loki

no travel. just pretty normal this week with a family gathering on sunday. (hope it'll be nice)

any idea if the '11 'bu will get the 2.4L DI? or will that have to wait for the '12?

thats pretty good. lol

awesome.... or not.. depending.

i had a hole in my regal's system once (just before the muffler), at <10% throttle it sounded mean, but once it got up to speed it was very annoying. i know the camaro wouldn't be tuned like that, but i found it awesome to hear the 3.8 with only the cat and what,7 feet, of exhaust to quiet it. lol

i bias it so it sounds barely like it's coming from the front.. good envelopment of sound. BA is supposed to be a very reputable company. hm.... quick look to crutchfield to see what the sizes are... 3 1/2 for the fronts? or at least they're the only ones that "fit" 6 1/2 for the front doors.. that's good. 6x9's in the rear... good bass, but will most likely muddy it because of oval. i would love to test drive one. but from this "picture" unless it's a cheap BA speaker, either the design of the interior (sound padding/isolation) is lack luster or the head-unit is a horrible match for the equipment. doesn't Ford let knowledgeable people design their "mach" systems in the past? unless i'm missing something, i wish GM would do that for more cars. i thought the monsoon systems were regarded fairly well, if not trouble prone though. ?

since you criticize the soudns system. i've very curious what kinda music you like to listen to and what setup you are accustomed to, also what kind of speakers GM uses, are they even a name brand or are they "delco"? my reference system i'd compare anything to is my MC with 1 gen old polk db speakers. 5 1/4 front and 6 1/2 rears with a pioneer H/U, highpass 12db/oct @50hz slightly boosted bass and treble. with "rock" to "house" as reference music. it struggles with alot of low bass, but overall is really a very good, middle line system i think. very professionally put together review and the review itself is quite good/thorough for it's length.

indeed. or how about gen3 2modes. now in tiny size for turbo 4 cyl? hahahah not sure how it's weight to strength is compared to other things though, like neodynium/strontium. i'm guessing it's less dense?

http://www.physorg.com/news188458077.html A group of scientists from the University of Minnesota say that Fe16N2 crystals are more magnetic than the most magnetic material previously known, and its magnetism exceeds the predicted limit of magnetism for a material. hopefully it's easy to manufacture, maybe something that can be made in the USA? this will be great for many consumer goods.. like for audiophiles

miracles of modern medicine.... of course head surgery has been going on for a couple thousand years, at least.

this looks nice, but bland compared to the gs concept... or it's just the typical GM photography.

nice capt. lol

e85 has a 100+ octane rating... super grade in a good working engine that only needs regular will loose mileage in most instances... same thing for e85. the epa ratings for mileage are typically ~25% less than gas. i've heard it's prolly more like 10-15% in regular use. my family doesn't have any flexfuel cars, any one confirm? and just remember, some of your tax money already went to help incentivise it's manufacture.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/3/17/globalfoundries-produces-zero-defect-wafers2c-10025-yield.aspx 32nm wafer 28nm wafer can't wait till intel finally has some up to date competition.

hm... this was quite a while ago topic. i was only in my 3rd year. 1st year, tired of school, in a pre-engineering major, ended with 17 hours for the year. 2nd year, took my sweet ass time in Engineering technology with some AC/DC classes. 3rd year. did fairly well with an econ class and had fun in Japanese a few more years of what i had to take and 1 class of angling archery and firearms. archery was done in a gym and a lot of fun, firearms was with pellet guns, but did have a volunteer day at the range. then graduated in may 09 with a B.S. engineering tech: electrical and control. with a gpa of 3.36.

FOG - curious if you read the 5 points about inflation deflation i posted? I do think all these "U.N." offshoots have caused more trouble than what it's been worth. say, the IMF, trying to be the world's central bank, what a horrible idea.

very chuckle worthy.

the only defense i could have of phili is it's historic places... but sadly those can require lots of public "investment"... Camino is just dancing around the fact that bigger government requires it citizens to be burdened more and more. whether it's caused by pensions or just "more services" doesn't matter.

and that could be dealt with by just ending corn subsidies and the sugar quota. of course it'll still be around, but prolly not in "everything"

*do not pay attention to the man behind the curtain!"

lol

bread will no longer be cooked onsite...? i could agree with fries like this, but that's easy. this law is insane though.

rep'd!

well.. i was 10 then. so my recollection of it is not great, but i don't think it was so bad down there, mainly cause of how flat most of south IL (lessening the height) and suppsoedly that flood wasn't too bad after cairo cause of the normal increase of volume added by the ohio. but i could take a pic of our flood wall.. it has it marked how high that flood crested. cairo may have a similar mark somewhere since it's levied all around itself. never heard of helena... but by the looks of the map, if it had easy interstate access, it prolly would have been like my town 41%--wiki sas it has ~15K residents put it roughly what my town would be if it lost 50% of it population.

a key isn't like in a race car...what everything is trying to be it seems.... you know, Toyota:"moving forward" got behind a prius getting onto the interstate one day... not sure how much gas they were giving it, but i'm guessing it was ~75% or more ...my car with 2 more cylinders and just a smidge more than 2x the displacement, i kept up with it with maybe 66% throttle...yeah, what a race car. lol