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aw dude... you took a pic of me and capt_furious, and didn't even say hello! That's him in the fedora, and me in the plaid shirt. rofl

can i give you recommendations on what shops not to use instead?

smaller tires!

the MC brake rod is adjustable, so you may want to thread it down a little to give yourself more pedal play.

carfax only reports the stuff that it gets from CLU and DMV databases. I sold my friend's totalled m3, but if you ran a carfax on it, it'd come up clean.

So, are you telling me there's no possible way a car wash could have damaged my car?

A football, a possum (possum don't run into sides of cars at high speed), a bird, a dog, or a deer do not leave a smooth 2 foot long convex indentation. Think of my ENTIRE door skin gently bent inward in a smooth convex shape, as if a giant soft roller was massaging it in. With no scratches, blood, paint scrapes, or rubber bumper marks. That's exactly what it looks like. You're just angry because you happen to own a car wash, and I pointed a finger at one that in this case has a high possibility of being a culprit, but as I have stated earlier, I will have a difficult time proving it. Just because your car wash doesn't damage cars, doesn't mean other car washes can't damage my car.

Well, this one was a touch wash, not a touchless wash. It had big spinning drums with foam strips on it. It physically touched my car. When I sat in it, I saw the foam strips slap the ♥♥♥♥ out of my car. Unless you can give me suggestion based on what could have caused a smooth giant impression into the entire door, I'm sticking with carwash. And as I said, there are NO scratches or cuts! Just a smooth pressed in dent. I'll take pics for reference. There's no way a car could have done this without leaving any sort of other damage.

altima 3.5se mazda 6 v6 honda accord v6 unless you're looking for a smaller compact. i have a mazda3 s. i get 29-30 mpg mixed driving out of a 2.3 5 speed. in fact, you can get one new for under 20k out the door.

Hey wait a sec... you're local, you have welding skills..... how do I sucker you into coming by to help me wrap up the rotary? haha

that's awesome. i applaud you, sir

http://www.thisisfreakingridiculous.com/tifr/2009/4/13/ba-k-47.html

at least, I'm pretty sure it's the carwash. yesterday I walk out to my car (mazda3) and see something's odd. I see a small dent in the lower rocker panel, or, the area just above it on the passenger front door. No creases, no sign of damage, no paint scratches. It's below the protective strip, which has no marks on it at all. I'm puzzled, so I take a step back, and see that the entire protective strip on the door is bowed in. I know the car has thin metal, but come on! the whole door? It's not easy to see unless you look at an angle, but the entire door looks slightly pushed in. Again, no scuffs, scratches or anything. Only thing I can think of is that before I went to MSA I ran the car through an auto wash (that I've been going to once in a while, and yes, spare me the 'wash your car yourself' speeches, it's a daily driver), and the force of the roller pushed it in. I probably still have the receipt for it.... but what are my chances of actually proving this and getting it fixed? There's no other explanation for this except a gentle slow push. No marks, no scuffs, no scratches, gashes, etc.

goddamnit I'm laughing my ass off

relocating the pivot point would definitely work, as long as you know how it'll affect your suspension travel. alternative to this is camber bushings too, but they wear out fast

well, i've only gone once before, in 2003. So to me, it was quite a different layout of cars. Capt_furious has never been to msa, so i think he enjoyed it quite a bit. Thing with same annual shows is unless you're bringing your own car, it's not as fun, and once you've seen one show, you've seen them all. I did get some good ideas about what to do with my Z by looking at other cars though, and that was a good enough investment of time for me

dohc l31 tt, it does exist! (i never doubted it ) ok guys, good luck figuring this one out! I don't believe it's a jag rear end, but a copy of one Q45 v8 in a Z31. All pics here (200 or so): http://www.datsunracing.com/gallery/20090426 I'll eventually get around to rotating the offending ones and uploading them properly

yep, way ahead of you had that covered, no sunburn

my HBZ shirt got destroyed, so I'll be walking around in a black baseball cap with NVH logo on it. I think capt_furious is rocking a fedora (not ubuntu)

I got one too

More than you can afford, pal

i have a saiga 7.62x39. it has a 16.5" barrel. It is an AK47 without the pistol grip. I can group 6-8" with iron sights at 50 yards. I consider that pretty good for an AK. If you can hit a paper plate at 100 yards, that's excellent accuracy. 7.62x39 is a poor long range round as well. Now, if we're talking Dragunov with 7.62x54r, now that is a competent rifle. My SKS is far more accurate than the saiga

ak47 for sniper = fail.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/21/iranian-sniper-wookiee-star-wars

Ultima 7 parts 1 and 2 were perhaps the best in hte series. For their time (1992) they had epic graphics, and complete freedom to roam about the world. Ah, the days of finetuning config.sys and autoexec.bat to load drivers into high memory, leaving more conventional for games, as well as games starting to use dos4gw to make use of extended memory about 640k. If you think about it, all the computer technology and processor speeds/graphics are driven by video game development