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i figured so much since it was on the smoking gun, but i was hoping the exhaust thing would have died too, jeez that that van sounded like a freakin

when the fart can mufflers started appearing in my town i was less than happy. most were heavily made fun of to the point of no return but the fad... i mean performance realizations took place and they got a foothold. whilest watching one of my relaxing shows that makes me feel better about myself in everyway ( the smoking gun presents on tru tv) i saw a video clip of a muffler shop that is welding pieces of flat metal with a hole in them into the exhaust tips of cars. how stupid, and of course not one person interviewed for the positives of this "modification" which they claim is for decoration, btw the last time i looked at a decoration it was pretty silent, has one shred of credibility. in all honesty it sounds like the tranny just dropped out because they were going 60mph and then down shifted into 1st.

... bad day maybe? droll humor, its either funny or not. sorry to have wasted your time.

Happy bday, rock out to the new birthday song!

for the day you were born, good wishes i give, yes?

ugh it had fail on it as soon as the idea fired synapses

love the r/t stripes on that challenger. one of my favorite call outs.

i guess that means the "wait till next year" bmw m5 argument has be quelled.

maybe you can plead with ceasar to help hehe... or better yet ms victoria stilwell. those riding pants she wears all the time are rediculous. plus when she is in britain doing the show she drives an e type although its a less favorable year, in america she sports a vette. dog fights suck though. i have 2 but they get along well. they have spats but dont draw blood. i have friends though that watch thier dogs like a hawk... as soon as they start staring they split em up. are they fixed?

btw woe unto the man who pisseth buzz off.

take off the stupid wheels and thats how she looked.

will do. i should have labeled the pics also the engine pics are before's and afters. we pulled the beast out of their barn around 92/93 and it was nice but it had that "help i've been in a barn since 64" thing going on. dad and my grandpa stripped her down primered it and painted it in that garage in the last pic. sent the seats off to be recovered not because of wear but because the originals were so stained from spills and whatnot. dad hated to do it but he couldnt get them out. the engine needed nothing to return to life except the fuel lines were clogged and the oilpan gasket leaked. the only thing painted under the hood was the valve covers. the carpet was also replaced. the wildcat was purchased in 64 new from arnett motors here in anderson. she drove it daily to work (she was an RN at the city hospital) my dad says that car was a total beast of a machine. he was with her once on main street when these two guys pulled up and started revving their motor at her. he said she never even looked over at them. the light turned green and it was on, by 2nd gear she was walking off, they never knew what hit em. he said it could catch 2nd no problem, with as much torque as it had it could prolly chirp 3rd. gas went up and the 2x4's was too thirsty. they went to the dealership and got a single 4bbl setup and that stayed on the car until it was traded in '73 on a new bonneville. Dad recalls seeing the car after that. it was sold to an older black man on the other side of town. he said the last time she was spotted it was around 80. prolly long since gone to the crusher. when we were getting the packard my uncle roy told dad to take the intake and cars with him. he was just going to dump it but decided there was something special about it so he kept it. we still got it. ive seen complete setups like ours in same condition go for $1000, restored they hit about $2000-2500. I look for similar wildcats constantly on ebay and i happened to run across one in atlanta for sale. it was just like hers to a T. the only thing is it needed restoring (mainly paint and patch panels the guy had all the trim and everything even the factory 2x4 setup. he wanted 8400 for it and unfortunately i was paying on my impala resto and dad had just bought the 68 nova that was in my sig a while back. i emailed him and told him if he ever decides to sell again here is my number, house and cell, email and address. he said if it didnt sell he was going to fix it himself. here are pics of that intake setup btw

I promised XP i would throw up some more pics of our old packard when i got the chance so true to my word here they are. we'll start out with the the car itself. 1955 packard clipper constellation, hardtop, emerald green/moonstone paint. powered by the middle road 352 4bbl had a factory automatic transmission that was later removed due to the lines clogging. Interesting story in itself is that instead of them taking the car to the dealership, the dealership sent some guys out with a manual transmission and dropped the auto out and put the manual in the car in my great aunt and uncles drive way. They purchased this car from the Packard dealership in Atlanta GA from what i understand, that was run by a Mr Ed Earl(sp?). the auto never came back and my aunt just drove it with the stick from there on out. btw they also did the auto to manual conversion there in the driveway too. steering column and all. specs we were told about the car was that it weighed in at 3850lbs. the car cost approximately $4,750 new compared to a 55 chevy's $2500. some of the options on the vehicle were power steering, power windows, power antenna, as well as power brakes. the car also had a tube radio (we actually had to replace one of the tubes when we started driving it.) the most interesting and suprising option that was on the car was the new for '55 torsion level suspension system. i did a little research and this is what i found. In 1955, Packard introduced Torsion Level suspension, which used torsion bar springs, a starter motor and a simple mercury switch to maintain a level ride height by stiffening the springs when the car was heavily loaded. Only a few years later, General Motors (GM) and Chrysler both had air suspension systems in production, allowing their larger cars to maintain a constant ride height without sacrificing that pillow-soft ride. The all-mechanical controls proved unreliable and these systems were short-lived, but development continued. By the early 1970s, the Big Three all offered dependable air suspension on at least one model. source me and my dad would sit on the bumper and after a few moments, the motors kicked in and it leveled out, stand up and it sank back down. it was amazing. sadly we couldnt keep the car. the parts were far to pricey to mantain and finaces for an expensive car added another nail in the coffin for her. we sold the car and since it has passed through about 4 more hands. the car was parked in 64 when my aunt purchased a brand new buick. being used to the lap of luxury though she opted for a 64 buick wildcat coupe. 425 2x4bbl out of one rare car and into another i guess.

the first homepage i remember is the later 2004 setup with all the red everywhere. found this place by googling for pictures of a concept car i think.

batman tumbler PC case sweet PC's for people dreamiing of egypt

only pushrods for my pc's baby http://nexus404.com/Blog/2007/06/25/glorio...-computer-case/

dang it satty, another revived poll. after reading through all that i was thinking to myself man its good to see some of these people back they been gone a while... then i got to your post and realized... 2006? heheh i'm still in the same bracket though... dangit

thanks loki. to tell the truth i am far out of date on computer stuff. i emptied out that are in the 9th grade or so when i started focusing on cars more. i havent quite committed to buying from there but i'll make a footnote about that info you just gave me. never really thought about dells or gateways cause of all the horror stories i used to hear working at office depot but i'll give em a shot booyah

well here is a bit of an update. i went to newegg and looked around and noticed they sell a good many ibuypower pc's so i went there to build one. this is what i cam up with. Case ( [New !!!] Thermaltake V9 Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Red ) Case Lighting ( None ) Power Supply ( 650 Watt -- Corsair CMPSU-650TX Power Supply SLI Ready ) Processor ( [== Quad Core ==] AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology ) Processor Cooling ( Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooling Fan System Kit Silent & Overclocking Proof = Maximum cooling efficiency for quietness and performance ) Motherboard ( [sLI] MSI K9N2 Diamond Nvidia nForce 780a SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, USB 2.0, IEEE-1394, 3-Way SLI PCI-E MB 3-Way SLI ) Memory ( 4 GB [2 GB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand ) Video Card ( 2x NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT 512MB w/DVI + TV Out Video - running SLI mode ) Video Card Brand ( Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA ) Hard Drive ( 500 GB HARD DRIVE [serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache] ) 2nd Hard Drive ( None ) External Hard Drives [uSB 2.0/eSATA] ( None ) CD/DVD Drive ( None ) CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( [Lightscribe Technology] LG 22X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black ) Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard ) Speaker System ( iBUYPOWER 2.1 Channel Stereo Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System ) Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) ) Floppy Drive ( None ) Monitor ( None ) 2nd Monitor ( None ) Keyboard ( iBUYPOWER USB Keyboard with 18 Internet Hot /Multimedia Keys Black ) Mouse ( iBUYPOWER 1600 dpi High Sensitivity Internet Mouse Black ) USB 2.0 Accessories ( Built-in USB 2.0 Ports ) Meter Display ( XION Flip Up Colored LCD Thermal Control Panel ) Flash Media Reader/Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Black ) Operating System ( MS Windows XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2 ) total comes out at $1161. (sprang for the SLI stuff) the other comes in a little closer to the mark Case ( Nzxt Alpha Gaming Tower Case w/420W Power Supply Black ) Case Lighting ( None ) Power Supply ( 600 Watt -- Power Supply SLI Ready ) Processor ( [== Quad Core ==] AMD Phenom X4 9850 Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology ) Processor Cooling ( Thermaltake MaxOrb CPU Cooling Fan System Kit Silent & Overclocking Proof = Maximum cooling efficiency for quietness and performance ) Motherboard ( [sLI] Asus M3N72-D NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI Chipset w/7.1 Sound, Gb LAN, S-ATA Raid, IEEE 1394, USB 2.0, Dual PCI-E/HDMI MB ) Memory ( 4 GB [2 GB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 Memory Module Corsair-Value or Major Brand ) Video Card ( NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT 1GB w/DVI + TV Out Video ) Video Card Brand ( Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA ) Hard Drive ( 500 GB HARD DRIVE [serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache] ) 2nd Hard Drive ( None ) External Hard Drives [uSB 2.0/eSATA] ( None ) CD/DVD Drive ( None ) CD-RW/DVD-RW Drive ( [Lightscribe Technology] LG 22X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive Black ) Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard ) Speaker System ( iBUYPOWER 2.1 Channel Stereo Super Bass Subwoofer Speaker System ) Network Card ( Onboard LAN Network (Gb or 10/100) ) Floppy Drive ( None ) Monitor ( None ) 2nd Monitor ( None ) Keyboard ( iBUYPOWER USB Keyboard with 18 Internet Hot /Multimedia Keys Black ) Mouse ( iBUYPOWER 1600 dpi High Sensitivity Internet Mouse Black ) USB 2.0 Accessories ( Built-in USB 2.0 Ports ) Meter Display ( XION Flip Up Colored LCD Thermal Control Panel ) Flash Media Reader/Writer ( 12-In-1 Internal Flash Media Card Reader/Writer Black ) Operating System ( MS Windows XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2 ) grand total $896 so what say ye?

there you go :wink:

you can get those?

ooo excellent point loki. i have a 17" lcd monitor so all i really am after is a tower. my gaming these days mainly rests upon the back of my ps3 but i do want a fairly capable machine. mostly i am on the net surfing and whatnot. prolly hang in the sub $800 market. its not so much what should i get as its where should i get it. where have ya'll had good luck at.

well after 4 faithful years of service my systemax is getting ready to bite it. it has the computer version of being senile and difficult to wake in the mornings. after 30 min of tinkering i finally got it to pass the boot screen (i think the faulty usb port card had somethin to do with it). the power supply acts funny as well when you turn it off. anyhoo i got this last one from tiger direct which i had heard great things about... my experience with them was less than stellar. ordered a tower and a monitor only to get just a monitor in 2 weeks. waited a week and nothing ever came. called them and the tower i had ordered was discontinued 2 days after the order. actually just the case was discontiued. i told the guy on the phone you have all the specs for the other one which he said yes, told him just put it all in a case you have and send it i dont really care (ended up being $100 cheaper anyway). next the video card in it went bust, replaced it under warranty and the new one didnt work. they decided it was the mother board so i had to send it back. 2 weeks later it came back and has worked fine since. so i want to avoid that little fiasco again. i am thinking about either going retail (best buy, staples, office depot, circu... whoops) or trying new egg or ibuypower.com what say you computer turbo nerds? i dont want to settle for a big box special but i feel a little burned from the custom guys on the web too.