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Car and Driver just put up their review of the Colorado diesel, which reminded me of something pretty drat cool. It's not that there's a diesel in a compact truck, or how powerful the V6 is or how much it can tow... I'm talking about the base engine. There now exists a naturally aspirated four cylinder gasoline engine, used as the base engine in a pickup truck, that puts out 200 horsepower. I think that's some awesome poo poo. My dad used to have a truck with a good ol Murican three-fiddy V8 putting out 150 from the factory. By the time I got my old Suburban they'd managed to up it to 210. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, everyone in this thread should watch it.
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Some DINK posted:I have student loans (1.6k a month towards a 130k debt).That eats up all of my monthly pay and part of his. I don't regret the investment, I made more than my mother straight out of school, and she's been working 40 years. No, you didn't. You make less than nothing, if your student dept costs MORE than your income, idiot. MrYenko posted:
Yeah, that last line offsets all those above it. StormDrain posted:
I absolutely love that they used the Nomad hatch for the rear window, and that it still works as a hatch. Slavvy posted:This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, everyone in this thread should watch it. That Mustang is awesome, and I can't wait until the prices for the motors, controllers, and battery packs come down to under the cost of a medium house, so I can do that to my cutlass. Or one of my non-running (there are other kinds?) RX-7s Friar Zucchini posted:Car and Driver just put up their review of the Colorado diesel, which reminded me of something pretty drat cool. It's not that there's a diesel in a compact truck, or how powerful the V6 is or how much it can tow... I'm talking about the base engine. Once those engines hit the used market, I imagine a number of Jeeps and smaller off-roaders will benefit. content (coming soon): I went to the Goodguys Fall show at the Texas Motor Speedway. I need to upload the pics to a share, and I'll post them in this thread. Some nice stuff there.
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Darchangel posted:That Mustang is awesome, and I can't wait until the prices for the motors, controllers, and battery packs come down to under the cost of a medium house, so I can do that to my cutlass. Or one of my non-running (there are other kinds?) RX-7s We're doing a motorcycle though, so it's all scaled down a bunch. Now that Tesla's opened up their portfolio of patents, it could be getting even cheaper to do electric cars.
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The motor kits and that are cheap enough, but it's like $5,000, add your own batteries! and then you find out $10k in batteries gets you more or less to the grocery store and back, assuming you live in the parking lot of the grocery store.
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I'm surprised Audi or Mercedes hasn't come up with some kind of brake by wire system with a radiator for the fluid yet.
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Throatwarbler posted:I'm surprised Audi or Mercedes hasn't come up with some kind of brake by wire system with Slight adjustment. Also somehow the braking and cooling systems would both become significantly less reliable in the process.
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Galler posted:Slight adjustment. Also somehow the braking and cooling systems would both become significantly less reliable in the process. But it'd shave 3 seconds off the Nurburgring lap time.
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Galler posted:Slight adjustment. Also somehow the braking and cooling systems would both become significantly less reliable in the process. Yet so impressive in controlled moose tests and 100-0 times! 
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slothrop posted:Don't know if this sweet electric Mustang has been posted here yet: That's what I hate about DED, hardly any episode is long enough. They start a project and never finish it on camera. The next episode starts with them driving it with the whole blah blah sponsor plug that did the work on it. If you want to watch a show with people on the tools getting something running all the way to completion, DED is not for you.
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Slavvy posted:This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, everyone in this thread should watch it. Mitch has a thread for his garage build (and subsequent build of the 222) on garage journal if you have a few hours to kill, it's pretty neat seeing him finally getting some decent media attention. He's a real likeable guy and tells a good story. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199243
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Fo3 posted:That's what I hate about DED, hardly any episode is long enough. They start a project and never finish it on camera. The next episode starts with them driving it with the whole blah blah sponsor plug that did the work on it. That said I love his jabs at Roadkill.
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slothrop posted:Don't know if this sweet electric Mustang has been posted here yet: This is beautiful. 
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Can we make something like that the norm please? I have a few friends doing car design at university and I've begged them to look into materials science so we can make cars that look awesome, are super safe and are fast and fun as gently caress. That Mustang is pretty much what I'd love in a car... Beautiful.
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A few years ago I had a dream of converting a Challenger to full-electric. Love to see that it would be exactly as cool as I imagined
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88h88 posted:Can we make something like that the norm please? I have a few friends doing car design at university and I've begged them to look into materials science so we can make cars that look awesome, are super safe and are fast and fun as gently caress. That 50 mile range though. It would be an amazing 50 miles but considering how fast this thing goes it'd be over in a moment. Battery tech needs to get a lot better before this is a thing, sadly.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:That 50 mile range though. Battery tech is another thing I've prodded them in the direction of. I want poo poo like this to be available for less than the $220k+ he made it for.
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88h88 posted:Battery tech is another thing I've prodded them in the direction of. I want poo poo like this to be available for less than the $220k+ he made it for. edit: I doubt that the Zombie 222 has things like regenerative braking or anything like that, the way Prius and Tesla does.
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scuz posted:Well how does Tesla do the whole 300 mile range thing? Is that snake oil or what? The Tesla isn't putting out anywhere near the level of power of the 222 so that'd be a hell of a difference for a start, the 222 pulls down 1.1MW vs the Tesla's 568kW in LUDICROUS mode. 1.1MW being 1100kW. That would gently caress a battery for a start. I need to do more reading because my knowledge on this sort of stuff isn't great.
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88h88 posted:Battery tech is another thing I've prodded them in the direction of. I want poo poo like this to be available for less than the $220k+ he made it for. It might be worth $220k but I think he mentions if you bring him the chassis he can put $125k worth of parts in and it is the same.
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Fo3 posted:If you want to watch a show with people on the tools getting something running all the way to completion, DED is not for you. By this standard, Roadkill really isn't, either. 
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If you were willing to settle for 400hp you could double your mileage or better. Unless they're doing something crazy, you should be able to increase your mileage just by not putting your foot fully into it. I guarantee you won't get 300 miles out of a Tesla if you floor it everywhere.
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Roadkill will get something running to overheating. 
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The Ford GT racecar is pretty cool:
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88h88 posted:The Tesla isn't putting out anywhere near the level of power of the 222 so that'd be a hell of a difference for a start, the 222 pulls down 1.1MW vs the Tesla's 568kW in LUDICROUS mode. 1.1MW being 1100kW. That would gently caress a battery for a start. Given that the vid claims 800hp, and that 1100kw is nearly double that (1475 hp), the driveline efficiency is pretty poo poo if those numbers are right, that's nearly 50% loss from the battery to the wheels. Tesla claims north of 75% driveline efficiency. Given how electric cars work adding more power shouldn't hit the range if you are not actually using said power, unlike a normal car where the most efficient throttle setting is wide open. The car is neat and all but plonking an electric motor where the combustion one used to be and calling it good always seems to be halfhassing it to me, if you are going to use 2 motors anyway just rip out the whole drivetrain and put them in place of the differential already.
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jamal posted:The Ford GT racecar is pretty cool: I'm in love with the flying buttress so much on those cars.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:If you were willing to settle for 400hp you could double your mileage or better. Unless they're doing something crazy, you should be able to increase your mileage just by not putting your foot fully into it. I guarantee you won't get 300 miles out of a Tesla if you floor it everywhere. Indeed. I'm driving a P90D today and at one point it told me my estimated range (with 75% battery) was about 90 miles. If you drove like a grownup I'm sure it would do a lot better though.
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Kafouille posted:Given that the vid claims 800hp, and that 1100kw is nearly double that (1475 hp), the driveline efficiency is pretty poo poo if those numbers are right, that's nearly 50% loss from the battery to the wheels. Tesla claims north of 75% driveline efficiency. Given how electric cars work adding more power shouldn't hit the range if you are not actually using said power, unlike a normal car where the most efficient throttle setting is wide open. Yeah but that's guy in workshop vs. niche automotive company with hella capital and dedicated engineers. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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http://imgur.com/gallery/Ai6Ec This guy bought an RX7 FD and restored it, learning how on the way. Pretty awesome. 
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jamal posted:The Ford GT racecar is pretty cool: Is there any chance that this thing could compete against LMP cars? Because if it can fight for an overall win while being a "road car" that would be swell 
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Well they are heavier and do not have as much power or downforce as an LMP car so not really. Unless you have a ridiculous situation like petit lemans in a hurricane last weekend where a Porsche GT car won overall. Although there weren't LMP1 cars there, just daytona prototypes which are slower.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:That 50 mile range though. Batteries do need to get better but claiming that a one-off, hand built car that's purpose made to break speed records, can do 0-60 in less than 2 seconds and packs 1800ft/lbs isn't getting enough range is just silly. I'm confident that if this guy put his mind to building something with ultimate range he could go hundreds and hundreds of miles on a charge.
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Ahh, I remember the GT1 cars of the 90s. Routinely bloodying the nose of the LMPs. I would be quite happy to see these things return. e: Hahahaha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_24_Hours_of_Le_Mans quote:The 1994 race was won by a car that had its roots in a 10-year-old design. Porsche exploited an unusual quirk in the GT regulations at the time, using German fashion magnate Jochen Dauer in a plan to have a street-legal version of the outdated and now illegal Porsche 962 built. Using this road car design, Porsche entered two racing modified Dauer 962s in the GT category. With factory support, the Dauer 962 was able to take the win, the other 962 coming in a close third. I had no idea about this and it makes me smile. Falken fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Oct 7, 2015 |
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jamal posted:The Ford GT racecar is pretty cool: Hey guys...  http://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/651809264483336192/photo/1
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Wow, Amazon got all three of them to come along? That's nuts.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Bare carbon It's not my cup of tea but this has been making the rounds. Callaway's new GT3-R Corvette. 600hp which I believe is still naturally aspirated. 
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jamal posted:Well they are heavier and do not have as much power or downforce as an LMP car so not really. Unless you have a ridiculous situation like petit lemans in a hurricane last weekend where a Porsche GT car won overall. Although there weren't LMP1 cars there, just daytona prototypes which are slower. Yeah, there is no way a GT car will ever be able to challenge an LMP car with the current rules; the LMPs are mind-bogglingly fast. Let's put it this way; they're 45 seconds a lap faster around Le Mans than a fast GT car.
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The LMPs could break in all sorts of hilarious ways. like the alternator goes and they have to remove the transmission to change it.
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