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    I was pretty shocked the lot I went to had any 3-pedal Mustangs, let alone 3-pedal 4-cylinders. But there it was. I really enjoyed the shifter feel. Nice and positive, with a reasonable throw. The clutch was also a lot more progressive than I was expecting from a new car, and it wasn't too heavy or too light. Some attention to detail was paid there.
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    Unfortunately, all my friends are millennials.
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    My solution for having friends and a coupe, is to own an SUV. Of course, I end up making the Jeep faster than my coupe. So now I have to spend some money so the coupe can catch up.
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    Did you get the Master compressor? If you did, you should be able to dial in a working pressure on the gauge. While the compressor is running, hold down the air trigger on the brush and dial the regulator until the pressure is ~10psi toward the bottom of the gauge. Then, let the button go and the compressor will fill to a slightly higher pressure and shut off. As for the Eclipse instructions, the little sheet that comes in the packaging details, in English, how to perform your basic adjustments. Unless you got a significantly different package than I did. I guess the most important one is the needle adjustment: 1. Unscrew the tail cap (the big section behind the air fitting that comes off completely) 2. Loosen the needle chucking nut (the little nut that you can see in the "window" of the tail cap) 3. Carefully push the needle forward until it bottoms out, then pull slightly back 4. Tighten the needle chucking nut 5. Test paint/air flow- you should not get any paint with the button only pressed down, but paint flow should begin immediately after you begin to pull back on the paint trigger 6. Repeat adjustments until you get the above results 7. Reinstall tail cap If your needle is improperly adjusted, you could get too much flow, including flow with the brush idling, or you could get too little flow if the needle is packed too far forward. Be very, very careful when adjusting your needle, as any bends can be catastrophic. When I say "slightly" I mean "by fractions of a millimeter at a time". It's really something you'll get a feeling for, just like the rest of it. I got my brush adjusted properly on the first shot- I attribute my ability to find that adjustment to lots of practice with a cheapo brush that doesn't make it as easy as the Iwata. The other important thing to know is cleaning. Use a napkin to get most of the paint residue out, then fill the cup about halfway with thinner. Put your finger over the nozzle cap, then give it air and pull back slightly on the trigger. This gargles thinner through the forward passages and cleans them up pretty handily. I like to dump out the cup at this point, then run a clean cup of thinner through. Q-tips are also your friend. Keep cleaning it until it looks good, and I stress again: Be very careful around your needle. If that sucker bends at all, you'll need to buy a new one, and that's not fun when you're in the middle of a project and can't find parts nearby.
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    I'm convinced the in-universe reason nobody uses Unicorn is because it's actually banned under GBWC regulations. But really, there's no getting around how popular 00 and its MS designs were, even if I don't like them. And thanks to weird Japanese copyright rules, they can finally show 00 suits, so that's what they're doing. Not enough time has passed for Unicorn, though. Kinda lame.
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    ANA is in reference to Anna, the character from Frozen. Let It Go And Dreaming refers to the song, Let It Go, from Frozen. Yukikaze literally means "Snowy Wind". It's a Frozen thing. The choice of a Draken is probably because Drakens, like Frozen's basis, are Scandinavian.
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    Pressing the button straight down and all the way forward shouldn't give you any spray. The manual in the Eclipse's packaging details how to adjust your needle so it sprays evenly, but gives just air if you don't pull back on the paint trigger. Learn your adjustments, and get a feel for them. They'll do so much to clean up your paint.
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    If you're using acrylic paint, you can strip the paint with rubbing alcohol, and it won't damage the plastic. Consider setting your compressor pressure as low as you can- you get better control the lower the pressure is, and with an Iwata brush, you can maintain a very fine, even spray even at low pressure. I think the minimum pressure these Master compressors' regulators can run is 8psi, and that's pretty good pressure for this kind of work. With white, I thin a bit less than I usually would. But again, don't go by a strict ratio. Just add thinner to your well-mixed paint until it leaves a residue behind on your mixing cup that's like the line milk leaves on a cup after you take a sip. With these really fine Japanese paints, that's a pretty effective method. Another thing to watch out for: When you're painting with an airbrush, keep the trigger pushed for air whenever you're about to paint, and for at least a couple second after you're done spraying. This keeps the nozzle clear, and it lets you focus on only adding paint to your air, giving you cleaner results. Prevents blobs and spatter. Also keep in mind that the paint flow action has a lot of modulation, so you can really get some fine control over how much paint you're shooting. Basically, keep your finger pressed down, but move it back and forth a lot. At the end of a pass, keep the air flowing, but let off the paint, then resume shooting paint as you start your next pass. There are a lot of things you'll figure out by feel.
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    All in all, I still like Fumina as a character, and while I think she's been sidelined a bit by the plot not having enough room to develop all 3 characters AND any of the enemies AND expose backstory, I still think she's portrayed as a capable member of a team of players who have what it takes to win the National Championship.
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    To be fair, she has a stated rivalry with Gyanko, and the whole point of her fight with Lady Kawaguchi was to remind her: she's a strong, independent woman who knows how to fight for herself, and she needs to do that instead of just trying to be the support for the boys.
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    It's like that time those Army reservists took apart and reassembled a Jeep during a parade.
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    Didn't give it any thought. I'm more hyped for the music. Well that, and China makes a cameo in the OP.
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    The story was based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, which is Danish. The Danes do operate Drakens. Plus I'm from Texas; what's a couple hundred miles between friends?
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    I dig the new OP and ED.
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    I like this.
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    Well, it is geographically appropriate.
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    Last winter, when Dallas iced over for a week, I was forced to drive a 1991 240SX equipped with dry-rotting summer tires on roads consisting of sheet ice (not snow, slush, or the like), because the Jeep I owned then was out of commission. Fortunately, I worked a mile from home at the time, and most of the locals were smart enough to stay off the roads. I think my store made $3,000 for the whole week. ($3,000 is typically a slow Tuesday at the store I worked at) It came as little surprise that, while driving on a street in my neighborhood in those conditions, I spun the 240 out while gingerly throttling it in 4th gear at 10mph. So, cars do make a difference. Of course that's an extreme case. But generally, people suck at driving, and if you throw in inclement conditions (for which people suck at preparing) you get guaranteed accidents.
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    We don't have weights on them, but bear in mind: the GT will be made largely of carbon fiber (potentially a full CF tub) and aluminum, and is a mid-engined RWD; the NSX has a steel space frame, an aluminum body, and carbon fiber panels, and it's got hybrid AWD. I'm betting the NSX will be considerably cheaper than the GT, but the GT is essentially a homologation car, and will have all the necessary bits to build the foundation for a high-level race car. The NSX is a high-end sports car, and potentially a supercar, but there's no doubt: the GT is a supercar. I'm betting the GT will be lighter, faster, and altogether more insane than the NSX. And I think that's okay. I think that's what it needs to do.
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    What I found most amusing was, it literally has nothing to do with Gundam or gunpla, except that it says Char's on the side, and has a silver Zeon emblem on the bike.
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    I never thought I'd say this: I'm more interested in that sexy Ford, than the NSX.
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    No, Book 4 was the end of Korra, and probably the end of TV Avatar universe. Nickelodeon won't greenlight any more animation production, but they also won't sell animation licensing. Of course, with Nick's financial straits, it may not be long before they don't have a choice. Comics are pretty much for-sure at this point though. The last Avatar comic is supposed to be coming out in September, and after that we'll probably see some Korra comics.
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    If I had anything approaching the budget for one, I'd buy one. Especially because I get Z Plan pricing. It has just enough boost lag to feel like it's turbocharged, and it was quite a good drive.
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    Yeah, it was kind of The Beifong Show for the last season, but I actually really agree with you on the Mako-Lin thing. A friend and I were talking about that, and I think it'd be a pretty good chance for a nuanced romance. The whole Korrasami thing is pretty groundbreaking for American kids' TV though. I mean, the lesbian couple in Sailor Moon were changed to cousins in the US localization. I hope the comics give us more depth to their relationship though. While I'd like to see Mako-Lin happen in the Dark Horse comics, I can almost guarantee they won't do it. Partly for not being ballsy enough, partly because I don't think Bryke ships it. (But I ship it. Secretly. Because being in that kind of relationship with your boss can be scandalous if it gets out)
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    I expect they primarily serve for brake cooling, but they may also serve to cool the ELSD system I expect it will invariably have, to keep 600hp from a heavily turbocharged engine under control. Not to mention, it's mid-engined and heavily twin-turbo'd, and Ford has been pretty good about cooling their boost. Remember: with a car like this, there's always more room for another cooler. Look at the Super Silhouette Silvia (1984) Like many of its kin, it had radiators out the wazoo, including the two in the rear widebody arches- these freed up room in the front for the intercoolers used to get the twin-carb 2.0l engine to almost 600hp.
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    Ford at NAIAS Today: They unveiled the 2016 GT (600hp twin-turbo V6 supercar, speaks for itself), 2016 Mustang GT350R (standard carbon fiber wheels!), and 2017 Raptor, and they spoke of plans for 12 performance models to be released between now and 2020, including 7 models by the end of next year. Who's talking about the new Titan now?
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