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dandaman posted:Saw this beauty today... drat, good find. There used to be a p1800es around my town, never had the chance to talk to the owner. Somehow they look even prettier in person than they do in pictures.
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As Nero Danced posted:drat, good find. There used to be a p1800es around my town, never had the chance to talk to the owner. Somehow they look even prettier in person than they do in pictures. At my last job, we went to install internet at a guy's house, and in his garage he had a partially restored P1800 and a donor/resto candidate P1800. It's hard enough to find one in the midwest, much less two in the same place.
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InitialDave fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Dec 25, 2013 |
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Wrap it up VAGailures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y6wiwCWa1E
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Dec 26, 2013 16:49
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Guys: Behold, the Lego Car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ObE4_nMCjE Now we just need to see how it was built.
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Dec 26, 2013 17:32
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Paging Cakefool to Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ALVIS-STALWART-6x6-MILITARY-VEHICLE-/181283910900?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2a355cf4f4 
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InitialDave posted:Paging Cakefool to Ebay: I wonder how much it'd take to get that to the States. Would it fit in a container? Could probably fill it and the container with Rover spares and make a good chunk of the cash back selling the parts in the States and get a cheap and awesome 6x6 out of it.
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Kill-9 posted:I wonder how much it'd take to get that to the States. Would it fit in a container? Could probably fill it and the container with Rover spares and make a good chunk of the cash back selling the parts in the States and get a cheap and awesome 6x6 out of it.
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e: ^^^^^ Ad says it doesn't have any of the swimming gearInitialDave posted:Paging Cakefool to Ebay: Cool as heck, drat nearly placed a bid on it too. Then I was struck by the reality I couldn't afford the insurance (probably) and I expect it needs a special licence?
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Throatwarbler posted:Wrap it up VAGailures Is every american TV advert narrated in that same "EEE AAA. It's in the GAME!" voice? Or has the internet misled me?
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Crankit posted:e: ^^^^^ Ad says it doesn't have any of the swimming gear quote:Cool as heck, drat nearly placed a bid on it too. Insurance probably isn't a huge amount. When did you last see/hear of something like that being stolen or crashed? The main problem is that there are no differentials between the 1st/2nd/3rd wheels on a given side, only between the two sets, so they get transmission wind-up on hard surfaces.
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My uncle's restored   
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Dec 26, 2013 21:11
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To nitpick, it' a 69, but still. Sweet car.
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I.......don't know what to say about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Tamp2fHhg
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Motronic posted:I.......don't know what to say about this. "gently caress Yeah, this is Awesome!" works for me.
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Motronic posted:I.......don't know what to say about this. What's its quarter mile time?
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EightBit posted:What's its quarter mile time? That depends. Are we talking about chain speed or the speed of the operator when it kicks back?
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Das Volk posted:My uncle's restored 1967 Camaro with 383 Holy poo poo that is nice but yea its a 69. 67 had vent windows and no eyebrows over the wheel wells.
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Fart Pipe posted:Holy poo poo that is nice but yea its a 69. 67 had vent windows and no eyebrows over the wheel wells. I don't have year-to-year knowledge of muscle cars, I like them aesthetically but I never got into them otherwise. However I do like how it sounds while idling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwOfV7wD9I
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That sounds amazing, holy crap. Super nice car.
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Das Volk posted:I don't have year-to-year knowledge of muscle cars, I like them aesthetically but I never got into them otherwise. However I do like how it sounds while idling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwOfV7wD9I Lumpy and grumpy. Sounds fantastic.
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Motronic posted:I.......don't know what to say about this. How many people die if the chain breaks?
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the poi posted:How many people die if the chain breaks? The chain won't break, the whole mess will break loose of the pivot wheels and slice the entire planet in half.
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Rhyno posted:The chain won't break, the whole mess will break loose of the pivot wheels and slice the entire planet in half.  "Every decade or so, we start hearin' a buzzin'. That means deathchopper is comin' back to town. Goin' underground don't help.. it goes underground. You can only in the sky for so long.. when deathchopper comes for ya, its gonna getcha!" 'But doesn't it run out of gas, Grandpa?' "It does, Timmy. It does.  But some fool bastard always refills it and starts it up." "Timmy, I'm going to tell you something I never told anyone else, before, ever, in my life. I was in Desert Storm, and I have seen people die.. but I've never told another soul about this."  "I.. I refilled it once, Timmy. It remembers. Its coming, but I'm too old to fight. Its time for you, Timmy, to pick up and rebel against the deathchopper."
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Lumpy and grumpy. Sounds fantastic. No poo poo. Am I a bad person if I want to put a cam in my GMC just so it has a nice lumpy idle?
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IOwnCalculus posted:No poo poo. Nope, presentation counts. Who gives a poo poo if it goes faster when it sounds good? Disclaimer: I am now, and have ever been a teenage ricer.
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Oh, it'd go faster too  I just worry that it'd be impossible to launch... well, more impossible than it already is.
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Das Volk posted:I don't have year-to-year knowledge of muscle cars, I like them aesthetically but I never got into them otherwise. However I do like how it sounds while idling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwOfV7wD9I The thing I love about the motors in muscle cars is just how drat low they idle. No matter how many times I hear them I just keep expecting the engine to stall, even though I know better. [edit] saw this while I watched the chainsaw video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdt68v5UA8E V8 Barstool 11BulletCatcher fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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11BulletCatcher posted:The thing I love about the motors in muscle cars is just how drat low they idle. No matter how many times I hear them I just keep expecting the engine to stall, even though I know be Dude, they stall all the time. Anything with a big overlap cam idles like poo poo. That's what happens when half your exhaust is reversing through the intake valves and half of the fresh mix is blowing out of the headers before ignition.
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Excellent point. Still, it's an awesome sound, taut with suspense. Now, for a different kind of awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFg7U8HFp8 1978 Mercury Cougar XR7. Sure, slow as hell, but that styling rocks! I'm pickin up a 77 in Feb, and I could not be more excited. Say what you will about land yachts, but you can't argue they have a hell of a presence on the road. On the flipside, they really are slower than they have any right to be. I was watching a video where a guy was reviving his Lincoln Continental Mark V with a 460, and his 0-60 time was almost 15 seconds. 11BulletCatcher fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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It'll be cool when we get to play with electromagnetic valves in street cars. Hello lumpy rear end idle.
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BlackMK4 posted:It'll be cool when we get to play with electromagnetic valves in street cars. Hello lumpy rear end idle. Tunes apparently can already make loping idles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekjX2vCTvc
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kimbo305 posted:Tunes apparently can already make loping idles: Make it miss at idle basically?
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I would pay a lot of money to drive around that all day long.
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angryhampster posted:Make it miss at idle basically? Yep. Big cams idle that way because they run high overlap (for high-rpm power), which causes it to misfire at idle due to wallaka posted:...half your exhaust is reversing through the intake valves and half of the fresh mix is blowing out of the headers before ignition. The 5.0 has dual VVT, so you can tune it to run high overlap at idle to get the misfire like that. It's neat, but at the same time kind of a poser thing, since you're not gaining any power by doing it; with VVT you can tune for high overlap at high RPM, but still have smooth idle and clean emissions. Also it can gently caress up your catalytic converters if you do it a lot; all that hot unburnt fuel and free oxygen will make the cats way hotter even than they already are, and can slag the catalyst if it gets hot enough. Then you've got a drivability issue (because your exhaust is now plugged) that's several thousand dollars to fix, because even the federal emissions warranty probably won't cover it since it was directly caused by modifying the car. E\/No that's the whole thing, VVT is Variable. With a traditional cam (especially on pushrod engines) you're stuck with one overlap setting, so either have a smooth idle and give up power, or sacrifice idle quality for power gains. With VVT you can change the overlap throughout the rev range, so you can have both. Having VVT make a loping idle is entirely an image thing. Fender Anarchist fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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The "cam tunes" are supposed to help at high RPMs too, but who knows. I'd be more worried about the tuners turning off the knock sensors and grenading the engine. I'd imagine most people running a cam tune would also have an "off-road" x-pipe too. Then again, Mustang owners...
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How does that mesh with emissions testing? We don't have EGR on petrol cars anymore because VVTI can be used to do the same thing. If you gently caress with the overlap at idle it could potentially gently caress this up.
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A lot of areas only computer-scan OBDII cars, and skip the time / expense of actually sniffing the exhaust. Which means that the people who have the ability to tune their cars to create more emissions, can also tune out the CELs they would normally get, and would only fail on the X-pipe if they get a visual inspection.
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InitialDave posted:Paging Cakefool to Ebay: Good that's a state, still beautiful though. I need to refresh my memory on the drive train, it must be possible to install e/m clutches between the pairs to make it street drivable.
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Cakefool posted:Good that's a state, still beautiful though. I need to refresh my memory on the drive train, it must be possible to install e/m clutches between the pairs to make it street drivable. centre wheels, then fore/aft from there.  I still want one.  Guess for the time being I'll have to settle for getting a 1/35 scale one when I have £100 spare.
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