Hello from Utica

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:00 am Post subject: Hello from Utica

Folks,
I currently live in Utica (by way of Vermont, Syracuse, and Buffalo..) and I'm the owner of a 2006 Impala SS.

How's it going?

Wes
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2006 Impala SS

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:25 am Post subject:

Howdy!

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

hey wes, welcome to the site.
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1998 Silvermist GTP Coupe
Bone stock unicorn
1998 True Green Metallic GTP Coupe
Pullied, cammed, intercooled. With a kiddie seat. It once ran a 13 flat.
1998 True Green Metallic GTP Sedan (retired)
Stock: 14.33 @ 96.5
PB: 13.89 @ 101 mph

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

welcome wes! you gotta come to some of the local car shows with the rest of the local guys lol
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2001 Grand Prix GTP - Intake, Borla Catback, Tune
2004 Regal GSX - Turbo, I/C 11.46 @ 122.8mph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5IqjNkscds

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: thanks..

Thanks, guys..

I've taken my car out to a show held as a fund raider for a local college for the past two years now. The first year was my first car show ever and I underwhelmed most folks there with my filthy engine. This year, I spent most of my time under the hood--the same folks who were of the, "oh, ok.." mindset last year all of the sudden stopped to take notice. Amazing.

Yeah, I haven't been to any of the other local shows. A buddy of mine, Sam (who is probably on here) rides my ass about getting out to a weekly show at Dave's Diner and another in Marcy, but I haven't gotten out yet. I'm sure it'll be fun when it happens.

I've recently spent time on making the car look a little better--painting certain things, PlastiDipping the wheels, replacing the ugly-ass rusty exhaust manifolds with polished stainless steel headers, etc. I think I'm going to get the windows tinted next..

Wes

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:40 am Post subject:

Yea that's me dude Haha 4 seasons car show @6pm tonight

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:11 pm Post subject:

Can't tonight... another dead battery. This is my 3rd Optima Yellow-Top in this car.

Wes

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject:

Replace it, sell it, get a die hard platinum... almost impossible to kill Haha

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:44 pm Post subject:

I've had this particular battery for two years now. What's got me the most worked up is not knowing why it is the battery died in the first place. I don't know if it was a crappy battery or if something else (like the electric cutout and/or it's receiver?) is draining the battery on me.

I don't so much mind replacing the battery (eventhough it is a pain in the ass and Advance said that they won't touch it because it could take up to 45 minutes to do the work) if I knew that it's not a short-circuit somewhere or the alternator isn't up to the job causing me to have to do this all over again next year.

Because of my surgery in May, I can't lift anything more than 25 pounds without risking tearing myself up for the next 4 months. Given that the battery weighs about 38 pounds, I've to find someone else to do it. If I can get it started (no luck so far), I'll drive it over to Papandrea's and let them deal with it; if not, I may have to call AAA.

Wow, I didn't want my newbie intro post to be me whining, but it looks like that's what's going on. Sorry guys..

Wes

Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:03 pm Post subject:

Wes,
Whining, cheese, olives and crusty Italian bread goes well together. Laughing

Seems you have done some traveling, where is home?

Welcome,
Sal
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:26 am Post subject:

most of the guys ran optima's and we had problems, we switched to die hard platinums n never had any but it could be that your cut out is whats killing your battery if you have on the wrong fuse, you should put it on your fuse thats for accessories. but even if it was drawing power while off it would have to sit for like a week drawing power to kill it

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:20 am Post subject:

Well, I was born and raised in Buffalo where I grew up in Cheektowaga from birth through 9th grade and moved to Grand Island from 10th grade until my graduation day (which was Sunday, June 29th). I had signed up for classes at Syracuse University starting on Monday, June 30th, so right after graduation, I packed up and got out of town.

I earned my degrees from SU and really enjoyed living there. It was (and still is) a great city. I find myself being continually pulled back in that direction. (I'm pretty sure it's the massive amount of snow they get!)

After college I worked at IBM in Burlington, Vermont for a while; after that, I taught computer programming classes for the Vermont State College system.

I left Vermont to take a position at a SUNY campus here in Utica where I worked for seven years.

I left SUNY on July 11th (i.e. 3 weeks ago) to go into business for myself. My business is partnered with Google; I'm a Google Apps Authorized Reseller, a Google Apps Trusted Tester, and I was asked to present at Google's Boston office in February of this year about my role in helping SUNY adopt Google Apps. I also write custom web-based software. If you're interested, you're welcome to check out my business's site at:

http://www.kdaweb.com/

or on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/kdawebtech/

See that? How I could take a little question like, "where's home?" and turn it into my life's story? I may be the only one laughing, but I think it's funny.. (on that note, I've never been accused of not being sufficiently crazy)

Wes

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:30 am Post subject:

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:19 am Post subject:

I remember Sean H having problems with a optima, his was a red top.
Im not one for autozone stuff but the duralast gold batteries are supposed to be one of the best.

Back on topic, welcome.
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:58 pm Post subject:

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