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Strasbourg, 08.07.2003 – The Council of Europe's expert body on combating racism, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), today released five new reports examining racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance in Armenia, Iceland, Luxemburg, Slovenia and Spain. ECRI recognises that, in all five Council of Europe member countries, positive developments have occurred. At the same time, the reports detail continuing grounds for concern for the Commission:
In Armenia, ECRI notes a lack of sufficient attention and resources devoted to the promotion of the linguistic and cultural heritage of minority groups. There seems to be a sense among certain minority groups that their situation has worsened compared to the majority population and they report instances of discrimination. The large group of ethnic Armenian refugees living in the country also face problems of integration and are particularly vulnerable to social and economic disadvantage and marginalisation. Moreover, a number of problems persist relating to the practice of certain minority religions within the country.
In Iceland, there still remain gaps in the legislative protection against racism and discrimination. Although little research data exist, there are indications that the situation of non-citizens and persons of immigrant origin may not be wholly satisfactory in various fields of life, including employment and education. Manifestations of hostility and discrimination in daily life towards persons who are different from the majority are reported, and there seems to be a lack of an overarching policy vision and strategies to deal with any problems which exist.
In Luxembourg, difficulties remain as regards the implementation of legislation designed to combat racism and discrimination. The way in which some officials deal with immigrants and asylum seekers is not always satisfactory. There remain too many prejudices and xenophobic stereotypes among the general public and these can lead to discrimination in the employment and housing sectors.
In Slovenia, ECRI underlines that improvements in the situation of the ex-Yugoslav minority groups, many members of whom are still non-citizens, will depend on the speed and efficiency of implementing the new legislation. Furthermore, there still exists a certain level of prejudice and intolerance among the Slovenian population towards those who are different from the majority. In certain areas, the Roma population is faced with economic and social difficulties, which make its members vulnerable to discrimination.
In Spain, problems of racism and xenophobia persist and concern particularly Roma/Gypsies and non-EU citizens. This situation appears to be partly linked to an inadequate implementation of the existing legislation to fight against these phenomena but also to the widespread use in public debate of arguments and imagery that create a negative climate around immigration and immigrants. The implementation of certain aspects of Spain's immigration policy and other relevant legislation in some parts of its territory, notably the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, is a cause for concern.
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According to WGR Sportsradio in Buffalo, the NHL has accepted former gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano's bid to buy the financially strapped team, TSN reported on its Web site Thursday. Golisano submitted a bid back on Feb. 14. The report says the NHL accepted Golisano's proposal the next day. (Submitted by: Smitheo)
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Via Stripers Forever, this news report about a fisherman caught with $3,000 worth of poached striped bass. Poachers and anglers who keep illegal fish or ignore limits, even if for personal use rather than selling, offend me as much as anyone, because they weaken the argument that the recreational side will be the more responsible stewards. So don't be that asshole who makes us look like we're just as greedy and are only fighting for a larger piece of the pie to exploit. Like this guy:
The fisherman, Sean Bradshaw, 44, of Pawcatuck, was charged with the landing and sale of striped bass without a commercial license, commercial fishing without a vessel permit, possession of untagged striped bass and the commercial sale of scup without a license and during the closed season….
…The Connecticut and Rhode Island environmental police acted on information that Bradshaw was catching bass and bringing striped bass back to his dock in the Pawcatuck River near his home. He would ice and store the fish at his home and Guerrieri, the Rhode Island seafood dealer, would then come to his house and buy them, officials said.


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I can't lie, though, I am ecstatic for her to meet her great-grandmother Esther...Jeff and her have always been extremely close and we've been excited for their meet-and-greet ever since she was born.
Tonight, we are going to the Red Tie Gala for the Nashville Bloodwater Mission. I'm excited because it's a night with ONLY adults and we get to dress up in festive cocktail attire. (not to mention little miss is having a sleepover at Mimi and Pappy's so we can have a full night sleep, too!) I picked up this fun dress at Dillard's and hope I don't blind anyone with the major bling going on.
Sara from Running From the Law, featured a few of us in her series "New Mommy Confessions"...get ready to read all about our interesting adventures. I was totally honest and wrote all about my not-so-proudest mama moment. You can read my post here.


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The decades long civil war in Sri Lanka between the Tamil minority and the government is nearly over as members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are pushed into a narrow area on the northeast section of the island. Leaders of the Tamil Tigers appealed for international action that might lead the government to halt its offense and allow a cease fire. They made clear, "we also wish to inform the international community that we are ready to discuss, cooperate and work together in all their efforts to bring an immediate ceasefire and work towards a political settlement." The words sound peaceful, but after over 25 years of killing it is unrealistic for the Tamil leaders to suddenly claim they only want a peaceful resolution of the conflict. The government made clear they want a white flag of surrender and will not accept anything less.
The Sri Lanka government position is understandable, but there is also room for making clear to the Tamil minority there now is an opportunity to end discrimination and accord Tamils equal rights. The murderous suicide bombs of the LTTE has engendered anger and hate. It is too late to suddenly change minds about how to fight for equality. Perhaps, if the LTTE had looked across to India they might have achieved their goals by adopting the ideas of an Indian leader- Gandhi.


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Hi and welcome to the forum.
I will comment on the pistols on your list that I am familiar with.
For your first hand gun. If you are looking to keep your prices down and still have a quality purchase I recommend the Glock 17. They are supposed to have the new Gen 4 models out in the next month or so and they are supposed to be an improvement on the Gen 3s which in my opinion are fine pistols.
Next is the Walther P99. Particularly the P99AS. Is a fine gun but about 250 dollars more than the Glock.
Remember that these guns are striker fired and have no manual safeties on them. The Glocks has a trigger safety. These guns as all pistols must by law, all have internal safeties. But the best and most important safety is the one between your ears. Keep the trigger finger off the trigger at all times until you are ready to fire. Remember that and its all good.


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My 89 Jetta is up For Sale again. $3500 FIRM. Last month I pulled out the motor to paint the engine bay black. So I figured I'd change all of the gaskets minus the head gasket itself and paint everthing else. Here is the list of new stuff and things done recently.
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Cunningham Outlasts Darden
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In the feature attraction at Detroit's MotorCity Casino-Hotel, Darryl "Peoples Choice" Cunningham won a unanimous ten round decision (98-92, 99-91 x 2) over Ray Darden. Both claim Motown as home. "Styles make fights" is the adage that's probably been around the fight game since they were matching gladiators in the Coliseum of ancient Rome. In this affair styles didn't make a fight. It was tedious going at times with little sustained action. After a slow first four rounds the crowd started to voice their displeasure in earnest as boos filled the air in the fifth. Cunningham responded by picking up the pace in the seventh round, initiating the fight's first real back and forth exchange. Unfortunately, after a good eighth stanza, the fight reverted back to its earlier pattern over the last two. Both super middleweights have shown better here in the past so perhaps it was just an off night for both. Cunningham improves to (26-4, 10 KOs) while Darden goes down to (11-24-1, 4 KOs).
The nights other featured contest had former National Golden Glove champion and Michigan amateur standout Jordan Shimmell of Hudsonville entering the ring for the fourth time as a pro. Promoter Greg Ahrens and matchmaker Carlos Llinas brought in Joe Stofle from St. Charles, MO as a late replacement opponent for the undefeated Shimmell. Joe gave it a try, coming back at Jordan with some heavy, albeit wild swings that Shimmell easily avoided and countered. After seeing their charge take some heavy blows at the start of the second round, Stofle's corner threw in the towel. Time of the stoppage was :39. Shimmell goes to (4-0, 4 KOs), Stofle now at (12-20-2, 9 KOs).
Fight of the night was easily the eight round middleweight war between Detroit's Willie Fortune "500" and Mustafa Johnson of Indianapolis. Fortune came out on fire at the first bell and for a moment it looked like he might overwhelm Johnson and end things early. Johnson weathered the storm though and the two warriors settled into a real old school punch out. After a tremendous exchange in the second round Willie began to take over utilizing a superior jab, eventually opening up a cut over Johnson's left eye in the fifth. Johnson was not deterred by the injury and gave Fortune all he could handle right to the final bell with the crowd on their feet in appreciation. Fortune stays undefeated at (14-0, 6 KOs) winning on scores of 80-72, 79-73, 78-75. The always game Johnson declines to (8-16, 2 KOs).
Another excellent scrap had Detroit's Gabriel Garza winning a four rounder over Anthony Kelly of Toledo. The two junior middleweights rarely took a step back the entire four rounds to the delight of the fans. Garza now (3-1, 0 KOs), Kelly is (0-3).
Pro debuting heavyweight Jeff Kugel of Roseville, MI worked an excellent jab to set up and eventually stop Bay City's CJ Glover. After big Jeff sent Glover to the canvas hard in the third, referee Ansel Stewart stopped it at :39. Glover falls to (3-18, 2 KOs).
Bantamweight Jafar Kirtley of Detroit steamrolled Flint's Delano Kealohapaule, scoring a first round knockout at 1:39 to go to (5-1, 5 KOs). Delano is (0-5).
The nights' opening contest saw Nick Givan of Kalamazoo use a scorching body attack to halt Toledo's Eric Ricker at 1:56 of the third in their junior welter match up. Ricker was down twice in the second and two more times in the third with referee Stewart stopping it immediately after Eric's fourth trip to the canvas. Givan now (2-0, 2 KOs) while Ricker is (3-11, 0 KOs).
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i have tried to email him using the addy from his site about buying a helmet and maybe a backpack but he has yet to reply.....i have sent 2 different emails within the last 3-4 days.....is he just a real busy guy? what is his usual response time?
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Hi everyone, I am thinking of take the Boston Language Institute TEFL course. Has anyone ever been there or heard about them? Also their website doesn't list any accreditations; should I be concerned about this?
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I like Bar Sto barrels and from what I have heard the other barrels mentioned are quite good too but the only reason I have them is to change to a different caliber - i.e. 40S&W to 9mm.
I've shot 100's of reloads in my G23 with no issues. I use nickel plated cartridges with Montana Gold 165 gr FMJ and usually run 90% of max powder Accurate#2 .
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|March 13th, 2007, 11:53 AM
dont ask, dont tell
I honestly believe that the policy is a pain in the ass to deal with and frankly side with the general in his remarks. You cannot run an operation that is duty bound to maintain discipline and order and be politically correct at the same time. The solution to allowing openly gay people in is to ensure every person has privacy regardless of sex. That means individual rooms and bathrooms/stalls. A basic unisex operation. As you can imagine this would be a very costly thing to enact in the current infrastructure. This is the same reason why women don't serve ( or at least didn't that I'm aware of ) on submarines. The cost and space allocations required to accommodate this are impossible to overcome and stay under budget. It's bad enough to have to deal with officers vs enlisted and men vs women, but to throw gays and lesbians into the equation you've now multiplied your problem exponentially.
|March 13th, 2007, 01:45 PM
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It should be just like Battlestar Galactica and Starship Troopers so we can sleep and shower with the chicks.
I agree. Warner is an idiot if he thinks that that acceptance is growing in the Military. One of the major principles of efficiency in the Army is uniformity. Having to deal with second and third? sexes just fucks everything up, not to mention that 99% of deployed females demonstrate stereotypical female traits that really have nothing to do with "male mentalities". The vast majority of them just do not have the absence of conscience that is required in order to do the job - which has become more evident now with the placement of MP's (co-ed MOS) on the "front lines" although they are catagorized as "support elements". Some of the other characteristics I frequently see are insufficient strength (can't change a Humvee tire, fatigued from carrying weapons, failure to overcome a male enemy) and a general lack of agressiveness or tactical sense. They just aren't suited for fighting. Those that do possess the proper mindset get prosecuted for building pyramids.
The way things are being railroaded reminds me a lot of Little League Baseball/Football/Soccer. Parents/Politicians are too wrapped up in letting every kid get time on the field and forget that the point of the game is to hurry up and kill everyone that needs to be dead so we can go home.
|March 13th, 2007, 02:32 PM
Yep yep. It's not that i'm against them having the chance to participate. But they need to stop lowering the standards to think that everyone is equal for the task at hand. I say co-ed every god damned thing and have one flat test for each task necessary. Stop persecuting people that have no issue with it and pass the test.
Question, as a professional soldier would you have an issue with anyone that is just as physically and mentally capable on the frontline regardless of sex/orientation/race/etc. IE: would you serve say side by side with an openly gay guy? I don't think I would have an issue no more than if it was a female TBH. It's about being professional is all.
|March 13th, 2007, 02:55 PM
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There is a time and a place for it, just as there is a time and place for getting the job done. Its obviously important to respect the chain of comand in the field, but professionalism frequently takes a back seat when things start happening around you and you tend to worry less about insulting people while you are "busy". I say be professional back on post or in garrison when you have the time and safety to worry about it.
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|March 13th, 2007, 03:27 PM
well, the other option that I had talked about with folks when I was in was about seperation not so much in women can't be frontline, but more from the standpoint this battalion is all female etc... Not being a ground troop I don't know how feasable that scenario would be. I understand PP's concern which is one most folks have regardless. This is one reason for instance the German's gassed the jews instead of having troops shoot them in cold blood. Right or wrong, it does something to the party to be forced to participate.
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I don't care what anyone says, women and men do not and NEVER WILL possess the same physical skills or mindset. We are different for a variety of reasons...all valid. I love being female, that doesn't mean I don't like to play with jeep toys or video games because I do but neither of those things will get someone killed in combat. If you are gay...who's business is it anyway?? Unless you make it an issue, then it is your problem.
I get so pissed off when I read about some school or other being sued because they won't let a girl play on the boy's team. I don't see any boys suing because they can't give birth. Who the hell cares what team they play on....if they are that good, then be content with being the best on the girls team!!! I love guinness, guns and good mudding....but I love being a girl. I don't need to prove anything to anyone. Rant over
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Several years ago, I saw an excellent piece on C-SPAN about gays in the military - specifically on a submarine.
Some senators congressmen who were on committees relevant to the matter were aboard a 688 boat (it was filmed). They did a quick tour and went to the enlisted berthing are, where the racks (3 deep and several high) were shown. They then had three enlisted squids take places in the racks, one wearing a grey t-shirt to identify him as a gay sailor (for purposes of the demonstration, it was emphasized). They then took various positions in the racks, and the sailors would then climb in and out of the racks, alternating positions, etc... They would interview them during the exercise (so, how do you feel being straddled by a gay sailor in his skivvies?).
It was both ridiculous and revealing at the same time - basically that putting and keeping gays and straight in roles where they have to be in such close quarters is a definite morale issue.
It's distracting enough with women, but they've found ways to make that work with specific roles. Openly gay might work in some situations, but not in most. It's not about fairness or other politically correct BS. It's about effectiveness - they don't need the distraction.
This is the Pub. Leave common sense at the door.
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specifically in relation to the "front lines" this shit will lead us into a mess..
people who havent been there or in the service fail to realize the bonds that grow between troopers thats based on the trust that relys solely on the "i know he will and can do his job, and i know how he will react"..its the whole Nic Cage "Con Air" statement.."theres only 2 men in this world i trust and only one of em is standing here"..
question pertaining to the issue at hand is what gay service member number 1 is gonna do when his or her "bunk buddy (gay serviceman nember 2)" gets shot thru the head while engaging the enemy in combat.
in light of that question...i just spent a weekend in Savannah GA. for St Patties Day bouncing a bar managed by a openly gay guy (it should be noted Dave is a 220lbs, works out every day and could kick alot of peoples ass')..unfortunatly he also hired his butt buddy to help bartend for the festival...needless to say when shit got outta hand and we more or less had a bar wide brawl going on and his lil guy got knocked out cold dave was on his hands and needs cradling pussy boys head rather than helping me and the crew deal with the situation which basically consists of 99 pissed off customers trying to take over a bar being secured by 7 service buddies of mine...sucks to be but the army cant take the chance of adding that kind of emotional stress to an already stress charged situation that requires all hands available performing efficiently and effectively..fully realizing the consequenses of the action they are in..same shit can be said for the ladies. i am overly protective of the females in my life..i feel i was designed that way..i could never function in combat with a woman next to me...i would feel it my job to ensure her survivial..call it protective nature..rather than fighting a war i would be running my own PSP detail..which would lead to the death of another soldier..it has been said like this "a distracted soldier is a dead soldiers buddy"
now can we get this political bull shit behind us and go kill some terrorists please.
|March 19th, 2007, 10:03 PM
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not sure what my opinion here is.
im against a citizen not have ing the same rights base on sex or. and am convinced that most of the fight to keep thease other americans from haveing all the same rights is religon trying to impose its will on the world and dictate what everyone veiw of morality is,or that of plane stupidity and ignorant hate.
but your talk of combat sit. does make me think more about it .
still dont think they should not be alowed to be in though. women are after all
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I also completely understand the whole being protective of women thing, some of us are still gentlemen and believe in watching out for women. Not that they can't always take care of themselves, but I was tought to be courteous and chivalrous. If a women was in a dangerous situation men are programmed to step in and protect her. I am glad I don't have daughters because they would be lacking in discipline. I have 3 boys that I can discipline, if they need yelled at or kicked in the behind I can do it.
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I'm not certain if this topic has been discussed in detail before, but I am interested in finding a nice blend of performance AND efficiency. I am modifying an AMC 66 classic convertible from the ground up to look like what could have been done to one back in 60's to hot rod it. I'll be using an early 70's AMC 401, possibly stroked to 434, roughly 10:1 compression, and built for low to mid range power to take advatage of the low gearing (3:15), I'll be using a t-85 3spd(of which the t-10 was built from) with a 2:49 first gear and a borg warner overdrive. This will give me roughly 2000 rpm at 75mph on the highway in overdrive depending on the exact rear tire size used.
I intend to drive this car a goo bit. I have driven 25,000 miles in the past 6 months alone. This car isn't to be my only car here, but I want to feel comfortable using it as much as I want. I feel no need to win any races but I would certainly want it to move out when asked to. I like the idea of using big inches to push a 3500 lb. car around. I have every interest in using a carb, no fuel injection for me...I don't dislike them...there just not for me. I've seen overdrive conversions again and again for obvious reasons, but I have seen very little information of how to build up an older designed carbureted v-8 engine with fuel comsumption as much of a factor. Things such as carb selection and tuning, vacuum advance distributors and set up, ignition choices, head porting suggestions, piston types, cam selection for both performance and efficiency. How about intake manifold selection. Exhaust thoughts.
I think that there are a lot of people out there that are interested in this subject...but most are probably uninterseted in bringing it up and being ridiculed for being a mizer or something. And by the way...as a pre-defense, I know very well how to suck down the fuel. I do also own a 69 firebird with a built 383 chevy, big solid cam, fully ported heads, team G intake, mechanical 750 holley, and 12.5:1 compresssion running 4:10s in the rear. And it runs like a demon on race gas at 6 bucks a gallon!
My goal here is to build a 13 second or so driver that runs strongly, stops pretty well, handles OK, and can pull 20mpg or more on the highway and not be so bad around town. This is something of a challenge for me rather than realistic need to save pennies on gas money here, but I am very interested to make a go of it.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO WOULD LET ME KNOW THE STATS ON THEIR CAR. MAKE, WEIGHT, 1/4 MILE TIME, GEARING, TRANS TYPE, ENGINE SIZE AND MODIFICATION, AND OBSERVED GAS MILEAGE FIGURES, etc.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks and great magazine!!!
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well, i have a 71 nova with a BB 454. it has 9.25 compression and a smaller cam with a 750 edelbrock (vacum secondary) on top of a factory 396 intake. It has a turbo 350, and 3.08 gearing in the stock peg-legged 10 bolt rear. I cruise 70 at about 2,600. The tires are 205-75-R14's. I pull 12 m.p.g. on a normal day(it shoots down to 9 when cruise to fast). I dont know if that will help, but I hope it does. If you get 20 m.p.g, let me know, i'd like to manage the same, but I dont ever see it happening.
Thanks for the thoughts on the Nova. If it makes you feel any better my 69 Firebird makes your Nova seem economical. I've known of people who proudly proclaim low 20's on the highway with 13 second cars, and not the import kind! All 350 plus cube, carbureted motors pushing 3300lb. plus cars. All that I recall have serious highway final drive, an overdrive tranny for sure. And all seemed to be interested in both performance and fuel efficiency from the get go when laying out their cars' setup. Most getting better than 20 (claimed) on the highway are running around 2000 mph at 75. That is what I come up with calculating my gearing/overdrive/tire size combination.
One guy I met has a 69 camaro with a 10:1 comp 383 and a 700r4 with 3.09 gears that ran a 12.80 (saw it myself, met him at the track) with 255-50-15 BFG radial ta street tires. After talking about his car he told me that he takes it on long trips and using an aftermarket cruise control, claims to regularly get 23 mpg at 70mph on average. He told me that he put the whole car together himself, except for the tranny rebuild I think. He said something to the effect that it is easy to get great performance out these cars, but if your willing to give up 15% of the all out performance potential of your car at the track, you can lay it out to be very comfortable and efficient. Boy do I wish I got his phone number
New corvettes are pushing 29mpg highway(claimed) with final gearing that works out to 1650rpm at 75. Of course fuel injection is widely considered a more efficient fuel mixer compared to an even highly tuned carb with mileage in mind. And clearly the corvette is a far superior aerodynamic animal, but a very impressive number though considering that it's weight, cubic inches, and overall power is not that different from the muscle cars of old.
Any others want to put their two cents in?
when you order a cam tell them what your desires are. as for getting the 20+ miles per gallon you are going to have to get a gear vendors bol on overdrive or a kiesler five speed stick both expensive options you may also look into a custom fuel injection setup and a very mild gear set like 3.42 or smaller but then this is going to kill you 1/4 mile time so you are going to add forced induction or nitrous
I already have an overdrive. I'll be using a t-85 3spd( what the t-10 was built from) with a borg warner .7 overdrive tailhousing and either a 3.15 or 2.87 rear. That leaves my 70mph cruise at 1700rpm. My first gear will be a 2.99...that should help overcome some of the gearing along with an AMC 401 with considerable bottom end torque. I am not so concerned with the 1/4 mile times for this car. Have a 69 firebird with 383 solid lift cam chevy with 3.91's in it for that. I want to be able to mash it at 20mph and take off and still be able to cruise on the highway. This car is to be my DRIVER. Lots of driving, including plenty of highway miles. I'd like to stay away from fuel injection if I can help it...just not my thing, old fachioned I guess. I have considered the nitrous option though if I feel the need for more speed.
Is anyone out there putting down some respectable power and still getting decent mileage with an old school v-8?
I have a 1970 chevy camaro with a 350 and a tremec tko five speed with 3.42 gears and a 27.5 inch tall tire. I am running a holley 750 dp and on average out of my 18 gallon tank I get 320 miles per tank so just over 20 mailes a gallon. I use this car as my daily driver and have a tendency to punch it alot from the lights and on the freeway.
You might want to recheck your math.
320/18=17.7777 or slightly LESS than 18 MPG.
Thanks for the info. Regardless, 17.7mpg for all around driving with some heavy footing is not bad at all. 27.5 in tires at 75mph in a TKO tranny overdrive at .7(or there abouts) comes in at 2200rpm. Nice highway engine speed. I'll be running more cubes (409) so it should not be a problem to run a lower cruising (engine) speed as long as the motor is set up for it from the start. A new corvette runs in the 1700 range at 75 with a small block. My aerodynamics certainly won't be as clean, far from it, but I intent to be putting out more power, he he, especially torque.
Anyone else want to put their 2 cents in?
Do I hear 20mpg in an old school v-8?
20MPG shouldn't be that hard to achieve with a light throttle foot, relatively high compression (10:1) and a cam, carb,intake and exhaust system optimized for economy.
Super Chevy magazine did a project "Econo-Performer" '70 Monte Carlo many years ago, when Doug Marion seemed to be the only person on staff at that mag. (think 1980s--yes, the entire decade)
They were able to get the car into the 13s and still got 20+ MPG, but it was kind of bogus if you ask me. They ran a tight convertor on the street, but swapped in a looser convertor for dragstrip runs. 1 1/2" primary headers on a small block 350, tall gears (2.73 or 2.56) rear gears, etc for highway cruising, god knows what gear was used for strip testing.
IIRC, the engine was a mildly warmed-over 350 with an "economy" cam & Holley Dial A Mile electronic carb.
If you're really concerned about fuel economy and driveability, get a q-jet that matches your combo as closesly as possible. Then tune it until it matches perfectly. Much easier and cheaper than screwing around witha Dial-aMile, if they're even still available.
A stick shift trans, with OD, as you've suggested will eliminate the convertor swapping that SC was saddled with.
Even a primitive feedback FI system will put an electronic carb. to shame when it comes to drive-ability and economy.
Go with an aftermarket FI system, or thoughtfully cobble together your own TPI system using mostly GM parts from the junkyard if finances, wife, personal objectives don't have a problem with it. The cheapest of these systems cost only a few hundred dollars more than a functional electronic Cabruetor and they are MUCH easier to tune.
Good fuel economy comes from the best possible use of the spark when it enters the combustion chamber. Ideally, all fuel will be consumed at exactly the right time, resulting in great fuel economy, a smooth idle, and low emissions.
An MSD-6A may also make a marginal improvement in fuel economy.
I'm pretty sure SC magazine claimed 22+ MPG with their project "ECONO PERFORMER" You might want to check your local public library. I'm sure the project is full of "dos and don'ts" that still apply today.
Thanks for the thoughts. I will look up the "econo performer" article. There was also an article recently in one of the mags that claimed 24mpg or so using a 302 with I believe a procharger belt driven blower in an early el camino set up for the power tour. I'm looking at much bigger inches and I haven't much interest in the blower route so I never read into it that much.
Any other thoughts, experiences?
1. Cut weight as much as possible (weight is the #1 variable in fuel economy).
2. Tighten up aero package (block off grille as much as possible without overheating, restrict air flow under the car, smooth out the "hic-ups" (e.g. bumper ends, flat moldings, big mirrors, air-grabbing fender openings).
3. Velocity, velocity, velocity in the intake/cam/exhaust tract at cruise (look at the m-i-l-d cam specs for LT1, LS1, look at ram tuning intake & exhaust (longer, smaller tubes).
4. Run slowest engine speed you've got torque enough to pull (a 6 or 7 liter engine should be able to pull a .5 overdrive on a 3.08 or even a 2.73 gear)
5. Synthetic lube in all components
6. Cruise lean-- Use wideband O2 sensor to lean out cruise mixture--cover it with other carb circuits (accel pump, secondaries, etc.) Not as good as EFI, but . . . . Note: lean running causes NOx emissions problems and can burn up parts.
7. Compression, Compression, Compression--low compression wastes fuel. Low compression and big cam is even worse. Aluminum heads, electronic ignition timing w/ knock sensor and coatings on pistons, valves, and on combustion chamber in the heads can allow increased efficiency and more margin for tuning errors. Atkinson or Miller-cycle cam timing can increase expansion ratio efficiency (but at some expense of power)
8. Use a mild power adder that doesn't hurt cruise efficiency (a small shot or low boost turbo (or even a supercharger w/ part throttle bypass (see GM 3.8 V6)) can gain back some of the losses from mild cam and long ram-intake and exhaust. Need to balance this against compression, though.
9. Temperature-controlled electric radiator fan
10. Use cruise control whenever possible
11. Skip shifts when possible (GM T-56s make you go from 1 to 4 at low load for a reason) and shift at lowest rpm the engine will pull without lugging.
12. Monitor manifold vacuum
13. Anticipate stops and lift early
14. Reverse flow cooling w/ proplyene glycol coolant
15. Windage scraper and accusump (to safely lower oil level in the pan)
16. Lowest possible backpressure in the exhaust (if you're burning valves, then the tune is wrong) but keep velocity high in the scavenge portion.
17. Extra credit for the truly ambitious: get some of that new hybrid-electric junk out of a salvage and figure out how to simplify and adapt it into a legitimate V8 rod. Somebody will do it. Why not be first?
If its not TURBOCHARGED, you're not finished yet . . . .
In 1977(?) Hotrod mag did a story on the new Z28 and built it for MPG. They got 20+mpg. Q-Jet, Edlebrock SP2P intake, Isky(?) mileage cam and headers. Ran quicker 1/4 mile times and got good mileage. Pooped out above 4800 RPM
I'm running a 305 Chevy in a '48 Plymouth coupe. With a Q-jet on a '82 Camaro intake with 2:73 rear gears I was getting 20+ MPG. Changed to a Performer intake and lost 4 MPG. Changed to a 600 Holley and lost 2 more MPG. I cruz at 70 MPH at 2000 RPM
Found a SP2P at the swap meet last weekend for $20. Will get a new Q-Jet or Edlebrock 500 cfm AFB and get my MPG back.
For power with fuel economy EFI is the only way to go. Putting EFI on a AMC will take some effort, but Turbo City has a kit to add a 2 bbl throttle body EFI to any car. Multi point is better, but will take some fabrication (welding) to an intake to accept injectors, but can be done.
Getting 20+ MPG out of a mildly built carbureted V8 in a 3500lb vehicle isn't too difficult, you just have to focus on building an efficient drivetrain with components matched to acheive a good balance and work in harmony to produce power AND mileage.
This is where torquey engines and mild gearing rule the day. Hairy cams with poor idle characteristics and the related speed parts to support such a camshaft work against you in the fuel economy department, but efficient V8 mills with mild cams and related speed equipment will deliver power you can use around town...AND go easy on the fuel consumption!
Remember the old "Fuel Economy" gauges that GM and some others used to install in passenger vehicles back in the 70s? They were nothing more than vacuum gauges rated to show "good", "fair" or "poor" economy depending on what the manifold vacuum reading was. High vacuum designated "good" fuel economy, and low vacuum (foot to the wood!) indicated "poor" economy. Hook up a vacuum gauge in your ride, especially the older Autometer ones with color-keyed sweep readings and watch it as you drive. Note your vacuum readings at highway and city cruise speeds.
To gain better fuel mileage, you want to make your engine more EFFICIENT. This will drag better performance along with it, so your car will actually be faster, AND more economical than it was in stock form!
Start with your cam. Be conservative when selecting your new bumpstick. If you're going with a poked & stroked 401, let the displacement and the stroke do the work for you, and keep the cam profile towards the tame side of the spectrum. You could probably balance power and economy best if you stick with lift numbers in the .480" to .505" range, and keep duration @ .050" down to about 221 degrees. That's pretty tame for a 434 cubic inch engine, but it will be strong where you want it to be...down in the lower RPM ranges where you will spend the bulk of your time. Also, invest in a dual pattern cam...you can sneak a little more lift and duration in on the EXHAUST side, but don't get TOO carried away.
Headers and a free flowing exhaust system come next. SOME back-pressure is actually a good thing in a street cruiser, but you still want to expel the spent gasses to fill the cylinders with a fresh charge for maximum performance. Stock manifolds and small pipes with restrictive mufflers will hurt you here, so ante up for good tubes and pipes!
Induction system design will also play a major role in your quest for a somewhat fuel-friendly tire fryer. Go with a dual plane intake manifold, and a Holley 750cfm vacuum secondaries carburetor. Lots of people like the Edelbrock/Carter carbs...but I've always gotten more power out of the Holleys without giving up mileage. (The secret is to tune the carb to your engine...and I could write a small BOOK on how to do that! However, it will be damn close to the money right out of the box, you can experiment with tuning from there).
Now, you need to light the mixture. The GM HEI distributors do this the best, and aftermarket versions for non-GM engines are now available. Seek one out for your AMC application and you'll be happy with it.
(The old Delco points distributors found on many early 70s AMC motors work good too if you prefer a breaker point ignition system).
Add an Accel Supercoil, good plug wires and an adjustable vacuum advance unit to your ignition parts shopping list, and that will be all the fancier you need to get in the ignition department! Mind the advance curve, though...most aftermarket distributors can be ordered with curves already tailored to your application if you provide the vehicle and engine specifics to the manufacturer, so take advantage of their expertise in dialing in distributors. You can tweak it to eek out the last bit of mileage/performance, but having it close right out of the box is well worth the added effort on your part.
With an engine built as I've outlined above, moderate (highway friendly) gearing won't hurt your acceleration too much...as the engine will be strong in lower RPM ranges, making enough torque to accelerate the car without spinning into the stratosphere to do so! You'll need good tires, because if you break loose with highway gearing...you'll spin the tire(s) halfway into the next county! It impresses bystanders, but doesn't do a thing for lowering your ETs!
(Highway gearing keeps torquey engines in their most efficient RPM band longer...allowing them to either accelerate the car harder...or smoke the tires endlessly as the motor muscles it's way through the powerband!)
The bottom line is, that increasing an engine's efficiency in the RPM range that you will use it most, automatically gives you better performance AND economy. Building a motor that makes peak power at 6000 RPM and then lugging it down with 2.73 axle gears is only going to give you a nasty sounding idle coupled with a slow and thirsty slug! If mileage and power are your goals, then keep those things in kind when you engineer a smart combination of parts and systems to work together towards meeting those goals. Concentrate on making low end power with the types of parts I've mentioned above, and you'll be happy with your end result.
(I had a 396 Chevelle with 3.90 gears, a four speed, Holley 780cfm vacuum secondaries carb, Engle cam, Holley intake and a stock HEI distributor with a curve kit thrown in. The car was gutted for weight savings and ran high 12s/low 13s on slicks and open headers, and delivered 17-21 MPG with a light foot on the street. If I had known better at the time, I could have tweaked it to get even MORE mileage without slowing it down much, but I was very happy with it as it was! I've also built other street machines that ran 14s and got mileage figures in the low 20s, so it's certainly possible if you work at it.)
This may be completely off what you want to hear, but I'll say it for the sake of saying it. My uncle( he's about 60 by now) told me about an experiment him and a friend did in the late 70's. They took a 70 nova with a straight six and made it get 100 mpg. go ahead, throw up your B.S. meters, but this is what I remeber of how he said they did it. They took the fuel and ran it to a big heat coil. basically it was a cylinder surrounded by copper tubes that were heated by the anitfreeze(the tubes that would usually run to the heater). Then, they had a fuel line at the top of the cylinder that collected the vapors created would funnel into. From there, you used the carburator like a well, a carburator. It controlled the vapors going in. he said they only tried it twice because they were scared a backfire would kill them. but if a chip were made that could detect the backfire and shut down the fuel line, it might be worth it someday. I would try it sometime, but i dont have a car to spare if it did backfire. just food for thought.
And to think Honda and Toyota spent billions on hybrid technology . . .
BTW, they didn't try this little "hot vapor" experiment while they were making a coast-to-coast record run in 24 hours, did they?
This story reminds me of a former coworker who swore her stock 307- powered '71 Nova would do 160 m.p.h.


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I dunno. This band sounds pretty raw.
Talk about a "fresh" new sound.
Acoustic Sashimi is the next act up, also repped by Miso Records.
Sounds a bit fishy to me.
smells a bit fishy to me
I can see their faces...They will haunt my dreams for a fortnight.
Most art theme'd items involving rock and roll usually involve using the "rock" as its primary pun. Its refreshing to see the "roll" being the primary focus in this theme.
ungh... Somehow, I knew when looking at the thumbnail, the writers would include a remix of a Beach Boys song.
Holy crap, this shirt totally reminds me of a rockin' sushi restaurant I went to with some good friends of mine in New Orleans. It was called Rock 'n Sake. Awesome place that had good food and great atmosphere.
Bottom line, if this shirt was a real restaurant, Rock 'n Sake would be it. Ahh, nostalgia... :D
I like the write-ups double pun much better.
"Critics sometimes say they're a little too raw, and fans of the processed sound wouldn't be caught dead at one of their concerts"
What this shirt needs....
...is a little more cowbell.
JadenKale wrote:ungh... Somehow, I knew when looking at the thumbnail, the writers would include a remix of a Beach Boys song.
I was hoping for "Sushi Q, baby I love you, Sushi Q."
maybe it was too easy
The guitarist looks like a hot roll.
My best guess as to the band members' identities:
Lead Singer - Futomaki
Guitar - Salmon Nigiri
Bass - California Roll
Drums - Dynamite Roll
Triangle - Oshizushi
Did you know that women weren't allowed to prepare sushi because their hands were too warm, and it would ruin the raw fish?
I'm not a sexist, I promise.
Nope this band smells, lets roll right into the comedian! *drum roll*
This shirt is maki me hungry..
...what has become of shirt.woot **sigh**
shirt.forsoccermoms is more fitting these days...
tomcall wrote:Did you know that women weren't allowed to prepare sushi because their hands were too warm, and it would ruin the raw fish?
I'm not a sexist, I promise.
Rather that I not be able to prepare the thing I love to eat and have a professional do it, than be criticized for having cold hands/appendages.
I wonder if this band is into drugs, If they are, do you think that when the cops search them they see weed?
Well the women and warm hands debate is true, yet not true.
Its true that it was an excuse, but not true because men and women have the same temperature in their hands, relatively speaking.
So tomcall is telling the truth, but male sushi preparers just didn't want women in the kitchen. How ironic.
Cool band, but can they play chopsticks?
Here's what you really need to know about Japanese food.
Is tomcall pulling our chain or can he come up with a link.
Here you go.
My hands could freeze water... just sayin'....
Thanks for all the love people. Ya'll rock. I'm speechless. I've been turned into a sa-shhhhh-mi.
Buying this shirt as a late Christmas gift for a friend. Reps for the design.
Also, loving the first few comments on this shirt XD
This is my first non-random (although still random) shirt.woot. And I'll buy it, in spite of the triangle (bad memories. it was high school. don't ask).
Sounds logical
Sushi and women. It quotes some book about sushi, and it says the warmer hands thing isn't true. I dunno. In my experience, girls have much warmer hands than I. Maybe I just have cold hands, or maybe the added warmth doesn't make a difference.
I could totally see Adam Richman wearing this.
Oh yeah, these guys are legends. I have their complete bento box set.
The combination of sushi and an indie rock band allows for the rare double-hipster combination.
"Yeah, I used to like that band/sushi place, before they sold out and went mainstream."
Wish this had a cowbell...
Some call them "fresh" or "cutting edge". I just like their raw sound.
***edit*** Should've known Nightghost would've beaten me to it...
"We are 'Sushi Bob-Omb,' and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!!!"
Very cute!
An All Female band. That is nice. lol.
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It's about a biography of Mitt Romney: Helman, Scott, and Michael Kranish, The Real Romney; HarperCollins, 2012.
It isn't merely a book review. It's also a valuable synopsis of the contents of the book itself, and therefore a self-contained profile of the "leading" Republican candidate for the Presidency.
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In his project, Family Meal, photographer Douglas Adesko joins families at home or at their favorite dinner spot so he can document the long tradition of breaking bread together.
"I became interested in looking at how we ritualize, or fail to ritualize, this really intense primal act," he says.
The majority of his subjects — spare a few friends of friends — are people he has met while on the road between commercial photography assignments.
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This winter I plan to keep a shallow super filled with honey over the single
deep hive body as extra food for the colony. Should I take off the queen
excluder, or won't it matter? If the workers will retrieve honey with the
queen excluder in place, I'd just as soon leave it on. Thanks. Charles
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I'm not familiar with your weather down there. If the bees don't go to winter cluster, you might get away with it. For most of us, leaving the excluder on is not the best way to go. As the bees cluster and consume their stores, they move up in the hive. The queen excluder will cause the queen to be left behind. End result... no queen.
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I would remove the excluder if using THAT shallow for Wintering honey, you want the option of the queen "Placing" herself anywhere within the cluster as it slowly moves and devours the honey for warmth.
I've read and enjoy the image of the cluster moving like ball in a giant 3D pong game with one special rule: it can not cover the same area twice once the honey is removed. Imagine the cluster moving about eating and warming itself, as the cluster "through a process most resembling convection" moves from the inside out and outside in simultaniously. All the while, just as the bees move in and out of the cluster (each taking turns eating and warming the cluster like a blanket) it also moves about the 3D world of the available supers consuming all the honey it needs to survive.
By keeping the excluder in the hive, you have a heatsink issue where the excluder radiates the cold through the center of the cluster, making it nearly impossible to achieve and maintain a consistant thermal temp within the cluster. Think of the excluder (plastic or steel) as a huge area of exposed metal or plastic that radiates its coldness into the small area that the cluster wants to warm - The excluder could 1) increase the amount of honey required to warm the bees throughout the Winter months or 2) prevent them totally from moving toward the upper box completely, so the shallow you place there may not even get used.
Just imagine if check the bees in the Spring and the bees are all dead, meanwhile you have a full shallow of honey that was never touched. I'm not saying this happens, but the bees don't like excluders to start with, having it as a huge chilled barrier between them and the honey surely could complicate the matter.
Replacing the excluder come Spring is fine, but I believe it serves NO PURPOSE and even creates problems to the clusters Wintering process if it remains in the hive.
Hope that helps.
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Very good reasons to remove the excluder. Being an angineer myself, I love it when somebody uses logical reasoning to explain why something should, or should not be done.
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Thanks Carbide:
I work in a field where my decisions often result in the safe launch of Navy AirCraft from a land-based Carrier Platform - I'd like to think that most of my decision making has home theory behind ot :)
No one approaches the launch hook to setup for launch without my "All Ready" and the lives of the pilot (2 pilots in many cases) and about 30 flight crew members all hinge on my approval. I've had a 15 year carrier with a 100% safety record and I'm proud of that fact - more importantly though, no failures are acceptable and the Catapult Lauch SOP - Standard Operating Procedures are the Bible of our Flight testing, whether launching jets, dummie loads or just the hook itself down the carrier platform, nothing is acceptable in the failure department.
I tend to shy away from medical questions in the forum, only because I think there are many better qualified members who can offer greater responce to the questions, but general beekeeping is often a fun topic to tackle and I enjoyed the Excluder Question a lot.
NOW.... Side note about Bush - Kerry (as I have noticed from your signature. I do have concervative idealisms, but I'm also very open to any idea that make common sense. Kerry annoys me though, I don't like his attitudes, manorisms, attack and fear campaign and I don't like Edwards at all. In a PM I'll go into Edwards a bit more detailed.
The worse single issue that leaves Kerry in the dust is his wanting to keep and even expand Affirmative Action - this is NOT 1970, it didn't work then, it won't work now and all it does it flashback to racial intollerance where:
1) minorites are given jobs they are NOT best qualified for which creates a weaker work force (something the US cannot afford now or ever in a global market)
2) Minorities should be insulted to be thought of as incapable of getting jobs on their own merit - as if they are mentally imapred and incapable of competing on a one against one application.
3) Is unfair to the BEST QUALIFIED APPLICANT who would be an asset to the company mission, rather than a token minority which will do nothing but reduce the productivity of any workforce.
So if for no other reason, and believe me there are MANY OTHER ISSUES, I would not place a vote toward the Kerry - Edward team.
Lastly, I'm that pleased with Bush either, but sometimes you need to vote for the lesser of two evils RATHER THAN THE Evil of two lessers. Not even concidaring the cost of changinf horses in mid-stream and the effect on our stagnant ecomony at this point in time and during a war that ALL OF US have very mixed feelings about.
7 more days and we'll have done our part - I just hope that the glitches have been fixed which caused that embarrasment last election.
To keep it fair, I must say that I had voted for Al Gore in 2000 and I firmly believe he was ripped off from the Presidential Seat in the most botched vote tally process ever. I just felt that if the country made the RARE MISTAKE of trying to see a FATHER AND SON elected in their life-time (which is why I believe Bush got such a turn out in the first place) that it would haunt us with another war in Iraq, finishing Daddy's work after Daddy was too chicken to go against the UN's ruling of NOT removing Saddam in 1990. Today, we are paying for it in countless ways and we may never see a free Iraq which isn't policed by American Soldiers.
But the issues of past elections are NOT relative now, and the choice is between Bush and Kerry - I don't think Kerry/Edards will do anyting positive except to push stem-cell research (which ethically I can live with) in order to possibly make unpresidented changes in many illnesses that afflict the human body. My belief has ALWAYS BEEN that it is God's great intervention that allows man to evolve with technology which will eventually find the cures to all diseases - understanding and mapping DNA was a vital step forward and stem-cells seem to be the next link in the chain. I don't believe it is destroying viable life, no more than cracking an egg in the frying pan has deleted a chicken from the table 8 weeks later.
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er.... umm.... yeah.. pull that excluder outta there
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LOL I didn't know anyone still played that game! I quit almost 2 years ago, but was on the Ahazi server. I still miss the pre-NGE days of that game. It was my favourite MMO. I'm playing LOTRO now.
My friend plays on the Gorath server.
i used to play on ahazi too, off and on, but i too quit when nge came out, dec 05. now i'm playing CoH/V
I still have an active account with SoE (The Devil!), but because I have a satalight conection, I'm not able to do much with it. Because of the satalight lag all I can basicaly do is log on and make sure my stuff hasn't disappeared yet :lol. But I'm still sitting around on Nabbo on the Tarq server, which is as dead as a jabba henchman in the sarlac.
Have a good one,
Yeah, I also left that mess about 2 yrs ago.
Was part of a great Stormtrooper garrison on Bria.
You know, I've always wanted to play SWG. People tell me ever since they "changed" something it was never the same. I don't know anything about the game. My problem is, I play WoW. lol. Is SWG worth playin? Can I look like a mando? :D
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Yes you can get mando armor if your the commando or BH class. The problem is you have to first get the Skems to make the armor then get the right proffesions into the Death Watch Bunker to make said armor. So basicaly it's next to impossible now adays since the player base is so low and spread across so many servers. I keep my account active just for nostalgia reason, and will forever Hate SoE for ruining a SW game.
Have a good one,
Yeah, SWG is a sad tale. I used to play a year or two ago. It was dead, I tried to enjoy it, but Tetris is better.
I used to play... then i switched to WoW... now I'm switching to Age of Conan
I play LOTRO my guy is Lerodir on Firefoot... i might stop playing though and switch to COH/V... Has SWG switched back yet? i played SWG and got JEDI the old fasion way, two days before the CU upgrade... I wished death upon all of SOE. I'd play again if they went back
i used to have a smuggler on corbantis... i play CoH/V when my PC works... i'd be playing now.. but we HAD to get a mac because it was SO MUCH BETTER... >.< should make these games so they run on a mac...
actually, now the only class that can't wear mando is Jedi. But it's still almost impossible to get due to extremely rare/hard to find components and the near extinction of qualified armor makers and lack og people willing to group to get said maker to said area for long enough to make said armor.
I play on Flurry.
I played on Bloodfin on my old account, pre NGE.
Used to be on Radiant....
Maybe this is some hope? A Star Wars MMORPG from BioWare just got announced not too long ago set in KoToR times. Leave it to Star Wars to fail at the MMO industry and try again. George has too much money!


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