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I'm not gonna post one here because it doesn't belong here but the only good fiero is the zimmer quicksilver
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The Door Frame posted:When I first saw unmolested Fieros, I got really excited about this cool 80's roadster that I thought I'd discovered. They're pretty attractive little cars, why do people ruin them so? On Fieros pretty much all of the bodywork is bolted on to a unibody style frame, that makes it really easy to replace it with whatever you want 
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Jul 5, 2017 09:29
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Jul 5, 2017 14:09
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financially racist posted:of course it's a fiero It's always a Fiero. If it's too early for Fiero, it's a Beetle. If it's a CUSTUM 4X4 OFF RODE, it's a Blazer frame.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:32
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I'll never understand most of the kit car community. I mean on one hand those modern takes on classic cars are very cool (Singer Porsches, or things like Locosts) but 90% of them look like the cheapest pieces of garbage and always look much worse than the Fiero they are based on.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:51
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It's almost as if not many people are actually any good at design. And if you look at most modern cars today you'd swear no fucker is any good at design.
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Jul 5, 2017 14:53
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:It's always a Fiero. If it's too early for Fiero, it's a Beetle. If it's a CUSTUM 4X4 OFF RODE, it's a Blazer frame. You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! You got your peanut butter in my chocolate! 
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Jul 5, 2017 14:53
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Torn Quad Jones posted:You got your chocolate in my peanut butter! Wrong thread
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Jul 5, 2017 15:20
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Would look better if the arches were either covered, or at least matched the position of the wheels.
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Jul 5, 2017 15:49
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Eh, it still looks better than those poo poo-rear end Fierolambos.
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Jul 5, 2017 15:50
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Olympic Mathlete posted:It's almost as if not many people are actually any good at design. And if you look at most modern cars today you'd swear no fucker is any good at design. Should also be noted that the people that get it right usually stick with the original body shape and tweak it. Chop the roof, flare the fenders, put holes in the hood, etc. It really comes down to enhancing what's already there over trying to make a goose look like a swan. As for modern cars, blame safety regulations. Everyone's handcuffed.
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Jul 5, 2017 15:53
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xzzy posted:As for modern cars, blame safety regulations. Everyone's handcuffed. Oh I'm well aware, I studied design (mainly vehicular) and have friends doing transport design at the moment so I've learned a bunch more. The only fun poo poo they get to do in car form are concepts which is why a lot of them are moving into yacht design as there's quite literally no limit to the poo poo you can do with them. *edit: One of my friends is currently working for a yacht company and he's in charge of a few little touches. Buyer wants a teppanyaki grill out on the rear deck but he also wants it to transform into a DJ setup because parties, but of course those two things don't go together... So boats and poo poo are an entirely different problem. 
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Jul 5, 2017 16:27
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:It's always a Fiero. If it's too early for Fiero, it's a Beetle. If it's a CUSTUM 4X4 OFF RODE, it's a Blazer frame. Sometimes it is a toyota truck frame like that 4x4 camry that belongs no where near this thread.
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Jul 5, 2017 16:40
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Cowards. Great design comes from working despite the restrictions. Fuckin lol that guy "Wanna sling hot beats like I sling hot shrimp at my trophy wife" Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jul 5, 2017 |
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Jul 5, 2017 16:52
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Olympic Mathlete posted:One of my friends is currently working for a yacht company and he's in charge of a few little touches. Buyer wants a teppanyaki grill out on the rear deck but he also wants it to transform into a DJ setup because parties
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Olympic Mathlete posted:*edit: One of my friends is currently working for a yacht company and he's in charge of a few little touches. Buyer wants a teppanyaki grill out on the rear deck but he also wants it to transform into a DJ setup because parties, but of course those two things don't go together... So boats and poo poo are an entirely different problem. When you have enough money to preoccupy a design team with whether or not they could, and nobody to tell you to stop and think if you should.
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The prices for their boats start at £50 million. And no rich oval office wants to buy the base model...
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Funzo posted:The headlights are really what makes it great. I know, right? All those swoopy curves, and then: SQUARE. Not that the swoopy curves are any sort of attractive in that arrangement, but why square headlights? Powershift posted:I'm not gonna post one here because it doesn't belong here but the only good fiero is the zimmer quicksilver I like the stock Fieros, especially the Formula notchbacks, but the Quicksilver is indeed the only good rebody.
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Jul 5, 2017 17:43
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Darchangel posted:I know, right? All those swoopy curves, and then: SQUARE. Headlights are hard. See: Diablo non-popup headlights. Actually, that might have been a solution, get some 300ZX lights and graft them in. Couldn't possibly have looked worse 
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Jul 6, 2017 02:57
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 https://drivetribe.com/p/rrcb-camaro-kit-for-your-bmw-5
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Jul 6, 2017 11:53
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Looks like the new Civic Type R
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Jul 6, 2017 15:18
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That hoodline, gonna end up with a smashed windscreen and potentially causing a huge pile up if it happens on a highway.
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Jul 6, 2017 15:46
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InitialDave posted:The only bit I recognise are the Megane rear lights. Just the D-ring might be reaching the load limit of the couple of "Grade 2" bolts holding that brush guard on.
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Memento posted:Headlights are hard. See: Diablo non-popup headlights. Agreed. Best ("best" being relative, in this case) idea probably would have been to copy the 240/260/280Z headlight arrangement. It would at least work with the whole curvy thing. edit: actual best idea would have been to just leave it a Fiero in the first place.
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Jul 6, 2017 16:36
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Someone put washer fluid where oil should be.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:10
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I have a confession to make, I dumped washer fluid in a coolant tank. Both that tank and the fluid washer tank had the same style caps/flaps. Fortunately I caught it and given the style I could empty it out without issue. But dumping it into the crankcase...egads.
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NoWake posted:Some Fords in the 80's and 90's had a combination coolant expansion/washer fluid tank, seems like cross-contamination would be pretty common with this setup. They're both water-based fluids, so probably not too much to worry about as long as it's noticed. The toasty washer fluid wouldn't be a bad thing, in the winter anyway. Interesting decision though, but then again, it is classic Detroit to save a buck to have it bite them in the rear end hardcore in the end.
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Jul 7, 2017 00:10
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Whew, I feel better. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. I figured I'd top up the fluids. Oops.
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I would think getting washer fluid into the coolant wouldn't be much of a big deal unless it was a large amount, and even then it'd be more because alcohol and water don't lubricate the water pump as well as a regular 50/50 coolant mix (also a lower boiling point). Getting coolant into your washer fluid though... I would think that would leave an oily mess on the windshield.
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Jul 7, 2017 00:56
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Colostomy Bag posted:I figured I'd top up the fluids. Oops.
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Jul 7, 2017 01:07
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The internet taught me to force-feed Rotella T6 into any and all orifices my vehicle(s) may have; birdshit just slides off my windshield.
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InitialDave posted:Obligatory username/post combo comment. You should see what I do with a beer.
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A friend of mine's dad noticed there was some water underneath his car in the garage after driving home on a really hot day. To everyone in this thread, it was clearly condensation from the AC coming out of the drain tube. His solution? Open the oil filler cap and fill it with water until it reached the top. Brand new 1997 Holden Calais V8, pretty expensive car. He'd owned it for three weeks as he got a new car at the start of every year with his job. Got a cylinder full of water and kicked a rod out the side of the block as soon as he fired it up. He called me that evening as I was a mechanic's apprentice at the time and asked me why his car would no longer start. I went over and had a look and told him to call a tow truck. "You can't get me going to get to work in the morning?". No, I really can't.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Hey man, someone's gotta dust those cobwebs off for her now and then! I suppose this was as good of a way as any to learn your moms a lesbian.  content: 
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Jul 7, 2017 03:38
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So that's where I caught the gay from!
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I would think getting washer fluid into the coolant wouldn't be much of a big deal unless it was a large amount, and even then it'd be more because alcohol and water don't lubricate the water pump as well as a regular 50/50 coolant mix (also a lower boiling point). My parents had this old beater-rear end van (88 GMC Safari, 4.3l) that my parents let (mostly) me and my brother drive with a blown head gasket, or maybe a cracked head. Went through coolant like you wouldn't believe, but it was winter, so we couldn't just dump a bunch of water in it. So gently caress it, we dumped washer fluid in there..... Its good to -40. Coolant was expensive as gently caress when you made 6.95/hr.
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Memento posted:A friend of mine's dad noticed there was some water underneath his car in the garage after driving home on a really hot day. To everyone in this thread, it was clearly condensation from the AC coming out of the drain tube. His solution? Open the oil filler cap and fill it with water until it reached the top. How? How do you do this? How do you ignore logos, legends, and labels on every damned fluid cap, and go straight for the oil cap on the engine to put water in? How do you not recognize your own ignorance enough to just dump a fluid into whatever orifice is handy? Especially in a new at the time car that most likely had the owner's manual right there in the glove box? There's no shame in being ignorant, but refusing to acknowledge or remedy that ignorance is the difference between ignorance and stupidity. I have to apologize. Stuff like this triggers me. for some reason, despite being over 40, it still surprises me that people can be this stupid (and have made it to adulthood.)
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Darchangel posted:How? To paraphrase George Carlin, the median IQ is only the median because half the population is below it. Various degrees of the Dunning-Kruger effect takes care of the rest.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNKIux9oju0 that one's from a german comedy show but i'm sure it's happened at least once, given stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76N1QcJfN4
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