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Wile E. Coyote said:
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Can someone tell me the specs on this diff? I don't remember what car this came from. It's unopened and it's been on my shelf for years.
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The 08 in front of the 8.8 is likely a 3.08 gear as the 3 looks covered by the bolt head. I'm not seeing the L between the 3 and 08 which I think means open diff.
 
TSTSNBN is not resolving, it's been down for a couple of days, lol.
I think we won!
 
It was up, only bots, lol.
I still try to rescue people. :)

I've been trying to finish pumping gas; I think I AM going to have to drop the tank. Pump Sux.

I love this place!
 
Grog6 said:
It was up, only bots, lol.
I still try to rescue people. :)

I've been trying to finish pumping gas; I think I AM going to have to drop the tank. Pump Sux.

I love this place!
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You’ve been pumping gas from that tank since we started this place 😆
 
That is not lost on me, lol. I have a sheetmetal plate to make a cover out of, lol.
I'm seriously considering making a cutout so I can change it. I have a 190 Walbro.

BTW, I took my ford HO oil pump apart and inspected it, as Nick recommended, just to double check the machining and gear fitment. Engine for Lazarus is advancing.
 
Didn't we have a thread where we post articles about our cars?

Anyway, I'll just share right here. I came across this old Car & Driver article, a comparison including the Mark VIII. Interesting read.

Note the statement "perfect steering". I don't know about perfection. I mean, I literally do not  know; I'm not a steering expert. But I love the steering in my car (except for some low-speed heaviness); it feels lovely around twisting country roads, though the look of that rag joint is not confidence inspiring.

www.caranddriver.com

Come on Down to the Boat Show: We Compare Four Luxury Liners From 1993

From a quartet of $40,000 cruisers—Acura Legend, Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, Lexus SC400, and Lincoln Mark VIII—we pick the Kitchenburger of luxocoupes.
www.caranddriver.com www.caranddriver.com
 
Wonderful day today; I learned that my Junkie ex-friend stole not only the tin snips I need to replace my fuel pump, but also the 190 walbro I bought from s4gunn. :(
I've got both ordered. It's going to be epic when I see that guy.
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
Didn't we have a thread where we post articles about our cars?

Anyway, I'll just share right here. I came across this old Car & Driver article, a comparison including the Mark VIII. Interesting read.

Note the statement "perfect steering". I don't know about perfection. I mean, I literally do not  know; I'm not a steering expert. But I love the steering in my car (except for some low-speed heaviness); it feels lovely around twisting country roads, though the look of that rag joint is not confidence inspiring.

www.caranddriver.com

Come on Down to the Boat Show: We Compare Four Luxury Liners From 1993

From a quartet of $40,000 cruisers—Acura Legend, Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, Lexus SC400, and Lincoln Mark VIII—we pick the Kitchenburger of luxocoupes.
www.caranddriver.com www.caranddriver.com
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Finally got a chance to read this, reinforces most of my thoughts on all four cars, minus the hindsight of the Northstar being a pile after the warranty expired. One thing the article mentioned that I never noticed about the Eldorado and had to look up to see what was so supposedly clumsy about pillar/door/fender meeting and OMG!

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I hosestly actually did kind of prefer the styling of them to the Mark VIII, but that really is bad!
 
So I’m currently taking a smog repair class online, today’s subject was short AND long term fuel trims. I never really understood what or how it worked.

the long term does the BIG corrections while the short does small corrections in order to move the AFR just ABOVE and just BELOW lambda in order to oxidize or burn out whatever the cat needs.

Pretty much you can tell a lot about how a car is running based on the long term.

makes me wanna continuously check my fuel trims haha.
 
Chingon1 said:
So I’m currently taking a smog repair class online, today’s subject was short AND long term fuel trims. I never really understood what or how it worked.

the long term does the BIG corrections while the short does small corrections in order to move the AFR just ABOVE and just BELOW lambda in order to oxidize or burn out whatever the cat needs.

Pretty much you can tell a lot about how a car is running based on the long term.

makes me wanna continuously check my fuel trims haha.
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Short term is essentially the instantaneous trim, within range it takes what the O2s are seeing to make instantaneous changes (and it can actually be used for tuning more accurately in low load conditions with adaptive shut off than a wideband). Long term trims are essentially learned corrections; if the short term is perpetually more rich or lean it gets a stored in the PCMs memory and long term will deliver fuel based on that learned correction.
 
@Chingon1, you are describing data logging.
I use an xcal2 tuner plugged into my tuning laptop. Livelink rocks!
If you don't have a WB, you tune by those trims.
 
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XR7-4.6 said:
Short term is essentially the instantaneous trim, within range it takes what the O2s are seeing to make instantaneous changes (and it can actually be used for tuning more accurately in low load conditions with adaptive shut off than a wideband). Long term trims are essentially learned corrections; if the short term is perpetually more rich or lean it gets a stored in the PCMs memory and long term will deliver fuel based on that learned correction.
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Learning stuff like this makes working on cars fun lowkey, even tho sometimes it’s a bitch trying to figure it out but it’s a great thing to learn. Thanks for the lil lesson.

@Grog6 fortunately I do have a wideband but for some reason when I try to data log on the computer it didn’t let me, I don’t think I have my wiifeband wired correctly.

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Found this interesting pic, it’s the preliminary sketch of what would become the 1983 Cougar, but funny enough the extra raked windshield and more apparently rounded edges are actually remarkably predictive of the MN12 profile IMO either way it’s basically the very genesis of the Cougar profile we know and love(or loath maybe)

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KevinVarnes said:
Front end looks kind of funky to me. Almost like it is 1/2 scale. Firewall back looks excellent. Can't believe they were rollin' dubs in the early 80's. Where/how did you find the pic?
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I found it looking through coolcats.net recently. I’ve noticed ALOT of in house design sketches from as far back as the 70s the designers favored oversized wheels. Here’s another of the 83 Tbird

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And the 89 MN12

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Are small angled down hoods a thing in all all car sketches, or was it just the 80s-90s ? Looks like a tesla front end.

The red Cougar would fit in just fine on Cyberpunk 2077 :LOL:
 
In the 60's, future cars were turbine powered with lambo doors, lol.(UFO, circa 1970). Even tho this was in England,steering was american. :)
 
Wow! We had two cyclones in the family; one was my dad's late 60's drag car, and my sis had a much better Blue '68 with a big block. It got traded for a VW bug, lol. 6mpg wouldn't cut it at 20 cent gas.
 
gunn said:
Fun fact: in some emerging countries, FB became "the internet" because very early on, FB cut deals with local cellular telcos to make it so that FB browsing did NOT count towards their bandwidth quotes.

Call someone - costs money.
Call someone via Messenger - free
Visit a company website = cost money
Visit a company's FB page = free
Research a topic = costs money
"Research a topic" on FB = free

Examples: Kenya, Myanmar, Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa.
Its crazy.

Americans who get their "news" from FB... well, they have no excuse.


www.theguardian.com

How Facebook took over the internet in Africa – and changed everything

Western users are logging off, but across the continent the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines. How did it become inescapable?
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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knowing the IQ of their users tells a lot.
 
Generalee0527 said:
knowing the IQ of their users tells a lot.
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Is this a statement in general about 1) how FB has amassed an incredible amount of info on their users, likely estimates their iqs based on "games", and acts accordingly OR are you implyng 2) that these FB users from these countries are have low IQs

If #1, I don't doubt it at all. They do whatever it takes to drive engagement which turns into money for them.

However, if you are saying people from these emerging countries are somehow dumb for using FB instead of the wider internet, well, poverty often leads people making less than optimal choices out of necessity, not necessarily because they are dumb. Just take a look at all the payday loan companies and pawnshops in the US.

Are you saying something about the people
 
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