PDX87Starion

Well duhh, small cars aren't as safe as larger mass vehicles. But they are still safer than getting hit on a motorcycle. People are aware of this when they buy them. But what are ya gonna do... Drive a bus around? Who cares how small they are.

The idea that banks were forced to give Loans to people is crazy. Banks and lenders were making lots of money on every loan. I had friends that were having a house built before the collapse, their budget was $400,000. That's what they decided they could afford. They were approved for $700,000 based on their income. And no, barney frank did not force the bank to offer that much. As for the deficits you can't compare the bush deficits to obamas because all the war spending was not included during bush. You have to compare total spending not the budget deficits. The reality is that our grandkids aren't going to pay it back. The 1.3 trillion that Reagan borrowed never got payed back. Now its so high its mathematically impossible to pay down. All we can hope for is not to add to it any more. Problem is that all that borrowed money is part of our propped up economy and has been for a long time. And props to Ron Paul he is by far the most consistent politician alive. It's also nice to see a republican march to the beat of his own drum instead of the drum of limbaugh or fox news. He panders to no one, it seems. Which really sets himself apart from the rest.

Yeah what is up with that? Its not election time yet. Gotta wait another year before the "there gonna take our guns..." rhetoric starts up again. I do find it interesting that now the boogie man is the UN instead of Obama. I was sure Obama was gonna take our guns. We theres always his second term.

Like Shelby said, bigger is not better even for N/A applications. But I think a lot of people still have this "race cam" or "292" or "performance cam" mentality when it comes to turbo cars. Yes it would be nice to just by a hot cam bolt it in and have more power, torque, and RPM's, but with boost I believe the cam should be the last mod, not the first like in the N/A world. Interesting article in hotrod magazine a while back. http://www.hotrod.com/pitstop/hrdp_1011_cams_for_turbocharged_engines/index.html "To get the skinny on cam design for boosted applications, we consulted Billy Godbold, Comp Cams' head camshaft designer. Because turbo applications make such dramatic power, the common misconception is that the intake and exhaust port velocities need to be quite high, in turn mandating very large-duration camshafts to make a given amount of power. Actually, the exact opposite is true. Because of the increased pressure along with a corresponding increase in oxygen and fuel density, more fuel and air are moving into the chamber, but the velocity is actually lower. The combustion chamber pressure therefore rises more quickly, and filling occurs earlier in the stroke compared with a similar NA application. Put all this together, and what works best in a turbo application is a smaller camshaft than the profiles normally specified for NA engines. Because overlap needs to favor the intake side, turbo cams tend toward far less duration than in an NA application. While the exhaust looks small, the exhaust opening point does not move as much as the exhaust closing point. The biggest change is overlap because you are no longer using the exiting exhaust to draw in the intake charge. Instead, exhaust energy drives the turbocharger to pressurize the inlet charge". Plus I dont think hardly any cam grinders have really done much dyno testing to see what really works with boost. What really works for them are big numbers like "292", thats what sells cams.

From the FAQ. TPS part numbers. Mitsu Part # MD614078 $153.50 @ autopartspeople.com < great price! Standard Motor Products (SMP) # TH249 $159 @ rockauto.com AIRTEX Part # 5S5098 $169 @ rockauto.com ACDELCO Part # 2132122 $167 @ rockauto.com Also a 89 hyundia sonata 2.4 is the same one but with a different connector (male instead of female). SMP Part # TH315 $133 @ partsamerica.com / $95 @ rockauto.com ACDELCO Part # 2134091 $89 @ rockauto.com AIRTEX Part # 5S5183 $94 @ rockauto WELLS # TPS451 $113 @ autozone (NOTE: These prices are from 2007) You just have to mount the hyundia TPS upside down, (so the wires come out the top instead of the bottom) and change out the connector. The wires are the same colors.

LOL. OMG, I just found out that $7-$8 a gallon, "off-road use only" "race gas" is illegal to use on the street. And its all because of the tree huggers...LOL Look out Mike the sky is falling, better sent out some angry emails. ha. Californias CARB does have some rules to get upset about like a "modified exhaust" but this race fuel thing is pretty standard every where. Its like people cant even see facts or individual issues anymore. Its all partisan idiology for every topic. Even race gas, somehow anyone who thinks that race gas should not be used be used on the street is now a tree hugging commie.

How about we just invade mexico. They are a threat to us, with their signs and stuff. Plus they have oil. Seriously the only long term solution is to change the way their goverment works. Or...because they come here for work, we could move all our factories out of commie China and put them just south of the border. That way they can stay there, and we could have access to jobs down there too.(jobs they dont want to do) I'm sure they will let us come through the border to work...right?

Dont worry about estimates and repairs right now. First you need to agree on a value for your car. You need do some work to get the value up. You need to send them all your reciets, plus send them a list of what other nice SQ's are selling for. Now even if you were gonna paint it the next day, they dont owe you the value of a nice SQ with new paint, they owe you for a SQ that needed a paint job. So you need to supply them with estimates of how much it would have cost you (or a shop) to paint that side. You also need to let them know your a semi pro painter. Then hopefully they can deduct that cost from what the value would be if you had painted it just before the accident. Once you get the value up and agree, to say $4000, they might want to fix it (minus paint) instead of totaling it. If they still want to total it out, you still can take a lower amount (the max they would pay to fix it. usually 80% of its value) and keep the car to fix yourself without having a branded "totaled" title. Basicaly this is what happened with my wifes vr6 jetta. They said its worth $1200 so its totaled. I said no its a GLX vr6 with leather its worth $5000. They eventually agreed the value was $4500. Now that the value was more its not an automatic total. The repair estimate was under the value. Long story short we kept the car and after the deductable we got a check for like $2800. Could have gotten more if they totalled it, but I fixed it and its on the road still with a clean title. PS anytime an insurance adjuster gives you an estimate for repairs, its always gonna be half of what it will really cost. After its in the shop, the shop will bill the insurance as a "suppliment" for the rest. They do this because some people will just cash the check and not fix the car. This makes it tough if you want to fix it yourself because you cant do a "suppliment" only body shops can.

Well the sucky part is if they do pay for it, since its sanded down they are gonna say there was previouse damage and the value of the car is gonna be way way down compaired to shiny paint. I went through this once with a primered car that got hit.

Well I think capping this thing off is going to be harder than they want us to know. Its a mile down and the remote subs havent been able to do it. I bet something will have to be custom built to stop it. They said one solution would be to drill another well next to it to relieve the pressure. That does not sound like a quick fix. Could this take months to stop? If So, I doubt BP would say so.

wait...what? I know a Garen but he didnt draw that. hmm does it realy say Garen '05? interesting. Didnt know there was more than one. Oh, and yeah the Genesis SHOULD be re-badged as a Starion or Conquest. It comes with the EVO turbo or 300 hp V6 and its RWD. OR....... at least its a candidate for a SQ engine & tranny swap.

Rock chips are covered by comprehensive, which also covers vandalism, theft and if a tree falls on it. Like Mike said a wiper scratch might not be covered, but a vandalism scratch would. What you could do is later you get a rock chip. Call a glass place that will handle the claim for you. Or if you have to go through progressive direct do that. A glass guy will come out to change the wind shield and he's not going to care if it has a rock chip or a scratch. When I had the windshields in my explorer and starion done the insurance company never looked at it before they were replaced. The one thing the insurance wants is an exact date the rock chip happened, so if you waited until you got 4 rock chips like I did, then waited before you got them fixed you have to tell them it just happened. I recommend comprehensive with a $100 deductible. With most cars, glass companies will pay the deductible or give you a $100 discount so it costs nothing. Comprehensive is not that expensive either.

Boy they are really scrambling to fill those orders. What dedication.

Besides Like Jay Leno says "Its not the cars that are the problem...its the fuel" There are so many reasons to move away from middle eastern fossil fuel, and cutting the CO2 is one small part. Any internal combustion engine can run on hydrogen instead of gasoline. And pretty soon your average electric vehicle is going to embarrace modified hot rods and muscle cars in the 1/4 mile. If gas is going to be 5$ and up a gallon (or much much more when the oil runs out). I will happily convert my buick 455 to run on something else. One thing I have noticed from the deniers is first global warming was a hoax, then when Bush acknowledged "climate change" it was...well its getting hotter but its not because of humans, its the sun, or something, or anything other than man. Now that Obama's in we are back to its a hoax and its even getting colder...AND its a government/world conspiracy to take our SUV's away. Eventually the truth, science, and fact will prevail, unless your stuck in an alternate reality.

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