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CoronitaParticipant[quote=The-Shoveler]May be this is one of the sell the news moments.
Just when everything seems resolved POW!! LOL.
Who knows stock market seems overpriced to me but what do I know.What amazes me is how evenly divided between the two extremes the country is.
The difference in the popular vote for prez is only a few percent.
House Majority control is likely going to come down to maybe 5 or 10 seats.
IMO One party or the other tries to pass some extreme law or something I feel the country could truly tear itself apart.
Anyway just IMO.Even California is a lot more evenly divided than you would think it is.[/quote]
California is fvcked up with the supermajority. It will get a lot worse before it gets better imho.
CoronitaParticipantI don’t know but it seems like the markets have more room to run…
Wasn’t one concern was an all blue congress and presidency would mean massive capital gains tax hikes?
It seems like that is going to be unlikely for the next 4 years. The blue wave didn’t happen.
GOP will still hold on to senate
Democrats hold onto House, and lost a few seats so there is more of a balance
Even if Biden/Harris wins, which personally I’m hopeful for versus the Asshole Crybaby In Chief, it appears there’s a limit on what tax increases he can do with a stalemated federal government. That should be good news for us, right?
November 5, 2020 at 12:21 AM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #820097CoronitaParticipantNot bad for $20 from Amazon….
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November 5, 2020 at 12:18 AM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #820074CoronitaParticipantNew problem. broke a bolt off the trunk lid while trying to reassemble it after painting….
and while trying to remove the broken bolt using vice grips, sheered the bolt nut right off the trunk lid weld points. lol.
so I just bought another tool… Rivet mut tool and rivet nuts…lol.
but hey, even scotty likes them…
CoronitaParticipantI’ll make a public bet with someone that if Biden wins, BrianSD/FlyerInHi comes back at least once to gloat about the victory….
That way, if he does come back, I win. And if he doesn’t come back, this blog wins….
CoronitaParticipant.
CoronitaParticipantI voted for Kanye West….
… Because I couldn’t think of a better role model for the First Lady than Kim Kardashian.
… And it’s the best way I thought I could support BLM…
…by cutting out the usual white guy middleman that normally is always in the way …
But more importantly, I voted no for almost every single proposition. Especially Prop 16…..
CoronitaParticipant[quote=teaboy][quote=svelte]Guess I’m not really in favor of rent control. [/quote]
Isn’t rent control simply the proletariat’s version of prop 13?
So, if one is against rent control, one should be just as vehemently against prop 13, right?
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Not even close
CoronitaParticipant[quote=davelj]I’m a landlord… in Colombia. I wouldn’t touch anything in CA right now.[/quote]
I don’t get this. doesn’t this seem like this is a pretty broad stroke to be painting?
October 26, 2020 at 4:25 PM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #819997CoronitaParticipant[quote=gzz]I like the idea of replacing my car’s heavy lead acid battery with a light and modern lithium one.
Which model would you get? Probably not economic for mainstream use yet.[/quote]
It depends on how much CCA you need. This car can get by with something around 300 CCA give or take, so it’s about $150 for a decent Shorai battery. Traditional Lead-Acid battery was around $110, unless I get the Walmart special which would have been around 80. Costco doesn’t stock the battery otherwise that would have been the best option.
The biggest issue with the LiFEPO4 battery is you absolutely need to make sure you never run the battery down to completely dead. If you do, that becomes a paperweight pretty quickly. The bigger concern is in modern cars, there’s so much electronics that the car is drawing some current even when it’s off. So personally, I would only feel comfortable putting this battery in with a kill switch that cuts off the rest of the car’s electronic to the battery. I have this in my car, and take the cutoff switch key with me. I don’t have much electronics left in the car.
Also, thing about LiFEPO4 batteries is you need to get a special trickle charger for it. You can’t use the one for traditional Lead-Acid batteries.
Speaking of battery conditioners…I keep a battery conditioner on all the cars I’m not driving all the time. That does a pretty good job keep the battery 7-8 years.
I have this 4 bank unit (when it was much cheaper and sold directly by AAA)
I also have two single units for the other two cars I care slightly more about…The CTek condition is good and it’s small enough to take with you.
For the lipo4 battery, the CTEK version you want is:
https://www.amazon.com/CTEK-56-926-LITHIUM-Automatic-Phosphate
And a cheaper version
LiFeP04 batteries don’t require overnight charging. They charge pretty quick, usually within 1-2 hours. And disconnected from any/all load, they hold their charge very well for a long time.
You don’t really need a LiFEPO4 battery unless you really need to save the weight. For a street car, it’s unnecessary, I don’t have it any of my other cars. If you run heavy electronics in a car, don’t do it. For example, if you have a super-duper sound system…. I wouldn’t have done it if it wasn’t for the extra weight put back into the car with a rollbar and a blower for the motor. Blowers are heavy too. Also not a good financial decision, because it ended up costing more than the car. But they certainly are fun… (installing them, not so fun…)
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(Pay no attention to the clear zipties holding the throttle cable assembly from moving and jamming at full throttle. That was only temporary when a bolt came off during a race. It was either zipties or duct tape…. Hey, people laughed, but I was able to finish the day. And besides, its permenantly fixed now…. Couldn’t find a replacement bolt, but now I use black colored zip ties that are thicker… :()
I like having shitty cars….I don’t know why.
October 24, 2020 at 2:41 PM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #819987CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]Race in just a speedo.[/quote]
I was kidding about the 15 lbs…. Probably closer to 7….Can’t race in speedos. Too much exposed metal. My legs already get thrashed from hitting the sharp exposed metal.
As long as I can stay around 160ish at 5′ 10″, I think that’s the best I can do…I’ve tried to lose more, but it’s really hard to keep it off.
October 24, 2020 at 2:35 PM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #819985CoronitaParticipant[quote=scaredyclassic]
Bicycle nuts obsess over grams on the bike, but often carry 30 extra pounds around their gut. Its the total weight that matters not just the bicycle weight.
At this point, for this car, driver weight might matter. Maybe wear lightweight shoes and lose 10 lbs. Be sure to peepee prior to race . No underwear. Remove watch.[/quote]
Funny you should mention that. When I have an event. I don’t eat breakfast and only eat after the timed event, and pee right before the timed laps. Drops about 15 lbs right there. That’s half weigh savings of from switching from a traditional 32 lb lead-acid battery to a 3 lb lithium iron phosphate motorcycle battery. Been there, done that…
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I think I can shave another 20lbs if I switch out the stock brake rotors and calipers for a aluminum wilwood 2 piece kit, plus the unsprung weight savings. Maybe when my brakes need to be replaced..
Clearly, you haven’t hung out with miata guys. There’s something called the “gram strategy”… (although mazda has taken that to an extreme lately by shipping cars with faulty transmissions…)
Gotta keep the power/weight ratio in check to keep up with the higher powered cars. It’s also a bigger advantage around the corners (not so much in a long straight line)…Easier on the tire budget too…
Light, cheap, fast… Pick 2.
October 24, 2020 at 10:35 AM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #819983CoronitaParticipantLol. It’s not that bad…
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It still has both airbags (for now). The dashboard hasn’t been taken out (yet). I haven’t started drilling holes (yet) into non structural body panels like the trunk floor to further reduce weight.
Plus I did put the door panels back on because they don’t save too much weight, and without them, my legs were getting cut up by the sharp metal edges when I went around corners, lol…
I think it’s down to 2250 lbs. I need to shave off another 120 lbs after I put in a in a full cage and a carbon fiber hardtop.
Might end up removing the power steering and swapping for a manual rack. Don’t really need it. Less things to break.
I likey fun little tinker car. It’s a piece of shit, but I never need to worry about where I park and what I hit and if someone hits me (provided I don’t die), it’s instant insurance money in the pocket.
October 21, 2020 at 7:26 PM in reply to: Dear wise handy people… What would you do to extract this bolt…. #819978CoronitaParticipantBtw gzz.. you can do what I did. Rip out the ac. it saved me 40lbs of weight. Gram strategy…
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