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Trouble Maker

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  1. While I don't know your local code, or NEC, I do know that if you update certain things it means you have to update others. For example, if you redo a part of your house like the bathroom or kitchen, you (may) have to update all electric to code. We visited one house where they had a huge new fuse box and 200Amp service. The house only had maybe a dozen to 20 outlets and less than a dozen light fixtures in something like a 1600-1400sqft house. Think old house that has 1 or 2 fixtures in every room. The bathroom had been redone at some point and our realtor told us about this rule and speculated they had to update the panel and service to meet current electrical code due to the bathroom update. Windows triggering electrical and detectors seem strange but not improbable with how weird codes can be sometimes. Did they (contractor) tell you a logical reason why windows were triggering anything have to do with the electrical code?
  2. Interested in this info, our house is old and we are looking to update things overtime. That does seem strange. This would mean 7 detectors in our 1140sqft house, that's not excessive, it's just downright ridiculous.
  3. I want to punch my computer screen so hard the poster can feel it in their fingers on the other end every time that argument comes up.
  4. I'm not normally a litigious person but you should sue the fuck out of that guy.
  5. Thanks, me too! Even better news, I thought the car might be totaled but its fixable. She for some reason loves the car so she would have been upset had it been totaled. We are also looking to replace my car soon, but not hers so that would have thrown a small kink into that plan. 2003 Hyundai elantra with 150kmi. Front right fender, hood and bumper cover are gone. Estimate right now is $2.7k for the fix so I'm sure it was relatively close to being totaled. Should be out of body going to paint today or tomorrow.
  6. Final tally for the day was around 30 calls, 5 voicemails and 1 hand delievered pamphlet hanging on our door knob
  7. Not sure if serious. The bettle has more wheel torque than the ISF has crank torque and the ISF weighs almost 500lbs more. Regardless, that's (ISF) an awesome car, I'm pretty jelly. Can't wait to see/hear it out at C&C whenever I can actually make it.
  8. He's my dads cousin. :lolguy: I kind of wonder if she got a call from them.
  9. When my Sunfire trans went into fail safe/limp mode when a quick oil change place accidentally disconnected the vehicle speed sensor it shifted an an unnecessarily high RPM for the given throttle input and as hard as possible. It probably just went to picking the most aggressive setting in the tables, or possibly a special f/s table even worse than that. From what RL said It sounds like the ford logic is similar. Why would the pick the most aggressive/hardest shifting settings? Is the idea that if the failure is coming from a slipping trans that will help the trans to engage and therefore for you to get home?
  10. Long story short my wife was hit on Monday. She’s ok and the other person was at fault. Police came out, filed a report. This morning she’s gotten over a dozen calls and 1 text message on her cell phone, presumably from body shops, ambulance chasers, one of them was a chiropractor. She even got a VM from an advocacy group telling her she would be getting a lot of calls. I assume the report gets filed at the end of Monday, is available sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday morning for public record, these people pick them up and start bombarding with calls on Wednesday. Is this legal; would being on the do not call list help? Basically, is there any way to get this to stop other than ignoring them until they go away? I imagine with as persistent as these people could be that could take a while. She was hit about 3.5 years ago and I don’t remember this happening then, has something changed since then?
  11. Anyone who will drive a that car on that track has to be pretty well humored.
  12. Most will never see/catch a fish that size regardless of where it's at, but both of those fish seem huge for fresh/ohio water. Granted this was in saltwater, but was just thinking about that trip yesterday so it's funny this came up and also reminded me of it. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39158
  13. I found some more dents and decided I would help you out with your sale by also circling them. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=563&pictureid=7066
  14. That looks like it would be hard to clean poop out of. What's 'lightweight'? It probably weighs more than my target for my backpack+tent+sleeping+cooking, though I still need to buy a few things to get there.
  15. At first glance it doesn't seem like you are getting a lot for your money... though I'm not an expert builder. Going out on a limb I think you only really get a deal building if you, or a friend are doing it, or you want something specific that doesn't really exist. There's nothing special in that build and you are paying someone to build it. That's like having a custom, but completely stock exhaust made for your car. This dell is less $100 less and has a faster processor and separate graphics card. http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-8500/pd?oc=fxdwpp11m&model_id=xps-8500& AND it's built and warranted by Dell, so you don't have to worry about how well it's built. I'm not a designer, I can ask some of our guys, but I would think integrated graphics for any serious design work (3D, FEA, etc) might be an issue.... though if you guys are doing design work you should probably know the correct answer to this issue. While cost is never not an issue, I would think if you are paying for any real design software, the cost of the PC is really a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
  16. I would say he should go buy a lottery ticket but since he drives a Regal he probably buys them on a regular basis anyways.
  17. We talked a bit at C&C the other weekend. He really knows his automotive tech stuff! Welcome to CR.
  18. Agreed 100%. I'm no expert, per the OPs request, but I don't see why you would pay more at pretty much every point for the 335 when she won't use the performance/power it offers above the 328. If you really want to spend the money just get a loaded and/or newer/lower mile 328 instead of a base 335.
  19. But what if she doesn't like meat?
  20. Maybe if your fat, old, out of shape and lazy. I'm pretty sure next year they are going to have us park in the vet school parking lot, then the year after that we will be parking at crosswoods. :gabe:
  21. If you were doing 70 in a 55 you're just an asshole if you try to get out of the ticket on being hearing impaired. You're hearing impairment didn't stop you from seeing the speed limit sign or your speedometer. Especially if you try to use the ADA or something to that effect, even if it could help you from a legal standing, I would hope that's not the intent or the spirit of that law. PAY THE TICKET. If you go to them bitching about how the cop treated you and you are trying to get out of the ticket, it will just look like you are trying to use your disability to get out of the ticket. If you pay the ticket then you have an honest issue to raise about how the cop treated you. Since you were admittedly actually speeding the two should have 0 to do with each other. Again, hearing impairment aside, I have 0 issues with someone going to court on the merits of the ticket and how our legal systems works to try to get a reduced fine/sentence/whatever. That only has to do with the ticket and what you did or didn't do.
  22. I would think the idea isn't really to build boost, but to do a 'prespool' (when you spike the throttle) to get it moving so the car can get into boost quicker/at a lower RPM. I know that link says 'Boost pressure can be created by the electric motor' but I would bet that's a little bit of market speak to make it sound good.
  23. Golf R is just a little more thank 30k... but still AWD. Not that anyone is going to cross shop a Golf R to a WRX since it's more like STi/EVO terotiry for cost. It's the only thing that really jumped out at me from a 45 second search on Edmunds. Anything else fun in the price range of the WRX is wrong wheel drive. Not that there is anything inherently wrong with the GTI or MazdaSpeed 3, etc. They are all great cars, but I will pick the WRX every day of the week. Just trying to spur some other thoughts even if nothing is there, again you know how much I like WRXs, AWD cars, turbo cars.
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