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scottyd 05-30-2011 12:38 AM


Originally Posted by rider384 (Post 732521)
For my next upgrade, I can:
-Suspension (Budget around 600-1k)
-OBX LSD (300 for diff + rebuild kit and ? for micrometer)
-Genuine GT2560 to replace my pile of shit chinacharger (600)

Thoughts? I'm leaning towards the diff, but my suspension right now is laughably bad (Bumpstopped racelands with stock sways)

How old are the ricelands?

rider384 05-30-2011 01:19 AM

Little over a year, 6k miles?

rider384 05-30-2011 01:22 AM

Rumor has it that the Vmaxxxxxxxxxxxx's are just redressed and resprung ricelands, which is probably not true, but can anyone comment on this?

scottyd 05-30-2011 01:23 AM


Originally Posted by rider384 (Post 732572)
Little over a year, 6k miles?

They have a 2yr warranty on them. Just sayin'...

rider384 05-30-2011 01:38 AM

If you're suggesting I return them under warranty, I find that immoral.

scottyd 05-30-2011 01:42 AM


Originally Posted by rider384 (Post 732578)
If you're suggesting I return them under warranty, I find that immoral.

Why? They rebuild them for you.

rider384 05-30-2011 01:46 AM

Oh, I see what you're saying; they're not broken, they just suck. They do their job fine for 200 dollar suspension, but that's exactly what it is - 200 dollar suspension.

scottyd 05-30-2011 01:49 AM

You said they were on bump stops so I assumed that meant they were blown. Go consult the suspension hierarchy thread for how to spend yo monies.

Joe Perez 05-30-2011 10:55 AM


Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 731851)
It takes lots of juice to make all those little electrons do the Mexican hat dance like Speedy Gonzales (my 3rd favorite politically incorrect cartoon character).

Actually, I was just thinking about when the first DEC ALPHA processors came out in the early-mid 90s. They looked so damn impressive with those big threaded studs protruding out of the case for the heat sink to be bolted to. Everything about that chip reeked of pure power.

Nowadays, my phone has more computational power than the early Alphas, and my desktop i5 probably consumes more power and dissipates more heat.

... which is another interesting point. Am I wrong in observing that there seems to be a massively disproportionate ratio of power consumed to computing performance delivered as one compares the lowest end of the market (eg: ARM9, C7) to the highest end (i7, Phenom)?

Would "green" high-performance computing not be better served by large arrays of massively superscalar "low-performance" CPUs than by a smaller number of extremely high-speed processors? In other words, rather than a quad-core i7, what if you had a 64 core ARM? Some aspects of application development would be harder (try optimizing SolidWorks to run on 64 slow cores, for instance) but in other ways, I can see OS development becoming vastly simpler- take a cue from Parallax and just launch every new process on its own core, returning that core to an idle (power off) state when not needed?

MD323 05-30-2011 04:08 PM

MS3 (w/o MS3X) assembled, now to do the mods and decide if im going to build the 2nd opto isolator circiut

shuiend 05-30-2011 07:35 PM

I finally got home from VA. 1500 miles on the new built motor and Absurdflow setup with no major problems. I am very happy.

scottyd 05-31-2011 01:25 AM

And from the other thread, you dropped some panties.

viperormiata 05-31-2011 02:56 AM

Mini Poll: Idea's needed.
 
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Ok. I am painting my intake manifold. I need some ideas, suggestions, felch, opinions on what I should do or what you think would be good.

Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.

I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.

Attachment 188555

Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything :greddy:

turotufas 05-31-2011 03:26 AM


Originally Posted by rccote (Post 732347)
Seems like almost everyone in FL knows / has seen someone in porn.

lol

I heard she passed out on two guys at my friends house yesterday. Uh-oh!

shuiend 05-31-2011 10:09 AM


Originally Posted by scottyd (Post 732821)
And from the other thread, you dropped some panties.

Indeed I did. Braineack and wishfulthing90 panties came off very quickly on Saturday.

Braineack 05-31-2011 10:10 AM

Execpt I make more torque than you right now.

shuiend 05-31-2011 10:11 AM


Originally Posted by viperormiata (Post 732830)
Ok. I am painting my intake manifold. I need some ideas, suggestions, felch, opinions on what I should do or what you think would be good.

Only rule: DO NOT SAY, "POLISH IT DUDE, LIKE UBER TIGHT YO!" I hate the polished look and I hate polishing. But I don't hate it as much as every one telling me to polish it. I can't stand polishing or the look or plain aluminum.

I pulled all my intercooler piping and painted it wrinkle black. I even pulled the connector piece that FM uses in their cold side silicone piping and painted that black too.

http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/...leanedup-1.jpg

Lend me some ideas. I am open to anything :greddy:

Paint it wrinkle red to match the VC. Also is your intercooler painted black?

Bond 05-31-2011 12:03 PM

Josh,

Baby-blue.

-Bonder

shuiend 05-31-2011 01:41 PM


Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 732878)
Execpt I make more torque than you right now.

My car idles right. :P

pusha 05-31-2011 01:55 PM


Originally Posted by Bond (Post 732909)
Josh,

Baby-blue.

-Bonder

not everyone can be jon


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