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    Quote Originally Posted by JimLev View Post
    Right, and take the cell phones out of their hands when crossing the street and driving!
    Yep, totally absurd how idiots feel they have to constantly see what others say on their stupid Facebook and twitter accounts. I have an 8 minute commute to work, i usually see at least 5 or 6 morons on their phones texting or crap like that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BimmrMeUpSnotty View Post
    Yep, totally absurd how idiots feel they have to constantly see what others say on their stupid Facebook and twitter accounts. I have an 8 minute commute to work, i usually see at least 5 or 6 morons on their phones texting or crap like that.
    I got no issue with looking at the phone regularly, or texting a lot... hey its the modern age.

    What I do have an issue is... being completely absorbed in the damn thing all the time in situations when there's safety or just a little bit of respect for your fellow human involved. Specifically:

    1. In situations where they are glued to the screen instead of where you MUST be 'in the real world'. Like crossing the street, or, the number of bitches who tailgate me these days and I look in the mirror and they are riding right on my bumper with their face down in the phone... Tailgating is easier I guess because they just vaguely make sure that my car is filling the windscreen in their peripheral vision, and they know they are still on the road that way.

    2. In social situations where one these forkers will be having a conversation with you while staring and poking at the phone at the whole time. They are half talking to you, but 100% still stabbing away not making eye contact, and then when you're talking you know they are only getting every 5th word... You wanna use your phone? Sure, no prob. Stop our convo for a second, tell me "hey I wanna shoot a bud a message" or "I need to reply to this.." or "lemme check messages"... no worries. But don't frikkin glue your face to it and expect me to keep having a conversation with you while you drop in and out at your convenience... Eff right the eff off with that crap.
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    Well put GG!
    And I’m on my phone now poking at it!

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    Do they make aluminum rebar?


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    Not that I know of, but anything's possible. Any wheel damage or just the tire?
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    Continental has a road hazard warranty, too, for 12 months or the first 2/32nds of tread wear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by computiNATEor View Post
    Continental has a road hazard warranty, too, for 12 months or the first 2/32nds of tread wear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by geargrinder View Post
    Cool - those ti's seem to be popular for track cars. They are a funny little car, "E36/5", I believe its sorta more or less an E30 rear suspension, w E36 front end? The guy I used to use for alignments has raced those every weekend just about for years. An S52 is still a goodly amount of power on those, for sure though. I think you can get yourself sideways with not too much difficulty still...
    Yeah, as I understand it it is all E 36 sedan from the b pillar forward and all weirdness-hatch behind B pillar... I bought it last Saturday and installed a larger Recaro drivers seat and moving the Cobra (too small for my fat a$$) to the pass side... I had someone weld me a bracket for it and sorting the pass side tomorrow... it’s got 1HP per 10 lbs stock and it’s TRM tuned with headers and a ridiculous short rear end, 5 speed... it’s at 4k revs at 75mph in 5th lol... accel on highway requires no downshift lol... I think I’m gonna swap in a 420G and a taller rear end to make it so there’s a 6th gear to drive to and from the track with... or I could leave the diff alone and have 6 REALLY short gears lol... The motor only has about 65,000 miles on it and the chassis about 118k, it weighs 2500lbs... corner balanced and battery moved to the back to balance out for the extra two cylinders… It is a really fun car… It’s about the same speed as my Dinan tuned N55 E88 DCT, but less weight and track parts , it was my buddy, who is an active duty marine, wife’s track car and he moved up to an S 52M roadie.... he still didn’t really want to sell it but, he definitely can use the room even though he has a three bay garage two of which have left which make for two cars per

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    I just finished my lightweight lithium phosphate battery swap for my 800 W with massive torque electric skateboard… It’s going to be my “ Pitt vehicle” The entire battery pack with all three batteries with shell and harness weighs about the same or less than just one of these lead acid motorcycle batteries, it’s a 36 V so they run in series… Serious weight reduction… And the best has yet to come I got a surprise for you guys… I bought a 2002 Dinan S2 M5, 63,000 miles with stage five NA bolt ons, (including 8ITB, eight large trumpets, to the point where there is a 20 mm spacer on the Plenum for them to fit, all Dinan, also has a Dinan 3.46 diff, and the oh so coveted Dinan headers... BBS wheels, some AC Schnitzer goodies and modified rear deck sub Adam minimum if not some other speakers swapped... :0

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    Here’s some pics, already have the stock shifter with lit shift knob ready to go on, and I might try and trade these for some style 65, but it definitely has some flavor… Not a huge fan of the Schnitzer side skirts, but I am a fan of the bumper kit front and back… He had the spoiler on but put it back to stock which I like anyway here are some pictures

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    So I added 2X S motor cars in one week to the stable which is very small but being expanded in the near future… Building a three or four car garage with apartment on top behind the house, hopefully to rent out to some rich college kid to help pay for it… And I also saved the “dead” battery of my 540 after I already had bought a new one for it… These AGM batteries are tricky my Schumacher charger was recognizing it not as a bad battery which it normally would, But as a 6 V battery I tried everything and then this charger I bought for the skateboard lithium batteries, has an AGM“Recovery mode“ that apparently works for lead also but not lithium of course.... 

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    Quote Originally Posted by angeleye540i View Post
    Here’s some pics, already have the stock shifter with lit shift knob ready to go on, and I might try and trade these for some style 65, but it definitely has some flavor… Not a huge fan of the Schnitzer side skirts, but I am a fan of the bumper kit front and back… He had the spoiler on but put it back to stock which I like anyway here are some pictures
    Nice! Congrats! That interior is very nice, and it sounds like it has some performance credentials above and beyond the stock car.

    Some of the stuff isn't to my taste, but if you like it, more power to ya! Best of luck!
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    Quiet off topic lately! (Aside from inappropriate).

    Here's One...

    Been having to work on our old Jeep... Bit tight in the garage w other projects going on there... and it's been heatwavey lately... So it was getting brutal in the sun wrestling w door panels and wiring and cooling systems, and when my bud the other morning said "hey maybe you should get one of those canopy things..." I remembered seeing em on sale at my local hardware store.... :15 later... Frikkin awesome! Love it. Wish I'd snagged one ages ago. Sorry for stupid too big photo. Tablet hassles.

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    The groove at 0:45 is absolutely unstoppable.
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    Lol I'm flattered. It would be my dream to be in that band.

    I saw them in Boston this time last year, they rule.
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