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Thanks for a great run everyone, wish I could have hung out a little when we finished up at the Target. Fingers crossed I'll be able to make a few more this year

Hope to be there this year - it's on my calendar at least, now if it can only stay there!

Looks like the weather is set to cooper-ate too (I'm sooooo sorry for that....)

Oh wow, I'm thrilled to hear about this place - I was just thinking to myself that I wanted to do an oil change soon and was waffling between finding a driveway/garage and paying to have it done. I should get my suspension parts in line and then con Craig into helping me do the work out there

Ask and ye shall receive! Apparently this was outside of her favorite Thai restaurant, some time around the 4th.

Speaking of TGGRRR... While I didn't see you, a friend of mine sent me a pic from when she was at dinner (she and her husband like Minis) and guess who they'd taken a picture of?

Saw Mr EZ in Shirlington on Sunday looking fantastic. You had quite a nice parking spot, too.

I'd love to do it before I head to the beach, so if you guys are doing your seafoam party between the 27th - 29th then I'm totally there!

I will totally take you up on that Now to find the time :/

I've got my Scangauge II set up very similar to Craig's, but I definitely crave a housing/mounting that makes it look like it belongs in the dash. I also wish oil temp and pressure where sent via ODBII. I suspect, though, that you're looking for gauges that are direct reads in order to meet your precision requirements

Seafoam is definitely in my near-future, but doing anything in Arlington has got to be recipe for "hey, why are the police here?" Or maybe the fire department. I know a ton of smoke is going to pour out. And not to hijack the thread; but somewhere I must learn impulse control. My last from-the-pump MPG was around 23. ... I've got a beach trip coming up that will give me a chance for highway miles, though, so I can pull my overall average back up a notch

You can get them from Alta Performance, M7 Tuning, Outmotoring - really anywhere that sells Mini parts/accessories. It'll cost you $20-$30 (probably +shipping). Oh, forgot to mention Mach V (fastmini.net). Dan's got stubby antennas and you could drive out to his shop and pick it up.

I've got the 4" version from Alta, but they are all basically the same so mostly it's a matter of picking the style or company branding you like As for reception, I haven't had any issue but I haven't made a study of how far away from a station I can be and get reception.

I'm guessing you're meaning off the car power/battery rather than the camera's internal battery? To do that, you'd have to run a custom power circuit down to the tow-hook area. Mostly it'd be a bit of research to do it safely (e.g. running it off a proper fuse, proper weather proofing so it doesn't short, etc.) and then routing of wiring. You could also do a simple external battery pack (like the Minty Boost: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/) as long as it provided enough power for the camera. Then it'd be a matter of securing the battery pack so that it didn't fall off. And of course, depending on what you wanted to capture, you could also have it in the cabin - in which case the problem is merely one of wire length I suspect that I'd end up doing all three at some point, heh.

There's another difference between the two and that is that the HD will take a 32GB memory card (instead of just 4GB for the wide), so you can choose to record in standard (instead of HD) and record a lot more of it Of course, you would need to be plugged into the car rather than just a battery 'cause I think the battery would still only last 2.5 hours. Anyway, that's why - if I get one - I plan on getting the HD version and hooking it up so I can power it from the car.