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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Vik2000,Apr 4 2008, 11:09 PM
I don't know about your place but in here I am sure these inspectors aren't only making $10/hr, and if you dare trying to chip him $50 and pass, you'd be in a damned situation.
Why? If its anything like vehicle inspection places here, there are hundreds of places you can go - if he says no, get in your car and drive away. How do you think all those big HP Supras and such are running around California?
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:27 AM
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It's worth it for me. YMMV.
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by UMDSuzuka,Apr 4 2008, 03:24 PM
Besides, the global warming advocates are all up in arms about average temperature rising fractions of a degree every 10 years or somethign silly like that. To that I have to say that 1) I hate the winter and throughly enjoy warm weather, so please bring it on 2) A fraction increase is not noticeable 3) I think it is most likely that the world will run out of oil and gas before we are able to do any kind of major damage to the atmosphere. With gas prices climbing as they have been anyway, it might just become to expensive to have widespread pollution anway.

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Summer > Winter
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their global warming knowledge.
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Choungsgay,Apr 5 2008, 10:36 AM
Looks like someone needs to brush up on their global warming knowledge.
Whatever warming/cooling pattern is occurring is part of a natural cycle that Man misleads himself if he claims understanding, and is truly in LaLa land if he believes he can control in a manner to produce desired results.

These patterns (actually much more severe than the pattens being spouted supporting the theory this is Man's fault) have been going on for THOUSANDS of years. Long before Man drove cars or burned fossil fuels.

IF man tries to interfere with this cycle, he will likely make it worse...just as he has repeatedly done when he tries to 'correct' Mother Nature with game management and other programs counter to nature.

The Earth will go through cycles wherein it will not be as conducive to life as we know it. It has done it before, and it will do it again. If this were not done, then we might face early planetary extinction from overpopulation. Nature destroys to maintain balance for a bigger picture we don't see or understand. Lightning starts forest fires, ICE ages sweep the planet, diseases cull out the weak, etc.

The great thing is as that our planet will fix itself...unless we try to help it too much.
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 03:11 PM
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like the hole in the ozone layer created by man.
i don't see how people can't except the fact that mankind can alter the course of mother nature.

global cooling an global warming is part of earth's cycle but this usually happens over thousands of years where life have time to adjust. dumping fuel on a fire is not going to put it out, it's just going to make the fire bigger.
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 05:29 PM
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[QUOTE=rnye,Apr 5 2008, 09:25 AM] Why?
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 05:34 PM
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Testpipe


It will smell like a lawn Mower, some cars are worse than others and the S2k is not to bad....
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Old Apr 5, 2008 | 09:00 PM
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who cares about the environment?! geez! the trees can pick up the excess carbon dioxide our cars produce!
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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 07:53 AM
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I just installed the Berk High FLow Cat. The tone is a little nicer. Does it add HP? Hard to tell. I installed it coming out of winter storage so I have no frame of reference but it does not seem more powerful. Very nicely put together.

I stinks though as if I had put a test pipe on it. Not happy with that at all. Only have 6 miles on it since install. I am hoping maybe burning it in a little will kick it into gear and remove the smell. With it idling in my garage it was fairly rich smelling. Yuck.
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Old Apr 6, 2008 | 09:21 AM
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Once car emissions contribute to more than the 2-3% of carbon in the environment then I may be concerned (but probably not) cow farts actually produce around as much or slightly more worldwide... so why not make it easier and leave the racers alone just kill some cows.

BEEF FTW
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