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Originally Posted by Zabo
Actually, Rad.. We just picked up our 4th Stihl Quasi-2 cycle Cali-conforming weed whacker. I love the damn things. IMO they are actually much MORE powerful and do a BETTER job than our older 2 cycle Stihls (which we sorely just want to run over..again). We've moved away from 2 cycle backpack units and it's been a GOOD thing due to the amount of power we gained and as such, the gained productivity.
Hell, even Toro has stopped selling 2 Cycle walk behinds, and our new 4 Cycle (Cali Conformer :/) which we picked up 2 years ago still amazes me due to the fact that we dropped the damn thing out of a pickup and it still works.. (mind you after new wheels and a partial drive train replacement) ..Unlike our old 2 cycles (which are 3-5 years old now) that would wind up in the shop because "whoops, grass was too long."
Though I despise California for supplanting myself in defining "Wat", their bitching as brought some unconventional thinking to engine and machine design that is kinda cool. Heck, I may be puffing too much, but if you think of what the TV industry could do to keep selling 40 inchers in cali.. we could get some flipping sweet TVs.
Except the paint thing. They can lick-clean my hiney hole after some taco induced diarrhea for that.
Actually, I think the first few year runs of the LS3/L99 motor may be no more valuable down the road than a 4th gen. If you look up the prospective DI V8 numbers, and think of what they did to the DIV6 in our 5th Gens.. We could be looking at the 13/14 MY Camaros being the more expensive collector car HOLY SHEET STAWK HORSEPOWAR AND TORKS numbers. The older cars would look better on cruises and in museums, rather than being raced actively and getting regularly spanked by 13/14 CHALLENGERS in the TWISTIES.
Yeah, I went there. Hence my title thing. I've seen a light that's made me an optimist.
Why?
Because Big Detroit Iron is going to come back and kick some ass no matter what the hybrid/ricer naysayers may PMS about this week. When we're backed into a corner, humans use their noggins to get out of a pinch. This is no different than Ogg fighting the Tiger, or Cpl. Jimmy fighting off some Taliban Fairy Boys because he shaved his beard wrong.
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Good points. I don't have any CARB-approved equipment, but know I was going to be paying $100 more for the same thing without the approval, and that was jsut BS to me. HOWEVER, if it makes the product better, as you've observed, I have NO problem with that; it's when the product gets worse is where I have the problem.
Thanks for the input though. I thought for sure the newer stuff was going to be rubbish but it looks like I'm wrong.
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Originally Posted by Vash
Put some 20 megaton nukes on the fault line. We have like 50 of them in storage.
Maybe it will fall off and sink into the Pacific and do us all a favor.
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Please give me a heads-up so I can stay on the American side of the fault and not the communist side, LOL! I tell you; some of these hippies are so bad it might be a suprise how much they try to regulate. Like I said: stay away; far away.