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  1. grandestang

    Netbook Advice

    I'm looking to purchase a netbook in the $3-400 range. I just need something fast and simple that I can browse with on my couch in my apartment and that I can also store some music files on. Not looking for massive memory to store tons of movies or videos. Before anyone suggests an Ipad-...
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    Best Electric Razor

    Looking into getting an electric razor. I'm getting tired of the whole shaving cream / razor routine and need something quicker and easier. Anyone have any recommnedations? What are using and are you happy with it? Paul
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    Found a purse in the parking lot the other day....

    I was at the liquor store about to pick myself up a pony keg of Bell's Two Hearted, when I saw a purse (wristlet actually) in the parking lot. I went in and gave it to the cashier without opening it first. Turns out the purse had over $360 worth in cash in it. Now, personally I'd never be...
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    New Velvet Revolver Album...

    Anyone picked it up yet? It came out July 3rd, and I've been thinking about getting it. I thought their first album Contraband was just okay and was hoping that they're second try would raise the bar. Scott Weiland is my favorite singer of all time so I am almost obligated to buy it... just...
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    Music Chicks Love???

    Okay guys heres the deal, I love hard rock and classic rock (Metallica, Killswitch, STP, Led Zep, Skynrd, Breaking Benjamin, Soundgarden, Rage, Audioslave, Disturbed, Foo Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Trapt, Stone Sour etc.....) but..... Whenever I have chicks in my room they obviously don't...
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    Air bubble under paint??

    Well in only a matter of less than 2 months the once immaculate paint on my drivers side door has well... self destructed. It started off as a small little air bubble but it just grew and grew to the point where today it finally cracked the paint. How in the hell does something like this...
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    E36 M3

    Well, I'm getting tired of my 98 Cobra and am looking into possibly picking up one of these cars. There is just no comparison in the driving experience, even though I'd be down on power compared to my 98. I know a little bit about them, like the differences in the 95 year versus the others...
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    Someone ripped off my Cobra grill emblem...

    :cuss: :cuss: Has this happened to anyone else? I'm actually not surprised there a ton of pricks around this campus.... Does anyone know of any "better" made Cobra emblems that are harder to just rip off? It looks like mine was just glued onto a bracket making it very easy to rip off...
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    Anyone ever experience Sleep Paralysis?

    From time to time when I'm under stress or my sleep schedule has been altered I'll get sleep paralysis, and man is it scary. For those that don't know what it is, its when you wake up and you are fully aware and alert, but you can't move any of your muscles. It just happened to me like two...
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    First GT500 to be crashed

    Already?? :rollseyes http://www.49abc.com/news/2006/jul/21/sherwood_accident_sends_one_hospital/ EDIT: I am owned as I just realized this is a repost. Eh, whatever news to me has to be news to someone else too :shrug: Paul
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    The myth of gears not affecting gas mileage...

    Let me just start by saying I love my new 4.30s and I would have never bought the Cobra if I cared at all about gas mileage. They definitely turned the Cobra into a beast. However people on this board constantly say how gears will barely affect mileage, but for me they affected it...
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    4.30s installed

    Finally took care of the noisy rearend and had all the bearings replaced along with the installation of 4.30s. ASSC Racing in Lake Bluff, IL performed the work and I recommend them to anyone in the Northern Chicago area, they did an excellent job- gears are completely quiet. This has been...
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    Chicago Area Rear End Shops?

    I'm having a hell of a time finding a reputable rearend shop that will rebuild my differential and hopefully install some 4.30 gears. If anyone from the Chicagoland area, preferably northern Chicago, have any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul
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    Comon... Who can really play "One"?...

    Alright you guitarists... how many of you can really play the full solo to Metallica "One"? I know SVTP is full of badass guitarests as is should be... but how many of you can really rock out to sweet Metallica rock as it shoud be played!!!!?? Lets hear it... comon... you got some sweet stuff...
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    Hesitation at 5k WOT in 3rd gear?

    Okay, I first noticed this at the track this summer. Power band would be perfectly normal, brutally agressive above 4k in gears 1-2, then I hit 3rd gear and of course with my stock gears the car seemed to slow down but was still pulling. The weird thing is, in 3rd gear at about 5k the engine...
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    Cool 1996 Article Comparing Cobra vs. Camaro Z28 vs. Firebird WS6

    I found this article about 2 years ago when I started searching for more information about 96-98 Cobras. Its pretty cool because it shows how the Cobra did against the competition when Ford first debuted the 32V 4.6 in Cobra. I randomly stumbled across it again today and thought I'd share, you...
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    Lots of interior noise while driving???

    Maybe I just didn't notice before but lately I'm really noticing alot of noise making its way into the cabin. And its not even exhaust, I just have weld in flows so they aren't even really loud until like over 3000 rpm. It seems to be just a TON of drivetrain noise. Now I know that my Triax...
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    Opinions on getting an offroad H

    I have about $200 max to spend on an upcoming mod before heading back to school. I've limited it down to either uprgrading from the Triax to the MGW or getting an off road H. My current power mods are JLT RAI and weld in flows. I think the O/R H would really wake the car. I know you can get...
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    Went to the track today....

    Best runs were: 14.0 @ 99 with 2.23 60ft 14.1 @ 99 with 2.208 60ft Best MPH was 100 but ran a 14.2 Mods are: Steeda Triax, JLT RAI, and flowmaster weld ins. This was my first time ever going to the track. The weather was 90 degrees with about 50% humidity, not the best conditions I...
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    How do you clean Plexiglass for gauge cluster?

    Yesterday this nasty beatle flew in my car and onto the gauge cluster glass and left a nasty smear on it somehow. So I tried cleaning it off with some glass/plexiglass cleaner and it seemed to work, until today I noticed there were streak marks everywhere. So tonight I used just about every...
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    Changed my brakes

    I finally got around to and got the cash to change my brakes. It needed rotors and pads all around. The rear pads were so worn that they started eating into the rotor. Anyway, I went with Brembo factory replacement rotors and Hawk HPS pads. The Hawk pads are a huge improvement from factory...
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    "Get Verified" on Paypal... is it risky??

    In a past use of paypal it was not necessary to "get verified" by adding a bank account, but now it is asking me to do this in order to make a transaction. My question is, is Paypal secure enough to put this information out with? Is there hidden fees that I will be charged with in doing this...
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    Do MAF's go bad?

    Now that summer has rolled around and I have some extra money I can finally get rid of the C&L MAF that has been throwing the lean code for the last few thousand miles. I found one a used one on the corral that I can get for a decent price, but its off a 100,000 mile car. The owner says it was...
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    What happened to the "whos cooler" poll?

    There was a poll earlier today asking who was cooler, it included guys like Burt Reynolds and The Fonz. Not that I really care I just saw it earlier today and now its gone? What'd it get deleted or am I just a blind idiot? Paul
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    MAF Questions

    I've discussed this in previous posts before, but I finally decided I needed to do something about this. My check engine light has been going on for a lean condition on bank 2 ever since I installed the JLT RAI. However from others experiences and from what I have read I am convinced the RAI...

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