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Old Apr 24, 2008 | 12:14 AM
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LOL! If it hits 70 around here, we're turning on the A/C...
We usually keep the AC around 80 (76 at night) -- We would go broke turning it on at 70
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Very early Friday . Oh and what do you guys think... keep the grille polished or have it black? (ie: GMMG cars)
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Friday!!!
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Polished!
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Guess I'm not going to speed inc tomorrow. This ******* rain is ridiculous. I thought it was gonna tornado about an hour ago.
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LawmanSS - I just made a grille black, but can be easily converted back to polished . It looks good still... but I don't know what I like better! I'll take a picture of it soon.

phantomzer0 - Ya I didn't make it out either. Somehow I ran into 2 decently cute girls at 3am that were apparently ditched and from WI! lol. So I let them chill with me till someone came to pick them up (2hrs later!). Oh and yes that rain was crazy.
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I decided to do my ls1 brake conversion instead today. I finished in just shy of 6 hours. I seriously messed up my ball joints, and that was the majority of the swap time. They came out nice though. Pics soon to follow.

I heard a guy got arrested today at speedinc and a few people got tickets. Gay.
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Ya I heard about the tickets + arrest also. So kind of glad I didn't go. Plus I wouldn't have made it out there till noon.
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Old Apr 27, 2008 | 10:39 PM
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LawmanSS - I just made a grille black, but can be easily converted back to polished . It looks good still... but I don't know what I like better! I'll take a picture of it soon.
The people demand pics!!!
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Originally Posted by LawmanSS
The people demand pics!!!
Ya I'll take some before I leave for my emissions test, lol.
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Crappy picture (really bad light). But gives you an idea.
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Originally Posted by MadIceV8
Crappy picture (really bad light). But gives you an idea.
I like it the other way a bit better. Only because your car is very, for lack of better words, shiny. Everything is stainless or chrome.

Either way your car is ****, but I like the polished grill better.
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Originally Posted by phantomzer0
...Either way your car is ****, but I like the polished grill better.
It does look nice...that being said...polished is where it's at!
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Thanks for the opinions . One thing I did notice is that if I decided to keep the grille black then I would have to re-do the headlights black, evening those out.
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Just got back from the Van Halen concert...hell of a show...Edward still has it!
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Awesome weather today! And I'm going back to the polished grille
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Originally Posted by MadIceV8
...And I'm going back to the polished grille
Atta Boy!

p.s. Let's Go Penguins!!!
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I want a Penguin as a pet...
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Awesome 60* out, might take the Camaro out for when I goto dinner



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