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Elmnt80 posted:Well, IoC said its cool to make a new one, so I'm trying to figure up a first post for the thread with general safety and common terms and the like. Nautical Insanity: A Hole In The Water You Pour Money Into.
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Memento posted:Nautical Insanity: A Hole In The Water You Pour Money Into. Nautical Nuttery: Playing with our dinghies.
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Aquatic Insanity: Floating in our own coolant.
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Y'all know that the thread is already made, right? But don't let me stop you from coming up with additional witty names.
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 I POST ENORMOUS IMAGES  I POST ENORMOUS IMAGES The oldest truck at Denver International Airport, probably. Somebody fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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StormDrain posted:
I can't see it. Can you enlarge the picture a little?
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Sometimes you need to deliver a lot of tofu.
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InitialDave posted:Sometimes you need to deliver a lot of tofu. I know it's 
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No, you want the episode where he's chasing down the GT-Four on snow.
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I know Jay Leno can be a bit grating at times but no doubt he is AI and this made me feel  http://m.today.com/news/america-loves-you-jay-leno-surprises-wounded-veteran-new-car-1D80301922
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InitialDave posted:No, you want the episode where he's chasing down the GT-Four on snow. drat GT-Four driving rapists
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Well, here's something you don't see in Denmark everyday, a Challenger SRT-8: (excuse the bad quality, phones take lovely pictures at night)  I know it's big, but I must say it's actually smaller than I expected, even parked next to a Twingo and a Fiat 500.
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This belongs here? This belongs here. Das Volk is a superhero.
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rscott posted:My grandparents had a fiberglass cabin cruiser, which wasn't so bad maintenance wise, just had to scrape and paint the hull every year but at the marina their boat was hosed at there were a few pretty big cris crafts and the amount of money/time those things take to keep in shape is ridiculous. Would never own a wooden boat unless I was a millionaire. My parents got a fiberglass cabin cruiser a few years after I moved out, they're close to AARP age now and they just got probably their last cabin cruiser until they get too old to be bothered with boating anymore. To answer a question earlier, the reason we took care of it is because my dad is a hands on type person. He grew up in the poor part of a lovely town and woodworking was something he enjoyed as a hobby. When he wasn't doing his regular business tell people what to do and when thing, he was woodworking and a Chris Craft was in his eyes the crown jewel of wood working/restoration. I didn't do all the work myself, obviously the first 2-3 years I did everything along side him until he was comfortable enough to let me do a side and he did the other. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind doing some wood/restoration work myself, but not exercises in futility such as what a boat in the delta is.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I know Jay Leno can be a bit grating at times but no doubt he is AI and this made me feel Wow, that is pretty awesome.
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I know Jay Leno can be a bit grating at times but no doubt he is AI and this made me feel He sounded so unimpressed when Jay said "It's yours..."  "really?"Not even a "Wow what the gently caress? You're messing with me!" Just "really...? Cool."
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88h88 posted:He sounded so unimpressed when Jay said "It's yours..." He probably doesn't have much of an income and just realized he's gonna have to insure the thing to drive it. Not to mention registering it, putting gas in it, possibly paying tax on it...
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He also just (barely) lived through some serious fighting, now he has to deal with a 700-horsepower Challenger trying to kill him every damned day.
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CornHolio posted:He probably doesn't have much of an income and just realized he's gonna have to insure the thing to drive it. Not to mention registering it, putting gas in it, possibly paying tax on it... I didn't even think of that. Gee THANKS Mr Leno...
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CornHolio posted:He probably doesn't have much of an income and just realized he's gonna have to insure the thing to drive it. Not to mention registering it, putting gas in it, possibly paying tax on it... Ehh you never know, they might have paid for that too.
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88h88 posted:He sounded so unimpressed when Jay said "It's yours..." I wasn't even fighting in Afghanistan, and I just remember getting home feeling all... unreal. Like, a few of my friends confirmed the same sensation; when we got home, we didn't have to be somewhere or do something every minute, and it left us feeling numb for a while. I could only imagine being a combat casualty would ratchet that feeling up to x1000, especially when Jay Leno hands you the keys to a Challenger. "Ugh, is this real life, or have I been caught in one of those long dreams where months pass, and I'm back home again, and I'm gonna wake up in Afghanistan again."
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Wasabi the J posted:I wasn't even fighting in Afghanistan, and I just remember getting home feeling all... unreal. Like, a few of my friends confirmed the same sensation; when we got home, we didn't have to be somewhere or do something every minute, and it left us feeling numb for a while. I could only imagine being a combat casualty would ratchet that feeling up to x1000, especially when Jay Leno hands you the keys to a Challenger. Man, I really hope Leno at least paid for a couple year's insurance or gas or something. How are the USAA rates on Hellcats?
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SierraEchoBravo posted:Man, I really hope Leno at least paid for a couple year's insurance or gas or something. How are the USAA rates on Hellcats?  Pretty reasonable actually.
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Wasabi the J posted:
Your insurance is expensive (yes this is in Hellcat trim).  (full comp, collision, uninsured, liability, and towing with 250k/500k limits)
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Guinness posted:Your insurance is expensive. Location varies insurance greatly. My insurance tripled when I moved from Flagstaff to Tempe.
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Guinness posted:Your insurance is expensive (yes this is in Hellcat trim). Still cheaper than a Viper too!
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The most AI espresso... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EqEP-N6TlU If I drank coffee I'd want one.
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CornHolio posted:I imagine the rates will skyrocket once they start selling them and all of them get totaled all of the time ever. Yea insurance is 100% statistics, once a few get wrecked the rates will go up a lot. If they dont Id be really surprised.
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LloydDobler posted:The most AI espresso... Fra-gi-le. Must be Italian.
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Fart Pipe posted:Yea insurance is 100% statistics, once a few get wrecked the rates will go up a lot. If they dont Id be really surprised. Except a ton of these things will be garage queens
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Speedhunters put up a four-page look at the "Hoonicorn" mustang from Gymkhana 7. It's ridiculous, as expected. http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/11/gymkhana-superstar-the-hoonicorn-rtr-exposed/
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Wasabi the J posted:I wasn't even fighting in Afghanistan, and I just remember getting home feeling all... unreal. Like, a few of my friends confirmed the same sensation; when we got home, we didn't have to be somewhere or do something every minute, and it left us feeling numb for a while. I could only imagine being a combat casualty would ratchet that feeling up to x1000, especially when Jay Leno hands you the keys to a Challenger. Yeah, I dealt with wanting to go back over there for no logical reason, and the "home-soil attenuation" pretty hard for a while. It was a drive, a siren's call if you will, of "You are living your goddamn life with a loving tangible purpose. Why would you ever give that up?" And then you get back, and a dealership or furniture store ad comes on, and you are just surrounded by an almost surreal level of... America and all the baggage that you took for granted before you left, but now it's so alien and honestly frightening, and you pine for the simpler, albeit more dangerous time you experienced.
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tobu posted:This reminded me how skinny the r34. gently caress the R34 was a handsome car.
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Two Finger posted:gently caress the R34 was a handsome car. It's kind of like the boxy older WRX, I can't look at one and not want to hop in it and have some fun. The GTR/R35 is such a stealth ride though, especially in black so it hides some of the detail. I've been pulled up beside one in the traffic and asked a passenger what they think, they say I dunno it's whatever family car. Then the light changes that low growl starts to warm up. I really like this effect. LloydDobler posted:The most AI espresso... Who will we use for the closeup of the screwdriver? Oh I know, the lady with the impeccably done French manicure. 
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A while ago I asked if there was interest in photos from the ships I've been on. So, here we go. My experience has mainly been with Sulzer engines, in particular the ZA40 series. That's an engine with a 400mm bore and a 350mm stroke, for reference. They develop 800kW per cylinder and I've worked with 8, 12, and 16 cylinder varieties. The turbos on these engines develop 2.6 bar of pressure at optimum load, and dependent on engine, are either 354mm or 454mm. These engines spin at 514rpm. An 8cyl will develop somewhere around 6MW of power, a 12 8MW and a 16 10MW. We're talking a huge amount of energy. Because of the pure size of them, you can forget using a starter motor, they're turned over with 30bar of compressed air. I've been involved with a complete teardown of both an 8 and a 12 cylinder, so I'll start off with a few photos from those jobs. I can't find a good picture of the 8, this is a 12:  The rest of these photos will be from the overhaul of an 8cyl as I have more pictures from that. So, to start off with, here's a view from the top of the engine down into the cylinder after the head has been removed.  View of the engine half naked:  And here are the heads in question. Each cylinder has its own individual head. 4 valve arrangements. Each valve has their own rotator assembly.  Removing one of the remaining heads. The bolts are hydraulically pretensioned so have to be removed in the same fashion. From memory the unit provides up to 600 bar, not quite so extreme as the massive two-stroke engine that was posted earlier.  The view inside the crankcase.  Top of the engine, now fully naked.  Rocker gear. Pushrods and all. No DOHC bullshit here!  This is one of the individual fuel pumps coming out.  Setting up for removing the piston:  Coming up...  And there they are.  My next job was to climb into the crankcase and undo these. As you can see from the oil trail down the side of the liner they provide lubrication inside the cylinder.  The cadet is standard equipment.  These pistons are a little different to cars in that they have a spherical bearing. You can also make out in the crown a ratcheting arrangement. The whole crown rotates for the same reason exhaust valves do. I've heard a lot of people complain that it just introduces another point of failure, but I've not yet seen one of these ratchets fail, and to my mind at least it SHOULD extend the life of the crown.  Here's the flywheel and Geislinger coupling. The Geislinger is a torsional vibration damper which uses fluid to further help 'smooth out' the motion of the crankshaft and try to avoid massive jerking - again, these cylinders pump out 800kW per. I honestly have no idea of the torque figure beyond 'loving massive'.  Removing the cylinder liner:  Looking down into the cooling water passages:  Reaming the cylinder liners. From memory (this was 4 years ago) I think only two out of the 8 liners could be saved.  Big end bearing housing.  Doing some repairs on the interface between the liner and the engine frame. We're using Belzona putty. Great stuff, sets hard like you would not believe.  Taking the measurements of the big end bearing housing. From memory most of them were pretty good but there was one that was out by some stupid number, something like .5 of a millimeter. I remember it was visible.  Testing the crack-off pressure of the fuel pump. I'd have to look at the manual, but in the neighborhood of 300-500 bar.  Camshaft rockers. LOL GM  Next job was removing the charge air cooler. Not exactly in the best shape anymore.  Finally got it out. Took about two hours.  Pistons have all been checked and reassembled, all coming back in now.  Top three rings are gas control, bottom is a scraper ring.  The yellow ring is to help compress the rings as the piston goes in. Mind your loving fingers!!!  Here's a view of one of the piston crowns, showing again the spherical bearing design.  And that's pretty much that. It seems I didn't take as many photos of putting the engine back together as I did taking it apart. I have a shitload more photos from other jobs I've done (including the teardown of one of the generators after an overspeed incident) so if there's interest I'd be happy to put more posts like this together.
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