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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
It is spring weather in Oklahoma today. It was a very pleasant 68 outside this morning on the commute to work. The forecast is for possible sever thunderstorms and tornadoes. Followed by sleet and freezing temperatures Wednesday morning. Sunny and 57 for Thursday.
I am so ready for spring. I want to leave my coat at the dry cleaners and then put it away for the year.
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
It is 75 degrees outside and we are under a winter storm advisory. 28 degrees in the morning.  |
Is fire and brimstone next? Good grief that is crazy weather!
I went on a short tour of a local business with some other SAE members. The place is a small shop owned by a Cal Poly grad. They do air suspension conversions but make custom control systems that can make the spring rate linear, progressive, or whatever they want basically. Plus the height adjustment. Most customers sound like they do it just for looks but there are some nice performance benefits as far as having the spring rate be very progressive like an off road suspension. And you could lower the car for the track but raise it for the drive home or to get into your driveway.
I had to leave early as I had a class at noon. I was just going to skip it (the earthquakes class) but turned out a girl who went on the tour had a Mechanical Vibrations lab at noon so I graciously offered to take her back.
She is quite pretty.
Unfortunately, she has a boyfriend already- one of the other shop techs.
On the way back we stopped on a hill and when the light turned green I reached down for the handbrake and jabbed for the clutch pedal but had to stop myself as it was the econobox Ford with the slushbox. That got us talking about manual transmissions and left foot vs. right foot braking, double clutching, etc. She always drives manuals. She would be hot anyway, but that just made her a 10.
