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`Nemesis posted:They don't really do this intentionally - the flow rate out of the dump box to the spreader was set for whatever speed the truck was traveling, which is going to be very excessive for an intersection. For a momentary stop like a stop sign it's probably not worth loving with the controls to change the flow rate for one second. Auger speed. And it isn't worth messing with necessarily (even though it's easy in anything set up in the last could of decades), which is why you flip the spreader on and off (which also stops the auger) rather than being a lazy poo poo. Of course, the sooner you empty your load the sooner you get to sit in the yard waiting to get loaded again.
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CommieGIR posted:"I know better how to design suspension than a proffessional engineer. I also secretly hate my car and want it to die a slow agonizing death." Why do you think that was modified for performance? That is strictly to be low and fit wide wheels. Which is, of course, the correct way to modify a car.
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This really doesn't belong in this topic, but I wasn't sure where else to post it. I know this has been done before, but it's the first time I've seen this sort of thing in person.
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Nov 29, 2013 04:56
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I liked James May's take on the pushme-pullyu car the best.
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hot sauce posted:For all of the slammed truck love AI shows when pictures like these are posted, does anyone actually have one? I used to have an s10 with a drop on it but put it back to stock (for the most part) when I couldn't get into the driveway of the place I was living in, and eventually sold it oh I do, scraping the frame on speed bumps is the best! Old pic time of right after I cut the fenders to get it lower. 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:This really doesn't belong in this topic, but I wasn't sure where else to post it. I know this has been done before, but it's the first time I've seen this sort of thing in person. '40 chevy: 
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PainterofCrap posted:'40 chevy: How do you call shotgun in these things?
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Puddin posted:How do you call shotgun in these things? Whoever gets in a driver's seat and gets it running and moving first.
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I once went with a couple of mates to see our friend, who at the time was in the army. We all got reasonably drunk and my friend's girlfriend was sober driver. As we were stumbling across the parking lot to the car, I called shotgun. Friend and his buddy from the same unit immediately shouted "CHALLENGE!!" and without warning dropped their pants around their ankles and began to have a hopping race across the parking lot to see who would get to the door first.
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Nov 29, 2013 08:31
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wilfredmerriweathr posted:Yeah the preemptive salting is exceedingly annoying. They just dump it all over as soon as it starts dipping below freezing, even though it's undoubtedly going to rain a bit when it's above zero and all that salt is going to just wash right into the rivers. Then when it actually snows, they've wasted half the salt budget on poisoning the gulf of mexico. On the other hand, when it goes from slush in the evening to -10 by midnight, I thank God for pre-salted roads, because otherwise my delivery van would have killed me by now. Don't know why the hell the boss thinks we need a 15-passenger Ford to deliver pastries, but it's like driving an ice skate, even with snow tires and a couple hundred extra pounds of flour over the rear wheels.
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Slavvy posted:I once went with a couple of mates to see our friend, who at the time was in the army. We all got reasonably drunk and my friend's girlfriend was sober driver. As we were stumbling across the parking lot to the car, I called shotgun. Friend and his buddy from the same unit immediately shouted "CHALLENGE!!" and without warning dropped their pants around their ankles and began to have a hopping race across the parking lot to see who would get to the door first. Haha, that is awesome! I want to challenge someone now.
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Oh man, thats one of those Maserati tuned Lebarons right?
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Yes... I really need to make a video of my friend's rare one with the turbo 16v. It sounds right out of 80's rally.
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A turbo 4 cylinder mated to a 3 speed auto. Sounds stellar. Reading about american cars from that era is incredibly depressing for some reason. They just seem so loving poo poo compared to their japanese equivalents, but I've never really seen any in person or worked on them so maybe I'm not seeing it clearly. Are they really as garbage as everything I read makes them seem?
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Slavvy posted:A turbo 4 cylinder mated to a 3 speed auto. Sounds stellar. 5spd manual. 
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Slavvy posted:A turbo 4 cylinder mated to a 3 speed auto. Sounds stellar. The C4 Corvette (from a performance standpoint) and Fiero were actually excellent cars, but were surrounded by a sea of poo poo so are overlooked.
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Slavvy posted:A turbo 4 cylinder mated to a 3 speed auto. Sounds stellar. Some were Mitsubishi V6, and some were manual. They aren't that terrible actually, they were just really, really, really overpriced for a gussied up Lebaron.
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I was at the grocery store this morning and saw a black S10 with sideskirts attached to the truck with packing tape. Only the top of the sideskirts were taped to the truck so they were flapping in the wind as it drove. EDIT: If I wasn't poor I'd own a pickup truck on bags.
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Static is the only acceptable form of lowering.
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ultimateforce posted:Static is the only acceptable form of lowering. My T-Bird has about a 3" static drop. I really wanna bag it as scraping my rear end when pulling into my own driveway is getting old.
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gently caress bags, if I'm gonna have a car that goes up and down I don't want to be half-assed. Hydraulics all the way. I'm being serious.
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Kill-9 posted:My T-Bird has about a 3" static drop. I really wanna bag it as scraping my rear end when pulling into my own driveway is getting old. My car is on lowering springs and the front bumper bottom lip is thrashed. I mounted my licensed plate so the bottom sits a little lower than the lip. This way if the license plate is scraping I know I am close. I am close every single time I leave or enter the driveway. 
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Is this where I can post terrible redneck-rigged car stuff that's sure to cause serious injury and/or death? disclaimer because Liveleak: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e07_1385591320
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Everyday Lurker posted:Is this where I can post terrible redneck-rigged car stuff that's sure to cause serious injury and/or death?  Nothing else will suffice.
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I guess if you are afraid of that you probably aren't the target market. There aren't really any bubblewrapped-world ways of splitting firewood, they all involve extreme force, hard work, and/or swinging/turning heavy pointy things. I would prefer the usual splitting maul or hydraulic ram log splitter but would use that if I needed to. e: and I am pretty sure that is a product that is actually for sale, not some rigged up bullshit. I have seen it around a few times. Here's the website for one maker: http://www.thestickler.com/index.html kastein fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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kastein posted:I guess if you are afraid of that you probably aren't the target market. There aren't really any bubblewrapped-world ways of splitting firewood, they all involve extreme force, hard work, and/or swinging/turning heavy pointy things. I promise that ain't the "safest" log splitter out there. I'd use a hydraulic one or a splitting maul all day before that Bioshock bullshit.
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Yeah I'm pretty skeptical about that claim, just saying there really is no 100% safe wood splitting setup, unless you buy a $20k+ automatic cutter/splitter machine to tow behind a fullsize truck.
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I will admit that setting it up (either on a vehicle or with a dedicated stationary engine) with the power coming from a wood-fed gasifier would have a certain elegance to it.
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kastein posted:Yeah I'm pretty skeptical about that claim, just saying there really is no 100% safe wood splitting setup, unless you buy a $20k+ automatic cutter/splitter machine to tow behind a fullsize truck. There are however much safer ways to use the car mounted one than how they're going about it. Like a nice Mallet to smack the wood with so that it catches the splitter instead of leaning your frigging leg into it
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CharlesM posted:It's Japan. It's intentionally ridiculous; it's a form of self-expression. I doubt it gets driven much except to show off. What? They do that everywhere else in the world.
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Aureus posted:There are however much safer ways to use the car mounted one than how they're going about it. Like a nice Mallet to smack the wood with so that it catches the splitter instead of leaning your frigging leg into it Yeah, that and wearing work gloves. The splinters!
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Root Bear posted:This one almost looks like it's squatting to pee: What's really loving with me is that retarded windshield spoiler.
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PopeOnARope posted:What's really loving with me is that retarded windshield spoiler. I think that's functional if you have a roof rack installed. Bloody stupid without one though (as is leaving a rack on when you're not using it)
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dissss posted:I think that's functional if you have a roof rack installed. Bloody stupid without one though (as is leaving a rack on when you're not using it) Sometimes you just gotta be prepared.
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I really don't understand the whole "roof rack" thing.
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Chinatown posted:I really don't understand the whole "roof rack" thing. A place to put things that will not fit in your vehicle.
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N is for Nipples posted:A place to put things that will not fit in your vehicle. "A place to show off your fixie."
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I get it, sort of, because I used to run a [stock] mkiii with a roof rack and both a thule box on it in the winter and a couple bike racks in the summer. But all the "dubber" dudes I knew would seriously find bikes on craigslist, paint them with a rattlecan to make them match their vw's paint scheme, and then toss them on a bike rack. Not to use, mind you - just to accent their vw with a hint of "I do things other than be a smug dubber rear end in a top hat." It really bugged me. They literally never took the bikes off, they just sat up there all summer long.
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kastein posted:Yeah I'm pretty skeptical about that claim, just saying there really is no 100% safe wood splitting setup, unless you buy a $20k+ automatic cutter/splitter machine to tow behind a fullsize truck. Is there something wrong with a loving hatchet, or an axe for bigger pieces? I split wood all the time, and it has literally never occurred to me that I needed anything but a hatchet and some hard work. If you're swinging it correctly, it's way safer than that crazy rear end contraption.
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