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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 10:18 PM
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Default I think it's going to be "lean" and suffer from traction issues.

Just looking for drag setup advice for our local conditions... I'm thinking It's going to be loose, and hella-lean.

Just for perspective, it's 127 degrees warmer in my garage than it is outside.

Do you suppose 30-50 below zero air is like a 50 shot of NOS? ~~~

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Old Feb 1, 2011 | 10:22 PM
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Wow.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:06 AM
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damn thats rough
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:40 AM
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High of -22 damn. Just put some spikes in your slicks should be good to go.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:51 AM
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Holy ****, -52F wind chill! I guess I shouldn't complain about the -1F wind chill we have in Texas right now!

I found out what temperature E85 doesn't like to start at! haha
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:57 AM
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Dang Bob.... Thats effin cold. Guess I should be thankful that it is a warm 29 this morning.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 06:02 AM
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holly crap, thats nuts. can you even go outside when its that cold haha. does it get to a point where it doesnt really feel much colder?

if it ever got that cold here everybody's electric bill would be 3 grand a month.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 06:03 AM
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so much for global warming.....

Tony, you think its bad with a electric start! try a kick start with a CDI lol, starter fluid FTW
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted by vectorsolid
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Do you suppose 30-50 below zero air is like a 50 shot of NOS? ~~~
Add about 20% fuel at that outside temp and you'll be straight!

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Holy ****, -52F wind chill! I guess I shouldn't complain about the -1F wind chill we have in Texas right now!

I found out what temperature E85 doesn't like to start at! haha
Must be the injectors you are using...
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 07:18 AM
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Add about 20% fuel at that outside temp and you'll be straight!



Must be the injectors you are using...
ZING!
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 07:47 AM
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Its 100 degrees warmer here
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 08:28 AM
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Still blows my mind why people would actually want to live in those conditions.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 02:12 PM
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holly crap, thats nuts. can you even go outside when its that cold haha. does it get to a point where it doesnt really feel much colder?
It got 8 degrees colder yet last night, -34 plus windchill about -60 degrees. NUTZ! If you go from inside to outside and take a big suck of air, it'll drop ya. Body doesn't like air that's 130 degrees colder than what you've been breathing. Gotta breathe slowly when you fist get out in it.

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Still blows my mind why people would actually want to live in those conditions.
You and me. I think I may have "personally" caused this temperature. So I'm picking up my Mother-in-law at the train station last night, being a generally good sport about it (2:30am, -60 degrees standing in the wind), and I remember thinking back to the day that I said it would be a cold day in hell before I was ever nice to my mother-in-law...

Only 2 people got off at our depot. The conductor walks my mother-in-law and her tattered luggage out to the car (I parked close). And he says would you like me to put this old bag in the back? I say, Nah, she can ride up front. ...lulz... She wacked me on the arm. She's a pretty good sport about it.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 02:18 PM
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Crazy
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 03:32 PM
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That is cold as hell. We get into the -30 to -40*F WCI range(Iowa), but -60*F is ridiculous.
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Fargo ND temps are close to the same. Its fun trying to "start" all the cars at our Honda dealership (By start, I mean jump dead batterys with out freezing to death)
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:28 PM
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i feel for you, i bitch when its in the 30s here.
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:34 PM
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makes me think our 26* this morning was nice and toasty
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 05:47 PM
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Dude I feel your pain. ****ing freezing here too



Oh wait never mind
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Old Feb 2, 2011 | 07:20 PM
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^^^that dude is suffering...^^^

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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 02:38 PM
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Default Re: I think it's going to be "lean" and suffer from traction issues.

we just got 2 feet of snow over night.
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MR.johnson
we just got 2 feet of snow over night.
welcome to my world. ~~
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 08:16 PM
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Default Re: I think it's going to be "lean" and suffer from traction issues.

We're getting the cold weather now, just got hit with two feet of snow, snow drifts up to 7 feet in spots.



This was on lake shore drive, for people not familiar with Chicago, this is a pretty popular stretch of road, shut down and I think about a thousand cars got stranded.
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Old Feb 3, 2011 | 08:40 PM
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crazy storm^^^^the snowmobiles came in handy for the fire dept.
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Old Feb 4, 2011 | 11:36 AM
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Default Re: I think it's going to be "lean" and suffer from traction issues.

Originally Posted by tony1
Holy ****, -52F wind chill! I guess I shouldn't complain about the -1F wind chill we have in Texas right now!

I found out what temperature E85 doesn't like to start at! haha
I had a little bit of a hard time starting E85 the other morning at 7*F. I always look at the -40* correction tables in EFI software thinking, "Who the hell uses those?" Lol... guess you will be.
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