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When my port makes noise my wife makes me put a cork in it.

Right on, congratulations!

Sweet! Have to post sanding frustration pics... P.S. The vid made me cry too, morale of the story is no CHEAPAZZ updates on the 1.8T

I'd pick the Honda exclusively cause the Saturn is dog slow. That says something since I really, really won't drive a Japanese car. (being 6'8" I look and feel ridiculous in all of them, plus they don't trade with the US so screw 'em). However, if that Honda has really been beat on which noting the performance parts I would then defer and take the Saturn. Actually with any car with that many miles try and buy the one that has been taken better care of. It will go along way in saving you money on it in the future.l

Oh ya, in the winters its F'in cold here.

65* here today. It was 80* over x-mas and new years...MOVE HERE NOW! Once my car is payed off, I'm gone. Probably to SC with my buddy, but who knows. It would be really nice to see the ocean. Never have before. In FACT, I've never been farther than a bordering state of Indiana. My life sucks. Dang, never seen the ocean huh. You're missin out, ocean weather is awesome and ocean sunsets > any other sunset. There are three other sunsets you should see before you die. 1) On a big Northern Lake...a lot like the ocean but being we are further North the sun takes a different path 2) Really far up North where you can watch the sunset turn into Northern Lights 3) Up high in the Mountains--I have seen it set in the Rockies, the Appalachians, and the Andes (the Andes were the best but hey they are honkin' high) The ocean is pretty sweet though, but hopefully soon I will live on lake front here and get to see it every night--try and afford that in Cali

Looks real good. I like the matching paint idea, are you going to blow the paint yourself? I suppose a better question is are you going to do the frustrating body work yourself. Aargh I hate sanding. Here is a VW 1.8T with a few cheap mods for speed on it that you may or may not want to follow.... http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/view?&...=10.4MB&dur=252 Hit the "play video" button

Now you have to invert it....

I realize it isn't possible to use a true measurement mic, but I am sure that the db variations from pressure sensor to sensor is well more than the uncertainty that they show the score to. Reporting tenths of a db is just a bit silly in my book. As for the headrest variation, what we use for doing Sound Quality testing on vehicles is a Head and Torso simulator outfitted with ear canals and mics in each ear. Deadly setup for being accurate and repeatable, but again at $25k I know why they aren't being used in SPL comps.

Lol, i always get a kick out of these comments. If you want the most legal, meter at the headrest. Afterall, that's what YOU hear when you play your stereo. I don't see too many people sticking their head in the kick or on the windshield and saying "damn, thats loud" That and the repeatability and consistency of the measurement mics they use is a joke as well. It should never be XXX.x db's. Ask any acoustician and they will tell you measuring tenths of a db is not real. The environment can change that quickly, and they use $2k mics with $2k+ power supplies not even counting the analyzer. IMO if it isn't a Bruel & Kjaer or a real competitors measuring device it is weighted strange. That and they don't use C weighting on measuring their response curves. Anything over 120dB should be measured with C weighting and I do like the headrest idea. I actually know nothing about competitions as I have never witnessed one or been to one, but in my previous job all I did was measure acoustics with a $100k analyzer--which I still have regular access to

Curious to see the NFL draft ramifications of the UT win.

Sorry Jntar didn't mean to make you close the new SQ car thread earlier. It is just hard to have a nice reaction to someone when they say that you don't know what you are talking about--especially when it comes to wrenching on cars. I drive 50k miles plus a year and do my own wrenching. Needless to say I have owned a bit of everything and of course am pretty opinionated (sp?) because of it.

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Where I live we call that a ResRunner. Not PC, but regretably a true scenario. Some of the reservations up here are nuts. Whenever MN makes the news for shootings in schools or nutso kids it is almost always off the res. Of course, seeing something like that in the city would just scare me away from wanting to know who was driving it.

Nice work!

Weird sometimes I get FC and sometimes not for a post or two

OoooOoOOoo.... ^TOP

If you find one let me know, I could find lots of good uses for the stinky ones. You don't need to get a card, just give her one of those pepperoni sticks right out of your coat pocket. It will get you azz anytime! Just don't set off the light when giving it to her.

I use synthetic and change every 3k miles, but I am a nut and if my motor goes it is in the neighborhood of $8-15k depending on what actually dies. For that the oil changes then seem cheap. If you really are only going to do it 2x a year, definetely run synthetic.

Good idea, that looks nice!

Welcome to SSA, you will like it here.

Just gonna step out and look at another house since the d1ck I made an offer to on New Years Eve is ignoring me. I am shocked, it is a for sale by owner and the owner won't respond to an offer?? Aargh, hopefully this one is nicer!

LOL If i did that you wouldnt see me on the internet ever again. That sucker is SOOOO HEAVY ! My pops, big bro and myself moved it. The thing is like solid steel in the inside. No wonder its so friggin heavy. beyotch is putting it loosely, its far worse than that. Umm, that is still "yourself". I am surprised you guys can walk after that 3 people and a piano is still a beyotch!

Happy BirthDay!

That would prob be eaiser. I still have your addy. Doh, just sent you a PM. I will blast off a check today! Thanks for the instantaneous shipment, if I don't hear from you by tonight it will just come to the address on the box.