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SuperDucky posted:I am hard like a diamond, please tell me the 800 stands for CuIn. Unlikely in a config that small, but you could get them with a 903 cubic inch cummins V8   DODGE POWER GIANT
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corn in the fridge posted:Hello Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's pretty poo poo looking for a Bertone but then they've not put out anything decent since the early 80s.
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88h88 posted:Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's pretty poo poo looking for a Bertone but then they've not put out anything decent since the early 80s. At least they can say that they triiiiiiiiied.
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The Locator posted:The entire thing is just a work of art. I'd be interested in knowing more about it from the technical side, especially, given the source of the engine, the cooling. Boat engines are designed knowing that they have an endless supply of cool/cold water to suck through the ridiculously powerful mill. I wonder how they managed to get this to stay cool with a closed system. From what I understand. Boat engines (at least chevy/mercury) are generally the same as their car counterparts, just more buck since you don't want it to explode and dump a bunch of oil into the water. Edit: i.e. special head gaskets, bronze fittings, compression ratio, possibly reverse crank, special seals (possibly ceramic), and of course, completely different camshaft profiles. GnarlyCharlie4u fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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88h88 posted:Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. It's pretty poo poo looking for a Bertone but then they've not put out anything decent since the early 80s. The car is a one-off paid for by commission.
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corn in the fridge posted:The car is a one-off paid for by commission. I'm aware of that but it makes my opinion on the design any less valid because........... ?
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Gorilla Salad posted:I'll give you happiest, but for coolest, my vote still goes for the 1971 Starstreak: I would legit DD this.
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88h88 posted:I'm aware of that but it makes my opinion on the design any less valid because........... ? I never said it did? You implied that they shouldn't have built it cause it's ugly and im merely stating that it was built because a private customer wanted and paid for it to be built, which is a good enough reason if any.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:From what I understand. antique marine diesels were sorta the same, plus biggest drat injectors that'd fit. These engines were also found in fire engines. some truck owners got smart and did the same, but they couldn't run full tilt without running a bit warm. Liiike these guys: Powershift posted:Unlikely in a config that small, but you could get them with a 903 cubic inch cummins V8 That said a turned up 8v92TA/12v71TA bus is quite a hoot.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:From what I understand. This is partially true, but the class of engines that Mercury live in are designed mainly for offshore, Cigarette-type powerboats, So you get all that anti-pollution, anti-explodey stuff, but with all kinds of wicked internals designed to make that engine live for hours @ WOT. Technically a NASCAR 358 is similar to any other V8, except again, designed to be at WOT for hours. This is why a lot of people have used old NASCAR engines in street cars, they are bulletproof for daily driving conditions.
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corn in the fridge posted:I never said it did? You implied that they shouldn't have built it cause it's ugly and im merely stating that it was built because a private customer wanted and paid for it to be built, which is a good enough reason if any. It was a 'that is ugly' comment more than anything else, it was an expression of disappointment in Bertone because they used to design such fantastic looking cars. These are all Marcello Gandini designs and when he left in 1980 Bertone went downhill massively in terms of style.          In comparison to the above, the Jet is poo poo. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Dec 3, 2015 |
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Speaking of Bertone, Mike Spinelli and the guys from Classic Car Club Manhattan did a cool piece on After/Drive on their favorite Bertone designs. Just be warned that it's a roundtable discussion, I know some guys hate watching videos of dudes talking about cars without actually seeing those cars driving around.
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Powershift posted:Unlikely in a config that small, but you could get them with a 903 cubic inch cummins V8 Sodium exhaust valves in the 60s. Cool.
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VikingSkull posted:Speaking of Bertone, Mike Spinelli and the guys from Classic Car Club Manhattan did a cool piece on After/Drive on their favorite Bertone designs. Thanks for that. Learned about this...  
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Vitamin J posted:Can anyone identify this quirky looking recreational vehicle? Never seen a streetable submarine before. VW Sub VikingSkull posted:This is partially true, but the class of engines that Mercury live in are designed mainly for offshore, Cigarette-type powerboats, So you get all that anti-pollution, anti-explodey stuff, but with all kinds of wicked internals designed to make that engine live for hours @ WOT. see also: people cannibalizing Volvo Penta engines to make badass 240s atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Dec 4, 2015 |
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VikingSkull posted:Speaking of Bertone, Mike Spinelli and the guys from Classic Car Club Manhattan did a cool piece on After/Drive on their favorite Bertone designs. Speaking of Bertone, their Turin museum closed to little fanfare and all the amazing one of a kind prototypes have probably been auctioned off 
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The front end on that looks half designed when compared with the back. It's like the front was sketched in roughly and your man set to work on the back and while he was finishing that, they took it away to be put together. The rear lights work with the body line and accent the tail nicely whereas the front lights are just kinda whatever. I think that's down to all other Astons having the grille break the bumper line acting as a logical point for the lights to sit. Proportionally Astons are beautiful cars but the Jet ruins those classic proportions and is thusly a bit shite in comparison to the usual AM design and indeed the Shooting Brake designs of other manufacturers. hackbunny posted:Speaking of Bertone, their Turin museum closed to little fanfare and all the amazing one of a kind prototypes have probably been auctioned off Apparently you needed proof of owning a place big enough in Italy to house the collection, as in you had to buy EVERYTHING they had. And you couldn't take them out of Italy because the government saw them as culturally significant... I wonder who has them now.
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I like it. They did a good job showing it off on Leno's youtube show, and I've been hoping they do a production version ever since.
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Just saw a RHD Kei car - looked like a 3rd gen Suzuki Alto Works - here in Arizona driving down the highway, surprised the poo poo out of me. Pretty awesome.
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Volvo is at it again.
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I like how they're super careful to point out the buildings were vacant and sealed in a video that was clearly staged and carefully choreographed. Never change, Volvo.
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Only in te spirit of the Utmost attention to safety.
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xzzy posted:I like how they're super careful to point out the buildings were vacant and sealed in a video that was clearly staged and carefully choreographed. MY IMMERSION! It was fun to watch and a well made ad.
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xzzy posted:I like how they're super careful to point out the buildings were vacant and sealed in a video that was clearly staged and carefully choreographed.  i'm pretty sure she's not driving the truck, that doesn't make her reactions to what she thinks is real not adorable nor those stunts loving cool.
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I think what we're all missing here is that Robyn's version of Cobrastyle is apparently a cover?! I mean uhh...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-FUF0Sh_E
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"gonna have to make some vroom vroom noises" hahahaha
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Man more bump steer? Santa is real. bwwuummmm tiss
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Wait so attaching tie rods straight to the strut is a real thing? I didnt understand that part. They didnt even look like the final struts they will be using? Are they gonna weld thoes brackets to every new strut?
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I would hope that those struts have removable cartridges, but yeah that seems like a lot of work every time you bend an upright on stage.
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Just watching that now, so what do you reckon's with the Lancia HF elephant??
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You can easily convert struts which are sealed to those which accept inserts. Standard operating procedure in the FB & FC RX-7 world.
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Preoptopus posted:poo poo dont even have to be that fancy. Today at work I drove around a 100k+ escalade ESV that had every warning light on while doing test drives ect... If you wanna turn heads driving, get one and FEEL the hatred radiating from literally everyone. I mean im clearly wearing my mechanic scrubs and still motherfuckers be GLARING with jealous rage. I'm usually thinking "thank gently caress you're a dickwaving compensator and taking the huge hit on that flashy turd, I can't wait till I get to buy its engine for $300 at the picknpull" Modus Man posted:it's decided then, the perfect getaway vehicle for a bank heist would be a trophy truck. Sure, you could hear it 2 miles away but gently caress it, 5-0 wont be able to get that close. Yep... and like someone said, this is pretty much like desert racing. You'd net 10k from your bank heist and it'd cost you 30k in poo poo to fix on it after the fact, plus the half-million purchase price. (it can often cost $30k to run a race in one of those and first place purse is only like 10. They do it for fun, not for the money, the money comes from sponsors and personal deep pockets.) Preoptopus posted:Rally cars in general. The closest i can think of was this. While true, rally cars other than trophy trucks generally aren't known for being able to take shortcuts off of 12+ foot tall retaining walls, land nose-down, and just keep rolling like nothing loving happened. Those trucks have more into a single shock absorber than some of us have into our cars. Not kidding, they spend mid 4 figures on a shock absorber, including spare(s) for a race, probably pushing 5 figures a corner.
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There is no driver in the P1. She is trying to seduce a car. Hhhhhhaaaaaaawt.
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It's her car, and she's trying to find her AAA card because it's British and needs a tow.
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