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Guys, that's Hobbes' line from the comic.
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InitialDave posted:Guys, that's Hobbes' line from the comic. Got em! Edit: even got a guy with a Calvin and Hobbes av. Savoring it like a fine wine. Nocheez fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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https://i.imgur.com/HtNcYwA.mp4
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Sep 14, 2018 15:47
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 What the gently caress? Did his helmet come off?
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Sep 14, 2018 15:55
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Nocheez posted:This is so stupid. e: lol I’m dumb
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Sep 14, 2018 15:57
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Is that blood on the tree?
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Sep 14, 2018 16:12
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I don’t think cage was tree-rated. Now I want to see a little further back in the timeline. What the heck cause them to veer off like that? I can’t tell from that short snippet whether the other car got PITted by the red car, or what.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:15
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Cojawfee posted:Is that blood on the tree? Looks like it gave the bark a hair cut.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:31
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I think he closed the door on the red car's line, and once they're on the wet grass it made no odds as to what control inputs they made, they just ended up on a straight course.
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Sep 14, 2018 16:34
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Cojawfee posted:Is that blood on the tree? Certainly not blood since the driver, who was thrown over the red car and landed in front of the pickup, is surprisingly not covered in blood and appears to be too alive to have lost that much blood. Probably (automatic?) transmission fluid.
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Sep 14, 2018 17:04
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Seems like a well run event, trees in the runoff area and letting cars with roll cages made out of balsa wood race. And the Armco is backwards relative to the track they're on? You can see another racing surface behind it so why are they racing on the side that's obviously not supposed to be a track? 
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Sep 14, 2018 17:19
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The tree/response team were strategically placed to ensure fastest possible extraction of the driver from the wreckage. Now if only more tracks can be designed with these sorts of features integrated we'll usher in a new generation of racing safety  Driver has broken bones but otherwise is okay, iirc. thealphabetsez fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Sep 14, 2018 17:55
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A relic of the "he was safely thrown clear" era of racing.
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Sep 14, 2018 18:31
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Praise baby jeesus for no seat belts.
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Sep 14, 2018 18:49
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I had to watch that 4 or 5 times to really figure it out. Holy poo poo.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:18
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thealphabetsez posted:Driver has broken bones but otherwise is okay, iirc. She had a broken arm. It's an object lesson in luck - absolutely crazy.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:34
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The cage is breaking my mind, is there really no horizontal member in the front at all ?
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Sep 14, 2018 20:56
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yeah he was wearing a harness, it was the only thing holding the car together for a split second wtf kind of cage did that car have lol
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Sep 14, 2018 21:38
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It was hit right between two pretty rigid parts of the vehicle, the caged cabin and the engine. When two rigid parts are forced to go separate ways, the point joining them together has to give. The bigger question here is who designs a track with runoff space with trees in it? Also note the driver is a woman, not a guy.
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Sep 14, 2018 21:42
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Cage really should have had forward member reaching to the strut towers, but probably not required in the class. I'd have expected the seat harness to be more... durable, and still would not have expected the car to break in half. It usually take a lot more speed to do that.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:06
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It probably would have been a painful but routine wreck if there wasn't a fifty foot tall garrote waiting to cut cars in half.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:09
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xzzy posted:It probably would have been a painful but routine wreck if there wasn't a fifty foot tall garrote waiting to cut cars in half. Judging by the missing bark on the two trees, this seems to be a repeat occurrence.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:20
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Those poor trees need a barrier to protect them. 
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Sep 15, 2018 00:41
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Darchangel posted:Cage really should have had forward member reaching to the strut towers, but probably not required in the class. I'd have expected the seat harness to be more... durable, and still would not have expected the car to break in half. It usually take a lot more speed to do that.
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sandoz posted:yeah he was wearing a harness, it was the only thing holding the car together for a split second Ebay bolt in bro!
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In other news, Mike Finnegan finally got Blasphemi into the 8s today, and swapped in a smaller blower pulley for more boost on his second pass. Because Roadkill, it blew up (again). I didn't see if they said why, but it was bad enough that he pulled over rather than coasting through the traps, so it must've been really bad. Was this the engine that they built on a picnic table, or the one after that?
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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nmfree posted:The Something Awful Forums › Discussion › Automotive Insanity › Horrible Mechanical Failures: It usually takes a lot more speed to break a car in half I think we've finally got the thread title capable of knocking off ol' Mr. 2x4 jackstand.
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I created my own today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzaea1Q-9k 
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Sep 17, 2018 01:30
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Was that a money shift? drat.
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Crustashio posted:I created my own today... gently caress, dude, didn't you just blow a motor up like last year? 
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Vanagoon posted:Was that a money shift? Looks like he went into second from third on a straight.
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Crustashio posted:I created my own today... As a war nerd, the video set up expectations that were not met. Edit: 
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Sep 17, 2018 03:34
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I think that was the quietest money shift I've ever seen. I had to rewatch it a couple of times to make sure there wasn't something else going on that I was missing.
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Sep 17, 2018 05:21
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Cojawfee posted:Looks like he went into second from third on a straight. Yuuuup. Never seen a 96-00 Civic tach hit its mechanical limit before. Looks like an LX/EX cluster, so that tach only goes to 8k to begin with.... looked like upshifting was happening around 9k? Going by what I remember from my Civic's cluster, the speedo was probably around 90 MPH. The stock D16 gearbox would have had the stock D16 engine around redline (~6800) in 3rd at that kind of speed; the gearbox I bet he's running (either from a B16, or maybe a ITR gearbox?) has wayyyyy shorter gearing. I'd bet it spun past 11k.  Crustashio, any data logging? It'd be kinda interesting to know what it actually spun up to. loving amazing it held together for a bit after that; the one money shift I did on a Honda lead to immediate knock knock jokes (but no windows, thank gently caress.. just slapped new bearings in and drove it into the ground, but that was an old boring A20). And it only spun up to about 8k on that shift.
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I once money-shifted my old Escort wagon from 4th to 3rd while accelerating on the highway and immediately got a BANG and a big cloud of coolant, but after towing it to the shop amazingly it turned out to just be a freeze plug blowing out. No other problems. I guess the water pump running that fast overpressurized the system.
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Sep 17, 2018 05:50
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..... that couldn't have been a CVH. No loving way a CVH wouldn't have dropped a valve seat or 5 if you looked at it funny.
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Sep 17, 2018 08:39
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Running when parked last week. 3000$ no lowballs I know what I got
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Sep 17, 2018 08:49
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What I want to know is: what did it sound like?
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Platystemon posted:What I want to know is: what did it sound like? two titanium skeletons loving at the bottom of an empty grain silo
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