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  1. David Hingtgen
    So, spent the weekend changing my sparkplugs. Only 2nd time I've ever done so, first time on this car, first time on a V8. Notes: 1. Getting the old wires off the plugs is still the hardest thing by far. Utter death-grip. Destroyed several of them---they ripped apart rather than let go of the plug. Had to use pliers to wrench the remains of the wire-ends off the plugs of those ones. 2. "100,000 mile plug" is total BS. My car has 53K, the factory plugs were awful--some of them. As others with my engine have said---AFM/DoD/"4-cylinder-mode" really eats up the plugs. The 4 in the "normal" cylinders looked pretty good, and would likely last quite a while longer. But the 4 in the "occasionally shuts off to run in 4-cylinder-mode" ones were awful. Gunk, black, oil 2/3 of the way up the threads, ash in some places, soot in others. Should have checked/replaced a while ago actually. At like, 1/3 of specified life instead of 1/2. (also, two of the plugs were in the "pulling as hard as I can, bracing my legs against the fender to crack them loose" category--can't imagine how stuck they'd have been at 75 or 100K) (and for how stuck in they were, the new ones threaded in very nicely) 3. After new plugs, car has never idled so smooth. I won't know for a while if mileage has improved, and I won't BS anybody by saying it has 10HP more now, (and I haven't even gone past half-throttle yet, just idling around town and grocery-getting to make sure everything's running well first)----but I know for sure that there's less vibration at idle than the day I bought it. (I swear it also idles slightly faster, maybe 50 rpm or so). TLDR: If your engine has a "shuts off half the cylinders when cruising" feature---check the plugs in those cylinders WAY early.
  2. David Hingtgen
    Still waiting for a flightsuit Grace to put next to my green VF-27...
  3. David Hingtgen
    Or you could always buy my Lego Y-wing.
  4. David Hingtgen
    Semi-random, but I saw an interesting license plate at the gas station yesterday: "HIKARU"
  5. David Hingtgen
    It is Bandai, and their final production DX valk paint is rarely as nice as the samples'...
  6. David Hingtgen
    I dub that one Hathor. (because it's like Anubis, but white---we really could use some more Z.O.E. stuff...)
  7. David Hingtgen
    Macross Galaxy VF-27β
  8. David Hingtgen
    So add-on parts, or completely new kit?
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    Macross figures

    David Hingtgen replied to CF18's topic in Toys

    And I'm still waiting for a Grace anything...
  10. David Hingtgen
    I thought I was the only "Heart and Soul" fan here. Sometimes I wonder if it's even better than Holy Lonely Light. (but it's not) We really need more Emilia songs...
  11. David Hingtgen
    Isn't that just Roid's?
  12. David Hingtgen
    Shape-wise it's great. But I must echo the many comments I've already seen about it being flat grey, and not silver. That IMHO is along the lines of making Prime's grille and bumper white----that's a technical limit of animated cel paint, not the intended color it's meant to portray. Megs is supposed to be silver. That is an aspect when slavish toon-accuracy should absolutely be ingnored.
  13. David Hingtgen
    They do a lot of airliners, quite nice ones. I think they do tanks, too.
  14. David Hingtgen
    Does it come with a second, buff/Var pilot sculpt?
  15. David Hingtgen
    It'd look even more amazing if it was a -31A.
  16. David Hingtgen
    The DM Exia was specifically listed as clearance, and the website said "$13.74" at my local store. It's among the most expensive ones that was indeed clearanced. (and why it's suddenly sold out everywhere)
  17. David Hingtgen
    MG Dark Matter Exia was listed at my local one in stock, but it was gone when I got there. If I'd known a few days earlier I probably could have snagged it--I know they had it, I've held it in my hands a few times. Proto Zero I'd love to have, but it's listed as on-line only and you only get the clearacnce price in-store.
  18. David Hingtgen
    That should simply be Milia's, and not 'Mirage use' in Milia's paint. ::edit:: Ah, it uses black instead of grey on many parts, that's why it looks so much better. And homages Milia's M7 VF-1 scheme in a way.
  19. David Hingtgen
    Pretty much that. I couldn't even tell you how Delta ended, despite watching the last episode. It just kinda "stopped". If there were more episodes--would it have actually mattered?
  20. David Hingtgen
    You could go with 1:48--- http://www.flyingmule.com/products/HM-HD2004 A 1/48 F-14 is a good bit larger than a DX -25.
  21. David Hingtgen
    Bandai's own "final" shots are often of a hand-painted proto, with a few small added details that don't make it to final production. Until someone has it in hand, there is no way to be certain EXACTLY how it'll look.
  22. David Hingtgen
    I'm leaning more towards Roid's as well and hope we get a DX of it. (Which I've termed Hathor, vs Keith's Anubis).
  23. David Hingtgen
    Ep I has Qui-Gon and Maul. What does Ep II have that's good at all?
  24. David Hingtgen
    Only the A-7F does. All in-service versions are fixed. I would like a perfectly end-on view of an A-7F like that. Regular A-7's don't even have what I would consider a nozzle--it's a pipe! But the fuselage itself is slightly oval. I wonder if the A-7F's was reprofiled to be circular, or if the movement of the petals is so relatively small that there are no clearance or heat issues. Took this pic myself, because every model gets it wrong and so few people believe me: Oval fuselage, round exhaust. (this is the A-7 at the Tico Warbird museum---highly recommended, as they have A-4/A-6/A-7/F-4/F-8/F-14/F-16/F-18/F-101/F-105, and are only like 1 mile from Kennedy Space Center)
  25. David Hingtgen
    Better than Ep II for sure.
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