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this is NOT a permanent solution. i don't care what the commercials say, i would avoid using this for a prolonged period of time. i give this all the time for people in the hospital to help them get some sleep---the hospital is a very difficult place to sleep--but i refuse to prescribe it once they leave. i'm not an internal medicine doctor though. i just don't think an otherwise healthy young adult needs a sleeping pill, unless something else is going on.

my wife pretty much refuses to go into the store because she doesn't want to be associated with the people who shop there, but i don't care too much. the only real groceries we buy there are gatorade and poweraide--things like that--i would avoid any produce or meat. oddly enough, i've found that sam's club has decent meat/poultry--much, much better than wal mart. i'm assuming some 'mom and pop' type places get meat from sam's, and that is why they have better quality, but who knows. everything else my wife gets from target, which is about a mile from our house. i knew going into it, that i was buying a piece of shit, but that was pretty much my only choice on such short notice--at least they eventually took it back, and gave me the higher up model for the same price. in the end, i never needed it anyways. regardless, the one i returned is certainly ruined from the gas/styrofoam combo--it was all over the top of it

sorry for the long read i made a thread the other day about buying a generator, seeing as how hurricane faye was supposed to hit tampa (we didn't even really get a single drop of rain--wtf??). anyways, i talked my wife into getting a cheap generator ($500-700), but by the time we got to home depot/lowe's all the cheap ones were sold out, and i wasn't going to spend $1k on something i may never use. so, against my better judgment, i bought a cheapo $300 no name brand from Wal Mart (5pm), along with tons of water, some canned/dry food, extra formula, and extra batteries for all of our flashlights. i drop the wife/kids off, and go out and fill up the generator, as well as the 5 gallon gas can i bought. problem #1--the generator gas tank allows some gas to seep out from where the gas level float indicator is located at--no big deal, i just roll the windows down in our beater sentra. problem #2--generator won't start. i try everything, check the spark plug, gap it, adjust the choke over and over again, flush the combustion chamber with air (thinking it was flooded) etc. etc.--fucking thing won't start. so i load it back up into its box, and into the sentra and head back to wal mart--it is now 8pm. on the way to wal mart, more fuel seeps out, and it reeks of gas. i bring it to the return counter and they refuse to take it, since it has gas in it--they tell me to take it out of the building. i tell them to have the manager meet me outside. manager comes outside and is a complete fucktard---basically says i can't help you, what do you want me to do??? its store policy not to take back things with gas in them, etc. etc. i basically tell him to have someone get a 5 gallon gas container and a funnel, or i will basically dump the gas out in the flower bed 5 feet away. i'm waiting over 30 minutes for the person to bring the gas can out--i'm waiting in the entry way, by where the greeter is. i decide to check out the generator since it smells so bad--- when i looked in the box, i realized that the gas had leaked out of the tank and all over some styrofoam that it was packed with (i hastily threw everything back in the box, including the styrofoam). on top of the gas tank, there was this gelatinous material where the gas had dissolved the styrofoam i told the greeter i was through waiting, ripped off the UPC portion of the box, grabbed a different generator (the next level up, of cheap jap-shit), and headed for the return/customer service area. after arguing with the manager again--for them making me wait 30 minutes for nothing, they gave me the $375 generator for the price of the other one $300. i promptly left wondering what they must have thought when they opened up the other box and seen the napalm surprise. took the generator home, and it started up easily---and i never needed it. but hey, i got a new toy--my wife was a bit pissed. cliffs----fuck wal mart, they sell complete cheap ass shit (no surprise for me), and don't have good customer service unless you go strong with them.

just make sure your intake is welded properly if you're going to be spraying NAAAAWWWWSS!!!

+1 on all of the above. leave the motor alone. when/if you blow it, then you can upgrade--until then, leave things be. oh, and welcome. its nice to see more fellow cobra owners here. post up some pics

that's a well-known problem with these cars. for every problem, there's a solution. a $120 solution to cool the cylinder heads--ford never claimed their engineers were that smart.

i knew those aluminators would turn out to be junk. i've bought plenty of parts from tousely ford---they have ford GT pumps for super cheap, i also bought my whipple from them for under $3k. i'll also be getting an 8.8 housing from them this year--$500 or so.

just keep modding that car. i've been lurking around the v8rx7 forum (saw your for sale add over there), and will probably be looking for one in a year

rofl terrible intro.

the rods are the most expensive thing in the motor. check into "iron fist, lead foot"---ford had huge difficuties keeping rods inside the block. reluctantly, they spent big bucks (in mass production car terms) on the rods--it was a real dilemma for them. the rods are solid.

dermabond ftw. some surgeons have started to use it as well. i believe it was used in the past, but is much more improved. its very useful for smashed finger nail-beds, where the laceration may not be a clean cut, and the tissue in your nail bed does not hold sutures very well. not saying they did a bad job, but i would have shaved your manstache to make sure the margins of your lip line up exactly. otherwise, it can look like you've had a cleft lip repaired- either way, you'll have a decent scar--the dermabond limits the amount of "train track" appearance that traditional stitches can give edit--that is one of the most painful areas (lip) to get local anesthetic injected into

your intro sucks. look at the other intro's, post pics of your car, tell us what you do for a living, etc. etc.

not throwing GM under the bus at all, i love my GTO. people argue back and forth about displacement vs. smaller motor with forced induction. "the LSX is much larger than my 4.6 liter" says the ford guy. "put a blower on my LSX motor and see what happens" says the gm guy. up to this point, its been crazy to believe that so many cobras are 600+rwhp with a completely stock longblock. now, with the bigger blowers coming out, many cobras are pushing 700+ rwhp and living reliably without issues. like i said, i'm talking about reliability--plenty are 800rwhp and above and PERHAPS on borrowed time--we'll see--most people who drop the money for big, big blowers or turbos just go the extra mile and get better pistons, rod bolts, and head studs--that's all that you really need. the rods/crank/and block are up for just about anything. hell, i've got 10 hp shy of 600rwhp and have been running the stock headers, stock clutch/tranny/rearend for just about 2 years that being said, i'll be looking hard at the new CTS-V once i start my next job---we'll see if the newer motors (LSA and LS9) respond as well to pulley swaps.

its all about negotiating. i could afford to go completely nuts with my car, my other toys, etc. but my wife/kids come first. if i want something out of the blue, that i completely do not need--i can convince my wife--but its a lot easier if she thinks we need it. i'm just looking for a generator that i can run some extension cords to. it doesn't have to plug into my home's power grid

get a beater and hang on to this beast for about one more year

i'm just busting your balls. welcome

yeah, i just need a very basic portable one. i don't need to run anything major--just simple household things.

list of what??? unless you have a car that actually is able to be driven (not pushed) from point A to point B, then you don't have shit. i'm planning on building a 9 second car (in a little over a year), so should i talk shit to all the guys who have low 10 second cars?? i'm guessing that in one year, you will not have any of the cars you currently own, or they will not be running (reliably)

guys, my wife is freaking out about this tropical storm approaching tampa, and i'm going to use it to my advantage. i've convinced her we should get a generator. what should i look for, as far as power output/etc. i won't need anything more than a very basic model, and i'm sure she won't let me go nuts, so let me know what i would need. thanks

i can't remember where i got the taillight tints for my car, but they look great, even up close. i paid a little more, but they are crystal clear--50% tinted, not fully blacked out http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii296/LowLevelP08/Kirk-Cobra-007.jpg

$22 for the resistor, and i'm back in the game. just got the A/C refilled on the car, and changed out a faulty oxygen sensor. i'm getting 33mpg on average with some city driving and mostly freeway driving. i'd probably get 35+ if it were all freeway--that's nuts for a 10 year old car thanks for the help guys

this is part of the issue why these cars run so poorly. power is so easy and relatively cheap to make---that owners neglect suspension parts, and light weight parts to drop weight off the car---i'm just as guilty as anyone of this

hal, i didn't know you needed GT pumps--i've still got mine sitting in a box in my closet right now. i'm still running the stock pumps with the boost a pump, and the full wiring upgrade, along with upgrading all the hosing inside the fuel tank.

bow down to the awesome power potential of the terminator with the stock longblock. my plans to go compound boost (twin turbos compounded with my twinscrew blower) are still in order---and i might begin to start collecting parts next spring/summer. i haven't decided whether or not i want to build a 'nuc-proof' bottom end first, or just get the system running first with moderate boost and the stock bottom end. that and a bit of weight loss with the solid rear, and i'll be set. who would ever think a FACTORY STOCK longblock could pound out 800rwhp over and over again and live. there are hundreds of these cars driven daily with 600+rwhp and well over 50k miles

post pics, and you will get positive rep, and then be able to see the rest of the site