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March 2, 2014 at 7:19 PM #20991March 3, 2014 at 6:40 AM #771418svelteParticipant
I’m going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about you, paramount.
– You were educated at a Midwestern Christian college
– Your children are homeschooled
– You actually don’t live in Temecula but in that ultra-Christian region between Fallbrook and Rainbow, probably along the 76
– You used to own a MiataBased on your posts and non-posts, those are my predictions.
March 3, 2014 at 7:21 AM #771419spdrunParticipantHey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.
March 3, 2014 at 9:02 AM #771420CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte]I’m going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about you, paramount.
– You were educated at a Midwestern Christian college
– Your children are homeschooled
– You actually don’t live in Temecula but in that ultra-Christian region between Fallbrook and Rainbow, probably along the 76
– You used to own a MiataBased on your posts and non-posts, those are my predictions.[/quote]
Miata?
March 3, 2014 at 10:24 AM #771425anParticipant[quote=paramount]This is the place we need to get to in California:
This is great stuff….
Universal Choice/Real Parental Choice is Good:
and as a bonus…what’s a good teacher worth:
http://youtu.be/ImEtrk4CQow%5B/quote%5DI wish CA will do that, but I doubt that’ll ever happen. At least not while teachers union have anything to say about it.
March 3, 2014 at 2:22 PM #771436SK in CVParticipant[quote=spdrun]Hey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.[/quote]
they are pretty cute. I kinda wish they came in a men’s model.
March 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM #771438spdrunParticipantLast woman’s car was the 1956 Dodge Lancer LaFemme… And hey, they’re classics now!
March 3, 2014 at 3:00 PM #771439CoronitaParticipant[quote=SK in CV][quote=spdrun]Hey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.[/quote]
they are pretty cute. I kinda wish they came in a men’s model.[/quote]
They do….
March 3, 2014 at 3:58 PM #771441spdrunParticipantYecch. I’d sooner take a turbo-4 than a gorilla V8.
March 3, 2014 at 5:12 PM #771444paramountParticipant[quote=svelte]I’m going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about you, paramount.
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Sounds like you fell off that limb and bumped your head…you’re not even close.
March 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM #771450EconProfParticipantThe second YouTube video was great–I suggest skipping the first.
I have read elsewhere about the Douglas County, Colorado education reform movement, and it is truely radical. First they totally threw out the union, which was not mentioned in the video. Then they decided to hire and pay teachers totally on merit, unlike the military-style time-in-grade approach favored by unions. The latter method increases pay every year (step increases), for x number of years, whether the teacher is good or bad. The union-dictated approach also also calls for more pay for additional silly degrees, whether they make for a better teacher or not (research suggests not). I suspect Douglas County also eliminated tenure.
The County also uses supply and demand to determine teacher pay among the different disciplines. Why should a science or math teacher get the same pay as a PhyEd (read ex-jock) teacher?
The result…48,000 applicants to be teachers in Douglas County. I bet only the best candidates in the nation applied–people who wanted to escape their union-dominated school district and be free to excel and be paid accordingly.
If these new policies are in place for a while, it will be interesting to see the student outcomes. It should be a good empirical test of the two approaches.March 3, 2014 at 6:25 PM #771452svelteParticipant[quote=paramount][quote=svelte]I’m going to go out on a limb and make some guesses about you, paramount.
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Sounds like you fell off that limb and bumped your head…you’re not even close.[/quote]
Where did you get your degree?
March 3, 2014 at 6:28 PM #771453svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]Hey, what’s wrong with owning a Miata? The pre-2006 cars were one of the best light sports cars ever built, bulletproof engines, and highly modifiable.[/quote]
I didn’t make a judgment on any of the bullet points. I happen to like Miatas!
The reason it was on the list is because Paramount is quick to call someone gay based on their position on various topics, but he bypasses the opportunity to diss those owning Miatas…and we know the reputation they have…however mis-informed I think that rep is.
March 3, 2014 at 6:42 PM #771454ucodegenParticipant[quote=spdrun]Yecch. I’d sooner take a turbo-4 than a gorilla V8.[/quote]
Really? I guess you are not too much into the real ‘specs’. The Miata cylinder block is cast iron and is generally a two bolt main cap on the crank bearing. The corvette engine is a LS block, which is an aluminum block with 4 to 6 bolt mains, two of them being cross bolts for each main cap. Because the LS engine is an aluminum block is why there is very little weight difference between the two.Because of the two bolt main, there is a limit to how much you can boost the original 4 cyl before having crank/main problems, not to mention head gasket problems because of aluminum head vs cast iron block while under boost(different coefficients of thermal expansion). To even get close to an LS3, you will be over-stressing the Miata block and will sacrifice reliability.
–BTW, turbo Miatas come at around 170hp (nearly 250 if you want to risk parts), the LS blocks start above 300hp and run into the high 400s.If you are doing autocross, it is better to have instant horsepower instead of time delayed as in a turbo engine (boost has to build up).
BTW: The actual gas mileage on the newer Vettes, is around 28mpg on the highway. The T56 trans has a double overdrive which drops the rotation speed of the engine to just above idle at highway speeds (approx 1700 at 75mph – depending upon rear axle ratio).
March 3, 2014 at 7:23 PM #771457CoronitaParticipant[quote=ucodegen][quote=spdrun]Yecch. I’d sooner take a turbo-4 than a gorilla V8.[/quote]
Really? I guess you are not too much into the real ‘specs’. The Miata cylinder block is cast iron and is generally a two bolt main cap on the crank bearing. The corvette engine is a LS block, which is an aluminum block with 4 to 6 bolt mains, two of them being cross bolts for each main cap. Because the LS engine is an aluminum block is why there is very little weight difference between the two.Because of the two bolt main, there is a limit to how much you can boost the original 4 cyl before having crank/main problems, not to mention head gasket problems because of aluminum head vs cast iron block while under boost(different coefficients of thermal expansion). To even get close to an LS3, you will be over-stressing the Miata block and will sacrifice reliability.
–BTW, turbo Miatas come at around 170hp (nearly 250 if you want to risk parts), the LS blocks start above 300hp and run into the high 400s.If you are doing autocross, it is better to have instant horsepower instead of time delayed as in a turbo engine (boost has to build up).
BTW: The actual gas mileage on the newer Vettes, is around 28mpg on the highway. The T56 trans has a double overdrive which drops the rotation speed of the engine to just above idle at highway speeds (approx 1700 at 75mph – depending upon rear axle ratio).[/quote]
I think the weight difference is about 200lbs for the V8 conversion versus a stock 4 cylinder without all the extras of the turbo… For an autocross, turbos I don’t think really help on the miata, because the lag from the spool up and the extra weight from the extra add ons (turbo, intercooler, yada yada yada) would offset any gain from a stock miate running with lighter weight….
The key to a miata in an autocross (I’m learning) is keeping the momentum… (I generally suck at things right now, still learning)…..
The V8 would be rocking on a long track like chuckwalla, though I would think I’d want to run a full cage when/if I ever decide to do that in a miata…
But quite frankly $43k for a V8 conversion (minus the $3-5k for the donor miata car) is kinda steep, unless you attempt to do it yourself… Not to mention dealing with CARB in california if you want to run it on the street….
And if you don’t want to run it on the street, you might as well stick a motorcycle engine in it instead, like
Anyway… I went with the reduce weight option..First..Well, since I generally suck still at the driving part… Well, that and it’s cheaper to rip stuff out than put stuff in…
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2.5pound Li-Fe motorcycle battery…
[img_assist|nid=17925|title=m5|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=159|height=211]heh heh….Also need to lose the extra 15 weight on myself too…
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