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[Northern]

That's a healthy shipment of steel. Enjoying the progress.

[Northern]

+1 to all of this. Look at what you have done or what you would like to have for your own car. Something that isn't made, the current version sucks, too expensive, etc. Then make that thing.
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[Northern]

This winter is fucked. Usually we get a handful of snowfalls, it melts within a few days, and a lot of rain.
This year we've had basically a storm every 3 days, all snow up until a week ago and...

[Northern]

I saw some pics on instagram that made it look nice, but that looks immaculate.

I have always been a D1/D2 fan over the rest. Hard to find one that isn't on its last legs here, which is...

[Northern]

^ That looks great. any more pics?


I also see Powling acquired a new vehicle that's relevant to this thread......

[Northern]

I decided I'm going to make a series of crappy videos to document my feeble attempts to fix this glorious POS.

Here's a super quick walkaround and replacement of the hatch button:
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[Northern]

Low 14s will often idle better but for catalyst efficiency and because of how the narrowband works it'll target stoich.

[Northern]

Looks great! Congrats on the new human addition to the home as well haha

[Northern]

check for 12v on the power side and GND on the other and that should give you a direction to chase the wiring....

[Northern]

Sealed beams have dual filament low beams (I'm going to just call this the 'outer light'), so there's a low beam circuit and high beam circuit in the same bulb for this outer light. That's what the second...

[Northern]

This shit drives me nuts with flickr as well...

[Northern]

I just looked up the instagram he linked and just realized the same thing.

In the video, the 318/M3 firewall cover has a small notch out of it, and the trumpet sticks partially into the firewall...

[Northern]

Could be aftermarket? M52/S52 used the hard pipe instead of that/hose.




If it's aftermarket, it's something like this
https://www.bimmerworld.com/Cooling/Hoses...

[Northern]

This is cool... I have 3 or 4 NOCO tenders for bikes/shitboxes that used to sit around all winter, as well as a GENIUS2, and I didn't even realize it had this mode. I'll look into whether it needs the...

[Northern]

Front end is such a weird mash of 944 (from front with popups down), LeBaron (last pic from front side with popups down), and miata (front view with headlights up)...

[Northern]

Well I'm hoping this shit is over with, but my confidence isn't high because it's 'only a 30 day extension'.

I think he's going to realize that he's pissed off a lot of people up here in...

[Northern]

Well that was not something I could've predicted.

I'd make a jeep joke but I live in a glass house....

[Northern]

I agree with sleeve on the egg thing. Avian flu is an ongoing/accelerating issue. Will they decrease testing or safety margins to reduce the culling? who knows.
Fresh produce and labour are going...

[Northern]

Feels like I just posted this last week lol...

Happy birthday FredK !...

[Northern]

Seems like no company wants to insure >2 cars, anything modified, anything >10 years old, anyone with minor tickets (despite basically everywhere in NA moving further and further toward tickets...