Archive for October, 2007
Open Question: would rims from a datsun 280z fit a 95 toyota tercel?
if not would there be spacers for them?
Open Question: Please help me with this rim ? Is this a stong durable rim for a 07 camry ?
Is it strong i mean will it break easily and will it look good on a red camry
this is the link :
http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/findWheelDetail.do?rcz=77450&rc=TSWINT&yr=2007&wd=16&c=5&dVeh=dVeh&pc=54266&rw=&bp=&vid=010329&tc=ENKGF1
is this a good deal just rim
A Prius at the final stop of the assembly line; Photo: Courtesy of Toyota Motor Company
“All the cars that come off the line here already have a customer’s name on it. Now, it could be a customer on the street, or it could be a dealer”
Audio for this story will be available at approx. 3:00 p.m. ET Enlarge Courtesy of Toyota Motor Company A worker at the Toyota City factory installs the Prius hybrid power cable. via NPR
Toyota to Launch First Models Factory-Equipped With XM Satellite Radio
“The combination of XM Radio and XM NavTraffic will deliver an outstanding entertainment and driver information package for Corolla and Matrix buyers.”
XM Satellite Radio , the nation’s leading provider of satellite radio with more than 8.5 million subscribers, announced that the all-new 2009 Toyota Corolla and Matrix will be the first Toyota brand vehicles to … via KVOA-TV Tucson
EcoGeek Halloween Mashup
As expected, the blogosphere has put together its regular round of holiday-specific enviro-things you can do to save the world. And while I’d rather we all just put more insulation in our spoooooky attics…here’s some of what the Internet has to offer this pagan-candy day.
Inhabitat is having a green costume contest.
While Grist has put together some green Halloween greeting cards and an Ask Umbra Column on Green Halloweens.
The Power Alley put together a list of ways to slay power vampires.
And the InventorSpot has a bunch of ideas for slackers…Quick Costumes you can make from Junk!
And of course TreeHugger brings the Blood Powered Car to our attention. How Many Miles Per Body does your car get….mwoohahahaha!
4M Tons of Waste = 25,000 Homes Powered
We generate a lot of trash as a society. The majority of the time it ends up in landfills or shipped overseas for a variety of purposes. What if that trash could somehow been harnessed for energy? That’s the idea behind Covanta, a company developing energy-from-waste solutions. The company announced it now has its first energy-from-waste unit working in the United States under the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards.
The chosen site is the Lee County Resource Recovery Facility, located in Fort Meyers, Florida. The Covanta energy-from-waste solution, says the company, lets the local municipality convert some additional 636 tons of waste daily into an additional 18 megawatts of electricity. This is an expansion of the location’s prior abilities, in which it had converted "more than 4 million tons of waste in two 600-ton per day combustion units and generated enough electricity to power 26,000 homes." It can now generate enough power for 36,000 homes.
Energy-from-waste facilities, according to Covanta, take trash and put it into combustion chambers, reducing its volume significantly. The heat from this process warms up water in tubes in the chambers, turning the liquid to steam and sending it through a turbine which generates electricity. Covanta estimates the Lee County facility alone "has prevented close to 4 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions" while producing enough electricity to "eliminate the need to burn 1 million tons of coal or 4 million barrels of oil."
Garbage Scout: A Freegan’s Wet (stinky) Dream
One man’s trash is another man’s online startup…or at least, garbagescout thinks so. Yet another Google Maps Mashup, GarbageScout links freegans, cheapskates, barging hunters and EcoGeeks in New York in an online database of trashy knoweldge.
People keep an eye on the state of NYC’s dumpsters, and post information and pictures linked to a map. The result is a growing database of information that can be used to keep good materials and products out of landfills and in use. There might be a little flaw in the entrepreneur’s plans in that most people hunting for garbage have less-than-reliable internet access, but that’s certainly not always the case.
Take me…for example.
Via GoodCleanTech
Open Question: what do you think are good tuning parts for a corolla?
im offering to tune up my nephews 07 corolla hes twenty nine he has been driving for 10 years and i want power ,body ,and a conversion to rear wheel drive how much would it cost and will the conversion effect the handling much and does it make it better or worse? oyeah and some low traction tires for drifting
Open Question: What size of rims should I put on my Toyota Camry 92?
When I bought it, it already had rims but I found out from a tire salesman that it bigger rims then it was suppose to have (he noticed from the adaptors it had where you attached the rims) and well its making this weird noise from the rims and yeah those noisies arent usually a good sign. The rims have a few cracks and yeah, wierd noise from rims + cracks on rims, you do the math
Thanks for reading and the help