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Whoever did the engine swap in my Nova replaced the battery cables as well. They switched the colors. Red cable goes to negative and black cable goes to positive, right? 
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Friend of mine bought a mid 70 something Duster. Two red Stinger amp power cables for the positive and negative.
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Oct 2, 2013 19:58
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Fire Storm posted:Question on all these cars with batteries in weird locations: How the hell do you jumpstart the car? Are there remote battery posts or do you have to basically take off the wheel/brace bar/open the rear door and lift up the carpet? There's a jump post under the hood of my car - worked fine on two cars, couldn't jump a friend's car last week with it. Connecting jumper cables to a side terminal battery in the spare tire well is a bit of a PITA when the trunk floor keeps trying to knock them off.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:07
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Das Volk posted:Wrong I.... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I sure hope he doesn't throw a rod...
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Fire Storm posted:Question on all these cars with batteries in weird locations: How the hell do you jumpstart the car? Are there remote battery posts or do you have to basically take off the wheel/brace bar/open the rear door and lift up the carpet? You put it in neutral, push it a bit, then jump in and jam it in second and pop the clutch. No cables needed 
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Oct 2, 2013 21:20
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11BulletCatcher posted:I.... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I sure hope he doesn't throw a rod... I feel it's posted in the wrong thread.
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Oct 2, 2013 21:21
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11BulletCatcher posted:I.... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I sure hope he doesn't throw a rod... It tends to get really warm. NOT TO MENTION LOUD.
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Oct 2, 2013 21:28
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yyyyyy posted:Unless the manufacturer is completely retarded there should be a remote post under the hood on every car that doesn't have the battery there I thought there'd be a jump post in my Miata but I didn't see one under the hood. Ended up jumping through the trunk which made an interesting amount of exhaust soot on the jumper's front bumper.
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Oct 2, 2013 22:42
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11BulletCatcher posted:I.... I'm not sure how I feel about this. I sure hope he doesn't throw a rod... I'm a fan of it because if you hop it up a bit and the torque converter or flywheel explodes, it just puts you out of your misery right off instead of leaving you unable to operate a 3 pedal vehicle for the rest of your life.
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Oct 2, 2013 22:49
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some texas redneck posted:There's a jump post under the hood of my car - worked fine on two cars, couldn't jump a friend's car last week with it. Doing anything at all when side post batteries are involved is a pain in the rear end, even when they're out in the open.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:23
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General_Failure posted:What can I say... Before I'd scrolled down far enough to see the text below the picture, I thought "That's Australia.jpg right there." The ebay.com.au payoff for scrolling down 3 lines was friggin' GOLD. Thanks for that!
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Oct 2, 2013 23:32
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LarryCsonka posted:I have never gotten this method to work. I always try in vain and then give up and attach it to the negative terminal so I can actually get the car started. In every car I've had to jump, there's usually a hunk of solid metal on the engine block that acts as a negative terminal. Frame, block, either way I haven't had a problem.
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Oct 2, 2013 23:45
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Kenny Rogers posted:HA! I hope you clicked the picture in the auction to get access to the original listing and all the other photos. I find ripping and rehosting ebay images a huge pain but here's a couple more.  
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Oct 3, 2013 00:46
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General_Failure posted:I hope you clicked the picture in the auction to get access to the original listing and all the other photos. I find ripping and rehosting ebay images a huge pain but here's a couple more. I'd almost like that in a "so over the top it's amazing" kind of way if it weren't for those awful wheels/tires that don't even attempt to fill the wheel wells. Not sure I'd go with giant donk-style rims or a more mud-tire-esque setup, but goddamn, something bigger somehow.
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Boat posted:I'd almost like that in a "so over the top it's amazing" kind of way if it weren't for those awful wheels/tires that don't even attempt to fill the wheel wells. Not sure I'd go with giant donk-style rims or a more mud-tire-esque setup, but goddamn, something bigger somehow. I just noticed the second one in that lot was the wrong picture. Goddamnit. I had a poo poo of a time getting eBay to even let me click them for some reason. The second one shows a tow point with what seems to be a tiny D shackle down low enough to be anchored to the bodykit. I may be wrong but that's what it looks like to me. It's unique, for sure. I can't quite grasp what would possess a person to do it.
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Mighty Horse posted:Does this sound like its in Hank Hill's voice in everyone else's head too? I've been called Commie Hank Hill before. Cause I'm basically Hank Hill. If he were a communist.  This Escape had a spare that was about to escape. It was literally swaying with the motion of the vehicle. After I took this pic, I thought it best to turn on to a side road.
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Throatwarbler posted:A minority of people here just irrationally hate Chrysler, you'd think they'd find something better to complain about instead of "abloo bloo this thing that I might have to do once every 2 or 3 years at most is going to take 15 extra minutes". I'd still love to have a 300M Special:  I think this is still a GREAT looking car.
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Oct 3, 2013 01:32
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My mom had one, and it was actually pretty nice.
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angryhampster posted:I'd still love to have a 300M Special: I had one. Exactly like that pic. Loved it. Sadly totaled because of own stupid fault. It was drat quick considering its size and what it was....exhaust on the special was also GLORIOUS.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYTL3qROndk&feature=youtube_gdata_player Impossible now to find one around me without a billion miles, or overpriced to all hell otherwise id have another. Mighty Horse fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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Boat posted:I'd almost like that in a "so over the top it's amazing" kind of way... It's a great-wall brand car. When they invented great wall motors, they had to extend the defined range of "crap" in order to fit it in. As a result, no, it doesn't wrap-around to amazing, it's just even more crap. I mean, if you have a poo poo car because you have to, or it's a work car with a life of 3 years and it does the job, or it's a fleet car and it's what you got, then my condolences. You're not a bad person, just an unlucky one. If you buy a great wall car to mod it and "upgrade" it, you're just a bad person.
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That 300 is easily my favorite but finding a low mileage example for a decent price is drat near impossible. I have a little old lady that brings one to my work for basic maintenance so i gave her my number if she ever wants to part with it.
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angryhampster posted:I'd still love to have a 300M Special: It should have had an Eagle badge on the front if Chrysler hadn't killed it off. It's the spiritual successor to the Vision.
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BoostCreep posted:It should have had an Eagle badge on the front if Chrysler hadn't killed it off. It's the spiritual successor to the Vision. My first car was an Eagle Vision. It had the 3.3L V6 which was bulletproof and had plenty of down-low torque (wound out to an astronomical 5300RPM) and it was comfortable enough. It also had really wide tires for a car of it's class and it seemed to me like it was intended to be the "sports" version of the LH sedan. Somehow the transmission did 150K until I ran it into a trailer while sun-blinded.
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tobu posted:What do? That is an Aston Martin. Holy poo poo! http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/how-not-to-deliver-an-aston-martin-ar69318.html Gawker blogspam: http://jalopnik.com/5137768/this-is-not-the-proper-way-to-unload-an-aston-martin
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Kenny Rogers posted:HA! Was I the only one who noticed how hosed up the driver's seat is? This thing is amazing
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BraveUlysses posted:Was I the only one who noticed how hosed up the driver's seat is? This thing is amazing I wish I had enough money to be able to afford to do something like that to a car. "Look at me! I'm a boorish, arrogant, financially irresponsible American! HA! HA! HA! Now listen as I play rap music so loud that I shatter the windows in my vehicle. Now I will step outside and admire myself in my chrome covered car. Next I will poo poo on the street and wipe my rear end with $100 bills." I wish I could say and do those things. Jakcson fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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BraveUlysses posted:Was I the only one who noticed how hosed up the driver's seat is? This thing is amazing Its just a seat cover that's all out of place. But yes that's a giant piece of poo poo. It makes me think that its the same person that 'modded' their diesel Holden Cruze.
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tobu posted:This just showed up on imgur. I said pay attention, 007.
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Boxy but good! posted:
It wasn't anywhere close to losing that spare. They will likely show up at a garage at some point to complain about the clunking in the back end and get charged $100 for someone to crank the spare tire carrier back up 4 turns. (It's on a cable with a big "T" that goes through the center of the wheel - there is no scenario I can imagine where it could free itself from that while hanging)
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BoostCreep posted:It should have had an Eagle badge on the front if Chrysler hadn't killed it off. It's the spiritual successor to the Vision. It actually is more than the spiritual one, It was the 2nd gen Vision. There are images floating around of a prototype one wearing an eagle badge. When they killed Eagle off, the car was finished and different enough from the Concorde, so they decided to sell it as a "new" model.
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Previa_fun posted:My first car was an Eagle Vision. It had the 3.3L V6 which was bulletproof and had plenty of down-low torque (wound out to an astronomical 5300RPM) and it was comfortable enough. It also had really wide tires for a car of it's class and it seemed to me like it was intended to be the "sports" version of the LH sedan. Somehow the transmission did 150K until I ran it into a trailer while sun-blinded. My mother had a '97 that my parents bought brand new. It ate three transmissions in 30K miles and they had to fight tooth and nail to get the third one replaced under warranty.
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I'm not a race car builder, but this doesn't seem right.  
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Crustashio posted:I'm not a race car builder, but this doesn't seem right. I'm not either but it seems like it'd add a good amount of roll over protection if tied into the floor/frame properly. If its just welded to the floor it'll just punch right through on impact. Also that looks like a micutre of DOM and hot rolled tube of different diameters which is wtf? Not to mention they put the rough surfaced tube at the peek stress point depending on the type of loading.
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Oct 4, 2013 03:02
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"Bolt in cage" according to the ad.
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Oct 4, 2013 03:18
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Crustashio posted:"Bolt in cage" according to the ad. Link please. Also I dont see any bolts.
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Crustashio posted:"Bolt in cage" according to the ad. Only bolts I see are those ones going to the headrest of the seat. Is that normal? It just seems like a bit of a weird way to brace a seat to me.
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General_Failure posted:Is that normal? No. The roll cage is butted up to the seat and the seat is mounted to the cross bar.* *I have never actually done this before but I think thats how it works.
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So basically, In an accident the bolts holding the chair up are going to enter you matrix style at the back of the neck?
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The seat mounted to the cage like that isn't uncommon. The design of the hoop and the tubing and the harness routing is what bothers me.
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