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Human Grand Prix posted:No it's awful. Anybody born between 1978-1989 is responsible for it. Truly the worst generation. If you grew up in the 80's you'd be pretty hosed up in the head too. Everyone was terrified of sex and dungeons and dragons. At least we killed off glam rock.
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The 80s kicked rear end. Glam rock owns.
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Human Grand Prix posted:The 80s kicked rear end. Glam rock owns. The music of the 80s was worse, then got better. Worse than the 70s, but then better than the 90s.
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Jun 19, 2017 15:31
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The cars of the 80s were fantastic.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:The worst I did was loud exhausts and cold air intakes. Motherfucker I STILL do loud exhausts and cold air intakes.
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Jun 19, 2017 17:23
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Stance is just the new rice recipe.
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Jun 19, 2017 18:11
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sneakyfrog posted:... I love me some hot hatchbacks, but with the type R even 10 year old me is like why the gently caress did they put all that poo poo on it? QFT. Why is it so hard to make a fast car without all the extra boy-racer cheese? Honda in particular seems to have a fetish for giant nonfunctional vents at the moment. Toyota's pretty bad with them, too, come to think of it. InitialDave posted:Yeah, I've seen this a lot from people in the US, and I really don't understand it. Why do manufacturers tolerate it? I get limited numbers of something being first come, first served (though I believe it's bad business not to make as many as you can sell), and I get people buying them and flipping them, or selling their "spot" in the waiting list, but an actual main dealer charging you thousands extra just because they think you'll pay it is ridiculous. Because the many things noted previously, and apparently, due to how the contracts are written, the manufacturer basically has no say once the car is in the dealer's hands, despite every perception of a manufacturer being via the dealer. You'd think they would exert a little more control over what are effectively their representatives in the real world. Mr. Wiggles posted:Motherfucker I STILL do loud exhausts and cold air intakes.
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Jun 19, 2017 19:10
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Darchangel posted:QFT.
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PCOS Bill posted:Stance is just the new rice recipe. Truth. Rice didn't go away, it just evolved.
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BlackMK4 posted:CTS-V Wagon, E55 / E63 AMG Wagon, M3 Sedan, etc. Oh, I agree. I didn't say there weren't any, just meant they seem to gently caress it up more often that not trying to appeal to the yutes or whatever demographic they think will pay for that... unfortunate design. Plus, all of those above are quite a bit more expensive than the Type R (at least, without the "market adjustment")
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Jun 19, 2017 19:42
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Rhyno posted:Truth. Rice didn't go away, it just evolved. Rice. Rice never changes.
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Darchangel posted:Rice. Rice never changes. I've seen rice you people wouldn't believe.
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I am going to laugh so hard if body kit companies start making kits for that Type R that tone down the look of it e. and the only automotive rice-ery I engaged in was sound systems, because I didn't care for any of the kits available for my Grand Am and was too poor to afford much else, but scored a set of 12" subs and a little amp off a friend for cheap, so that was my thing. I miss that system, the 15 year old in me wants to replace the CX-5's very nicely balanced Bose system with something that would set off car alarms a mile away Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Darchangel posted:Rice. Rice never changes. I used to get rice with my stir-fry. Now I get rice noodles. Car culture evolved the same way.
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Jun 19, 2017 20:02
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Remember how in the awesome thread, one of the teams in France over the weekend was using good ol' percussive maintenance to get their car started? They got DQed, because of the hole they cut to get to the starter.
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Rice can be had in many forms and styles, like many thing in life. I usually rate it from burned minute rice to fine jasmine rice or even a seafood paelle. I do have to say, I'm kinda enjoying the battlestance subgroup thing thats happening. Meatier tires flush with the fenders, functional aero bits, little to no camber. Its good.
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Code Jockey posted:I am going to laugh so hard if body kit companies start making kits for that Type R that tone down the look of it You can always add subs, and a remote gain or even a power toggle to only engage them when appropriate. I have a single 10" in my Crown Vic, and it does an amazing job, but I'd like to add a second and turn them down a bit for daily use, but still be able to ripple sheetmetal when I feel the need. I haven't had a real system for a long while before this, because all my cars were hatchbacks, and I didn't want to sacrifice cargo space or have a visible box. Having a large sedan with ~*trunk space*~ is nice! I did also lean about standing waves because of it. Had to rebuild the box to fire to the rear rather than up, or it was disappointing. Cop Porn Popper posted:I do have to say, I'm kinda enjoying the battlestance subgroup thing thats happening. Meatier tires flush with the fenders, functional aero bits, little to no camber. Its good. Oh, yes, please!
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PCOS Bill posted:Stance is just the new rice recipe. Pissed myself laughing this afternoon, following a stanced Audi TT through town Every speed hump, it had to crawl over at 5mph, while I was merrily doing 25mph in comfort. I thought these things were supposed to make you faster, not slower.
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Jun 19, 2017 20:33
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spog posted:Pissed myself laughing this afternoon, following a stanced Audi TT through town No, it only makes it seem faster. You have to make "vroom vroom" noises while you're driving to really get the effect.
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spog posted:Pissed myself laughing this afternoon, following a stanced Audi TT through town Rice makes your car look fast.
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Deteriorata posted:No, it only makes it seem faster. You have to make "vroom vroom" noises while you're driving to really get the effect. Nah, they just add a ridiculous fart can.
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Terrible car stuff: a lowered Jetta wagon with a euro front plate, blackened out tail and headlights... And had them off in the rain.
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Darchangel posted:still be able to ripple sheetmetal when I feel the need. Cracks me up every time I pull up behind a lovely rattle-canned Kia whose trunk is visibly rattling and all I can hear is *bzzzzzzzzzt bbbbbbbbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*. I want to roll down the window and tell him his car's shaking itself apart
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CommieGIR posted:The cars of the 80s were fantastic. My dream right now is to get anything with two doors, SOHC and turbo. Best combination..
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Jun 19, 2017 23:27
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iospace posted:Remember how in the awesome thread, one of the teams in France over the weekend was using good ol' percussive maintenance to get their car started? That's some loving buuuuulllllshiiiiiiiit right there.
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iospace posted:Terrible car stuff: a lowered Jetta wagon with a euro front plate, blackened out tail and headlights... Thats like every Jetta around here, also need to add the roof racks full of stickers. I really don't get vw people.
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On one hand, it's lovely that they would disqualify the team for modifying the bodywork to get at an engine part when it didn't affect the aerodynamics. On the other hand, the other teams were able to complete the race without cutting holes in their bodywork, either because they laid their systems out better for trackside repairs or had used more reliable starter solenoids, so why shouldn't they be rewarded for that? Achieving performance and reliability is the whole point of Le Mans. Instead of cutting a hole in the panel to whack the solenoid, they should have replaced the solenoid outright and taken the penalty or time loss or whatever, and stayed within the rules.
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Buhbuhj posted:Thats like every Jetta around here, also need to add the roof racks full of stickers. I really don't get vw people. It had a roof rack, natch. Don't recall seeing stickers. Sagebrush posted:On one hand, it's lovely that they would disqualify the team for modifying the bodywork to get at an engine part when it didn't affect the aerodynamics. All the teams in that class used the same engine, so all used the same starter I believe.
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iospace posted:Remember how in the awesome thread, one of the teams in France over the weekend was using good ol' percussive maintenance to get their car started? Does that mean BOTH the Jackie Chan LMP2 cars had podium finishes? Boy that good-luck cloud livery is no joke.
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davebo posted:Does that mean BOTH the Jackie Chan LMP2 cars had podium finishes? Boy that good-luck cloud livery is no joke. Yep, 2nd and 3rd officially.
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iospace posted:Terrible car stuff: a lowered Jetta wagon with a euro front plate, blackened out tail and headlights... The new Jettas taillights are already half tinted from the factory. Not even joking about this.
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This seems like the thread for this. http://imgur.com/a/conzs
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Motherfucker I STILL do loud exhausts and cold air intakes. You can keep any exhaust that drones at highway speeds, and gently caress any intakes that just suck hot air from under the hood. Otherwise  Code Jockey posted:e. and the only automotive rice-ery I engaged in was sound systems, because I didn't care for any of the kits available for my Grand Am and was too poor to afford much else, but scored a set of 12" subs and a little amp off a friend for cheap, so that was my thing. I miss that system, the 15 year old in me wants to replace the CX-5's very nicely balanced Bose system with something that would set off car alarms a mile away I'm pushing 40. Still have a 12 in a ported box in my trunk with an "1100 watt" amp (probably more like 250 RMS.. it's a ~4-5 year old Crunch running 2 ohm bridged), and some reasonably decent speakers up front. It's not nearly loud enough, but it's enough to annoy someone that pulls up next to me blasting lovely music. It's also pretty good at setting off aftermarket car alarms, if I feel like being a dick. I mean part of that is probably because I'm so loving deaf I can't hear anything outside of talk radio without all of the loud (I can't even carry a conversation on a phone anymore... I think the 2-5x/week concerts+raves in my teens and 20s, and weekly to monthly concerts through most of my 30s, may have caught up with me... just a guess though). On the other hand, I can crank it to 11 without feeling pain - I can almost make out the lyrics at 11 if I'm a foot away from the speakers.. people half a mile away that aren't deaf can probably make them out at 8. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:gently caress any intakes that just suck hot air from under the hood. Otherwise So like all of them then? I have yet to find anything to show that an aftermarket CAI does anything but make noise.
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My Cobb system in my WRX uses the stock air funnel to draw cold air and has a sealed box around it. But surprise it costs more than non functioning garbage cone only intakes.
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Keywords here are stock intake snorkel I spent my youth in the 1990s buying 70s and 80s cars and doing my own dodgey CAIs. Then when I was older and started buying good cars from the 90s and 00s cheap, they already had a decent CAI because they often had intake snorkels and large air filter boxes. IMO you don't need to worry about aftermarket CAIs unless dealing with 70s and 80s cars, or making your own ITB system, (or very badly designed cars without a snorkel and large air filter box). But back in the day, manufacturers had hot air intakes (often routing the air over the exhaust) for colder europe/usa/japan and probably cared more about emissions (getting the air warm so less choke/cold engine program extra fuel use) than the fact they were just making hot air intakes for Australia that didn't need it. Obviously since the 90s they have found a better way and mostly have cold air intakes regardless of the country. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jun 20, 2017 |
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I have a warm air intake on my Abarth because it makes the psssh psssh sound loud enough for pedestrians to hear when I shift unnecessarily because it makes the psssh psssh sound loud enough for pedestrians to hear. Psssh psssh
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And rice is still alive. I just took this (gently caress you LA traffic)
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