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I think the Alcantara just stuck with people. In aftermarket car accessories it seems anything in a suede like material is called Alcantara. It sounds fancy, maybe it's the new Velour :unsure:
 
Ok, enough EV talk!


Kidding...
I mean, I too appreciate the advantages of an electric motor. I just don't care for the current style of battery electric cars.
Imagine you had your own gas pump at home: would you fill up every night, just to start every morning with a full tank of gas, even though you know you'll only need a fraction of that fuel? No. Why would you carry unneeded cargo around? And that's what a battery is: heavy cargo, regardless if it's charged or not.

I like the concept of electric propulsion, but I want to see it in light(er) weight cars which are better aligned with people's actual daily needs. Good examples for that are Fiat 500e, Mazda MX-30, Chevy Spark EV, etc.; but they didn't sell.


XR7-4.6 said:
I call it Velour 😆
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Kenz said:
maybe it's the new Velour :unsure:
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It's way thinner than velour (or the similar velvet), which is unfortunately somewhat extinct, though Lancia recently brought it back in the Ypsilon:

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Also note the tray table. :unsure:
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
Ok, enough EV talk!


Kidding...
I mean, I too appreciate the advantages of an electric motor. I just don't care for the current style of battery electric cars.
Imagine you had your own gas pump at home: would you fill up every night, just to start every morning with a full tank of gas, even though you know you'll only need a fraction of that fuel? No. Why would you carry unneeded cargo around? And that's what a battery is: heavy cargo, regardless if it's charged or not.

I like the concept of electric propulsion, but I want to see it in light(er) weight cars which are better aligned with people's actual daily needs. Good examples for that are Fiat 500e, Mazda MX-30, Chevy Spark EV, etc.; but they didn't sell.
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I too have no beef with EV as a concept and actually love certain aspects of the technology(like regenerative braking), I just don’t particularly care for all the other tech the cars are jammed with and that extends to most ICE powered cars as well, with the additional gripe that I don’t particularly care for high strung high stress small displacement turbocharged ICE engines that are now the norm as well similarly in spite of their performance.

To me the proposition just isn’t there, I plain don’t like almost everything that comes with ALL modern cars, I have no desire to take on a car payment, and I have even less desire to pay full coverage insurance ever. If I could buy a good EV I can count on for 20 years for under $10,000 to replace my Focus with, I’m open to it, but that just isn’t probable in the present, and it’s not just a matter of wealth or lackthereof, it’s the combination of many personal principles I choose to live by that just makes them not work for me in the forseeable future.


The Slate package is about the closest ideal I have for an EV (or even just a basic car regardless of propulsion) but even then I don’t want a truck/crossover thingy. I actually quite like the look of the new Charger EV but it’s loaded with tech I hate hate hate, and it costs $80,000! Beggars can’t be choosers but I’m not begging for any of this.
 
XR7-4.6 said:
I didn’t realize you had the Tremec one, those are best T45s(reverse issues notwithstanding) it’s got the thickest shift forks and carbon fiber blockers


…unless you bought the one I used to have, it was a 96 Borg Warner with a Tremec bellhousing I swapped on 😆
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Oooh, that’s good to know!
I’ve been doing some studying on these trans, Pro Force Performance have some good info on their site, I’m even learning about the World Class T5 in my turbo coupe!

It’s definitely not your old trans! 😂
I got it from a local guy, he told me it came from a 98 GT with low miles.
 
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Carrot cake. And it was tasty.
And filling.
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Four pounds of goodness.
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I worked for a co in 2018, that was like a cult; they were really weird. athey were coffee fanatics from hell, they really didn't like my earl gray-addicted ass.
I got fired because I was reminiscing about some weed we had in the 70's, with a guy I knew for 40 years, lol. I've smoked weed since '75, and it never caused a problem with work.
 
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Realized quickly I don't have the green thumb I thought I did. Atleast for my front yard garden. Pretty much everything died. So I'm gonna be a month behind. Everything out back is doing well, but with different soil.

Filled my raised beds and grow bags out front with 50/50 top soil and compost from timberline. Never again. Full of plastic and rocks, and compacts like concrete. While I'm not gonna throw the stuff away either I'm gonna painstakingly remove as much plastic as I can, and try to get compensated with rual king. If they even partially refund i think id be happy

Also ordered 32 cubic ft of 50/50 coco coir & peat / coarse perlite to amend any and everything. So really hoping they can refund me in some fashion (not for the dead plants) that's my own fault.. for the numerous pieces of plastic in my growing medium.

Then top dressing with composted wood/ leaf mold I got out back.

I'm aware this isn't a gardening forum but to those here with a green thumb thought you would find this laughable, I wouldn't recommend timberline soil for anything other than filling holes!
 
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Theres a lawn care thread that kind of fits. I don't have a green thumb but I'm getting a bit better. I too have recently taken the route of coco coir and perlite but what I really need is more soil if I want to provide nutrients. Im going to grab a bag next weekend and supplement it in some places. The soil around here is pretty much clay. For fertilizer I'm making a concentrated cold water 'tea' out of pulled weeds.

I find the most difficult part of planting something is figuring out how aggressive the plant can potentially spread, and how difficult it would be to correct the situation once I really find out. I got a packet of morning glory seeds without reading up on it. Probably going to toss it. I'm gambling on nasturtiums. Hopefullly I can continue to confine it in a large pot and keep it away from the garden
 
Vicinity said:
Theres a lawn care thread that kind of fits. I don't have a green thumb but I'm getting a bit better. I too have recently taken the route of coco coir and perlite but what I really need is more soil if I want to provide nutrients. Im going to grab a bag next weekend and supplement it in some places. The soil around here is pretty much clay. For fertilizer I'm making a concentrated cold water 'tea' out of pulled weeds.

I find the most difficult part of planting something is figuring out how aggressive the plant can potentially spread, and how difficult it would be to correct the situation once I really find out. I got a packet of morning glory seeds without reading up on it. Probably going to toss it. I'm gambling on nasturtiums. Hopefullly I can continue to confine it in a large pot and keep it away from the garden
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My issue is the other way around sadly. I feel like nutrients would be an easier fix in an already fluffy well draining soil. My yard is also clay, and it seemed like the timberline top soil wasnt much better. My plants are basically just sitting in a mulch of compost, and i had mixed in fertilizer to the entirety of the beds.

Stuff is burning badly or oxygen starved or both

Ive seen what nature does to this clay though. Plop some rotten wood down for a few years and you will have yourself a yard of wood compost and good worm casting filled substrate underneath, and its native. I myself have a small pile, but its really only enough to mulch
 
We have clay soil, and it sux. For my flowerbeds, I dug them out, mixed it with a bag of vermiculite, a bag of topsoil, and a bag of african violet potting soil, and put it back. I bought some earthworms at the bait store, and turned it upside down in the middle of the bed, and left it for a week.
Worked great.
 
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Realized quickly I don't have the green thumb I thought I did. Atleast for my front yard garden. Pretty much everything died. So I'm gonna be a month behind. Everything out back is doing well, but with different soil.

Filled my raised beds and grow bags out front with 50/50 top soil and compost from timberline. Never again. Full of plastic and rocks, and compacts like concrete. While I'm not gonna throw the stuff away either I'm gonna painstakingly remove as much plastic as I can, and try to get compensated with rual king. If they even partially refund i think id be happy

Also ordered 32 cubic ft of 50/50 coco coir & peat / coarse perlite to amend any and everything. So really hoping they can refund me in some fashion (not for the dead plants) that's my own fault.. for the numerous pieces of plastic in my growing medium.

Then top dressing with composted wood/ leaf mold I got out back.

I'm aware this isn't a gardening forum but to those here with a green thumb thought you would find this laughable, I wouldn't recommend timberline soil for anything other than filling holes!
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Grog6 said:
We have clay soil, and it sux. For my flowerbeds, I dug them out, mixed it with a bag of vermiculite, a bag of topsoil, and a bag of african violet potting soil, and put it back. I bought some earthworms at the bait store, and turned it upside down in the middle of the bed, and left it for a week.
Worked great.
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My fix for all my raised beds and grow bags will be similar. ordered 16 cu ft of perlite, 16 cu ft of Black Gold Natural & Organic Ultra Coir and im going to amend everything equally with that, and then mulch with wood compost i have from out back
 
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Everything about this abomination makes me want to vomit 🤮
I took the picture for the ridiculous wing but everything else is just as bad…. the wheels etc, The look all together is terrible and I think one of the ugliest ponies ever made. Honestly, it an insult to horses everywhere.
 
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