Trouble Maker

55mph, where?? Unless your in downtown it's 65 (there are signs that tell you) and I've never seen or heard of a cop giving a shit if you're doing 9 over or less. I drive past cops all of the time doing 74 in 65s and 64 in 55sand they never flinch. The only place I don't do this is through Dublin. The only time I don't do this is on Memorial Day or Labor Day weekends. I was bad enough when I was in late high school/early college I had to get my own high risk insurance. I've now had 1 ticket in 5 years and that was me not following my own rules on Labor day weekend in 02. Lane to 270 is most definitely 65mph; it changes on 315 about a mile south of the Lane Ave. exit. People like you cause traffic in this city to be worse than it has to be.

Then why do you keep replying to everything I say? Reference here if you don’t believe me.

Great comeback, seriously. They should put you on the next roast they do on Comedy Central. A lot of other senior members feel the same way, just trying to help you out.

How many times does someone have to tell you that noobs don't welcome noobs! Stop it. As a technical/safety suggestion I'd say take all of the lights off of your car or you might have a plane try to land on your hood. Sell them for power mods. You could probably buy a pulley for what you paid for you neon’s and dip into the 13's. Welcome to the board.

Same can be said about Cable, there is only so much you can push through that wire with a given modulation technology, compression scheme and the characteristics of the transmission line (cable). The modulation and compression technology will increase in both realms allowing more information to get through. Only difference is satellite can't do anything to improve their 'cable'. They are given a certain bandwidth and that's it (I'm assuming even though it's directional it's just like any other frequency allotment and the FCC gives them a certain portion). For the cable companies to improve their transmission lines they have to go rewire a bunch of stuff. Costly but not impossible. On the flipside, I'm sure if the satellite companies were having a serious bandwidth problem. They would open up a different spectrum and give everyone more. Back on topic. I've heard that satellites have recently improved a lot at not dropping out, and I've never seen my friends in Toledo drop out. I think maybe they have just gotten a bad rap from the past. How bad is it on your g/f's dish from your experience? As far as I understand this is how they work. I really don't like the search scheme on TiVo/Direct TV uses compared to whatever box Dish uses.... It's only time based and what Dish uses is name based. For instance if you want to record Family Guy on TiVo you have to go enter in whatever channel Cartoon Network is on and the time it's on... and TBS and the time... then if Cartoon Network decides to change their lineup like they do ever month or two you have to change the time. With Dish you say "Record all or new Family Guys" and it does all of that on it's own. Both Dish Network and Direct seem to have pretty comparable boxes. Do you know if your g/f's box will send out the second signal through the house via the existing wiring? The Dish Network one will. I thought that was pretty cool.

Well, to have VOIP we must have cable internet. Cable internet+VOIP would cost more than Land Line+DSL. But since we wouldn't have to have a phone line to get either Dish it doesn't really matter. We would have absolutely no reason other than the Dish or DSL to get a land line (or VOIP based 'land line'). I never talked on the land line at my parents house anyways so I'm not worried about my minutes. I do almost all of my talking in the evenings, on the weekends, or to someone in the Verizon network. Most months I use 1000+minutes, but only ~200 during peak hours. I've probably never used over 250, so 400 peak is plenty. You know I'll be coming to you when I decide to get another phone so don't worry. Unfortunately since we live in an apartment complex we are currently ONLY set up for Aldephia. We will be getting Time Warner sometime in the future and getting rid of Aldephia, but who knows when that will be? I'd probably get WOW in a heartbeat if we could. My parents had Time Warner and I never liked it. They are overpriced for this market. They did a shitty job on the wiring which caused many months of confusion with why our Road Runner would occasionally cut out. They had to come out half a dozen times before we happened to get someone who knew their ass from a hole in the ground that found the wiring issue. At least they compensated our bill for downtime no questions asked, but I'm pretty sure any 'telecommunications' business has to do that per FCC 'laws' anyways. I loved WOW once they switched over. Thank you Jesus someone answered the one question I really needed answered.[/southernaccent] I’ll have to check on that Aldephia thing, that would suck. Maybe that’s why so many people around us seem to have DSL (because they don't want cable, but want high speed internet). Thanks for the heads up. We just need to find out how to steal all of this and be done with it.

Umm, that'll just cover our internet and it would be 60/person. I'm thinking we can get cable/dish and internet for less than that. I don't have a laptop so I'd also have to buy a PCMCIA adapter which we found out the other day are nigh impossible to find at a B&M store and just another cost. I'll take Cable internet or DSL at ~25/person (at most), until the price of that type of stuff comes down (at which point, Cable internet and DSL will probably be cheaper). Brandon, why do you like Direct TV better than Dish?? I know one thing I already don't like about Direct TV is the way the program look up works on their DVR's. It goes by time slot only and Dish Network goes by name. ANYONE, do you have to hook either of them up to a phone line? That could be what makes us decide one over the other becuase we don't currently have a land line or necessairly plan on getting one.

You don't need to drive for you temp test right?

What did you think of the TV portion of Direct TV and Dish? Was it just the Internet thing that pissed you off? I briefly looked at the stuff for Satellite TV Internet but I was under the impression that it wasn't up to par yet. I was looking more along the lines of people who have standalone DSL or Cable Internet (as we would have to do if we got a dish). Really it wouldn’t matter if they had it bundled with regular cable but that’s all I’m really interested in. Did you have to have either of them hooked into a phone line? We had Aldephia up in Ada at the house and it sucked. We couldn’t get any kind of service done and we were paying a lot because we had digital boxes with every channel on ~20tv's. The format, content, and reliability were horrible. But it was the only thing available. It may be different in Columbus but I've been really turned off by that company. Not to mention the fact that it's only analog in our complex right now. So we can't get a DVR through them. Time Warner will be taking it over, but who knows when they will switch out everything in our apartment complex??? I don't want to have to wait 2-6 months to get a decent selection of channels, digital sound, good picture and a DVR.

So we can't figure out what we are going to do for this stuff. One of the main problems is that our Apartment complex only has Aldephia right now and they SUCK. Horrilbe content and only analog right now. I guess Time Warner just bought them out. We have no clue when it's actually going to be done by Time Warner in our complex though. Apartment says in December, I'm not holding my breath or waiting that long/having shitty service for that long. I really don't like Warner very much anyways. Whatever we do, I want a DVR. Anyone have Dish Network or Direct TV and what do you or don't you like about them? Do you HAVE to have both of them plugged into a land line? What do people who use a dish do for the internet (broadband/dsl, I don't give two shits about dial up)? I have two friends that I visit often up in Toledo that have Dish Network and they really seem to like it. I've liked it whenever I'm up there using it.

I'm neutral too.

Cool, it had been so long I couldn't remember if I got them off of here or CBus DSM. I thought he was already on here though so I figured you were his brother. Just didn't figure both of you would have EVO's. At any rate, welcome to the board! Always happy to have another road racer on here. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

Yeah, my dad grew up over on the corner of Whitehead and Ogden so not really close but not far at all. He went to Hilltonia and West and stayed in the Hilltop area his growing up so he very well may have known your dad. He's actually 50 today and we are going out for his birthday tonight so I will ask him. He still talks to and see's quite a few of his good friends from growing up around there. If he didn’t know your dad one of his friends very well may. I’ll see what I can find out.

Do you race the forumla vee with your brother. I think he's the guy I bought some stock EVO injectors off of a while ago, or was that you? I don't remember what his name was off of the top of my head.

I use three toes. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif

I'll be there at some point not dynoing anything, but I'm special.

I drove one a few years back quite a few miles back from a wedding in Pittsburgh. I wouldn't drive one if someone gave it to me. HATED the way it drove. It was only a few years old and there was a ton of slop in the steering (felt like something was wrong/loose). Wasn't comfortable at all inside.

Too heavy if you want the car to still handle well... maybe if it weren't an all steel engine that might be an option. They have a close to 50/50 weight disturbution stock which is part of why they handle so well. Don't want to throw that too far off. Take 'crap' out of the engine, move battery to back, add turbo stuff. Stay very close to 50/50. Add 5.0L, throw it off to 60/40. I've looked into this. No one who wants anything but straight line acceleration does this. If you just want straight line acceleration why start out with this platform?

Turbo it. http://www.flyinmiata.com/

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I think the M3 is his wife's daily and the both drive it on the weekends at track events. I can see where a 'problem' could arise with that. He's looking for something like his wife's car that he can drive on most weekdays and the weekends on the track so they don't have to share a car at the track and he can have a very fun daily.

On MO in the same car yes... in different cars, you'll see way more than that. Tires could easily make that difference in the same car. Your talking about three seconds over ~2minutes, not going from 14-11 second times in a quarter mile.

IIRC you own an M3 now right (wife’s car)? My suggestion is to somehow be able to drive all three on track or at any autocross. This might take some time and persuasion, but that's a big purchase for a weekend/track car. Times mean nothing at those events usually unless you are competing. If you are competing you will usually be in a class with similar cars, so that won't make a difference. The biggest thing is which car you have the most fun in. I want to say that the Z06 should definitely be the fastest around the track. But the people I've talked to say they are quite boring despite the speeds while on track. They just don't have much 'character' in that department. You can definitely have more fun driving a 'slower' car on a track if the car is more 'fun' for you to drive. So drive anything before you buy and compare.

Ordered a book from them at the beginning of the first week of classes one quarter. They said up front it was on back order and it was going to take 1-2 weeks to ship. Not a big deal, I'll just use a friends the first few weeks. A few days later I get an email saying it's going to take 6-8 weeks. That will do me a whole lot of good since my classes lasted 10 weeks long. It was a huge hassle canceling my order. I think I talked to them 4 times over two days about it. Then it took two weeks to credit it back onto my bank account. Never tried to order textbooks online again, from them or anyone else. Just ruined the whole experience for me. Not worth the possible hassle for saving a few bucks. I’ll just go get ripped off by the school book store and get my books that day.

You talk about how your a 1337 skiier and you use thoes things? Yet another reason you are a gigantic douche bag. I fucking HATE ski skates. I called him yesterday and he hasn't called me back. Boh, Marc, call me back. Me carving so hard my inside hand is touching the solid sheet of ice at 30+mph>>anyone here on skis, including above said faggot.