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    Mobil1 0w40 super deal ends today !!

    That's a good deal! It looks like you can buy the stuff in batches of 15 quarts and re-use the promo code to keep the per-quart cost down nice and low. For another good deal, you can get M1 5W-40 Turbo Diesel Oil (the only stuff I use in everything now) form Amazon in two-gallon packs for...
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    Air Filter + Rain / Water = :(

    Well, I have to respectfully disagree - for the most part, at least. If a car has pistons and ring lands that are so wimpy that a little water will cause them to break, I'd hate to think of what would happen if some minor detonation took place. A little bit of ping is a million times more...
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    Air Filter + Rain / Water = :(

    The biggest thing I'd be worried about is the filter getting soaked and becoming too restrictive. Kind of like 'waterboarding' for your car... Any cloth when saturated with water becomes more restrictive and your car will gasp for breath. Contrary to popular belief, some water going into the...
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    2010 viper last year ?

    Or, you could do a search through these forums. I did a Google search, and after going through all the articles, I came to the conclusion that Viper is dead in 2010 and will never come back, except that it might come back as a Gen V in 2012, but in 2012 supposedly aliens or a massive meteor...
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    Water Deionization System for Car Wash

    I'm a cheap basturd, so I did the following. Costco has GREAT reverse osmosis systems for about $150, and I mounted one outside and hooked up to one of those three gallon "no pump" garden sprayers with the garden hose attachment to fill it up. Let it do it's thing overnight, and you get three...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    I think all kids (and most adults these days) should be forced to go through a part of their lives where they need to REALLY take care of themselves. Come out to the middle of nowhere where I live, try to heat their house with wood during the winter, clear trees that fall across the road, fix...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    Personally, I think wrecking a car or two is the best nanny control you can get. As long as you don't hurt anyone or yourself, of course... Fortunately I did all my wrecking back when I had good enough reflexes to push a car to its limits and recover 99.9% of the time. It was those couple of...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    Get this - just a few weeks ago, right after a bunch of rains where a ton of light gravel washed across the road, some dumb-ass yuppie couple was jogging up the road (on the wrong side of course because 'they say' it's safer to see the cars coming than have them sneak up on them from behind...)...
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    How Do You Detail When Away From Home?

    I cover my entire car with that blue painter's tape when I go on vacation. That way, when I get back home, I can just pull it all off and the car looks just like it did when I left.
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    And, golly, there sure were a lot of vette's on the road right where that accident happened... Strange coincidence...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    Very true. I live on a little known canyon road (in the middle of nowhere) that literally is sports-car and superbike heaven for 90% of it. Unfortunately the road transitions quickly into an old forgotten neighborhood for a little while, and people just don't bother to slow down. Oh, and we have...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    I hear you - and I'll wager that there are enough people like us that there will be an easy way to switch off the nanny controls if we want to. I can't image high-performance cars getting saddled with full-time, no-user-control nanny devices. All the true high performance cars out there have...
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    Nannies won't neccessarily save you

    I have a feeling the majority of us think the nanny boxes are stupid - but it's moot because it looks like they'll be mandatory soon. No use complaining about something that's inevitable.
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    2009 vs. 2010

    Boomhower - that's the name I was trying to remember :)
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    2009 vs. 2010

    Brother, you remind me of that guy on King of the Hill that always has mindful and meaningful things to say but I can't understand a damn thing he's saying until I've listened to him five or six times :)
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    2009 vs. 2010

    I remember in '96 when it was easier to buy a race version of the GTS than it was to get a street version... I must have gone to a dozen dealers with cash in hand, and ONE dealer took a deposit on an order. A week later I got a curt letter from the dealer saying he couldn't accept my deposit...
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    2009 vs. 2010

    Buyer psychology is something that I find really interesting. I'm a contrarian by design, and anytime I see a vast majority of people saying something is too expensive and should be cheaper, even though it goes against historical norms, I figure it's a good time to buy. It's when products...
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    Ballpark Figures for Maintenance Items

    If you have the Arrow ported intake, you should be able to swap that out in a couple hours at most. And, that's doing it yourself and learning along the way. A dealer should be able to do it quicker since they know the little tricks. The intake on Gen IV cars is really easy to remove and...
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    2009 vs. 2010

    I'm in the same camp as most here - I certainly don't think paying an extra five or ten grand (or possibly more) for a 2010 over what you can get today for a 2009 makes any sense at all. If you add the financing options to it, I think waiting for a 2010 is stupid. Of course, if you want to put...
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    Looking for best shipping option: WA to MI

    Gary A was responsive and tried hard to ship a car for me, and he always has great reviews from VCA members. I was in a time crunch, so I ended up going with an organization that was highly recommended to me by a Lambo dealership and they also had great reviews on transportreviews.com. They're...
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    2010 Final Editions

    Something tells me that you'll have the opportunity to find a few that dealers ordered and planned to inventory... Unless this economy picks up in a big way, I still see the supply of 2010's being pretty plentiful compared to demand. If the number of left over '09 and even '08 cars is any...
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    2010 Final Editions

    Can't wait to hear what the FE cars are going to look like, and what goodies might be on them. I'd be jealous if they end up doing GTS Blue with white stripes, factory headers, forged pistons, and a decent stereo.
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    Painted Stripes cost?

    What I think is ironic is that the factory charges $3k or so to do the stripes - and they do so many of them that I'll bet it costs them half of what an independent shop would incur in labor charges. On my GTS, the stripes have a definite edge to them, and you can feel the transition from...
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    T Boned by a drunk driver

    If it was a hit and run, how do you know the other driver was drunk? Did they eventually catch the scumbag?
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    T Boned by a drunk driver

    Hope you weren't hurt too bad - that one looks like it would have been painful.

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