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Browsing around on the interwebs I ran across this Smart Window Tint for Cars. It's a film that is opaque normally, but goes clear with the application of sufficient current... and runs a gamut of tint levels if you use a dimmer switch to supply current in between none and clear. Looks really...

I have been running Bosch 42# green giant injectors since doing the Flexfuel conversion back in 2012. I think I am now finally hitting the top end of what they can deliver. I'm looking for an alternative. I wrote to Injector Dynamics to see if their ID 725 would fit, or if they had...

Here's a link to the Elio web page Looks like a 2 seater 3 wheel car that will theoretically sell at $6800, get 84mpg, made in America (at an old GM plant in Shreveport) out of 90% made in North America content. Here's their "details page" with some stats. 55hp 55ft-lbs torque. I can't find...

I'll start by saying I didn't know what I was doing, so there are probably some unnecessary steps. I installed MFab's intercooler and hard charge pipes. However, most of these instructions would also apply to any other intercooler and pipes swap. 1) remove all screws from bumper. Note...

At least for those of you who live on my side of the dateline. And for those who aren't quite into the 25th yet, Merry Xmas to you (tomorrow) I say this regardless of your religious affiliation, if any. I deliberately say Xmas (prounounced kristmass, just like the other one), and pretend...

There's a guy at my local mechanics who owns a little pickup he's modified to be a drag racer. He's put a bigger, turbocharged engine in (I think he said it's a Suzuki with a Subaru engine, but don't quote me on that)... but more interesting to me, he's Removed the intercooler completely...

Years (perhaps more than a decade) ago, I read a story about how car dealerships were going to become a thing of the past. With more and more parts being standardized for economy of scale reasons, and with robotic assembly plants which could as easily do one off as mass produce, it would (they...

I don't want to talk about whether global warming exists, whether man causes it (or even a significant fraction of it), why it exists or anything like that. Start another thread for that, if you want, IMO. What I want to know is, is it really actually a bad thing? I know, people who...

For my honeymoon, we flew down to Miami, and rented a car for a week, drove down to the lower keys, stayed in a little cottage on the water, tooled around, and then drove back up to the airport. I paid for the rental with airline miles, and it doesn't specify a car, just a class. I'd selected...

I have had an ongoing problem for the past three months. I took my car in early for inspection, a month before it was due (it's OK, in PA you can take it in three months early). The garage was unable to get the inspection to complete. In PA, there are 8 flags in the computer that reset...

While shopping around for what would eventually be my choice of Sonic, I looked hard at electric cars. I wanted one bad... but bad seemed to be the only kind of EV I could get, with high prices and short ranges and little utility. Well it's been a few years and EV tech has been improving...

Just signed up for the BuyPower card. I had a similar CC for airline miles, and I found it fairly modest in usefulness, despite making a concerted effort to build miles using it. I own a small business, and I have some suppliers that will sell to me on a card as opposed to requiring checks...

As an existing customer, I got an email last night about a new version of UG. Here's a link to the Ultragauge Blue website Not really certain what I'm looking at, but as far as I can see, it's a device that plugs into the OBDII port and is a bluetooth transceiver and has its own display which...

I use my Sonic as a cargo vehicle. I can cram a lot of stuff inside. I have cheap temporary roof racks that let me haul a lot of stuff on top. But recently I decided to go one further and get a trailer hitch. I've been very pleased with this decision. I got the hitch from UHaul, and had...

Got an offer in the mail today to exchange my Sonic for any Mitsubishi, no money out of my pocket, and lower my monthly payment they say. OK, first off, no. No thanks. You can't lower my payment I am paid off and done. You'd have to pay ME. Second off, I have a lot of time and money...

I have been having an issue with high boost for a while now, and have been unable to track it down. Car runs fine normally so it's been a back burner issue, but I'd really like to get it back to faux-sportscar mode. I've seen mention in a number of threads of a wastegate pin issue, but I...

I just got an offer in the mail, it seems too good to be true. Says here my timely automobile payment history qualifies me to obtain new financing thru ChevyAutoFinancing.com which will (I am paraphrasing here) let me buy a new 2015 for below my current monthly payments. Since I paid off the...

Read an interesting article about rotational mass in regards to cars: Rotating Mass, Available Horsepower, and Acceleration It claims that the mass of your wheels is not as important as we've been given to believe, and also calls into question reducing driveshaft weight and flywheel weight...

I got a Vermont Tune a while back. I am looking into getting a tune from a local Dyno tuner, but they don't have a device that will work with the Sonic. I'm wondering if they can use the handheld from VT. Anyone know what that is? Their site mentions an HPTuner, offhandedly while referring...

I know a lot of you aren't fans of the SiriusXM subscription that came with the Sonic. Personally, I like it. But what I really like is mostly NPRnow and RadioClassics. When my free subscription ran out, I cut a deal for service. Then I re-upped, which meant I did not get a deal...