"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
Your thoughts on modifying cars or your own.
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"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
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Sport bikes are a horrible idea. Vipers do the same thing sports bikes do...only they do it to your wallet.bigjohnson said:If you want to go fast for less than $120,000 just get a sport-bike. OR you can pick up a used but not used up Viper for $50K. Most of the rest of this crap is just schoolboy foolishness.
Some people have very inexpensively turbocharged the small block chevy to 800hp streetable and the big block Chevy to over a 1100hp. I think the cheapest and easiest way to make power is with nitrous oxide. You use to be able to get kits for 300-500 extra hp for around $500. To make the big nitrous numbers you need to build the motor like a supercharged/turbo with lower compression, a different cam, stout engine parts, dedicated nitrous fuel supply and ignition retard.Bible_Belt said:The gtr is highly respected, but the guy I bought the Stealth from had one and ended up selling it out of frustration at the high cost of getting high hp out of one compared to his friends with Mustangs and Camaros. It is a lot cheaper to get a high hp number in a large-displacement engine.
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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ketostix said:Some people have very inexpensively turbocharged the small block chevy to 800hp streetable and the big block Chevy to over a 1100hp. I think the cheapest and easiest way to make power is with nitrous oxide. You use to be able to get kits for 300-500 extra hp for around $500. To make the big nitrous numbers you need to build the motor like a supercharged/turbo with lower compression, a different cam, stout engine parts, dedicated nitrous fuel supply and ignition retard.
Who are you callin' a retard?
Making big HP is the easy part, making it reliable and usable takes a lot more work. Even pro tuners with deep into six digit budgets struggle with this. Watch the boys on Top Gear try to get a lot of those beasts around their test track to understand. My favorite was a tuner built v-12 M-B with 850 HP that just. wouldn't. stay. on. the. track.
Hmmm, well I've been on bikes for 35 years and I'm still OK, but then a used Viper wouldn't hurt my wallet much either, so ....PRMoon said:Sport bikes are a horrible idea. Vipers do the same thing sports bikes do...only they do it to your wallet.
I didn't know I was calling anyone a retard? I disagree that it is any harder to make an engine reliable as it is to make HP if you have the money and know what you are doing, it's just an extra consideration in part choices. I agree it's always a challenge to get a car to handle well with high HP, but the high HP is for the straightaway.bigjohnson said:Who are you callin' a retard?
Making big HP is the easy part, making it reliable and usable takes a lot more work. Even pro tuners with deep into six digit budgets struggle with this. Watch the boys on Top Gear try to get a lot of those beasts around their test track to understand. My favorite was a tuner built v-12 M-B with 850 HP that just. wouldn't. stay. on. the. track.
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No, I mean the vehicle as an entity. Any time you start adding huge HP gains that echos around every part of the vehicle, finding every weak or cheap link. In the end it's a huge project and often expensive.ketostix said:I disagree that it is any harder to make an engine reliable as it is to make HP if you have the money and know what you are doing,....
bigjohnson said:No, I mean the vehicle as an entity. Any time you start adding huge HP gains that echos around every part of the vehicle, finding every weak or cheap link. In the end it's a huge project and often expensive.
Yeah I totally agree. That's why you're ahead to just buy a factory made performance car that's been thoroughly engineered and then maybe tweak it a little. It's kind of silly not to mention expensive turbocharging an econo-car like the Civic all the way to 300hp+ when the rest of the car's mechanicals were never designed for that kind of power. The OP should've just got a supercharged or the later model turbocharged Cobalt SS. It's diffcult enough just keeping a stock car in perfect maintenace and everything in perfect working order.