ok, so i've heard all this good stuff about seafoam and how it can clean your engine out. after reading a bunch of testimonies from audi guys i figured 6 bucks for a can...why not try it. pictures really don't do much justice because the sun was low and washed out the smoke a bit. the results:

immediately after firing up my car after letting it sit for 15 minutes after ingesting the seafoam:


10 seconds after:


20 seconds after:


no more pics of the car after that, because i realized my door was left open and my interior filled up with what is probably toxic smoke :lol:

so i drive around, and it smoking a bit but after 2 minutes or so, its done -- definitely smoked the most on start up. i guess my engine was fairly clean, but then again its my first time doing the procedure so maybe i didn't put enough in the engine, or let it sit long enough.


THE GRAND FINALE

so i tried it on the explorer. i figured that if the audi smoked a bit, the explorer would be x10....and boy was i right. 95k miles of gunk must have really made a home in there....

right after start up...not much at all. the calm before the storm.


i pulled out of my apt. complex and looked behind me...oh man this is embarrassing. the photo does no justice, it was a WALL


5 minutes later...still going...i had resorted to pulling into back roads because people were literally swerving around me. i felt bad but that didn't stop me from laughing the whole time


anyway, i guess it was worth it. the audi doesn't feel much different except now i have a nice annoying CEL light on, but on the other hand the explorer feels like its idling as if it came of the assembly line. seems to fit the bill, because i drive the audi kinda hard but the explorer never sees any kind of hard driving at all, rarely goes above 2500 rpm. the drama was fun though

Navin, can't this work for your pile.

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So today one of my brother's friends helped me hook up my sub in the STi. We did a really good job, it looks pretty dope... but I can BARELY hear the thing, even with the other speakers blasting. He has done a ton of installs (yesterday he hooked up two Type R 12s into his gf's Explorer and it's so loud that the roof and windows flex like an inch lol) and he tells me that install wise everything is fine.

We used 8 gauge wire, the sub is being pushed by a 600W amp running @ 1 ohm. What he thinks it could be is the shitty Sony Xplod head unit I have. You can't control any subwoofer functions or a crossover of any kind, other than a setting that says "Sub" that you can turn up or down.

Could the head unit be holding it back? I've tested this sub on another amp / head unit combo and it was really really loud. Not so much now. Hrelp 8)

Are these shocks good for a newbie HPDE'r? Koni Yellows for the mr2 aren't rebuildable/revalvable. The KONI North America guy suggested I try these, instead. What are your thoughts? Anyone used these?

To start - it would be cool to watch this with a big group. We started off this MotoGP season with little event at Paul's house and it would be great if somebody with Speed would like to offer up their place to do the same thing this Sunday.

This be the penultimate round of the 2006 Championship. Nicky Hayden sits down 8 points to Rossi. In order for Nick to take the championship he, essentially has to win this weekend and be lucky enough for Rossi to finish no better than third. If our Repsol man takes second, he needs Rossi to finish at least 2 places back, if memory serves. Feel free to chime in and correct my estimates. The long and short of it, though, is that the Kentucky Kid needs to put in a superhuman performance, and follow with a little good luck. With Rossi's string of bad luck seeming to have to come to an end already this year, though, it's likely that it's not in the cards.

Toni Elias just resigned with Gresini Honda and will be looking to show the world that he isn't a one hit wonder (but so what if he is? He DID just save his career). Sete Gibernau, unfortunately, will not be able to take the start following surgery on his (re)injury from the Stoner crash last round. Troy Bayliss will be replacing him on grid. The Troy start will cap off the 990cc Ducati Project in high fashion, as Bayliss was the first GP rider to take to the track on the bike, back in 2002, and will close the books on it this Sunday. Bayliss will be a big wild card riding the Ducati - speculation that there might be some animosity on his absence from GP leaks up every now and then, and his riding has certainly come a long way since his contract expired on his debut MotoGP experience. He will certainly be looking to show the world that he hasn't lost his ability to compete with the big boys, but his lack of time in their paddock will certainly keep him from gunning for a race victory - a solid mid-pack performance would be very cool. His teammate, and perennially good natured dimunitive italian Loris Capirossi will be looking to place well enough to bump from 4th in the riders championship to third... being the good guy Loris is I don't think there's a single person that doesn't want to see him do it.

... and then there's HRC's genetics project, Dani Pedrosa. No matter what Puig says, and how many times the "no team orders" mantra has been uttered, it's abundantly clear that he has a very specific task this weekend: get between Hayden and Rossi. In the only fit of rage anybody has ever seen Nick Hayden allow himself he told the little Spaniard that the only way the Estoril crash could be made up to him was by helping him relcaim the points lead here. It is entirely possible that Pedrosa will cave under what is certainly a huge amount of pressure coming from all angles - he's shown several times that he's not mentally up to par with GP's established stars. That said, though, there's probably not very man people that want him to fail - most of the MM camp will be cheering for HRC. Like I saw on a pickup once (or was it a lot more than once?), it's time to git 'er done.

Valencia is one of only 5 circuits on the MotoGP calendar that's run counter clockwise. It's a collection of mostly slow speed turns, all linked together. If anybody were going to watch it in person they'd find that they could see almost the entire racetrack from their camping point (which would make this a VERY cool alternative to Laguna Seca for those of us intent on making another event). It's also the second slowest track on the calendar, a hitch faster than Estoril which and average speed only just over 150kph.

Wherever you watch it, this race promises to be have everybody on the edge of the seat when the red lights go out.

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Picked this up today on a whim while I was in Best Buy picking up some crimps so that I can hook my subwoofer up (yeah I'm going to throw it in now):



Looks pretty sweet! All the employees there that were gamers that I talked to said it's supposed to be a really really good thing to have, considering one of the XBOX 360s biggest oversights is that it overheats like its going out of style. I've already sent my 360 back to Microsoft once for repairs, probably due to overheating.... even on gaming sessions that are not very long (~2 hours) I'll try to post up some thoughts after I try it out. It was $25 and runs off of the 360 power source constantly.

On a side note, a kid at Best Buy told me that it's not a good idea to stand up the 360 vertically even though you can. Apparently it causes it to overheat faster because there is venting on the grey plastic part on the bottom.

They look freakin sweet! Notice the "Chrysler Daytona Shelby." 8)

will this ever be fixed? not trying to be an asshole, its just that i like our gallery and actually use it.

I've been paying dues for a while now but I have never received the MM next to my name on the members pages. What's up w/ that?