A Home for Ryan's 240?

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7831182#post7831182 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by STACKER
Suv's still suck.... Even if some chicks look hot in 'em!

Ah, the bondo and dura-glass... Yes, the pink snot I know so well. i build a 1962 VW into a fire breathing 12 sec. Z28 eating beast. back in the day. From start to finish I had 15 gal of duraglass and 10 of bondo hit the primer with 90% turning to powder. Nothing like a 1000 lb. VW Baja with a 2 liter turbo charged motor humiliating all but the pro drivers at the track. I'd dump the clutch and stall and still come back and smoke a lower ET than everyone in the class. Man, those were the days!

I still do some paint from time to time but stick with the old school enamel and reducer...

I always wanted to build a sand rail or a bug thumper. Never could find a decent one up north. You can buy a whole bodykit for them pretty much anything else too nowadays. I got a mud bog that would be just chld fun tearing thru in a nice buggy.

10,000 acres of nothing but open country swamps, woods saw grass flats and no law. Near Kissimmee called Hulapaw. Big 4 x4 parties out there its a camp you buy in and get a key and anything goes. Been a few deaths nothing big out there chopper them out party continues lol..

Took my Ford out for a test run with the 4x4 this year. Had the SOB air bourne lol. She works lol.... Burried it up to the hood in a mud hole and walke dit right out. Whoooo Hooo. shot some claybird out here too about 500 or so. They got a target range out there you can scrape your boot down intot he dirt 3 feet anywhere aroundd there andnever come tothe end of the brass. Looks like a war zone. I took every piece of hardware I woned and cleaned otht ehcobb webbs. Burned thru 2000 rounds lol.. People bring things out there to shoot like old TV's and bowling pins old beer kegs, Propane tanks. there was a old Zenith counsole Tv looked like swiss cheese.

Its leagal to own and purchase full autos here so of course they make there way to the gun range wherre theres no supervision lol..No lie I walked around looking for unique casings. I found .50 cal casings all sorts of calibers. Neat place. I didnt buy in but Ican go there anytime Iwant with my redneck buddies.

Pretty much just a place to raise holy hell and not worry about the law. Some stolencars out there monster trucks have crushed and left for rust. Its just crazy fun out there. Id like to get some quads or dirt bikes nad ri *** out there. People comein wiht 10-12 on a trailor the whole family out there bbq and *** tearin all day.

 

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Here's a rail I built just before I sold it. Wish I hadn't but it was in the way and I needed the cash. Same motor from the old Baja with different heads and no turbo... Sone things you just don't sell to Texans! LOL

I'd like to build a rip snortin' single seat rail, long travel with big but lightweight tires. The motor from a wrecked Hyabusa and go like hell! Something you can fit in a pickup bed yet scares the crap out of all but the dumbest rednecks (me and my friends)...

 

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OOO ahhhh I Likey!!! that would be a blast right there. Just what the Doc ordered. Actaully Id have to throw up a mud shield all things considered of course. Almost too nice to beat the snot out of the way Id beat it lol.

Turbo and trick heads lol...Man the fun I could have with that It would be like a sissy with a bag of d#cks. id be cacklin like a ninny. Oh well maybe one day. Not today thats fer sure.

Alot of sand to scrub that sucker thru too. I should look into that again. I know a guy from Indiana builds rails has a nice one and some property. we flew drunk in his lol..
If you can imagine a 6 ft dirt hill at 55 mph and beer cans flying out with a mighty Yeeee Haaaww when we got air lol...Yea good ole boy fun. I broke my collar bone and he knocked his front teeth out lol....No Chit. I was still laughing though when they hauled me off to the E.R. lol..
You just cant buy that kinda fun ya know.....next day came back licking my wounds he was laid up with an ice pack on his yap and I had the cradle straps on, went out to look at the carnage and found his teeth lol... Still laugh about that today. We got into some shine that night lol...Wives were none to happy lol..

My ole lady banned me from hanging out with him since. He had a Porche Axle and tranny set up in his probably the same as a VW too not sure but close to it if not the exact same. throttle was on the column lever action. Header and some tricky head work also. Suspension was slightly differnt coil overs but had about 30 degree angle on the fronts to the inside. Closed up nose with longer A arms. Never the less it flew. I got my rocks off in that thing.
Wife would all but make me sign over the good to get one again lol...I got Arthritis in that shoulder now but man what a ride. Worth every Motrin since then.

 

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Yup, They are big big fun.... If I had a dollar for every ER visit and 5 for every x-ray I'd be rich!

 

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Lol, Mon. again. Just got back from lunch picked up a bucket of salt. B@stards rasied the price 3 bucks again. Urrrgg!
Beef, Gas, elec., and now my salt. what next?

Gonna have to start rolling my cost over to my side jobs now. Im dam sure not gonna suck it up.

Managed to get out for a bike ride yesterday. First time in months Ive gotten to go out for some fun time on my own. I knocked the hell out of my projects around the house last few weeks.
I think we are moving now too. No need to get the 60 amp service installed like I had planned for the big tank lol...
I ran all the outlets and did all the wiring adn dry wall too. Wifey wants to cuta nd run next year lol...Cant say as I blame her getting to urban for us.

Thats y we moved to FL in the first place to get out of Detroit. Now all the yankees baby boomers are coming here making it just like it was back there.
Oh well, Coralfarmer can have it all. Im not gonna deal with it much longer.
i only got a few years left anyhow and Im out of the game. Just gotta get my kid threw college and on her way and then Im cashing out for good. Be me and my slurpee machine and my bird dog lol..

 

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But.. but... but... I thought Florduh was paradise! LOL i guess there is no place like home and there is no home if you aren't comfortable so sometimes that green grass needs to remain on the "other" side of the fence....

I'd like to move to the North West where there's nobody! That's my idea of nice! The world would be fine devoid of greed and anger but we all know that will NEVER happen so we just need to scratch out our little spot and deal.... ya know?

 

[Biggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7855368#post7855368 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by STACKER
But.. but... but... I thought Florduh was paradise! LOL i guess there is no place like home and there is no home if you aren't comfortable so sometimes that green grass needs to remain on the "other" side of the fence....

I'd like to move to the North West where there's nobody! That's my idea of nice! The world would be fine devoid of greed and anger but we all know that will NEVER happen so we just need to scratch out our little spot and deal.... ya know?

No no never said grass was greener just said it needs mowing too.
Im bitter now after the cop incident. Anything worth a damn is gonna turn to Sh$t just a matter of time. Im an arrogant S.O.B. anyhow so I feel as though Im above the general population and should be treated as such but reality sets me back sometimes.
i hate my neighborhood though settled for where I live and Im not happy with the way it turned out. I bought in when my street was the only one in an overall plan to build 500 houses. I enjoyed no neighbors for 2 years when they found Scrub Jays (endangered species) in the projected building site.

That kept them from developing beyond my house. I thought I was gonna live next to a nature preserve for Scrub Jays. Well they have solutions for endangered species. First they bring in the Crows that attack the nest of the Scrub Jays and kill the babies. Then they poison the trees so they arent being cut down they just mysteriously die in a few months. The tree huggers wont cry if they dont see them cut. All looks natural in perspective then they bring back the counters and bird watchers to re-evaluate the land and walla house farm is approved.

After they built the rest of the houses they turned over the home owners Association to the people who couldnt ellect electives for lack of participation so they had to give it to a company to run. That drove up my Yearly dues by $100.. Then the Code Enforcer who handles the complaints ffor the Association works mon-Fri 9-5 makes about $20k./yr is useless. Doesnt enforce the by laws so its worthlessness your paying for anyhow.
Take it one step further the houseing boom here dorve a rental market that lets in 5 families in one house and scum of the earth.

Says right in our bylaws 1 family per household. Doesnt define "Family". I guess Family is cousins, and second and thirsd cousins too. I had 3 brothers running a landscaping company out of the house across the street from me. Nothing in the bylaws says you cant park on your front lawn. Had 6 cars parked in front of the house after 5 p.m. everyday. call the code enforement no answer. By the time they start work cars trailors and trucks all gone. Worthless.

 

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Lots of flat tires.... I didn't tell you that! Fight fire with napalm, then run! LOLOL


We moved, 6 mo. later the neighbors decided to move to SC to be near the grandkids. Good folks, VERY good folks. They sold to city trash who promptly let the place go to hell, put up a shanty and horse fence and next thing you know it they have 5 horses. The horses ate the shanty (yes, ate it) and the area was a quagmire of horse crap, mud and trees stripped of their bark up to 7 feet. Needless to say we don't much like them. Their son is wierd... I mean F'ed up! Talks to himself and mows in circles for house. The daughter is a little whore with 5-6 different guys in and out daily. Ewwww.. Mom is on disability from the hospital (aparently attacked and sustained a neck injury from a hostile patient) yet she can ride a horse, and drive, and pull weeds in the flower bed.... The old man is way out there and has a new Ford F-350 dually Deisel and featherlite trailer that hasn't moved in 3 months.

 

[Biggie]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7856810#post7856810 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by STACKER
Lots of flat tires.... I didn't tell you that! Fight fire with napalm, then run! LOLOL


We moved, 6 mo. later the neighbors decided to move to SC to be near the grandkids. Good folks, VERY good folks. They sold to city trash who promptly let the place go to hell, put up a shanty and horse fence and next thing you know it they have 5 horses. The horses ate the shanty (yes, ate it) and the area was a quagmire of horse crap, mud and trees stripped of their bark up to 7 feet. Needless to say we don't much like them. Their son is wierd... I mean F'ed up! Talks to himself and mows in circles for house. The daughter is a little whore with 5-6 different guys in and out daily. Ewwww.. Mom is on disability from the hospital (aparently attacked and sustained a neck injury from a hostile patient) yet she can ride a horse, and drive, and pull weeds in the flower bed.... The old man is way out there and has a new Ford F-350 dually Deisel and featherlite trailer that hasn't moved in 3 months.

Huh, you mean theres trash up there too? lol..I cut slack to those who deserve it. Everyone has tough times. The brothers of grass I let slide at least they worked for a living. I knew they wouldnt be around long and I actually gave idle chat to the oldest who explained what the deal with the cars and trucks were. One roudy night they backed over my other neighbors mailbox. ripped it striaght out of the ground. Was shocker to see one actually fess up and replant it for the guy.

I got a problem with people who dont work suck off the system and manage to keep pace with you as a working man and woman for that matter in toys and new cars.

I should work so hard my whole life so these loud obnoxious scum bags can get a free ride. So fat they cast a shadow and scream obsenities at there own kids at the top of their lungs.

I have 2 neighbors that fit that description both related from Jersey. Absolutely scum of the earth. One next door dont work at all getting SSI for a dead husband who died of a drug O.D. left her 2 kids. They moved into grannys rental house and suck off her. Bad enough the kids are 10-12 yrs old talk like they are semi retarted but now she gets to sit home and drink beer smoke dope and took in a boyfirend who promptly quit his job and sits home with her on the SSI money for the kids and drinks beer all day everyday. Oh they drive a new Expedition to boot. His relatives live across the street. His sister big fat tub of a beast of a B#tch. Hair on the chin the moo moo looks like Mimmi from Drew Carrie show almost identical. Works PT for Best Buy. shes got two fat little brats that get the crap beat out of them daily. They live in the house the lawn care boys lived in. They used to live 2 houses down from that house but when the lawn care guys moved out they took the rental over. It was great watching them move. They just hand dollied their entire house down the sidewalk on a Sunday.

Me and the wife sat in the kitchen eating eggs benedict and drinking coffee watching the show lol.. It was a sight. They rent everything literally they rent the beds they sleep in. You would think "wow" they are watching every penny ove rthere having to rent everything. Nope. The rental co. came and repo'd their beds and dropped off a pool table.. Oh she drives a new Expedition too and her scrawny old man drives a new Grand Prix. I think he works night but no idea where. Not his kids eithier she gets child support or welfare for them. Hes there for the free meals dont even know if they are married boyfriend or what he is might be her brother for all I know. Just F#cked up all around to stay with that pig.

i wont even let my kid play outside when they are out dont want her associating with the slobs. Why cant I get decent neighbors? Cuz the scum scares them away. Anyone decent moves when they get the jist of these people.
The guy across the street moved in last year and his wifes a nurse hes an Ins. agent with his own office. Id say hello wave be nice ect. Hes the only one thats still decent. But he lives next to Mimmi. at first they would talk and joke around with them. they have a little boy and his wife just had a baby. wasnt long Mimmi and co. bought a pit bull tied it to a chain left it outside. Soon it got big broke the chain while he was out with a spreader doin his lawn and charged him. Before you could say Holy Sh4t the guy pulls out a .22 and lets off 2 rounds lol...
Honey moons over with them now lol. I know when he moved in he wondered why I didnt say hello or assocaite with any of the other neighbors now he figured it out on his own lol. Now where the only ones he talks too lol...
I leave I fear for his well being he might shoot someone. funny he was waiting to take a shot at that dog why else would you seed your yard with a .22 cal in your pocket? Hes afraid his little boy is gonna get bit.

 

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...and it's like that all over! If my neighbnor gor a pitbull it would not live to see it's second trip into my yard! Those animals are good for killing only! Period! Ugliest dog ever conceived. An I LOVE dogs. Only dog I've EVER been afraid of died at my feet after taking 3 .45's the last in it's head!

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7862233#post7862233 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by STACKER
...and it's like that all over! If my neighbnor gor a pitbull it would not live to see it's second trip into my yard! Those animals are good for killing only! Period! Ugliest dog ever conceived. An I LOVE dogs. Only dog I've EVER been afraid of died at my feet after taking 3 .45's the last in it's head!

your scaring me. I totaly agree with you on that. Lets just say the guy who just moved on the opposite side of me had a pit bull and an akita. "Rocky" and "Angel" I spent the last 5 years trying to force him into reason by attrition to get rid of those dogs.
Started by not putting up a fence and letting it run amuck thru the neighborhood.
I call and complain to the cops, who call the code enforcer who gave verbal warnings. that went on until the dogs were grown and I made a deal with them to split the cost of a privacy fence.
Then the barking, called, called, called, called, called. Finally sighted for not having proper shelter from the summer sun and heat. He buys dog kennel with tarp roof puts it next to my fence.

Step #1, I turn to attrition to get them to move it away from the fence and relocate.
Little concoxion I brewed up in the attic consisting of mason jar, tuna, urine, sardines, water, cat turds, and 3 months in 100+ degree attic, over the fence it went. Dogs dug a hole to china and rolled in it. 100% success. Kennel moved to other side of his yard.
Step 2 call even when dog wasnt barking now its personal,
I and other neighbors who put in pool start calling as well. His mortgage insurance is raised for keeping a nuisance animal as defined by Florida statues.
Step #3 I continue to make his life miserable by calling and calling and calling. He starts taking dogs to work with him to avoid the barking complaints. I get some solice in knowing Im making his life miserable as hes made mine....
Step #4 I rally the neighbors around him to call the cops (not the code enforcement) on him everytime the dogs open their yap to make a peep and mock him as he yells for them to be quiet. Finally they move and he puts bumper sticker on his p.o.s. truck that says I love my pit bull.
Step #5 I crack cold one and give them the bird as they leave the state. Now I got good neighbors there one victory for the good guys!! Now if I could get the rest of the dirt bags to leave Id stay and be happy lol....

More people get Pit bulls to foster an insecurity of manhood than deserve to own them. I carry a concealed .45 24-7. Given the opportunity and the nature of the attacks iveread and witnessed. No question Id drop one without even flinching and have pizza and beer right after never think twice.
They serve one purpose thats to catch hogs. Other than that not worth the the hide they carry....and you could debate that purpose..

 

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We don't have any dog problems in my neighborhood. Dog runs loose, dog disappears, not problem.... We use the 3 S's, Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up.... I killed a shephard with my bow when exiting the woods from my treestand one fall. It met me at a gas line cut and field corner and squared me off. I nok'd and arrow and yelled to spook it off. It mock lunged at me so I drew and zipped and arrow thru it from neck to a$$hole. It was dead before it knew what hit it. I found out later that the dog had gottne loose that day and bit the hell out of an old man and killed his poopoo lap dog.

I really don't blame the animals tho, it;s the irresponsible or criminal actions of the owners and breeders that make good animals bad. Some animals should be kept in cages (if you know what I mean).

 

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I took the same approach back home bow hunting from a tree stand. 4:30 a.m. in my stand here comes a scroungy old mut chasing a spotted fawn thru a plowed corn field.
I used a Vortex 125 grain to settle the dispute and ran him thru.
Non challantly took my stand and went elsewhere.

This is city life however, I have to exercise some restraint since they have ample opportunity to do me and mine harm on the same level.
a loose pit bull is another story. All restraints out the window and Ill take the misdemeanor of firing a weapon within city limits to keep the youngin's from getting malled. In most cases Id get off but they like to issue a violation as Ive just seen for the right of coming out for anything.
Keeps the taxes down and pays their salary. Back home we would take dogs out all the time for chasing the cows or stalking the chickens ect. sometimes a fox, sometimes a dog. Had one of our own dogs shot in the shouler for chasing someones horses.
He got his new name "Buckshot". So be it. Never left the yard again fully recovered and died of old age.

 

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Yup, ole buckshot learned himself a life lesson LOL I spend most of the day yesterday sleeping in front of the TV. We partied like (and with) rockstars this weekend. Good lord! We kicked off with a 24 oz. screwdriver on Thurs. about 11:00 am and never looked back. 150 beers, 1/2 gal. od Citron, 1/2 gal. of mater juice and 1 gal. of OJ.

Hung out with Irlene Mandrell, Joella Bates, Phil Phillips, the guys from The Grass Roots and Poorneck Hillbillies blah blah. VIP status at the show was something else! They really took care of us and we got alot of exposure for our wish programs. I didn't get much sleep but certainly drank and ate too much... Burp!

 

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I can relate to the drinking but not to the rock stars lol. My b-day today believe it or not.

Wife bought me a bottle of 12 yr old scotch. Not my first choice in premium birthday swil but its doin the job.

Phones ringing off the hook all day driving me nuts.
Hey The Grass Roots guys hang out here sometimes too. Mt. Dora they strike up a strum session at one of my favorite haunts "Eduardos". Kind of a cantina type place with a live band. Met John Travolta, and Burt Reynolds there and the guy that played Dennis the Menace. They have an exotic car show once a year and they all bring there Lambo's there and swig one back sign autographs.

Just got back from the Hard Rock Casino/resort. Stayed in Tampa had some fun, spent some money, lost some money ect ect.
Nice gig but its more like Disney nice not Vegas nice. so hot and nasty out you wanna hide in every patch if shade you can find to be outside. Spent most of the time under the ac wiht a few blurbs in and out of the pool to break up the days.

I watched the weather channel Sat. said the whole Midwest was frying under unusual weather conditions lol. Good, great, Suffer like I am alittle lol...I can hear the electric companies cash registers ringing in my ears lol...

 

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Scotch is for old farts... but happy B-day anyway. I tried to cut my grass lastnight after work... Mower deck chewed up and chucked out a bearing, galled the spingle, and turned the belt into threads. DAMN! Needless to say I have to order parts that won't be here for a week. Looks like I gotta hit up my buddy to borrow his grass eater tonite. I do have better things to do but atleast I got the tank cleaned up, basted, 10 gal. WC, and rearranged a new blasto frag away from the xenia monster. Looks like my Purple Tang is short for the world too! Skinny, pale, and fins are looking beat. Time for a replacement I suppose....

 

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Sounds like your having my kinda luck. Mower died 2 weeks ago after I let it grow for a month. Was a do or die situation.

My Xenia never really recovered its alive but nothing like it was. All patchy now. I got a sick Clown too. Hes got one popeye. Had him for 2-3 years no problems, now all of a sudden he got one eyeball jumping off his little head. Read as much as I could find on it. Mostly nothing you can do its a genetic disorder that can happen any time. Give formaline hope for the best. If not he will lose his eye. Then Ill have a one eyed clown fish. My Royal Gamma been beating him up too.

I bought some new P.Heads gotta put those in tonight. Seios v.s. M.J.'s less juice more power better mounts.
My Maxi's are due for a cleaning any how starting clicking and make noises Ive never heard. I havent done much to my tanks since I finished wiring my house for a larger tank and the attic ordeal... Im not sure I will now that the wife wants to move. Just like a woman to send me on a goose chase work my tail off and then say "we should move". Grrrr.... Oh well. Such is life be worse if I started running pvc thru the walls. Im in "maintance mode". Not buying anymore stock just keeping pace with what I have letting it grown out.

I figure if anything Ill do equipment upgrades on what Ive allready got. Most of my pumps on my 90 gal are about due to be replaced and Im looking to save juice anyhow. I can drop 150 watts/hr just by changing out the return and skimmer pumps from Mags to Quiet Ones. and they have more flow than the Mags Im using. Plus the Seios draw less juice too. All need to be swapped out anyhow cant complain about that.

 

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Seios suck a$$! Not worth the 15 cents it takes those Chinese kindergarteners to make 'em. But that's just my opinion and noone listens to me. I'm too young to possibly know anything yet too old to be hip (listening to rap, driving a car with non functioning spoilers, no suspension travel, and putting gel in your hair (gay) ). LOL I kill me! I do like quiet one pumps tho. They are reasonably priced and high quality (like little giant was before they started making them in china too). I[ve never been too concerned with power consumption because I have always paid heavenly electric bills due to 3 daughters. I think they put me on the trillion killiwat program 10 years ago when I toasted my first meter body... LOL

I've been drawing flow diagrams and plumbing schemes for my upgrade. I'll be going to an offline pumping system I've come up with that used a wier drain from sump to fuge to sump using a double float switch and double float valve system system I've come up with. (Don't ask cuz I plan to sell these for massive profit and I've alreadt given you too much information). I'm also gonna stuff in a closed loop w/eductor and do away with my powerhead mods.

 

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Sounds nice. What kind of float switch did you say you where using again?... lol I gotta be careful been warned 4-5 times about disrespecting the RC user agreement by voicing my opinions on the squat to pee folks Ive run across. So far Im on par with every mod. on this sight for at lest one infraction. Better known as unfreedom of speach but so be it. Moreless I agree with you on the SS garbage can muffler crowd. Makes me laugh.

Saw a Hyundai yesterday with dual SS mufflers on it sounded like a Lawn mower with a miss lol..

Seios junk eh?? Never tried them cant say but I got them coming so Ill find out myself. I should just get the stones up and drill the tank and be done with it. Ive drilled glass no biggie really. Just dont have time right now. Eventually Its gonna be part of a sump anyhow so Ill have to drill it for that.
The juice issue, I got 2 women in my house that think its free. I dotn persay look to save money that way moreless take the load off the outlets Im using. If I can move off soem wattage to something else like moonlights and have an even trade off verse additional load and do it on soemthing I need to replace anyhow then all the better for me.

I stopped trying to save electricity last Xmas when my kid got her own TV/DVD played and misc other electronic plug in. 9 times out of 10 she leaves it on in room or not anyhow. Its fruitless Id loose my voice talking so whats the point really?

I looked into some solar supplementation here but again the turnaround is so long to break even on the cost its not worth it to me. Best case is $5000 solar hot water which would take me 7 years to recoup and break even. Ok not too bad right well realistically my water is always 80-90 degrees anyhow just from sitting int he tank in the garage. Just not worth the money.