I heard that if it gets REAL cold the clothes will freeze dry. I don't have a solar clothes dryer and it does not get super cold here, so I can't test that theory. I don't want to test the theory.

yeah, that's true, i have tested it...
temp is not that much of a factor when drying clothes outside, cold and wind will work just fine.
It doesn't even have to freeze, as long as there's a bit of wind


It's the rain that ruins it over here :D

A lot of people tend to forget, that clothes got dried before the invention of the clothes dryer just the same... and they didn't wait till summer to get clothes washed ...

Yea, and many people had to go to the outhouse to pee in the dead of winter.

I don't want to try that either :)

My MIL says she camped out for the 16 years of her life. She grew up on a very rural farm in NW Oklahoma. No electricity, no running water and a outhouse. She said every winter the entire house would get so cold that the water bucket would freeze solid on the kitchen counter. To get a drink of water in the morning meant getting up and building a fire. To build a fire you have to chop a lot of wood at some point. She said on very cold days in the winter the bed would have frost on it in the morning.

I remember visiting uncles of my mum, when i was a kid.. living in rural area..
and the outhouse, was still an outhouse... wooden plank with a hole in it.

as a kid, it scared me... cause it would not have been impossible for me(skinny 7 year old) to fall in ...

And from what i hear, that was already a luxury outhouse, as it had a toilet paper holder, with real TP on it..
my uncles remember similar outhouses, when they were 7... where it was old news papers....

I have heard many people get all nostalgic about the "old days" and wish they could go back in time. Not me.

I remember outhouse visits and hot summer days without air conditioning. I never went to a school that was air conditioned. I remember our TV was black & white and only had three channels. I had to get up and walk across the room to change the channel.

My family must have been rich.

They all had add on bathrooms built on to the back of the house with a flush toilet. Typically used part of a back porch. Guess that was considered indoor plumbing. But you coudn't flush the toilet paper, instead you put it in a trash can and burned a match. There was a barrel out back where they burned all their trash. Even "in town" where there was garbage collection most people burned their trash and the garbage collectors mainly collected the ashes and whatever didn't burn. Even the elementary school I went to had and used an incinerator.

My parents had one of the first TV's on the block. They put it on the front porch and the whole neighborhood would come sit on the lawn and watch it.

most folks from my grandfathers generation had a full bathroom, it's more the generation before that , Flanders was a very rural region prior to WW1... after WW1 it was a very bombed up region...
Things evolved quite fast during and after WW2... But some of the older ones, that stayed farming... didn't evolve as fast as the city folks...

Farmers around here, are nothing like farmers you guys think off...
there's no big land ownership here, it's just little patches left and right... very small scale compared to US farming...

And even today, there are some of those older generation farmers, never married, couldn't find a woman who would bother with farming... they live by themselves on the farm... in what most of us would consider very poor living standards...
But they don't care , they get up before dawn, drive around the tractor, feed the pig, the cow, and smoke tobacco... and once in a while they go to a little old , pub.. hardly worth the name "pub", basically somebody who got some kind of house with a half assed tap , couple of tables.. and that's it...

Some folks are kind of embarrased about these pubs... i'm not, if any of you Ahmerikhuns come over here, we'll go drink in one of those pubs.
Because that's how it used to be in my grandfathers time.. life was very uncomplicated then...

Stijn, before this decade is out, I'm taking you up on that offer.

Having done the whole primitive thing in northern NM for 2wks I have no want to live like that forever.... In those 2wks this was the standard bathroom facility...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1267635972.jpg


Ok guys I think I have decided on my suspension....


Koni sports all the way around.... Adjustable spring perches up front with 260lb springs(stock height) and a 28mm Tbar in the rear... Keep the 19mm rear sway and try to find a 30mm front adjustable

Might want to do some calculations on the overall stiffness increase front to rear. You want to keep the percent increase in ride frequency relatively the same... 260lb/in wheel rate in the front sounds good, but I can't remember what a 28mm bar in the rear equates to at the wheel. It needs to be less than 260 lbs/in, I can tell you that. The rear needs to be slightly softer than the front.

If it is more, you may consider a lesser torsion bar, or stiffer front springs (more than 260 is going to make your around town driving start to get rough.

according to this 28mm=254lbs

I can live with rough on the street... but I think much more than 260 will kill me.... Should I step down to the 27mm? I'm not ordering that yet... Just ordering the struts and springs so I can take advantage of the sale and get started building that extra set of fronts I've got....

250 and 27mm spring rates sound good. That is just a little stiffer than a stock 951, but not as stiff as the setup I had on my 951, 180-400progressive front and 31mm rear torsion bar. There is a little more power to deal with on a 951. Around 250 is considered a good autocross setup. The main advantage of stiffer springs is you can lower the car without bottoming out the springs in hard cornering.

Look for some Weltmeister fully adjustable front and rear swaybars, that will be the best for setup. Brian has the Lindsay 030 bar with 5 holes, it needs to be set between two holes for better mid-corner balance. The Weltmeisters have a sliding collar instead of holes. When I had my 951 I found a set of front and rear adjustable Weltmeister sway bars for $400.

The adjustable ride height Koni's are good, but you might want to also make sure they are the ones with adjustable rebound too. You adjust the front rebound for throttle application balance on corner exits, firmer keeps the front from rising and pushing, softer lets the front rise and keeps the rears hooked up. You adjust the rear rebound for braking on corner entry, too soft and the rear comes around too easily on turn in, too firm and the front pushes on turn in.

You also might want to consider a limited slip differential once you get the suspension sorted to calm down that one rear wheel tire spin in the wet.

Ya.... I have that 5way bar as well... I will start looking for good bars front and rear... but.... I am on a min wage budget...not an engineers salary....

Same goes for an LSD

Hey Sid are you now officially employed and working?

I start today... as soon as I get out of this class I am heading to Clinton to work till 6... I work all day tomorrow b/c I have no classes....

Hey you have class, you hang out with Porsche guys. :)

Oh, you are talking about that schoolin type of class.

I have seen those toilets before....Lol. That was the pilot-copilot. My favorite was the red roof inn!

Idk tom... that one usually had no odor... open air and all...


Yup glen... I am in a bio class right now....
at least until 1:50. ;)

So I can't call you a no class guy after all.

What a frigging day, I stepped on a mouse on my way to the litterbox, right out of the bed. My phone would not turn on, so I ended up having to slip the battery on my way to work, Hit a bump and got my nads full of hot coffee, got to work (early by design) and the parts that were supposed to be there were not, and it went down hill from there.
I am kinda glad to be home.