Mallard

Wow, that thing is CLEAN! Very nice!

Not to troll the thread, but where are you moving to? What do you do for a living? We just hired someone from Ohio...

LOL, he got that for a fucking 3.8!? Jeez.

You guys have all hit the nail on the head. The upcoming generation scares the shit out of me. They're all hypersensitive idiots with a sense of entitlement. I think they've all been coddled too much, told that everything they do is wonderful, and never punushed for doing things wrong.

LOL, believe it or not, this basically happened to my college roomoate in downtown Detroit when we went to a Tigers game.

Wow, that's crazy. I hope he's ok. A guy at my wife's work had a stroke at age 26, but he's doing good now and in his 30's.

Clay, you and I think alike. I was typing my response at the same time you were.

I don't think it will ever happen, at least not like this. It's going to be incredibly expensive to send people and cargo to Mars, and it's an incredibly long trip. There are too many hurdles and too much cost. If the focused on sending people to the moon to establish a permanent colony I would be more confident.

Looks like the wing off my mazdaspeed protege. Don't do it.

The verbage I read said something about being secured with the original restraints at the time of manufacture. This is to prevent new technology from making it illegal to put your kid in your car. It does raise an interesting question about retrofitted belts that were not original equipment. However, if she is in a properly secured high back booster with a harness I don't think anyone will give you trouble.

Please show me your data. My wife, who designs and tests airbags, and occasionally has to review real accident reports with pictures, would tend to disagree with you. Also, the hundreds of engineers that work on airbag development at my company and have a multi-million dollar crash sled for simulating accidents would do the same..

Those people are not your friends. True friends would not be thinking only about themselves at a time like this. You need to definitely get out and find a way to meet new people.

Airbags and rear facing car seats are a giant no-no. Forward facing seats or a booster are safer, but I would keep the passenger seat as far away from the dash as possible. In those situations, the airing would probably never reach the child.

While you somehow survived, the statistics don't lie. Fewer children are killed every year due to these safety regulations/advancements. Also, it doesn't matter how good of drivers your parents were, all it takes is one drunk, distracted, texting, cell phone talking yahoo to ruin your day. And if that happens to you and your child you would want him/her to be as safe as possible. To be honest, if it were socially acceptable, we would all be restrained like race car drivers.

Under 4 foot 9 inches or 8 years old they must be in a booster. I don't see anything in the law that prohibits them being in the front seat, provided they are properly belted and using the proper safety equipment.

I met my wife on eHarmony and had several good matches thorugh the process, but didn't take them too far. I was on match for a while and I found it to be like MySpace. A bunch of people making free profiles and staring at each other. I talked to a few, but only met one girl from match, and she was shady as hell. Supposedly a really nice girl, but the situation was very strange. My old boss met his wife on Match though, so it could have had something to do with my age at the time. I did it because the girls I was meeting when going out were absolute trash. I got tired of meeting skanks that had no ambition in life. It sounds like you're just not comfortible in the bar scene right now, and you're not ready to date either. If you're just looking for friends, people to hang out with, or things to do, I would follow the advice given earlier and join a group/club of an activity you like to do. You'll meet people in a relaxed setting, possibly build friendships, and start to feel more comfortible in your own shoes. I think the worst thing you could do right now is get into a serious relationship, if you're still grieving over the loss of your husband, which is potentially what would happen if you are on a dating site. Take this time for yourself.

Wow, that is a huge dip in the torque curve! My guess is as good as yours; either due to bad cam timing or a change in the injector logic. It's not due to the DI, but it could be how/when it transitions from solely DI to DI+PI during power enrichment. Does anyone have WB02 data from a pull? If there's not a huge rich spike it's probably due to cam or spark timing.

Chicken.

I wonder if he sells blueprints. My cat is almost 17 years old and i just want to be prepared.

Those wheels should look nice. Reading up about the car, I didn't realize they adopted the hokey Toyota fuel system. It uses direct injection for idle and cruise, then has a supplemental port injection system for additional fueling. This means the high static compression ratio require premium (where pure DI would probably be fine with regular) and bolting on a power adder should/could be as easy as tuning the secondary injectors. I heard one guy talking about how STi front control arms could be swapped, rear suspension is similar, etc. but I don't know how true that is or if it would do anything. I'm starting to really like this car.

The old one's came with either a 2.7L V6, 3.5L V6, or the 5.7L V8. Both the 2.7 and 3.5L are awful, but the new 3.6L is pretty nice. The car was refreshed in 2011, but I would also stick to the 2012+ because that's when they got the 8 speeds transmission.

Didn't some lady just eat her 3 month old baby too? This is getting out of control.

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/31/toyota-working-on-playstation-compatible-track-day-black-box-for/ Interesting...

Yeah, it's a bigger blower, boost-a-pump, etc... For some reason I thought they came with 750 HP, or something along those lines. Didn't IPS mod one to over 850? I've only seen one in person and it had a much different exhaust note. Sounded pretty good!

They are so dumb, for real.