I will argue only two:
1) the wine outa france is AMAZING! I have lots

2) Anything that makes a bra easy to get off werks for me.

 

also add

DTSS bushings
Brussell sprouts
all manner of green olives
white t-shirts that go down past your pockets
all people that wear t-shirts with wolves on them
Winger
Pauly Shore
Cheverolet aveo and their owners

That is all for now

 

I can add a few...

-cats
-traffic lights
-anything weighing more than 400lbs with less than 160hp
-pocket protectors
-suspenders
-the Yugo
-little Ceaser's
-tech inspection at the track
-mosquitos
-smoking
-escargot

 

I would have to agree with suds....

just because if me and suds are here... it has to be the best place ever, there is no other explanation

 

yyyyyyyyyup
this might just be me, but when i was in high school out in Harford Co(before the gawdy wings and whatnot had made their way out there) we had a TON of reallyreallyfast older Civic hatchbacks. i mean silly fast...they put most of the modern V8 guys to shame...so i have to argue that statement.
yup
dammit, i'm half french. bite me
agreed.
i love them in butter and steamed. deal with it.

 

i'd have to agree with all those things on your list


but i was referring to pele's claim that using mechanical guages is not a smart thing to do


the only thing "un-smart" about my incicent was me... it was operator error ...

 

Don't forget NA owners that think their FC is "Quick"

 

my FC is na ... i'd like to think it was quicker than the average bear

 

i meant to post this here, but completely forgot in all the hustle and bustle at work this week:

so the last few months with the turdrolla have been...painful...so to speak. my steering has been completely fubar - the best description i can give is my steering wheel (and entire front end, before i figured out what it was) was shaking like a cold chihuahua on crack. it was getting so i didn't want to drive anywhere, because i was broke and couldn't afford the (expensive) diagnosis and repairs...nevermind the fact that it put me in physical pain from all the vibrations if i drove for too long. i'd taken it in to Toyota awhile ago to figure out a random clunking in my front end, which they diagnosed to be the inner tie rod ends. i figured OK, that's probably what's causing it.

nope. changed both inner and outer tie rod ends, and after a good $500 spent on that repair it still shook. finally took it back over to toyota on Tuesday night (my buddy Steve is one of their employees), and we checked my entire suspention, as well as balanced my wheels, etc. it turns out i somehow have 2 wheels that are out of round. i have no idea how i've managed this, as i drive the car like it's made of glass when i go over bumps.

on the upside, however, i managed to get my sway bars in, as well as clean off my rear brakes and adjust the drum shoes so i actually have a functioning ebrake now. hopefully this tuesday we'll have time to install my rear springs (i've only had the front lowered), get a replacement brake kit on the driver side since mine's fubar, and replace one wheel stud that was broken a week ago from someone cross threading it a good 4-5 months ago.

the downside: i'm out $450 for a repair that we could have done on our own, and would have cost me just $150 for parts.
the upside: next season the car's going down to FedEx for its first autox. i should have a new set of wheels with some really good tires by then (well, i hope...), so i hope to be one of the only corollas on the course. hoooray for the little red rollerskate! i think i'm going to have a lengthy chat with my roommate, who has been to FedEx on more than one occasion with his crapalier...if he can do rather well in that car, hopefully he'll have some pointers for me.

to those on whom i tried to pawn my car...i do apologize...i was just sick and tired of having pain in my arms from the drive. nope, i'm not selling her...i've gone through too much at this point and have been successful in fixing the problems, or at least know what i need to do to eliminate them.

 

We've put people on the moon, can detect galaxies light years away, and have dismantled the atom... I find it hard to believe that we do not have electronic sensor technology to read the oil pressure, oil temperature, fuel pressure, and coolant temperature in an engine that is less than two feet away from the driver.

It's not that mechanical gauges are inherently bad, but it adds one more point for fluids to leak and moves them to a place where the have no business being.

Would you really run fuel line through your passenger compartment?

You mean you replaced the tie rods, WITHOUT proper diagnosis??? And at $500 for tie rods, I hope they used lube, and took you to dinner and a movie first.

There are was to definitively check tie rods/ball joints versus a bent wheel.

 

you've evidently never seen my car



yes... they HAVE electrical guages that will measure that stuff... but like gas guages its "best guess" technology... there is variance in resistors, pots, wiring linear resistance, all this effects the accuracy of the guage

my theory on technology is ... if it aint broke, dont fix it (hence why my car has a v8) mechanical pressure guages work GREAT...there is areason they are still used on all heavy machinery and locomotives and heavy abuse vehicles and machinery.

more expensive and more gizmo's != better all the time

i'll stick with my mechanical guage

 

I have a mechanical boost gauge.... I hope that doesn't burst open and leak everywhere

 

trust me...i don't like this stealership. the only reason i was forced to go there in the first place was my fear that the car would...break...while driving it. i literally couldn't go above 40MPH without the whole front end shaking worse than it EVER has.

had that not happened, i would have taken it down to Corey's so we could do it.

the tie rods needed replacing, however, so i'm glad to get that out of the way.

 

Somebody give me some rep points so I can get past 96

 

I'm already maxed out on rep points ....

 

Awesome, i'm at 99....

Just need one more....

 

I'm at 45

 

Thats why I said MOST modified hondas and not ALL :p

When I said "The French" I was reffering to the people who actually live in france, and when I said "Anything out of France" I was reffering to industrial products.

I really lothe france.

FINALLY SOMONE ELSE WHO LIKES BRUSSEL SPROUTS!!!

 

That could be bad. You're gonna need an air compressor and an inverter. That way, if it leaks, you can refill it on the road.

I think you need an 80 gallon Ingersoll-Rand or perhaps a trailer hitch and one of those construction air compressors to tow behind...

 

AUGH! Oh no!

MY VAC GAUGE LEAKED!!!!

IT'S EVERYWHERE!!! HELP!!! I'm covered in it!

 

****... I towed m trailer home and called the dude... I hope he arranges to have the Turbo II left outside the dealership so I can pick it up.

 

Thanks Jason

I'm at 104 now and two boxes... HUZZAH!!!

 

Doh! Gimme a call when you find out!

 

I wonder what'd happen if you had both a vacuum gauge and a boost gauge, and you removed both and connected the lines together.

The vacuum from the engine might pull air in through the compressor wheel and cause the turbine side of the compressor to forcefully suck the exhaust out of the engine and push it out the exhaust...

You'll need to tap into your downpipe and put a boost gauge in there, and set up an exhaust manifold vacuum gauge.

 

DAK - You KNOW I'm always giving good reps to the MD people :p