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You Am I posted:Resize that big picture please Method Loser Oh whoops, I didn't even look. Sorry; doing that now.
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Mar 16, 2010 23:18
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You Am I posted:Resize that big picture please Method Loser I am pretty sure the 1990's internet rules about picture size went out the window last year.
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Mar 16, 2010 23:52
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_firehawk posted:I am pretty sure the 1990's internet rules about picture size went out the window last year. i'm still working on getting a 2048x1536 monitor
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Mar 16, 2010 23:57
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_firehawk posted:I am pretty sure the 1990's internet rules about picture size went out the window last year. I run 1280x1024 but I have a buddy list on the right quick launch on the left and a start menu on the bottom
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Mar 17, 2010 00:10
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Method Loser posted:Here's how it sits now: Didn't you just get this thing back from the shop? You just keep modding it so you don't have to take it out to Steele and get embarrassed, don't you? OneZeroSix posted:I don't get what you're trying to say here. The SUV was $1500 below KBB value, and it's in "immaculate" condition, so yeah I got a great loving deal on it. I didn't fall for the "someone else is coming over to get it" line either; I don't even know where you got that idea from. Someone else was literally there when I went to pick it up trying to pay cash for it, and I sat there while he told him I was there to pick it up. I wasn't trying to poo poo on your new vehicle, just how much you paid for it. An 11 year old base model Explorer isn't worth $3k. The Alaska comparison was to show that 8 years ago I purchased a higher end, more desirable, model of the same vehicle in a car market with an already inflated price for just over what you paid 8 years later. I'm sorry I hurt your feelings about your SUV.
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Mar 17, 2010 00:16
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Crayvex posted:The worst part is how it blinks "Ready" when you come to a stop like it's screaming at you to hit the throttle to the floor! OK that's just ridiculous. I would be losing hundreds of dollars per day with such a setup (powerful car, 0-60 timer, and a robot urging me on) - tires, insanely bad gas mileage (does it have a real-time fuel economy gauge, too? I regard those as challenges, in both directions), tickets and fines for stupid driving... What a huge pile of fun that would be, though. \/\/\/ Remember, the Subaru XT has the greatest interior and dashboard ever installed in a car. PEW PEW PEW! ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Mar 18, 2010 |
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Mar 17, 2010 06:00
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ExecuDork posted:OK that's just ridiculous. I would be losing hundreds of dollars per day with such a setup (powerful car, 0-60 timer, and a robot urging me on) - tires, insanely bad gas mileage (does it have a real-time fuel economy gauge, too? I regard those as challenges, in both directions), tickets and fines for stupid driving... I've found zero drawbacks to being in Turbo Mode all the time with my 1986 Subaru, but YMMV. 
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Mar 17, 2010 06:08
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Crayvex posted:I've owned it for over a year and I still absolutely love it. Nice challenger, have you picked up a predator yet? It really wakes the car up. You should take it to the strip and set the 0-60 timer, i was only able to get a 4.4s one on the street (though i haven't tried in a long time) but have gotten as low as a 4.1s at a track with good prep and a little burnout.
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Mar 17, 2010 06:10
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MATLAB 1988 posted:I've found zero drawbacks to being in Turbo Mode all the time with my 1986 Subaru, but YMMV. It was neat the first 8 times you posted it. I'm still going to murder you for you car
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Mar 17, 2010 07:11
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kill me now posted:Nice challenger, have you picked up a predator yet? It really wakes the car up. The Predator was my second purchase for the car. Next on my list is a cat back exhaust. I really need some new tires because I can't get a decent launch without a ton of tire spin! By the way I get 26 MPG on the express way easy! I average 18 unless I drive completely crazy. Edited because...HURRR Crayvex fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 17, 2010 |
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Mar 17, 2010 14:44
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Crayvex posted:By the way I get 26 MPH on the express way easy! I average 18 unless I drive completely crazy. 26MPH?! That's insane! Driving those speeds on public roads will get you killed! Any reason you Mopar guys don't go SCT over Diablo? SCT is so much nicer to tune with and has a bunch of parameters (for Mustangs, anyway) that the Diablo just doesn't have access to.
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Mar 17, 2010 16:45
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Ouhei posted:Wuddup! Nice Mugen GPs. I love those wheels. That's not a Mugen SI though, is it? Looks lowered a bit. Clean ride.
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Mar 17, 2010 17:19
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frozenphil posted:26MPH?! That's insane! Driving those speeds on public roads will get you killed! Because SCT hasn't put much effort into their tuner for these cars yet. Diablo is the tuner of choice on the 3rd gen hemi right now because its the most functional and if there is something you cant tune trough the basic parameters on it you can have a tuner load a CMR tune through it. Its just the way it is, even though the motors been out for a few years some of the big names in performance are only just getting their feet wet with them. A lot of this is because DCX was very stingy with releasing info on the ECU and that delayed development on a lot of things. Companies like Kenne bell didn't bother making products for us because the tuning wasn't there. Now that there is tuning available they've started making stuff for us. Diablo was the first company to come out with a proper tuner and it opened up a lot of doors with modding the engines. They had their tuner out probably a year and a half before SCT really got anywhere with theirs and they have been behind the curve ever since.
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Mar 18, 2010 02:56
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 1991 Honda Accord EX I owned this lovely car all throughout high school until a friend of mine mentioned that she was looking into buying a new car. I was looking to get a new one as well and my parents wanted to sell this one. Since I love the car so much, I didn't want to see it going to a random stranger and I felt safe selling it my friend (until she loving wrecked it and now it looks like poo poo).  1997 Buick LeSabre Custom This is what I own now. At first I absolutely hated it because it's a grandma car and I'm not a grandma, but I've grown to love it and it's now my pride and joy. Also, it has a LOT less miles on it than the Honda did so I can see this one lasting forever. The Honda had 230k when we sold it and the Buick had 92k when we bought it.. it's almost 100k now.
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Mar 18, 2010 03:18
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kill me now posted:Because SCT hasn't put much effort into their tuner for these cars yet. Diablo is the tuner of choice on the 3rd gen hemi right now because its the most functional and if there is something you cant tune trough the basic parameters on it you can have a tuner load a CMR tune through it. Makes sense. Jerry W helped found SCT. Jerry was an engineer with Ford and basically designed the 4R70W transmission and had a lot of input on the ECU design. Having Jerry on board really opened up SCT's ability to tune Ford products. Ford still has a pretty close relationship with SCT, even though Jerry left a while back. It's good to see that the competition is finally getting something going with these cars.
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Mar 18, 2010 04:13
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Got rid of my 2007 BF MK2 XR6 Turbo and got this instead 2008 FG XR6 Turbo, 270kw and 533nm of deliciousness.
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Mar 18, 2010 11:16
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Wamsutta posted:Nice Mugen GPs. I love those wheels. That's not a Mugen SI though, is it? Looks lowered a bit. Clean ride.
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Mar 18, 2010 13:49
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Ouhei posted:Thanks! Nah, it's just an 09 Si, I'm lowered with D2 Coilovers. Looks good, and drivable. I love the look of a car with 3" of ground clearance but driving that low is such a bitch.
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Mar 18, 2010 14:19
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Crayvex posted:I've owned it for over a year and I still absolutely love it.
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Mar 18, 2010 14:38
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My '99 Honda ITR DC2, i love my old girl With a K20A-swap! 
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Mar 18, 2010 18:46
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What's up with that air box? Isn't a 180° turn rather inefficient?
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Mar 18, 2010 19:20
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b0nes posted:Auto or manual? I am asking because whenever i see someone with a sports car and a kid it's an auto. It's an auto because the wife can't drive a stick! 
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Mar 18, 2010 19:21
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Crayvex posted:It's an auto because the wife can't drive a stick! You're not scared of a Chrysler automatic?
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Mar 18, 2010 19:29
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frozenphil posted:You're not scared of a Chrysler automatic? Not with a lifetime powertrain warranty! Besides this thing is the last gasp of Mercedes technology in a Chrysler product.
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Mar 18, 2010 19:53
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Crayvex posted:Not with a lifetime powertrain warranty! Besides this thing is the last gasp of Mercedes technology in a Chrysler product. How well do you think your warranty will hold up to your mods? Just curious if you know if Chrysler is a douche about mods like some other companies are.
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Mar 18, 2010 20:00
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Wamsutta posted:Looks good, and drivable. I love the look of a car with 3" of ground clearance but driving that low is such a bitch.
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Mar 18, 2010 20:37
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_firehawk posted:I am pretty sure the 1990's internet rules about picture size went out the window last year. Eh, we don't care about 800 any more, but 2,048 is kinda pushing it. Thanks Method Loser for the thumbnails.
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Mar 18, 2010 20:45
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frozenphil posted:How well do you think your warranty will hold up to your mods? Just curious if you know if Chrysler is a douche about mods like some other companies are. From what I understand, it all boils down to your relationship with your dealership. Plus none of my visible mods void anything. Basically if your mod is the failure or source of the failure then you are on your own. As far as the Predator tuner, it's really easy to change things back to stock. Chrysler isn't signing their tunes yet. (This is coming in the new model years)
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frozenphil posted:Any reason you Mopar guys don't go SCT over Diablo? SCT is so much nicer to tune with and has a bunch of parameters (for Mustangs, anyway) that the Diablo just doesn't have access to. SCT is seriously gimped with MOPAR PCM's. I was one of their prototype mules for the 2003 SRT-4 unit and I hated the thing. It's still sitting in a drawer unused to this day. Do base run. Make change to map. Spend 20 minutes fighting the software to upload the new map to the hand held. 15-20 minutes to upload the map from the hand held to the PCM which failed half the time and required you to do a key dance and powercycle the hand held. Do another run. Make change to map. Spend even MORE time fighting the software because you've already maxed out the 3 map slots on the hand held. Rinse/Repeat. I went back to a DTEC and never looked back. I think the biggest reason I gave up on SCT is because there was a bug with every stock map they ever tried to give me. Any time my car would go vacuum-static-boost my car would yank timing and my AFR's would drop like a rock for a split second making the car stutter like Michael J Fox with a speech impediment. Hardly noticeable on hard runs but daily driving the car made me want to drive it into a freeway pylon. Maker Of Shoes fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Mar 18, 2010 |
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Mar 18, 2010 21:11
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raseri posted:My '99 Honda ITR DC2, i love my old girl This car is simply awesome. Do you have any more info on it? Did you swap the K20 yourself? Was it as difficult as I imagine?
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Mar 18, 2010 21:12
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winstor posted:Got rid of my 2007 BF MK2 XR6 Turbo and got this instead
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Mar 18, 2010 22:43
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raseri posted:Do 2 intake manifolds make it faster? That's a heck of an intake "pipe."
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Mar 18, 2010 23:09
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frozenphil posted:Didn't you just get this thing back from the shop? You just keep modding it so you don't have to take it out to Steele and get embarrassed, don't you? well duh, it's a 20 year old twin turbo car, things go very wrong (like, oh, say, the throttle butterfly valves STICKING OPEN AND MAKING ME HIT A TREE. poo poo makes me mad still, but at least the car will be 100% when it's back. until something else explodes)
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You Am I posted:Great looking beast. How does it compare to the BF? Are both cars autos? This and I think it looks pretty sweet in white.
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Mar 19, 2010 01:30
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Method Loser posted:well duh, it's a 20 year old twin turbo car, things go very wrong
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Mar 19, 2010 01:31
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Method Loser posted:..the throttle butterfly valves STICKING OPEN AND MAKING ME HIT A TREE.... Sure that wasn't a Toyota 300ZX? 
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Mar 19, 2010 01:34
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ExecuDork posted:Have you told this story somewhere before? If not, I'd love to hear it. It's pretty boring; parked car at bottom of driveway one night, no issue. Got in the next morning, and start driving up driveway in reverse. Since I have a steep driveway, and a 22lbs flywheel/clutch combo (11lbs each,) I tend to go WOT halfway up then let off. Well, when I let off, the car didn't. About half a second later, over a curb, and into a tree. Ruined the rear, two wheels, and my mind. The back impacted enough to push the wheelwell into the tire. Anyway, it's going to be perfect (mild bodykit, new paint, etc) when I get it back, so I'll be happy. (loving $10,000 later, though.) I've never seen such a failure; the cable is fine, but the valves themselves are sticking open, they can be closed by hand but that doesn't help me much. This car has had more money poured into it, I'm never getting rid of it at this point. At least $30,000 in the past, what, 5 or 6 years I've had it. (including the cost of the car, but we're well over that amount in repairs/mods at this point) Edit: Oh I'm sure it's no Toyota, motherfucker destroys parts like noone's business I love my car even though it abuses me 
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frozenphil posted:You're not scared of a Chrysler automatic? The NAG-1 is a stout 5speed auto. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G-Tronic There are plenty of 5-600hp cars running them with minimal issues. Its really the only good technology transfer on Chrysler's side of the entire DCX relationship. frozenphil posted:How well do you think your warranty will hold up to your mods? Just curious if you know if Chrysler is a douche about mods like some other companies are. They are actually in general not douches about warranty work on modded cars, though it can depend on the dealer you go to. I rolled mine in after i blew a power steering pump at the track with my tow hooks and the outlines of my number on the rear window clearly visible. Despite that and the extensive suspension modifications and wider stickier tires they replaced it without so much as a question. As long as you haven't blatantly caused the issue (they might not replace your transmission if you have a blower and left your drag slicks on) you should be ok. Hell, one of the mechanics at my local dealer is the prime installer and tuner of Arrington's 3rd gen hemi's in the northeast and he has his own little corner workshop to do performance part installs inside the service center.
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Method Loser posted:It's pretty boring; parked car at bottom of driveway one night, no issue. Got in the next morning, and start driving up driveway in reverse. Since I have a steep driveway, and a 22lbs flywheel/clutch combo (11lbs each,) I tend to go WOT halfway up then let off. Well, when I let off, the car didn't. About half a second later, over a curb, and into a tree. Ruined the rear, two wheels, and my mind. The back impacted enough to push the wheelwell into the tire. Anyway, it's going to be perfect (mild bodykit, new paint, etc) when I get it back, so I'll be happy. (loving $10,000 later, though.) I know there are some race series that mandate you to have dual return springs. Maybe you could look into something like that for (well hopefully not) next time.
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