nater006

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It'll be a waste of money. Unless you're running really advanced timing or a higher compression, higher octane gas is useless. The common misconception is that it gives higher performance -- all it does... it allows you to give your engine the performance boost of upping the compression or advancing the timing... and it won't blow the engine up like lower octanes will after you do those mods. Thats it

Oh no.... kidding.. I'm sure he'll be able to hook you up pretty well with a decent setup! Just make sure that it has the right stuff in the case... just cause he slaps a Pentium 4 HT sticker on it and buzz-bombs it black.. kidding again. He'll hook ya up.

Sweet! No white water around here unfortunately so for now I'm doing the blackwater deal on lakes around here, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron (soon). Perception Avatar 15.5' w/ the blue/white colors. http://www.kayaker.com/new/products/boat.a...e=touring&ID=73 Even though I'm not the "lighter paddler" (210 now, 200 soon..hehe) it fits my frame perfectly and is just a great overall boat. Gotta love the skeg.. down with rudders!

The site's become too much to just give up. In the couple months I've been here its been more helpful and friendly than anywhere.. else... period! Everything has its ups and downs but man there is just too much love to just go away

Even riding around on my 900RR saves me a bit every week! Otherwise I have to drive my 4WD S10 everywhere. The 4.3L is not bad but still with the MPG I get in the city... the bike is nice. In the summer, the truck sits and sits until the Banshee or kayak want to go somewhere or its raining. Its hard to justify the cost if you're just purchasing a bike for the mileage though.

Mine's got one overflow that rolls back to the resevoir bottle in the back. The bottle itself has an overflow line on it that is about 6" long and dumps out into the void of 70mph offroad space... Don't know as though this is normal but it works fine

Sweet. Thats what I was hoping for. The Accel wires I have (8.8's) and planned to go on had small crimp-on connectors. They were pretty straight and have protrusions on the outsides so I can see how they will probably fit in there fine. Just didn't know if there was anything special other than that... always just have seen the screw-in type or the ones like on my S10 pickup.. but never those. Thanks for the info!!

I painted one of my CR500R ('90) frames bright yellow once. It looked really cool just having the frame bright yellow and still having a silver swingarm, etc.

Yup Gonna be doing that this weekend for sure! Want my 200w stator in but.. guess its gotta get returned for now. Btw, I put all the pics I had online.. it isn't much of a howto but if anyone wanted to see more pics of banshee transmissions and stuff.. have at it! http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/olmsnj/tangen...nsheetrans.html

Um... I'm just staring at the avatar which is totally cool with me!

Toomey doesn't have a clue. When I had an airbox and no lid, similar to their holes in the box, I was running 310 mains. I wouldn't listen to their instructions. Hehe, good call. I got mine used and have never dealt with them directly but it wouldn't be the first time a manufactorer doesn't know what they're saying...

Preload? Do you pull back on the bars and then push forward like in ATV Offroad Fury 2? hehehe.. seriously though..

Hmmmm.. I'm not too far away in southern michigan.. and definitely considering this it looks like hella fun. I'll read through the first 10 pages from work, later today...

My parents place is <30 minutes from there so I'll be there numerous times this year hopefully. They DO check for sound and for spark molesters. They also have a mobile patrol out in the dunes so you can't just unbolt your sparkys and throw 'em in your backpack unfortunately..hehe. Flexible rod is what they use to check.

you'd want to seal everything really well. I got a pressurized ram air kit on my 900RR. It uses foam donuts and a foam seal to keep it all nice and sealed. Otherwise it'll never pressurize or make a difference... You can get a cheap roll of the stuff that you put between the topper and bed on a pickup (sticky foam roll) that works the same.

Yeah the Christmas tree part is just wrong...

Its got some antique value

Lee, you got me topped... my oldest is a 93 Sparcstation IPX. 40mhz but I dumped 64MB ram into it. Runs Debian, also. 454MB hard drive. only 1/3 full, too, and it runs Apache, Bind, and more. Hehehe...

OSX is pretty good. I just thoroughly enjoy busting open a terminal window and having complete *NIX environment at my fingertips. Only problem that sucks is that "root" is a joke in that OS and basically anyone w/ control can get that account and wreck havoc if you're not careful. Plus remember to unplug your Firewire drives when installing Jaguar so it doesn't screw 'em up by mistake OSX is a good creation though! oh.. and another link to add to the price bin... http://www.compgeeks.com. you can find LOTS of useful and useless stuff there, sometimes at dirt cheap prices. It varies and the stuff might be 100% 2 days later. But there are some real steals on there. Got a sidewinder joypad offa there for like $5 once and my DigitalDoc was Ubercheap.

I know, there's really nothing wrong with AMD other than it tends to melt if things fail slightly. The laptop I'm on now (C610) has both of its cooling fans forced running (the magic of Debian) so it stays cool because I make it earn its keep. Right now its compiling stuff on another desktop but staying pretty cool. If you're on a budget and have a reliable cooling system, the AMD is perfectly fine. Dell is just an intel shop though. Asus makes EXCELLENT mobos. I have the CUSL2 in my workstation -- its over 3 years old now and has never given me a single trouble, ever. The integrated video just sucks balls if you're playing games due to how bad system memory sucks compared to video memory, etc. Integrated sound is fine, I just like picking on the lesser devices... If you're gaming, blah to integrated video though, no matter which chipset it seeks to utilize. The all-in-one integrated stuff with the newer chipsets is nice, pricewise, but the performance of the video really suffers. you need a 15,000 Probably little to no difference. most of our servers at work are running 10K rpm drives anyway. What scsi card did you end up with? 19160/29160? good stuff there.. I haven't upgraded mine becasue my work PC is a P4 with hyperthreading, u320 scsi (now!), dvd writer, SATA 120GB drive (storage space!), and a lot more junk.. dual-DVI Geforce FX (ATI fan myself but.. work paid for it), yadda yada. so bite... ah hell who cares.

Ah bite me! I never said anyone else needed that...hehe. But, yeah, primary thing is to decide what you're going to do with it and go from there. Don't listen to banshee370, as he is an AMD lover, and my 900rr plastic is nice (thank you!) so don't pick on me and he likes cheapie motherboards, EIDE drives, and integrated sound and video.

At the top click "My Controls" (its bold). Then, go to "Edit Avatar settings" on the left-hand menu on that screen. The rest is pretty straight forward... upload your own or pick one!

Oh, yeah, no kidding for that much! I'm running an 866 P3 here with a Radeon 9700 (old card bit the dust). Its got ultra160 scsi, 15,000 rpm hard drive. at 3.4ms seek and a 15,000 spindle speed... it is untouchable! (except u320..heh). People keep buying faster processors and wasting their money on something thats $200 more for 100mhz faster and the same FSB speed and not noticeable, and aren't upgrading the slow things like the EIDE subsystem. If you can afford it, SCSI is unbeatable. My new one is just going to be a newer P4 w/ hyperthreading. Need a new mobo. power supply, case, memory, and processor.. and gonna drop everything else into it. video, SCSI system, ATA/133 drives. The 15,000 rpm drive will strike fear into your very soul when you hear it spin up...

I'll second that. banshee370 I think was gonna kill me for asking about using RTV on the case halves.. Yamabond is good stuff. It stays pliable.