I never had a CEL pop for the High flow CAT I had. The car did not pass a smog check though with it..so my recommendation, keep your stock cat around even if only for emissions testing.

Sorry to hear about the problems you are having with your car. I got almost 300 (in the 290 range) to a tank when I had my 8...but of course that was 99% highway driving..it rarely saw stop light street driving.

 

I wonder how they look after they get a bird poop or tree pollen...and then you try to wash it off? They don't clear coat a flat black paint I don't think...so they wouldn't have a waxy protector at all from elements.

 

Bird poop leaves a stain in the clearcoat of my BMW unless I manage to wash it off rt away b4 the car is exposed to sunlight... The paint is super hard and difficult to fix- even
with a porter cable.

Mazda paint chips n scratches a milllion times more easily. But it's softer n easier to polish out blemishes I've noticed.

 

Aas for milage I get between 200-250 depending on the driving, i am alsmot never 100% freeway and when it is there are a lot of hills.

 

3200 xbox points for $30
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthr...0805&t=1945360

 

that's a good deal as the going rate is 80 points per dollar....so a 3200 point card should be 40 bucks.

I might pick one up for more Forza downloads.

 

Thank God for Apple!

That's right, I said it. Most of you know that Apple is not my favorite/first choice when it comes to gadgets. Recently, with the announcement of the iPad, I've had a lot of fun at the expense of Steve Jobs and Gerry.

No matter what your opinion is about Apple, you can't deny it's impact on technology. iPod changed music and mp3 players, iPhone changed phones and how people view smartphones, which increased competition and gave us better options all around. Soon we'll have the iPad, and even before it's out, it's already making a huge impact on technology.

One of the features missing from the new iPad is the support for Flash Player. Adobe and Apple have never really agreed on it's importance. Flash is important to most of us because tons of pages support, and require it in order to operate correctly. Youtube, for example can't work w/o Adobe Flash.

However, there are other options to using flash, but not many people have made the switch. The best option is creating pages in HTLM5. It's the newest standard for coding webpages, and the amount of support it has for media and features is huge. Plus, it's not processor intensive like Adobe products or Microsoft's Silverlight.

So, with all the hype about iPad, and no support for Flash, major websites are preparing to switch to HTML5 so they don't lose the iPad crowd. New York Times, NPR, CBS and Wall Street Journal are all switching or there are rumors of them switching to HTML5. Youtube started an HTML5 site a while back before the iPad announcement. Youtube is owned by Google. Google is also planning to go away from Flash. Google makes products that are written in HTML5 so it makes sense for them to move away from it. Youtube's HTML5 site has more features too, even though it's in beta right now. You can actually change the play speed of videos and when you skip around, it starts instantly w/o having to buffer the video.

So, as much as I hate to admit they're helping, Apple is making a positive impact on technology.

 

That deal is expired. Really good deals on points and Xbox Live don't last more than a few hours. That deal was posted at 6am.
It was gone around 10am.

I have email alerts sent to me for Xbox stuff on Slickdeals.

 

Junkie!

 

Is there a way to mess with the fuel mapping, to get better mpg's

 

yes, AccessPORT

 

happy hump day

 

Do you get a kickback for referrals?

The other thing you can do is just drive a lot. That seems to have done it for me.
Last year at the Dyno Day I got about 177hp on my best pull. (Don't remember the exact #.)
And, I was getting about 220 miles to a tank before I had to get to the gas station.
My car had lightened flywheel, undrive pulleys, RP Supercat, K&N Typhoon II intake, and a lightened ACT Street clutch.

This year at the Dyno day I got 187hp.
Same intake and RP Supercat, but everything else is stock.
Also, now I get about 240miles before I need to get to a gas station.
Yesterday I filled up my tank and I was at 245miles, and those miles included the Dyno day.

Of course I do have the COBB AccessPORT too.

 

That is what I was thinking of doing. I would like to upgrade the exhaust and cold air intake. Maybe some lighter wheels.

 

woot for iPad... still a month away for me tho, having ordered the 3G version...

 

LOL, did anyone see Modern Family last night? It was about getting an ipad for his birthday...pretty funny.

 

@ Gerry

I just saw a funny commerical on ESPN that reminded me of you. There were some anchors in the ESPN Cafateria waiting in line to get a drink. In front was Arnold Palmer and he mixed iced tea and lemonade together and after he walks away the guys wisper awesome.

 

I want to see what a comic book would look like on the iPad.

 

loren> awesome!

oh, i got my email from apple. my ipad has shipped and will get here in about 10 days... woot

 

Monday morning and drippy, anyone going to go to the meet next week?

By the way when I was leaving home today I saw a dark grey suburban with a in memory of Dave Segalla rotary stick on the back, anyone know what that was (the driver)?

 

morning guys.
have fun with the earthquake yesterday?

 

I was on my bike fighting a head wind, didnt feel anything in fontana, but they felt it in yucaipa i heard.

 

Correction - You didn't feel anything in Fontana.

We were shaking like crazy at my house.
The mini-blinds in all the rooms were hitting the windows.
PC Monitors were swaying back and forth. We felt all 25secs of it.

A lady I work w/ got a call from her aunt in Glendale, Arizona that also felt the quake.

 

WOW it was that hard? Maybe thats was why I fell over on my bike? I had just stoped at the ranger station going up to baldy. I had gotten back on and only moved a foot and wham.....actually it was just the deep sand I was in and my foot was clipped into the pedal already. Cat and dogs were fine when I got home. Cat does however HATE thunder.

 

I felt a rolling one, for a long time. It was crazy.