G. David Felt

Sounds like you need to change careers my friend. It is calling your name.

Sounds like a lack of truck sales to me.

My desktop is covered in Lavendar right now, I let BING desktop take me all over the world.

Beef Steaks

DuraMax are the Bomb! Those rock sir and you should post some photo's of your beast. I still dream of having the funds to convert my 94 suburban into a duramax beast.

Not a bad work truck, though I wonder what other hits it has taken considering the passenger side dual fender is all messed up.

Interesting that they seem to be wanting to make the steps from entry to mid to top of the line for each product line clear. This does go with a common sense approach of showing your customers how to move up from their first to a second purchase of a bmw. I wish more auto company would stream line their product lines to give clear steps of getting from entry to mid to high to performance level models. GM could use a complete redo on marking their models as it is not that simple to tell which is which.

So in searching on more info, I came across the UK and Euro mags covering this car. They all say Trident has signed with GM to use the 6.6L Duramax Diesel Engine and Allyson Tranny in the car, reprogrammed for total performance. WOW That is allot of weight in a supercar. So the engine weights 835lbs, the tranny weights 330lbs. That is 1165lbs of engine/tranny on the front axle and mid section. I think it would be hard to get a 50/50 distribution for perfect balance in a supercar, but then maybe I am wrong or missing something.

Trident announced it would finally show its production-ready car in public next month -- the Trident Iceni Grand Tourer, a diesel-powered machine that should hit 200 mph while returning 69 mpg on a variety of fuels. http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/diesel-powered-british-supercar-trident-icini-promises-200-200130777.html While very cool, the $119,000 price tag will keep this to the upper 5% of earners. Cool looking car.

OK, either I have totally missed how this interface works or because I do not use a hosting service for pictures I just am not able to upload pics. I know I asked before and was told there was plenty of space to upload pics with comments, but how do you guys get pictures uploaded from your computer to the forum. Only way I have found is to put it in my media, but then I end up with a link rather than the pic or are you guys uploading to "My Media" and using the url to the pic there to post in the forum?

I love me the 41 Chevy with Lincoln Headlights? That truck customize just totally rocks my world.

Rock On Belated Happy B Day, you are a young pup with allot of life ahead of you!

Just imagen painting an ATS-V with radar deflecting Black paint and then using night vision to drive with no lights on!

So Deep So Early in the Morning! A line from Pink Floyd's 'High Hopes'...I'm chillin' out this am, killing time before heading to the airport to start my little vaycay... I so could use a VayCay, I am at work but having no luck focusing on work. Drink and Relaxe for me! Have a good one.

So Deep So Early in the Morning!

whoa. Yup, srsly. I didn't know Fisker was making an SUV. You Crack Me Up!

Sounds like Cold Fusion, Break water apart, let it come back together, break the Hydrogen bond again, over and over, Free energy. Now if only we could actually make it work.

My 2008 Trailblazer SS had this same issue on both rear doors, I fixed it by using the GM black adhesive they sell when you replace the gasket on the rear stage coach doors on my 94 subruban. I had left over and use it as I squeezed it into the whole length of the weather strip and then pushed it back into place and boom it dried and has stayed in place with no noise, slippage or any other problems. I feel it is now fixed for good.

That is a freakin amazing Suburban. I love it.

LOVE the El Camino's shade of blue OK, so I've researched the hell out of this one. Supposedly that Camino is painted in a "Corvette Dark Teal" which is a color I can't find. In 1969, GM supposedly offered a color called " Midnight Teal Metallic" that I can find no examples of. 1965 Chevelle "Tahitian Turquoise" is pretty close, as is 1967 Chevelle "Tahoe Turquoise". Those two are hard to tell apart from the pics I've seen. I remember seeing the '65 color, and memory says it has a lot of green in it. Both colors do, but the "65 looks more blue in the pics I've found while the '67 color looks more green in the pics. Those two colors are as close as I've gotten to the color of that Camino which is damn near perfect. If I go in this color direction, I'll be needing a tan or gray interior. Look at the 93-96 GMC Suburban line, My 94 has a beautiful Dark Teal paint job that GM did and I just love it. Yes the interior is a two tone gray and it just goes really well with this color.

An Aus CNG system probably wouldn't work in NA, though. Why? Would the fittings be compatible? Is the fuel compatible? Different countries, different markets..not to mention trying to get it certified by the EPA. Actually ALL CNG is standardized by the CSA International Governing body which the US has joined and goes by. Now you do have two different standards in PSIG, Canada does CNG auto's at 3000 PSIG as well as fork lifts, scissor lifts, etc at 3000. The US goes with the more common and efficient 3600 PSIG which Europe and Australia also follows. The other rare PSIG is 4200 which is more or less used in storage for fast fill solutions but some odd ball semi truck companies use it also. End result is you can take a 3000 PSIG fueling system and fuel a 3600 or 4200 PSI system, though you will not get a full load. 3600 can fuel itself and 4200 but not 3000 and of course the rare 4200 systems which no one that I know of is building any longer can fuel anything less than itself. The connections are all a universal size, but the pressure and internal match up is the difference. I have taken a generalized approach to explaining this to keep it easy to understand. Currently Canada and the few other countries that run the lower PSIG are considering changing, but then they are also running into resistance as the existing folks who have already invested in the older tech are fighting to keep it the same. Long term they will have to change as the industry is being consolidated by a very well financed investment group out of NY who is buying up all the CNG major players and building one global power house to supply all countries. They have standardized on 3600 along with all auto companies and industry companies major players like Hyster have all moved to building 3600 PSIG products, so they can hold it off for a little bit as 3000 is still being produced but by 2015 it will become a dead product as the globe standardizes on 3600 PSIG I believe. Now for my Conspiracy Theory, I suspect the Oil Companies are behind this major Investment firm who has been buying up all the major CNG players on each continent and consolidating to build a universal standard that everyone is jumping on. With North America having the worlds largest Natural Gas Reserves, Canada, US and Mexico have the biggest to gain in the new world order as Oil supplies dwindle to nothing.

Washington state has been approving small scale Hydro dames on rivers where fish could never really go up stream, perfect example is the latest new Hydro dam is on a river that falls into a 1500 foot tall falls. So since it does not block fish from going up stream, having a dam behind the falls allows us to capture the power and still keep the falls going and not affect the fish migration.

So big first question: Explain what the Hell SkyActive Technology is? Been to their web site and I still have nothing to grasp when I hear the term. What is it and why should I car? Second question, are there any other engine options, this engine seems very under powered for moving this meaty CUV. What is the comfort level of the seats? They look hard and flat, do they support you in aggressive driving? Over all impression of fit and finish? How about road noise when cruising versus around town driving?

Or do you mean FreeLoader? OK SUV, reliability is the big question mark. I have a hard time being able to recommend this product line to anyone.

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com August 22, 2012 Alternative Energy, what is the logical next step for America Part II? Join me as I write about the various forms of alternative energy and how I see them stacking up in today’s market place. Green Fuel Solar The holy grail of the auto industry would be to have all autos have a body of solar panels that can create and store the energy and then use it to power the auto and all internal devices. The first solar car race was in 1983 a trek from Perth to Sydney Australia. In the 1987 race the GM Sunray car completed the 3010km trip with an average speed of 67kmh setting in motion a research and development race among solar teams. All this auto technology from one of the earliest forms of energy conversion. A step backwards to give you a little history lesson on Solar. The development of solar cell technology begins with the 1839 research of French physicist Antoine-César Becquerel. The first genuine solar cell was built around 1883 by Charles Fritts, who used junctions formed by coating selenium with an extremely thin layer of gold. Early solar cells had energy conversion efficiencies of less than one percent. In 1941, the silicon solar cell was invented by Russell Ohl. Three American researchers, Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin, designed a silicon solar cell capable of a six percent energy conversion efficiency with direct sunlight in 1954. The first public service trial of the Bell Solar Battery began with a telephone carrier system (Americus, Georgia) on October 4 1955. Benefits of Solar are the ability to convert light into power which ends in an almost true zero emission. Creation of any product always has some form of greenhouse gas so no product is truly Zero Emissions. Yet with this said, lets list out the benefits of solar power: Minimal impact on the environment Requires little energy to run after initial build of the solar car. Reduces the need for petrol. One of the cheapest forms of power after initial investment to the end user. Draw backs to Solar Energy: Requires ultra-light auto’s, will not pass government crash test for safety. Expense, solar panels are still very expensive. Light, most places do not have 8hrs a day of pure sunlight. Efficiency of current panel technology. Unreliable power source. Unable to drive them at night. Damage risk, the ability to handle impacts from flying objects. While the potential for Solar is great and R&D is needed to get the most out of this source, it is far from prime time for use by the Auto Industry in anything other than novelty applications like a solar panel sun roof to drive the AC system when the car is parked to control internal temp. There are companies today that are making solar roof panels for autos as a way to help increase MPG in hybrid cars. An example is you can purchase a Solar Roof for the Prius that costs from $2000 to $4000 dollars per car depending on what you want to accomplish and in some cases the cost is even higher. http://www.solarelec...alvehicles.com/ The ROI or Return on Investment makes many at this time doubt it is worth it. If Self-sustainable solar transportation is to become a reality there will need to have major break throughs in both storage and efficiency of capturing the energy of the sun. For the US to reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and move to a long term energy dependence solution, investments must be made in alternative energy solutions today. GM is pushing forward to at least use Solar in big ways to support their business. http://generalmotors...ward-solar-goal View full article