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kastein posted:
I'm pretty sure that's a troll. I've seen a picture of that dumbfuck front bumper with the intakes 2" off the ground years ago.
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Yeah and the mustang/BMW/other car hybrid he mentions is a thing that has been around for a while. '05 Mustang with a 5 series front end and R34 Skyline rear end. Phone posting or I would find a picture of it.
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The only thing I found was the red E28 with R34 rear and Mustang-"inspired" front.
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trouser chili posted:What are people getting for real world mileage out of those things? I pulled 54mpg on my commute today with the pussywagen TDI. Eighteen mile commute half highway half surface streets. I average 35 miles daily and end up using 8-10 kwh of electricity (60-90 cents locally) and no gas.  Lifetime average of 167 mpg I'm also just under 1300 miles on this tank and have used 4.2 gallons of gas. Goober Peas fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 02:05
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This belongs here
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Goober Peas posted:I average 35 miles daily and end up using 8-10 kwh of electricity (60-90 cents locally) and no gas. At what point do you get a new tank simply because the old gas has gone bad? Phone posted:This belongs here I get it, but why don't you explain to less savvy people what we're looking at here? It's the sloppy hard lines and the cattywompus proportioning valve(?), right?
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Mar 12, 2014 03:50
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It's the stupid brass junction between the two hard lines.
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beanofan69 posted:So I'm pretty sure I saw this same van a few months ago, only with some different words on it now. I have to trot this one out occasionally.  Unfortunately the original 5 megapixel picture is long, long gone, though last time I checked his YouTube channel it'd been taken down.  I didn't see the license plate frame at first, I giggled when I read that as BUTTGOD.
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Safety Dance posted:At what point do you get a new tank simply because the old gas has gone bad? The Volt can monitor the time between engine running and prompt the driver to drive beyond the car's electrical range to start the engine. It can also run the engine automatically to use up that fuel and circulate fluids in the engine. I assume that it monitors when the last fill up was so that it can run the engine to use up the fuel before it exceeds its shelf life.
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Mar 12, 2014 04:10
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Goober Peas posted:I average 35 miles daily and end up using 8-10 kwh of electricity (60-90 cents locally) and no gas. I'm about to have a commute where the volt would be perfect for me except for the fact that it would take 35 years (at today's gas and electricity prices) for the fuel savings to cover the cost of the vehicle 
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Mar 12, 2014 04:11
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But if you were in the market for a new car anyway...
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Safety Dance posted:I get it, but why don't you explain to less savvy people what we're looking at here? It's the sloppy hard lines and the cattywompus proportioning valve(?), right? I bent the hardlines to fit the new master cylinder style and basically worked with what I had from the 2 different master cylinders. It's not pretty. It works. The brass union fitting is necessary, front brakes.
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Galler posted:I'm about to have a commute where the volt would be perfect for me except for the fact that it would take 35 years (at today's gas and electricity prices) for the fuel savings to cover the cost of the vehicle Don't factor in the cost of the car then.. the car itself is always a money sink, you're paying that money whether it gets 10mpg or 100mpg. Just calculate the gas as how much you spend on it per month. The Prius cut mine easily in half.. an extra xbox game or a giant steak dinner or whatever else I feel like burning cash on. If you're moving from a truck or SUV the difference will be even bigger.
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Random, what's the real world range on the Volt without dipping into the engine? A tiny part of me thinks it'd be the perfect car for my job (delivery). No way in hell could I afford one, but I can always dream. 
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some texas redneck posted:Random, what's the real world range on the Volt without dipping into the engine? A tiny part of me thinks it'd be the perfect car for my job (delivery). No way in hell could I afford one, but I can always dream. I would think that your charge time in between deliveries wouldn't be sufficient to prevent hitting the charge motor. Now, if each pizza place had a whole fleet of them...
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xzzy posted:Don't factor in the cost of the car then.. the car itself is always a money sink, you're paying that money whether it gets 10mpg or 100mpg. The monthly payment would far exceed my monthly fuel bill. Actually a new Volt costs more than every car I've ever owned added together including their maintenance and fuel bills. My current car is a Honda Fit so fuel expenses really aren't that significant I just think a Volt would be neat to have. I will eventually be buying some expensive vehicles but they aren't going to be daily drivers.
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some texas redneck posted:Random, what's the real world range on the Volt without dipping into the engine? A tiny part of me thinks it'd be the perfect car for my job (delivery). No way in hell could I afford one, but I can always dream. Bob Lutz is running a company that does electric drive retrofits to GM trucks and vans, and then sells them(or plans to anyway) mostly to commercial fleets. Hotel airport shuttles and the such make a few runs every day and then for the most part just sit and charge, and it seems the economics of it actually work out pretty decently. Because he is only retrofitting existing trucks and vans there isn't nearly as much emissions or crash testing crap as you would get on a new ground-up vehicle so his costs are pretty low.
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Phone posted:I bent the hardlines to fit the new master cylinder style and basically worked with what I had from the 2 different master cylinders. It's not pretty. It works. there's absolutely nothing wrong with those lines
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Beach Bum posted:I would think that your charge time in between deliveries wouldn't be sufficient to prevent hitting the charge motor. Haha, like I could charge between deliveries (and I'm sure if I asked the owner to set up a charging station, I'd either be laughed out of the building.. or fired immediately). I either have 2 minutes between orders, or 2 hours. I typically do about ~100 miles for a reasonably busy shift. That's not counting the 15 miles each way to work. 
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Mar 12, 2014 06:52
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Safety Dance posted:At what point do you get a new tank simply because the old gas has gone bad? The computer (tm) keeps track of your last fill up and will go into forced burn mode after a certain period of time. It will also go into temporary burn if the ambient temperature is less than 15f and it wasn't plugged in - to keep the battery pack at optimum temperature.
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some texas redneck posted:Random, what's the real world range on the Volt without dipping into the engine? A tiny part of me thinks it'd be the perfect car for my job (delivery). No way in hell could I afford one, but I can always dream. It would be a bad choice for mobile Italian catering. My range has been 35 miles winter, 40-50 for the rest of the year. On a 4 hour charge from dry. I crunched the numbers when I bought mine. Looking at the delta between a regular fuel efficient car price, the cost of gas and electricity, the cost of maintenance, my break even point was 46 months.
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So I saw this today.  I used to own a 1998 Ford Taurus we inherited from my wife's grandmother. It was the biggest piece of poo poo and I literally danced for joy when we finally got rid of it. I cannot imagine someone actually 'loving' one of these enough to put their name on it... and they did this.
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Mar 12, 2014 18:55
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Clearly their handicap is a mental one.
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Mar 12, 2014 19:41
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Guys, unicorns are farting out tires now. 
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some texas redneck posted:Guys, unicorns are farting out tires now. I know i'm kind of a weirdo already because I only run Michelin tires for both my snows and summer tires, but what series of bad decisions would cause you to have those installed on your vehicle?
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Mar 12, 2014 21:51
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Most people don't know a single thing about tires and just go into the tire place asking for the cheapest thing they can put on their car that will allow them to leave. Assuming they can afford the luxury of new tires and don't have to go to the junk yard to hopefully find a matched set of used tires with some life on them.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:05
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Unicorn Tire is an importer of cheap Chinese tires, which says just about everything you need to know. Shouldn't be legal to sell, most stories of the company's products are descriptions of unplanned disassembly events.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:13
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I think you're making something out of nothing. They use the tires in China and they're not all dead. I ran Chinese tires on my rig and although the gravel ate through them in 60k and 90k, they didn't kill anybody.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:19
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Phone posted:This belongs here I see scooby doo on the left. A malformed scooby doo with a blue collar. KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 22:24
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Powershift posted:They use the tires in China and they're not all dead. Nobody knows why they're not all dead yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxinqO3f8o
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I was in western & southern China recently and the driving there was bizarre. Many of the highways are brand new, so the pavement, lane markings, and signage is all in great shape and yet nobody gives a gently caress about any of that. Even calling them "suggestions" would be generous. People just drive wherever the hell they want, park wherever they want, drive with all their lights off at night, etc. 4 lane highways are only 2 lanes because people drive for miles on top of the lane dividers... or 2 lane highways are 4 lanes because why the hell not. Multiple times I saw people driving in reverse on the highway because they missed their exit... or because they just didn't give a gently caress. Also, to make things worse, due to the rapid development and urbanization of the country the majority of people driving in China have less than 5 years experience and they are driving 1980s-era equivalent vehicles. Driving almost anywhere in Asia is already an adventure, but China is just amateur hour all over the place. Guinness fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Mar 12, 2014 22:45
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The thing about China is that from a government/safety perspective you have to think about people in terms of percentages, and with the population of China you have to bump off a whole shitload of people before you crack 0.1%.
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Well that's why they have "incidents per X number of people" statistics. In terms of road deaths I think China is actually right in the middle of the pack worldwide.
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Mar 12, 2014 22:57
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Galler posted:Most people don't know a single thing about tires and just go into the tire place asking for the cheapest thing they can put on their car that will allow them to leave. Assuming they can afford the luxury of new tires and don't have to go to the junk yard to hopefully find a matched set of used tires with some life on them. Is there any place that provides comparative data on tires that dont cost $200 each?
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Mar 12, 2014 23:03
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If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200. 
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SanitysEdge posted:Is there any place that provides comparative data on tires that dont cost $200 each? Tire Rack is pretty comprehensive.
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amenenema posted:Tire Rack is pretty comprehensive. Curiously, every single reviewer on that site drives "spirited."
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Phone posted:If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200. $420 smoke offroad tires errday  http://www.4wheelparts.com/Tires/37x14-50-15LT-Creepy-Crawler.aspx?t_c=13&t_s=533&t_pt=101498&t_pn=MXXTL30008000e: that being said, the 205/70R15 studded snows I run on my DD right now are $78 each... with studs preinstalled. $63 without. It's a pleasant change from the prices I normally pay for tires. If the tires aren't squealing you aren't driving "spirited", tirerack users. kastein fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Mar 12, 2014 |
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Phone posted:If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200. Hoosier A6 or R6 
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xzzy posted:Curiously, every single reviewer on that site drives "spirited." Lol. In my experience people who refer to themselves are "spirited drivers" spend more time reading jalop then they do behind the wheel and are afraid to wind out their peaky 4 banger.
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