Camino LS6

I'm not much of a dash fondler, but I have to say that the CRV interior looks awful plain to me. Bland even. I just don't see much there. Now I wouldn't change my purchase plans because a car had a less than "class-leading" interior (it just isn't quite so critical to me) but that one doesn't look like much to me. I recently drove a new Rav4, found it to be really small inside but the detail of the interior looked better than that CRV. It also accellerated with serious authority. And you guys all know that I hate Toyota. So I'm not pushing a brand I like here.

Yes?

Thanks for the smile.

In tank units scare me a bit even though they are quieter. I'll still have to have my tank baffled to prevent fuel starvation from sloshing when the tank is low. I'll also have to upsize the lines.

To quote Jethro Tull: "Nothing is easy"

Oops! Missed that last post. Glad there was no big hassle! Your last post is killing me - now I want to go to Saranac Lake! Can't wait to see the pics!

Good Luck to you! Man, I wish I were going to Lake Placid tomorrow - I love that town.

Wow, much better in reality than the earlier description made it sound. Congrats.

The bolt-on is easy, making it work is the hard part. That's why I'm going to buy a fuel injected crate motor for my project. I will still have to upgrade the fuel lines, modify the tank, and add an electric pump.

Spin,Spin,Spin

OCN is right, 7k is an "I don't want to deal with it" price.

So BV, has it been diagnosed yet?

I am home. Frankly, I find dealing with you to be tiresome and predictably negative. With friends like you GM and C&G don't need enemies. That is simply all I have to say to you, except that I don't intend to address you directly moving forward. I'm not part of this site because I like to argue, I'm here because I support, enjoy, and believe in GM much as I do my fellow staff members and the mission of C&G. I just don't have any more time for your noise.

Thanks for a great job, Fly. It's quite nice to see all your hard work paying off like this. Though we all have had a hand in macking C&G what it is today, your outstanding efforts have pushed the site forward and raised the level of our content well above what it has ever been before. It is gratifying to see GM taking notice and making our dialog with them more official by asking you to this meeting. As sites like this continue to displace the traditional auto rags, it is only natural for GM to engage us more directly. My hat's off to you for doing such a fine job of reporting this unprcedented experience to all of us. I look forward to a continuing give and take with GM, and to their success with all of the excellent new products headed our way. This initial meeting lays the cornerstone for what I hope will be expanded interaction with the people running the show. Well done!

You still don't get it. But it seems to pointless to converse with you, so I'll just give up now.

Thanks for getting a pic of the "Lemansamino", Fly! I didn't even know that it still existed! Very cool.

Suspension removed/frame prep:

I might go, but its quite a bit of work and expense for another "maybe".

You seem to have missed the intent of this event entirely. Saturn chose the folks that they did for the purpose of acting as ambassadors for the brand, to have them be better informed and better able to relate what Saturn is about to the "great unwashed". This wasn't market research, nor was it intended to be. If you believe that Saturn doesn't do the sort of market research you suggest, you are kidding yourself. This simply wasn't that sort of event.

After my "Carlisle delay" I got back to the wagon last night. Unfortunately, the batteries in my camera died - so no pics. I removed the spindles, upper & lower control arms, springs, and a few small items as well as beginning to prep the now nearly naked frame for paint. I had to disconnect the steering shaft to get the D/S upper control arm off. I'll try to take some pics if I continue tonight.

My thoughts as well. If so, it puts a big point in PCS' plus column.

I suppose that I could put the Maserati in the car corral at the import show, but just the idea of it makes me tired.

Could easily be the cat, a clogged-up cat causes a ton of backpressure not allowing the engine to breathe. Made a HUGE difference on my Maserati when I replaced the cat. When cars first got cats, this sort of thing happened all the time. If the car has really high miles or ran junk gas for any length of time, the cat makes sense as the source of the problem. Otherwise, I'd suspect a fuel filter.

The only problem with that is that GM is required by law to revise the numbers if a discrepancy is found.