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D C posted:I had a Nissan Rogue with the CVT as a production rental two weeks ago in Albuquerque. I usually hate CVTs but it was actually quite nice to drive, hardly noticed the transmission. I'm in San Diego for the week and I'm renting a Lancer with a cvt while I'm here and I was surprised to find the thing fun to drive. I drive an rx8 back home, but I can see myself getting a Lancer if I ever need something more practical, based on this week. It's a lot more fun than a Corolla or a Camry.
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Long Island Dot Jpeg
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:Sweet bodywork. The drivers side looks like cake frosting.  Is that one of those dually "conversions" where they bolt an extension onto each wheel hub, rivet some dually fenders on, and call it a day? Yes, it's a thing, and yes, it's terrible.
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They're going to get an abrupt lesson in yield strength the first time they try to carry enough of a load to justify dual wheels.
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What really pisses me off about this is that you can do a proper DRW conversion on many heavy rear axles by swapping out brake drums and hubs, no more. Maybe brake backing plates as well. And the ones that you can't do a DRW conversion on this way... shouldn't be DRW. I hate people sometimes. Scratch that, a lot of the time.
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Found on another forum. Nice Ford Esprit, bro! 
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Kill-9 posted:Found on another forum. That looks like something Will I Am cooked up.
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Caught this yesterday: I was amazed his rear end wasn't dragging on the ground from all that downforce.
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kastein posted:What really pisses me off about this is that you can do a proper DRW conversion on many heavy rear axles by swapping out brake drums and hubs, no more. Maybe brake backing plates as well. And the ones that you can't do a DRW conversion on this way... shouldn't be DRW. Wouldn't you be able to rip apart a donor cube truck to convert pretty much any half/three-quarter/one-ton truck or van? I see no shortage of old, broken delivery trucks even in dinky little junkyards around here.  I guess.Out of curiosity, why would you have to switch out backing plates? VVVV: That was quick, thank you! madeintaipei fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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madeintaipei posted:Wouldn't you be able to rip apart a donor cube truck to convert pretty much any half/three-quarter/one-ton truck or van? Depends. You could, but axle widths under those trucks are sometimes different, as are leaf perch mounting angles and spacings. So if you can weld, sure. However, they often share many parts with the single rear wheel edition of the same axle. For instance on the chevy 14 bolt rear, the hubs are the same between the dually cube truck and dually pickup edition, and the axle housings are the same between other ones. So you can basically build an axle to suit your needs entirely out of various year/model/optioned junkyard parts. The backing plates are different (sometimes) based off where the backing plate mounting flange will be located on the axle housing relative to where the brake drum needs to end up and where the wheel mounting flange on the hub is. That's about all I can think of. A LOT of this can be ignored if you're willing to swap to disc brakes (and who isn't) because people make very cheap adapter brackets to put common chevy 3/4 ton brake calipers and such onto a 14 bolt easily and they are available to fit any combination of SRW/DRW hubs and housings. Similar swaps are possible with dana/spicer 60, 70, and 80 rears, but not quite as simple/commonly done in my understanding. In fact IIRC some flavors of 60s (dana 60-1SUs in particular) and 70s actually share wheel bearings with chevy 14 bolts, as well as some varieties of 1 ton front axle housings. It's all a giant game of truck legos and so it really pisses me off when someone does a conversion in an expensive dangerous way when they could have done it just as well as the factory did by pulling parts off 2-3 junk trucks at the scrapyard.
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FWIW, it was a real dually. The front had a dually style wheel.
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kastein posted:truck legos Don't 3/4 and 1-ton trucks come with stronger frames though? You bolt a 1-ton dually rear end to a 1/2 ton frame and load it you could be in for a bad time right?
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I imagine under heavy towing/hauling duty the 1/2 ton transmission would go first.
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Deceptor101 posted:Don't 3/4 and 1-ton trucks come with stronger frames though? You bolt a 1-ton dually rear end to a 1/2 ton frame and load it you could be in for a bad time right? They do, but IMO the hinky wheel adapters will fail way before the frame/suspension. Transmissions are a concern too, but that depends a lot on your driving style and which brand you're talking about.
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88h88 posted:
fixed it for you.
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We get some pretty neat stuff up in North Pole / Fairbanks Alaska     ^ The front says "Dodge the father"  
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The rodeo's in town and now they have magnetic steer horns for your car.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The rodeo's in town and now they have magnetic steer horns for your car.  I'm fairly certain I doodled a car like this in 2nd grade. I should sue for infringement.   Why does civilized society allow these kinds of things to happen?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The rodeo's in town and now they have magnetic steer horns for your car. If they put that on the bumper it'd make a decent moustache
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Snowdens Secret posted:If they put that on the bumper it'd make a decent moustache I'm gonna go see how much they cost. edit: $30. I wonder if it works on my bumper beam through the plastic cover.
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Cenodoxus posted:
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I think there may be some sort of time portal near southbank linking our time to 1999, and someone drove their supra through it.  (that's a poorly stenciled autobot logo on the hood, and the whole shambolic thing is even worse from the other side) Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The rodeo's in town and now they have magnetic steer horns for your car. God drat my aluminum hood, I want a Boss Hawg Prius
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Polymerized Cum posted:God drat my aluminum hood, I want a Boss Hawg Prius Put gently caress off big rare earth magnets on the underside of the hood.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The rodeo's in town and now they have magnetic steer horns for your car. I would unironically put these on my both my Cadillacs.
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Every time I told someone I had put Cadillac horns on my Altima, without loving fail, they always assumed I meant those things.  I wish I was kidding, even my parents asked where I got horns that would bolt to the hood.  I guess everyone around here grew up watching The Dukes.
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Ahahaha. I see this car all the time in Fairbanks. Definitely on the awesome list.
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some texas redneck posted:Every time I told someone I had put Cadillac horns on my Altima, without loving fail, they always assumed I meant those things. How hard was it to put those horns on the car? I need something loud as gently caress for when I finally get my bug on the road. Also, somehow when I moved out here from Texas my parents managed to hide a 3 foot set of longhorns in my stuff. They are now mounted in the garage.
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Surely this guy must have a doppleganger driving a Volvo in Sweden rocking moose antlers.
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Boomerjinks posted:Surely this guy must have a doppleganger driving a Volvo in Sweden rocking moose antlers.  Not exactly what you had in mind, but I'm counting it!
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That looks like a quick way to injure yourself without thinking. Also, I have learned from this page that Alaska is full of terrible people.
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Das Volk posted:That looks like a quick way to injure yourself without thinking. Also, I have learned from this page that Alaska is full of terrible people. See this scar? Caught my hand on a moose antler grabbing third. 
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8th-samurai posted:Put gently caress off big rare earth magnets on the underside of the hood. Now I'm curious about what happens when you add gently caress off big rare earth magnets under the hood of an engine already housing a big electromagnetic motor
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Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
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Look closely...
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Das Volk posted:Look closely... Got rid of locking lug nuts and didn't replace them with anything?  I really like the Aristo/GS. Giugiaro knew what they were doing there. madeintaipei fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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It also looks like there's a fat crack in the front wheel.
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Das Volk posted:Look closely... Scotch tape racing stripe on the windshield? No, really, what the gently caress is that? Tape? Some attempt at pinstriping?
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