A curious mind wants to know.

[redbirdman]

Re: A curious mind wants to know.

Thanks Charlie,nik

[Leroy]

Re: A curious mind wants to know.

Answer to No.11. Cut the resenators off and put a straight piece of pipe in their place and use your original exhaust tips. Then blast through the forest with a smile on your face and $700.00 richer and have the sound that you didn't get with the Borlas, and if nobdy else in the Forest hears you coming, who cares. Leroy

[steelblue5505]

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Will,
There is a squeek and there is also a moan with vibration that comes from the steering, I've had both. the squeek can be heard inside the car as you say. It comes from the seal in the firewall that the steering shaft goes thru. The noise can be lessen sometimes eliminated with a spray of silcone like previously suggested. On my 05 Bird it required the seal needed to be replaced, it was bone dry. It is suppose to be impacted with some sort of lubricant.

The other sound, a moan with vibration felt in the steering wheel occurs during slow speed turns like pulling into a parking space. This sound comes from one of two places, either the power steering pump or the steering rack. The pump noises sometimes can be eliminated by changing out the power steering fluid with a different fluid. There is a TSB(technical service bulletin) on this very problem. If the fluid exchange doesn't fix the problem than the rack is replaced.

[Carmino]

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If you really want to know the answer ..LOL
Although a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those averages and cross-species comparisons, the Lund wind tunnel study of birds flying at a range of speeds, and revised Strouhal numbers based on that study all leads to estimate that the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.

[Vintage Merlot]

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Finally, some information that makes sense.

[Johnny TBird]

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I invited one AFRICAN-AMERICAN LADY to join the TBN last week.....talked to her at the Tom Thumb grocery store....gave her my TBN BUSINESS CARD with all the information on it....she said her husband belong to a local Corvette club.....and she would like to be in our TBN club...she was driving a 2002 black/black TBIRD...

HAPPY TRAILS

[5bird7]

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Johnny, Did you tell her about tonight and Feb 7?

[Brad]

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Just a few more comments on the "drive by wire"...the term started in aviation where flight controls were operated by cables that went from the cockpit to the actual flap or other item that needed to be operated. Fly by wire replaced the cable with a wire in which an electrical impulse traveled. Also the 2002 was old school with 2003 being the first year for the drive by wire.

[RustyFrye]

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regarding #'s .....

7. If the windshield could support an overturned retro-bird.... would you do it?

11. Skip the Borla's..... Would a trunk mat still do the same in the woods?

14. odd dutchman? if you had met more people you would know its odd canadians & odd americans as well.

[Will]

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I won't extend this thread any further by responding at length to your responses . . . except to say thanks to all who provided good information. I'm fairly certain that others, besides me, learned a thing or two about the Retro & about life in general. And we agree that LOL has something to do with laughter, but we're just not sure of the exact wording.
Inability to spell "caffeine"? No problem. I drink 6 cups of coffee per day & have no plans to cut back. Not familiar with all the meanings of the word "odd"? See meaning 7. in Webster's New World Dictionary, 2d College Ed., (1970). More coffee for both of you & less sarcasm from me. Yeah, right.
I'm trying to post photos in my Gallery--or what will become my Gallery. The good news--I got one photo posted. The bad news--the photo shows some other guy's Retro. It ain't easy, that's for sure. I've been working at it for 2 weeks now.
Biggest surprise: 10 speakers! Holy @$%*! I wouldn't have guessed. Best maintainence tip: Teflon spray into the steering column. Best safety advice: drive so your car remains upright; beyond that, do what you want. Most cryptic response: "42." What means? Best tip to expand my ability to communicate in this, the 21st century: namastecafe. Most irrelevant discussion: birds in wind tunnels (did someone enter the wrong discussion here?). Best technological explanation: Brad & LoneStar on the odd foot-feel I get from my gas pedal.
Thanks to all. I gotta go. Time for some coffee.

[fums6]

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A comic. At last a comic. But will he replace Rusty Fry, our resident funny man?

[Sweet T]

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I won't extend this thread any further by responding at length to your responses . . . except to say thanks to all who provided good information. I'm fairly certain that others, besides me, learned a thing or two about the Retro & about life in general. And we agree that LOL has something to do with laughter, but we're just not sure of the exact wording.
Inability to spell "caffeine"? No problem. I drink 6 cups of coffee per day & have no plans to cut back. Not familiar with all the meanings of the word "odd"? See meaning 7. in Webster's New World Dictionary, 2d College Ed., (1970). More coffee for both of you & less sarcasm from me. Yeah, right.
I'm trying to post photos in my Gallery--or what will become my Gallery. The good news--I got one photo posted. The bad news--the photo shows some other guy's Retro. It ain't easy, that's for sure. I've been working at it for 2 weeks now.
Biggest surprise: 10 speakers! Holy @$%*! I wouldn't have guessed. Best maintainence tip: Teflon spray into the steering column. Best safety advice: drive so your car remains upright; beyond that, do what you want. Most cryptic response: "42." What means? Best tip to expand my ability to communicate in this, the 21st century: namastecafe. Most irrelevant discussion: birds in wind tunnels (did someone enter the wrong discussion here?). Best technological explanation: Brad & LoneStar on the odd foot-feel I get from my gas pedal.
Thanks to all. I gotta go. Time for some coffee.

ROFLMAOWTIME (google it)

P.S. I have a friend, who, best I can determine, thinks LOL is Lots of Love.

[JBEBird]

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Whew! Glad THAT'S over!! :)

[Daktari]

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Hi there,

Not quite over. I can't let this go without explaining the relevance of the number "42".

According to the 'Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy', the number 42 is the answer to "Life, the Universe and Everything". I just thought that some of those Thunderbird questions might have been covered under that.

I'm sure lots of you TBN'ers are familiar with Douglas Adams but if not here is the explanation from Wikipedia:

In the first novel/radio series, a group of hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Unfortunately, The Ultimate Question itself is unknown. When asked to produce The Ultimate Question, the computer says that it cannot; however, it can help design an even more powerful computer (the Earth) that can. The programmers then embark on a further ten-million-year program to discover The Ultimate Question. This new computer will incorporate living beings in the "computational matrix", with the pan-dimensional creators assuming the form of mice. The process is hindered after eight million years by the unexpected arrival on Earth of the Golgafrinchans and then ruined completely, five minutes before completion, when the Earth is destroyed by the Vogons to make way for a new Hyperspace Bypass. This is later revealed to have been a ruse: the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists, led by Gag Halfrunt, who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life became known.[1]
Lacking a real question, the mice decide not to go through the whole thing again and simply invent a fake Question ("How many roads must a man walk down?" from Bob Dylan's protest song "Blowin' in the Wind") for the "5-D chat show and lecture circuit".

The Ultimate Question?


At the end of the first radio series (and television series, and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe book) Arthur Dent, having escaped the Earth's destruction, potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain. He attempts to discover The Ultimate Question by extracting it from his brainwave patterns, as abusively[2] suggested by Marvin the Paranoid Android, when a Scrabble-playing caveman spells out FORTY TWO. Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?"
“ "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"[1]
”

Gordon.

[buddy]

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Thanks Barbara, I thought it meant the samewhat about ROFL..
Buddy