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    Posted: 16 November 2008 at 10:55pm
Hey, I'm new here. Just thought I'd post some specs of my car. It's a Black 1986 GT, equipped with a four speed. I plan to pump up the engine a bit more (I've got a K&N Air Filter, and I've pretty much gone top-end on the electrical system, but it's otherwise stock) but keep the body stock. Interior, I was hoping to put a 10" TW5 Subwoofer in behind each seat (they're thin, 2.5") and bump up the rest of the sound without weighing down the car too much. I picked this up from a family friend for $2000 in perfect working condition when I was 14 (I'm only 18 now, mind you) and drove it to Saskatchewan and back no problem last year. Hopefully, if I find the money, I plan to buy another Fiero, preferably a cheap one, and then I'll go all-out with a V8 and exterior modification. I'll try and make it out to the next meet with it. And if anyone could help me upload pics, I'll post them too!

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Originally posted by Romeo Romeo wrote:

...and drove it to Saskatchewan and back no problem last year.

Welcome, Romeo! There's a good bunch of people in this club with lots of knowledge to share.

So where is "back"? ...... Vancouver? Chilliwack? Victoria?

Originally posted by Romeo Romeo wrote:

And if anyone could help me upload pics, I'll post them too!

Icon, top row second from right (in the Post window) - click it.

Just make sure your images are compressed to be no larger than 125kb and perhaps no wider than 800 pixels (to prevent the need for side to side scrolling while viewing the thread).



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Back is the small town of New Westminster, very close to Surrey. Alright, I'll have to find a way to compress them, they're 2.2Mb big...

And awesome, I thought this place seemed very cool in terms of community. Is there going to be a meet on the 13th?

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Yep Club meeting December 13 at Ricky's.  Its an early start meeting.  Will post details on the club email list.
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Sooper dooper. And if I just put my pictures in MS Paint and reduce the overall size, will that shrink the file size as well?
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Ok, it may have taken a while, but here's my car, in a horribly compressed and probably re-sized-incorrectly photo.
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That's got to be the worst job of re-sizing, compressing an image I've ever seen.

I don't know what you used, but a free program that works great is IrfanView.

 

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wow, thats some pretty crappy bodywork someone did to that car.. its all jagged and rough looking.. 
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LOL! Yes, it is the worst. I used MS Paint, and did it in three section because the photo was so large.

Yeah, the body work has 1000's of little edges, but it makes a mean lawnmower. =D

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Post Options Post Options   Quote hangmans8 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 November 2008 at 10:01pm
that looks like the car dave, patrick and i scraped a few weeks ago.

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Originally posted by hangmans8 hangmans8 wrote:

that looks like the car dave, patrick and i scraped a few weeks ago.

It's even got that extra set of two stripes on it above the Aero trim (except it has a red stripe instead of a black one as shown on our "victim" below).

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Well I still love it, stripes and pixelation included. =)
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Romeo email me a few pics of your car, to david@westcoastfieros.com and I'll resize them for you and post em.
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Okie dokie.

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Post Options Post Options   Quote marcelvdgn Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:35pm

romeo

just use the pant program every pc come with

theres a fuction to strech and skew in the image folder

open your photo  and shrink both vertical and horizontal by percentage

do a save as, renaming and check the file size

if still to large  do again

i shoot my photos  using a 10 megpixel camera and reduce to 10 percent for this sight

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I did, however, unfortunately the 8.1 million pixels didn't take to well to being compressed.
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Originally posted by Romeo Romeo wrote:

...the 8.1 million pixels didn't take to well to being compressed.

The pixels couldn't care less. There's no reason why an 8 meg image can't be resized and compressed properly. Try again!

 

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Uhm guys, just an odd question, but how come you are not using the windows xp power toy, image resizer.  2008-11-21_095220_ImageResizerPowertoySetup.zip

Unzip, install, and then when you want to resize a pic, just right click on the photo or group of photos, tell it how big or small you want it, and it does it.  No fuss no muss.   Only thing is you can't have the photo open when you do it.  You click on the file or files when it is in a folder. 

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Oops. In my defense, I'm on Vista. =D
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...and in my defence, when I'm not capturing/editing video, I'm running Win98SE.

Especially for batch resizing/compressing of images, IrfanView is tough to beat.

 

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