View Poll Results: Do you prefer us lobbing Potatoes or Grenades to take care of spammers?
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2/9/15, 09:24 AM
No sir it's today here , leave it to Canada not to be consistent but in British Columbia it falls on the 2nd Monday of Feb & different elsewhere & the Federal govt don't get it.
http://www.statutoryholidays.com/family-day.php
http://www.statutoryholidays.com/family-day.php
2/9/15, 09:58 AM
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No sir it's today here , leave it to Canada not to be consistent but in British Columbia it falls on the 2nd Monday of Feb & different elsewhere & the Federal govt don't get it. http://www.statutoryholidays.com/family-day.php
Ah got it.
2/9/15, 05:47 PM
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So does the weird giant (& redundant) thread title 
mean IB technicians worked on the site - and fixed the edit problem? 
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mean IB technicians worked on the site - and fixed the edit problem? Mustangs Coast to Coast
2/9/15, 09:04 PM
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2/10/15, 03:55 AM
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Good lord I just found a canon I gots to have. Shoots 357 mag and 38 special. 
http://www.coonaninc.com/pistol-showroom/
http://www.coonaninc.com/pistol-showroom/
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2/10/15, 06:33 AM
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Good lord I just found a canon I gots to have. Shoots 357 mag and 38 special.
http://www.coonaninc.com/pistol-showroom/
http://www.coonaninc.com/pistol-showroom/
Pretty expensive too though, lol.
2/10/15, 12:42 PM
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Yeah they are. Even the SS ones. I've come close 3 times over the past year on gunbroker, but just can't hit that buy button. lol Plus the 'good priced' ones are up about $100-150 compared to last summer. Love 357 Mag but can't use a revolver because of my hand injury so 1911 would be nice.
2/10/15, 02:16 PM
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Yeah they are. Even the SS ones. I've come close 3 times over the past year on gunbroker, but just can't hit that buy button. lol Plus the 'good priced' ones are up about $100-150 compared to last summer. Love 357 Mag but can't use a revolver because of my hand injury so 1911 would be nice.
2/10/15, 04:50 PM
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Great article on Top Fuel. Amazing tidbits:
Look past the ductile iron liners pressed inside the 4.8-in bores and you see the billet steel crankshaft. This crank will survive 8-10 runs before needing replacement, according to Mason.
I'm not sure whether to be more impressed with the crank's ability to withstand 30 seconds of wide-open throttle, or the engine torque's ability to waste a crank in 30 seconds.
The 14-71 supercharger is so big and robust that it takes a Viper engine's worth of horsepower to run it.
A nitro cars burns fuel at the rate of over 1.2 gallons per second down the strip--slightly more than the average fuel consumption of a fully loaded, airborne Boeing 747.
The boxes control MSD Pro Magneto 44 generators, sending 44 amps of current instantly to each spark plug. With two spark plugs per cylinder, each generator is in charge of one plug per cylinder. Mason reports that with this much spark, if you wanted to, you could actually use a spark plug as an arc welder.
Fact #6: Still, with so much boost and fuel, if one of the two plugs misfires, the entire cylinder's combustion fails and pumps out raw, unburned fuel.
http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticl...orsepower.aspx
Look past the ductile iron liners pressed inside the 4.8-in bores and you see the billet steel crankshaft. This crank will survive 8-10 runs before needing replacement, according to Mason.
I'm not sure whether to be more impressed with the crank's ability to withstand 30 seconds of wide-open throttle, or the engine torque's ability to waste a crank in 30 seconds.
The 14-71 supercharger is so big and robust that it takes a Viper engine's worth of horsepower to run it.
A nitro cars burns fuel at the rate of over 1.2 gallons per second down the strip--slightly more than the average fuel consumption of a fully loaded, airborne Boeing 747.
The boxes control MSD Pro Magneto 44 generators, sending 44 amps of current instantly to each spark plug. With two spark plugs per cylinder, each generator is in charge of one plug per cylinder. Mason reports that with this much spark, if you wanted to, you could actually use a spark plug as an arc welder.
Fact #6: Still, with so much boost and fuel, if one of the two plugs misfires, the entire cylinder's combustion fails and pumps out raw, unburned fuel.
http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticl...orsepower.aspx
2/10/15, 04:51 PM
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Sometimes, lol. But I can assure you I am all woman 
I was just talking to my son about me being more of a tomboy last night after he saw a really old pic of me when I was a cheerleader. There was one of those silly FB quizzes I took a while back that said I was something like 25% girlie. Said I had a lot of dude interests with a hint of girlieness. That about sums me up correctly.
I did shoot a Remington 1911 over the weekend that I liked. I will have to shoot my hubby's Sig 1911 when he finally gets it. It is taking forever for his paperwork to come back from the state.
I was just talking to my son about me being more of a tomboy last night after he saw a really old pic of me when I was a cheerleader. There was one of those silly FB quizzes I took a while back that said I was something like 25% girlie. Said I had a lot of dude interests with a hint of girlieness. That about sums me up correctly.Yeah they are. Even the SS ones. I've come close 3 times over the past year on gunbroker, but just can't hit that buy button. lol Plus the 'good priced' ones are up about $100-150 compared to last summer. Love 357 Mag but can't use a revolver because of my hand injury so 1911 would be nice.
2/10/15, 05:44 PM
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Great article on Top Fuel. Amazing tidbits: Look past the ductile iron liners pressed inside the 4.8-in bores and you see the billet steel crankshaft. This crank will survive 8-10 runs before needing replacement, according to Mason. I'm not sure whether to be more impressed with the crank's ability to withstand 30 seconds of wide-open throttle, or the engine torque's ability to waste a crank in 30 seconds. The 14-71 supercharger is so big and robust that it takes a Viper engine's worth of horsepower to run it. A nitro cars burns fuel at the rate of over 1.2 gallons per second down the strip--slightly more than the average fuel consumption of a fully loaded, airborne Boeing 747. The boxes control MSD Pro Magneto 44 generators, sending 44 amps of current instantly to each spark plug. With two spark plugs per cylinder, each generator is in charge of one plug per cylinder. Mason reports that with this much spark, if you wanted to, you could actually use a spark plug as an arc welder. Fact #6: Still, with so much boost and fuel, if one of the two plugs misfires, the entire cylinder's combustion fails and pumps out raw, unburned fuel. http://www.motoiq.com/MagazineArticl...orsepower.aspx
2/10/15, 05:52 PM
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)Here it takes 15-20 mins tops depending on how backed up OSP is. Seems like during a gun show weekend was the longest at 30 mins or so. Once they see your background is clean and the gun isn't stolen, you're done.
2/10/15, 06:08 PM
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I'm always nervous there's gonna be a mistake in my background or something
Just like I get nervous when there's a cop behind me
It's crazy. I don't do anything but speed occasionally but I've got a fear of the po-po and the slammer.
2/10/15, 06:10 PM
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Top fuel anyway. And I like F1. How's that for a combo? .
This is where I started geekin' out—checking out the data logs. The red line represents RPM (which peaks at 8400), the green line vehicle speed (which crosses the finish line at 326 mph in this run), and the others represent exhaust gas temperature (EGT) in each cylinder, of which the average is 1475F.
Lots of cool info can be extrapolated from this alone, and you might catch more than I did (if so, post a comment). But first off, notice the start of the red line and how quick it goes from 2500 RPM to 8400 RPM, which appears to be around a tenth of a second.
Second, check out how linear the acceleration (green line) is. It's pulling a consistent G-Force because the clutch doesn't fully grab--locking the motor and driveshaft to a 1:1 ratio--until the green and red lines cross each other, which happens at around 3 seconds into the run, or 280 mph. When that happens, the car is truly at full bore (notice the EGTs start to climb right then), and this is where Antron was telling me that "you really feel the G's then!”
Third, when the car crosses the finish line (white vertical line), it still manages to accelerate another several MPH by the time it takes Antron to go from full-throttle to deploying the chutes. In fact, it's still accelerating so hard that 1.49 G's are registering…at 326mph!
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This is engine speed again (red) but plotted against fuel flow (blue) and boost (green). One second into the run the fuel flow is really increased and, thus, so is the explosive power coming out of the headers (right where I was standing for photos). The engine launches the car at 8400 RPM, goes down to 7000 RPM midway, and then quickly climbs back up to 8400 RPM by the finish line, all of which you can hear (so it's not just the Doppler effect you notice as they rocket away—the revs actually drop). The boost stays constant around 54 PSI before beginning its climb to around 65 PSI by redline, shortly before the clutch fully engages.
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