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Stupidly my winter tires and wheels are in the mail since I took so damn long to choose a wheel.

And the fact that we are getting a real snow and it is supposed to continue. Just need the temperature to drop!!

Now THIS makes me happy

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Parked outback of an Outback, there is an Outback towing an Outback. That is a whole lot o'dyke!

I have a Camo tarp in my truck, going to wrap it and throw it in the rafters of the garage. 8th bike in the house...doh!

Now how to hide the bike until Christmas.

Nothing would stop me from running it if I were you. Nice they made it easy.

Processing hasn't advanced at Pio but at least they kept it. Bummer these days they don't just offer more eq and cross points as it costs them nothing.

*excluding of course the $3500 computer controlled shimano shifters Not that anyone should pay for them...or run a triple. 1x or 2x at the most. I'm super pumped about having no front derailleur on the fat bike. Cross shifting while slightly more efficient is annoying as hell.

This exact one It's 8 years old, but bike technology hasn't fundamentally changed in longer than my lifetime so I could give a shit. It's all lighter now than then, but works the same.

Grabbed a minty Specialized Hot Rock for $110 for Aidan. 20" 7 speed front suspension fork mini-mt bike. New around $380. Now I need to find a wicked old school bmx bike to go with it. Either ride fast or fun.

Boat is in storage and the sleds are in the garage! Fuck yeah. SNOW damnit.

*i only read the headline And am shocked. Mobile A/V industry doing something right for once?

What is it?

This harness (for my truck) has a speaker for the door chimes, gas low etc. Basically a dumb harness beyond that: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0049MV2IY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage Would assume they have one for your car. This I paid $10 for, but it seems to be different now. You'd need a different one, but it is the camera interface. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FY61NL0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage Once there the only thing you'd have to decide is if you cut the stock wires or grab a speaker wire harness. I bet if you shop there will be some kit for $40-50 that includes the camera, the harness and the chime thingee. Then you just need to wire the amp. A 50x4 could easily be done with just 10ga and isn't so hard to wire.

The JL speakers that came in my boat are a great example. Completely lifeless stock, but some real power, a shelf filter yanking out the bottom end so they don't die at high SPL, and a few cuts and they really came to life.

The problem you'll have with your approach is the harness is expensive and the amp sucks. Stock speakers aren't great, but with an active proc and a real amp they will surely wake up.

Why keep the amp? Do you seriously pay for Onstar?? On an 05? I don't see any value in it enough so I pulled the Onstar control unit out of my truck. Of course, not what you asked but what I'd do is: active capable headunit, power only harness with the built in speaker for the door chimes and such ($30-50 IIRC there is one in the truck), cheap 4 chn amp for the speakers, and get it all done for $500 depending on what headunit you need for bluetooth & back up camera. My backup camera adapter was like $10 btw.

It definitely wasn't complete. It sort of tried to accelerate, but super anemically.

As for the neck size, it is good to change it up actually. Teaching yourself to play on guitars that feel different will improve his overall capability. Need to teach your finger dexterity as much as possible and having different setups help that. Thinner/smaller are usually faster feeling but playing well is way more important than fast. Fast is easy once the rest is done. If you want narrow, pick up an old Ibanez. So teeny. You just reminded me I need to sell my old Ibanez, lol

Had a weird concern with the Escalade Friday. Was driving down the highway towing my boat ~7k lbs. Had the truck in tow mode, cruise set at 75mph and at one point I had to slow down a notch so I tapped the brake. Went to re-accelerate and the gas pedal did basically nothing. Could floor it and while it accelerated it wouldn't raise the rpms. Almost like something wasn't telling the throttle body to "go". I could downshift fine and all that. Gauges were all okay. Fluid in the 6l80 was around 175deg F which is warmer than usual, but not out of spec as I understand. It really felt like the computer in the car told it not to go. I resolved it by pulling over, popping the hood, checking the connections on the MAF and Throttle Body and restarting. My guess is probably the restart. The TB I checked because I had it off this week and thought perhaps it wasn't connected completely on one of the wires or something.

5150 is a beast, thought about one myself. Blood curtling loud too, lol. Actually looking for a "brake" for my Lee Jackson head. Currently I play it on volume .5 the most and it sounds way better around 7 or 8 but that is WAY too loud for the house. Stupid loads are a few hundred bucks though.

Still on the list, but I have to buy a classical and acoustic first.

An old school handmade in USA BC Rich has been on my buy list for more than 20 years.