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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I have a hitch receiver on my sedan. I’ve been tempted to get a set for it because I think it’d be funny.

    Edit: I’ve also thought about taking it a step further. My car also has a wiring harness for trailer lights. What if I drill in some red/yellow LED’s into the nuts so they’ll light up when I brake or use the blinker?







  • There are a few sources you could check. One place is nopaystation.com. There’s another good source I’m aware of, but I’m on mobile and don’t remember the specific link.
    I ripped my own copies of Motorstorm 1 & 2 and it’s pretty great on RPCS3. Would recommend.
    If you want to rip copies yourself it’s not that difficult to do. You don’t need a jailbroken PS3 to do it, just a compatible Blu-ray drive from RPCS3’s compatibility list and a program called PS3 Disc Dumper or something like that. Through that method alone I’ve been able to rip over 110 PS3 games since November '23.




  • Your collection of toy cars reminded me that I loved Hot Wheels as a kid in the '90s and early '00s. And I would often have to get more whenever we went to the store. Or at the very least see what they had. Luckily they were cheap so my parents were ok getting 1 or 2 each time.
    I was also really good at remembering what ones I already had, so I knew at the store what ones I didn’t have.
    It’s been a long time since I counted, but I amassed over 300 cars by the time I grew out of them.







  • I had my car dyno’d and tuned back in February. It has a naturally aspirated 3.5L V6. The tune bumped peak crank HP from 288 to 306 and torque from 254 lb-ft to 278, which is on par with the 3.7L variant of my engine.
    While the peaks only gained 6 and 9%, respectively, other areas saw even bigger gains. For example, below 4000 rpm most of the power band gained 15-20 lb-ft over stock. And above 4500 rpm, the torque continues to rise rather than plateau which I’ve noticed in hard accelerations.
    Another interesting thing is how much smoother the power band is compared to stock.
    This was a bit pricey, though, and I see why most people don’t do this often. All told, it was about $2500 to do: Pre-Dyno inspection, HP Tuners ECU, set of step colder spark plugs, putting it on the dyno, etc. Honestly, would do again and would like to do in the future.