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you mean a radiology technician, right?? i thought OSU had a program, but i'm at children's hospital tonight, and i'll ask one of the radiology technicians

i can't buy another car at the moment, but when you guys have the turbo kits up and running, i will be interested in one--in about a year, so keep us informed

i understand mexican. hello night crew, wake up bitches

i'm guessing your car wouldn't make the trip to tampa, where most of my cars are right now. the car does look like a nice sleeper though. better than the gray 4 door posted in the other thread

i'm keeping the cobra, GTO, and explorer. i will give my sentra to my parents, and get my '87 fox that's remaining in columbus next year. most of our other shit will be trashed in florida. couches with baby spit-up all over them, etc. etc.

no worries, i've already linked your thread from svtperformance here earlier tonight. congrats on the new car

how is a riced out piece of shit civic an upgrade from what you currently own. you should check out fagassricer.com, or homodouchebagbodykit.com. they should have exactly what your looking for.

congrats. now you won't come off as a complete poser when you post j/k good luck with the car

either way, its in a completely different class. as stated the brakes are high dollar. bigger than the z-06's and half the weight. the sealant on the carbon fiber top is something crazy like $30,000 per gallon. just read one of the many articles on this thing and you'll realize the difference that has gone into this car to demand a $100k price tag. as far as markups, i'm sure they will be hefty--just as they were/are for the ford GT, the GT-500, '03/04 cobras, C6z-06, challenger, etc. the real question is when will the war stop, as gas prices keep rising, and the market for these types of vehicles shrinks. i can remember in high school, when a stock 5.0 foxbody coupe was a contender--and that was not all that long ago--225hp

someone local already has one--he's got a kenne bell GT-500, a buick GN, and several other toys http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=500053 that was his challenger that was at the mustang show today, that someone had a picture of

its kind of like the difference between an '04 mustang GT, and an '04 mustang cobra, only taken to a completely different level.

i'll be in manitowac--very close to sheboygan.

the blower on the ZR1 is incredible. TVS blowers are about as good as twin-screw (whipple or kenne bell blowers) are for terminator cobras. they are not at all like heatons. even so, ported heatons are still getting 550rwhp (without nitrous) in our '03/04 cobras. with a pulley and minimal supporting mods, the ZR1 will make 700-800 rwhp without even batting an eye---and it only weighs 150lbs more than a z06, which is incredible considering everything that had to be 'beefed up' for the extra 130hp, as well as the weight of the blower itself. because of the higher compression, and non-"bomb-proof" bottom end of the current z-06, it would be unwise to run boost higher than 5-7psi if one were to choose forced induction--and if they did, i'm guessing they'd have to upgrade suspension/etc. to a weight that is greater than the ZR1. the current boost pressure on the z-06 is 10.5 psi, but i'm guessing people will push the motor to twice that (with good gasoline), and NO OTHER modifications necessary to the bottom end---just as people have been doing to '03/04 cobras. my car sees 18psi (with no motor modifications), and i'd have no problem upping the boost with a good tune, and higher octane. once you feel the instantaneous, earth moving torque that a positive displacement blower can produce, you get hooked. that should pretty much answer your question

this is what i was afraid of. i reserved the UHAULS 3 months ago, and was told i'd be able to pick them up at the georgesville location (not too far from me). then the day before, they tell me i have to go to the east side of town to pick them up--at least they upgraded us to larger trucks, because we needed all the space--garage full of workbenches, two large tool carts/jacks/air compressor, two complete bedroom sets, with a very large armoire, washer/drier, 2 couches, 2 big screen TV's, and another 32" TV, recliner, kitchen set, baker's rack, miscellaneous end tables and coffee tables, and a nursery with two of everything imaginable including another huge armoir--and countless other things i've accumulated in this house

thanks. all-in-all it was not too bad, and thank god we made it down there without wrecking/breaking anything

yeah, i walked outside at 7 am wednesday before i left for columbus, and it was sticky as hell, hot, and humid--felt like 90 degrees already. but the wife and kids have already been to the pool twice.

shit, if only i had room for this

thanks, good to know. i'll have to put the receipts in my tax deduction file. at one point during our trip, we were passed by another UHAUL transporting a beat up old explorer. my brother radioed me to look at the explorer. there were 4 people in the UHAUL itself, and another 4 people riding in the explorer on the trailor--WTF.

my fellowship will be in total hip and total knee replacements--plenty of old people in florida, so i will be busy as hell next year. i'm taking a big pay cut for the year, but my experience will be worth so much more (that's why they can pay us a small amount).

i had already packed the cameras up, and didn't even think to get pictures. our kids have been on two trips so far, so i know about flying twins, but i couldn't imagine triplets--holy shit.

a one-year fellowship (job training). i could have had easily the same training in cleveland, but my wife thought it would be nice to live somewhere for a year, that we would not normally live. my official "job" will start next summer, and i will be residing in wisconsin--one hour north of milwaukee, right on the lake. talk about two extremes!

WARNING--long read, but fairly entertaining GOAL: move the wife, two 9 month old twin daughters, two large dogs, one GTO, one cobra, one explorer, and a house full of shit 1016 miles to tampa florida, and then come back to columbus for 2 weeks to finish my job. i will be in tampa for only one year THE PLAN: use 2 large UHAUL trucks, with 2 car trailers (i drive one, and my brother drives the other), brother-in-law and father-in-law drive the explorer with the dogs along side our UHAULS, and my wife and mother-in-law fly to tampa with the twins. THE PREPARATION: i moved a lot of stuff up to my parents' house in cleveland over the past year that i would not need in tampa. my wood shop, kegerator, and a few other things would stay in columbus (my brother bought my old house), as i would not need them in tampa, and my house in tampa has no basement. other than that, i had been packing for months, and had just about everything packed and ready to go last friday. saturday--wife went to her parents in akron with the explorer, and i moved most of our stuff into half of our garage. this involved taking tons of things apart (2 cribs, 2 beds with headboards, large computer desk, TV stand, etc.) sunday--brother-in-law and i get the UHAUL trucks (took 3 hours, as UHAUL was completely unprepared despite numerous calls from me in the weeks leading up), and start loading them. i live in a cul-de-sac, and it was father's day, so everyone had cars parked in the street--we had two 26 foot trucks, with car trailors (not car dolleys). took us about 5 hours to completely load each truck--not bad i applied blue painters tape to the front of the GTO and cobra my brother was still in st. lucia on his honeymoon, coming back that night at 11pm THE MOVE--loaded the cars onto the trailers and left columbus around 9 am--it was raining---TRUCKS DID NOT HAVE A/C. refueling was a cluster fuck, as we had no real shot of reliably backing the UHAULS up (i'm not a truck driver), so we had to pick gas stations carefully, and refuel one truck at a time (30-40 minutes per refill). my brother realized at this time that the truck's overdrive was not turned on (idiot). ran into tons of construction in kentucky, and lost 2 hours at one point going through 8 miles of one-lane I-75 construction. made it through the mountains with no issues. as we enter georgia, my brother's truck gets just a bit squirrely, and we pull off at a rest area, thinking he had a flat, or something like that--turns out he was going just a bit fast down a hill, and got into the berm just as he was caught in the backwash of a quickly passing semi truck. nothing is wrong with the truck, but we agree to stay under 65mph (speed limit is 70, and semi's go about 75-80mph). made it through atlanta traffic at 10pm, and stop for gas just south of atlanta. brother/father-in-law try to lead us into a dead-end gas station, but we avoid it, and fill up at a BP. they insist on eating at the waffle house which advertises "truck parking". instead of scouting it out, and calling us, they go ahead, and we follow--into a small parking lot. i'm able to manuever the lot, back the truck up, and turn around to face out again. we get the other truck completely stuck, and have to detach the trailor, manuever the truck several times, while truckers are laughing their asses off--we lose 40 minutes in the parking lot, and enter the waffle house to clapping from the 4 cops sitting at one table. we finish eating at 11pm and agree to go about 40 more minutes and stay at a hotel. the dogs have done fine so far in the explorer. we stay at a dirty ass super 8 motel (my brother finds a bug on one of the beds), and i'm paranoid about my cars parked on trailors. i had locks on each truck, as well as locks on the trailors, and we parked the trucks side-by-side with the explorer blocking the trailors in. we wake up at 5:30 am and get on the road--380 miles to go--we tell my father/brother-in-law to go ahead, so they can get to our house, unload the dogs, and pick up my wife/kids/etc. when they fly into the airport by 1pm. we roll into tampa at 12:45pm, and start unloading--wife's flight was delayed until 4pm. we get the cars off the trailors (some of the tape did not stick, cars were filthy as hell), and get each truck unloaded. wife/daughters/mother-in-law get in, o.k. and the twins are fussy, but happy to see me. the only thing that broke was one wine glass. all in all, things went fine, but the drive was quite nerve-racking. we got tons of looks from just about everyone who passed. COST: two 26' UHAULS with trailors/insurance/etc--$1900 GAS for UHAULS and explorer--$1500 flights---$1000 overall it cost us just over $4500, but i figured it would have cost twice that to have a moving company do things. will i do it again, next year??? probably not. i will have the cars professionally transported, and we will trash most of our shit.

saw you turn onto walcutt from roberts. car looked like it had just been off-roading for the day

since i wouldn't trust any high school girl to wash a car that i care about, maybe i'll show up in our '99 sentra.

i just saw a guy in an sti that was muddy as hell in hilliard. it was blue with stickers all over it