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Why does he bother leaving the sway bar bolted on if it's disconnected on the street (which is a major failure right there, that thing is waiting to roll over), maybe I'm not seeing some pieces but I'm wondering how awful the pinion angles must be on that thing as it articulates, stacking spacers and extended springs, shocks are probably mounted upside down instead of relocated which leads to unpredictable and/or uneven damping, looks like it might have some fun bumpsteer issues too. It's not the worst lift, but I still wouldn't ride in it.
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OSI bean dip posted:
That one is from the dealership I worked at. We had a healthy mix of artsy fartsy hippies and rear end in a top hat big business foreigners, so no surprise that sticker is on that thing. The worst that I saw come out of our shop was a brand new M3 owned by some Chinese businessman's 18 year old son. He let his girlfriend bedazzle all of the badges (inside and out), bedazzle the iDrive knob, and then bedazzled "I LOVE YOU" in big letters on the passenger side dashboard. Like a foot and a half long, and 8 inches tall kind of bedazzling. Then he put those fake vent things on the sides and the hood of the car. I wanted to punch him in the face every time he came in. It basically looked like this on the inside, only with bedazzling: 
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May 13, 2014 05:09
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Took me a second to realize it was a BMW, with how the stars are arranged on the knob I assumed it was a Subaru.
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May 13, 2014 05:20
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EightBit posted:Why does he bother leaving the sway bar bolted on if it's disconnected on the street (which is a major failure right there, that thing is waiting to roll over), maybe I'm not seeing some pieces but I'm wondering how awful the pinion angles must be on that thing as it articulates, stacking spacers and extended springs, shocks are probably mounted upside down instead of relocated which leads to unpredictable and/or uneven damping, looks like it might have some fun bumpsteer issues too. It's not the worst lift, but I still wouldn't ride in it. Nah, that thing looks halfway decent. The disconnected sway bar on the street is a minor sin, and if the driver is used to how it handles it's not that big a danger. Most people have no real concept of how stable or unstable a lifted truck might be, and tend to think a stiff wind will tip over anything lifted above stock. The pinion angle isn't an issue since it's been converted to a radius arm suspension like an early bronco. The pinion angle is effectively fixed, and only the joint at the t-case is going through any major angle changes. With a high-travel u-joint or cv-joint at the t-case it wouldn't be a problem. Spacers + springs is a common Jeep Thing, and again not a terrible sin. Mounting the shocks can-up only matters if the shocks aren't specifically designed to be mounted can-up, and those ones might well be. As for bumpsteer, it probably has some, but the panhard bar and draglink are fairly parallel due to modified panhard mounts, so the axle will be forced to travel upwards in an arc close to what the draglink is going through as well. That's a huge factor in keeping bumpsteer to a minimum. It's fun to nitpick poorly designed truck suspensions, but you're off base on this one. As was already said, that might be the nicest lifted vehicle in this thread.
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OSI bean dip posted:
Never mind that, can you even spec out an X3 without any leather? I tried in the bmw.ca car configurator, even the base model with 'leatherette' seats lists a leather steering wheel as standard in the options, with no other option listed (except ticking the M-line box, which results in an entire cow skin getting chucked in the car).
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May 13, 2014 07:32
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It's drat near impossible to even get a pair of vegan shoes, much less an entire car. (this coming from the guy who tries to avoid leather)
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May 13, 2014 07:34
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Another Iowa gem: And speaking of Iowa cars, a friend was giving me a lift in his Mistubishi today, when his brush guard nearly fell off:  Where did all the bolts go? 
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May 13, 2014 08:00
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some texas redneck posted:It's drat near impossible to even get a pair of vegan shoes, much less an entire car. I'm pretty sure even tires use animal products.
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May 13, 2014 08:11
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Technically, all forms of petroleum also use animal products. And unless you're in an area with 100% nuclear power, with no plastics or rubber within miles.... Oh wait, wires use various forms of rubber and plastics for insulation, don't they? And a huge chunk of mechanical stuff involves plastic too! gently caress... If you want to live a truly vegan lifestyle, you do it without electricity or plastic. But even the most hardcore vegans I've known love their phones and computers. There was a small (seriously, it was pretty small) amount of sarcasm involved in the post. I really don't like leather at all; the only reason I'm not 100% vegetarian is because chicken and fish are loving delicious (my doctor has basically forbidden me from ever eating red meat for several years, after seeing my blood work). But I'm a realist - there's no way I could actually own a car (or even a bike, or most clothing, or most shoes) if I swore off animal products. Also bacon is loving delicious. 
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murphle posted:Nah, that thing looks halfway decent. The disconnected sway bar on the street is a minor sin, and if the driver is used to how it handles it's not that big a danger. Most people have no real concept of how stable or unstable a lifted truck might be, and tend to think a stiff wind will tip over anything lifted above stock. I actually drive a lifted jeep and got to find out how sloppy it handles without a front sway bar while dialing in my anti-rock. It's pretty bad, hitting a bump with the rear end in a turn will unsettle it in a hurry. The control arms on that jeep don't go back to the transfer case and will make the angles that the single cardan joint has to work in more severe than the factory setup. That's mostly going to be a problem when trying to climb stuff off road; high articulation, low gear, probably decent amounts of throttle, and that little u-joint at high angles. I wonder how many he's broken? I also don't see much spring retention. There might be clips on the bottom like the factory setup, but I can't tell from the photos; the factory clips are not very tough and I wouldn't trust that little bit of stamped steel to hold the weight of the wheel when it droops. Apparently, his springs are his bump stops. That's probably slightly better than the bump stop sans rubber hitting the spring perch, but it's still hell on the vehicle and the occupants. Nicest lift in the thread, but still belongs here.
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shoncook posted:Where is this? I worked in a salt mine on some physics stuff, and the safety there was insane since it was a mine + nuclear facility + government run. Fermilab, out in the Chicago suburbs.
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Ulfhednar posted:Another Iowa gem: Oh, Iowa, you're still so cute and innocent. That's nothing. Come to Ohio some time. No inspections, and six months of salt and snow every year.
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Captain Trips posted:Oh, Iowa, you're still so cute and innocent. That's nothing. Come to Ohio some time. No inspections, and six months of salt and snow every year. Do you think that Iowa doesn't have 6 months of salt and snow with no inspections? Because, it does.
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Left Ventricle posted:Figured this series should go here, maybe get kastein to sperg about it. I wasn't able to spend too long taking pictures, since the guy who owned it was inside the office to the left in the first one, and I didn't want to have to explain to a bro why I was taking pictures of his Jeep while giggling and shaking my head slowly. Yeah, there's nothing really wrong here. There are better setups for long-arm suspension but that is a pretty common way of doing it. The spacers are a little iffy, especially seeing how long those springs are already. e: I missed a whole page. Oh well. Astonishing Wang fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 13, 2014 |
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May 13, 2014 16:39
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OSI bean dip posted:
A vegan driving a Hummer would still be polluting less than an omnivore in a small car. But I think most vegans would also care about the environment, and maybe even care about humans enough to not drive a pedestrian-murder-mobile. So it's still pretty loving confusing.
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I think this is going to make someone angry. https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/4453925256.html
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May 13, 2014 22:04
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I would drive that every day (that I could afford to repair it on)
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Captain Trips posted:Columbus resident here, I've seen this thing around town. It's hilarious. Alfa's I think are imported as salvage titles.
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Captain Trips posted:Columbus resident here, I've seen this thing around town. It's hilarious. Unicorn farts and the tears of orphans ?
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Wasabi the J posted:Alfa's I think are imported as salvage titles.  ..and yet I love them so so much...
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"Imported"? That's how they make them at the factory 
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murphle posted:Nah, that thing looks halfway decent. The disconnected sway bar on the street is a minor sin, and if the driver is used to how it handles it's not that big a danger. Most people have no real concept of how stable or unstable a lifted truck might be, and tend to think a stiff wind will tip over anything lifted above stock. Pretty sure it's all just standard Rubicon Express parts. My buddy had one with pretty much exactly the same pieces - right down to the quick disconnect sway bars. The only thing that could probably be done differently is welding the panhard mount to the body, but nothing that bad.
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I had a coolant hose split in my 90's Passat and of course none of the 7 parts stores around here nor the dealer have it in stock. 4 of these stores tried to tell me my hose didn't exist, VW parts department wanted $35 to have it here Friday. $11.00 gets it to my door Thursday from an online retailer.. better, but I need my car back on the road NOW, DAMMIT so I grabbed two feet of fuel hose off the reel at the McParts store and made it work. Here's how I'm keeping the hose from kinking while I wait:   It's working for now, got the engine up to temp for 20 minutes and had zero leaks. I guess it's really only terrible car stuff if I never get back in there to replace it.
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That's actually brilliant. And also proves once more that zipties solve everything.
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NoWake posted:I guess it's really only terrible car stuff if I never get back in there to replace it. I think it's more if you sell it and never mention it.
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Oh god... And the donor car... Shoot me   IT SOLD FOR ALMOST 8 K
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Bring Back Noid posted:And the donor car... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Sebrings belong in this thread already. EDIT: Can we go back to license plate chat for a moment? I spotted this last night, can't decide if it belongs here or the other car thread.  On the one hand, ELO does rock. On the other, do they ROXX? Captain Trips fucked around with this message at 18:30 on May 14, 2014 |
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EightBit posted:Why does he bother leaving the sway bar bolted on if it's disconnected on the street (which is a major failure right there, that thing is waiting to roll over), maybe I'm not seeing some pieces but I'm wondering how awful the pinion angles must be on that thing as it articulates, stacking spacers and extended springs, shocks are probably mounted upside down instead of relocated which leads to unpredictable and/or uneven damping, looks like it might have some fun bumpsteer issues too. It's not the worst lift, but I still wouldn't ride in it. Like everyone said it's actually pretty decent. Bumpstops are missing. That aint that great, he should put some in. They're 7 dollars each. Shocks are probably fine, XJ front shocks are stem at the top and bar pin at the bottom so it's hard to put them in backwards without really working for it. It's a radius arm suspension, which means he's giving up some suspension flex and it'll unload funny while trying to climb obstacles, but should be OK on the street. Swaybar is no big deal, seriously. If he knows how it handles, it'll be fine. I can take corners at 40 in my MJ with zero swaybars that most people in sedans panic brake to 25 for. Only if I know the road like the back of my hand, though. Steering angles look okay-ish. It's a bit too tall IMO, but I like my offroad vehicles as low as possible to preserve center of gravity, because I drive em like racecars. Spacers on a coil sprung suspension aren't ideal but they're nowhere near as bad as leaf spring lift blocks. Honestly my only dislikes about that thing are that he hasn't added stiffeners/plating to the frame, and that track bar drop bracket, while in line with conventional XJ fabrication, has some weaknesses in its design (good on them for making it so the vertical mounting plate is braced/gusseted by the top of the mount brackets, however - seen MANY of those brackets fail right at the corner!) and is going to tear the spotwelded sheetmetal "frame rail" apart at the bottom inner pinch weld eventually if he doesn't add frame plating/stiffeners and preferably a brace to the opposite frame rail.
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Bring Back Noid posted:Oh god... But he's so happy with himself! 
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May 14, 2014 19:51
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Nothing of value has been lost, and something horrible has been destroyed. I'm not seeing a problem here.
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BoostCreep posted:But he's so happy with himself! Orange peel game tight.
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May 14, 2014 20:02
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It legit looks wrapped in aluminum foil.
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Not really terrible, actually got a good chuckle out of me, but it's just a license plate so belongs here.
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Bring Back Noid posted:It legit looks wrapped in aluminum foil. That was my thought as well until I read the ebay ad. What a colossal piece of poo poo but like Ken said nothing of value was lost. I hope no one buys that thing and the owner is stuck with it.
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Chinatown posted:Orange peel game tight. hahaha between this and the poo poo eating grin i'm laughing way too much at this
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Captain Trips posted:
ELO is awesome and I will not hear otherwise.
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BoostCreep posted:But he's so happy with himself! It's so punchable.
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