I AM SO DAMNED SICK OF WINTER IT'S SO COLD UP HERE IN SUDBURY ALL THE SNOW AND SALT I WANT TO DRIVE MY CAR AGAIN BUT I CAN'T BECAUSE IT'S ON JACK STANDS AND COVERED IN A FOOT OF SNOW WHY CAN'T WINTER BE OVER SOON DAMNED YOU PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO WHERE YOUR AVERAGE DAILY HIGH IS ABOVE FREEZING BAHHHHH!!

*deep breath*

/rant.

I feel better.

Anyone feel the same way?

I know I didn't use punctuation.

Guy at work always goes away on vacation March 1st.
He figures you can live through the snow til Christmas, and then Christmas is pretty. By mid Jan, everyone's lights are down, and February, you get hammered with .... well, what we're getting now.

So, as things just start to thaw Mar 1, but you're still in for another month or two of crappy weather, he heads south and gets a week or two of sun. Sets him up for dealing with spring showers.


But look on the bright side.
You're not foolish enough to try month long kitchen renos right now, moving yourself into your upper floor and living out of a spare bedroom as a make-shift kitchen.
Heh.
What kind of fool would do THAT?

I hear you Ryan. Im dying to put the talon on the road. But I don't want to throw it on the road when there is still snow and salt out. Espicially when I still have a neon to drive....I should really get the neon fixed this weekend.

Last winter was so much better. Probably going to put the talon on the road mid march now.

lol are you gonna do this every year Ryan?

http://www.ca.dsm.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=8411

You could almost set your calendar to that...

Oh and let it be known the only thing I hate more than winter is people complaining about winter MOVE, or STFU!!!

Damn, that's awful.

But hey, it's a cold grey day here in Dallas today.
The wind is blowing, the rain is intermittant, and it's hovering at 5c.

This weekend it'll be even worse: Sunny, clear and in the mid to low 20's.

Terrible.

It's OK Dan, I'm typing this from Cancun.
I am also asleep and dreaming right now

Therefore, you hate winter too! So... um... THERE!

I don't have the boost bug that bad this year, my winter beater's boosted.

Only like 8lbs on a 13b though

Hey at least I'm not YELLING about it, man!
Or, was that just a cryogenically stuck shift key?

Nah, girlfriend's on a 7:30PM-4AM shift.

Had "Sticky Keys" on.

AHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Why do I see this post getting deleted...

it's snowing AGAIN in Toronto. this is utter bullshit. global warming my ass - i'd so much rather see palm trees at nathan phillips square than have this weather for 6 months out of the year

It's snowing here in Ottawa, too. Don't you just love how people forget how to drive in this weather? You'd think that most people who have been through at least one winter here would recall how to act/react in snowy conditions. Nooo, either they drive slower than my legally blind grandmother or think they're invincible until they roll their SUVs.


Sure, winter is cold but you can dress up for it. Most people just can't tolerate how depressing it is.

The tires on my rental are a55! Compared to my Blizzaks..
I can't beleve people drive without winters

i still run my summer-only khumo 711s. i like to live on the edge.

Well it looks like it snowed earlier here. I drove one winter with summers. I didn't have any more issues with traction as snow tires. Mind you thats the only winter I did it. I'd like to stick with less powered cars for the winter now just so the loud pedal is some what useful.

Three things that signify spring is coming in Canada.

1: Geese fly north.



2: Buds on the trees



3: Timmies RRRRoll up the rim to win!!



PLEASE COME SPRING COME!!

One thing that signifies Ryan's lost it.

1: This is NOW!

BWAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

1. Leafs are struggling to make it into the playoffs..

2: The leafs make it to the playoffs...

Cup bound boys...cup bound...

Yup...

The only thing that makes me feel better in the winter, its my paypal account.

Yaknow a'mean!!

I see the sun is out. Melt you homely Biatch MELT!!!!

I mean...I'm canadian I love snow. Not to say I never get tired of seeing it.

Mondays forecast, rain. With a chance of freezing rain. Oh boy!

Ian, we have to get together sometime!

Do I have to bring my snow blower?

lol, no but i'm just up the road from u on paris. If you're not doing anything tonight, pm me and I'll give you my number, pop over for a beer.

Im sick of looking at my bike. Just waiting for it all to disapeer so I can go riding

I can't wait for the temperature to rise noticeably so that I can work on the Talon without freezing to death or catching pneumonia. It hibernates during the winter.

ahhh the joys of a heated garage. ahahah

too bad i'm out of money for mods this year. lol

driving the gf's beetle again today. brutal.

I hear that! me and the old man just finished redoing the garage with huge amounts of storage and heating it. To bad as soon as we finished it I moved out here and left the cars at home, sitting outside ...

So I have a heated garage for when I get back in spring for +30 weather....

Well, pulled the covers of her today, fired it up! Took a bit of cranking to get the fuel prime as I have a leaky sending unit (replacing) but she weathered the winter VERY well. No musty smell in the cabin, no frame rust or moisture on it due to the tarp I put under it, everything looks great.

Since it's going to be so BEAUTIFUL tomorrow in Sudbury, I'm going to start the tear down and wire tuck.

FINALLY SPRING'S HERE!!!

Indeed. I head to my talon tommorrow to do Timing and get the temp on monday. By friday should be driving it.

Never thought I would be so happy to see grass. =]

I'm just throwing the coveralls on right now, gonna go fix a couple wiring issues and see if I can get this starter problem sorted out.

It'd be nice to actually DRIVE the car but we can only ask for so much!

LOL, isn't that the truth.

Started tearing into mine today. I did a wire tuck for the wires that run across the IM, they are now hidden in the middle of it, and I've turned my injectors so the wires don't show.

Got rid of that damned red wire loom too!

Pulled the front off and removed the FMIC (Jay, it's ready for you) as well as removed the Fuel Sending unit to get the Walbro 190 I'm selling out.

Now my engine bay looks like it puked, all the wires all over the place.

Next task next weekend: Relocate the fuse box to where the SMIC used to be.

It's good to be back.

That's a pretty dusty, wet, dirty spot for the fuse box, isn't it? Or is this car a Sunday driver? Definitely gets it out of the way.

I redid all my grounds today on the new rig. Previous owner had the battery relocated to the trunk and there were a few pretty sketchy grounds but they're good now.

Figured out my coolant leak is coming from where the main water line connects to the water pump. No big deal since I have to take the manifold and turbo off anyway and I was already planning on flushing all the fluids.

The starter problem, on the other hand, isn't looking so good. Had a look at the teeth on the flywheel and they're chewed up pretty good from repeated use of a starter that wasn't engaging properly. So, hopefully I can just replace the starter and it will be ok 'cause I really don't want to have to change the flywheel on my new car.

See, I'm going to put the fusebox wires side up, and put the shrouds there, so it should keep it decently dry. Probably fill the wiring area with some sort of non-conductive goop.

Good to know you got a few things fixed today. Hopefully the starter just has to be replaced and you don't have to do the flywheel.