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NitroSpazzz posted:The E21 runs, drat thing started right up. Running a little rough so I need to look into that but I'm guessing it has something to do with the oil coming out of the header... Exhaust manifold studs. Depending on the head the upper stud holes actually open up into the valve train, lots of people w/ 2002/E21's have had issues with oil leaking around the #1 stud. Pull studs, clean threads, replace + loctite.
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T1g4h posted:Oh holy poo poo you guys they're bringing back Battlebots! I used to watch the UK Robot Wars on PBS. You know how when something would go wrong, they'd all be quite cheerful "Ah well we'll soon put it right"? I expect this revival will treat those situations as an opportunity to stick people in a closet with a camera and make them bitch about their teammates, because that's modern reality TV.
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Awesome! I loved that show. Also taking a date on a mountain run in the STi in the morning before work. How much of an rear end in a top hat would I be if I set up the go pro for in car and YouTube Her reaction when I put my foot to the floor?
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Holdbrooks posted:Awesome! I loved that show. Aren't there entire youtube channels dedicated to exactly this?
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Raluek posted:Aren't there entire youtube channels dedicated to exactly this? Especially if she's wearing a bikini top and not much else, yes.
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I'm considering doing something really, really stupid and selling my GTR and taking a giant loan to buy one of the only manual LP640s made.
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You know you didn't come to us to hear "keep the GTR".
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IOwnCalculus posted:Especially if she's wearing a bikini top and not much else, yes. Maybe I will make this my tinder game. Make YouTube money from terrified Tucson girls on Mt. Lemon.
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Moxie Omen posted:Exhaust manifold studs. Depending on the head the upper stud holes actually open up into the valve train, lots of people w/ 2002/E21's have had issues with oil leaking around the #1 stud. Pull studs, clean threads, replace + loctite. Holy poo poo I did not know this. This is the 2.0L head and I'm currently running 5 instead of 8 exhaust studs...that might have something to do with it. Think the ones I'm missing are top on 2/4 and bottom on 4. Knew I should have ordered a set of those. Will have to see if I can get the old studs free from the old exhaust manifold then remove/clean/loctite all of them. What would be the recommended loctite for this? Comrade Flynn posted:
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NitroSpazzz posted:Holy poo poo I did not know this. This is the 2.0L head and I'm currently running 5 instead of 8 exhaust studs...that might have something to do with it. Think the ones I'm missing are top on 2/4 and bottom on 4. Knew I should have ordered a set of those. Will have to see if I can get the old studs free from the old exhaust manifold then remove/clean/loctite all of them.  yeah, go get some new studs. #07129908134 I believe. They're less than a dollar a piece.
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Feb 6, 2015 23:52
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Holdbrooks posted:Awesome! I loved that show. If the date isn't going well, sure. If the date is going well and you want date #2, don't think it's such a good idea.
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mariooncrack posted:If the date isn't going well, sure. If the date is going well and you want date #2, don't think it's such a good idea. This is already #2 and she seem pretty cool so I guess I shouldn't drive like a madman and film it lol.
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Holdbrooks posted:This is already #2 and she seem pretty cool so I guess I shouldn't drive like a madman and film it lol. I'd stick to a more leisurely drive then. Will she mind being in such a loud car?
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As with other dating situations, learning the difference between a whoop of glee and a shriek of terror would likely be a wise move.
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InitialDave posted:As with other dating situations, learning the difference between a whoop of glee and a shriek of terror would likely be a wise move. enough about bedroom antics, back to scaring the poo poo out of people on twisties.
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mariooncrack posted:I'd stick to a more leisurely drive then. Will she mind being in such a loud car? I have ear plugs in the glove box lol. But it will also be Saturday morning and there will be plenty of other people driving up there and cops so I won't go crazy.
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I can't wait for spring and having a jeep back on the road again so I can scare the bajeezus out of people on back roads. Snow is fun and all but there are some really vicious breakovers followed by off camber corners with large hungry trees on the outside and the point is to have fun, not die.
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My friends and I are starting a Youtube channel talking about some of the cool and interesting cars around our country and we have some pretty awesome roads close to our city so we figured we'd give it a go. It's probably going to end up closer to Harry's Garage in style than Chris Harris, mainly owing to me not wanting to huge skids on open public roads and also because I'm hoping people might one day trust us enough to lend us their interesting cars to play with. I'm just going to use my S5 to take some footage at the local Concourse meeting tomorrow but the field of view sucks and glare tolerance is just as bad. The plan is to get some GoPros at some point and we've got access to a drone as well. So yea, I'm going to make terrible YouTube videos and try and pretend I know what I'm talking about. If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them.
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well, that figures. some texas redneck posted:Oh godfuckingdamnit. gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress. My wife mentioned that this morning, and I actually thought of you at the mention of Frontier. I was sure I was wrong that Frontier was the poo poo company you worked at, because how could a company as crappy as they possibly buy up all of Verizon's ISP business, but, welp. Did anyone happen to catch that the FCC changed the definition of "broadband"? Now I don't have broadband (only 20 Mbit. I could pay for more, but I don't want to. My only choices are AT&T-Uverse, or Time Warner Cable.) At least the FCC is on track to classify internet as Title II Common Carrier. I wonder if that ties into the Verizon sale? OFFICER 13 INCH posted:So apparently we are transferring one of our techs back to ballard because suddenly they dont have enough technicians because someone left What a bunch of chucklefucks.
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Taylor Swift thread definitely delivers but the nuGBS noise is still pissing me off. Except the content makes it worth dragging my browser through the mire of shitposts. Turbo Fondant fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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Raluek posted:Aren't there entire youtube channels dedicated to exactly this? This one's the absolute best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIhGJyLR6TI He's an ex F1 driver, she's his wife.
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You know what's fun, buying machine tools. You know what sucks,
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Wife and I came back from a walk around 5:00 and noticed a bunch of little kids (maybe age 3-5) arriving at a birthday party down the street. We went out to dinner, just got back now at 8.30 and a fire truck and ambulance pulled up behind us to the birthday house 
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Would you describe yourself as empty like how I feel after the GBS Taylor Swift thread? gently caress guys, I knew having a kid had softened me up, but I'm like a loving jelly roll over here. That said, he already knows the difference between the DC universe and Marvel universe and he's not even 4. And we play video games together 
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Its currently 38.5 degrees celcius in the shed, hit 45.5 earlier BEFORE we started up the Corsair to regas its AC... My Athlon based shed PC is NOT enjoying this heat and im avoiding doing the service on my landcruiser as much as I can until it cools down more.
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Ferremit posted:
point the airgun at it might help a bit, I know my shed computer fills up with dust and poo poo all the drat time. Heats not as bad in Vic but its muggy as gently caress and I've been making dust all day, So I know the feeling. I saw a little portable Ac thing for a tenner earlier at a garage sale and I'm really regretting not grabbing it now.
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Anybody have any experience with ground source heat pumps? I just got a quote for one - $37,000, plus an additional $15,500 if we go with wells instead of trenches (we would need wells). That seems...high. blk posted:Wife and I came back from a walk around 5:00 and noticed a bunch of little kids (maybe age 3-5) arriving at a birthday party down the street. We went out to dinner, just got back now at 8.30 and a fire truck and ambulance pulled up behind us to the birthday house I think we all are going to need an update on this 
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HotCanadianChick posted:"I need to lay some pipe, wondering if you could help?" Don't listen to this jerk, he obviously knows nothing of women. All of these are gold and guarantee you some action.
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Since I prefer self effacing humor and incredibly bad puns I would probably just ask if she needed someone to be her plumbers dope  I am so sorry (no I am not)
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Welp, got home, found out the living room TV has audio, but no video. Swapped the cables to a different input on the TV, still showing "NO SIGNAL" but still has audio (it's an CRT HDTV, so it runs 1080p via component cables). Swapped to RCA, still no video. Swapped to coax, got a very very bad picture. Tried it on another TV, same poo poo. Called Verizon, cue 45 minutes of "troubleshooting" that I kept repeating "sir, I've already tried that" over and over. I finally convinced him to try sending a reset command to the box. I got a brief flicker on the TV, then audio again. Asked him to send a hard reset command. Box is now totally dead, except for the power and MoCA link lights.  (ignore the cables, I tried another set of cables before calling, and it's in a ~500 pound entertainment center - before you add the weight of the TV - getting behind it is a bitch even with the sliders) The CSR/"tech" couldn't wrap his head around the fact that we have an HDTV that doesn't have HDMI - and kept insisting CRT TVs aren't HD (it's a ~300 pound 36" 1080P Panasonic from 2001). You can always tell when you're talking to an outsourced call center with them; I knew the box was bad, I called them just to ask them to ship a replacement and outline what I'd already done (when I reach their in-house call centers, they stop dead in their tracks when I name what I've done and agree "yup, poo poo's hosed, I'm shipping you a new set top box" instead of 45 minutes of jerking off). This makes box ... #3 or #4, in less than a year. gently caress this client/server VMS poo poo they rolled out, I never had a single issue with the old Motorola boxes. Darchangel posted:My wife mentioned that this morning, and I actually thought of you at the mention of Frontier. I was sure I was wrong that Frontier was the poo poo company you worked at, because how could a company as crappy as they possibly buy up all of Verizon's ISP business, but, welp. I have two friends who are engineers at Verizon, both on FiOS. One is a network engineer, one writes code for their set top boxes (... don't blame her for the horrific VMS setup they've rolled out, she had nothing to do with that pile of steaming poo poo - also my living room set top box just crapped out for the 3rd or 4th time, so no TV out there until they ship yet another box). I talk to the coder frequently (I've known her about 17 years), she said the FCC changes will be forcing a lot of changes. It remains to be seen how it'll work out, but we're both thinking it'll mostly be good for the consumer. I have mixed feelings on regulation, but so many ISPs promise X speed and deliver 1/10th of it, then claim "oh we claim UP TO X speed, sorry, too bad, and also you can't downgrade your speed package without paying an ETF even though we can't even deliver the speed you're trying to downgrade to" *cough Frontier cough* Frontier is buying up territory just to expand their footprint; they've always been the underdog. They could be a really successful company if they revamped their tech support and sales departments, and spent more than $5 a day on their infrastructure, but all they care about is stockholder profit at any expense. They absolutely need to fire everyone in both tech and sales and start from scratch.
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Advent Horizon posted:Anybody have any experience with ground source heat pumps? I just got a quote for one - $37,000, plus an additional $15,500 if we go with wells instead of trenches (we would need wells). That seems...high. Is there literally any other option for heating your house? That's like, half of the replacement cost of a new structure in a lot of places.
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I would think just a regular heat pump (refrigerant based, i.e. combo air conditioner/heat pump outside unit, which is essentially an a/c with a reversing valve) coupled with either an electric, propane, or natural gas backup furnace would be the cheapest option. Depends on the cost of various energy sources, but heat pumps tend to be more efficient than a normal furnace until outside temp drops below freezing, in which case the backup furnace takes over. The ROI on a ground source one may be 5 years or 50 years, depending on the cost of energy. (hint: it won't be 5 years at that price) randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Feb 7, 2015 |
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Pretty sure he's not going to need A/C in Alaska.
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Alaska does not sound like the sort of place to try and scavenge energy from the outside. $50,000 buys a lot of insulation and natural gas. E: assuming you have gas
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bend posted:point the airgun at it might help a bit, I know my shed computer fills up with dust and poo poo all the drat time. Heats not as bad in Vic but its muggy as gently caress and I've been making dust all day, So I know the feeling. I saw a little portable Ac thing for a tenner earlier at a garage sale and I'm really regretting not grabbing it now. Ive got a little evaporative portable AC going which wasnt too bad when the humidity was down, but its not really helpful. Think its only 35 degrees in there now at 8pm... Still got valve clearances to do, its only a 3hr or so job 
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Goddamnit. 2015 was looking to be a great year. Wondered why I hadn't seen a good friend/former boss post on Facebook in a few weeks, and why she hadn't replied to some recent emails. Wandered over to her Facebook page...  
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