Cascade Crew

blue89 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:06 pm Post subject:

8+ inches in Ferndale and we hit 9.2* last night. Currently sitting at 13*. Cold and lame. But the e30 is doing good.
Ian, is yours lowered at all?

iansane · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

Nope! Stock height for now. I'm not touching the suspension until the summer. And even then probably just shocks/struts/bushings. Haven't decided if I'll get some springs. Your old crosslaces are going on it. Very Happy

Lower might make it look a bit better.

blue89 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:07 pm Post subject:

Yes! Wait, what? 5 lug on the e30? If you lower it I have done the research to make it better. The rear has a weird semi trailing arm that toes out and cambers in if you lower it. I have already done the math to adjust if/when you need to know to bring it back to stock alignment.

iansane · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, 5lug. Probably just do adapters for now and later on look into doing the whole hub/brake conversion (because obviously I want larger brakes on this thing. Laughing

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jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

So all day I have been sitting around and listening to trees crash down. I am parked under one with no way to move car. But I think we may have gotten passed the worst with no branches atop of car. Smile

but I did have to give the tree a trimming. Branches that are normally 9 feet up were touching the Camaro. They got cut in half.

itsglobalbackerz · Guest

Great Snow !!!!!!! Laughing

blue89 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:31 am Post subject: Re: Reply

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:03 am Post subject:

No power since wed night. PSE says atleast 4 days. Spent yesterday digging cars out from under trees before they came down. Chopping fallen trees on neighborhood roads. BBQ dinner. And rigging a car battery with inverters to run my fish tanks. My biggest coolest fish isn't looking so hot. :O(

Leejo2005 · Member Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 466 Location: Kennewick

The power was flickering here last night as well so I mixed a little bit of 2 stroke fuel for my lil 500 watt generator in case I need to power the fish tank. My mollies had babies a few weeks ago too.

Sticks_n_Stones · New Member Joined: 17 Jan 2012 Posts: 6

Sorry to hear about your power outages and stuff fellas. I've had power the whole time. Very Happy

Ever since I got my big generator I haven't had much chance at all to use it! 4 years now and I've needed it twice, for a total of 3 days. Used it a few times to power skill saws and other power tools but other then that my $450 worth of emergency power generation is sitting wasted.

Now when I didn't have this big genny? I seemed to lose power multiple times a year and had to set up a battery rotation with my big 12v power converter to run my fish tanks, microwave, heater, lights, etc.

With my kinda luck, I really should be looking into buying "End of the World" insurance to ensure that it doesn't come about!

blue89 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject:

Somewhere beneath, a monster slumbers...

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

What color is that

blue89 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:46 pm Post subject:

Black, omni sealer primer.

I just fired it up. We are having rain now and I didn't want the 8" of snow to turn into 8" of ice when it freezes again tonight. So its happy and warm and waiting for the roads to clear so I can get it into the garage.

chevymad · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:49 pm Post subject:

We didnt get hit quite as bad as you northern folks, maybe 10" to a foot here. What looked like 4" of snow wrecked my tonneau cover. I thought the truck felt like it was riding really heavy in the rear. Turns out the weight reversed all the aluminum bows. Kinda weird because i've had 3x that amount of snow on the cover before without any issues.

Part of the roof on the old house next door collapsed too. As far as power outages only had a couple .. one about 7hrs long. Sometimes its nice to have a wood stove. Smile

No problem with my fish yet. Expecting some power outages tonight probably.. getting quite windy out there.

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

Looks similar to my satin paint job.

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject:

This peice of advise for anyone with a vehicle they give a rats ass about and have it parked in a carport. GET IT OUT FROM UNDER IT! Lots of dry snow + warm temps + rain = squished cars. A similar weather condition happened in the late 90's. Alot of cars were crushed when apartment complex carports collapsed. It also sank several dacks along with boats tied to them.

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:11 pm Post subject:

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

We have had power out for about 24 hours now. We have about 6 fallen trees on our powerlines, so it may be awhile till we get some. Just hope my turtle doesn't go into hibernation

jchaussee · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2010 Posts: 1318 Location: renton

Ah. The storm of 96. Lot more snow. But not ice like this time

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject:

Fish Life Support