New England B.S. Thread

Plus you'd have to say kilometerage.

"Hey, how's your gas kilometerage?"

"Oh, about 7, 7 1/2"

 

Made it out. On my way from pheonix to Boston right now. They took an hr de-icing the plane this morning. Pretty crazy to watch.

 

Never seen it before? It's like a giant pressure washer on a robotic arm. Though it's got to be all chemicals they are spraying

 

is it still pink

 

Yea it has a light pink hue. They were spraying while loading the plane and it made a mess as we were getting on the plane.

 

Kinda like going through the automatic car wash and all the mystery shit they spray on your car

 

If I remember correctly the deicer they use on planes is just Glycol and water. They can't put too much into it for chemicals for corrosion and environmental reasons, I don't think.

Basically it just puts a fluid film on the plane to keep ice from adhering, and the film blows off once they hit a certain speed that exceeds the sheer strength of the film.
I don't remember what the speed is, though. I think it's like 150MPH or something.

 

Just like the long-cancelled darts I bought 12 yrs ago. Someone asked if I still had em so ilooked. Turns out I never used them..brand new.

 

Hm.. I wonder if I spray fluid film on my evo then do 150mph......hm

 

Worth a shot, get a video

 

Only 1 way to find out

 

Significant digits and rounding would be my guess. You take a big enough sample and those 5 minute drives to the store at 12mpg average out a lot better with the 300 mile highway drives at 24mpg.

 

Late Christmas gift for the truck... Next up is to order the suspension and front brakes.

 

While you're at it, order me over some suspension parts. How do you like that battery charger? It's the one with the air compressor, right?

 

No its just the basic harbor freight jump pack. It's worked wonders for me I have yet to have it fail at jumping a car. Going 3 years strong and I keep it in the evo normally because the battery is shot in that car.

As for battery chargers I use CTek branded battery chargers, I think I'm using the 4.3 model right now for both the truck and evo when I go away.

 

I'm not familiar with the Ctek. It looks pretty cool; multifunctional. I've been scoping out portable jump starters lately. It just seems like there are too many to choose from, though.

 

If you're looking for one of those company lithium based ones make sure its got enough to jump our trucks. Some of them are only rated for small cars - I have one but I only bought it for the evo so I have no idea if it'll work on the truck. If you just want a cheapo throw-around the harbor freight unit is great.

 

Those traction boards come in handy. I blew my rear 3rd in like 5' of snow and luckily rob had a set of those. Got me out of a jam.

 

Let's hope everyone keeps their nipples in tomorrow.

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