@Zaid - I've watched all of the Roadkill episodes. The only one I didn't like was the one where they announced Dodge was now sponsoring them. The thrashed on a Viper, Charger Hellcat, & Challenger Hellcat. Not that the cars were bad, it's just that the episode was stupid. Not with keeping in the Roadkill tradition.

@Zaid - I met Mike Finnegan at the first leg of the 2014 Hot Rod Power Tour in Charlotte, NC.

@BobCross - Hola Brother :D

Hi. Man, I shouldn't get so wound up about things like "how rad will my car be with no cats??!!!11!"

If you car wasn't pretty cool before then this won't make it cooler.

But that's a righteous question, dude ...

LOL! Too funny.

I think I'm just going to rebuild the 350 and put it in the IROC-Z

Honestly. Prove that there's a restriction first. Then engineer a solution. Don't just be a forum feeder and do whatever the dudebros tell you to do.

Ayup.

How have you been (besides busy)?

Brew up any new beer? (or was that Larry, lol!)

Some of the best WRX articles have a big point of "don't touch your cats. You aren't driving a race car on a track. Just stop."

The nurse at work today said "that's it. No more overtime for you" and told me to take tomorrow off.

Very good point. My '94 didn't have one (previous owner), so I bought a MagnaFlow one which was good for 460ci engines ... worked great without restriction, believe it or not, lol.

To which I say yes, ma'am.

Wise choice

on both parts

You can get super high flow cats that neither harm performance nor pollute.

Exactly.

It's just dumb to be raspy and extra stinky. ;-)

I've grown more fond of cleaner sounding exhaust on vehicles in my twilight years ... <cough>

Besides, cats straighten out the airflow coming out the tailpipe, right?

If your cat is really holding things up, maybe you just need a bigger turbo!

There is a Subie at work. Sounds absolutely terrible. Almost like it's running open exhaust. I just don't get it.

What year? Turbo?

Has a turbo, but I still cannot tell one year from another.

It actually sounds like it has a noise amplifier on it.

I didn't think a 4-cyl turbo could make as much noise as it does.

And this is at idle and slow take off speeds. I'd hate to ride in it when it's actually doing something.

Here are some clues: big eye fog lights, little eye fog lights, slanty headlights followed by the tear drop body. That's approx 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and following.

I had a 72 Chevelle with a BBC in it. First night I had it running with that engine in it, I ran it open headers. We had to keep our feet on the slanted part of the footwell or our feet would go numb ... it was awesome :D

I haven't looked at it close enough. Every time I see it, it's turning away from me while I'm sitting waiting on people for the van pool.

That's funny. I put header back exhaust into my integra back in the day. That was a pretty loud four cylinder. It sounded like a formula one car in a tunnel though. :-)

That's the funny thing ... in the parking garage, it's just loud and obnoxious. I don't get it.

That's sad.

At least I'm assuming it has a turbo ... it has the hood scoop thing on it.

My younger son can identify the Subaru flat four from across a parking lot. :-)

I can do the same with a BBC, lol.

It has a specific sound to it, lol.

Ba dum, ba dum!

If you've ever heard the beginning to the Van Halen song Hot For Teacher ... Alex about nailed it.

Don't even start with me.

:D

"I don't feel tardy!"

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yes :-)

I've got it bad, got it bad, got it bad ... I'm not for teacher

The drum solo at the beginning was supposed to sound like a top fuel dragster.

That was Alex's intent, anyway.

"Come on, Dave, give me a break!"

One break, coming up!

I'm a huge fan of Van Halen.

I guess David Lee is out touring with them again.

At least that's what I've heard.

I have to let them cool every few years. I burned out super hard back in the day.

I hear yah. They have enough to listen to, as long as I'm not on it all the time, I can listen to them whenever.

I like Sammy or Dave. The other two ... not to sure of.

The lead singer of Extreme didn't do them any favors.

(I don't know his name).

Anyway, you doing okay this evening?

I've been really busy at work, so haven't had anytime to even log in during the day.

I answered the question on the 92 Buick about removing the wheel studs ... I have never had that much of a problem removing/replacing them ... except on a Ford Escort, lol.

@Paulster2 it does claim "Starting current: 200A; Peak current: 400A"

If you look at the Output current, it says 3.5A ... at least that's what I was gonig off of. Maybe I was reading the part for the accessory recharge and not the start.

I'm guessing the lower current outputs are for electronics charging

Ayup

Yah, 200A/400A is pretty decent for a jump starter.

Should be more than enough to boost a near dead battery.

The battery would still need to have some juice in it I think.

ah, yes, I suppose thats the kicker

Also, I believe I read in the specs it is only good for 1000 recharges?

that would start a car twice a day every day for about year and a half

I didn't read what type of battery it has in it, but it's probably NiMH considering the relatively small number of recharges

No, that means how many times you could recharge it before its internal battery goes bad.

If it will do 3.5A for recharging accessories, that's pretty stout actually, lol.

Should recharge an iPad without issue very quickly.

@BobCross - Is there a reason why Mark is still a mod on here?

@DigitalTrauma - Well, I hope you have a great evening. I'm off to wash dishes and head to bed. See you later!

@Zaid - Here you go :D

I missed the selfie opp.

Hi !

So I dreamt up this revolutionary idea for head design yesterday

Which does away with poppet valves as we know them

Only to find out that there are 100 year old patents exploring the same domain

villiers.info/Aspin

@Paulster2 Must have been a blast!

@Anarach : Have you sorted out your tire pressure yet?

@Zaid Not yet , this weekend will test out with 35 PS in each wheel and let you know :-)

@BobCross and @Paulster2 - EVH was one of the reasons I took up playing rock guitar. Prior to that I'd played mostly blues and classical

my personal preference - Diamond Dave but Sammy was cool in Montrose

@RoryAlsop What is EVH?

@Zaid Have you heard something called LOBE wear

Eddie Van Halen

@Anarach Cam lobes?

Yeah

@RoryAlsop Oh.. you mean GOD

?

@Anarach What about it?

do they wear out??

i mean the LOBES?

cranecams.com.au/pdfs/…

@RoryAlsop according to you who was better Van Halen or Jimi?

@Anarach That PDF was written for you :)

@Zaid So, in case your LOBEs wear out , do you need to replace the CAMSHAFT?

I didnt go through , no time for me as of now busy weekend :-(

" Do not use synthetic oil during the break-in period. "

didnt know that

@Anarach - different. Both good. Anyway, wasn't Clapton God? :-)

@RoryAlsop I have not listened to him .. Any recommendations?

I equally rate Hendrix, Clapton, Van Halen, Satriani, Johnson, Vai, di Meola and others as key influences on me as my guitar gods

Too much to choose from for Eric Clapton

@Anarach Is this an issue someone is facing?

More recently Tremonti, Slash. Also Malmsteen, Blackmore...

too many to choose from really. I can't wait for November - I have a full meet and greet with Joe Satriani! Quite excited

@Zaid No , i was going through your Aspin Rotary engine thing and i got this question out of nowhere on my mind

oh ok

@RoryAlsop I dont think "SLASH" is more recently LOL

He was quite good in the GnR days. He is much better now - I have seen him a few times over the last year or so.

I just wanna see RAMMSTEIN at least once before i die

they are on my TO DO List

Yeah - you must. And get right down the front!!!

I have heard the front row is ballistic

the fire, the bass, the .... other... stuff

No one does things like them , i wonder why

Well - Till is a professional pyrotechnician first, and a musician second - this gives an interesting start

various bands sound similar

I thought he was a basket weaver

you have heard my band's tribute track to Rammstein, yes?

I was not talking about the sound. Rammstein is just "HOLD ON TO "E" chord all day

@RoryAlsop Wow , no

i was talking about the pyro, no one does it as good as them

Rammstein songs are the most easiest to play :-)

Aaaad, I got a new BLACKSTAR COre ID 10 AMP.

this was from our gig supporting Monster Magnet - we had a friend play guest guitar so we could have 2 fire breathing Warlocks :-)

will go home and check it out..

stupid web filter in office

I hear folks from Marshall are now running BLACKSTAR

Blackstar do their thing well. Different to Marshall. Both are good though

which is the best?

can you differentiate? i cant tell them apart!

definitely different overdrive characteristics, yes, so depending on where you like your tube breakup, they act differently

I only felt difference between Blackstar and Orange

what does Tube Breakup mean?

Also I sold my Acoustics guitar and got a ESP LTD series 100 guitar.. :-)

signal is clean up to a point, at which the tube becomes overdriven- how this happens and 'breaks up' the clean signal is why opinion on amps is often polarised. Once you find characteristics you like, you tend to stick with them forever

It weighs soooo much.. SOOO HEAVY

Oh....

I hve a knob , one side British and the other side being american distortion. Funny LOL

very different sounds though

handy to have them categorised

That ISF thing was the brit vs American style music " THAT'S what the salesman said "

I don't think that is what the EQ/ISF knob does...

yeah - it's not Brit/US distortion, it's a tone control

which does do some useful things, but it isn't US/UK - that's just marketing nonsense

To me ISF is the Information Security Forum anyway

@Anarach But it doesn't go to eleven...

@RoryAlsop OMG , I believed that crap ! What does it actually do then?

It makes a bunch of tone changes - but really that's not a core differentiator between US and UK guitar. There are distinct differences in British and US metal (the distortion traditionally used was different) but just changing your eq doesn't give a marked difference like Liverpool to New York etc

@RoryAlsop - That was your band? You guys ROCK!!

Hola @Paulster2

How's your new role keeping you?

@Zaid - Busy, busy, busy.

Thanks for asking :D

I had a short day today, thank goodness. Home already.

And I have a three day weekend ahead of me.

@RoryAlsop - So are you lead guitar then? Front man? or whom in the video? :D

Love the makeup, btw.

Reminiscent of KISS, I'd say.

Except with a little color ... gotta work the black light ;-)

Thanks - I'm the lead guitarist. That song is a bit atypical, but we have a few on WWW.YouTube.com/MetaltechTheBand and all our pics are on Facebook.com/Metaltech

Most of ours aren't as heavy

And yeah - we love the black lights and lasers

^ "How can I find a good life partner?"

When shopping around for a new mechanic, are there any signs one can look for to see if the guy is a scam artist or if he is honest and knowledgeable?

Didn't see my question quoted right above. :)

Can anyone suggest one near Brooklyn, NY USA?

@TheOne one thing I absolutely hate is mechanics who hear the symptoms and launch into what parts need changing

Without even investigating whether the proposed part change will even help

To me that is a sign of a mechanic who doesn't grasp how car systems work

If someone is playing parts roulette at the customer's expense then I would give that mechanic business

One quality which I wish more mechanics would display is that they walk you through the "what" and "why"

e.g. "You're getting this CEL because the engine computer doesn't trust the voltage reading from the oxygen sensor"

"This could be because you have a break in the circuitry or because your sensors have fouled"

"We recommend that you replace the sensor after we confirm there is no break in the circuitry"

That kind of a diagnosis would be a dream come true. In reality things aren't so rosy

@Zaid - R&R wrenching is the worst form of being a mechanic I've ever seen as well.

@RoryAlsop - I'll take a look at your videos. That's pretty awesome if you ask me, though. I love Rammstein (even if I cannot spell it). It's about the heaviest music I'll listen to, and then only on an irregular basis. I mainly listen to classic rock.

@TheOne - IRT mechanics, your best bet is to ask several people in your area who they use. If you can get a consensus of a couple people agreeing on someone, you've probably found a good mechanic.

@TheOne - Also remember that no mechanic is perfect. We all make mistakes. Some will try to cover them up while others will fix it and tell you about it.

@RoryAlsop - How often do you play gigs?

@Paulster2 stop whatever it is you're doing and watch this. It's epic!

@Zaid - O

I've got to go pick up pizza, but it's in the queue when I get back! Thanks for pointing it out :D

It's the best Roadkill episode I've watched so far. Since you've seen all of them you'll be the better judge

@Zaid - Their "Rotsun" is pretty flipping awesome for a rust bucket, lol.

hey guys

this pikes peak thing is pretty cool

@Paulster2 averages out about once a month. We don't tend to do many over winter but we have five over the next couple of months

Some years we get a lot of festival gigs

This year we have mostly focused on recording our second album

@Paulster2 I guess Mark is still on the mod list because he was never taken off.

In fairness, sometimes I wonder why I'm a mod here. ;-)

Lol :-)

@BobCross - We know why you are on here ... because you're an awesome guy. Not saying Mark isn't ... He just doesn't hang out at all. Been inactive for two months? At least you answer when called.

@RoryAlsop - I think I'll need to purchase album #2 ... maybe even #1 ... :D

@RoryAlsop - Making me want to come visit Scotland, lol!

@Paulster2 - cos it's you, ping me your address and I'll send one free of charge. We still have a few of the 1st album left

home?

No, my address on Mars, eh?

Heh

On it's way. You can delete that from chat so scrapers don't get it

It won't let me ... maybe @BobCross can do that.

Oh, I thought you could delete any of your own chat messages

I would have thought. Maybe you can only delete a message if no one else has posted after it.

I flagged it.

Deleted. I processed the flag :)

Thank you @ArtOfCode

No problem :)

Are you the only room owner here?

Yes

Not that I've done much with it. Most of the people who hang out here are pretty easy going. Never had any issues.

@RoryAlsop - Sent you a return email.

Cool, just checking because room owners can see message history.

@Paulster2 I'm away at a big airshow all weekend, but back home Sunday night so will get that off to you early next week :-)

@ArtOfCode - I'm not overly worried about it. Just keeping it away from the riff-raff.

@RoryAlsop - Oh, no worries. This is really awesome.

@Zaid - This is an awesome episode!

@Zaid - It's definitely the longest episode, lol!