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  1. alkalinetaupehat

    Car died the other week

    I've known it would come for her one day or another, but one fatal Sunday morning as I turned on to the road home, death came for my baby's tired 7MGE. The day prior I was out and about, soaking up the sun and getting some lazy Saturday errands done. She was doing well early, but coming off...
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    Alkalinetaupehat's 1989 Supra Build Thread

    So I own a Supra, and I like it a lot. So much indeed that I'm planning to spend lots of money on it and make it really really cool (and fast). The plan is to do the build in stages because I don't make as much as certain people with their own garages and a small collection of imports...
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    So my friend scored a free car today

    ...and didn't even steal it, haha. The story is that someone on base received orders to move to a new base out of the blue and never had the chance to make arrangements for his car. Shortly after that, he was deployed, and now the car has sat for just over a year and has a towing notice on it...
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    Engine swap parts/tools list?

    I'm planning on changing out the 7MGE in my Supra for another one in the coming months and want to get ATG's advice on what I will need for this. The idea so far is to get a used 7MGE from an importer, refresh it, and install it. The list so far looks like this: - Used 7MGE - $810 shipped -...
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    Made my car purdy.

    The other weekend was a long one, and payday weekend, so I got to work on the Supra. Got the car washed, glazed, and waxed: Made an appointment to get two replacements for some very worn tires: (bottom two are the new ones) And went for a very nice cruise: Got a good number of...
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    2012 Integra announced!

    With the FT-86, it was only a matter of time... http://www.motoiq.com/magazine_articles/id/2205/honda-releases-new-2012-integra.aspx :awe:
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    Oil Consumption in '89 Supra

    Whassup ATG, I've been working on my car and driving her, figuring out the issues as I go. One that's come up lately is the amount of oil which the Supra is losing. I was a quart low about a week ago (hadn't checked for a while) and now, close to the Low mark on the dipstick. Put in a 1/4 quart...
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    Welp, guess I'm getting what I wanted.

    Bought a rather fun car and made a thread about it. Fast-forward to two weeks ago, and the alternator seizes while driving home. Oh boy. Got the car parked and convinced the lot owner not to tow it, and fixed it the following Wednesday before a test. Of course, this was not to be the last...
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    Bought a new (to me) car. PICS in OP

    Some time ago I posted about buying a BMW or a Nissan. Well, the Nissan was sold and the BMW didn't work out, so I thought about it and lowered my budget. Picked up a car which I paid cash for, and spent the last four hours driving. Still smiling too. It's a 1989 Toyota Supra. Automatic +...
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    Two options, time to buy a car, suggestions?

    Haiku thread title says it all really. Found two options near me which I like, budget is roughly $8k. Looking to buy in the next month or so, going out to test drive these two next weekend (schedule permitting): 2001 BMW 330i Sport 1990 Nissan 300ZX The ideal car would have: - A manual...
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    Cheap patrol car...

    http://imgur.com/gallery/G4jyd I wonder how much it costs for fuel and tires though...?
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    Dance Fortress 2

    A poster a while back linked to a youtube video that someone was making which involved precise manipulation of TF2 characters. Well, IT'S HERE!1! Linky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nds1T7U9FqY&feature=sub Available in 1080p and has a download link in the description. Fantastic...
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    Neat Dell trick for LCD Screens

    Went through Tech Support to authorize warranty work, and as we were stepping through things I learned a neat trick. If you're trying to figure out whether the LCD is dead, try this: 1) Remove the battery 2) Press and hold the power button for 10 seconds 3) Plug in the A/C power adapter to...
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    Which battery?

    It's that magical time in every car's life where you, as its owner, need to spend lotsa money to fix it, or sell it and get another car. I want to keep my car, so now I must decide which new battery to get for it. Option #1 - Diehard Platinum (4yr free replacement): http://tiny.cc/4m2nc Option...
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    Verified 33.5 mpg today.

    Made a two-hour round trip visit to the Air Force recruiter today, and logged in 33.5mpg at 55mph with 15 minutes of idling for a construction stop. Also logged 31mpg over an 800 mile trip at 80mph earlier this summer. Feeling pretty damn good about my car at this point. :D 1993 Cutlass Ciera...
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    LCD Screen not coming on.

    I power on my Dell Inspiron 1501 and cannot get the screen to light up at all. I have tried a new LCD panel and inverter, and still have no luck. When I tilt the screen into the light at the right angle, I can see the Vista login screen and logo. I also cannot get video from the VGA port...
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    Old people driving...

    ...is a scary thing. From the local paper: 45% of the city population is over 45.
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    So my car threw a metric ton of codes yesterday...

    ...and it's American. Poor metric vs. imperial jokes aside, a 60 mile trip yesterday netted me a check engine light about 10 min into the drive and continuing for about 20 minutes. Thinking it could be a remnant code from before the O2 was replaced Friday, I drove the rest of the trip without...
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    Possible drunk driver, called it in, comments? *Update*

    So tonight my friend and I drove to Mickey D's for some fries before they closed (wonderful gaming food). On the way back though, the car in front of us took a good 20 seconds to start moving once the light turned green. It went downhill from there. The man driving it was weaving in and out...
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    Brewing B33r!

    I'm designing a small-scale (5 to 50 gallons) brewery as a class project; right now I'm in the research stage and was wondering if ATOT has any good links to information on brewing beer. I'm looking at the processes, ingredients, and things which make good breweries become great, and as always I...
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    Help with server purchase?

    So an office I work with is looking to get a server which will host an accounting database and some user files. Since I'm the handyman when it comes to computers, they looked to me for some advice. I'm going to be upfront and say I'm a little out of my area of expertise here, so I've got a...
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    Win 7 Install boot issues

    About a month ago I moved over to Windows Seven RTM via my school's MSDNAA program. It has been running just fine, except for this particular boot issue. When I first installed Seven the BIOS was set to AHCI mode to enable hot-swap SATA, but after a week or two the OS was no longer detected...
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    Dual Widescreens or Big Single Screen

    I've played around with monitors which have stands that allow rotation of the monitor and base pivoting, and recently noticed on Dell the presence of a Professional line of monitors which have a $50 premium and the aforementioned stands. Now that ATI has their Eyefinity technology on the...
  24. alkalinetaupehat

    MYOSPC

    Went to Youtube and saw this. I followed the link to some site, and found a cool south park character editor and made this dude. Figured I'd share with y'all, so enjoy! Edit: Site link
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    McAfee vs. Kaspersky

    The college I'm enrolled at for this fall offers students access to McAfee licenses for free, but I wonder if it would be worth it instead to purchase a license to Kaspersky. Thoughts?
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    ICH10R or JMicron 363 chipset?

    Title pretty much sums it up, is there a preference between the two for running two WD 1001FALS TB drives in RAID1? There will also be a SATA OS HDD, and a SATA DVD Burner and possible some other drives I have laying around. I don't really have the $$ for a RAID controller and don't entirely...
  27. alkalinetaupehat

    Story from work.

    So in light of Mosh's thread on the content of AT forums, I have decided to share a story from work with y'all. Carol could NOT come in at 11:30 as scheduled on Friday due to a herpes flareup courtesy of Al, her long time stalker and personal incubus. He's been sleeping around with Brooke, a...
  28. alkalinetaupehat

    IMAP vs. POP

    GMail user here, and after reading this I felt compelled to look into account settings and after ensuring that all Gmail sessions would be on an HTTPS connection, I wondered about the IMAP and POP option. I don't download mail off Google's servers since it's neither private nor sensitive...
  29. alkalinetaupehat

    Dos preguntas (two questions)

    I am entering college this fall and currently have a retail copy of Vista Ultimate 64-bit. I understand the procedure to upgrade and that if I need to reinstall Windows 7 later I can do so by placing the Vista disk in the drive when prompted etc. The questions I have are: 1) Will the...
  30. alkalinetaupehat

    Pretty darn good. Powercolor HD4870 512MB $112.50+ship

    Seems like ATI is out for blood. This is the second time in a month I've seen this deal at Newegg, except this time there's a 10% off sale going on too. This is cause for much win indeed, CF on the cheap FTW and some unreal prices. Powercolor HD4870 512MB HIS HD4870 1GB EDIT: Coupon...
  31. alkalinetaupehat

    Free song download!

    Site goes live June 22nd at 3pm Eastern Time and will have a free single available for download. Heard this off the radio, so I am not aware of any registration requirements but if Radiohead's "In Rainbows" is any indication there probably will be registration or something. The band is...
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    Newegg HDD Sale

    So not the hottest deal, nevertheless it should be worthwhile and I think merits posting here. Like the title says, 10% off any hard drive internal or external (laptop HDD's too!) until June 22nd, good for up to $10 off. Should make the deal for anyone thinking about snapping up a drive...
  33. alkalinetaupehat

    EVGA -TR and -A1 X58 mobos.

    Memory recalls that the A1s are newer revisions of typically heatsinks or some misc. tweaks, though this time with their X58 offering I can't tell the difference.A peer is looking to build an i7 system and I'm wondering about which one to pick. Budget is important, fyi. Help? EVGA...
  34. alkalinetaupehat

    Wireless adapters...

    Quick post before I go off to bed, buying an adapter soon and looking to get something solid with a good antenna, support for WPA2+AES and below $70 is preferred. Suggestions?
  35. alkalinetaupehat

    WD1001FAILS...So do you Western Digital!

    Bought a TB drive and enclosure as a part of my backup strategy and the TB isn't detected by Vista 64-bit. Checked if it was the enclosure, it's not, and tried the bare drive on a 32-bit XP machine as well. Going to try the drive out once more in another machine, putting it as the only drive...
  36. alkalinetaupehat

    Bought a core upgrade today *Poll too*

    Friend of mine was looking for some help putting together a budget core upgrade for his rig, and after reviewing benchmarks, pricing, etc. we came up with two systems: AMD Option: PhII 940 Black Edition ($190) Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P ($110) XFX Radeon HD 4850 1GB ($135) G.SKILL HK 4GB...