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10 hours ago, SteelBlue said:
My plan is to get this motor refreshed so that it’s in good operational order for the time being. But I would like to do a mild striker build down the road. I know the cost to performance is not great, but an M20 with a little more punch and grunt would be fun.
Also, this:
I realize this is a fully built motor, sounds amazing though.
Yum, that drive by reminds me of standing on the hill before turn 5 at RA.
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7 hours ago, HipMF said:
I don't think that mockery and straw man attacks really does anything to further the conversation along here. Especially given the gravity of the situation we're dealing with.
It was just some satire
There are much darker things that get laughed at every day.
The video was not directed at anyone in particular. You don't need to correct everyone who doesn't agree with the CNN narrative. You confirm the satire of the video if you don't think for yourself and just accept the hysteria created by the media.
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1 hour ago, B C said:
You are better off using spacers. That bevel helps seal it
No, it seals with a crush washer.
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Mmmm, beautiful!
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5 hours ago, HipMF said:
That Jetta amuses me. I wonder what it weighs, who would take the time to do that, but also question whether it would tear itself apart during normal driving. The coefficient of drag is probably over 9000.
Not sure how you would drive it, it doesn't even appear to have a seat. How many hole saws does it take to make a swiss cheese Jetta? Does it even have an engine? I'm not sure. At least his wheels keep with the theme.
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I am using similar injectors in my M50. Mine also have Bosch and Ford logos because they were OE on a Ford Contour SVT with a 2.5 V6. They were the closest to matching flow to stock M50 injectors while having a better spray pattern. Good news is they are likely not Chinese clones, but they are used and must have a problem. I don't recall how the fuel rail setup on an M20 is but on an M50 I needed to machine spacer rings or there is a possibility that they could drop into the intake manifold far enough that the top comes out of the fuel rail. Pics here. Maybe yours have enough material on the top for the retaining clips?
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22 hours ago, patsbimmer1 said:
@jc43089 the flaw with only looking at death rate is the death does not occur without the virus so if positive cases slow down then the death rate should also slow down pending a freak outbreak in a retirement community or something similar. And again, the instance with your in-laws shows that rural communities are under reporting and could have a much higher rate of infection but we won't know for various reasons (lack of available care, lack of transportation, stubbornness, etc.). Also, if she would have passed and actually been tested and tested positive it doesn't just go in one column. It would be 1 positive case, 1 death. Increased testing would be great but again, that testing drops off drastically in rural communities where access to testing would be limited or difficult to get. An antibody test would be great but there are multiple forms of corona virus that create similar anti-bodies so this doesn't determine if someone has had it and doesn't help track spread.
As far as people dying due to quarantine, that's an ridiculous question because that would never show up as a cause of death. And how does someone die from quarantine? Lack of self care? Lack of food/water? Suicide? Other than suicide people aren't going to allow themselves to starve/dehydrate to the point of death. They'll break quarantine to survive. And if they were in such dire straights then quarantine or not they were on the extreme end of a spectrum.
I'm not saying we need to sit and print more money, that doesn't help the country long term. I'm not saying we need to quarantine longer. I understand the ramifications this has on small business better than most based on my interactions with 10-20 small businesses a day albeit in one sector. I am saying that i'd like you to provide a better argument for your reasoning as opposed to citing data that's completely irrelevant to the issue. I have a lot of respect for your opinion and enjoy hearing your perspective.
Absolutely the death doesn't occur without the virus. I think you are saying the same thing I am about the low testing rates. My interpretation is that the low testing rates make it seem like very few people are infected which is being shown false by the pockets of broad testing like in New York and California. In Wisconsin and most other places the only people tested are severe cases which have a much higher percentage of fatality because they are severe cases in the first place. For example, if 1% of population is tested and they were all severe cases and or have co-morbidity issues and 5% of them die that does not indicate that 5% of the population will die, rather that 5% of severe cases die. More testing will not find more deaths, those are already documented. Testing will only find additional mild or asymptomatic carriers. So rather than 5% of population size x the actual fatality rate is 5% of 1% = .05% (those numbers are for illustration only). The pockets of widespread testing are showing that significant percentages of people have it and are mild or asymptomatic which is good because it means the virus is running it's course which builds herd immunity.
There are many doctors and professionals discussing issues relating to quarantine, ranging from undiagnosed illness, cancer, etc because routine doctor visits are not available. To increases in suicide, domestic abuse, etc. Very sad side effects. That is what I was referring to when I said there is a death toll FROM the quarantine. Many cancers the recovery depends critically on early diagnosis and treatment. 60 days or more delay quite likely could make the difference. I realize that "Covid-19 quarantine" isn't what the cause of death on the paperwork would be, but if my dad had a scheduled colonoscopy for partway through the stay at home order and it would have diagnosed cancer, by the time things get going again which may take a while because of how many doctor visits have been delayed and now need to be caught up on it is quite easy to see that diagnosis could be delayed by 3 months which is significant.
I think the quick reaction to lock everything down was because that is what the early data called for. Now I think it is time to get going again.
I also disagree with how the Walmarts and really any other large company are deemed essential and small businesses are not. Wouldn't it be better to go buy shoes at a small shoe store with few other customers at a time than the only place available being Walmart with hundreds of other people there? I'd like to go get some RedWing boots that are made in the USA from my local RedWing store but I can't. I don't buy trash imported boots from Walmart.
The goal of stay at home/shelter in place was never to be able to just stall out the spread because it couldn't get to the next person, that isn't possible when so many still need to go to work in essential things like manufacturing, food, etc. Only to slow the spread and avoid overwhelming hospitals. The only way it will be over is for it to run it's course just like every other virus. Aspirus in Wausau just closed 18 rural clinics and furloughed an undisclosed number of employees like many other hospital systems because there is nothing to do, there is no surge. Mayo clinic also has massive furloughs and pay cuts occurring. It seems that the curve has been effectively flattened. I realize there are certain areas where hospitals are more utilized, but many of the temporary ICU locations set up in suspected future hot zones are not even being used. The ventilator situation in New York... That to me means that the initial projections were in error. I am not blaming or pointing fingers, our experts were doing the best they could with the little that was known.
Good conversation. It would be more fun in person over some brews, 6ft apart of course
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11 minutes ago, patsbimmer1 said:
Please tell me you know the difference between heart disease and COVID-19. You know that high blood pressure, congenital heart disease, arrhythmia, heart attacks, etc. they're not contagious, right? You know that many aren't 100% preventable and can typically be effectively managed through medication, healthy diet and genetic luck... right? That deaths caused by these diseases is either due to neglect over years and years, a shortened lifespan in which that person was still able to live a long life after a diagnosis or genetic misfortune, right? You know that the danger of COVID-19 is it's ability to spread rapidly throughout the world within a matter of months let alone how quickly it can take over a town, county, etc., right?
Here's a shitty map I made quickly based on the positive cases since the beginning of April by county illustrating where the positive case growth is. Data provided by the Wisconsin DHS, not an unreliable source. As you'll notice the greatest rate of growth this month has been outside of the large metro areas and moved into rural counties. Based on this data I say we shut down the rural counties.
I'm quite aware that heart disease is different than a virus, I am not downplaying the seriousness. It is unfortunate that anyone has died. Just getting out of bed in the morning has risks.
I would argue that the curve seems flattened if the deaths have dropped off (I do realize that that 1,078 number may increase due to late reporting). Someone from a hard hit area comments here. https://nypost.com/2020/04/27/ive-worked-the-coronavirus-front-line-and-i-say-its-time-to-start-opening-up/?fbclid=IwAR1U0QhtJHbhXyG_iYsQIy5Ff9B_yhqe970-YAH2SyOeHw30JcEira6vGnw I'm not sure his source but said that 43% of people tested in the Bronx are positive. A big missing data point is actual numbers about how many people have or have had Covid19.
My interpretation of the numbers from testing in Wisconsin is that the only people being tested are severe cases. @patsbimmer1 from your map it appears Rock county has above average testing and it is still barely over 1% of the population. And that is why death percentages using positive case numbers and death numbers is vastly misleading. My mother in law clearly had it (father in law was tested positive and she was sick as well) but she was not tested, just told to quarantine. However if she had died she would have been tested and added to the death tally.
How many people are dying from the quarantine itself? How long do we continue just printing money to hand out? Printing money only causes all of the money to be worth less. It isn't all roses to keep "non-essential" businesses closed. Many will be gone for good, and along with them people's future plans,
I think antibody testing is what needs to happen. What if I had it and was asymptomatic? The only way to catch it on a virus test is to test everyone in the state every week and that wouldn't catch past cases, and also is not logistically possible. But an antibody test would determine all of who has already had it to evaluate when enough people have had it that herd immunity will be reached.
I'm not hating anyone, just sharing my opinion on the internet
I'll still cruise BMW's with anyone whether you agree with me or not.
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52 minutes ago, damnboy037 said:
Not missing anything, I said if she ends up infecting and killing someone. Don’t assume my logic applies to to corporations the same way.
You have to understand that this is a state law set by the government, dumber laws that are harmless have worse consequences. People who whine about the economy and getting back to work are the real chumps.So a corporation has immunity and a small business does not?
I am challenging they notion that it makes sense to have a massive building packed with people like Walmart or similar stores but yet a lady doing curbside drop off of a pet is dangerous and needs to be arrested?
What is really going on here is that if a governor tried to make all Walmart's in their state close they would be at the wrong end of a lawsuit within hours.
You do realize that about 647,000 people in the USA died from heart disease last year? That is 12,400 in a week. Ref
So should we ban McDonald's? Cigarettes? Shut the country down? Let's get started solving that problem!
Read here to find that the week of 4/11 had the worst death toll for Covid19 and it was 11,468. Therefore the worst week of Covid19 was not even what the average week of people dying of heart disease, and last week was down to 1,078. The media likes to use sensational numbers but that is baseless and unhelpful like a graph with no units.
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44 minutes ago, damnboy037 said:
If this goes against everything this country was created for and she (the woman who opened her business) ends up infecting & killing someone, then she should get charged with murder. You can’t have it both ways, while thinking you are not privileged.
I think you are missing the part where nobody has to go to the store if they don't want to ...
Should WalMart be charged with murder if someone gets Covid19 there? That is following the same logic as your statement.
If I was 80 years old I would probably stay home and ask a healthy friend to drop stuff off for me. I'm 30 and healthy so I am not worried about it. I am also not visiting anyone that might be at risk.
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2 hours ago, KaiserRolls said:
and here we go. Safer in handcuffs
I was at the rally on Friday at the Capital. The police told the early arrivals to leave about a half hour before it started and they were just ignored. They backed down and let it go on with no interference. It would have been tough to ticket/arrest 2000+ people...
It's hard to say your grounds for arresting someone when what you are saying is the constitution is suspended because someone defines it as emergency times.
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3 hours ago, patsbimmer1 said:
This might be the most troublesome ending I've heard to this pandemic.
Why go across the street when you can go across the hall.
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2 minutes ago, REKIII said:
Why did Evers extend to the end of May? To protect us, right? Ha, no. That is what he tells the news for sound bites, but it's this: He's a Democrat, and both houses of the state govt are controlled by Repubs. So, he only has authority to keep us locked down for 60 days. This expires on May 11th. By extending to the 26th, he forces the repubs to vote on enforcing it or repealing it. If they enforce it, he gets to blame the repubs for the failing economy, if they repeal it, he gets to blame them for any deaths after the 11th. It's truely a genius political move. If the roles were reversed the repubs would have done the same thing. All politicians are disgusting and the one thing they have in common is that none of them have your best interest in mind.
This,
Both parties are crooks and it's just a big power game. And we are the losers. The parties are just a ruse to divide us, the people. They both keep taking away our liberties under the guise of protecting us.
Also the big winner is China, they sell all of our medical stuff and PPE to us. Maybe it's a retaliation for tariffs? I don't know why anyone trusts ANY information from Chinese Government sources...
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8 hours ago, straight6pwr said:
i agree that the same restrictions used in New York City aren't all relevant to Berlin, WI. however, i dont know how you could tell half of everybody they can go back to normal and half they have to stay locked down. our world is too intertwined, even between rural areas and big cities. what about the guy that lives in downtown Milwaukee, goes to the bars and busy places at night, then in the morning drives to Sturtevant (rural) to go to Amazon to work? what about the business in the big cities that produce products and services that those rural business depend on? how do you start defining what is rural and what isnt? how do you define if where someone lives or works depends on if they stay home? is a company in a rural area that has thousands of employees really like a big city and so they still cant work?
I guess rural is relative. If you live in Milwaukee then Sturtevant is rural. Approx 7000 nearby a huge metro area I would not consider rural. You are right how do you define it? I don't know. Rural to me for example would be counties like Taylor which is almost 1000 square miles and the entire population is 20,000, the largest "city" is Medford with 4,000. And there are zero positive cases. Having the county mostly shut down isn't flattening a curve. It is postponing at great expense. You can't flatten a curve that hasn't even started yet.
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4 hours ago, REKIII said:
The funny thing, is phase 1 won't even start until the mid-end of June. They already cancelled school for the rest of the year.
The whole point of this was to Flatten the curve. NOT reduce deaths. The same exact number of infections and deaths occur under the tall curve or flattened curve. We are past overwhelming our hospitals. Open the state, restart the economy. if it isn't you are only further flattening the curve, not saving anyone, at the cost of a lot of peoples livelihoods.
Thank you. How much flatter can you get than not even one positive in the counties around me and 17 in Marathon county which has the significant city of Wausau. Seems that the shutdown was premature if anything. There is nothing to flatten if it never or hardly left zero. Why does rural Wisconsin have the same shutdown as the big cities?
I'm not saying that in large cities there shouldn't be more precautions but killing businesses here for no purpose is stupid.
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Are you sure about DOT5 fluid? Totally different and incompatible with regular brake fluid. Just a heads up, it isn't a higher number is better thing. There is also DOT 5.1 which is compatible with other "normal" brake fluids.
DOT5 can only be used if it is a brand new system and never had other brake fluid in it. Which maybe is your situation.
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I always pored over the BavAuto catalogs, there was always a page dedicated to each model. I have tons of their posters. I liked them because they were just modified or sometimes even stock cars that are attainable to the average "Joe".
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1 hour ago, straight6pwr said:
Another great thing to add about AAA or roadside - works good for if you're home and you try to fix your car and you fail so you need to get it to the shop, in pieces. Just tell em the car broke down in your driveway, viola.
Works both ways, I had my Maxima Towed to the dealer because I thought the security system had locked out and on '99 models the only reset was from a dealer. It wasn't the problem and I had it towed back to my house no questions asked. The only stipulation towing from a shop is that they call to verify any work performed was paid for before removing the car.
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9 hours ago, SteelBlue said:
Time to drive no where because everything is closed and Road America season is probably cancelled...
Don't say it...
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Check this out, '49 ford shell onto an E92 chassis.
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51 minutes ago, gilber33 said:
It was an uneasy feeling at first, definitely. But it has three coats of clear on it which gives me a nice layer to work with and some reassurance I'm not going to mess it up.
I am watching and learning. I painted a hood and bumper cover for my van but did not do any finishing, I would like to clean it up a little because it has some orange peel and spots that feel rough like you mentioned. Thanks for the walk through.
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Exactly, whether you agree with it or not it is still funny.