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I auto crossed for fun gently caress pax.. I had this bad rear end 510(slo) sm2 racer with dual carbs increased displacement non stock wheels n tires, with stock torsion bar front suspension 
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Autocross is the middle school dance of racing. It's great if you're just starting out in motorsports or don't want to spend a lot of money, but the rules and the people are loving terrible.
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Dec 9, 2014 16:05
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Yeah, I screwed myself into Street Prepared when I put poly bushings in my '79 RX-7. No other performance mods besides Tokico Blues and a K&N, so I was definitely doing it for fun, not to win. Still did OK locally - mid pack.
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Dec 9, 2014 16:32
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Slow is Fast posted:Autocross is the middle school dance of racing. It's great if you're just starting out in motorsports or don't want to spend a lot of money, but the rules and the people are loving terrible. Also gently caress spending $20 for less than three minutes of track time.
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Dec 9, 2014 16:40
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Geoj posted:Also gently caress spending $20 for less than three minutes of track time. $20? It's like $45-50 here (Detroit SCCA). Even bigger waste.
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Dec 9, 2014 16:58
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$20 is a ripoff when you can just sneak out of the house at 1 am and tear it up on some secluded parking lot for the low low price of one burnt out clutch.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:07
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It's even more of a waste once you consider that you can get 10x the seat time at a decent gokart place for half that price. gently caress standing around for half a day picking up cones.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:14
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Larrymer posted:$20? It's like $45-50 here (Detroit SCCA). Even bigger waste. I haven't autocrossed since 2007 so it's quite possible that prices here are about the same.
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Dec 9, 2014 17:24
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kastein posted:But you drat well better run a factory airbox from the year your vehicle was made or some rules sperg is gonna file an official motion complaint with the high board of stock-plus-ultra-platinum class autocross rules judging!
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Dec 9, 2014 18:03
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BraveUlysses posted:It's even more of a waste once you consider that you can get 10x the seat time at a decent gokart place for half that price. gently caress standing around for half a day picking up cones. And if you put the gokart into a barrier, no harm no foul  I wish there was a good gokart place around here. I'll have to try out that Unser indoor gokarting one day.
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Dec 9, 2014 18:46
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veedubfreak posted:And if you put the gokart into a barrier, no harm no foul there used to be an indoor kart track at west edmonton mall that was really really fast considering the outside of every turn was either a wall or a pole. There are a couple indoor tracks here now but they're more putt putt than shifter kart. Still fast, but not "Why is this legal" fast.
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Dec 10, 2014 01:43
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We need to ease back into horrible mechanical failures. My exhaust has fallen out 3 times because of autocross. 1st time because it was a rusted out piece of poo poo. 2nd and 3rd was because I neglected to weld in the section where the cat is supposed to be.
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Dec 10, 2014 04:17
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Someone once grabbed a piece of my hot engine tin that fell off while auto crossing. What a retard probably burnt his hand nicely.
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Dec 10, 2014 04:49
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Slow is Fast posted:the people are loving terrible. I think this part really varies based on your location. I've moved a few times and alternately found assholes and good folks.
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Dec 10, 2014 05:32
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nm posted:I think this part really varies based on your location. I've moved a few times and alternately found assholes and good folks. Oh it's definitely a blanket statement and I've met some good people at autox, but holy hell, when it's bad... It's really bad. 
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Dec 10, 2014 15:02
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She's broke her back. She'll never jump again.
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raptor_owner.jpg e: ok, I guess it's a Taco, but we had a Raptor in here a couple weeks ago that was about the same angle, and it wasn't the first. Or third. Splizwarf fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Dec 10, 2014 15:34
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Slow is Fast posted:Oh it's definitely a blanket statement and I've met some good people at autox, but holy hell, when it's bad... It's really bad. I don't see a problem here, I thought Tacos are supposed to be folded vaguely in half and crunchy.
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Dec 10, 2014 16:50
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Data Graham posted:She's broke her back. She'll never jump again.    
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Dec 10, 2014 17:45
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Slow is Fast posted:Oh it's definitely a blanket statement and I've met some good people at autox, but holy hell, when it's bad... It's really bad. I saw this happen once. Truck was driving down the road with a bit of yellow nylon rope dangling underneath and it caught the driveshaft and in an instant crushed the frame. 80's fullsize GM truck. The amount of dust, dirt and mud that shot in every direction was reminiscent of seeing cars wreck at an intersection.
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Dec 10, 2014 19:07
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Found on Freiburger's facebook page:  That would've been a pants-making GBS threads moment. 
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Dec 10, 2014 23:35
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And that right there is why you use full floating axles on offroad vehicles. At least a C-clip eliminator! Yikes.
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Dec 11, 2014 00:11
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Raluek posted:At least a C-clip eliminator!
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Dec 11, 2014 00:16
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That is why you don't run dana 35s, or (if it's a d44) learn to press and install wheel bearings properly. I've put over 100k miles on badly beaten chrysler 8.25 rears (another c clip rearend) without losing an axle like that. Sure, they're technically inferior, but it doesn't matter unless something breaks, at which point it suddenly matters a lot. "something" can be a shaft, the c clip itself (very rare), or... not much else.
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Dec 11, 2014 00:44
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Yeah I've heard of folks snapping an axle trying to get un-stuck, and the obvious happens. My first instinct is to be surprised that a Jeep with work put into it is still on D35s, but looking closer at that wheel (fake beadlock pattern cast into the rim) it looks like maybe it's a mall crawler? Everything's so clean.
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Dec 11, 2014 01:02
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I won't pass judgement on the way the vehicle is used, but I am entirely unsurprised to see a d35 still in the back of a YJ/TJ/ZJ/WJ. There's no real cheap bolt-in replacement and people don't like spending money on things that haven't broken yet, no matter how catastrophic and day/weekend ruining said breakage is. People who still have dana 35s also get incredibly butthurt if you imply anything bad about their axle, generally. It's pretty funny. Here's a photo album on why you shouldn't ever leave one in a jeep with oversize tires: http://www.billhughes.com/dana35c/
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Dec 11, 2014 01:08
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The only Jeep dudes I know either keep things stock and drive them on the street, or have them done up fairly right. I remember my grandpa had D44s under his CJ, but that would have had an AMC20, wouldn't it have?
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Dec 11, 2014 02:04
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Are D35s dangerous for light offroading if I keep stock tire size and suspension?
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Dec 11, 2014 02:06
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kastein posted:
 So glad I swapped in that $125 8.25 you recommended.
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kastein posted:I won't pass judgement on the way the vehicle is used, but I am entirely unsurprised to see a d35 still in the back of a YJ/TJ/ZJ/WJ. There's no real cheap bolt-in replacement and people don't like spending money on things that haven't broken yet, no matter how catastrophic and day/weekend ruining said breakage is. 4.0 WJs (the only ones that come with the D35 in the back) at least have the cheap upgrade to a D44A from a 4.7. It's not perfect by any means, though. The special unicorn aluminum center section on the D44A makes it Schodinger's axle; it simultaneously is and is not a Dana 44. It's better than the 35, but drat near zero upgrades available for every other D44 are actually compatible with it. All the same, that picture almost makes me want to do C-clip eliminators on my GMC, and that 8.875" 12-bolt is tougher than all hell.
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IOwnCalculus posted:4.0 WJs (the only ones that come with the D35 in the back) at least have the cheap upgrade to a D44A from a 4.7. It's not perfect by any means, though. The special unicorn aluminum center section on the D44A makes it Schodinger's axle; it simultaneously is and is not a Dana 44. It's better than the 35, but drat near zero upgrades available for every other D44 are actually compatible with it. Jesus gently caress.. and here I thought us SAAB folks had it bad.
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I'm drunkish, and can't remember if I posted these already. Was driving to Flagstaff. Humvee with trailer.      Still have no clue what specifically failed, and battalion still has the trailer and hasn't fixed it yet, even though it's been months. About 20 minutes after these photos were taken by me, the tire exploded. I was pissing on a tree on the side of the road when it happened. Clenched up a bit, yeah?
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Dec 11, 2014 06:28
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Is it bad that my first thought was that it was driving again when the tire blew?
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Dec 11, 2014 06:37
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To Flagstaff from where?
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I took the first picture from inside in case the tire exploded before we got out and got better photos. Evidence and poo poo, because the army and DFAS will gently caress you up if they think you negligently caused an accident that damaged equipment.El Jebus posted:To Flagstaff from where? Tempe/Phoenix. Actually going to Camp Navajo for a training exercise. gently caress humvees can't climb hills worth a drat.
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Geirskogul posted:I took the first picture from inside in case the tire exploded before we got out and got better photos. Evidence and poo poo, because the army and DFAS will gently caress you up if they think you negligently caused an accident that damaged equipment. Ah, we have a bunch of Marines in 29 Palms and I wondered if they ever did convoys East. I see them on I-10 and I-60 every once in a while. Yeah, as much as I want to purchase and recondition a couple old humvees, I have no idea what I would do with them here in the desert.
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El Jebus posted:Ah, we have a bunch of Marines in 29 Palms and I wondered if they ever did convoys East. I see them on I-10 and I-60 every once in a while. Probably roll 'em.
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Powershift posted:there used to be an indoor kart track at west edmonton mall that was really really fast considering the outside of every turn was either a wall or a pole. There are a couple indoor tracks here now but they're more putt putt than shifter kart. Still fast, but not "Why is this legal" fast. World's Fastest Indoor GoKarts! A friend and I were permanently banned from that place. It was good times indeed.
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MrChips posted:World's Fastest Indoor GoKarts...permanently banned Come on man, you know we're gonna want a story here.
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They went... too fast.
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