76ChevyTrucker

I agree a whole lot with ZL-1 on this one, with his horizon's broadened he can hopefully keep the good things and times rolling for GM. And we can only hope that he is a car guy and will latch on and bring on the really good product that'll blow everyone's socks off.

All right, you can test the Mass Air Flow sensor if you have a good DVOM, or preferred an oscilliscope (sp) to watch the pattern, as you increase RPMs, then the voltage signal coming out of hte MAF should increase too. The MAP sensor should work in the opposite fashion. When you accelerate, vacuum pressure decreases therefore the voltage decreases. The reason I say IAC valve is because it is what controls the vehicle idle characteristics (along with information from the Throttle Position Sensor) when you're at idle/low RPM.

The FJ just looks dorky. At least the Xterra has some unique-ness as compared to the FJ which looks like hammered, then polished, $h!.

As does my weedwacker. Now I have to admit that I have heard some fairly nice sounding true exhausts on four-hampster units, but there are FAR more fart-can, coffee-can models in the world.

I've hit a dog once before, I felt bad for a while, but like you TJ, it was a stray and had no tags, and looked like it had the mange. I found it hard to do, but at the same time, I knew that he was in a better place than roaming around without a family to love and care for him. I feel for ya becuase I felt like crap for a while, but at the same time I was able to get over it fairly quickly.

Congrats all y'all for the successful dates. I'm a poor married sap and its great fun. Although with Amy pregnant, the bedroom department is starting to lack, but that's beside the point. But congrats on the good dates and I wish all y'all many more to come.

Well, I live down here in Alabama, and its been about 95 the past two weeks with 100% humidity (normal around here) and I'm definitely blasting the A/C for the first few minutes in the car so that I can blow the hot air out of the car, then I roll the windows down, open up the sunroof, crank up the tunes and cruise on. And the A/C stays on in the house so that when I'm done, I can relax in the nice and cool.

I'd go, just like if said about, my wife would let me. I've already done indoor skydiving on my honeymoon with the better half, so I don't mind falling, or anything like that, its just convincing her now that she's pregnant to let me go.

Looks like a nice find and if I could EVER convince Amy to let me have a Camaro, I'd damn sure buy yours, and I would take the time to restore it. And yes, I could see my wife learning to drive a stick in a classic Camaro and doing burnouts every single time.

Wow, that's a pretty long list of cars, although most of them make sense.

No no no, not a sledge hammer, just move it to the back yard, and use it to make sure and refine down the kill shot with your handy-dandy deer rifle, THEN sledgehammer it and make sure the boy gets the first swing.

that's right 68, a Solstice AND a Vette....not one or the other, but BOTH!

I would say more along the lines of the Idle Air Control valve due to his saying that he has to ride the brake and the throttle at the same time, which would tell me that the engine is not idling high enough on its own to maintain.

I have to say that his is a good idea. I can see where reg is coming from on the comments that he made about Pontiac. Although I could see that it would be a good idea for Pontiac to become RWD only, and sold along with Buick (combination FWD/AWD/RWD) then it would be the best idea, I can still see what reg is saying too. I guess I agree to disagree with reg on this one.

Looks like an interesting group of concepts, although I don't really see Merc getting a Cougar again (although the idea would be entertaining).

You know, I haven't even noticed those badges all that much on cars. I mean sure I look for them so I have an idea of what year the ride is, but they aren't too bad looking on them at all.

Sounds like you got what you wanted intruiged, which is al that matters. I've wondered about getting another car for me, but in all honest, with everything that I do, I need a truck again more than antying else (and asking mom and dad for their truck no longer cuts it).

Vette, Vette, Vette, hands down a Vette. I like Porsche, dont' get me wrong, they're great little pasta rockets, but I would take a Vette all day long.

Oh that's funny, it looks like its going to be FWD with those massive front (and a little square looking) tires.

Glad to hear that you're all right Satty, also glad to hear that you totalled the Solora instead of yourself in some way, shape, form, or fashion. I had a similar wild ride in the Impala a few weeks back with me and the wife. Car started to hydroplane and we went for a little skid through the ditch, ended up back on the road and all and I was amazingly calm throughout the whole thing. The wifey on the other hand, WASN'T, she was crying, and screaming, and praying and everything (we were on the way to church surprisingly enough), and then afterwards, I was laughing and playing it off. Its still a sore subject for her though.

All right, I've done this once before, but if you mix Dex-cool antifreeze with another antifreeze, it turns to gray play-doh (essentially) and you're screwed. Now the reason (so I've been told by many people in the repair industry) that the reason that GM went to Dex-Cool is because a majority of their vehicles had lots of aluminum components in the cooling system, the radiator core, heater core, heads, blocks, etc were all, or at least partly aluminum and that the traditional (green) coolant caused too many corrosion problems, therefore they changed formulations on the coolant and dyed it orange (or red, or pink, or whatever shade of color-blind you are) and called it Dex-Cool. I normally don't recommend coolant swapping at all, if that's what it came with, put it back in there because obviously it was put there for a reason OTHER than "it looks purdy". I backflushed and refilled the coolant system in my Impala at 100,000-miles and it wasn't sludged or anything at all. Another thing that people have to look at is the quality of water that they're mixing with the coolant. Distilled water is best simply because its been heavily filtered and purified to the best of the bottler's ability to remove chemicals and minerals that can be found in regular tap water, which can reduce Dex-Cool's ability to protect and cause it to sludge.

I agree with some of what evok said, but like everyone else, truck people think completey differently from car people. I want a V8 in a truck, and nothing less unless i'm talking about a "mid-size" truck and then I want the biggest engine you can stuff in there no matter what. That's just my way of thinking. And there is a definite smoothness to a V8 that you just can't duplicate with an I4 or a V6, then again that might be because of the cylinder arrangement and that you have a piston firing so closely together as compared to a 4-hampster power, or even a six hampster powered engine.

I know that they are North, but I've been seeing more and more starting to break parts (although that's becuase everyone is slowly but surely going OHC).

Yeah, I think, by his calculations, if done right, it can easily render 750 horses.

All right, someone help me out here. I've got a friend of mine with a 2002 Dodge Ram 3500 4-wheel drive Cummins Turbo Diesel duallie. He's also a truck driver and currently has a Peterbuilt with a Caterpillar 3406T, but is planning to remove the Cat and swap in a Detriot Diesel 60-series in. He's wondering the feasibility and power improvements he'd see with removing the turbo from the Cummins in his Dodge and replacing it with the Caterpillar one.... I have no clue on this one y'all, so I'm open to suggestions.