Midwest Naptime Spring Sleeps! **4/20/2019**, Let's get this party started |
Midwest Naptime Spring Sleeps! **4/20/2019**, Let's get this party started |
Mar 23, 2019 - 10:43 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 17, '09 From Millard, Omaha, Nebraska Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
What is everyone using for dash cams? Was thinking about a Garmin OR VanTrue.
Not going to use it for every day just for long trips so I can get a time lapse. My thoughts: -Garmin more expensive but maybe better made? -VanTrue better choice since I'm not going to use it everyday. -view angle, 120° or whatever, which might be better, is bigger always better? -I don't need wifi or GPS on it -something with good video quality I dunno. I've just always been a fan of time-lapse videos, & I plan on a long road trip this fall so thought it'd be cool to do that. |
Mar 24, 2019 - 12:35 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 11, '06 From Way South Chicago Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
I'm using a Street Guardian model, the files look good off the cam but youtube poops them up with their compression ontop of the camera's H264 it does on the fly. Image quality is good enough to pick out plates even in poorer lighting conditions. 2k and 4k are getting better but usually lack low light quality, tons of youtube videos on different cams, look around, there's even a forum called dashcam talk.
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Mar 25, 2019 - 8:29 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Sep 1, '09 From Marengo, IL Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Using this:
https://www.amazon.com/Rexing-Dashboard-Rec...C490&sr=8-3 Video I uploaded: https://youtu.be/KdGKTMtpNyY -------------------- 2000 GT-S 6 SPD... SOLD! |
Mar 25, 2019 - 8:36 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Feb 2, '07 From Berlin, WI Currently Offline Reputation: 18 (100%) |
Happy Friday everyone! Any plans for the weekend with the "start of spring warmth" that we have coming? Franticaly assemble car in time for the meet ^this. Oh wow, still not done? WELL..... we just thawed out last week so.... yeah. This winter has been a long one. that, and the wife went photo crazy and trip crazy. 3 out of 6 weekends were photoshoots. the other 3 were trips/concerts etc. Temps are gonna be up in the 50s this week so I'll be out there finally. -------------------- *1997 Celica ST - 3SGE Greytop BEAMS *1977 Celica RA29 - Classic Cruiser *2005 Matrix AWD - dedded but still hanging around like a ghost 2019 Rav4 XLE Premium - Sports mode is fun. |
Mar 26, 2019 - 6:49 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Sep 1, '09 From Marengo, IL Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Toyota dealer wants $29/gallon for red coolant. Anyone know of a cheaper source? I haven't done a ton of research yet.
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Mar 26, 2019 - 10:31 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 11, '06 From Way South Chicago Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Beck/Arnley is what we use at the shop for colored Asian coolants, but I don't know if they're any cheaper at retail pricing. You might find that Pink is cheaper, it's OK to mix pink and red, just it'll be more like a red life time until it's an all pink system if you're mixing them together but lets be honest, Toyota pink and red are both 100,000 mile coolants anyway so as long as it stays in the engine you're only changing it out 2-10 times in the lifetime of the car anyway.
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Mar 27, 2019 - 6:08 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Sep 1, '09 From Marengo, IL Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Beck/Arnley is what we use at the shop for colored Asian coolants, but I don't know if they're any cheaper at retail pricing. You might find that Pink is cheaper, it's OK to mix pink and red, just it'll be more like a red life time until it's an all pink system if you're mixing them together but lets be honest, Toyota pink and red are both 100,000 mile coolants anyway so as long as it stays in the engine you're only changing it out 2-10 times in the lifetime of the car anyway. Thank you for the recommendation. I just found out that my dad has a couple of gallons laying around that he's going to give to me. I'm going to be changing the time belt out on the ES330 and spark plugs. -------------------- 2000 GT-S 6 SPD... SOLD! |
Mar 27, 2019 - 6:50 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 11, '06 From Way South Chicago Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Fun, some of the V6's you need to pull the cam sprocket to clear off a steel plate that blocks part of the water pump. I can't recall if the 3MZ does or does not have that.
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Apr 2, 2019 - 7:23 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Sep 1, '09 From Marengo, IL Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Fun, some of the V6's you need to pull the cam sprocket to clear off a steel plate that blocks part of the water pump. I can't recall if the 3MZ does or does not have that. That's correct - I'm going to replace the cam seals too while I'm in there. I want to make it good for another 90K miles. -------------------- 2000 GT-S 6 SPD... SOLD! |
Apr 2, 2019 - 7:51 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 11, '06 From Way South Chicago Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Fun, some of the V6's you need to pull the cam sprocket to clear off a steel plate that blocks part of the water pump. I can't recall if the 3MZ does or does not have that. That's correct - I'm going to replace the cam seals too while I'm in there. I want to make it good for another 90K miles. Buy one of these, they're excellent at holding the cam shaft when you zap the sprocket bolt out and hold them nicely when torquing it back down to spec. https://www.amazon.com/Vise-Grip-Locking-Wr.../dp/B00004SBB8/ The smaller sizes are amazing for flare fittings, they fit any size even the between sizes and are much less likely to slip and round than standard vice grips. I have a large pipe I can slip over the handle of the 10LW for when I need to put the beans to something like a tierod nut. -------------------- |
Apr 2, 2019 - 8:04 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 17, '09 From Millard, Omaha, Nebraska Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
Date:
4/20 Where: https://goo.gl/maps/2D9dtdbKk452 Roll Call: 1. Jake and Sam 2. Chris, Stacy, and Theo 3. Annette 4. Me, im going 5. Luke 6. Joe and Sophie (possibly Jordan, my wife) 7. Chee La & Mai See (with SIL & BF) 8. Devin |
Apr 3, 2019 - 7:46 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Sep 1, '09 From Marengo, IL Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
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Apr 3, 2019 - 8:25 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 4, '06 From Chicagoland Currently Offline Reputation: 9 (100%) |
Nice. Updated.
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Apr 3, 2019 - 9:46 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 17, '09 From Millard, Omaha, Nebraska Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
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Apr 3, 2019 - 11:20 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 4, '06 From Chicagoland Currently Offline Reputation: 9 (100%) |
Stacy and I bought a grill topper thing, so we can stop using the aluminum foil.
Don't worry about the grill. -------------------- ~bloodMoney
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Apr 3, 2019 - 12:45 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 17, '09 From Millard, Omaha, Nebraska Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
I have enough space to haul it. Just if it's going to be crap weather I doubt people are going to want to hang outside.
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Apr 3, 2019 - 1:16 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 4, '06 From Chicagoland Currently Offline Reputation: 9 (100%) |
We do usually have that building....
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Apr 3, 2019 - 8:43 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Mar 11, '06 From Way South Chicago Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
We do usually have that building.... Unless there's a wedding invasion. We can bribe them with cookies. -------------------- |
Apr 3, 2019 - 10:29 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 17, '09 From Millard, Omaha, Nebraska Currently Offline Reputation: 1 (100%) |
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Apr 4, 2019 - 8:03 AM |
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Enthusiast Joined Aug 4, '06 From Chicagoland Currently Offline Reputation: 9 (100%) |
Never forget. -------------------- ~bloodMoney
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