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El Scotch posted:Here's some muffler-less hellcat noise for general enjoyment. Especially on decel that thing sounds a lot like an old 440. I've been considering buying one as a DD, especially if I end up commuting more. I like my 300D but it's more of a project car.
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revdrkevind posted:Randomly paging back to the Huracan, I can't shake the time I saw a guy driving a white model with the prototype-style horizontal slats across the back window, and that may be the most beautiful car ever made for my tastes. 
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Removing mufflers is incredibly obnoxious. Removing cats even more so. Get a more aggressive exhaust, sure. But it should focus on altering the tone than the loudness. If you want it to be loud with windows closed in your nicely soundproofed car, then you're just being a dick to everyone who's not in the car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGyKBFCd_u4
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I got in trouble for using this clip during motorcycle safety training.
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drgitlin posted:This might be the first one I've actually seen on the road. Certainly the first one since I moved to the US in 2002. I remember lusting after this car so hard back in the mid-90s... Zoom...enhance...zoom...enhance...
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revdrkevind posted:Randomly paging back to the Huracan, I can't shake the time I saw a guy driving a white model with the prototype-style horizontal slats across the back window, and that may be the most beautiful car ever made for my tastes. Nice license plate frame 
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The engine cover slats are the stock option - it's another $7k if you want the transparent engine bay.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:Removing mufflers is incredibly obnoxious. Removing cats even more so. Get a more aggressive exhaust, sure. But it should focus on altering the tone than the loudness. If you want it to be loud with windows closed in your nicely soundproofed car, then you're just being a dick to everyone who's not in the car. And, of course if your car can legally get away with it. In the UK if the car's made before 1993 you can do away with the cat.
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drgitlin posted:The engine cover slats are the stock option - it's another $7k if you want the transparent engine bay. Who the hell would pay more money to make the car look worse? Oh, but you can see the engine. (scary ghost noises)
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revdrkevind posted:Who the hell would pay more money to make the car look worse? I don't think you have a very solid grasp on Lambo's target market demographic.
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MrChips posted:I must be the only person to think this, but that sounds like poo poo. You're not alone. I'm curious how it would sound with a proper mic setup though.
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Slavvy posted:I don't think you have a very solid grasp on Lambo's target market demographic. lol here's one who didn't shell out for slat removal but he still has that lambo owner je ne sais quoi 
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I went to a lemons race yesterday, some colossal pieces of poo poo rolling around out there and I think it's awesome to see these turds racing. No loving clue what this used to be:  Not sure this fit into the "under $500" rule but they barely made any laps, spent most of the day with people under the hood: Looks pretty though!  And then there was this.  Few more here. Yes, someone was trying to race a Pontiac Tran Sport. It was just about the slowest vehicle on the track. http://xzzy.org/photos/Lemons_2015
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Beach Bum posted:This guys lovely steering wheel grip is annoying the hell out of me. He's wrapping his thumbs and he re-grips the wheel with this nervous tic every five seconds.
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xzzy posted:I went to a lemons race yesterday, some colossal pieces of poo poo rolling around out there and I think it's awesome to see these turds racing. Oh yeah, that race totally snuck up on me this year, or else I would've gone too. The $500 rule is very flexible if you 1.) lie, 2.) bribe the judges, and/or 3.) choose a rare car, or some kind of insane engine swap.
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fyodor posted:lol here's one who didn't shell out for slat removal but he still has that lambo owner je ne sais quoi That's an Aventador not a Huracan. Fwiw the transparent engine cover makes it impossible to see anything out the back because of the reflection of the cover's frame in the glass.
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xzzy posted:Yes, someone was trying to race a Pontiac Tran Sport. It was just about the slowest vehicle on the track. 
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rarbatrol posted:Oh yeah, that race totally snuck up on me this year, or else I would've gone too. The $500 rule is very flexible if you 1.) lie, 2.) bribe the judges, and/or 3.) choose a rare car, or some kind of insane engine swap. Can't you walk up to any car, offer them $500, and they're forced to accept? I thought that was the mechanism to keep people honest about that rule.
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Left Ventricle posted:If it was the white one with the weird Mercedes-esque front end and double head lights, those guys are on the A-body board. They're having a grand old time, and have done a C5 Corvette front brake swap, since it became very obvious at the last race that the stockers were not up to the task. The front brakes nearly caught fire trying to haul down the bulk of the van over and over. Click for bigger: That's the same number, but the van is orange now.
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Raluek posted:Can't you walk up to any car, offer them $500, and they're forced to accept? I thought that was the mechanism to keep people honest about that rule. Nope. The judges are probably experienced enough by now that it's hard to sneak anything too crazy past them. Also, a friend of the family was part of a pratt & miller sponsored team a few years ago. They apparently put something like 15K into their mustang, which got caught and totally slammed with penalty laps.
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Raluek posted:Can't you walk up to any car, offer them $500, and they're forced to accept? I thought that was the mechanism to keep people honest about that rule. I think that's true for some Scandinavian (I want to say Finnish?) amateur-ish rally-ish thing? I believe there was a Top Gear bit about it... The one where May learned how to drive and do the flick maybe?
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It was an early LeMons rule, the judges were allowed to walk up to either the winner or people in the top ten I believe, and buy the car for $500.
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Dannywilson posted:It was an early LeMons rule, the judges were allowed to walk up to either the winner or people in the top ten I believe, and buy the car for $500. Was that rule ever used? I'm assuming that rule is gone now. Is there a good story behind it going away?
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honda whisperer posted:Was that rule ever used? It still exists, but they've only used it like twice. You have to be a REAL Cock to get it invoked, usually it's just such a big penalty that you'd never come close to a win anyway.
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Dannywilson posted:It was an early LeMons rule, the judges were allowed to walk up to either the winner or people in the top ten I believe, and buy the car for $500. This is actually common-ish for amateur racing, and it usually says anyone can offer. My dad and I used to race go-karts and especially when it was supposed to be a more limited formula or a kids' series there would be a rule of $whatever. It's always more of a gentlemen's agreement than an enforced rule. It does actually happen, but it gets into serious honor and saving face territory when you're at that point. Everyone involved would generally prefer if the person just drops out, gives their place and winnings to the next in line.
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In Finnish "folkracing" any car has to be sold for 1400€ and there are plenty of cars bought and sold in every race. If there is more than one willing buyer the guy/gal who gets to buy it is chosen in random. Because of this, the competitors with the best cars have their friends and relatives to register as willing buyers to increase their chances to retain the cars. There are also tricks like button activated oil injection to the exhaust manifold on the final lap to make it look like the engine is about to explode to discourage potential buyers. Edit: It looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVC4u5lbHPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggNgyviUj9Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kQAVSMB0C8 DoLittle fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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The Utah Department of Transportation has a pretty good sense of humor (not my photo, taken from a local Facebook group)
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DoLittle posted:In Finnish "folkracing" any car has to be sold for 1400€ and there are plenty of cars bought and sold in every race. If there is more than one willing buyer the guy/gal who gets to buy it is chosen in random. Because of this, the competitors with the best cars have their friends and relatives to register as willing buyers to increase their chances to retain the cars. There are also tricks like button activated oil injection to the exhaust manifold on the final lap to make it look like the engine is about to explode to discourage potential buyers. Holy poo poo that looks like a lot of fun. e: I guess LeMons or Chump Car is the closest we get here in the US. It seems like everything else gets way too serious, and thence expensive.
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revdrkevind posted:This is actually common-ish for amateur racing, and it usually says anyone can offer. My dad and I used to race go-karts and especially when it was supposed to be a more limited formula or a kids' series there would be a rule of $whatever. Bucket racing motorbikes over here still follow that rule. As a result the entire field is usually composed of Suzuki RG150's, FXR150's and the like. It's easily the cheapest and most accessible form of motorsport around.
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drgitlin posted:This might be the first one I've actually seen on the road. Certainly the first one since I moved to the US in 2002. I remember lusting after this car so hard back in the mid-90s... That feeling when someone posts a picture taken on your street. (not mine) (oh my god I wish it was mine)
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DoLittle posted:In Finnish "folkracing" any car has to be sold for 1400€ and there are plenty of cars bought and sold in every race. If there is more than one willing buyer the guy/gal who gets to buy it is chosen in random. Because of this, the competitors with the best cars have their friends and relatives to register as willing buyers to increase their chances to retain the cars. There are also tricks like button activated oil injection to the exhaust manifold on the final lap to make it look like the engine is about to explode to discourage potential buyers. I fully intended to be productive and get a lot of things done tonight when I got home from work. Instead I just spent 2 hours watching poo poo-boxes crash into things and each other in Finland. 
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Darchangel posted:Holy poo poo that looks like a lot of fun. Lemons really frowns on any kind of contact too. They also have a rule on the books if you ever roll your car, you're banned from the series for a year.
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xzzy posted:Lemons really frowns on any kind of contact too. They also have a rule on the books if you ever roll your car, you're banned from the series for a year. Did you know we have a member here who rolled a car at a lemons race?
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No I must have missed that in the handbook when I registered.
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Found an old Australian Mercedes ad from the 80s. I remember seeing this as a kid and wondered how the gently caress the family survived, especially since Benzes at that time in Australia didn't have airbags https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VojePSOrnYw
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I just knew this had to be one of the van's iterations, would have been great with a pup trailer behind it done up as one of those awful power inverter block from the 90's 
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It's amusing seeing all its iterations. Fresh paint and some rims! I love how instead of redoing the numbers, they just masked that part off and painted around it.
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A local time-attack team has a rather impressive RX-7 that was featured on speedhunters last year: http://www.speedhunters.com/2014/07/rage-within-machine-valtonen-rx-7/  Based on their facebook pages (https://www.facebook.com/ValtonenMotorsport), it appears to have experienced some further development:  
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