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Terrible Robot posted:Whenever I see a stock S13/14 (a rare occurrence these days) I always get unreasonably happy. Wait, I can get someone to deliver tofu in an s13/14/15?
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because I know it is only a matter of time before it gets sold to some flat brimmed hat wearing shitlord that's gonna ruin it with poo poo suspension mods and then wrap it around a tree trying to deliver tofu.
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Only if you live on top of a mountain. And they're typically not as good for tofu as say your basic toyota corolla hatchback.
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Sep 5, 2015 01:09
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 saw this glorious thing out in the wild today. Not pictured are the glued on hood vents.
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El Jebus posted:Wait, I can get someone to deliver tofu in an s13/14/15? There was a guy in Pembroke Pines FL that used to deliver Jimmy Johns in a slammed black S14.
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Sep 5, 2015 02:44
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Powershift posted:These 3 pictures tell a story. My Mom had a Plymouth Sapporo back in the day. Decent engine, terrible 3 speed tranny.
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MrYenko posted:There was a guy in Pembroke Pines FL that used to deliver Jimmy Johns in a slammed black S14. He probably got distracted reaching for his pinchie and crashed it.
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Sep 5, 2015 03:28
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Chris Knight posted:My Mom had a Plymouth Sapporo back in the day. Decent engine, terrible 3 speed tranny. Did the guy who designed the doors on the plymouth sapporo ever meet or talk to or exchange drawings with the guy who designed the quarter panel on the plymouth sapporo? because that didn't happen on the dodge 600.
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Powershift posted:Did the guy who designed the doors on the plymouth sapporo ever meet or talk to or exchange drawings with the guy who designed the quarter panel on the plymouth sapporo? It looks like it was a 4 door - 2 door mismatch. The 4 door 600's lines work. The 2 door, it's like they cut out the rear doors and shortened the body and said "Ehh, close enough."
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Panty Saluter posted:My car is a funny bird. When the revised EPA estimates came out I called bullshit initially (22/29 my rear end, OBUMMER!!! I've whacked 40 MPG with a B18A coupled with an automatic. Granted, on a road trip, with an AEM cold air intake, with outside temps below freezing, and on a car with a PO that installed a 3rd party FPR that had it running a bit lean, but cruise was set north of 80 for most of the trip. But IIRC it was rated something stupid like 24-25 MPG highway. As for 14's - there's plenty of Civics and Accords on the road that take 14's - Accords still took them on the DX model until at least 1997, and possibly on the LX. Civics still took them until at least 2000 even on the EX. I would imagine if I still had my 1980 F-150, I'd be up poo poo creek, since it took 235/75R14s (I think originally it took something a bit smaller, but still 14s - I stuck some cheap chrome wheels on it). neckbeard posted:I walk by this when I walk my dog and it makes me sad My boss told me he ran across a GN at a local Chevy dealer the other day. .... $10k, which would be a drat good price for a real GN. Except while it has (some of) the badges and the right body style, it's the wrong color (silver?!), and has the wrong cluster and interior. MRC48B posted:There are several GM products that require this, as well. It's not a rare design flaw. What's funny is GM ranges from "put vehicle into VW service position" to "remove 2 pins and 2 plugs, entire headlamp assembly falls out in your hands". Thank gently caress my car is in the former for the headlights, but to even think about any rear bulbs (aside from the license plate light), you need two different torx bits. Why can't they just make them accessible from the trunk like every other car manufacturer?!
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) but then when I saw that was worst case, like with A/C I could see that. Good old Honda B-series, efficient if you never use it.
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Sep 5, 2015 08:02
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some texas redneck posted:Why can't they just make them accessible from the trunk like every other car manufacturer?! My old Cavalier had its tail lights accessible from the trunk, except they put the cutout for the driver's side in the wrong spot. When you turned the socket to remove it, the connector would turn under the sheet metal and would physically prevent you from removing it. Had to pull the entire assembly off to remove the bulb. (An engineer obviously mirrored the cutout from the passenger side, not realizing that the bulb would turn in the opposite direction relative to the hole.) Then again, on my VW, removing the entire assembly is the proper way of getting to the tail light bulbs.
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some texas redneck posted:My boss told me he ran across a GN at a local Chevy dealer the other day. The GN was an options package on top of the Buick Regal T-Type, which had the same powertrain as the GN, but without the blacked-out paint and some other options, and came in most of the same paint colors as the regular Regal. You could even order a T-Type with a bench seat and column shift. (I've seen one.) 
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Sep 5, 2015 15:02
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At this point, id just get a clean G body for 4500 or so and then put another 5 or 6 or 10 into it. At least you can enjoy it then. The interior and being profiled as a drug dealer kills the whole dream for me tho.
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Sep 6, 2015 02:07
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lovely UHaul cost me a trackday early this morning. Was basically right between my house and Chuckwalla Valley Raceway at 3am when the tread separated on the passenger trailer tire. By the time UHaul roadside came out and replaced it I would have missed the riders meeting and the start of the trackday so I turned around and went home. At least I caught it before the tire deflated and tossed my trackbike down the highway - it isn't insured. $300 loss isn't as bad as $3.5k.
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Sep 6, 2015 18:40
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Powershift posted:These 3 pictures tell a story. it took me a second to realize what was going on there, at first I thought the gap was from body sag due to rust.
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Sep 6, 2015 23:00
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34165776 At least six dead after a rally car veered off course into a crowd in Spain.
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The rally car is a solitary hunter. As she rounds the corner of the gravel path, she takes sight of some defenseless humans. Seeing her moment, she strikes. The crowd scatters, but a few fall prey to her sharp bumper and knobby tires, honed by decades of evolution for this very task. A passing ambulance hears the cries of the humans, but the wild rally car is not one to share her meal. The ambulance will have to wait his turn.
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Sep 7, 2015 01:58
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House across from me has these in the driveway. The owner is a hoarder, and they both ran when parked about 2 years ago. Look close, thats a Trooper and some sort of Volvo sedan hiding in there. http://imgur.com/a/KuuFm
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Geirskogul posted:The rally car is a solitary hunter. As she rounds the corner of the gravel path, she takes sight of some defenseless humans. Seeing her moment, she strikes. The crowd scatters, but a few fall prey to her sharp bumper and knobby tires, honed by decades of evolution for this very task. 
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Mercury Ballistic posted:House across from me has these in the driveway. The owner is a hoarder, and they both ran when parked about 2 years ago. Look close, thats a Trooper and some sort of Volvo sedan hiding in there. The Volvo looks to be an 850 of some kind, they are really nice cars when cared for. Shame.
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Geirskogul posted:The rally car is a solitary hunter. As she rounds the corner of the gravel path, she takes sight of some defenseless humans. Seeing her moment, she strikes. The crowd scatters, but a few fall prey to her sharp bumper and knobby tires, honed by decades of evolution for this very task. This is a fantastic post. I could practically hear his kindly old voice calmly describing acts of brutal violence.
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Terrible Robot posted:Whenever I see a stock S13/14 (a rare occurrence these days) I always get unreasonably happy. All of the S13/14's I see in the area have already been ruined by "doriftu" dipshits. "Stanced" "Slammed", lovely, loud exhausts, and you know they're still running that loving truck mill instead of upgrading to a "real" Nissan engine. One pulled in to the Arco when I was filling up one evening, and by the sound of it I expected it was going to be stranding the guy on some road within a month.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUw0Kv5Jrwg So many levels of idiocy here
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Sep 9, 2015 07:13
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I loved where he had the water bottle filled with gasoline.
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Sep 9, 2015 07:16
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Lol at that woman screaming, makes it seem ten times worse than it is.
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You Am I posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUw0Kv5Jrwg Sorry but aint no way this wasn't set up.
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Sep 9, 2015 07:51
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I wonder how much hair the guy lost when the gas can vapors exploded. That had to suck. Also, that was awesome, wrong thread.
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Sep 9, 2015 12:55
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uh... did he just BLOW ON IT? in related vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jytzSA24jFY I spy with my little eye, something helpful.  
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
Oh man, that video is great. On one hand yeah, if that had been me I certainly would have grabbed the hose first thing. On the other, then you have emergency personnel arriving to a car fire wanting to spread to a house fire, and a downed power line laying in a puddle of water . Odds are the hose would still be running too because I dropped it and sprinted as soon as that line started popping. The other half of the power line/the drop is right above the faucet. What a great reminder how fast one safety hazard can turn into more severe ones rapidly. That video is like EMERGENCY RESPONSE CHECKLIST 101. *holding cellphone* "Oh, you want me to call 911??? 
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I'm not sure a garden hose would have been able to stop that anyways.. once the plastics in a car ignite the situation snowballs pretty quickly. Maybe if they had reacted instantly and gotten the hose under the car it would have helped but they weren't thinking that quickly. The upside is I'm pretty sure the half of the wire attached to the house would not have any current. Not that I'd gently caress around with it. Probably made those fire fighter's day though, they love having actual calls.
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MikeyTsi posted:All of the S13/14's I see in the area have already been ruined by "doriftu" dipshits. "Stanced" "Slammed", lovely, loud exhausts, and you know they're still running that loving truck mill instead of upgrading to a "real" Nissan engine. I was following some beater Mazda 6 that was slammed, stanced and had a huge fartcan. It also had blacked out tails, and the emblem had been cut up so that it was just the M. The other emblems (which were drilled into the car) were gone and only the holes remained. It was funny to follow him and just watch how much the car had to be beating the poo poo out of him. It really looked like there was 0 travel left in the suspension. That reminds me, I need to get a new dash cam.
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Oh no someone pinched the Prius and it froze that way. http://www.autoblog.com/2015/09/09/2016-toyota-prius-official-photos/   Don't get me wrong, the Prius has never been a good looking car, but at least it had a "function over form" philosophy to justify it. This seems like an intentional effort to make it offensively ugly.
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D C posted:Sorry but aint no way this wasn't set up. Kind of thought this too because of how quick the other guys jumped off the car, almost anticipating the explosion. The Royal Nonesuch posted:Oh man, that video is great. I really hope the old man smiling about it was the one that owned the car, how loving stupid can you be to continue revving the car with loving embers shooting out of the exhaust knowing the cats are cooking, to try to "blow it out". It takes an ungodly amount of stupidity to do that and you deserve to have your car burn to the ground. What a shame because it was a gorgeous car too.
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xzzy posted:Oh no someone pinched the Prius and it froze that way. I don't know why but those sketches make it look worse than the real life photos, and the fact that it's red in the real photos I think make it look worse than the sea of silver ones we'll see on the streets. But yeah there's no two ways about it, it's way worse than the outgoing model. I would so enjoy if a manufacturer wanted to make a sporty and affordable hybrid with decent electric-only range for daily commutes, but anime-ifying a Prius doesn't make it sporty. Slap some batteries in an FR-S or something but geez, stop whatever this is.
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Sep 9, 2015 18:51
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The new miata and the prius had a baby.
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davebo posted:I don't know why but those sketches make it look worse than the real life photos, and the fact that it's red in the real photos I think make it look worse than the sea of silver ones we'll see on the streets. But yeah there's no two ways about it, it's way worse than the outgoing model. I would so enjoy if a manufacturer wanted to make a sporty and affordable hybrid with decent electric-only range for daily commutes, but anime-ifying a Prius doesn't make it sporty. Slap some batteries in an FR-S or something but geez, stop whatever this is. They tried to do that with the CRZ and everyone whined about it being too heavy and slow for a sporty car.
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xzzy posted:Oh no someone pinched the Prius and it froze that way. Cylons. It's Cylons all the way down.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
Both of the guys in that video are almost too stupid to live. Just the comments made. At one point dipshit dad says "I can't believe it". Well, I can - you're running so rich that you destroyed your cats and the car can barely run. Solution: rev it so much that the remainder of the cats gets red hot and melts the fuel line (apparently.) What was the hissing noise at the early part of the fire? Not the tires that went later. It sounded like there was pressure in the fuel tank feeding the fire, or maybe the ignition was still on and the fuel pump was running, also feeding the fire. That would fit with the way the fire was acting at the beginning. It was pretty aggressive. Later it was a lot more... casual. God, I wanted to punch the dude with the camera/phone. e: Oh, gently caress, I just caught a comment from Dad: "I should have never washed the engine." He caused the flooding/rich issue. I gather from the logo on the back of his jacket he buys and sells cars. Wonder what he lost on this one. e2: Der. video guy put it in the description, which I did not read until after watching. Yeah, revving the piss out of it will never dry out the electrics. Unless you catch it on fire. THEN it'll dry out, until the FD gets it all wet again. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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