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boxen posted:What episodes of Roadkill had a big mopar? I remember the Fury they went to LeMons with, the junkyard Cuda, and Freiburgers Super Bee (but the last two aren't fullsize), but that's all that comes to mind. The Hot Rod Garage episode with the stroker 440 (holy gently caress is it cheap to stroke a 440) didn't help me wanting one. I poked around on Hot Rod's archives and found some articles from around ten years ago where they bought a Newport and did some upgrades, exhaust, brakes and suspension at least. The General Mayhem had multiple episodes (the first one was four years ago holy gently caress). You can kinda count the BLASPHEMI too.
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Rhyno posted:PT is probably sold! Late night drunk talk you should live in a free or almost free apartment as long as you can (as I hypocritically post from my paid off house that is worth 50% more than I paid for it) but still accumulate wealth. Invest.
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Liquid Communism posted:Good luck, don't get yourself loving murdered. I don't go around advertising what I do in my bedroom, like stated before. While I am 'out' I dont go hitting on every guy I see or actively try to ram my dick down his throat, contrary to popular opinion. It is of low concern imo. beep-beep car is go posted:Congrats on the move! I'm hoping for lots of photos in threads here and on Instagram My Ukranian is worse than my Russian, I just haven't studied it yet.(I don't want to confuse myself doing two languages at once). (I can also hire a tutor when needed) stump posted:Google translate makes that sound like a Knockers and Snatch classified. haha this is awesome. And that sums up a lot of the used vehicle ads here which makes me a little wary of buying something used like a 2buck whore.
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I hope you do well and document it for us, not sure why you would think goons wouldn't be interested. Be safe. We care.
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everdave posted:I hope you do well and document it for us, not sure why you would think goons wouldn't be interested. Be safe. We care. Safety is our number #2 priority! I spoke about the plans with some other goons/friends prior and the general consensus was that it was either the dumbest loving thing, or why would anybody want to leave the us and move to such a dump, that I should try Atlanta instead.
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cursedshitbox posted:Murdered/stabbing? eh, There is a higher risk for that infront of my house in Vallejo. Well, yeah, but that's Vallejo for you. Vallejo actually has a pretty interesting crime scene because it tend not to be "gangs" per se, but families. Very weird. But not low crime. OTO if you want a cheap, grand old house and don't mind hookers on the front lawn, hell yeah. My heart died a bit when the Dillon Bread Company closed. One of the few good places to eat there.
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everdave posted:Late night drunk talk you should live in a free or almost free apartment as long as you can (as I hypocritically post from my paid off house that is worth 50% more than I paid for it) but still accumulate wealth. Invest. We're playing it by ear for now. And since I have free parking at mom's and dad's I figure I can do whatever I want car wise. I still want an Evo but realistically that's 1/4 the cost of a house. I can get a house and THEN get an EVo.
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cursedshitbox posted:Safety is our number #2 priority! Well you are doing it and people are concerned we can drop that now and want pics incoming.
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Jesus gently caress the cruiser is trying to bankrupt me.... $2000 in 6 days. $1600 for tyres on Monday, then yesterday the Aux battery that runs the fridges poo poo the bed. $400 to replace THAT!
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Rhyno posted:We're playing it by ear for now. And since I have free parking at mom's and dad's I figure I can do whatever I want car wise. I still want an Evo but realistically that's 1/4 the cost of a house. I can get a house and THEN get an EVo. Buying this house was amazing smart for me. Living for free or almost sounds amazing smart for you. Bubbles happen and then burst you do what you want to do.
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I wish my house was worth a decent amount more than I paid for it (just now recovering to pre-crash prices) so I could move. Of course that also sort of means I wish I had a job prospect elsewhere, or that my company would let me work full time remote (might actually be a possibility at some point). It is currently 10:45pm. There is a lovely 12mph breeze outside, which is doing exactly nothing to make it cool, simply moving some dust with the loving 107 degree air at almost 11pm...
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PICS: The second photo in this album is for Adiabatic. He mentioned the unfinished bridge, welp I hiked to it last week. http://imgur.com/a/WmCxE These pics are from the first week or so that we were here. white and red lettered pavilion is "resturant louisiana" it's not a resturant at all but a food court of sorts. melrose is an american themed diner. These people adore Americans and their culture. lastly is some rides in the middle of the park. Their fair rides are permanently fixed. "тир" Means shooting gallery. Note the characters. I'd like to point out how loving clean they keep the area. I've seen very little trash on the ground here. That surprised me most of all. http://imgur.com/a/5Xb2z This is the home of our makerspace. 500sq-m. (5400sq-ft) 600A 3Ph on tap. (yes, that first tin plate cover is from 1966, and stamped Ukranian SSR.)
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Looks like a pretty nice place to live, except for that language barrier thing.  Good luck CSB.
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CSB I may have missed the post but uh, what exactly prompted this move?
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Rhyno posted:CSB I may have missed the post but uh, what exactly prompted this move? Bay area COL is out of hand so he went the complete opposite way?
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nm posted:Bay area COL is out of hand so he went the complete opposite way? That is part of it, but it can be negated with "move to atlanta  ". In short, we want to evolve our projects, and can't do it easily stateside. Cheaper tools + cheaper cost of living + intelligent individuals + cheap materials make things a gently caress yes. Fwiw a good amount of soviet's engineering texts reside about an hour north. I fully intend to get lost in that library. You can argue these points, absolutely. But ahahahaha my last Collaboration was with a CAL mechanical engineering grad that was anti-plastic/composites and renewables from the garden only kinda guy. There's some stuff we want to work on that will take a more open mind than OMG PLASTIC IS RUINING THE WORLD. and yep. There are downsides. 1. Air polution here is equivalent to 00's Los-Angeles. 2. The language barrier, is less of a barrier, but more of a small kerb. 3. Corrupt rear end government just like home in the U.S. It's just more in your face and not hidden by the uppercrust. 4. Pootypoots shenanigans. Yep, this could be a problem. We know. 5. Homophobia, this honestly is a pretty small point to us. Things We'd like to see the makerspace do: 1. opensource ukraine into the 21st century. 2. Fix the recycling issues here. 3. Help push the steel mills into using scrubbers. We've already two businesses all for this project. One of which holds interns at the state universities and has reached out to them already. Of our 10-15 friends, they've reached out to their networks. So far there is massive support for such a thing. We just have to successfully pull this off. I've chatted with two ex-pats that live here. one has been here for almost 4 years, from rural TN. His biggest complaint? the random shutting the water off in his building for maint. The other is from LosAngeles. He had no major gripes, but his parents were from Russia. Best case: we do cool poo poo. Worst case: we return to the states a few dollars poorer, but we still gained knowledge and experience. oh did I mention we can visit CERN on the regular? 
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So you got tired of Bay area crazies and decided to go full eastern bloc because that somehow seemed more reasonable? Your life man, hope it works out well.
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Don't forget you can bribe the cops to ignore almost anything and they sell beer absolutely everywhere.
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I rent a small garage to store all my car poo poo. Currently it is full. Just been given 7 days notice to clear it so they can knock it down. Bastards  cursedshitbox posted:My Ukranian is worse than my Russian, I just haven't studied it yet.(I don't want to confuse myself doing two languages at once). (I can also hire a tutor when needed) If you haven't already, then learn your Cyrillic alphabet first. I found that after doing that you can guess your way through loads of stuff. I spent 3 or 4 months working in Kazakhstan, and really enjoyed it so what you are doing sounds pretty loving awesome to me! Has your other half transferred his existing job over there? seems to make it easier to get started if he has. I'm trying to work out possible visa requirements to move myself and my work elsewhere and reading up on it all makes my head hurt. Can't imagine doing it somewhere like Ukraine without help! Tomarse fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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cursedshitbox posted:We've already two businesses all for this project. One of which holds interns at the state universities and has reached out to them already. Of our 10-15 friends, they've reached out to their networks. So far there is massive support for such a thing. Liquid Communism posted:So you got tired of Bay area crazies and decided to go full eastern bloc because that somehow seemed more reasonable? Tomarse posted:I rent a small garage to store all my car poo poo. Currently it is full. Just been given 7 days notice to clear it so they can knock it down. Bastards How much/what kind of stuff are we talking about? Do you have an alternate place to store it?
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InitialDave posted:It may be worth asking on Pistonhead's law section if you're entitled to more notice, but I strongly suspect that all they need to do is give notice of one rental period, and however you're actually paying them, that period is technically one week. Its right behind my house so its not gonna be that hard, just a major pain in the arse since having that garage enables me to keep my workshop clear enough to actually work in! I'm gonna drag it out and hopefully sort it and chuck lots out and dump the rest under my carport -Then fill my shed (and probably some of the house) up to the brim! They have been talking about knocking them down for the past 5 years - and I have been renting mine with a 'no maintenance' clause (and I have been using another already empty one for free), but we were expecting more notice. Its the local council so they have likely spent 12 months tendering this to get the cheapest shittiest contractor they can find to do it. If they don't start knocking the fuckers down the day I loose possession (Mon 17th) I'm gonna be pissed off I've got a fully stripped down saab that I have just resprayed - and guess where all the bits I have stripped off are.... My garage also contains a moped, a cement mixer, 2 saab engines, a range rover LT95 gearbox, my collection of spare wheels and tyres, and then every part saved from 2 broken saab c900's along with all those 'useful' bits of wood/metal that get in the way anywhere else.
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I'd say get up B&Q for some cheap OSB (the 11mm stuff is like a tenner a sheet if you buy at least 5) and make crates for everything, that lets you stack stuff and keeps it pretty weatherproof for a fair while. I need to do something about my collection of axles on that front.
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cursedshitbox posted:I think it's official enough to post. The wife and I are moving to Ukraine. it is not open for debate or renegotiation. FAT32 SHAMER posted:hes a social eater so if you dont sit with him while he eats he wont eat then he'll puke bile on the floor by the bed but otherwise he's a pretty good boy Rhyno posted:We're playing it by ear for now. And since I have free parking at mom's and dad's I figure I can do whatever I want car wise. I still want an Evo but realistically that's 1/4 the cost of a house. I can get a house and THEN get an EVo. cursedshitbox posted:I've chatted with two ex-pats that live here. one has been here for almost 4 years, from rural TN. His biggest complaint? the random shutting the water off in his building for maint. The other is from LosAngeles. He had no major gripes, but his parents were from Russia.
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Is the red reservoir on the intake manifold the the coolant overflow tank or something else?
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InitialDave posted:I'd say get up B&Q for some cheap OSB (the 11mm stuff is like a tenner a sheet if you buy at least 5) and make crates for everything, that lets you stack stuff and keeps it pretty weatherproof for a fair while. This is how it looked first thing today:  It doesn't look too bad in the photo but those shelves up the sides are full of car parts the the roof and the back is waist high with wheels/tyres. I'm going through it and attempting to sort and chuck quite a lot of it (or ebay anything that is worth money). I have so far found 4 starter motors and 7 alternators, and have 3 Saabs worth of suspensions and hubs/calipers. I also appear to own 8 fuel jerry cans and 3 water ones. This is probably a bit excessive..
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I need to start clearing out my two sheds of 'junk' so we have less poo poo to move. Tons of E21/E30/VW parts that I'll probably never use and aren't worth trying to sell. My brother hauled off a truck load of wheels and tires (mostly his) yesterday but still has a full load of his E30 parts stash. E21/E30 stuff not worth selling is going on relevant facebook groups for free and whoever shows up first to take it away gets it. Also have to figure out the best way to get rid of a ton of R/C poo poo I haven't touched in years. Several helicopters, planes, cars/trucks along with enough spare engines and miscellaneous parts to last someone a while. Really don't want to sell things piece by piece so I'll probably end up selling it as one big lot for cheap-ish.
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cursedshitbox posted:Ukraine adventure Look, if nobody else is going to say it, I will: This looks awesome and I'm jealous.
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beep-beep car is go posted:Look, if nobody else is going to say it, I will: Absolutely. Please start a thread.
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While it looks like everyone else is having fun I was doing boring poo poo like a front end rebuild today. What does everyone do to hold the rubber pads/spring mounts in place on a mcpherson strut? I was doing that today and there's no way I could keep them in place while uncompressing the spring while keeping an eye on both the top and bottom ones at the same time and while holding the rattle gun and strut. I was going to use tape or glue but that needs the rubber to be clean and degreasing the rubber just made it swell up and it doesn't fit anymore  . But I'm still asking because I wasted 3 hrs today on one side anyway, still have to do the other side properly tomorrow. (thinking about getting new rubbers of course but they're $30 ea here. Still might redo todays job so replace both, but wondering what other people do out of curiosity because these people didn't when they fitted lowered spring on blown shocks ). This car, this loving car has drat lowered springs but completely hosed everything else, who the gently caress replaces springs but (e: does) no other maintenance? Fo3 fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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Ferremit posted:Is the red reservoir on the intake manifold the the coolant overflow tank or something else? On the Subaru turbos they have an upper coolant reservoir to feed the turbo with (both after shutdown and during normal function). There are some aftermarket ones that are less dominant of the engine bay but it's only really a problem if you start installing a rotated-mount turbocharger or something else that requires a bizarre intake path. It makes filling coolant on a turbo a little complicated, since the upper reservoir becomes the highest point in the system, not the radiator. It also requires a pressurized rad cap which leads to people thinking their head gaskets have gone bad when in fact their ancient rad cap is bypassing off the top reservoir.
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Fo3 posted:While it looks like everyone else is having fun I was doing boring poo poo like a front end rebuild today. The biggest thing to remember for me is to keep the spring and strut mount indexed with the strut. For reassembly, I put the compressed spring over the strut, then the strut mount I barely push onto the shaft and put the nut on. That holds everything in place, and then slowly decompress the spring, keeping the partses in line. Am I missing the operative part of your question?
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Sold the Ka within 30 minutes of listing it on Ebay.... TO A COMPLETE loving MORON. "Yeah, I live in Portsmouth* and I'm going to come up and buy the car and take it to a garage, how much is it going to cost to fix? Can you take it to a garage for me to get a quote?" loving idiot loving cuntbastard mouthbreathing twathammer wankstain timewasting fuckwitted JESUS H GODBASTARD CHRIST.  Relisted it. *This is a near 200 mile distance.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:On the Subaru turbos they have an upper coolant reservoir to feed the turbo with (both after shutdown and during normal function). There are some aftermarket ones that are less dominant of the engine bay but it's only really a problem if you start installing a rotated-mount turbocharger or something else that requires a bizarre intake path. On the Audi 5 cylinders, the turbo coolant is pressurized because it pulls from the block so it self bleeds. They have an after-run pump to cycle coolant post shut off to keep coking down.
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InitialDave posted:Sold the Ka within 30 minutes of listing it on Ebay.... TO A COMPLETE loving MORON. Oh hey I sold a cheap car to someone from Portsmouth once who asked almost the same questions. Guy was a time wasting shitler so I relisted as well.
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I've got a couple greencarded Ukrainian software engineers that work on my dev team, absolutely brilliant guys. They have endless stories about the ridiculous corruption in their country (which makes the 'corruption' the US suffers under seem like a party gag - there you only have to be mildly cash rich and the police will look the other way as you murder someone and will likely help you if you're mildly rich +1...) and while they still enjoy visiting back home now because of family they're glad to be paying the cost of living in LA because at least when landlords/police/authorities renege on deals here there's some sort of pretense of recourse. There, you're just straight hosed as they take your assets and beat you up. It's common to say the US is corrupt because we have shithead cops, shithead politicians, and oftentimes byzantine bureaucracy to get anything done - but there is a huge gulf between the two societies in reality. Good luck on that adventure, CSB, should be super interesting. Stay safe, keep a roll of cash on you at all times, and we're looking forward to the thread. I hope the first thing you do is define 'makerspace' because that sounds like the Bay Area equivalent of 'a machine shop' to me.
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Ether Frenzy posted:It's common to say the US is corrupt because we have shithead cops, shithead politicians, and oftentimes byzantine bureaucracy to get anything done - but there is a huge gulf between the two societies in reality. I've been spending a fair amount of time in Mexico over the last year, and yea while I think we have a lot of issues in our government here in the US, when you really start to learn about other countries, we are light-years ahead of places like Mexico and apparently Ukraine when it comes to how the system treats the average citizens.
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