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T1g4h posted:I'm pretty sure at the time of that article most of it was just thrown together. If you read through it, it mentions that the car didn't even have a proper alignment at the time and it was a handful to even drive. I wouldn't be surprised if he cleaned it up at some point but, again, proof of concept in its current form. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but I don't mind how hacked together it looks. It's cool as hell, it can be cleaned up later when he knows everything works like it should (There's also the evidence of his other past projects not progressing beyond that stage.) He has some cool ideas. If he gave them to someone else to build, they might turn into cool cars. As it is, they're not. They're shitboxes. Krakkles fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Slavvy posted:Every built up car I've seen come in to our shop from japan has a distinct aura of disposability. They seem to have a really blase attitude about modifying cars in general; you do something for shits and giggles and then move on because there's always another car. If something breaks you just stick the car on a slow boat to wherever and get another one. People in western countries tend to have a really GRRR NURBURGRING PERFECTION attitude toward it and are really, really unable to deal with stuff not being perfect. This is 100% true. People around the world who watch too much Inital D think Japanese car culture is about riced-out Civics that have all matching bla bla. These people are all just the sort of assholes they're thought to be. Actual Japanese car enthusiasts (again, speaking broadly, there's all types) tend to just be car geeks. So one day a guy said hey I'm going to put a bajillion turbos on this car. And his buddy said, dude the only way you can do that is if you run oil into the passenger seat. And they look at each other and grinned, and started mapping out what parts they'd need.  The aforementioned Mickey Mouse pipes, aka what the Japanese car scene is really like.
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Dr.Caligari posted:These are some cool pictures that I'm sure are gracing many garage walls, but with today's huge selection of turbos and endless tuning capabilities, is there a need for more than two turbos other than "just because we can"? I'm all for people taking on projects and doing new things like this, but is the performance and functionality ever superior to what you could do with two (or less) ? Serious question If I recall from the article about the car (years ago,) the owner says its a pain in the rear end to tune, drive, and maintain. Its for wow-factor only. If it's sole purpose is wow-factor, it may as well be well executed.
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MrYenko posted:If I recall from the article about the car (years ago,) the owner says its a pain in the rear end to tune, drive, and maintain. Its for wow-factor only. We are talking/arguing about it/him on the internet in North America. I think it worked.
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According to the article, which practically nobody in this thread seems to have read, the guy built it entirely to fool around on a dyno just to see how something like that would work and how you would go about building the engine management system and tuning it. It's not intended as a drift car, or a race car, or a show car, or anything remotely competitive. I got the impression he knocked it together in his spare time just because.
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I would imagine there's something like paris syndrome in japan where car nerds get off the plane and walk around, and everybody's driving kei hatchbacks and nobody's drifting and everything is bone stock.
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Powershift posted:I would imagine there's something like paris syndrome in japan where car nerds get off the plane and walk around, and everybody's driving kei hatchbacks and nobody's drifting and everything is bone stock. 99% of countries are like this, just swap out Kei Cars for Automatic Sedan/CUV/5 door Hatchback/1983 Mitsubishi Triton with Recoilless Rifle and there you go. Human Grand Prix fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Powershift posted:I would imagine there's something like paris syndrome in japan where car nerds get off the plane and walk around, and everybody's driving kei hatchbacks and nobody's drifting and everything is bone stock. Imagine a Japanese tourist beelining for an Autozone parking lot and gleefully marvelling at all the Chryslers with stick on plastic vents and lifted bro trucks of questionable build quality and you'd have it about right. And this Autozone has a hot rod shop next door that was featured on discovery channel at some point. I know because I've done exactly that over there. Super Autobacs Tokyo with the Tommy Kaira shop next door.
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Powershift posted:I would imagine there's something like paris syndrome in japan where car nerds get off the plane and walk around, and everybody's driving kei hatchbacks and nobody's drifting and everything is bone stock. Reverse Paris Syndrome.
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Powershift posted:I would imagine there's something like paris syndrome in japan where car nerds get off the plane and walk around, and everybody's driving kei hatchbacks and nobody's drifting and everything is bone stock.
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When I was in Machida a few years ago I saw a bunch of cool JAY DEE EMM cars and went to a bunch of car shops. None of them looked like that. Even if he build the car to "fool around on the dyno" it's still dumb and ugly and looks worse than what I was doing with my first DSM 15 years ago. At least I could keep the foot wells clear and run lines.
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Octopus Magic posted:When I was in Machida a few years ago I saw a bunch of cool JAY DEE EMM cars and went to a bunch of car shops. None of them looked like that. Your SO mad and its super funny.
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Octopus Magic is literally the only AI poster I've ever added to ignore
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Preoptopus posted:Your SO mad and its super funny. Yeah, I'm so mad I made a few internet posts?  revmoo posted:Octopus Magic is literally the only AI poster I've ever added to ignore GOOD
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Preoptopus posted:Your SO mad and its super funny. The AV is pretty self explanatory. He even dropped DSM in there.
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The quad turbo dude rules and is making fun stuff for the sake of it.
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Jesus gently caress people, step off each other's nuts for a little while.
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The quad turbo car is like that mid engine crx. Almost cool, but a terrible piece of poo poo deathtrap due to poor execution. And I'm not even going to get into how pointless 4 turbos is on that.
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365 Nog Hogger posted:The quad turbo dude rules and is making fun stuff for the sake of it. That car looks like it's fulfilled its lifelong dream of becoming a plane. "LOOK AT ME MA, I'M FLYIN!"
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jamal posted:Some of my favorite time attack cars:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCA8ZP65Fz8 And, whilst I'm still posting obsessively about the 944, have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_3VRBvO-dI
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Are we posting 944's now? Here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mm3w5OvywI Apologies for background music, people are stupid.    More pictures and original listing - http://trisslsportscars.com/portfolio/1988-porsche-944-968-turbo/
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88h88 posted:That car looks like it's fulfilled its lifelong dream of becoming a plane. "LOOK AT ME MA, I'M FLYIN!" I'VE DONE IT! : -) 
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angryhampster posted:I'VE DONE IT! : -) There seems to be  in the pond.
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Speaking of poo poo going flying... A buddy sent me this vid of a Lexus ISF front end lifting while drag racing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWibhly_0Q twin turbo 649 cubic inch 
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TinEye didn't like it - what is it? A McLaren, yes? Why the NART vents all over its bum?
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Teach posted:TinEye didn't like it - what is it? A McLaren, yes? Why the NART vents all over its bum?
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I think there is only 3 of them in existence.
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I can't believe people used to criticise the F1 or having boring styling and not being particularly good looking. It still looks modern and futuristic while it's contemporaries all just look like outdated toys.
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The F1 was and shall forever be my impossible dream. No turbos, no million horsepower unicorn-tear-fuelled engine, no fancy AWD or active aero. Just a perfectly engineered masterpiece that shocked the world. I will love the F1 forever.
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Yup. Wasn't built to impress a market, wasn't built to fill a model niche, wasn't built to follow trends. Purely designed to be the best and best made supercar you could buy, with money literally no object. And it was built to attain a pure ideal, not to jump through performance target hoops. Being the fastest road car in the world was just a side-effect of BMW over-achieving on the horsepower end. Best sportscar ever. The Led Zeppelin of cars.
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Slavvy posted:Yup. Wasn't built to impress a market, wasn't built to fill a model niche, wasn't built to follow trends. "It has a Kenwood multi-disc CD player, we had them specifically make us a lightweight setup for the car" "No skimping even on the radio, then" "Oh, no just a CD player. There's no radio" "Why not?" "I don't listen to the radio"
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Slavvy posted:The Led Zeppelin of cars. Beloved of teens, stole the best parts, and poo poo toward the end? 
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Possibly the only car in history to brag about aerospace technology and actually have aerospace technology instead of just a bunch of stupid NACA ducts and faux-stealth-fighter bulshittery. 
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Thread is now F1 chat. timetofap.jpg http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/04/speedhunters-meet-the-mclaren-f1-lm/
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Post more F1 poo poo!  Slavvy posted:Best sportscar ever. The Led Zeppelin of cars. Thank you for that. I'm going to use that to describe the F1 from now on. Wonderful analogy. BraveUlysses posted:timetofap.jpg Back when SpeedHunters wasn't poo poo.
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neckbeard posted:Speaking of poo poo going flying... I'm mildly disappointed that it's not a Lexus V8. Damned thing flies like it weighs nothing!
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