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i think there has been a mistake made here? i'm not the one that said anything about tall or short gears, that was someother guy that repleid to something that had nothing to do with what i said, so your responding to something i didn't even say. i know gear ratios and can only tell you from my experince and others who i know, as to what helped them. like who would of thought that a 69 mustang would have a lug bolt pattern of 4.25 and not a 4.5 and it's a 9" rearend where my 66 stang is an 8" with the 4.5, but its true and whats even stranger is it has a set of origenal "GT" rims on it, so my point is when it comes to cars anthing can happen, and everyone has a diff way of doing things. example: what would happen if you would put a realy short low profile tire on? that would change your rpm range as say a taller tire which would slow things down a bit, thats why it's important to decide what you want. i don't remember comenting on your gears and thats why i left you my email address, so we can talk without interferance from someone else putting the 2 cents in, so if you want me to help then i need to know what you are talking about, sorry for the confusion, butch
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first of all you must decide what you want gpm or power? i'v replied to so many emails it's hard to keep up with who is running what! i need to know which car i'm talking about and the perticulars of your car, engine, tranny, gears, tire size etc, etc, if you want just email me at email@example.com with your spec's and i'll try and help you as much as i can, thanks BUTCH
|sorry been busy I would like to have a car that's not looking for another gear on the highway as that is were it spends most of its time about 65 miles a day to work and back. it has true duals with no cats headers will follow shortly. I would like to get in the range of 17-19 mpg on the highway. Now to get a few more HP which brings me to the L-31 heads but along with the raise in compression comes a different cam and there goes the 17-19 mpg. So the question now is what to do.
Ok, I think I see what your looking at, some people refer to numerically lower gears as taller and higher gears as shorter. (God knows why )
a bigger cam requires a numerically larger, taller, steeper, or whatever else you may wish to call it gear.
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I don't think the gearing will be too bad. What diameter tire does your car have ? I assume around 26 ". My 5,200 # truck came from the factory with a 31" tire 3.73 gears and a 700R4 with a 305. The wheel speeds work out about the same.
What are you running for an exhaust on the car ? Does it have manifolds and a catylytic converter or ? Is it still the stock intake ? What do you want the vehicle to do ?
I did mean that a bigger cam requires a taller gear, otherwise ou're just wasting gas and making excess heat, a higher stall too (of course its all relative).
Also, "working" and working well are two different things. I can take off in 5th in a stock s10 with the crappy 2.8L, it works but it is FAR from optimal.
If we were only concerned with just working we'd all be driving model T's since it accomplishes the job of moving people and cargo from one place ot the other.
TI and I have "spoken" w/each other, so he'll know this is not intended to dispute him. I'm adding it as a point of reference only.
The final drive is a 2.29:1 (7-1/2 diff) w/a 350C (lock-up) tranny.
It will drive all day at whatever speed you choose, as long as it's not over 108 MPH. 20 mpg, at 65 or 85, doesn't matter.
On a GOOD day, that engine might make an honest 130 HP.
All this is to say that I believe there will be no issue w/a SBC pulling a 2.16:1 final drive (3.08 w/a .7:1 OD).
As soon as you accelerate when at highway speed, the tranny doesn't stay in OD locked up, anyway. It pulls back to 3rd. (3.08:1).
Is it "ideal"? No, but it certainly will work.
For comparison's sake, 3.73's gives you the equivalent of a TH350 w/4.53:1, in first.
This is OT, but if possible hang on the ALL the original parts that you replace. From brackets to engine block.
Even a '79 will someday be worth more as a matching numbers, correct car than a modified one, even if top-shelf parts are used.
|Wow thanks to all.. this is alot of good info it will take a bit to comprehend but good none the less. As you can tell I started with a stock 79 L-82 vette some years back the gas mileage was bad so in an atempt to make this affordable to drive I had a friend change the gears in the rear to 308s trying to drop the cruise RPM as it spends most of its time on the highway years later the gas mileage still sucks 12.1 mpg on the last tank. I have a 700R4 laying around so what the heck rebuild it and have it put in. thats were its at now. I guess it is stock the mech said I dont need a shift kit he can do a few things to make it shift good and firm. while I wait my mech say if you want more power find a set of L-31 vortech heads and get 1.6 to 1 roller tip rockers and Edelbrock RPM Performer intake, so I did now looking at putting them on but the stock compression is 8.9 to 1 with 76cc stock heads the average awnser I get on compression with the 64cc heads is 10.2 to 1 so I think my cam will be to small so looking for the right choice wich brings us to this thread. Does anybody have a set up close to this if so what cam do you use ? what type of drive is it ok on bottom cruise good on the highway ?? were would you guys go with all this if it were you?
The right gear for use with a small block and 700R4 is a 3.73:1. With its .7 overdrive, that puts the 4th gear final drive ratio at 2.61. A 3.08 rear gear will put the final drive ratio at 2.15 and I doubt that anything less than a big block would pull that gear. It's not so much about getting off the line, it's about where the motor will spend most of its time trying to pull the vehicle down the highway with a headwind.
Butch, maybe you should do some study on intake closing points and dynamic compression ratio. If you use a short cam with a 10.2:1 static compression ratio, you'll build excessive cylinder pressure and the motor will rattle like a can of rocks no matter what kind of pump gas you run in it.
In the first place, I would never run 1.6 rockers on an XE cam. The lobes are ground to maximum velocity and any further strain on the lifter/lobe interface over what is introduced with 1.5 rockers will likely result in your disassembling the motor in a short while to clean out all the crud left from the disintegrating cam lobes and lifter faces. This assumes that you are using the correct spring rate recommended by the cam grinder.
In the second place, the intake closing point of the intake valve on the XE268H is 39 degrees after bottom dead center @ 0.050" tappet lift. You won't find this info in Comp's site or literature. You have to know how to figure it yourself. They only give 0.006" closing point on the cam spec card. You have to have the 0.050" number in order to figure the DCR on the KB calculator. So, DCR with the XE268H cam and 10.2 SCR is 8.77:1. You may get this to work, but I'd rather back it down and play it safe using pump gas.
The 286H Magnum cam closes the intake at 45 degrees after bottom dead center, resulting in a DCR of 8.43:1. With a squish of 0.035" to 0.045", I'd feel OK about assembling this motor to operate on pump gas.
shsouthard, I explained squish to another board member, so will copy and paste that explanation.....
"Squish, also called quench, is the measurement from the piston crown to the underside of the cylinder head with the piston at TDC. It is set with the piston deck height (measurement from the piston crown to the block deck surface where the head bolts on) and the thickness of the head gasket. Most professional engine builders will shoot for a squish of 0.035" to 0.045". David Vizard stated that the motor made more power and was more detonation-resistant the tighter he set the squish. I've noticed lately that he prefers 0.035". Any tighter than that could produce problems with the piston crashing into the head at higher engine temperatures and higher engine speeds because everything grows and stretches. There will be a little flex in the crank, a little extension of length in the rods from both stretching and thermal growth and the piston will grow taller from thermal expansion. So, 0.035" between the piston crown and the flat part of the underside of the head adjacent to the chamber might be the tight limit on a small block chevy to give the mixture maximum velocity across the chamber to help make the motor detonation resistant and also to prevent metal to metal contact.
I'll give you a for-instance on a build. You have a block that has never been decked and measures 9.025" block deck height (measurement from the centerline of the main bearing bore to the block deck where the head bolts on). Your stack of parts measures 1.875" (crank radius for a 3.750" crank), 5.700" rod length and a piston compression height (measurement from the centerline of the wrist pin to the crown) of 1.425" for a total stack height of 9.000". This means that when you assemble the motor, the piston will be down in the bore 0.025" (piston deck height) with the piston at TDC. To reach the target 0.035" to 0.045" squish, a very thin head gasket would have to be used, such as a 0.015" steel shim gasket. To use a shim gasket, the block decks and cylinder head mating surfaces must be flat and smooth, but it can and has been done. Chevrolet used to use steel shim gaskets in the factory motors they assembled. Another way to reach the target squish would be to cut the block decks 0.010", leaving a piston deck height of 0.015", then use a slightly thicker composite gasket such as a Victor Reinz #5746 gasket that compresses to 0.025". This would result in a squish of 0.040". If for some reason, a builder wanted to use an even thicker gasket in this build, he might cut the block decks 0.025" so that the piston was exactly even with the block decks at TDC. This would produce a piston deck height of 0.000" and is known as zero decking the motor. You could then use a gasket that compresses to 0.040" and have your 0.040" squish.
While you are learning this stuff, you might also want to google Singh grooves. These are channels that are cut into either the head or the piston crown and allow routes for the squished mixture to be jetted toward the spark plug.
All of what I'm writing about here is aimed at the elimination of detonation on pump gas with a moderate static compression ratio. There are many instances of iron head motors being run successfully with 11.0:1 static compression ratios if using the correct squish. Of course, a builder must also pay attention to dynamic compression ratio. This is the factor that uses rod length and camshaft intake closing point to build to a certain result.
Let's say for instance that a builder puts together a 9.0:1 motor and chooses a very long cam that closes the intake valve at around 70 degrees (@ 0.050" tappet lift) after bottom dead center. The motor is fairly low compression to begin with. Closing the intake valve so late allows the intake mixture that was just drawn into the cylinder on the intake stroke to be blown back up the intake tract. The intake valve is still open a little while the piston is travelling back up the bore on its compression stroke, so the piston pushes the mixture back up toward the carburetor, reducing the amount of mixture that is trapped in the cylinder when the intake valve finally closes and making a weak explosion when the spark plug fires. This is what happens to poser newbies who use a long cam in an otherwise stock motor. The motor won't make enough power to pull the hat off your head, but boy it sure sounds great to the geeks down at the drive-in with its rumpety-rump.
The flip side is building a higher static compression ratio motor and using a cam that is too short for the scr. Its a high-compression motor to begin with and let's say a cam with an intake closing point of 30 degrees
ABDC is used. The valve closes early enough so that most all of the mixture is trapped and you get a cylinder pressure that is too high for the available fuel. This results in pre-ignition and/or detonation and/or cracked pistons and/or bent rods and/or a broken crank and/or a failed head gasket or two.
So, as you can see, all these things have to be taken into consideration before you can finalize your choice of parts that go into a build. I wince every time a newbie comes on and knows nothing about the scr, squish, piston deck height, block deck height, chamber size, piston crown configuration, piston compression height or practically anything else about the motor, but says he has chosen such and such cam. I usually just click to another thread and smile.
There is another scenario that is possible, although no builder in his right mind would do because it leaves no material on the block decks to take another cut on the decks if you have to clean them up in a later build. That is cutting the block decks to pop the piston out of the block. Let's say that you have a piston deck height (piston crown to block deck) of 0.010" and you, for some unknown reason want to use a 0.060" copper gasket. Maybe you're thinking of adding a blower later, so a copper gasket would be a good choice. To arrive at your preffered squish of 0.040", you would have to cut the block decks 0.030" to do it. This would pop the piston out of its bore by 0.020". This can and has been done, but it would not be the avenue you would want to take on an unblown application.
The other things you want to be cautious of is the configuration of the piston crown and the piston compression height when you are choosing the parts for a build. Rebuilder pistons, although cheap, are normally manufactured with a reduced compression height (centerline of wrist pin to crown) of about 0.020". They do this figuring that the machine shop is going to deck the block 0.020" to clean it up and the piston will be at the same piston deck height (piston crown to deck) as the old original piston was. This is fine for a low-buck crate motor, but for a street rod motor builder, it is unacceptable. Always note the compression height of the pistons you are considering buying and add up your stack. If it is less than 9.000", you're going to have to do some considerable decking on the block to get the piston deck height (piston crown to deck) where you want it to set the squish. If you're doing the building and not paying attention to the piston compression height, you could end up with a squish (or non-squish dimension of 0.065" to 0.070" and then wonder why the motor will not operate on pump gas of any kind without detonating.
The piston crown configuration is another place to pay attention. If the piston does not have a large, generous area on the crown to mate with the underside of the cylinder head, you will not generate enough squish to make the motor detonation-resistant. I'm talking about if you have to use a dish piston to make your target static compression ratio. Some pistons have the dish machined out over the entire top of the crown and leave only a thin ring of actual crown material maybe 3/8" wide around the perimeter of the crown. This is unacceptable. You want to choose a piston with a D-cup configuration. These will have a generous pad of material to mate with the head and will generate the proper squish to quell detonation. Here's an example. Note the generous squish pad on the right side of the photo....
And by the way shsouthard, that's the piston you should have used to give you a 9.6:1 SCR instead of your 10.2:1. Then you could have used a shorter cam and the motor would have been more street friendly.
Your set-up- 700R4 w/3.08's is very nearly the same as a TH350 w/3.73's, in first gear.
In OD, your 3.08's are 2.16:1.
With 3.31's your 700 would be like the TH350 w/4:1 in first, OD would be 2.32:1
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Senate Bill 262, Act 179, provides for a uniform procedure for election officials handling damaged ballots and/or over voted ballots.
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The front is a pain without a lift and tranny jack
I just thought of this. It looks as if the ST has the suspension of the 2001 S2 ZX3. The S2 had stiffer shicks and taller and softer springs than the regular ZX3. It had the "European Tuned Syspension" as apposed to the ZX3's "European Inspired Suspension".
|My personal opinion is I wouldn't touch the front bar but add either the rear Svt bar which is 21mm or the Progress bar which is 22mm. I have the Progress on mine without replacing the front bar. Works great. From what I understand from some other owners the front is a pain in the rear to put on.
|ok guys thanx. it says it pretty plain, same shocks and struts, softer springs. i think i'll upgrade to svt springs. one other thing though, is the sway bar the same or weaker on the st? i want to change over completely to the svt suspension. cheap way to stiffen the suspension for those tight budgeted folks like myself. if anyone knows thows the answer about the sway bar it would be GREATLY appreciated.
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The Focus subcompact becomes more grown up while retaining old virtues.
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Ford makes lots of money selling trucks, but it's concentrating more on cars for 2005. So it's logical that the automaker's first 2005 model is a revamped version of its subcompact Focus.
The 2005 Focus line features a new top-line model, more power and revised styling, inside and out.
It's unfortunate that Americans don't get the all-new European 2005 Focus. The American version of the Focus gets the rather subdued styling of the new, large, flagship Ford Five Hundred sedan instead of its old, quirky "new edge" styling.
The new Focus look is hardly a radical change, but Ford bills it as being more "upscale" and "aspirational."
More Substantial Look
The Focus does have a cleaner, more substantial look, although it still doesn't begin to stand out in parking lots. There's a restyled nose, new hood and slightly larger grilleand recontoured front fenders merge into more conventional-looking headlights.
The rear end features new taillights and has been reshapedpartly to better accommodate U.S. license plates. The old trunk lid had a European design to handle longer, narrower European plates, leaving U.S. plates dangling awkwardly. Thanks, Ford, for small favors.
Revamped Interior
The most dramatic design departure is the revamped interior, partly because Ford is concentrating on making interiors look better. The all-new instrument panel is symmetrical; the driver and front passenger areas are divided by two rectangular climate control registers, hazard switch and a shallow center stack for the climate and audio control systems.
The interior still needs more flair, although improved materials are used for it.
Variety of Trim Levels
The Focus comes as a 2-door hatchback (ZX3), 4-door hatchback (ZX5) and 4-door sedan (ZX4)and as a station wagon (ZXW). The entry trim series is Sfollowed by SE, SES and ST, which have more equipment and options. Options and option packages have been simplified to make ordering easier.
The 170-horsepower hot rod Focus SVT version has been dropped and replaced with the new top-line ZX4 ST sedan. That $17,705 version has performance that is almost comparable to that of the higher-strung SVT, which was too radical a trim level for most Focus buyers.
However, it's sort of strange that the only high-performance 2005 Focus is a sedan. (The SVT also was sold as a more sporty 2-door hatchback.) However, the ZX4 ST is more refined and costs about $1,400 less than the SVT. The lowest-cost Focus is the $13,005 ZX3 2-door hatchback.
Standard Equipment
The base S Focus has a fair number of standard items, including a manually height-adjustable driver's seat, console, split-folding rear seat, AM/FM/CD sound system, intermittent wipers, rear defroster and rear wiper-washer for the hatchback.
The SE adds considerably more items, including air conditioning, MP3 player and power windows, mirrors and door locks with remote entry. The SES adds a tachometer, tilt-telescopic steering wheel with radio controls, cruise control, in-dash CD/MP3 player and wider (50-series vs. 60-series) tires on wider (16-inch vs. 15-inch) aluminum wheels.
In addition to the larger engine, the ST adds a sport suspension, traction control, anti-lock all-disc brakes and heated power mirrors.
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Safety options include $400 anti-lock brakes for versions other than the ST and $350 head-and-torso front side airbags for all versions.
A power sunroof is a $625 option for the SE, SES and ST.
New Engine
Ford mainly dropped the SVT because it has replaced the Zetec 4-cylinder engine used in the Focus since its arrival here in 2000 with an economical 4-cylinder "Duratec" engine developed by Mazda, in which Ford has a controlling interest.
The new 2-liter 4-cylinder Duratec engine with 136 horsepower replaces the old base 2-liter 4-cylinder, which generated 110 and 130 horsepower.
The ZX4 ST gets a 2.3-liter Duratec 4-cylinder with 151 horsepower. It lets the ZX4 ST hit 60 mph in 7.9 seconds with its 5-speed manual gearbox, which is the only one offered for this version. The engine drones a bit during highway cruising, and a downshift to fourth gear is needed for the best 65-75 mph passing time.
Other Focus trim levels can be had with the manual gearbox or a 4-speed automatic transmission. The manual gearbox shifts easily and works with a nice clutch that's not a pain in stop-and-go traffic, although the extra torque of the ZX4 ST engine makes lots of shifting unnecessary.
The new 2-liter Focus engine calls for additional shifting. The $815 automatic transmission shifts crisply, but saps some power.
Good Ride and Handling
The front-drive Focus has a well-developed chassis with an all-independent suspension for good ride and handling. The ZX4 ST has the stiffer shock absorbers of the SVT, but softer spring rates for a more comfortable ride. However, the springs increase body sway a little.
All Focus versions are generally fun to drive, with the ZX4 ST being the most enjoyable with its more powerful engine, sport suspension and wider tires. It has quick, communicative steering, nimble handling, compliant ride and good braking, with nice pedal feel.
The Focus interior has noticeable wind noise at highway speeds, but easily reached controls and gauges that can be read at a glance. There's a good number of storage areas, with front door pockets that contain areas for beverage holders.
Pretty Roomy
The Focus is pretty roomy; four 6-footers fit, although legroom is tight behind a driver who moves his seat back halfway. Front seats are supportive, and there's excellent head room in front and rear compartments. Back doors should open wider, and entry to the rear is more difficult with the 2-door hatchback.
Cargo areas are large and have low openings. The sedan's trunk lid has strut-type hinges that don't eat into cargo room. The entire split-folding rear seat easily folds forward to significantly increase cargo space.
The hood also smoothly raises on struts to reveal easily reached fluid-filler areas. But the short manual hood prop is awkward to use when checking the engine oil level and such.
A Honda Civic is more refined and a Mazda3 is sportier, but the latest, well-developed Focus feels more grown up.
|When I was reading one of the Focus Fanatic magazines (one with the ST vs the Mazda 3) it said that the only SVT suspension parts on the ST were the front dampers(shocks). Could be mistaked but thats the way I read it.
|Most of the tech articles that I read say that the SVT suspension was "carry over" to the ST model. I looked for this info because I own an ST, too and was considering upgrades....
|from what I hear the st got the whole svt suspension
svt springs VS st springs
can someone please tell me the difference in the svt/st spring rates? i believe the sway bars are the same, but if the svt springs are a stiffer rating i'm thinking about puting them on my st. i believe the struts and shocks are the same also, but was wondering the difference in springs. thank all.
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The plan to spin the car bailout as a positive for Obama
posted at 9:14 am on June 3, 2011 by Bruce McQuain
Ron Klain, former Chief of Staff for Joe Biden (and a Bloomberg View columnist) gives you a peek at the plan. Klain has a piece in Bloomberg where he puts the outline of what the administration needs to do to spin the car bailout properly if it hopes to make it a campaign positive. Klain's suggestions are offered to form the basis of a narrative which will be polished and become a center-piece of the record of Barack Obama. The reason for beginning now is obviously an attempt to condition the public, which was very much against the bailout (and mostly remain so), to the supposed positive aspects of the takeover by government.
Of all the policy challenges I saw Obama tackle in my two years in the White House, none was more complex than turning around the U.S. auto industry. When the president took office, the industry was in free fall. Sales of cars and trucks, which had topped 17 million in 2006, fell to 10.6 million in 2009. Two of America's three major automakers were insolvent, kept alive by weekly inflows of federal cash. U.S. automakers had an unsustainable cost structure, were badly trailing their foreign competitors in the production of fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, and seemed unable to make the hard choices needed to arrest their downward spiral.
The course the president chose was unexpected and risky. Most Americans remember that the administration decided to "bail out" the car companies — and indeed, the president did extend more loans and support to the industry. But he attached to the aid a series of controversial and painful conditions that ended business as usual in Detroit.
Call it "gutsy call II" if you will, but in reality, it is far from the picture that Klain ends up painting. Both the car companies were headed toward bankruptcy – a financial condition they had earned by their poor practices and sellouts to unions. Obama's bailouts certainly ended "business as usual" for those two companies but not in a positive way.
One of the consistent memes is that had Obama not acted, GM and Chrysler would have gotten the equivalent of a death sentence by having to go into bankruptcy. By death sentence I mean the administration and its bailout supporters imply millions would have been thrown out of work and those two companies would have forever disappeared.
Uh, no. As Jim Manzi at NRO explains:
First, in the event of a bankruptcy, you don't burn down the factories, erase all the source code on all the hard disks, make it illegal to use the brand name Chevrolet, and execute all of the employees. Others take ownership of the assets, and the employees go on with their lives. Some of these assets will be put to use generating revenues, profits, and taxes, and some of these former employees will get jobs or start businesses, and generate revenues, profits, and taxes. In order to measure the effect of the bailout over, say, five or ten years, you have to compare the actual taxes collected to what would happened over this same period in the counterfactual case where the bankruptcy was allowed to proceed. What owners would have bought the factories and IP assets, and what would they have done with them? What businesses would the former employees have started? Who would have moved to Arizona and retired? What new industry clusters will evolve in Arizona because of this transfer of people?
And what would have come out of the bankruptcy? Leaner companies better equipped to address the market and turn a profit. What wouldn't have come out of the bankruptcy are the level of union pensions and benefits the administration preserved. Obama, through his bailout and modified bankruptcy made sure those were weren't destroyed. Consequently you have pretty much the same conditions that existed prior to the bailout still in existence today with the added twist of more union control.
GM, for instance, just before it announced it had "paid off" its government loans, lost 3.4 billion dollars. Hans Bader, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute destroys the myth of GM's loan payback with an extensive investigation into the real story. It is a story of known falsehoods being tacitly approved by the White House and the Treasury Department because the administration was desperate for some good news at the time. The Chrysler loan payback, as I noted recently, is of the same stripe. More smoke and mirrors from the "transparent" administration.
But back to the bailouts and the reasons. The defense offered for the bailout is this:
The White House report said the money invested in GM and Chrysler ultimately saved the government tens of billions of dollars in direct and indirect costs, including the cost of unemployment insurance and lost tax receipts that the government would have incurred had the big Detroit auto makers collapsed.
Again, that assumes nothing comes out of any bankruptcy proceedings. Nothing. And, as Jim Manzi of NRO explains above, that's simply not how it works. It is an assumption without any real world foundation. We're talking a zero sum assumption by the administration where no assets are bought, no one goes back to work, everyone is unemployed and no one can find a job. That's just not the way bankruptcies (or the real world) work.
Second, some of the profit GM makes today would have been made by other companies that picked up some of the slack if the company lost market share after a bankruptcy. They would pay taxes on these profits, and as far as government receipts are concerned, money is money. How would auto industry structure evolve over time given whatever changes happened to the assets currently owned by the legal entity GM, or the employees currently paid by it?
Anybody who tells you they can answer all of these questions reliably is full of it.
Indeed. Again, the White House and its cronies must push the black and white version of this to make it saleable. If they can't make you believe in their "either/or" scenario, then they can't sell the lie. They're banking on a large degree of economic ignorance to sell this. But they know that if they rely on the fact and figures they're going to end up on the wrong side of the argument. So Klain says, break out the smoke and mirrors once again – sell it on emotion:
First, tell the story with fewer numbers and more emotion; less prose and more poetry. Rescuing the auto industry isn't just a matter of saving jobs and factories — it means preserving a uniquely American manufacturing tradition. Cars are more American than apple pie or hot dogs (which, unlike the automobile, were both invented in Europe). We couldn't have won World War II without this "arsenal of democracy"; as Walter Reuther famously said, "England's battles were won on the playing fields of Eton, but America's were won on the assembly lines of Detroit." The president needs to jujitsu Republican critics who accuse him of failing to understand American exceptionalism by pointing out his success in saving this exceptionally American industry.
You have to love the fact that even Klain doesn't believe his own nonsense, but has no problem advising the president to use it. Note too that Klain seems not to remember that one of the reasons that GM and Chrysler were on the ropes had to do with the American public choosing competitive foreign cars over the American cars from those two companies (and with the VOLT, we see GM again in the same condition. But he feels if he wraps it all in emotions and not facts (a variation on "hope an change" that worked so well in 2008), they can fool enough voters into accepting the narrative or at least, not caring about it.
Second, equally emphasize the pain that was imposed as a condition of support, and the hard and unpopular choices the president made. It was a plan of "shared sacrifice," in which executives were fired, workers lost jobs, benefits and pay were cut, and dealers were shut down. The story of the tough choices the president made along the way must be told to convince the public that this wasn't a handout.
Of course, this plays into the part of the narrative in which you must believe their "either/or" scenario – that is had the government not acted, millions of jobs would have just vaporized. Of course, what Klain describes above would most likely have been the result of normal bankruptcy proceedings minus the $50 plus billion government money injected into GM. They don't what that known though. And, naturally, they don't want any speculation about what would have emerged, how many jobs would that would have entailed, etc.
If you start down that road and use the history of bankruptcies and the emergence of companies from that situation as a basis, you'll have a very difficult time swallowing the administration's story. So avoid those facts at all costs and concentrate on "emotion" and "pain".
Finally – Klain advises the White House to crank up the propaganda:
Third, let the people of the auto communities tell their own stories — encouraging homegrown viral videos and other uses of social and new media. This is a lesson I learned the hard way during the 18 months I was part of the White House team that struggled to explain the benefits of the Recovery Act. We used visits by the president and vice president, videos posted on WhiteHouse.gov, as well as endless statistics and charts and maps and graphics on Recovery.gov — and yet nothing got the job done. Finally, two ice-cream shop owners made an iPhone video that told the story better than we ever had, by showing how a single small business loan rippled across their area to create jobs in countless other businesses.
The White House needs a similar personal narrative to tell the auto rescue story, or it will risk being denied a return to Victory Lane in 2012.
So there is the plan – "emotion, pain and propaganda" – that Klain claims the administration should use to sell something that is about as un-American as the internment of Japanese/American civilians during WWII. The most interesting part, of course, is Klain understands that if they get into the specifics of this "deal" and the facts come out, it ends up looking like a very poor decision. And Klain knows that the opposition, once it finally settles on a candidate and its own narrative, is going to seize on this subject as a part of their attack on the Obama record.
He instinctively knows that any chance of blunting that, or making it a non-issue, requires that the administration's narrative be out there actively being pushed now and that it has to be spun properly for it to work.
How do you counter this? With facts. And the facts are aplenty. There is no shortage of factual information that can gut these arguments and show them for what they are – emotion and propaganda. The opposition also has to use "American exceptionalism" in its proper way and point to the fact that the administration misusing "exceptionalism" in its version.
And that doesn't even start to get to the really long-run considerations of what effects this has on rule of law and moral hazard (or if you want to make the case for the bailout, social solidarity and degradation of the working class).
One of the things America prides itself on is "rule of law". That is a large part of our exceptionalism. We also founded a country that attempts to avoid the moral hazards that abound in this sort of a situation. We are and for the most part always have been a meritocracy. You get what you earn. We don't buy into exceptions because they're "too big to fail". We understand that freedom means the freedom to fail and we don't bail out –selectively- failures. We don't throw good money after bad, and we certainly don't expect our government to interfere in that process.
Bruce McQuain blogs at Questions and Observations (QandO), Blackfive, the Washington Examiner and the Green Room. Follow him on Twitter: @McQandO


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Congrats on a couple great animals Montana. That is a great start to the year.
Well off to try and get some more down... The most vacation I have ever taken for hunting and my tags have already been filled. Hopefully I can post some pics of my families deer/elk.
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Congrats Montana! I missed this post first round you had an awesome year!
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Please hunt wolves!!!!
I agree Montana, we do take a lot of heat here for some very poor management in a lot of areas (just my humble opinion that most is definately deserved) but to be able to hunt deer and elk every year is a blessing for sure!
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I have not fully decided if this is a blessing or a curse? She has decided on doing a Zam but she wants to start with something a little less intense for her first costume. So I have convinced her to do a female mando. She agreed very easily! That shocked me. So that being said and wondering what is going on in that head of hers...
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Springfield, Ohio – It has been 50 years since Martin Luther King Jr. authored his famed letter from a Birmingham jail, and it has been 150 years since the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was appropriate then that the 2013 Wittenberg Series-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation turned into a history lesson for the large crowd assembled in historic Weaver Chapel.
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The keynote speaker for the annual event was award-winning author and Tufts University Professor of History Peniel Joseph. He educated the audience on what he called the "heroic period of the civil rights movement" in a speech titled "The Great Wells of Democracy: Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and the Civil Rights Movement's Heroic Years."
Joseph paid respect to King, one of the foremost civil rights leaders in American history, by noting that the struggle for equality continues in 2013, even on the very same day that the nation's first African-American president is sworn in for a second term. President Barack Obama is a "profoundly important figure," Joseph noted, but many of the societal ills that King fought against in the 1960s remain prevalent a half-century later.
"The materialism, the militarism, and the racism that Dr. King spoke out against so eloquently, so articulately and with so much passion have not subsided since his death," Joseph said, citing several things as evidence, including the fact that more African-Americans are in jail today than ever before.
Joseph is the author of the award-winning Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America and Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama as well as editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights-Black Power Era and Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level. Joseph also is the founder of a growing sub-field in American History and Africana Studies that he has characterized as "Black Power Studies," which is actively re-writing post-war American and African American History as well as related interdisciplinary fields of Africana Studies, law and society, sociology, political science, Women's and Ethnic Studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary studies and American Studies, among others.
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And a highly-recommended boat monkey,not just someone from Merry Maids. That propane bottle, rusting away and feeding two long lines into the boat, to what look like two old bbqs (instead of an oven) plus a bare gas lantern?! That's scary.
OTOH there's probably a lot of small stuff that could be mistaken for garbage, which should be kept, bt would need to be cleaned and stacked. Surely there's a local broker who is smart enough to do the whole job, hire the monkey, sell the boat, make things easier for a remote owner?
But seeing the propane tank, I'd suggest speed, before the USCG or someone notices and declares the vessel to be a danger, then hauls it away. Or some seacock or hose gives way, and the boat becomes an expensive salvage bill instead of a small sale.
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Frankly, cosmetics make a world of difference. I suggest you hire a local boat monkey to clean the boat up and get rid of the trash, bird poop and especially the Propane bottle on deck. Get the hoses out of the boat. The device in the galley range bay is a reasonably costly bbq grill and you'll want to keep that. Get the trash out of the interior and have your BM wash down the woodwork, dry it and wipe it down with lemon oil. Likewise have him use a shop vac (he'll need a small portable generator) to suck-up the rust from the engine compartment. Rust is deceptive and is roughly 600% the volume of the iron consumed so it is frequently less problematic than it looks. I suggest you also contact a local diver and have him give the bottom a scrub and get rid of the "beard". By investing a few thousand dollars in clean-up and minor repair you can likely salvage many times that. The boat needs work and some young local that can pick her up for $15,000-20,000 or so could, with a little elbow grease, have her back in shape in short order. (If your relative had a shore side residence or storage locker, I suspect you'll find a lot of what appear to be missing boat parts--locker doors, sails, and the like.) This boat has real potential and could be a diamond in the rough for someone, especially with the self-steering gear).
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If it wasn't an Orion it would be worthless, as it appears your best hope would be a very optimistic person, who is dedicated to finding a "bargain" bluewater boat to restore. Some very questionable modifications have been made which make all sytems on the boat kinda questionable.
I would expect $10,000 at the most and maybe be happy with half.
It will cost more to restore than it's market value I fear.
I'm real sorry I can't be more optimistic.
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The PS Orion is a very well regarded and nice boat. That one looks like it could use a good amount of work. It actually looks like it was being overhauled at some point, and then was abandoned. That is going to make it less attractive for most buyers. Hiring a surveyor would help you figure out actual value.
A friend recently bought one in much nicer condition (and with better equipment) for $45k, so I worry that some of the estimates that you are seeing in this thread are on the high side.
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Here is a link to some photos, please let me know what you think of it's condition, and possible resale value. I appreciate it!
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Join Photobucket.com, upload your pictures there and paste the IMG CODE link option into a post here... that way we can all see the pictures.
You may well have a real asset there..
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If anyone in the San Diego area that knows a lot about boats would like to go look at it, I would like that just to see what they think it would be worth. I also have some pictures that I could send of the condition of the boat, if there is anyone willing to take a look at them and give me their opinion. Thanks!
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1. How do we know it is a project boat?
2. Maybe he doesn't know how much he loves sailing until he tries. He has a great head start.
3. Started our two girls at 18 months. Nothing wrong with it.
This could turn into a real "What If."
What if I had done that when I was younger, than all of the sudden life passes you by.
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Second, you said you were in Ohio and had no use for it, but I have to tell you, She would make a great Erie Boat.
Please help the guy out by getting it off his hands and mind for the best price he can get.
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I can't see a substitute for hiring a reputable boat broker in San Diego and having them list the boat for you. Even a good boat like yours will likely not sell immediately, unless you are willing to take the lower range of its estimated value. The key to this sale process going smoothly is finding a good and honest broker. They are out there but you must research them thoroughly.
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Zinester highlights continue with a conversation with Tayyba Kanwal, coordinator of The Lovely Blubs. Read on!
Why do you create zines?
The Lovely Blubs are a multi-generational co-inspiring team, and zines have the magical ability to web together our ideas and creative skills. Zines let us play together, and share our worlds with people who get the fun of it.
What is your favorite part of zine fest?
Talking with people about the inspiration behind the hundred of stories and images floating around the Zine Fest, both theirs and ours.
What new projects are you working on this year?
This year The Lovely Blubs are starting a new series that will be released at the Zine Fest over six years. Come find us for part 1 of a futuristic zine inspired by Alice (of Wonderland) by Natasha and Unity Haq. You've seen their Mara & Clay series mature over the two years they were in elementary school. They are now middle schoolers and seasoned zinesters. We are thrilled about the prospect of watching this new series evolve with them through their years in middle school and high school.
What will be on your table at this year's Zine Fest?
You don't want to miss Natasha & Unity Haq's first installment of their new Alice zine! Athena Haq's "Duck and Swan" love story (featuring a duck in a tux!) was a hit last year, and she will be back with another moving new zine. The Lovely Blubs will also have a new set of postcards of their original art, that you have become so fond of over the last two years. And this year, Maya Kanwal has a special treat waiting for you – handwritten copies of her published second person short story, a story that was imagined as a letter, and now you can have a personal copy.
What other creative ventures do you have besides making zines?
Maya Kanwal, the coordinator of The Lovely Blubs, is writing a short story collection, one of which is forthcoming this fall in the journal Quarterly West, and was presented at a reading at the Houston Public Library central branch. She has also completed a YA novel that is now in the hands of the powers that be. You can check her out here: http://mayakanwal.com and follow her on twitter @mayakanwal
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The Lovely Blubs haunt the museums that we are so lucky to have such easy access to, and spend a lot of time (both watching and performing) at the Wortham Center, Main Street Theater and Winter Street Studios. Those of us who are old enough can also be consistently found writing at Agora, imbibing at The Anvil and listening to readings at Rudyards.


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I say we give it a year and pray that Subaru gives it a facelift, botox injection or maybe a better ass-end. The electronics look pretty nice compared to the current gen though.
This is a discussion on The Official 2015 WRX & STi Thread within the New Cars/Prototypes Forums forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; I say we give it a year and pray that Subaru gives it a facelift, botox injection or maybe a ...
I say we give it a year and pray that Subaru gives it a facelift, botox injection or maybe a better ass-end. The electronics look pretty nice compared to the current gen though.
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35% tint and that's all she wrote
At first, I didnt like it... but the more I look at it, the more it grows on me... Think itll be my next... maybe wait until the 2016 for any wrinkles to be ironed out...
I didn't see this mentioned in thus thread but I may have missed it.
It looks like Europe is getting a new wagon.
It needs to lose 300lbs and add a hatch.
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Well the 2014 weighs 3250, so if this one is 50lbs more, that brings it to 3300lbs.
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it could use that 300 pound reduction.....
Here's hoping the STI looks a little less bland...
I'm not sure why people are complaining about the looks. Every time a new WRX comes out people say how bad it is compared to the last model, and there are always comments about how they just look like a plain sedan (and they always do!). The 2015 actually looks more modern and sporty than any previous WRX, and on paper it looks as if it is going to rival the German cars for responsiveness (at least I hope so!). I have always been interested in the WRX and have owned an '08, and I can say this is the most interesting release I have seen. The interior looks as if it is going to be a lot less bland as well. I was close to buying a used G37xS, but Subaru have caught my attention with this!
Big question - what will the price be??
I think it will grow on everyone..
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Btw not a fan of the new grill design. It looks like a fish mouth - shades of Ford! - instead of an evil hawkeye grin. Which would scare you more coming up behind you in the passing lane?
The 2011-14 model is the edgiest design out there. The 2015 seems to smooth off the edges, which I'm not sure is a good thing. Though you're right, it may grow on me.
And I wouldn't mind a nicer interior, high-quality stereo, and 6 gears...
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I probably just need to see it in DGM :-)
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-Van Helsing, from Bram Stoker's Dracula
I understand Subaru has done alot to try to meet everyone's likes and dislikes which include the upgraded speakers, 6 speed, better fuel mileage etc, etc... They cant make everyone happy. But car design was just horrid for this next generation. I do hope the STI will come equipped with a wide body (doubt it) but I have hope. That or hopefully a facelift and few changes in some years to the style design. Loved the interior though.
With all that said. It looks like a Corolla. It really doesnt resemble what the WRX concept had. It doesnt grasp my attention like the older and current WRX's had that aggressive demeanor. The only thing honestly that stands out right away is the front end because of the scoop and new headlights.
Sad, while taking photos and observing the car I heard people around talking bogus stuff like the new WRX looks "soft". It was crowded at the show...but not around the WRX.
At the same time I was really doing my best to accept the car for what it is.
They already said the STI will have a wider rear fenders and booty compared to the WRX so don't lose hope just yet.
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How is your relationship with God?Have you ever been asked this question? Maybe you've asked the question of others.How should it be answered? Is there a right or wrong way?I recently heard Randy Pope, author of Insourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series) share an account of how he has often posed the question, "How is your relationship with God?" to men in his discipleship groups. He often gets answers such as, "Well, I've been t … [Read more...]
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Have you shot the gun from a rest? Sounds like you might be pulling the shots low. Shooting from a rest will negate that and further eliminate any other shooter error from the equation.
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Laser Adjustment Table (below): This table shows the direction of adjuster rotation (as viewed from above and behind the firearm) and the resultant direction of the laser beam and the shot group movement. ZEROING PROCEDURE
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The list of new features and fixes is once again impressive and can be read in full from their official ANNOUNCEMENT. Here are the highlights:
- Linux kernel updated to 18.104.22.168-bfs
- KDE SC Desktop upgraded to version 4.4.3 (AMAZING, the announcement has not even been published on KDE.ORG yet!!!
- Improved support for several Wifi and Video cards, as well as Webcams.
- General application update including security enhancements and bug fixes.
My current PCLinuxOS2010.1 desktop sporting KDE 4.4.3!!
Because I had PCLinux2010 already installed, I did not download the new ISO image. As instructed on the official announcement, I updated from Synaptic instead. This process proved fairly simple and safe, but I must admit I was a bit lost at first. Here's how I did it:
The options highlighted should clarify how to apply the 2010.1 update
1.- Open Synaptic package manager (Main menu > Software Center) and enter your admin credentials as usual.
2.- On your lower left, you should see four buttons. Click the "Custom" one as highlighted on the image above (Note I am using the Spanish translation, but the location of the button should be identical).
3.- From the options listed right above the buttons, click on the "Upgradable (newer version)" one, then click on the refresh/update button.
4.- After a few seconds, the main applet should show a list of all packages available for update.
5.- Select all records, right click and select the upgrade option.
6.- Click on the apply button and wait until the process is complete.
7.- Reboot your machine.
You should get all upgrades without a problem, it worked flawlessly for me, and I am enjoying my new KDE 4.4.3 desktop!!!
Awesome KDE 4.4.3 SC at your fingertips thanks to PCLinuxOS 2010.1
For those command line inclined, simply run the following command as root:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
What can I say? I was blown away with PCLinuxOS 2010 and getting this bugfix release with such incredible updates is just the icing on the cake. It is great to see such dedication and commitment from the PCLinuxOS developers!!
Those of you who did install PCLinuxOS 2010 KDE, go ahead and update, totally recommended!. If you have not, what are you waiting for? Download your ISO image from HERE.


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