^^ huge difference.
The stock radiator is good for most areas but when you subject it to harsher environments such as a Track Days, it can struggle to maintain the temps in a safe range.
Auto Cross is fine with the stock rad since the runs are short but out on a road track, after a few laps the car will be heat soaked.

Also, places such as Las Vegas where they see high temps and no moisture in the air have problems keeping the car cool. You should have seen us on the satuday morning drive out in Vegas last summer, we were climbing a hill in close formation going pretty slow and all of a sudden everyone with temp gauges is watching the temps go up and UP. (I was upwards of 230)
Everyone turned their A/C off and you could see cars putting more distance between themselves to try and get some air into the radiators.

 

saw the picture before I read the post..... yup, i could already tell ya the one on the left is better.

 

Cool, then it looks as though I will be trading in Fable2....man, that game was so dissapointing.

You will be struggling to find enough time to really play Fallout, but it is such a deep game with a great feel.
I'll keep it to the side for you next time we see you.

 

Strong the Force is in Casey....

 

 

purrrdy

 

I completely agree....but it was fun to learn this on the first car I've ever done any performance modifications to.

I've seen a different result on Speed's Miata though....where performance stuff actually provides performance gains. The RX8 was disapointing.

 

She's my current work in progress. R32...and my first real attempt at making a wide body kit look just by using different shapes and gradients.

 

Gerry, this is what your next Bimmer needs to look like....

 

HA...and you say i steal pics

 

wow, that's a nice M5...

 

nice but i would rather have the M3 sedan then the M5...i think, no actually i would rather have the RS4.

excelent gtr keith!

 

Loren, I drove right past your street yesterday.
Got my new phone, now just need Cesar to work his magic with it.

 

here's a good deal for you loren:

http://dealmac.com/lw/artclick.html?1,279296,914391

 

@ Gerry: i need help on SW: FU. I am having difficulty beating Shaaak Ti on the hardest difficulty. Any tips or tricks on doing so? I'm contemplating giong back through the level to level up some more and be more powerful for when I encounter her again.

@ anybody else: what are some nice and bright head lights i can put in my car? I mean, I could get a set of Sylvanias, but, i want something pretty bright. The driver side bulb burned out on my the other day. I've been a member of a honda forum, but those guys are total jerks and don't like to help out.

 

Thansk Detrich
That is the monitor i have been looking at (along with a few others) staples had it for $300 with $75 off but it was never in stock and now they dont carry it. That deal is brand new today!
the other monitor i was looking at (same website) were the Hanns G 28" and the KDS 26"

 

History of the Miata (kind of) http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/11/c...da-miata-mx-5/

 

showers Friday night and Sunday in SB this weekend.

 

Not very significant when you just look at the physical design of the car....the RX model seems to have gone through a bit more change along the way. The internals though have seen some changes along the way though, but harder to see unless you raise the hood.

 

very true, but then again why change what works (in defense).

 

O.M.F.G., did you guys hear about the new budget proposal in CA?!

- The gas tax would immediately go up by $.12 per gallon! (we pay $.18 in state taxes per gallon already) That's a 66% increase!
This stuff is getting out of control.

 

^^
Yep, cutting education (fire the teachers, let the kids go dumb)
cutting rehabilitation (let the crazies go free)
increasing car registration (didnt Arnold sign that amount DOWN the day he was sworn in?)

blah blah blah


Pretty much anything you would consider 'wrong' during these times . . . is at the top of the list


I say tax the indian casinos.
And not tax the 30% they have to admit to, tax every penny they make

 

i heard abottu it before i left for work this morning, they are tearing us a new a$$ hole. LA county sales tax will be the highest in the nation 9.6%. and we already have the highest states income taxes. (so i hear)

i dont understand how if the goverment is bailing everyone out why cant they bail california out. we obviousily have serious problems with the economy and these tax rate increases will just hurt more people.

 

it's not about bailing ANYONE out, it's about fixing our own mess first.
Simple economics here:
- Government in California has grown in the last 10 years (close to 40% by some reports)
Why not cut there?!

We have the highest gas tax in the nation, highest business tax west of the mississippi, and highest income tax at one of the lowest income brackets.
How about we CUT government? I don't know, maybe that's too crazy of an idea but I've always believed that government should be run like a business. If sales (revenue) is down, then cut expenses. At the end of the day you have to be profitable.
If that doesn't work, cut more expenses, lay people off. Shut down non-producing businesses. I mean, c'mon...do we really need the DMV open as much as it is? Do we even need that many locations considering how much of it you can do online?

Taxes and BORROWING are not going to fix this, only make it worse when we have to pay back all those bonds.

 

there's a particular tax system out there, which i currently forget it's name, and some european country is using it.

How it works is basically forget about income tax, and give EVERYTHING a straight edge 23% tax. sales, tax, property tax, etc. That way, NOBODY, not even the illegal immigrants, are immune to this kind of taxation system.

i heard it works, not sure if it's true...