The best is GM EOS used for engine or Camshaft break in. you add 10CC of it at every oil change and boost zinc back up to safe levels for flat tappets.
Carbs are insanely outdated tech and I am so glad to not own a bike with one anymore. I used to ride an 1983 Yamaha Venture with a Vmax motor in it, 4 big ass carbs sitting on the top of that thing that I had to screw around with every single spring. Nothing more fun than sitting there for 2 hours with a syncronizer trying to get all 4 carbs in sync, then getting them in sync while Vboost is engaged.
the first 4 years I owned that bike also mean taking the carbs off every spring and cleaning them. After I started running with a techron additive all the time, I never had to touch the carbs for cleaning again. In fact last year when I sold it and went to a FI bike I decided to do a full cleaning for the new owner and the carbs were like new inside with no varnish. and this was with NOT draining the bowls every winter, just pour in a bottle of seafoam or other gas stabalizer and ride it to storage to let it sit for 5 months.
Most guys that have carb problems are simply not taking proper care of their bikes. If you do not use a tank of gas in 2 weeks, you need to ALWAYS ride with techron and a gas stabilizer in the tank at all times.
Zero problems at all on my 2003 BMW K1200LT. and I have the LARGEST plastic fuel tank of any motorcycle made.... 6.3Gallons And in fact there are no reports from any LT owner having that problem.
He has no clue how car ECM's work. it can do a lot inside the range the unit was designed to handle, but outside that and it goes to hell in a hand basket. It's why E85 "flex fuel" cars have a special ECM that has basically twice the memory in it and are a lot faster to handle a very wide range of conditions for spark advance and fuel delivery rates based off of the O2 sensors input as well as the knock sensor.
Some people "claim" there is a fuel sensor to detect the type of fuel, and that is 100% bullshit, The car simply adjusts on the fly from sensor inputs. E85 vehicle ECM's are highly desirable for hotrodders as they can be easily reprogrammed for performance and really make a difference on a vehicle that has a lot of boost applied from a large turbo or supercharger.
1999 Jeep grand cherokee with 250,000 miles on it... it's as reliable as any 2014 car because I'm one of those wierdows that actually MAINTAINS his vehicle.
Vehicles as old as 1983 have been built to handle E10 concentrations of ethanol. MY 1983 Yamaha Venture said E10 was fine to use in it's manual, same as my 86 Fiero I recently sold. Maybe vehicles from the 70's when leaded gas was common will have issues, but you would be a fool to drive one on it's stock fuel system, that old of hoses and rubber is unsafe and should be replaced.
Mobil 1 is not good for any vehicle with flat tappets, their zinc levels are too low. you are harming your cam in your engines by using Mobil 1, you need a high zinc oil like a diesel oil or use a zinc additive.
No it's more expensive because marinas know they can rob boaters blind. Oh you own a 42 footer? you have to buy it from me at $4.50 a gallon.... Disclaimer, I know people that run marinas, they pay the SAME for a tanker full of gasoline as the gas station across the street from them does. they just know that boaters have no other choice for their giant boats that cant be easily trailered and have 100 gallon tanks.
Your 72 charger would be a LOT faster if you set it up to use E85. It's octane is as high as racing gas, so a lot of racers use it and are saving a ton of cash. So shave the heads and buy all E85 safe plastics and rubber for it and enjoy 13:1 compression and buttloads of power for dirt cheap.
So magically I fixed the problem? Cool! I'm going to sell my magical tools! I'll make millions. And I cant drive any less overloaded with only 1 passenger in the car. Oh and it's a known issue with ALL 8th gen civics and the FIT, well documented and there is even a lawsuit about it.
But let's not let facts get in the way, you're the expert.
Also set up wrong by the manufacturer. The 2007 honda civic has a highway MPG rating of 40mpg. I regularly get 44-46 while speeding after I fixed their design flaw in the rear end. they set the car with significant negative rear camber and with about 2 degrees of toe, I reset it to zero and zero and not only did fuel mileage numbers skyrocket by 10-15% but rear tire wear dropped to zero or undetectable. From what I can tell they STILL sell civics with this flaw, and the Honda Fit as well suffers from it.
Granted I only have about 10,000 miles of testing on this new adjustment, but there is no measurable tire wear on the rear and my wife has been driving it to work and back daily on a 45 mile commute as if she was in an indy car race trying to do 75-80mph. Gas mileage is measured two ways. 1st odometer+fuel used at the pump and a Scan Gauge I installed. they are within 1mpg of each other.
There is only one drawback to the change, the car is slightly more sensitive to steering input. I notice it, she does not. I am going to next add 2 degree of camber from the front to make it closer to zero as well as remove 2 degree of toe that may make the steering a bit too twitchy but you never know until you try. right now it has more than 8 degrees of camber and what looks like 9 degrees of toe. so the removal of that should further boost highway fuel economy but not as significantly as the rear end change. The rear was doing nothing but scrubbing the tires all the time, as most civic owners will tell you they have to replace the rear tires a lot as they start to cup, this is because of the dramatic flaw in how the rear end is set up on all 8th gen Civics.
Oh and I do these alignment changes in my garage, the "laser alignment" crap is nothing more than a scam. You can do a better alignment on your garage floor or driveway than the "experts" with the "highly advanced laser system" can.
Their tech support is the WORST. so the only way I ever find answers is via forums. Sadly they make the best Bluetooth components for motorcycle helmets in the world, but they piss on their customers badly because they have no real competition, everyone else is in the dark ages technology wise.
Very very rich people and corporations really care about it, I make more money an hour than you do in a week.
How cute you make it sound like you know what you are talking about, yet to anyone that actually does anything in automation you look like a complete and utter idiot.
Come on back when you have even the faintest inkling about the process and systems. Hell just come on back when you can pronounce LEED properly.
Honestly all of the grossly overpaid people are in upper management, firing thousands of those will make the biggest impact on the bottom line.
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It's not just apple, Microsoft and everyone else is catering to the dumb.
Remove features, hide "advanced" things. etc.. the MOST frustrating app in the world is MS word... i spend more time undoing what it is trying to help me with than anything else. why cant I have a single option, "Expert mode" that disabled ALL the freaking help shit and un-hides all functions?
I see more ipads used in fortune 50 than surface. In fact in the last two CEO's offices I was working in (I do their high end AV, stuff that costs more than your house for their afternoon news) It was 100% apple and no microsoft.
If the top execs are not using it, it's not going to be adopted company wide. Microsoft needs to really figure out how to kick the ipad and apple out of the executives offices and get them to WANT the surface.
Not only they are losing them, they are pissing them off and the generation after that. XboxOne, windows 8, surface all do not deliver anything that is a "MUST HAVE" that they used to deliver just 5 years ago. They are delivering a ho-hum or a half arsed attempt and with the competition out there that is ready to jump in and kick them, they are losing it in droves.
I know hardcore Xbox players that are switching to Playstation, I have seen more people seeing that a chromebook and an android tablet are enough for their home computing needs. With SteamBox also coming around the corner... even less reasons to even look at anything microsoft.
They need to push adoption, and what they need to do is remove DRM from windows 8.1 and give it away for free, it will shotgun adoption rates overnight to levels they would have never expected. They need to release a home version of Office that is free, they need to cater to the user and draw them back.
Really? What other rules do you have for this imaginary "game" that has nothing to do with real life? and who said it was a "global positioning system"? you are the one adding in words in an attempt to shore up your losing argument. Why dont you add the word universal in there and argue how the military grid system is not universal.
Let me quote what I responded to....
"A map is not a system."
Where did you read the words "Global" and "Positioning" in there? Because my monitor is not showing them.
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The best is GM EOS used for engine or Camshaft break in. you add 10CC of it at every oil change and boost zinc back up to safe levels for flat tappets.
All except for china ebay carbs come with ethanol safe rubber and gaskets.
Carbs are insanely outdated tech and I am so glad to not own a bike with one anymore. I used to ride an 1983 Yamaha Venture with a Vmax motor in it, 4 big ass carbs sitting on the top of that thing that I had to screw around with every single spring. Nothing more fun than sitting there for 2 hours with a syncronizer trying to get all 4 carbs in sync, then getting them in sync while Vboost is engaged.
the first 4 years I owned that bike also mean taking the carbs off every spring and cleaning them. After I started running with a techron additive all the time, I never had to touch the carbs for cleaning again. In fact last year when I sold it and went to a FI bike I decided to do a full cleaning for the new owner and the carbs were like new inside with no varnish. and this was with NOT draining the bowls every winter, just pour in a bottle of seafoam or other gas stabalizer and ride it to storage to let it sit for 5 months.
Most guys that have carb problems are simply not taking proper care of their bikes. If you do not use a tank of gas in 2 weeks, you need to ALWAYS ride with techron and a gas stabilizer in the tank at all times.
Zero problems at all on my 2003 BMW K1200LT. and I have the LARGEST plastic fuel tank of any motorcycle made.... 6.3Gallons And in fact there are no reports from any LT owner having that problem.
He has no clue how car ECM's work. it can do a lot inside the range the unit was designed to handle, but outside that and it goes to hell in a hand basket. It's why E85 "flex fuel" cars have a special ECM that has basically twice the memory in it and are a lot faster to handle a very wide range of conditions for spark advance and fuel delivery rates based off of the O2 sensors input as well as the knock sensor.
Some people "claim" there is a fuel sensor to detect the type of fuel, and that is 100% bullshit, The car simply adjusts on the fly from sensor inputs.
E85 vehicle ECM's are highly desirable for hotrodders as they can be easily reprogrammed for performance and really make a difference on a vehicle that has a lot of boost applied from a large turbo or supercharger.
1999 Jeep grand cherokee with 250,000 miles on it... it's as reliable as any 2014 car because I'm one of those wierdows that actually MAINTAINS his vehicle.
Vehicles as old as 1983 have been built to handle E10 concentrations of ethanol. MY 1983 Yamaha Venture said E10 was fine to use in it's manual, same as my 86 Fiero I recently sold. Maybe vehicles from the 70's when leaded gas was common will have issues, but you would be a fool to drive one on it's stock fuel system, that old of hoses and rubber is unsafe and should be replaced.
Mobil 1 is not good for any vehicle with flat tappets, their zinc levels are too low. you are harming your cam in your engines by using Mobil 1, you need a high zinc oil like a diesel oil or use a zinc additive.
No it's more expensive because marinas know they can rob boaters blind. Oh you own a 42 footer? you have to buy it from me at $4.50 a gallon....
Disclaimer, I know people that run marinas, they pay the SAME for a tanker full of gasoline as the gas station across the street from them does. they just know that boaters have no other choice for their giant boats that cant be easily trailered and have 100 gallon tanks.
Your 72 charger would be a LOT faster if you set it up to use E85. It's octane is as high as racing gas, so a lot of racers use it and are saving a ton of cash.
So shave the heads and buy all E85 safe plastics and rubber for it and enjoy 13:1 compression and buttloads of power for dirt cheap.
So magically I fixed the problem? Cool! I'm going to sell my magical tools! I'll make millions. And I cant drive any less overloaded with only 1 passenger in the car.
Oh and it's a known issue with ALL 8th gen civics and the FIT, well documented and there is even a lawsuit about it.
But let's not let facts get in the way, you're the expert.
If it eats the rear tires within 15,000 miles and introduces a vibration within 8000 miles due to cupping, It's a flaw.
If you ignore the lithium ion battery pack? yes.
Also set up wrong by the manufacturer. The 2007 honda civic has a highway MPG rating of 40mpg. I regularly get 44-46 while speeding after I fixed their design flaw in the rear end. they set the car with significant negative rear camber and with about 2 degrees of toe, I reset it to zero and zero and not only did fuel mileage numbers skyrocket by 10-15% but rear tire wear dropped to zero or undetectable. From what I can tell they STILL sell civics with this flaw, and the Honda Fit as well suffers from it.
Granted I only have about 10,000 miles of testing on this new adjustment, but there is no measurable tire wear on the rear and my wife has been driving it to work and back daily on a 45 mile commute as if she was in an indy car race trying to do 75-80mph. Gas mileage is measured two ways. 1st odometer+fuel used at the pump and a Scan Gauge I installed. they are within 1mpg of each other.
There is only one drawback to the change, the car is slightly more sensitive to steering input. I notice it, she does not. I am going to next add 2 degree of camber from the front to make it closer to zero as well as remove 2 degree of toe that may make the steering a bit too twitchy but you never know until you try. right now it has more than 8 degrees of camber and what looks like 9 degrees of toe. so the removal of that should further boost highway fuel economy but not as significantly as the rear end change. The rear was doing nothing but scrubbing the tires all the time, as most civic owners will tell you they have to replace the rear tires a lot as they start to cup, this is because of the dramatic flaw in how the rear end is set up on all 8th gen Civics.
Oh and I do these alignment changes in my garage, the "laser alignment" crap is nothing more than a scam. You can do a better alignment on your garage floor or driveway than the "experts" with the "highly advanced laser system" can.
Their tech support is the WORST. so the only way I ever find answers is via forums. Sadly they make the best Bluetooth components for motorcycle helmets in the world, but they piss on their customers badly because they have no real competition, everyone else is in the dark ages technology wise.
Very very rich people and corporations really care about it, I make more money an hour than you do in a week.
How cute you make it sound like you know what you are talking about, yet to anyone that actually does anything in automation you look like a complete and utter idiot.
Come on back when you have even the faintest inkling about the process and systems. Hell just come on back when you can pronounce LEED properly.
Honestly all of the grossly overpaid people are in upper management, firing thousands of those will make the biggest impact on the bottom line.
It's not just apple, Microsoft and everyone else is catering to the dumb.
Remove features, hide "advanced" things. etc.. the MOST frustrating app in the world is MS word... i spend more time undoing what it is trying to help me with than anything else. why cant I have a single option, "Expert mode" that disabled ALL the freaking help shit and un-hides all functions?
Will Sheldon finally find a way to communicate with Penny?
bad grammar and misspelled words are not a side effect of bad education, it's that they are just incredibly lazy.
Computers cant impact a childs learning as much as a bad teacher, The teachers union does more to keep bad teachers employed than anything else.
I'll take the risks of my child using computers more than a completely worthless teacher that should have been fired years ago.
Actually in the high end Automation and Smart building world most of us doing the programming use macbooks.
Why? best bang for the buck, and the ONLY way you can get a 1920X200 screen on a 15" laptop with 32gig of ram and enough i7 speed to run several VM's.
I see more ipads used in fortune 50 than surface. In fact in the last two CEO's offices I was working in (I do their high end AV, stuff that costs more than your house for their afternoon news) It was 100% apple and no microsoft.
If the top execs are not using it, it's not going to be adopted company wide. Microsoft needs to really figure out how to kick the ipad and apple out of the executives offices and get them to WANT the surface.
Not only they are losing them, they are pissing them off and the generation after that. XboxOne, windows 8, surface all do not deliver anything that is a "MUST HAVE" that they used to deliver just 5 years ago. They are delivering a ho-hum or a half arsed attempt and with the competition out there that is ready to jump in and kick them, they are losing it in droves.
I know hardcore Xbox players that are switching to Playstation, I have seen more people seeing that a chromebook and an android tablet are enough for their home computing needs. With SteamBox also coming around the corner... even less reasons to even look at anything microsoft.
They need to push adoption, and what they need to do is remove DRM from windows 8.1 and give it away for free, it will shotgun adoption rates overnight to levels they would have never expected. They need to release a home version of Office that is free, they need to cater to the user and draw them back.
Really? What other rules do you have for this imaginary "game" that has nothing to do with real life? and who said it was a "global positioning system"? you are the one adding in words in an attempt to shore up your losing argument. Why dont you add the word universal in there and argue how the military grid system is not universal.
Let me quote what I responded to....
"A map is not a system."
Where did you read the words "Global" and "Positioning" in there? Because my monitor is not showing them.