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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:01 AM
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all o those companies have bad clear coats.. its just hows it is... there no way of keeping those things looking new... the clear always fades.. my vis hood was great and had a nice thick clear... i sold it and 2 months later saw it on the car i sold it too and it was eaten up... simple clean now for ever... glad i took pics to prove i had it atleast once lol
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:04 AM
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I officially have new standards.

If your wheels are rubbing, you fail.
If you have coilovers and track ready wheels+tires, and you don't track your car, you fail.
If you have eBay parts on your car, you fail.
If you cheap out on wheels and get something less than OEM quality, you fail.
If you street race, you fail. Hard.
Don't race a DD.
Don't turn a DD into a 'project', otherwise you will result in fail. Good old fashioned fail.

Can't think of anything else.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:28 AM
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i failed 3 times
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:31 AM
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lol, I failed 1 (however only a partial fail, because useless parts were eBay'd) and almost failed a second time XD.


But yeah, after going out to Summit Point and seeing the PTuning tC, riding in the car and just getting a whole weekend of nothing but Time Attack, I really took in a whole new look.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:35 AM
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^ Pics of it?
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:40 AM
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I don't have an SDHC card reader yet, I'll get one tomorrow. I started a thread last night in the Autosports forum, the pics will go there, most of the 1032 of the pictures I took.

I'm off to the 240 boards to find myself a new car.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:43 AM
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^ ^ just plug your camera in using a USB cord and it can be used as a reader
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 12:47 AM
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I would if I had any clue where the hell that was lol.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:05 AM
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EDIT: Pics below
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:12 AM
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Sorry my pics aren't very good. Carbon's will be nice though (camera is 976178346 times better). We will call these teasers for now...







Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:14 AM
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Originally Posted by CarbonXe
Don't race a DD.
How about tracking my DD, but no wheel-to-wheel racing? Please let that be OK
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:15 AM
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Originally Posted by CarbonXe
I officially have new standards.

If your wheels are rubbing, you fail.
If you have coilovers and track ready wheels+tires, and you don't track your car, you fail.
If you have eBay parts on your car, you fail.
If you cheap out on wheels and get something less than OEM quality, you fail.
If you street race, you fail. Hard.
Don't race a DD.
Don't turn a DD into a 'project', otherwise you will result in fail. Good old fashioned fail.

Can't think of anything else.
whoops
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:16 AM
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What you do is fine, lol. What I was talking about, was more along the lines of...don't try to make your DD into something like Justin's car or MrC's .

Btw, I found the cable :D. It'll only take about an hour to upload the pictures to my computer (SDHC cards are teh slow ). Then I have to copy them and convert them to JPEGs (not sure if photobucket can upload .NEF).
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:22 AM
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Originally Posted by TCpete
all o those companies have bad clear coats.. its just hows it is... there no way of keeping those things looking new... the clear always fades.. my vis hood was great and had a nice thick clear... i sold it and 2 months later saw it on the car i sold it too and it was eaten up... simple clean now for ever... glad i took pics to prove i had it atleast once lol

same here, at least i have pics to prove i had a cf hood and cf hatch!!!
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by nebster
Originally Posted by CarbonXe
I officially have new standards.

If your wheels are rubbing, you fail.
If you have coilovers and track ready wheels+tires, and you don't track your car, you fail.
If you have eBay parts on your car, you fail.
If you cheap out on wheels and get something less than OEM quality, you fail.
If you street race, you fail. Hard.
Don't race a DD.
Don't turn a DD into a 'project', otherwise you will result in fail. Good old fashioned fail.

Can't think of anything else.
whoops
whoops

not so much on the project one, but my wheels rub, and i got coilovers, only seen the track once (1/4mile)
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:14 PM
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hey.. some of my parts are off ebay.. lol and they are not deh failz.. ebay can be FTW sometimes lol.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by TCpete
hey.. some of my parts are off ebay.. lol and they are not deh failz.. ebay can be FTW sometimes lol.
I should have been more specific, but I meant like...eBay brand coilovers or "JDM universal turbo kit".

Buying good stuff on eBay = Win.
Buying eBay stuff on eBay = fail.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 01:31 PM
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And before anyone else asks me, no I didn't edit any of these.






The hottest SW ever.
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 02:17 PM
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i love that wing
Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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my 1st attempt at HDR



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