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[user not found] wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:46 am I asked my SA last night if he thought me giving them the car for a week in February to do shit was prudent and his response was "no, just drive it harder and find a way to do it year round.". #italian
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max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:53 am
Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:50 am There's really something to be said about driving cars more frequently.
:iono: every car I have had I drove pretty much daily and the cars that I didn’t drive daily I ended up :plac: ing
Right, so you haven't really experienced what happens to a car when it sits a lot.

My :poorvette: is driving significantly better since getting it out of the winter nap and driving it daily...it's driving better now than it did last year when I drove it maybe once a week for 20 miles.
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Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:57 am
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:iono: every car I have had I drove pretty much daily and the cars that I didn’t drive daily I ended up :plac: ing
Right, so you haven't really experienced what happens to a car when it sits a lot.

My :poorvette: is driving significantly better since getting it out of the winter nap and driving it daily...it's driving better now than it did last year when I drove it maybe once a week for 20 miles.
Other than hard spots on my C5 tires it drove and started up just fine, with no battery tender or anything. Sometimes it would be weeks ... but not months
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max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:00 am
Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:57 am
Right, so you haven't really experienced what happens to a car when it sits a lot.

My :poorvette: is driving significantly better since getting it out of the winter nap and driving it daily...it's driving better now than it did last year when I drove it maybe once a week for 20 miles.
Other than hard spots on my C5 tires it drove and started up just fine, with no battery tender or anything. Sometimes it would be weeks ... but not months
I battery tender. And I just put a new battery in. Other one lasted like 3.5 years, and was a replacement. I tried to get the :fullretard: AGM replacement like in the Tahoe, but that was not available for the trunk hole, which is kind of a pain in the ass to get a battery in and out of......the cables get in the way. So only a 30 month replacement warranty on the new interstate. Was 1/2 the cost though.
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max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:00 am
Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:57 am
Right, so you haven't really experienced what happens to a car when it sits a lot.

My :poorvette: is driving significantly better since getting it out of the winter nap and driving it daily...it's driving better now than it did last year when I drove it maybe once a week for 20 miles.
Other than hard spots on my C5 tires it drove and started up just fine, with no battery tender or anything. Sometimes it would be weeks ... but not months
Mine if grumpy AF when it wakes up from an extended nap. Probably because it's modded to fuck, but after driving it every day for a week, it's driving like a stock car with a ton of power. The entire drivetrain feels more together, and the minor rattles have somehow fixed themselves.

:iono: could be all in my head.
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Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:10 am
max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:00 am

Other than hard spots on my C5 tires it drove and started up just fine, with no battery tender or anything. Sometimes it would be weeks ... but not months
Mine if grumpy AF when it wakes up from an extended nap. Probably because it's modded to fuck, but after driving it every day for a week, it's driving like a stock car with a ton of power. The entire drivetrain feels more together, and the minor rattles have somehow fixed themselves.

:iono: could be all in my head.
It may be the mods. My C5 ran flawlessly and started every time, whether it was sitting for 3 weeks or 3 min.
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max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:15 am
Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:10 am
Mine if grumpy AF when it wakes up from an extended nap. Probably because it's modded to fuck, but after driving it every day for a week, it's driving like a stock car with a ton of power. The entire drivetrain feels more together, and the minor rattles have somehow fixed themselves.

:iono: could be all in my head.
It may be the mods. My C5 ran flawlessly and started every time, whether it was sitting for 3 weeks or 3 min.
Mine always starts instantly...but it drives shitty after a long period of sitting. Doesn't like to hold a steady idle (sometimes stalls), feels a bit "rough" overall.

Doesn't do any of that now. It drives perfectly normal. Probably the modzzz, or could be that I pull the battery while it sits and the computer forgets things?

Just drive the damned car.
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Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:18 am
max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:15 am

It may be the mods. My C5 ran flawlessly and started every time, whether it was sitting for 3 weeks or 3 min.
Mine always starts instantly...but it drives shitty after a long period of sitting. Doesn't like to hold a steady idle (sometimes stalls), feels a bit "rough" overall.

Doesn't do any of that now. It drives perfectly normal. Probably the modzzz, or could be that I pull the battery while it sits and the computer forgets things?

Just drive the damned car.
Mods. For sure.

My 4th gen Camaro with Heads/Cam/Intake/LT headers/no cats/high flow cats and everything you could bolt on was that way.

My C5, C6 GS, and both C7s sat for months on a tender and never hiccupped once. Each of those cars were 2-4 years old and all had less than 9k miles on them, even though I took them to work often on my 150 mile round trip commute. They would often sit from November - Feb/March since they weren't very fun in cold road conditions and I never intentionally drove them in rain. The most mods on the Corvettes were on the C5, but limited to Suspension, Intake, LG Headers, Z06 catback and an aggressive tune.
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Desertbreh wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:07 am
max225 wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:00 am

Other than hard spots on my C5 tires it drove and started up just fine, with no battery tender or anything. Sometimes it would be weeks ... but not months
I battery tender. And I just put a new battery in. Other one lasted like 3.5 years, and was a replacement. I tried to get the :fullretard: AGM replacement like in the Tahoe, but that was not available for the trunk hole, which is kind of a pain in the ass to get a battery in and out of......the cables get in the way. So only a 30 month replacement warranty on the new interstate. Was 1/2 the cost though.
If your battery has posts, you can use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Uriah-Products-U ... 202&sr=8-1

Or, probably better to just buy this: https://www.grainger.com/product/5NEG0? ... 2495988277!

Made life much easier in the C6 when it liked to kill batteries.
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CorvetteWaxer wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 12:21 pm
Detroit wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:18 am
Mine always starts instantly...but it drives shitty after a long period of sitting. Doesn't like to hold a steady idle (sometimes stalls), feels a bit "rough" overall.

Doesn't do any of that now. It drives perfectly normal. Probably the modzzz, or could be that I pull the battery while it sits and the computer forgets things?

Just drive the damned car.
Mods. For sure.

My 4th gen Camaro with Heads/Cam/Intake/LT headers/no cats/high flow cats and everything you could bolt on was that way.

My C5, C6 GS, and both C7s sat for months on a tender and never hiccupped once. Each of those cars were 2-4 years old and all had less than 9k miles on them, even though I took them to work often on my 150 mile round trip commute. They would often sit from November - Feb/March since they weren't very fun in cold road conditions and I never intentionally drove them in rain. The most mods on the Corvettes were on the C5, but limited to Suspension, Intake, LG Headers, Z06 catback and an aggressive tune.
Yea...I'm a bit torn on the mods. Now that it's running well pretty much all the time, I really enjoy the heads and cam. But man, it can be grumpy for seemingly no reason after just sitting for a bit. I thought the tune needed to be tweaked, but it ran flawless this morning. It's really like it needs to relearn how to be a car. A stock car likely won't do that, but I think all cars benefit from being driven more frequently.
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Desertbreh wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 10:07 am

I battery tender. And I just put a new battery in. Other one lasted like 3.5 years, and was a replacement. I tried to get the :fullretard: AGM replacement like in the Tahoe, but that was not available for the trunk hole, which is kind of a pain in the ass to get a battery in and out of......the cables get in the way. So only a 30 month replacement warranty on the new interstate. Was 1/2 the cost though.
If your battery has posts, you can use one of these: https://www.amazon.com/Uriah-Products-U ... 202&sr=8-1

Or, probably better to just buy this: https://www.grainger.com/product/5NEG0? ... 2495988277!

Made life much easier in the C6 when it liked to kill batteries.
Tx! Interesting story about that. The one I pulled out had a built in handle I go buy the battery at the interstate store and the manager says "Yeah, California has taken the handles off about 1/2 my batteries......I say da fuq?.....he says the handles are eliminated in Commifornia to reduce plastic waste." Dunno whether that is true or not.
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max225 wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
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[user not found] wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:57 am
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:iono: every car I have had I drove pretty much daily and the cars that I didn’t drive daily I ended up :plac: ing
Hard to daily the Pasta Rocket up here in the winter, though I'd like to. I'll need to get wheels with all seasons on them.
Please think of the puppies before you do that.
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[user not found] wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 9:31 am Alfa is done. Picking it up this evening!
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Time to :stig: :burnout: :plaid:
:wap: Where are these mangos?
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[user not found] wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 10:52 am The Alfa is back!
Time to :roasted: dem :225: 's!
:wap: Where are these mangos?
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Time to :roasted: dem :225: 's!
C43 AMG tried to race me on the way home from the diller.

:tswift: :plaid: :roasted: :jimp:
"tried"
:hue:
:fuckyeah: :stig:
:wap: Where are these mangos?
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[user not found] wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 11:04 am

C43 AMG tried to race me on the way home from the diller.

:tswift: :plaid: :roasted: :jimp:
"tried"
:hue:
:fuckyeah: :stig:
and failed.

Afterwards the guy was so pissed he ran it into a wall.

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CorvetteWaxer wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 1:52 pm
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"tried"
:hue:
:fuckyeah: :stig:
and failed.

Afterwards the guy was so pissed he ran it into a wall.

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[user not found] wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 11:04 am
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Time to :roasted: dem :225: 's!
C43 AMG tried to race me on the way home from the diller.

:tswift: :plaid: :roasted: :jimp:
I had a kid try to walk me in a 300c with a supercharger while riding the Tuono yesterday. I learnt him a thing or two about motorcycle fast...
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[user not found] wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 11:04 am

C43 AMG tried to race me on the way home from the diller.

:tswift: :plaid: :roasted: :jimp:
I had a kid try to walk me in a 300c with a supercharger while riding the Tuono yesterday. I learnt him a thing or two about motorcycle fast...
Yeah.... you aren't touching motorcycle fast with a simple blower bolt-on...
I think I've heard you need 1whp for every bike cc to be kinda close?
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4zilch wrote: Mon May 06, 2019 8:40 am

I had a kid try to walk me in a 300c with a supercharger while riding the Tuono yesterday. I learnt him a thing or two about motorcycle fast...
Yeah.... you aren't touching motorcycle fast with a simple blower bolt-on...
I think I've heard you need 1whp for every bike cc to be kinda close?
I wouldn't even attempt going up against a bike. That's stupid.
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Kids are dumb :iono:

Car was quicker than expected, but only required like 60% throttle to stay with him, and I was in the :wrong: gear.
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CorvetteWaxer wrote: Sat May 04, 2019 1:52 pm
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"tried"
:hue:
:fuckyeah: :stig:
and failed.

Afterwards the guy was so pissed he ran it into a wall.

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