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Old Dec 7, 2011 | 08:08 AM
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I have super clean stock headlights, but I also have a super empty wallet lol

I'm trying to get my house ready to sell next year and I am about to go down to palm springs for Christmas. Modding is on hold for awhile unfortunately
yeah im paying of my cards and moving to citrus heights / folsom / roseville area in about 5 months
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 09:49 AM
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Is that near Sacramento? Btw why leave beutiful Santa Cruz?
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:00 AM
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It's above sacramento. And it's a hella nice area. Santa Cruz is actually overpriced, and ghetto as hell. I jut think its overrated. Not to mention I've snowboarded since I was like 14 so I'm having serious withdrawals. Surfing just couldn't make up for no snowboarding.


I also just think I can have a way better life for my girls with a 4 bedroom house with a pool and a garage for 800 instead of a motel sized studio for 1185
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:39 AM
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How do you like your BC coils? You're not gonna get them revalved?
they are good for smooth bumpless driving haha...a bit harsh over bumps and almost no suspension travel...when i jack my car up, the rear comes up with the front at about the same time haha

so around tight L turns (like on street corners and such, 25mph or less turns), the inside wheel will lift and skip sometimes if im going fast which is annoying, but i dont drive hard on city streets so it doesnt bother me that much

on freeways and "dipping" lanes they are super nice...i drive 17 a lot and i love these coils for the road although there are a few bumps that make me want to go softer

not sure what im gonna do honestly...i cant have my car be without a suspension waiting for revalves for more than a few days
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by drakejesus231
It's above sacramento. And it's a hella nice area. Santa Cruz is actually overpriced, and ghetto as hell. I jut think its overrated. Not to mention I've snowboarded since I was like 14 so I'm having serious withdrawals. Surfing just couldn't make up for no snowboarding.


I also just think I can have a way better life for my girls with a 4 bedroom house with a pool and a garage for 800 instead of a motel sized studio for 1185
yeah santa cruz is way overpriced, but i live on the westside off bay street so i cant really call it ghetto hah, im assuming you live downtown or by the boardwalk area?
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by drakejesus231
It's above sacramento. And it's a hella nice area. Santa Cruz is actually overpriced, and ghetto as hell. I jut think its overrated. Not to mention I've snowboarded since I was like 14 so I'm having serious withdrawals. Surfing just couldn't make up for no snowboarding.


I also just think I can have a way better life for my girls with a 4 bedroom house with a pool and a garage for 800 instead of a motel sized studio for 1185


It's not that far of a drive to snowboard? You don't have to live IN Santa Cruz. There are tons of awesome spots in the area that aren't that bad. But yes it is overpriced. You have to pay a lot to live out here and the jobs do not pay enough to compensate. It's a crappy situation.

Why not Aptos or Soquel? You can buy houses in the $285-350 range that are nice and not to far from the ocean.


Do you have family out there?



As for the lack of snowboarding... why in the hell would you stop snowboarding because you moved to Santa Cruz? I've been snowboarding since 1992 and I've never lived closer than 3 hours to a resort and I used to put in 50 plus a year. I used to live in friggin San Dimas bro! I still snowboarded. That's the beauty of SC. You have surf, skate, mtb riding all local and you're 3.5 hours from the best resorts on the west coast. That's not that bad. I'd rather be close to one and have a minor drive for the other than live in a hot *** place, be 2.5 hours from the beach and still be nearly 2 hours from killer resorts. I'm a one or the other kind of dude I guess. LOL.



But I see where you're coming from. Wife and I kicked around moving to Vegas so we could buy a fat pad with a pool and have that dream. Decided I'd rather be close to my family.
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:53 AM
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yeah santa cruz is way overpriced, but i live on the westside off bay street so i cant really call it ghetto hah, im assuming you live downtown or by the boardwalk area?
Yeah if you think SC is ghetto then you haven't lived in the ghetto.

I used to live off crenshaw and when I lived in Haward I lived of tampa. Had two shootings and 2 HUGE brawls that I could see from my balcony.

The westside has some ghetto people and some run down stuff but it's hardly... ghetto. You live a block from the ocean and I don't fear for my life when I walk around at night. LOL.
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by slugrx
they are good for smooth bumpless driving haha...a bit harsh over bumps and almost no suspension travel...when i jack my car up, the rear comes up with the front at about the same time haha

so around tight L turns (like on street corners and such, 25mph or less turns), the inside wheel will lift and skip sometimes if im going fast which is annoying, but i dont drive hard on city streets so it doesnt bother me that much

on freeways and "dipping" lanes they are super nice...i drive 17 a lot and i love these coils for the road although there are a few bumps that make me want to go softer

not sure what im gonna do honestly...i cant have my car be without a suspension waiting for revalves for more than a few days

Jeff has some killer coils too. He'd probably let you do payments while you sell what you have.

I get lift and skip too.... huge sways.
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:04 PM
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I kind of want BC coilovers. They get really rave reviews for what they are.

Or maybe RCE Tarmac 0 for a bit more.
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by OneManArmy
Yeah if you think SC is ghetto then you haven't lived in the ghetto.

I used to live off crenshaw and when I lived in Haward I lived of tampa. Had two shootings and 2 HUGE brawls that I could see from my balcony.

The westside has some ghetto people and some run down stuff but it's hardly... ghetto. You live a block from the ocean and I don't fear for my life when I walk around at night. LOL.
haha the upper westside is ghetto free but when you get down towards mission it gets a little crack-heady but wouldnt call it ghetto...

haha i know what the ghetto is, my high school was in the western addition, had a drive by occur outside the school haha

and my brother lived off davis/e14 in san leandro for a while and is now off 167th/e14 so i venture through the oakland hood once in a while hah
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Jodice112
I kind of want BC coilovers. They get really rave reviews for what they are.

Or maybe RCE Tarmac 0 for a bit more.
if you make it up to SC one day you can drive my car and see what it feels like, granted it just a wrx, but i got STI LCA and whiteline alk
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:17 PM
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if you make it up to SC one day you can drive my car and see what it feels like, granted it just a wrx, but i got STI LCA and whiteline alk
Sweet I'm going to be up there soon to pick up stuff from Drake so I'll send you a PM when I go.

I've been to the most ghetto part of San Jose before and I was very, very uncomfortable
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 12:52 PM
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if you make it up to SC one day you can drive my car and see what it feels like, granted it just a wrx, but i got STI LCA and whiteline alk
So jelly of that ALK!
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jodice112
Sweet I'm going to be up there soon to pick up stuff from Drake so I'll send you a PM when I go.

I've been to the most ghetto part of San Jose before and I was very, very uncomfortable
What u gonna pick up? Lol
Old Dec 8, 2011 | 01:11 PM
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So jelly of that ALK!
i think im going to buy the last few raffle tickets everyyear at BAM haha



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