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Had an argument with my father tonight over the mess in WI (that's where I'm from). He's a really unbalanced dude without me to counter his arguments. I'm no conservative...I'm a libertarian/in the middle. From my perspective life and decisions are complicated. I think it'd be healthier for everyone to be conflicted rather than at one pole or another.

I love the Houston metro. I'm sure there are many other great places there but I'll probably have to go bankrupt to get out of my condo at this point. That being said, who knows what the future holds.

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Same with me and my mom...she's a teacher and her whole side of the family is all in education in WI.

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I'm sorry but the whole union thing is messed up. Whether or not their whole CB rights should be taken away or not is a different topic and for a different thread, but...

I have a buddy and his Mom is collecting her pension from the first school district she worked for plus another. She "retired" right when she could retire and moved districts and started working again. So not only was she being paid for teaching while collecting a pension for teaching... but now she is retired and collects TWO pensions for teaching...

Her husband is a painter and makes 25K a year... you would swear they both pulled 6 figure salaries though the way they live. Teacher benefits are wayyyyyyyyyy too good atm.

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That's the conversation that I had with my father. He's a poor, uneducated guy that has been a union employee most of his life. He just doesn't understand that the unions we're talking about are white-collar unions and not blue collar. The blue-collar folks get screwed no matter what happens.

I met a dude at the local bar who was a Sheriff in Alabama. He 'retired' after 20 year (at the age of 38) and then went to work full-time for the MN State Patrol. If he 'retires' at the age of 58 from the MN State Patrol then he'll be pulling down a six-figure pension. He's currently making six figures between his 'retirement' and day job with the State Patrol. How do you group that kind of state employee in with the "janitor" that the liberal talk shows talk about? You can't.

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I'm still shocked they ordered a full trans for you just in case! Hey brookdale are you reading this!? Sweet geebuz. Glad she's back in the stable--let the modding continue! :D

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It got fresh rear differential fluids today :)
Diaqueen 90W LSD & Diamond ATF SP III

Also noted that after 4k miles these Hankooks are wearing very evenly even with my -2* camber up front.

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New exhaust manifold is installed! I'm just waiting for the dyno to open up to get it back on to see what the gains are (should be around 4pm).

Baseline from yesterday:
http://accessecu.com/dyno/graph.php?...rgb1=000000255

I made 342/360 last November when I got tuned, the only thing that changed was Magnaflow ---> Cobb catback:
http://accessecu.com/dyno/graph.php?...rgb2=204000000

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Which mani you get?

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Hughes, pictures are uploaded here. Take your pick. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmondoh...7626126166019/

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He just had the stocker ported by PPI and then ceramic coated locally by SPC. I have the exact same parts as well but mine won't go on until we finish his. :)

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PPI "Extreme" ported option then as Mondo said ceramic coated by SPC in Arlington, TX (same shop who coated my MAP o2 elim downpipe).
Nice pictures as always, thanks!

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Stock vs. ported:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5180/...2b6dded4_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5212/...a392da21_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5172/...57f884dc_b.jpg

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5099/...a75bda9b_b.jpg

Some self-porting (gasket-match) to the turbine housing:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5133/...1ed37e8e_b.jpg

Installed:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5058/...1778164b_b.jpg

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Dyno results are in...unfortunately they are less than impressive :( Charts coming soon.

I picked up 3whp but lost 3 wtq (peak). Above 6,800 RPM power is noticeably increased, but that's about it. Boost stayed the same, but AFR's did go a bit richer so more power will be had once it's leaned out a bit again. It also lost a bit of spool which seems odd, but Calvin (tuner) thinks he can get that back with MIVEC tuning.

Next up is the intake manifold and throttle body, might do these tomorrow and see if I can get it for a retune sometime this week or next weekend.

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how much richer did it get? I'm excited to see the sheets once you get it actually tuned for both mani's.

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Went from mid 11's to high 10's AFR.

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Sexeh! Can't wait to see the graphs! Now get that IM/TB on there :D

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After changing the WRX's oil, dealing with an oil leak, and cleaning it's Perrin air filter today I decided to get lazy and not start on the IM/TB job. Instead I decided to wash both cars, buy a case of Throwback Dew, and now just relaxing :)

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Are you still on a stock turbo? Sometimes freer flowing exhaust manifolds actually hurt the spool on turbos. Just a thought.

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I bet if you lean it out to get it to the same AFR you were at before, you'll see some gains.