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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 01:42 PM
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 01:43 PM
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tech in my opinion?
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 05:07 PM
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@gothchick, your girl is pretty good looking in my book. Not much room to talk trash.

I have some good ideas for rims now, so I guess this whole mess was worth it. For minute I thought I was going to have to pay people via paypal for real, good input.

BTW, what are the odds that my Avatar is going to get me banned from this site? Do I at least get a warning since I'm now a PREMIER MEMBER?
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 05:22 PM
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Ey I suggested the rpf1's first, can you paypal me 5 dolla??
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 05:23 PM
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 05:48 PM
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Old Sep 12, 2008 | 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by 2004Black350z
1. i do twice a month called a SALARY check + commission
2. I do have mad bills but somehow i have enough money every month to do what i want
3. I wish
4. im not. Again. Im the internet Sales Manager. I created and maintain our website and created my own internet department that i call the BDC (Buisness development Center) bc i provide additional beneficial income to my comoany which they highly compensate me 4. Hope this helps with u trying to hate on me. U cant bring me down man lets go ahead and face the facts. I already know how to get under your skin bc u showed ur weakness. Its behind us so lets move on ok?
a word of advice, i know the money is there now, hopefully you have put
enough back in between all of your mad spending, i have been working for
car dealers for 12 years now, i know a lot of guys who work "up front"
in dealerships who were making the cheese like you that have went from
total ballers one year to asking for food stamps the next-i am not
exaggerating

one of my close friends worked for a chevy dealer for a couple of years
in my town, was top salesman almost every month for a year-making
like $8-10k grand a month at 27, he bought two new cars, a new bike
stuff for his apartment, fancy clothes, total excess in spending
then things got slow and lost everything=had to scrape together
to buy a $1500 truck and start washing cars and mowing lawns to
get by.

another guy at my dealership was also top salesman for about 10yrs
started drinking too much, stupid spending, got lazy in his relationship
with his wife, had 4 heart attacks, got divorced, business got slow
lost everything, has had 2 more heart attacks since-keeps staying
drunk all the time and keeps totalling out the crappy cars he is now
having to buy-maybe on purpose to try to kill himself.

so please think more about the future before we hear you end up
like these guys
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Old Sep 13, 2008 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 2fast4ya
a word of advice, i know the money is there now, hopefully you have put
enough back in between all of your mad spending, i have been working for
car dealers for 12 years now, i know a lot of guys who work "up front"
in dealerships who were making the cheese like you that have went from
total ballers one year to asking for food stamps the next-i am not
exaggerating

one of my close friends worked for a chevy dealer for a couple of years
in my town, was top salesman almost every month for a year-making
like $8-10k grand a month at 27, he bought two new cars, a new bike
stuff for his apartment, fancy clothes, total excess in spending
then things got slow and lost everything=had to scrape together
to buy a $1500 truck and start washing cars and mowing lawns to
get by.

another guy at my dealership was also top salesman for about 10yrs
started drinking too much, stupid spending, got lazy in his relationship
with his wife, had 4 heart attacks, got divorced, business got slow
lost everything, has had 2 more heart attacks since-keeps staying
drunk all the time and keeps totalling out the crappy cars he is now
having to buy-maybe on purpose to try to kill himself.

so please think more about the future before we hear you end up
like these guys
Thanks 4 the advice. As u know the old saying u dont retire from the car buisness.....u Quit! But yea i got a job interview monday morning I hope I ace. Salary plus commission and its nothing near sales like a dealership. But yea i know alot of people who fail. I may just open my own
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by 2004Black350z
Thanks 4 the advice. As u know the old saying u dont retire from the car buisness.....u Quit! But yea i got a job interview monday morning I hope I ace. Salary plus commission and its nothing near sales like a dealership. But yea i know alot of people who fail. I may just open my own
hope it works out for you, anybody who can get ahead in these tough
times deserves a pat on the back.
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 07:59 AM
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I know this is a wheel thread... but I think by adding the carbon ceramic BBK would be a great way to reduce Rotational mass.... and its in the same 10k price tag as the cf/ wheels???? just an idea and they give you great braking to boot!!!.
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 05:02 PM
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What's even more interesting is the effect of removing such a large amount of rotating mass. From the previous StopTech rotors, we shed more than 36 pounds of rotating mass. This is a difference you can feel in the way the car handles, accelerates, and brakes. I can't wait to get a set of these on my SRT8 (15" StopTech BBK) and my 540i 6-Speed (14" StopTech BBK).
Good point on the carbon big brake kit! The above quote was taken from m3forum.net, and as you can see they pointed out the impact of reducing the rotating mass.

See the whole thread at http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=177624
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 06:34 PM
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^ This is wheel/tire section dude. NOT " weight saving thread". And your avator really pissing me off, lucki you not front of my face.
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 06:55 PM
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^ This is wheel/tire section dude. NOT " weight saving thread". And your avator really pissing me off, lucki you not front of my face.
The pictures of the Buell motorcycle and another users effort to add a comment about light weight big brake kits are in support of, or to validate the importance of light weight wheels as many have seemed to downplay the importance of.

I also think that you may be dyslexic or something, because I think you meant to say that you're lucky you're not in font of my face.

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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Blck350z
I know this is a wheel thread... but I think by adding the carbon ceramic BBK would be a great way to reduce Rotational mass.... and its in the same 10k price tag as the cf/ wheels???? just an idea and they give you great braking to boot!!!.

From a guy I know who races when he's not running his shop and working/building race cars has continually found that he himself, along w/ Porsche owners and other CC brake owners are really not happy w/ their brakes. He also told me that basically the costs outweigh the benefits for the everyday avg. joe racer.
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Old Sep 14, 2008 | 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Buellxb
you're lucky you're not in font of my face.
Why makes you think that? i LOVE to be.

Edit: You changed your avator, i do respect that.

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Old Sep 24, 2009 | 04:40 PM
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Rise Zombie thread, RISE!
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Old Sep 29, 2009 | 03:17 PM
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wow..this was a good read. Did the OP ever post pics anywhere of the Z in progress?
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Old Sep 29, 2009 | 04:40 PM
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at least it's an entertaining thread!!
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Old Oct 1, 2009 | 12:24 AM
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Good way to kill time at work. Thanks for the bump!!!
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Old Oct 1, 2009 | 04:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Buellxb
Great first impression I'm getting here... First off it took a whole week for an admin to approve me as a member even after verifying my email and captch image.

First response I get "Go search"

Second response "WTF"

Third Response "GTFO"

I run a very popular forum myself, Buellxb.com, and my members don't act like this. My members can interact immediately. Re-posting the same question that someone already sort of answered in another post if fine. What gives?
I hear you and the Site Staff doesn't seem to care. I'm a member of several other very successful forums and none are are like this. I paid the membership fee and I'm having trouble with some functionality with my paid subscription and it's been several weeks since I was told we'll get back to you. The mods (one in particular) is very fast with the lock button.

There are some very helpful folks and others I think are 17 or level of maturity. You know, like the "GTFO" post above. Took a real rockect scientist to write that. Sad thing is others think it's funny .

Good luck!
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