What would possibly entice me to buy a computer from an advert on my Microsoft start screen posted for a fat fee I presume, by someone who can't even spell it.
And by now those who seem to know what I am searching for should know that I bought a Hyundai Santa Fe several months ago, and haven't searched for any info on one since, but I get one to three adverts for one (lower right) every day.
And by now those who seem to know what I am searching for should know that I bought a Hyundai Santa Fe several months ago, and haven't searched for any info on one since, but I get one to three adverts for one (lower right) every day.
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The fuel tank in the Pinto WAS the floor of the trunk. If the tank was ruptured on the top surface due a rear end collision the trunk was filled with fuel and vapors and the only thing separating that explosive mix from the passenger compartment was a piece of cardboard and the rear seat. The Pinto was called out for several fiery deaths, but some 1960's Mustangs were built the same way.
Pehaps not a good place for the mildly dyslexic...
That ad just hurts my eyes. Not only did they miss that desktop is one word and misspelled computer, they also screwed up the capitalization. That's truly remarkable.
Buy another one and see what happens? 🙂
Tom
Big brother knows me better than that. This is the first new vehicle that I have bought since 2009. The 2009 Jeep Patriot was selected because it was the cheapest new vehicle on any of the zillions of car lots in South Florida and there was a $2000 "keep Chrysler in business" rebate AND Obama's $3500 "cash for clunkers" rebate. This is also the first time I have taken out a car loan since the 70's. Two sets of car payments at the same time???? Not happening!
The crap that flows from my Microsoft start menu often looks like it was farmed out to some middle school kids that are not native English speakers. Often the picture has nothing to do with the advert or the caption.
The problem with the Pinto (we had one when I was first driving) was that the gas tank was tightly placed between the rear bump and the differential, with the tank seam lining up nicely with the middle of the diff.... A rear end collision could sandwich the tank, causing the seam to split, splashing gas on the hot exhaust pipe, pooof! Ford recalled them, and added some plastic protection between the diff and the tank to help spread the impact force.
Rust, however, was a much bigger problem in that generation of Fords! Just not as flashy!
What an interesting coincidence. A little bit creepy I would say...
You used megasquirt as an example… I was reading this message while working at my office (which happens to be my shop/garage/etc) and look what is on my desk:
A Megasquirt 1, extra11g firmware (if I am not mistaken). I use it in my heavily modified Willys CJ3A.
When I saw your message, had to take a picture and reply! Then I looked around to check for cameras.... 😂🤣
It looks like I see an early 1996 date code on the LM1815 chip. That makes more sense than my late 90's guess. I also used the generic term "Googling" but Google did not exist in the mid 90's. Yahoo was the search engine of choice then. Either way searching for "Megasquirt" returned a porn site. I was an engineer at Motorola at the time, and there were three of us who raced our Turbo Dodges and an "outcast" who raced a first gen RX7. Mr. Outcast was a PC board designer and not well versed in electronics, so he brought a magazine in for us to decipher what the article said. It was all about a startup company called Megasquirt that wanted to bring DIY EFI to the technically savvy enthusiasts. I believe the original concept was for everything to be open sourced from the PCB layout to the source code. Their original plan was to use the 16 bit MC68332 chip from Motorola, which we had in house. That chip is very hard to use compared to the typical 8 bit chip used in cars in the late 80's. Those who worked with the 332 chip convinced me to look elsewhere, since I only understood about half of what they were saying.
Somewhere around the same time frame I got a "tweaked" Chrysler EFI controller from Shelby. It was identical to the stock Dodge unit except for the ROM memory chip. I reverse engineered the Chrysler brain box and figured out how to mess with the fuel and boost maps, and after a few blown head gaskets, an O ringed block and special Shelby gasket, I had no more blown engine parts, just the ability to grenade the transaxle! The Megasquirt box became a fleeting memory.
Somewhere around the same time frame I got a "tweaked" Chrysler EFI controller from Shelby. It was identical to the stock Dodge unit except for the ROM memory chip. I reverse engineered the Chrysler brain box and figured out how to mess with the fuel and boost maps, and after a few blown head gaskets, an O ringed block and special Shelby gasket, I had no more blown engine parts, just the ability to grenade the transaxle! The Megasquirt box became a fleeting memory.
I was the biggest fan of Megasquirt since its inception. I was messing with high horsepower DSM's in the early 2000's and it was an awesome alternative to AEM or Haltech computers that cost thousands. I was able to get my '91 Talon into the mid 10's in the quarter mile running a MS1 v2.2. MS2 came out and had the ability to go semi-sequential instead of batch injection for 4 cylinders and added idle air control. Upgraded to a MS2 and ran that on the car until I sold it in 2011.
I wish they still offered their MS1 kits for the budget guys, but the $200-$300 hole that left in the market has been filled by the new Speeduino that is arduino powered and uses the same Tunerstudio software that MS uses and even has Autotune. On the next project I have where I will need to retrofit EFI, I am going to give them a try.
https://speeduino.com/home/
I wish they still offered their MS1 kits for the budget guys, but the $200-$300 hole that left in the market has been filled by the new Speeduino that is arduino powered and uses the same Tunerstudio software that MS uses and even has Autotune. On the next project I have where I will need to retrofit EFI, I am going to give them a try.
https://speeduino.com/home/
Are you sure it’s not a fake ad? 3 yrs ago I had a message on my mobile from my service provider telling me my mobile bill was late. I followed the link (had all the service provider logos, small print etc). I paid the £89 and then clicked on the ‘take me to to the new offers tab’. I told my wife (Ms. moneybags and chief accountant) a few hours later and she replied ‘your bill is paid by direct debit - you’ve been had’. And so I had been. They had the cheek to take me from their incredibly realistic looking fake payment page to the real provider website mobile sales page. Watch out on Facebook as well - full of this stuff!
Well, it's Fakebook, after all. Forever I'll refrain from using this BS.
Best regards!
Best regards!
Well, my wife had a good laugh at my naivety. Fast forward 2yrs and she got taken by a Fakebook ad that I worked out was fake. £47 gone.
Yeah,I'm not on musktwatter, facebook, or any of them...Just sensible spaces like in here! My advise is to kill anything like an M$ start screen (whatever that is - i don't see it, is it an edge thing?). Who needs to see that, ever? 🙂
I get $*** from “collection agencies” both on the phone and paper mail. With the only way to pay bring some stupid on line link or CC information. I don’t give a hoot if it IS legit - I’m not giving them the !?@#$&* number. I take me to effing court, sue me over $300. If it ain’t real there won’t be no suit.
Yes it's the home tab that pops up when Edge starts. It does have some useful information like the local weather and news from the only local TV station we have.
Best I could do with my 1982 Charger (a 2 door Omni) was 13.7 with a bunch of wheel hop and tire smoke.
I did drool over the shiny red Plymouth Laser at the Chrysler store, and the black Talon at the Jeep Eagle store, but wound up with the family friendly but slow Eagle Summit, a rebranded Mirage.
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1963 thinking !
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I was in Wales earlier this year near Devils Bridge and there was a magnificent life size statue of a stallion with incredible detail around the backside end. Quite why the sculptor thought it necessary to go into such detail beats me.