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Old 03-04-2006, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueRenesis82
why the toyota thing in the 'tar adam?
adam's gonna design all of our next cars!!!
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wow, that would be a super cool job
Old 03-04-2006, 05:19 PM
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Well I just finished Toyota, Lexus, Scion Technician School. Now Im looking in to a car designer school also. I might aswell do all the schoolng now cause later its livin large time. Woot Woot!!!
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Well, I managed to scratch one of my wheels tonight on a curb! Haven't even had the car for two weeks. The scratch is hardly noticeable, but it's like a splinter in my mind... (name that movie...)

Anybody know of a good place in the western burbs to get minor wheel repair done?

Thanks!
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theres a DIY on here somewhere about fixing your wheels.Mine had a HUGE scrape on one of the rears that I should really fix before I swap out my wheels again. I'll post the link if I find it ...
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Originally Posted by mdw1000
but it's like a splinter in my mind... (name that movie...)
The Matrix, Morpheus to Neo

You can go to a bodyshop and they will be able to do it... I had pretty bad scratches on 2 of my wheels on my 350Z I thought about getting fixed before I sold it. I can't remember how much they wanted, but it was pretty expensive.

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thanks!

I'm thinking I might check with White Eagle Auto Body. Had some good bodywork done there in the past. Or perhaps my tire place (discount tires in Oswego/Montgomery) will know of somebody good.

Wondering if I should try out my siped Dunlops in the snow today, but I don't think I have the guts... thinking I will get some snow tires next fall...
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I am so pi$$ed about the weather today. I was driving 16 mph on ogden ave.!!! So I put the RX-8 in the garage and took out the jeep.
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Winter wheels on the SheDevil makes it fun to drive in the snow
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I drove the RX-8 for the first time on wet pavement this morning. I would have to say it drove great on the summer Dunlops. I had to use pretty aggresive throttle to get the rear end to break loose, and the stability control kicked in almost instantly.

Is this everyone else's experience around here as well? I'm just wondering if my tire siping really made a difference, and if so if they will really get all-season type traction in the snow...
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Hey all! Don't forget to register at our new local ALL ROTARY forum!! www.chicagorotary.com
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Is it just me? I couldn't get past the first page of chicagorotary.com - just a logo and some text about the site - no buttons or anything...maybe it doesn't like safari on my mac...
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wow, no buttons on top? Im on a mac and use Netscape.

Here's a direct link to the forum, see if that works ... http://chicagorotary.com/Forum/index.php

edit: actually they are not buttons, but just text links. are they really not showing up at all?
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Ok, that link worked & I registered, but I tried the main address and the text links do not show up under the pic (I'm running the latest version of Safari on highspeed) In explorer, they show up, but some are only partially visable...I work for an ad agency that creates websites and rarely hit any snags like this...who knows...my other main mac (G5 with every option known to man) just had it's 160G harddrive kill itself last week...so maybe it is me...my computers hate me...sigh...
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I'll forward the issue on ... odd to say the least! But thanks for the feedback!
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I noticed that also and all ready left a note in a thread to Railgun (the Admin).
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It's an encoding issue I think. I think all I need to do is remove this...

"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

And all may be well. I had read something somewhere about it. I'm not all that HTML savvy so...

Or...

That's what you get for using a Mac.
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That's what you get for using a Mac


Why shouldn't Railgun get a thwack with the chair? It's an EVOLV staple!!!
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I use firefox on a PC and it is not working for me either.
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Mebbe if y'all paid your overinflated dues to Red Devil, we would unlock the secret door so you could have full functionality.

Dues: One Million Dollars!
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Last night I had a dream that I had and engine swap in my 8. It was KOOL a 20B in my 8!!!So I woke up and found this it might be old but its awesome.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...15102415&q=rx8

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...29836925&q=rx8

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...34270774&q=rx8
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Is that a turbo 20B? I wouldn't think that a NA 20B would give that much increase in HP.
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Yes it is
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Nice!
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Does anyone who has the appearance package (front air dam, side aero flares, rear aero flars) know if it makes the lowest part of the car at the front, back, side lower than stock?
Do I even make sense when I ask that?


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