How did y'all spend your Saturday morning ??

 

I did nothing as exciting as you and your new intake manifold. I started my morning at 6:00am with coffee, feeding the 2 boys (dogs) at 7 more coffee, clothes on at 9, then picking up the puppy poo in the back yard. Then Off to Albertsons for lottery tickets with the boys. Ground a bag of coffee beans, I tried to get a view of the blue angels (at gowen field air guard base) at noon, I could hear them but i could not see them, they fly to the east of the airport, I'm to the west. Did you do a test drive on your car and did you notice a performance difference?

 

You know I took it for a quick spin !!! YES definitely a performance difference, So much more responsive. even the quick whack of the throttle while its idling is like RIGHT NOW !!
I didnt go far cause the check engine light came on but a few 1st-4th pulls from stop sign to stop sign felt amazing.. I have an appointment on sept 6 to get it tuned. I will report back with results

 

Sounds Impressive.

 

what's impressive sir is the fact that you can just go watch the blue angels practice at most any time !! are you in Pensacola Florida area?

 

No I'm in the Boise Idaho area. About 6 miles west from the airport. With the Boise municipal terminal on the north side of the runway. And the Idaho air national gaurd on the south side with parallel runways, A-10's stationed and train here, they fly over a lot. not many planes sound like an A-10. Mt.Home AFB SE 50 miles away is the Big air base with F-15 and F-18's that train out over the desert, Not sure there are any F-35's here yet, I haven't worked on the base for a few years.

 

The A-10 sounds similar to the F-4 Phantom when it flew overhead and was landing as we did plane guard a mile astern of the carrier in the South China Sea. I was told it was that the F-4 engines handled their bypass air differently. Sort of a banshee howl.

 

That could be, haven't seen or heard a F-4 fly around here since the mid 90's when they retired the F-4's and replaced them with the A-10's here.

 

Im a transplant here in South Mississippi from Sacramento where at one point the skies were full of f18's and b-52's, occasionally U-2 spy planes and SR-71 would fly out of beale AFB. and When those 2 planes took off from Beale and climbed up over Sacramento there was no mistaking them for anything else, my dad worked at McClellan AFB from the late 60's till the mid 90's and we were always near the flightline watching touch and goes while he played softball on base, unfortunately that all went away when Clinton closed 2/3 of the bases in California and his job went away, now living here the only glimpse I get of anything comes from Kesseler which I believe are the hurricane hunters in Biloxi OR the Blue Angels in Pensacola fl. Oh how I miss the days...

 

The Boise area is important for mainly being one the Best training Areas. they train the Abrams M-1 tanks, Black Hawk Apache helicopters, the A-10's and a small number of F-15's here. There is an Air Guard military base 15 miles south of Boise where they train, they are always doing tank convoys from Boise to the desert, using a dirt road next to the Paved roadway. The one thing that keeps the Mt.Home air force base alive is the fact it's out in the desert surrounded by desert, Lots of BLM land and the snake river valley to train with their F-15's. I never see them from where I live, only when I was close to or on the Base. They do Blue Angel's air shows out there from time to time, Security must be a nightmare for them to do that. So southern Idaho is pretty much a training range. The military has spent a bunch of money here. Would have loved to have been a Pilot back in the day but didn't have the eyes for it. So buy a Corvette and go fast on the ground with glasses.