Penguin
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Side stepping your ignorance and hate for a second... if voters/democracy are responsible for this, then voters/democracy can fix it.
If you don't like the legislation, sign up for the petition! If you don't like the politics, vote for someone else, or run yourself... but that's for another forum not called "Motorsports"
Ignorance and hate. Yep the predictable response of a PC moron who is uncomfortable hearing the unvarnished truth.
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You vote for Democrat authoritarian dick bags, you get these results. You're from shit ass liberal dick bag New York. So **** you and your complaints.
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Doesn't matter what her name was. Did she have nice tits? Did you get pictures of the tits?
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How many VF40's did it take you to get cross country?
It took five of them round trip.
OK fine, six if you count the last one but it wasn't discovered until the next morning after getting home.
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Yeah I've been here awhile now. 12-24-04.
Got rid of the car years ago.
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On or around the 22nd of October I will hopefully be able to share some home improvement photos of my own with all of you.
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My dick cured polar bear population decline, and global warming.
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^ You skipped about 41 digits there.
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He's in his 60's I think. By most accounts he is supposed to be a pretty good guy in reality. If you don't think so, he'll beat your ass until you do...
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If you can see Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris can see you. If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be moments away from death.
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Chuck Norris once took on the challenge of eating a 72 ounce steak in under an hour.... he finished in under 15 minutes while having sex with the waitress.
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Okay,
So Subaru rates the outback 2.5i & 2.5XT to tow 2,700 lbs, and the Outback 3.0 to tow 3,000 lbs. So has anyone had any experience actually towing such loads with their Outback?!? I use to tow a 3,000 lb boat & Trailer with a Discovery (which was great), but have a hard time imagining towing such a load with an Outback? I was hoping someone with experience could weigh in. Thanks...
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'05 Outback 2.5i Wagon
Willow Green Opal/ Moss Green Metallic
225/60HR16 Bridgestone G009's
Hmm.... that's a tough one. From your other posts you indicate you might be towing "long haul" as well as for short distances. You might want to define long distance for us, and where you are likely to tow.
As it is, I can relate my towing experiences with my now departed Legacy GT with the 5 speed auto. Last year I relocated from southwestern Missouri to western South Dakota, specifically from the Ozarks to the Black Hills.
Besides renting a box truck and car hauler to haul most of out stuff and my wife's car, we also rented a 5X8 U-Haul trailer (largest trailer we could tow according to the owner's manual) that we proceeded to load up. I am not sure what the loaded trailer weight ended up at, but I can tell you there was virtually no room left and I had to put about 10psi worth of air into the trailer tires once it was loaded up.
On the road the load was not all that bad, and getting up to speed was not a big problem once things were moving. The turbo H4 is not an ideal engine for starting to move a total mass of over 6,000lbs though, and I can't imagine your naturally aspirated unit will do significantly better. At least once I got up to a little bit of engine speed the boost kicked in and made a big difference. At highway speeds on level ground you can really tell the trailer is back there, especially when it is shaped like a big brick. Don't expect to overtake anyone on a two lane highway, or spend much time in the fast lane not that you would while towing.
Given the short little trailer I didn't have any trouble with getting pushed around in curves by the trailer even going down hill, but a longer or heavier trailer probably would have. My biggest gripe with the LGT/Outback for towing (or general driving) is the relatively weak brakes, my car didn't like to stop in a big hurry without a trailer and it was even less inclined to with an extra 2500lbs or so to stop. Trailer brakes would have been great.
From Springfield, MO to Chamberlain, SD I didn't have any real trouble towing at a moderate speed (65-70mph), but once we left Chamberlain and crossed the Missouri River headed to Rapid City I the car started to become really taxed with the load. Chamberlain is at about 1450ft above sea level, and when you head west from there it is a long steady climb to Rapid City at 3200ft. Then you get to head into the hills up to an average of 4-5000ft of elevation. The car spent a lot of time in 4th gear, with many trips to 3rd in order to maintain 65mph. The temperature gauge moved past the middle of it's sweep and stayed about 3/4 of the way to overheated, so I slowed down to 55mph (20mph below the speed limit) and didn't have any further heat issues. If it had been summer and 100 degrees outside I would have overheated trying to tow at 65-70mph, as it was the temp still shot up and it was -2 ambient temp when I made the trip. On the plus side the AWD made dealing with a few patches of black ice much more pleasant than it could have been.
The worst experience on the trip was getting to the town we though we would live in only to find the place we were going to lease for the year to be extremely sub par. So the next morning we canceled and headed back to a much nicer town we had driven through. Then I got to yank the trailer back up a 7 mile long 6% grade. Yeah, that sucked. A lot. I think I topped out below 50mph.
So my advice (for what little it is worth) would be to slow down if you intend to tow (and let's face it motivating around 6000-6500lbs with a NA H4 is going to be slow anyway). For extra piece of mind make sure you have trailer brakes and I would also look at an oil cooler/tranny cooler.
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Verloren ist nur, wer sich selbst aufgibt. ("Lost are only those who abandon themselves.")
- Oberst Hans Ulrich Rudel
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This entire thread makes me happy that I have stayed stock thus far.
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Mostly mixed city and highway. Average 19.5-20.5. Lately I have been driving like a grandma to see if it helps. It doesn't. This car just sucks down gas.
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Anyway I have them all uploaded... ALL 114 Megabytes
Please follow these simple directions:
1) Please keep these "pics" internal I don't have unlimited bandwith.
2) No talking about the "contents" of the "vacation pix" I know... I have quite the fat ass. General comments are however welcome.
3) If you have recieved these "vacation pix" from sombody else trust me they are the same.
4) If you abuse my bandwith the "vacation pix" will be gone forever.
5) You need a de .rar- er (ie)winrar to unpack the pix.
6) FILE SAVE AS... ONCE!
7) If you still don't understand ask sombody that knows what they are talking about.
Santa Came Early This Year...
http://www.newreason.com/vacationpix
Thanks to those who made these "vacation pix" possible...
EDIT: Oh man here goes my bandwidth....
SC GT wanted me to post his vacation pix too....
These are diffrent from the original set of "vacation pix"
It should be in the same directory under the name of...
vacation2005.rar
!S4 liked my vacation pix so much that he has graciously provided a MIRROR:
http://www.linucks.net/~slayback/vacationpix/[/quote]
Um... in all honesty I don't want to see your vacation pics.
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"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I would live in Hell and rent Texas out."
General Phil Sheradon
"We are surrounded on all sides, the bastards can't possibly get away now!"
Chesty Puller, commenting on the situation at Chosin Resevour.
The EPA wants to take away our right to racecar!
in Motorsports
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Did you vote for the current President?
Did you vote for either of your current Senators from New York?
If your answer to either question is "yes" then you can blame yourself for helping install the current totalitarian regime at the EPA lead by GIna McCarthy. The President nominated her, and the Senate confirmed her.
If you really want to have an impact, ignore the petition and write to your various Congress critters.