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EvilBlackRailgun posted:Didn't Porche like just recently fix this? Why do manufactures do this? I solved it it my car by swapping two wires in the shifter harness. However, I had to cover the '+' and '-' to prevent oopsies by others.
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88h88 posted:God even the 'manual' shift mode has the gears backwards. Is it? Forward to upshift seems natural to me.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:32
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BMW have had faux-manual shift levers for decades. Also the FR-S auto is a DSG.
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Jun 29, 2015 01:39
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I initially thought forward upshift would be fine but the more I think about it, the more I feel like it should be the other way around, if only not to have to shift against the acceleration.
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wayfinder posted:I initially thought forward upshift would be fine but the more I think about it, the more I feel like it should be the other way around, if only not to have to shift against the acceleration. It's only an FR-S so it won't require much effort to do that 
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Jun 29, 2015 01:48
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Most sequential dog boxes you pull back to shift, because you have to do it pretty firmly to prevent damage to the dogs. When you're ready to shift you just pull back and momentarily lift the throttle (or let the rev limiter take care of it, or have a switch wired into the lever to do it automatically). But for an automatic it probably seems natural for the average person to push forward for up.
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I'm thinking this is a "invert y-axis" in first person shooters kind of debate.
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Panty Saluter posted:It's only an FR-S so it won't require much effort to do that haha
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Slavvy posted:Also the FR-S auto is a DSG. No it isn't.
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MetaJew posted:No it isn't. Huh, you're right. That explains why I thought it had the worst DSG ever when I drove one.
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Semi-side note, it makes me laugh when people complain about a "lack of power" in modern cars. Even low power ones have more than enough with very few exceptions, and have power curves we could only dream of 20 years ago. Aw, the FR-S only has 200 BHP? ¡Pobrecito! Drive an 84 Buick Skyhawk wagon with 86 BHP (which is soaked up thru an awful 3 speed auto and is propelling more than 3000 lbs).
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I've never owned a car with more than 100 hp. I like sports cars and all but when it comes time to buy I just can't talk myself into buying a guzzler. 100 hp is plenty to pull away at stop lights and get to highway speeds before the onramp ends. Heck, I did fine with it at 50hp when I daily drove a bug. It really only suffered climbing mountains on I-5 through Oregon.
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I legit miss my '59 bus that was limited to 53mph via the reduction boxes.
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wayfinder posted:edit: DO you guys have special plates for handicapped people's vehicles though? I assume in most states, yes. In Texas, any plate that starts or ends in "DV" with a space between DV and everything else is a disabled veteran plate, and counts as a handicapped plate. Otherwise they get the universal disability symbol as part of the plate. My mother has a permanent disability, but refuses to get the plates - she'd rather get a new tag every few mirrors that you hang from the mirror.  She says she doesn't want to be seen as an old woman by having a handicapped plate, but she's already driving an Avalon..
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=374_1435549300 Parade of terrible car stuff comes to a somewhat satisfying end.
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 Classic.
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Sadly I don't have a picture of the festiva I once had with a honda goldwing battery in it, supported by various lovingly shaped blocks of wood on all sides.
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xzzy posted:I've never owned a car with more than 100 hp.
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I do this. It's great. Sometimes I put cleats on the sides for both the bracket and the battery, making sure any fasteners are well recessed.
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jamal posted:Most sequential dog boxes you pull back to shift, because you have to do it pretty firmly to prevent damage to the dogs. When you're ready to shift you just pull back and momentarily lift the throttle (or let the rev limiter take care of it, or have a switch wired into the lever to do it automatically). I guess I could see this, but even in modern autos, you have to pull back to go from Park to Drive (or lower gears below Drive)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyU_OzRXnM Great video, but barring maybe a cameo appearance from a white Peugeot, it's chock full of terrible car stuff 
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xzzy posted:I've never owned a car with more than 100 hp. Get a bike then. All the fun of a sports car, all the fuel economy of a plug-in hybrid. My bike is a relative gas-guzzler at 40mpg, but then again it does have ~150 BHP at the crank. If you go for something smaller and more reasonable than what I ride, you could get upwards of 70mpg. 
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Wojcigitty posted:http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=374_1435549300 Liveleak commenters are a bunch of racists, go figure...
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HotCanadianChick posted:Get a bike then. All the fun of a sports car, all the fuel economy of a plug-in hybrid. My bike is a relative gas-guzzler at 40mpg, but then again it does have ~150 BHP at the crank. If you go for something smaller and more reasonable than what I ride, you could get upwards of 70mpg. This sounds great, but between winter and the 'people we share a road with' I would fully expect to be road pizza within the year. It would be a fun year though. Cacafuego posted:Liveleak commenters are a bunch of racists, go figure... I can't imagine the human detritus that comments on liveleak videos, probably the same ones that comment seriously on porn. redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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I have a terrible idea. I have a mostly reliable '76 MGB that has some rust and a poo poo flat paint job from a previous owner. I have had it parked for the past year due to the clutch leaking all of its fluid all over the drivers side floor pan, so anyway, I am thinking i should just say gently caress it and paint the whole thing olive drab and paint it up to look like an old willys jeep. Am I doing a bad thing? I think it would look really neat, but i have heard some dissent from other...purists. So what do you say AI?
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Whatever, paint is just that, paint. You can strip it back off down to bare metal whenever you want with the appropriate solvents. And it's got poo poo bodywork/paintwork already so it's not like you're pissing on the mona lisa. Don't do anything horrible mechanically or bodywork wise, have fun with it, if you decide you hate it strip it off and give it a proper paintjob.
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kastein posted:Whatever, paint is just that, paint. You can strip it back off down to bare metal whenever you want with the appropriate solvents. And it's got poo poo bodywork/paintwork already so it's not like you're pissing on the mona lisa. I would not do anything to the body other then throw the spare tire on the luggage rack and add a mount for a rear jerry can.
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Are you a museum curator, entrusted with the preservation of historical artifacts for future generations? Or did you pay real money in order to buy the car and be the person who owns it? It's your car, do whatever the gently caress you want, gently caress the haters.
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Enourmo posted:Are you a museum curator, entrusted with the preservation of historical artifacts for future generations? Good point! Thanks!
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You could probably find an olive drab plasti dip, then peel it off if you get tired of it. Less commitment, and an easy dodge to the haters if need be.
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`Nemesis posted:You could probably find an olive drab plasti dip, then peel it off if you get tired of it. Less commitment, and an easy dodge to the haters if need be. Sounds like a good idea but the paint is already shot, it was a flat paint and someone at some point waxed it so it is now a weird pink red. it was apparently orange at first so we are already on coat two.
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This made me cry out in anguish like you'd posted some syrian civil war flamethrower snuff or some poo poo. Jesus.
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MRC48B posted:
Commodore_64 posted:I do this. It's great. Sometimes I put cleats on the sides for both the bracket and the battery, making sure any fasteners are well recessed. As far as I'm concerned, wood is the standard adapter for converting between different battery sizes: 
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stump posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyU_OzRXnM RIP Mehdi.  Also I adore this era of Toyota Crown but not this one. Yeesh.  Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Jun 30, 2015 |
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Slavvy posted:This made me cry out in anguish like you'd posted some syrian civil war flamethrower snuff or some poo poo. Jesus. 
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Look on the bright side, if that's a real fuelie there's no way it won't get restored.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Look on the bright side, if that's a real fuelie there's no way it won't get restored. And someone in a body shop just got $ in their eyes.
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