Rice Eater

Sorry couldn't help myself.

Can I borrow your trailer to go pick it up?

You guys are overlooking the obvious...Any car maker could make their car go a million miles if they wanted to...but if your car will run for a million miles and not wearout or rust...how many new cars are you likely to buy? Like we say in the Pharma industry..there is no money in the cure!

It's not so much the place as it is the guy you deal with at the place. I have always had great service at Summit. I even got a thank you card from them after a big purchase..not a system generated one, it was hand written and signed by the guy who helped me. I have had good and bad with Jegs. A couple years ago one of their people gave out my account info to my ex's boyfriend. At Jegs, I find they treat you better the more they see you in there and the more they know you(the more you spend). So far Matt and the guys at west Broad have been helpful even though they don't know who I am and how much I have spent there in the last 3 years. Jegs is 2 miles away too..but Summit has a way cooler showroom, it's like a field trip, just make sure your spending alot and that nothing is going to need to be returned to make the trip worthwhile.

I haven't read the package on the new stuff, maybe they say to change the filter at normal intervals and top off like they used to.

Autozone carries spools ranging from about $8-$16 depending on size. I just paid $8 for 100 feet of 16 guage there.

Mobil I used to be advertised as 25,000 mile oil back when it came in cardboard cans. You would change the filter at the interval that the vehicle manufacturer required and top off whatever oil you lost in the filter change. About the time they switched to plastic bottles they dropped the mileage part from the package. I asked the Mobil rep and they said that they dropped it bacause of industry pressure but I could still continue the 25k with normal filter changes. Looks like it's coming full circle.

Unfortunately(or fortunately) these kind of people are why there are original muscle cars that were $5k new and going for $500k at Barrett-Jackson now.

Just tell them you will give them 24 hours or you will call the Attorney Generals office. If they call your bluff, call the Ag's office. You will be asked to file a report, they used to mail it but I bet you do it online now. Then someone from the AG will call them or send a notice of the complaint and your problem will be fixed asap. Then if you renew your lease they will probably raise your rent.

A show I saw said you use 30% more e85 than gasoline. In Brazil they have been using it since the 70's and it costs about half as much as gas. They said that you can't start the car with it in the winter, that they have a 1 gal gasoline tank in the engine compartment so you start on gas and then switch once the engine warms. Atleast that's how it is in Brazil, maybe what they're building here is a little differen't.

They say recognizing you have problem is the first step to overcoming it. You've taken the first step so I congratulate you.

Well I commend him then. You have to have atleast a little respect for anyone that puts the effort into trying to learn how to fix their own vehicle, no matter what make or model it is. I would much rather see a mediocre car that someone built totally themselves than a show car someone paid someone else to build for them.

I would like to know if Brenden works on his own car or if he pays or will be paying someone to do it(not including the alignment)? As far as the ricer Camaro, for it to be 5000lbs, it would have to have a shitload of subs and amps and probably spinner wheels and stuff on it to be 2.5tons(5000lbs). Besides, street racing is unsafe, illegal, and I believe not condoned by CR.

Our neighborhood(Galloway) has been getting bad since about '02. Strangely that's when the large influx of latin speaking people moved in. I have lived here since '90 and never had a problem until 2 years ago. The night after thanksgiving they broke into my garage and stole my mig welder, last fall they broke in and stole my tool chests and about $5000 in tools in them, then they stole my car stereo and destroyed my console doing it. I'm looking to go farther out of town when my lease is up.

My 383 sbc is 11.1:1 and I run a remanufactured starter from Autozone. The part number is 3510. I have had it on there since I built the engine(30,000 miles) and a few thousand on the 350 that preceeded it. If you can't start it with the standard factory high torque, then you have a problem. The only time you should need a "hi-output mini starter" is if you have header clearance problems or on a 13:1 or up engine. The 3510 is the same motor(possibly different nose piece) that GM put on every v-8 other than the diesel. Make sure that the wire from the case to the solenoid stud comes out at the very end farthest from the alum nose piece, that indicates it is a high torque.

Might be unrelated, but my MSD control module was having issues like that a few months ago. Sometimes a no start with a buzz noise that started low and increased in volume with the tach needle pegging to the high side. I replaced the module and haven't had a problem since. Have her turn on the key and you track where the noise is coming from.

It's probably no secret that the whole boom in cnc machining has driven the cost of wheels through the floor. I'm an ebay seller and the most important thing to look for is what KIND of feedback a seller you're considering buying from is getting. Most buyers are quick to give good feedback as soon as they receive the item even before making sure it works. Also, like real life, many unhappy buyers will not leave feedback at all so you never hear about the bad stuff. Most of that sellers bad feedback centered around bad service after the sale. Once they got their money they didn't give a rats ass about the customer. Someone selling that much volume on ebay should have a 99.8% feedback rating atleast. 1.5% of 16285 is 244 unsatisfied customers, at $500 each that's $122,000...they couldn't care less they got their money. And they never even saw those wheels, they used a wholesale warehouse and all they did was take the order and collect the money.

I think ricers do j/k

My son cut all the tendons and nerves in his wrist five years ago. he spent 5 hours in the initial emergency surgury and they got the tendons reattached but not all the nerves. he still can't feel in his thumb and pointer finger. Then he developed a scar lump that had to be removed only to come right back again. Bottom line $100,000.00 paid by the insurance co(thank god for insurance) and his hand will still never be right.

Mine wouldn't play in stereo, it only played through the right hand speakers for some reason...91 GMC fullsize fwiw

OK sounds like they're strong enough, what about cost? A Moser 9" for an F-body is about $2k less brakes.

It appears from ls1tech that people are fabbing 8.8ford rears for GM f-bodies. I guess the question is...Are they strong enough and cheap enough?

Bob Lutz already gave out the teaser that at some point the LS7 will be available for the Camaro. If so, I'd say that Mustang sales will drop big time. That is if they don't put a $60k price tag on it.

I personally have never heard that one. I have heard that although they are strong, that the 60 is much less efficient than any other option. I'm saving for a 9" but if a 12bolt came along for a good price I'd go that way.

This is on oil filters from Moroso's web site. The URL is: http://www.moroso.com/catalog/categorydisplay.asp?catcode=20002 Racing Oil Filters After many years of designing and testing racing oil systems and related components, we've collected a great deal of information to determine what's most important to oil filtration. Our conclusion was Total Filtration Time! Many filter manufacturers stress the importance of filtering some of the smallest particles known to man out of your engine's oil. You've probably seen or heard them talk about "micron ratings" of 10 or less when talking about a filter's efficiency. (One micron is one-millionth of a meter and a "micron rating" of 10 means that the filter will remove particles as small as 10 millionths of a meter.) Moroso engineers have determined, with the help of research performed by filtration technology experts, that particles smaller than 20 microns in diameter are not large enough to produce engine wear. Furthermore, Moroso engineers have also found that filters with extremely low micron ratings create an excessive pressure drop across the filter. They can be so restrictive that the filter by-pass valve can open. And with the by-pass valve open, NO FILTRATION occurs, and you have no way of knowing! To maximize filter performance, Moroso Oil Filters have a rating of 27 microns, which produces a maximum initial restriction of only 2.5 psi when tested to SAE j806! The result is less pressure drop, more flow, less oil by-pass and maximum filtration performance that's so important in severe racing conditions. This is on K&N air filters from their website. The URL is: http://www.knfilters.com/faq.htm#10 11. What is the micron rating and filtering efficiency of the K&N filter? Air filters are not rated by micron size on an absolute basis. (See technical service bulletin 89-5R from the Filter Manufacturer's Council) The proper rating system for air filters is a testing procedure developed to measure the efficiency of the filtration media at varying micron sizes. We routinely subject a sample of our air filters to this testing procedure conducted by independent laboratories. The primary purpose of this testing is to ensure that our air filter designs meet or exceed automotive industry standards. Until recently filtration tests were performed in accordance with the Society of Automotive Engineer's (SAE) J726 testing procedure, however, we now use the ISO 5011procedure which that superseded the SAE procedure. The content of the test dust used in accordance with the SAE testing procedure is as follows: Particle Size in Microns % by Volume (+/- 3%) <5.5 13 5.5 to 11 11 11 to 22 13 22 to 44 19 44 to 88 28 88 to 176 16 I work in a highly regulated industry, more tightly regulated than the air or oil filter business. And even within the parameters of a specified test you can create situations that skew the results in your favor. That being said..maybe these figures, the ones I posted and the original "independent" ones are all correct, partially correct, partially incorrect, or total crap. The bottom line is this..nobody at our level of the game(amatuer automotive enthusiest(sp)) should worry too much about something as small as 200 millionths of a meter. Now if you were driving the space shuttle at 18,000 miles an hour you might want to worry about 200 microns, just because there are no garages in outer space yet. Me, I change the oil pretty regular and I seem to have little problems with it.