yup, so like i said. i have a 2003 dodge neon sxt. lame, right? but anyways, its gotta 2.0 liter SOHC 16-valve 4 cylinder engine, auto, with an 1800 watt amp and 2 12" 100 watt subs in a box that barely fits in my trunk lol. its not much.i wanna add some balls.

i’ve been looking around online and i found out some good turbos, upgrades, exhausts, and some body kits and rims.

haven’t found much on interior. i wanna see if i can get some cheap srt4 seats or just covers, possibly new shifter, deck, possibly steering wheel.

basically, i wanna lot done to it, but i don’t really wanna do too much. it is my first car, after all. lol

also, what about some stuff i can find in a junkyard?

Ok my BIL/SIL want to give me there son’s old car seat. But I want to know how I could stress to them..(without) hurting there feelings, as I want to get my son a new car seat. Its a cosco Serena car seat from walmart.

Cons.
1. It’s been in there attic and wasn’t cleaned or covered up prior to storing it there. So I don’t know about how the heat would warp the plastic etc
2. It only goes up to 40lbs. I would like something up to 50lbs.
3. When it was installed in there car. I always remember it being overly wobbly and I dont remember seeing them checking the seat belt to see if it’s not to loose. Bc sometimes we would ride with them places while I was pregnant and I had to sit by my nephew.
4. I don’t think it comes with L A T C H system
5. Made in 03 or 04 and doesn’t have Side Impact Testing..
6. I dunno even if it would fit correctly in our car bc its small and they drive a Jeep Grand Cheorkee..2005

Pros.
1. Would only save us about 50 bucks
2. The cosco seat they’ve got hasnt been in an accident tho..

Don’t get my wrong I love them to death, but my husband and I would like to try and save money by buying a good 3 in 1 seat or at least a better convertible seat then get a cosco booster seat later on.We decided to see around tax time to get a seat. So it wouldnt really take out of our budget. The other reason is I would like something that keeps him in 5 point harness longer(and has SIP) bc there son is already in a booster and KNOWS how to un buckle himself while they are driving or have the car stopped but still running. Im not trying to judge ive seen both these incidents with my own eyes. Hes a bit of a wild kid and Ive heard both his parents say this themselves. I dont want to seem like their bad parents, bc they’re not. I know that with somethings they let there son do or say..I wouldn’t with mine. I just want something a little safer and in date. Whatever seat we chose if it stays in good condition I would like to save it for our next child..depending on when it comes.
I wasnt really worried about the dirty part. I could scrub to no end to clean it. I was worried about the safety aspect of the seat. No we only have one car, but I really wish we had a van. Gosh does a baby ever take up some room! ah but I love him any way..

FOLLOW THESE 14 SIMPLE TESTS BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO HAVE CHILDREN.

Test 1 – Preparation

Women: To prepare for pregnancy:-
1. Put on a dressing gown and stick a beanbag down the front.

2. Leave it there.

3. After 9 months remove 5% of the beans.

Men: To prepare for children:-
1.

Go to a local chemist, tip the contents of your wallet onto the counter and tell the pharmacist to help himself
2. Go to the supermarket. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.

3. Go home. Pick up the newspaper and read it for the last time.

Test 2 – Knowledge

Find a couple who are already parents and berate them about their methods of discipline, lack of patience, appallingly low tolerance levels and how they have allowed their children to run wild.

Suggest ways in which
they might improve their child’s sleeping habits, toilet training, table manners and overall behaviour.

Enjoy it. It will be the last time in your life that you will have all the answers.

Test 3 – Nights

To discover how the nights will feel:

1. Walk around the living room from 5pm to 10pm carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 4 – 6kg, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly.

2. At 10pm, put the bag down, set the alarm for midnight and go to sleep.

3. Get up at 11pm and walk the bag around the living room until 1am.

4. Set the alarm for 3am.

5. As you can’t get back to sleep, get up at 2am and make a cup of tea.

6. Go to bed at 2.45am.

7. Get up again at 3am when the alarm goes off.

8. Sing songs in the dark until 4am.

9. Put the alarm on for 5am. Get up when it goes off.

10. Make breakfast.

Keep this up for 5 years. LOOK CHEERFUL.

Test 4 – Dressing Small Children

1. Buy a live octopus and a string bag.

2. Attempt to put the octopus into the string bag so that no arms hang out.

Time Allowed: 5 minutes.

Test 5 – Cars

1. Forget the BMW. Buy a practical 5-door wagon.

2. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there.

3. Get a coin. Insert it into the CD player.

4. Take a box of chocolate biscuits; mash them into the back seat.

5. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Test 6 – Going For a Walk

Wait
Go out the front door
Come back in again
Go out
Come back in again
Go out again
Walk down the front path
Walk back up it
Walk down it again
Walk very slowly down the road for five minutes.

Stop, inspect minutely and ask at least 6 questions about every piece of used chewing gum, dirty tissue and dead insect along the way.

Retrace your steps
Scream that you have had as much as you can stand until the neighbours come out and stare at you.

Give up and go back into the house.

You are now just about ready to try taking a small child for a walk.

Test 7

Repeat everything you say at least 5 times.

Test 8 – Grocery Shopping

1. Go to the local supermarket. Take with you the nearest thing you can find to a pre-school child – a fully grown goat is excellent. If you intend to have more than one child, take more than one goat.

2. Buy your weekly groceries without letting the goat(s) out of your sight.

3. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys.

Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Test 9 – Feeding a 1 year-old

1.

Hollow out a melon
2.

Make a small hole in the side
3.

Suspend the melon from the ceiling and swing it side to side
4. Now get a bowl of soggy cornflakes and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon while pretending to be an aeroplane.

5. Continue until half the cornflakes are gone.

6. Tip the rest into your lap, making sure that a lot of it falls on the floor.

Test 10 – TV

1. Learn the names of every character from the Wiggles, Barney, Teletubbies and Disney.

2. Watch nothing else on television for at least 5 years.

Test 11 – Mess

Can you stand the mess children make? To find out:

1.

Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains
2. Hide a fish behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.

3. Stick your fingers in the flowerbeds and then rub them on clean walls. Cover the stains with crayon.

How does that look?
4. Empty every drawer/cupboard/storage box in your house onto the floor & leave it there.

Test 12 – Long Trips with Toddlers

1. Make a recording of someone shouting ‘Mummy’ repeatedly. Important Notes: No more than a 4 second delay between each Mummy. Include occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet.

2. Play this tape in your car, everywhere you go for the next 4 years.

You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Test 13 – Conversations

1. Start talking to an adult of your choice.

2. Have someone else continually tug on your shirt hem or shirt sleeve while playing the Mummy tape listed above.

You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

Test 14 – Getting ready for work

1. Pick a day on which you have an important meeting.

2. Put on your finest work attire.

3.

Take a cup of cream and put 1 cup of lemon juice in it
4.

Stir
5.

Dump half of it on your nice silk shirt
6.

Saturate a towel with the other half of the mixture
7.

Attempt to clean your shirt with the same saturated towel
8. Do not change (you have no time).

9.

Go directly to work

You are now ready to have children.

ENJOY!!

Tring to put a seat cover on..

scotch guard or anything else to protect my seats. I dont want to fool with seat covers. Any help is appreciated

chevrolet,gmc

About a year ago I bought a 1978 Chevy Nova to learn about cars with. A friend (who knows a lot about cars) and I replaced the stock 6-cylinder engine with a 5.7L 350 V8 from a GMC truck. When the engine was in the truck there was no smoke no knocking sounds, no leaks.

Now that the engine is in my car, it smokes pretty badly especially when revved. The smoke is consistent, not only when it’s just been cranked. The color of the smoke is a medium to light gray.

I’ve checked the PVC valve, which is snugged into the valve cover but not especially tight. The other end of the PVC valve is attached to the carburetor somewhat loosely with no strap securing it. Could the PVC valve be the culprit?

Also, when the 350 engine was in transition between vehicles, It sat outside with shop rags in the holes and a tarp over it in my yard. Some rust could have possibly developed in the cylinders although I didn’t see any. Could this be the problem?

I intend to get a compression testing kit to see if there is low compression in any of the cylinders. I assume that low compression means that either the rings aren’t well seated, the valves aren’t sealed properly or that some rust has scored the cylinder walls. Please redirect me if I’m wrong in this assumption.

Any advice is welcome and appreciated.

Thanks a lot!

The White House, Democrats and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor minority patient-dumping in Chicago — with first lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.
Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois have raised red flags about the outsourcing program run by the University of Chicago Medical Center. The hospital has nonprofit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care.
Yet, in fiscal year 2007, when Mrs. Obama was employed there, it spent a measly million on charity care for the poor — 1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the nonpartisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.

Rep. Rush called for a House investigation last week in response to months of patient-dumping complaints, noting: "Congress has a duty to expend its power to mitigate and prevent this despicable practice from continuing in centers that receive federal funds."

Don’t expect the president to support a probe. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an "Urban Health Initiative," Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to "dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents."

In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients. If a Republican had proposed the very same program and recruited black civic leaders to front it, Michelle Obama and her grievance-mongering friends would be screaming "RAAAAAAAAACISM!" at the top of their lungs.

Joe Stephens of The Washington Post wrote, "To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm (ASK Public Strategies) recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign — appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party ‘validators.’ They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications."

Some health care experts saw through Mrs. Obama and PR man Axelrod — yes, the same Axelrod who is now President Obama’s senior adviser. But the University of Chicago Medical Center hired ASK Public Strategies to promote Mrs. Obama’s initiative. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett — now a White House senior adviser.

Axelrod’s great contribution: re-branding! His firm recommended renaming the initiative after "internal and external respondents expressed the opinion that the word ‘urban’ is code for ‘black’ or ‘black and poor.’ … Based on the research, consideration should be given to re-branding the initiative." Axelrod and the Obama campaign refused to disclose how much his firm received for its genius re-branding services.

In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded upon learning that a young boy covered by Medicaid had been turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics and Tylenol, and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.

I’ll guarantee you this: You’ll never see the Adams family featured at an Obama policy summit or seated next to the first lady at a joint session of Congress to illustrate the failures of the health care system.

Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing "grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)" — signed by President Reagan, by the way — "and reflected an effort to ‘cherry pick’ wealthy patients over poor."

Rewarding political cronies at the expense of the poor while posing as guardians of the downtrodden? Welcome to Obamacare.

Michelle Malkin

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/06/19/the_obamacare_horror_story_you_wont_hear?page=full&comments=true

Hi, I have a 1996 Pontiac Bonneville, automatic.I want to change the gas and brake pedals, or covers rather.

Will any pedals I get at stores such as pep boys or auto zone work? I jut have to unscrew the bolts behind the pedals and put on the new ones, not difficult right?

And also I’ve been thinking about maybe changing the shifter to a new one since mine is old. How hard is it to change it? (Mine is on a center console between the front seats)

Could anyone provide me with links to a site that shows how to change shifters and/or pedals? I did a search on Google but didn’t see one on the first dozen or so pages. I put in a CD player with the help of a friend and I know some basic car maintenance so if I could find a guide I’m sure I could do it myself. Thanks.

Bonus question: is there any website or store (other than the mechanics) that I can order Pontiac parts from? Like speaker covers, AC vents, you know all those parts of a car that sometimes break or fall off with time?