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GM missed a recall of my 2000 C5.



 
 
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Old May 25th 14, 06:27 AM posted to alt.autos.corvette
Dad[_2_]
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Default GM missed a recall of my 2000 C5.


"Rufus" > wrote in message
...
> Dad wrote:
>>
>> "Rufus" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Dad wrote:
>>>>

>> Snip
>>>> Never had to worry about stall margin on a motorcycle but one of
>>>> our
>>>> club members has a '78 jet turbine powered Corvette that may need
>>>> to be
>>>> aware of its importance.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ncrsquebec.com/events/jet.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> ...heh...somebody *did* it! Back in another lifetime when I was
>>> working in the GE ASO at Ontario airport me and the guys in the
>>> shop
>>> came up with a way to put a GE T64 in my '82 Firebird...that's
>>> 4000+
>>> horses...
>>>
>>> ...that we couldn't figure out was what to do for brakes...and how
>>> to
>>> keep the exhaust from chewing up the pavement.
>>>
>>>> Now tell me again why you would want a metal key sticking out of
>>>> the
>>>> dash waiting on your body parts to come kiss it? I'll take the
>>>> push
>>>> button any day, besides who wants to dig into his pocket/purse
>>>> for a key
>>>> to start a car? Also love to get out and walk away and know that
>>>> it is
>>>> locked but will open when you approach.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'd rather have the key sticking out of the steering column, but
>>> that's just me...
>>>
>>>> I'll wait to see how the electric steering works without power
>>>> before I
>>>> condemn it.
>>>>
>>>> Dad
>>>
>>>
>>> ...and all you have to do to know how fly by wire steering will
>>> work
>>> with the power out is look at the F-16! Hydrazene secondaries,
>>> anyone?!
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Rufus

>>
>> Don't have to look at it, I've flown in it, and that of course, is
>> not
>> the only plane to fly by wire. Didn't they do that with the Apollo
>> way
>> back in 1964/5, then the F8 in 1972 with no backup system?
>>
>> Dad

>
> ...that wasn't flying...that was falling - with style!
>

Falling vertically was fun, rollover was not.
>
> My uncle worked on Apollo...closest I ever got was to have a seat in
> a Gemini capsule that had been into space, next to a dummy
> astronaut. I must have only been 3 or 4, but I remember it well to
> this day...right hand seat.
>
> I'm presently building an F-16 sim, and with some luck I may get a
> ride in a Hornet next month...wish me luck...
>
> --
> - Rufus


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  #12  
Old May 25th 14, 06:37 AM posted to alt.autos.corvette
Rufus
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Default GM missed a recall of my 2000 C5.

Dad wrote:
>
> "Rufus" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dad wrote:
>>>
>>> "Rufus" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> Dad wrote:
>>>>>
>>> Snip
>>>>> Never had to worry about stall margin on a motorcycle but one of our
>>>>> club members has a '78 jet turbine powered Corvette that may need
>>>>> to be
>>>>> aware of its importance.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.ncrsquebec.com/events/jet.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...heh...somebody *did* it! Back in another lifetime when I was
>>>> working in the GE ASO at Ontario airport me and the guys in the shop
>>>> came up with a way to put a GE T64 in my '82 Firebird...that's 4000+
>>>> horses...
>>>>
>>>> ...that we couldn't figure out was what to do for brakes...and how to
>>>> keep the exhaust from chewing up the pavement.
>>>>
>>>>> Now tell me again why you would want a metal key sticking out of the
>>>>> dash waiting on your body parts to come kiss it? I'll take the push
>>>>> button any day, besides who wants to dig into his pocket/purse for
>>>>> a key
>>>>> to start a car? Also love to get out and walk away and know that it is
>>>>> locked but will open when you approach.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd rather have the key sticking out of the steering column, but
>>>> that's just me...
>>>>
>>>>> I'll wait to see how the electric steering works without power
>>>>> before I
>>>>> condemn it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dad
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ...and all you have to do to know how fly by wire steering will work
>>>> with the power out is look at the F-16! Hydrazene secondaries,
>>>> anyone?!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> - Rufus
>>>
>>> Don't have to look at it, I've flown in it, and that of course, is not
>>> the only plane to fly by wire. Didn't they do that with the Apollo way
>>> back in 1964/5, then the F8 in 1972 with no backup system?
>>>
>>> Dad

>>
>> ...that wasn't flying...that was falling - with style!
>>

> Falling vertically was fun, rollover was not.
>>


....free falling is even more fun. Getting drug across the ground in a
40 knot wind because you can't get your handle off the Velcro, not so
much...

--
- Rufus
 




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