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And what exactly is the rest of Vegas then? :dumb:

I don't plan on doing any real modding until down the line. I have a feeling that Ford has really pushed this Ecoboost motor close to its' performance limit from factory. Guys on Focusst.org are already blowing up turbos with just bolt ons + cobb tunes. For the next few years, this car needs to be a realiable DD for me that will provide me with some smiles on the curvy roads. If/when I decide to mod, a larger turbo will be first thing since, as someone said in my other thread, the k03 is already being pushed pretty hard. Also, I'd like some other people to sacrifice their cars to the tuning gods to find out what doesn't work before I start fiddling with it.

Y'all can hate on the FST all you want, .97 lateral G is fucking NUTS for FWD. That's TTRS neighborhood :gabe:

My friend "Laila" strips at the Spearmint Rhino, you should go visit her.

I've got no idea about laws in Texas, but even states that have "one way consent" for video and photo recording often will have a provision for being in a location where one has no reasonable expectation of privacy. Working in your home on your property while not performing work duties for a public entity usually will keep you safe in privacy laws. I would, again, document that she has started taking photos of you on your property and consider initiating a stalking/harassment suit, and get a restraining order.

are playing a free show tonight at Hollywood Casino, 9pm. Who else is going?

Yeah this too. They basically take complete junk cars and use their own finance company to get people into long term high interest loans on cars they'll be flipped in literally until the day it's paid off.

Not challenging, but what new cars do you specifically mean?

I think my car will have boosts. How many boosts does your car have bro?

beater civic or s10 from craigslist

I tried to read up on rooting my droid bionic, gave up because apparently after the Motorola ICS update, everything is wrong and the 1-click no longer works. I'm just going to wait a few months and get a Note 3 or S4

+1 edit: reading E15 max now

Mfr suggested minimum octane. It's idiotic if you ask me. Abarth says "91 recommended 87 minimum" on the gas cap. I tell people to use no less than 91 if they don't want to see our service dept anytime soon.

I'm pretty sure that's on 87 unleaded (thats the fuel they say is ok, i'll be using 93)

What year? If I was going to get something used, it'd have to be way fewer miles. I also refused to get an automatic, and non-abused 5-speed LGTs and other turbo Subarus are hard to find.

Focus weighs in slightly north of 3200 and rated at 252 hp.

I'd be fine with a "No V8's Allowed" section.

We should just start our own site, http://www.columbusnotLSXracing.com

Deal. How are you liking yours? Totally different class of car than Abarth, yet my customers cross-shop them.

Tuxedo Black Metallic exterior, Black/Performance Blue Recaro seats. A friend of mine had a similar color scheme on his STi a while back and I really liked it. Haven't decided what I'll do appearance-wise. I saw a black car with stock wheels coated black and a light tint that I really liked, but I also like biting the STi gold wheel style. I really don't like the stock color of the wheels on the ST, though I do like the design.

I'll definitely try to make it to some meets. I'm always open to compliments/criticism. For every thing that an FWD 4dr hatch does worse than a RWD/AWD coupe, there's something it does better, at least for my life. And it doesn't matter if you show up with the world's nicest Mustang that runs the quarter in 3.9 seconds and tops out at 292mph, there's always gonna be some douche canoe saying "Sure it's nice but I bet for the same money on a Camaro platform you could run 3.8 and 293mph". Can't make everyone happy, so I'll just stick to making me happy. Without going full retard, that is. EDIT: Tripleskate, it is direct injected, actually does about 10% better on MPG than MS3.

Considering everyone who I've talked to has replaced theirs, it's likely.

Yeah that seems to be the first thing anyone does. That + green filter. Any one know why? Is it just trying to curb performance loss? I'll be honest I've never modified a car I owned, other than the janky ass Apache.

I'd never considered buying new until I drove the ST. I'm wary of used performance cars, though, always just thought of it as buying someone else's problems. All those cars are nice, and the LGT was tops on my list until I saw the crackhead prices people want for them. However, none of those cars gets 32 hwy mpg IIRC.

A lot of the ST's that people are reading about in magazines etc are loaded press cars, pushing $30k. When you jump up to that price range, you're looking at a car with Nav, HIDs (not important to me, I'll retrofit if I decide I want them), heated full leather Recaro seats (again, hate leather), rear armrest LOL, ambient lighting, overhead console, heated exterior mirrors. If those things were important to me I would definitely be looking to spend a hair more to get into a low end luxury performance car.