it's available as a 4-door or a wagon. I'd consider crime for a mint wagon. It's hard to find one with a five speed, and the LSD was only offered with the "winter package" pre-1993, sedan or otherwise. Mine also had the darth vader sport seats. After 5 years of good service rust took it away from me. I kept the seats for the day I find a wagon with a 5 speed.
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slidebite posted:Granted it's (hopefully) not going to be a huge project, but I'd read it. As much as I love the insane build or restoration threads I also love the smaller ones that actually come to a conclusion
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Slung Blade posted:
Down to 78 cents in Ontario the other day. The highway is full of new Suburbans because the 2000's never happened and no one learned anything
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Powershift posted:I remember in the late 90s, people first started to take notice of gas prices rising because gas climbed all the way to 46 cents. the it hit 70 and people really started bitching about how it's so unbearable. That was a glorious time to have an economy car. Put a fiver in the Escort and I could go anywhere.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Don't ever get rid of that extension because that's the secret to wrenching from the couch. I was looking at that and thinking that you could use it without having to put down your beer
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Feb 22, 2016 04:53
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If you don't need to use the passenger door I wonder if you could just rig it up sitting side saddle along the length of the truck using some ratchet straps or metal brackets.
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The 3-Series is probably similar to Miata market as SSS mentioned. $4k will almost certainly get you a 3 series but it may have... issues. However, 4k could probably swing you an older E34 5 series in good shape, and those cars are rad. Not a convertible but they're excellent grand tourers.
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ExecuDork posted:EDIT: http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/strathcona-county/1990-bmw-525i-standard-trans-clean/1145436578?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true A bit ominous that the pics are of it on a lift but YES go look at that one. 5 speed, sport seats, looks like it has the snow package rear LSD (headlight sprayers). The M20 engine is going to be a slug but drat are they ever a classy ride.
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Mar 9, 2016 22:35
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Old Yamaha two strokes are a blast and easy to work on.
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Just going to shamelessly show off my sweet YDS3 here:
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Honestly I'd have done the same for $10 tires. I'd have the most ballin trailer ever
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Sometimes it surprises you. I've done horrible things to my POWERFIST mini sledge hammer and it just happily takes the abuse
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Nomex posted:So the guy decided to gas my bike up at the Woodbine Husky on 24th: Did someone at the Husky recognize the bike?
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As usual princess auto delivers a solution: http://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/1-8-gallon-steel-spot-sprayer/A-p8523029e
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Powershift posted:Weather canada has even issued a warning about the "heat wave" 
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I'm jelly, that's going to make the best semi off-road camper ever
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Man this talk of Insights has given me a huge boner for them as well. I commute 200km a day and a stick shift future car sounds awesome.
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I found out about the massive sump in those engines the hard way helping a friend change his oil. My princess auto oil catch pan tried valiantly to hold the Exxon Valdez back but it was no use.
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