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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:It's a turbo setup isn't it? Flame decals
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Come on, man. No Jan Hammer? 4/10. I think the only one on the driving mix is Crockett's Theme, so there was a small chance it'd have come up.
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kimbo305 posted:[*] the steering wheel was not great out of the box. I'm so glad I put on that spacer. The ape-armed, short legged Italian driving posture is so weird, but I believe that it works for some stereotypical Italian body shape. The seats have decent side bolstering. They hug my love handles pretty well and remind me to lose some weight. If I remember right, the seating position in older Italian cars is because the driving style in Italy was to use shuffle steering from near the bottom of the steering wheel. Hands at 4 and 8, feeding the wheel through the hands. Preeeeetty sure I read that in a car mag article way back when, where the journalist was sitting in the car with an old Italian race driver who maddly shuffled the wheel back and forth, never going above 9 and 3.
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Muffinpox posted:Flame decals Best of both. Flaming 'TURBO' decals. Edit:  These stickers carry bonus points if the car is not turbocharged. Pomp and Circumcized fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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The City of Cambridge levied a $724 excise on the Viper, which was kind of a lot. Guesses on the 348's excise value? 
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kimbo305 posted:The City of Cambridge levied a $724 excise on the Viper, which was kind of a lot. Huh, I thought 10% of original value was the lowest assessment rate in ma. Edit: holy poo poo it is, MA thinks your car was $12000 new 
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Nov 25, 2015 14:39
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Mass vehicle excise is all kinds of wacky.
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kimbo305 posted:The City of Cambridge levied a $724 excise on the Viper, which was kind of a lot. Wait, MA taxes you a percentage of the vehicles original value every year? The hell?
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Nov 25, 2015 15:51
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Taxsachusetts, amirite?
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howling_mad posted:Wait, MA taxes you a percentage of the vehicles original value every year? The hell? The people's glorious soviet socialist republic of california does the same poo poo.
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No such thing as a free lunch, if you want social services and poo poo, someone's gotta pay for em... bend over. They usually end up getting 50-75 bucks out of me for each vehicle I own even though the excise tax is like 25-35, because I'm awful at adulting and don't remember to pay up until they've sent me a warning, a warrant to collect my taxes, and then added a couple penalties to it. Oh well, my fault 
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kimbo305 posted:Again, it's mostly cruising around. But it's a lot easier to see the shifting in daylight Anyone else ever start to visualize folks as their avatars? For some reason Kimbo was definitely not an Asian guy in my mind.
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Das Volk posted:The people's glorious soviet socialist republic of california does the same poo poo. Ugh. In MN we pay yearly for tabs. For about a decade it was $100 or less a year depending on vehicle age. Now it's a percentage of purchase price. My parents paid 500ish on a $35k vehicle a year it's back.
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TheFonz posted:Anyone else ever start to visualize folks as their avatars? For some reason Kimbo was definitely not an Asian guy in my mind. My immersion is ruined.
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TheFonz posted:Anyone else ever start to visualize folks as their avatars? For some reason Kimbo was definitely not an Asian guy in my mind. I didn't want to be the one to say "man Snoop sure has changed a bit".
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kimbo305 posted:That silver one still has a shaved hood. I think the 914 is a great looking car. 60% of why is playing it in Porsche Unleashed. Someday, anthropologists will look back at the cultural effects of Porsche Unleashed upon this generation, and realize staggering sums of money have been spent because of that one amazing artifact of the heady days of the year 2000. Porsche Unleashed is still my favorite racing game, bar none. 
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howling_mad posted:Wait, MA taxes you a percentage of the vehicles original value every year? The hell? Sorta, there's a flat tax rate of 2.5% on the valuation of the car, but the valuation changes every year until 5 years past the date of manufacture. I also forget if they prorate the valuation based on how many months of the year you own the car or not, but Kimbo is only paying .8% rate tax on 1200, so I'm pretty sure everyone in MA just paid for their 348s with 10% cash and 90% bricks of cocaine. some texas redneck posted:I didn't want to be the one to say "man Snoop sure has changed a bit". Kimbo looks like snoop irl that's just the lighting in the video
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Tremek posted:Porsche Unleashed is still my favorite racing game, bar none.
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howling_mad posted:Wait, MA taxes you a percentage of the vehicles original value every year? The hell? Not the original value. There's a decay function that, for every car I've had, has dropped faster than typical resale value. I think both the FC Turbo and 944 I had bottomed out at 1200 or so, too. Muffinpox posted:I also forget if they prorate the valuation based on how many months of the year you own the car or not I don't think so; I've never seen time of year factor into the excise bill. TheFonz posted:Anyone else ever start to visualize folks as their avatars? For some reason Kimbo was definitely not an Asian guy in my mind. I definitely do it. I actually 95% recall posters by their avatar. A long time ago, Belldandy pegged me for Asian just by my arm skin tone.
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So with all this insane road tax, your roads must be absolutely glass smooth, and plowed daily in the winter right?
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TheFonz posted:Anyone else ever start to visualize folks as their avatars? For some reason Kimbo was definitely not an Asian guy in my mind. I dont care what anyone actually looks like. They will always be their avatars to me.
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Fart Pipe posted:I dont care what anyone actually looks like. They will always be their avatars to me. In my case, you'd be correct.
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InitialDave posted:I loved that game. It was the one last, desperate, gasp of air from Need For Speed before it was dragged back under. Agreed, it was the last good NFS game before they fell into the tuner/ricer/F2F community and never came out of it
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You Am I posted:Agreed, it was the last good NFS game before they fell into the tuner/ricer/F2F community and never came out of it The shift games aren't too terrible. In the same vein as Forza but not quite as good IMO.
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Fart Pipe posted:I dont care what anyone actually looks like. They will always be their avatars to me. My avatar is 100% accurate to what I look and act like in real life, except I'm even more jacked from my jacked on jacks workout program. Powershift posted:So with all this insane road tax, your roads must be absolutely glass smooth, and plowed daily in the winter right? The taxes all pay for the big dig which is just a giant web of tunnels to make yourself go deaf from tunnel blasting. Totally worth it. Muffinpox fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Nov 26, 2015 |
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Muffinpox posted:My avatar is 100% accurate to what I look and act like in real life, except I'm even more jacked from my jacked on jacks workout program. In my mind I just had Dom from brosience life just narrate that 
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Fart Pipe posted:I dont care what anyone actually looks like. They will always be their avatars to me. Yup.  Das Volk posted:The people's glorious soviet socialist republic of california does the same poo poo. CA double dips pretty hard on the taxes. NV one ups it though with making your registration on the original non-depreciated value.
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kimbo305 posted:I definitely do it. I actually 95% recall posters by their avatar. As do I. Which always confuses the hell out of me when there's a big avatar changeup  What confuses me more is I have a lot of goon friends on Facebook, and it's gotten to where I have no idea what their forum names are for a lot of them, even some that I've met.
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some texas redneck posted:As do I. Which always confuses the hell out of me when there's a big avatar changeup Well I know who Holdbrooks and Kastein are but that's kind of cheating. And 14 inch but we all know about him.
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Went on one last battery topping drive before Thanksgiving break. This is the car that's easiest to jump into driving, no matter how tired or busy I am. Locals will know what I'm talking about : Going through those roundabouts by the Whole Foods near Dilboy Stadium -- I have no idea why people do it, but they always take right of way entering the roundabout. Every entrance has a yield sign on it, but for whatever reason, that's somehow become the local convention for just these two roundabouts. Every other one nearby, people respect the rules. Mass roundabout and rotary awareness is pretty good, so I dunno what gives. Anyways, I'm in the roundabout trying to line up my exit, and this S600 is barreling right at the entrance. I cover the brakes and wait for him to enter, which he does, but he decides at the last second to slowdown, halfway into the roundabout. Then we stare at each other side by side, him looking neither apologetic nor angry. I didn't deploy the super Italian sounding horn. If we had both proceeded along, I would have been T-boned. Given the expense to repair, I'm not sure either car would have survived. e: I also dodged an SUV parked on the side of the road and bottomed out the front left suspension. It sounded pretty bad :/. Someone moved into the parking spot next to me, so now I have to be a bit more delicate in backing the car in. This is a good size illustration:  The cars are aligned bumper to bumper in the front.  Back, the Corolla is half a foot further back. The couple of times I've parallel parked the 348 on the street, it looks really tiny. kimbo305 fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Nov 26, 2015 |
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Keep an eye on this: http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1990-ferrari-348ts-2/ It's missing its $10k major service, but that's really nice condition.
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Tremek posted:Porsche Unleashed is still my favorite racing game, bar none. Truth and I still want a 914/6 because of it. Unfortunately I think original /6s all cost more than OP's Ferrari these days?
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I saw a street parked new revision GTR, and I genuinely felt envious that my car didn't stack up bench-racing-wise. It's that classic geeky Top Trumps mentality, I guess. I've driven a few cars with spherical shift knobs. Most are cue-ball or slighty smaller, which means I can just close my fingers around to the shift level. The 348's knob is much smaller, the size of a modern ping pong ball. It lends a more delicate, sophisticated feel. A small but real factor to the overall experience. The shifter is really tall, but I still very rarely shift it underhanded, like holding a brandy snifter, which I would do for other ball shift knobs. Anyways, preview of coming attractions: 
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A while back, I looked around at aftermarket exhausts. There was one exhaust that, from its promotional video, sounded so good, I couldn't think about anything else. It seemed to be a very niche product, but I was sold.    This is not as big as it might look. It's maybe just over 2 ft wide bracket to bracket.  Without a lift or 4 jackstands, I was pretty chary about DIYing, even though in the scheme of things, this is one of the easiest exhaust swaps you could have. I left it to the shop, who also fixed up the broken heatshield. The stock exhaust is 2 muffler chambers. Here's the bottom one:   Note how the cat is angled upward. The cats plumb into the upper muffler chamber:  which in turn plumbs to the lower exhaust via two 3" tubes, which are sealed with some sort of composite gasket. The two pieces of the heat shield:   The shop drilled out the rivets, fiberglass patched the underside, re-riveted, and resprayed everything. The result is something that looks passably factory:  The Rarefab exhaust in place, with the tips clamped on:  As you can see, the airflow is roughly the same as the stock exhausts.  The toothed plastic line is from the shop's investigation into some PO aftermarket antenna treachery.   The shop buttoned up and put the heatshield back on. Ok, the important part, the sound. This is keyed right to the flyby pulls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB5gWbWs7VE&t=191s Apologies for aggressive driving on the street, etc. The earlier half of the video is some interior tunnel blasting on the action cam (with the windows up but the microphone already clipping badly) and a really tight parallel park.After the flybys, we drove around some more with the windows down, and oh man, it went from great to amazing. The howl the motor has at 3k and 6k is otherworldly. This changes the whole driving experience, because you become obsessed with trying to keep the car just at 3k. Driving the car with the windows up is now completely pointless. Overall, the car sounds like it should have all along -- rumbly and bassy on the low end, with fascinating harmonics in the middle, and the same scream at the top end. I kept wondering as I drove it, why would Ferrari bottle this up from the factory?
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Wow, great upgrade, also puzzling to me why Ferrari would try to restrict it. That Ferrari sound is what most people want. Also noticed in the video that the wheel spacers made a big difference. The car looks great, wouldn't change a thing.
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I would be very interested to hear what this exhaust cost and then hear from ultimateforce on how much he could make this for
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everdave posted:I would be very interested to hear what this exhaust cost and then hear from ultimateforce on how much he could make this for I thought about going to uf and asking for a quote. The problem comes down to having the measurements / jig dialed in without a reference car. I'm sure I could have had a local shop make something similar, since the packaging isn't that tricky to figure out.
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You have a beautiful car man. Awesome to see some proper Ferrari ownership.
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