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Which one? She was all over PornHub. Nothing special. Backdoor 2. I found it all eventually. She's got a great body, but the second was just as bad as the first. On PH it was just a 10 minute video, but it is about 45 minutes total. Not worth the look, FWIW.

Uhhh... I passed some stones a few years ago. Not pleasant.

OK Farrah Abraham... who has the video?

Too bad it drives like a turd. Tried to want one, couldn't do it. The wife doesn't care all that much but a focus on the interior will make her happy. Infiniti while edgy has nice appointments and it ought to suit her fine. Not as Japan-o-boring as the others either. Drive the newer RX350H. I know, it's a Hybrid, but they are well appointed and with AWD and dual electric motors (one for the front axle and one for the rear) it has an impressive amount of get-up-and-go. Don't expect big fuel economy as the motors are really more for power assist, but they will be better than the Infinity machines... and you will not have to fix anything on it (even brakes) for the first 100K

I'd be OK with it until 80K. Nissan is really doing some weird shit lately. We see quite a few (my shop used to specialize in Z cars, and we are still thought of as a Nissan shop). Once shit starts breaking you need to get out from under it ASAP. The 3L and variants of it (the 3.5l is in the Infinity IIRC) are great engines, it's all the bullshit around it that sucks. You will likely have to do a high pressure power steering hose in it, and fuck that hose. I don't care if you like to tinker, let a professional deal with it. It is a complete motherfucker. It is also highly likely that you will come across a MIL on with an ionization code. Don't be alarmed when the shop tells you that you need all 6 coils... you really do. Outside of those 2 little gems, you should be fine for the first 100K.

Awesome news, dude.

I've worked 60-70 hours a week for the last 15 years or so. It's not bad, really.

If you can wait a day, I think my old man has the Holley, an Edelbrock air gap and the valve covers in his barn. He might let them go cheap. I an get you some photos tomorrow. The Air Gap is one of the best all around intakes. Great setup if available, J

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Ford... Quality is job none.

CPA is a damn good career.

Not yet. They are too new, and still under warranty.

Do you know the name so I can order some? I'm not drinking currently but a half a finger with a cigar won't kill me every once and a while. Sonoma-Cutrer Pinot Noir Finish

Oh, check this out Matt. Woodford is having a special limited run bourbon about to be released in just a couple weeks. I hope to be able to offer a review, provided I can gram myself a slice of that whiskey heaven.

I am not a fan. As a tnkerer, I go into a lot of shit I likely shouldn't. IMO it is very hard to navigate, compared to previous windows versions. Plus, if I wanted a fucking tablet, I would have bought a tablet. Please give me a PC based GUI, not a god damn cell phone gui... thanks!

Oh, bonus time. 2 days ago my favorite beer shop got in Southern Teir Chocolat. Buy this beer, it is fucking amazing. I grabbed a case for $102. Bottles are $9.99 a pop. He snagged 15 cases. God Bless America.

Oh yeah, to add insult to injury, I dropped my laptop last night. This was the final straw for this heavily abused Asus Win7 rig. I broke the screen and it refuses to boot up. I bought another Asus today, I5, 500GB drive with 4GB of RAM and a touch screen for a solid price (under $500, no shit). But fuck this Windows 8.1 shit. I amgetting a legit Win 7 copy tomorrow for it, so I can run my programmer and get over this clunky, bullshit OS. Fuck Win8, but goddamn I love an Asus rig.

I am getting a chance to play with an AR&D machine next week. This is a $90K machine that is used to rebuild hybrid batteries. I am anxious to see how it is worth so much money while I am doing the same thing with $3,000. Apparently this machine is successful with the Honda IMA stick battery, while I have found the IMAs to be nearly worthless to rebuild. I also just got a Nissan Altima Hybrid in today that needs a battery rebuild. It is my first Nissan, but it is not my first Nissan... The inverter looked oddly familiar, so I yanked the cover off it and saw a Toyota sticker in it. Upon further investigation I realized it is just a Camry hybrid set up. Overall it feels a lot different. The vehicle stays in EV Mode (electric only run mode) way more than a Prius or Camry hybrid. I like the brakes a lot better, too. They feel much more natural, with a hydro/mechanical brake working though the first 1/2 of the pedal use, and the feeling of a regen braking feel beyond that.I find the Toyota hybrid braking with hard regen from initial pedal movement feels overly agressive, almost like they grab, but with a somewhat spongy pedal. Hydro/mechanical braking comes on only at hard/panic stops. Sure, it is a more solid feel, but it feels extremely non-linear in the Toyotas. It has great power, with a hefty battery boost on hard acceleration and passing mode. It is just a 2.5 liter, but it feels like a stout V6 on off the line acceleration and a small V8 in passing mode. But it is a fucking Nissan. Nissans have really sucked a fat dick over the past decade and a half. Honestly, I think my favorite overall hybrid is the Altima. But, the battery is relatively youthful for a rebuild, at just a cunt hair under 100K. I typically see Prius batterys bad at 180K and Camrys at ~250K. I assume it has to do with regenerative braking being so off, but with a tiny sample of 1, compared to a few dozen Prius and about 4 Camrys, it is hard to say overall. Finally, I am a bit irritated with my Snap-On dealer. His price on the Fluke TI95 was fantastic, at only $1800, but I am entering week 3 since my order and I have yet to posess this awesome thermal imager.

Just to be a negative Nancy, I really don't like smart wool socks. They seem to wear out quickly to me. Is there a general care tip for wool to make them last longer? wear shoes, stop walking around in your stockings. Werd. Smartwools last me forever.

Much appreciated, but honestly when you get into the top 10%, that is a big fuckin' deal, and it is hard for people outside the industry to understand exactly what that means. When we see stuff that comes from dealerships that were not able to be repaired with engineer's help and we fix it, that is huge. I had a 2003 4Runner with a 4L today that was at 2 local dealerships with P0136 and P0156 (both O2 sensor downstream circuit error codes). There is a factory TSB that has an update for the downstream O2s, and all 4 O2s were replaced. The O2s dropped to dead 0V after running for ~2 minutes. The dealerships replaced the MAF sensor, CTS, all 4O2s, both upstream cats, intake gaskets, and the PCM. This vehicle went through tech support (Toyota factory engineers) at 2 different dealerships. Within 1 hour of it in my stall I made a call. I replaced the brand new updated downstream O2s that were replaced at the dealer last week. I fixed the car. She spent 4 grand at the dealer, and $600 with me. Those of us at that level are 6 figure earners, and it is hard to set yourself above the pack. I am a natural leader, which makes my job easier. I do lean on others for input, which at a high level you don't see a lot of. We are arrogant, and cocky... but I do remember where I came from. Years of experience with brilliant techs taught me what I know, and how to think outside of the box. Awesome find, but it makes me wonder why they would not have checked the new sensors before installing them. I have had bad denso sensors out of the box. It's hard to condemn new parts out of the box. I am certain that if I had done resistance tests it would have passed. The sensors were stuck at no voltage, which is indicative of being very lean. Basically 1 volt on an O2 indicates full rich and 0V is full lean. O2s are voltage generators, so they can be tricky. When they dumped to 0 volts, the upstream AF sensors (wideband O2 sensors) indicated~3 volts. This is indicative of a lean mixture (generally 2.5 on a wideband is stoich, higher is lean, lower is rich). My total fuel trims were ~+12, which means the system was "supposedly" adding fuel to reach stoich. But this is not terribly high... generally I give ~+/- 12% as a given. I added propane to the intake and saw the upstreams drop heavily, and saw the downstreams stay still. So I shot the intake with carb cleaner, and saw the upstreams go mad rich (~.6) and the downstreams went to .465. No matter what I did they downstreams would not go above .465. So I checked all grounds and found nominal voltage drop, and decided to try new O2s. I dropped them in and my downstreams started to climb immediately to .65, which is near perfect. The upstreams stayed the same, but the fuel trims dropped to ~3-4%. I saw this in a Chrysler 2.7L some years back. The aft cat sensors saw a condition (lean) and the ECM tried to compensate for the issue by taking away fuel. O2 sensors don't care about fuel, they only read oxygen. If you have a misfire, weather mechanical, electrical, or whatever, not only is fuel not being burned, but oxygen is not being consumed. The sensors do not read the excess fuel, but they do read the unburned oxygen, so they show lean. When the ECM sees a possible misfire (high oxygen levels after the cat), it pulls fuel out of the cylinder making it lean, so the cat is not destroyed by a misfire. Ford effectively does this with a misfire. If it sees a misfire based on crankshaft revolution speed variances, it will determine the misfiring cylinder with the cam sensor, and shut the injector down on that hole. This makes the cylinder into an air pump and Ford does not have to turn on the light as it is not catalyst damaging saving them warranty dollars. So while it is not specified, I had to assume that Toyota used the strategy of leaning the system down to protect the cats. Driving the system full rich and only seeing a post cat voltage of .465v (still just a cunt hair below lean) I felt it had to be the sensors, as they MUST react to a fuel saturated cat. While it is uncommon for most manufacturers to use post cat sensors to set fuel trims (the pre-cat or upstreams, tell the ECM how efficiently the cylinders are burning before the cat cleans it up), it does happen. This is the first time I have ever seen anything outside of the Chrysler 2.7L use this strategy, but it was the only thing that made sense. So this wasn't an issue of taking a simple measurement. I had to base my decisions on my experiences with other manufacturers and make a gut call. I had to assume that since the TSB was only based on the 2003 and 2004 model years, and it was the first year of the new body style and the new 4.0L motor, that this system might use a rare strategy that Toyota dealer techs were not familiar with. This is no knock on the technicians at the dealership, or the engineers that are paid to guide them through diagnosis. But these techs are highly trained graduates of Toyota's schooling (which is fantastic schooling, I might add) and the engineers are obviously college grads as well. Look how experience and dedication trumped education in this case. It was a good gut call, and a lucky gut call that I was forced to make.

If I was buying a 1911, it would be a Kimber. They are very nice, he'll I even priced them too. A former cop friend has all Kimber and national has them in stock. The Kimber 45 that I like is $895.00 with a 5" barrel. I have an old Colt 1911, and it is a great gun. It fits well in my hand as well, but I like the M&P for carry. It is also not fatiguing, which is surprising. If it is a carry gun, I might suggest that the 1911 is a big piece. Just keep that in mind, bud.

Much appreciated, but honestly when you get into the top 10%, that is a big fuckin' deal, and it is hard for people outside the industry to understand exactly what that means. When we see stuff that comes from dealerships that were not able to be repaired with engineer's help and we fix it, that is huge. I had a 2003 4Runner with a 4L today that was at 2 local dealerships with P0136 and P0156 (both O2 sensor downstream circuit error codes). There is a factory TSB that has an update for the downstream O2s, and all 4 O2s were replaced. The O2s dropped to dead 0V after running for ~2 minutes. The dealerships replaced the MAF sensor, CTS, all 4O2s, both upstream cats, intake gaskets, and the PCM. This vehicle went through tech support (Toyota factory engineers) at 2 different dealerships. Within 1 hour of it in my stall I made a call. I replaced the brand new updated downstream O2s that were replaced at the dealer last week. I fixed the car. She spent 4 grand at the dealer, and $600 with me. Those of us at that level are 6 figure earners, and it is hard to set yourself above the pack. I am a natural leader, which makes my job easier. I do lean on others for input, which at a high level you don't see a lot of. We are arrogant, and cocky... but I do remember where I came from. Years of experience with brilliant techs taught me what I know, and how to think outside of the box.

If I was buying a 1911, it would be a Kimber.

Experience trumps knowledge every timr.No offense, but in my experience that's something people with no degree say to justify their lack of higher education. Your statement is definitely true in many cases, but also very wrong in many others. I have hired several people who have absolutely proven that statement wrong many times over. One of them still works for me...not enough to justify firing her yet...but should have all the experience needed to excel, and absolutely does not. Performance is average on her best day. I went to what was ranked as the 2nd best college in the nation, have a Physics degree and no one has ever yet cared about my education. My experience, absolutely. I also ignore degrees pretty much when I hire. Yep. I agree 200%. I don't have a college education and you will find very few technicians in this nation who can, and do, perform at the level that I do. Without blowing smoke up my own ass, I feel I am in the top 5% of techs in this country, my coworker said he feels I am in the top 2-3%. I work hard, and work very well. I worked while cancer was destroying my body, I went to work puking from chemo, I went to work when I was unable to walk across my shop. Even being that ill I performed at a greater level than 2 of 4 other techs at my shop. I have worked with techs who have engineering degrees, and in fact I work with a guy with his engineering degree. His drive to work is no where near my level. He is quick to leave when he has no work or if he has to go hunting. He feels he is so smart that his time is best spent elsewhere if he is not seeing the hours he wants. I have found that people who hide behind "those without a degree are lazy" are hiding their laziness behind their degree. But what do I know? I am a long haired druggie, alcoholic who doesn't have to scrape up a few pennies for a POS car... in mmy early 40s I had enough money to retire comfortably... but I don't have a degree, all I have is a little experience; so I must not work hard. I am glad a dude like Sean can see past a piece of paper. It is leaders like him, with vision, who realizes that a degree means very little compared to drive and experience.

Did I miss something? Punk kid smashed in the doors on the 550 just days after I got her back from BMW touching up some paint and a final 50k service. She has been in the shop all last week as of Monday. Uhhh... Sorry to hear that, bud, I trust everyone was OK?