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It better have two or I'll be disappointed.
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Aug 29, 2017 09:34
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boxen posted:I have the idea that the Singer motor would cost somewhere north of a hundred grand, if they'd let you buy it without a car attached at all. Safely at least half that, I think, and 50 grand for 500 hp seems absurd to me, but I'm nowhere near the clientele of Singer. I wonder how streetable that engine is too... one one hand, I expect it to be only barely driveable due to being a 500hp aircooled engine, but on the other I wonder if Singer's clients would put up with something like that on a car they paid a million for and that's the reason a 500hp aircooled N/A motor costs so much. Its streetable, but it certainly didn't have to go through the kind of testing regime a factory engine has to; no Death Valley and Arctic Circle testing, running on lovely gas at altitude, that kind of thing. There's a reason Porsche started water-cooling the cylinder heads and then eventually the whole engine.
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Aug 29, 2017 11:52
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Collateral Damage posted:It better have two or I'll be disappointed. it didn't 
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Aug 29, 2017 11:59
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spleen merchant posted:
Just the one turbo and the car in general was made from more Renault 5 bits so the original Turbo model is the most special as it has all the cool lightweight alloy parts. The more modern Clio homage version was p.cool but not quite as cool.     Take out the rear seats, lob an engine in.
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Aug 29, 2017 12:11
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spleen merchant posted:
Sometimes I catch myself at the bus stop looking at subcompacts driving by and daydreaming of what they'd look like with an engine swap, wider stance and MR conversion Olympic Mathlete posted:The more modern Clio homage version was p.cool but not quite as cool. If you think that's cool get a load of this   It's a legit beast too, 350 HP turbo. It's so crazy, I thought the concept had died with Group B but I'm happy to be proven wrong. Also relevant, the Ford Shogun:   Ford Festiva with engine and transmission from a Taurus SHO, mounted backwards 
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Aug 29, 2017 13:45
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^ actually the only 'normal size' 500 I'd be seen dead in. A one off I assume?
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Aug 29, 2017 13:52
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Olympic Mathlete posted:^ actually the only 'normal size' 500 I'd be seen dead in. A one off I assume? A one off possibly followed by a limited edition run of 500 cars, I read. Price in the lower six figures
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Aug 29, 2017 13:54
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Rumour has it the V6 Clio is the reason for the super-economical Lupo VW built. They heard Renault were building a 3L Clio, and thought it was going to be a car that'd hit fuel consumption of 3L per 100 km...
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Aug 29, 2017 13:55
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DogonCrook posted:Fifty fouled spark plugs ahahaha. I bet some pilots got tore a new rear end in a top hat doing that. I remember reading the manual for falcon 4.0 and the pilot writing it said if you hosed up firing an f16 they had to spend thirty minutes cranking some hydraulic starter and you pretty much had to cough up a case of beer at least when it happened. Aircraft maintenance takes beer as payment for lots of things, too. After a flight, those dudes would be in the hunt for aircrew gear because that's an easy 6 pack for them versus the aircrew guy having to deal with the headache of leaving poo poo on the jet.
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Aug 29, 2017 13:59
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Man's quick thinking manages to save his 2 E36 M3s and 1st gen X5. http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/quick-thinking-and-garden-blocks-saved-this-guys-bmw-x5-1798527553   
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Aug 29, 2017 14:29
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I would've let the X5 drown, personally.
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Aug 29, 2017 14:43
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No photos sadly, but a couple weeks ago I was on a road trip and spotted two separate Bugatti Veyrons in the span of two days (both wine red, oddly): one on a random mountain road in France passed by us while we were parked to take a leak, and one on the highway, being carried in a trailer disguised as a camper trailer (!!!). I had never seen anything like that before, and I probably wouldn't even have noticed it, if the towing car and trailer weren't stopped in the emergency lane, with the trailer's fake rear wall lifted up
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Aug 29, 2017 17:20
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hackbunny posted:Sometimes I catch myself at the bus stop looking at subcompacts driving by and daydreaming of what they'd look like with an engine swap, wider stance and MR conversion I will never get tired of tiny hatchbacks with box fenders.
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Aug 29, 2017 19:35
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I would've let the X5 drown, personally. At work, we have a general rule of thumb that anyone that comes in to buy anything be it a new or old customer driving an X5, you're going to have problems. They all lease them and think that, hey I have a BMW, I therefore have power over you. "Oh I'm opening up a new shop but I expect to have 35 open by the end of the year! Can you give me pricing on that kind of volume of stock, but I only want to buy them individually." "Mate that's expensive, can you do this vastly superior product cheaper than this cheapest product that you showed me." Without fail, every single one of them bar one has been a pain in the arse and ends up trying to skip on thousands of dollars, after which we just set the debt collectors on them. I'm not hating on BMW in general, its just X5's seem to attract them lies flies on poo poo. Then there's the guy who comes in a ratty old 3 series that looks like it should be scrapped is the nicest person and pays everything up front and doesn't care about prices.
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Aug 29, 2017 20:50
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hackbunny posted:No photos sadly, but a couple weeks ago I was on a road trip and spotted two separate Bugatti Veyrons in the span of two days (both wine red, oddly): one on a random mountain road in France passed by us while we were parked to take a leak, and one on the highway, being carried in a trailer disguised as a camper trailer (!!!). I had never seen anything like that before, and I probably wouldn't even have noticed it, if the towing car and trailer weren't stopped in the emergency lane, with the trailer's fake rear wall lifted up Theft prevention, one assumes.
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Aug 29, 2017 21:59
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hackbunny posted:It's a legit beast too, 350 HP turbo. It's so crazy, I thought the concept had died with Group B but I'm happy to be proven wrong. Also relevant, the Ford Shogun: I love how Jay Leno is one of like four owners of those and basically the source of all photos post-90s when it was a automotive journal darling. What a guy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGE6M75McPI
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Somewhat Heroic posted:
Firestone sold their own at the time too. My C10 is on at least the 12th battery under that warranty.
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Aug 30, 2017 02:20
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How to kill two birds with one Indycar
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Aug 30, 2017 05:48
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randy johnson's shaping up to be one hell of a race car driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ7HWIIVgMw found a really good channel a while back, just collects assorted hill climb footage
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Applebees Appetizer posted:How to kill two birds with one Indycar I saw that live, it was hilarious
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Aug 30, 2017 06:34
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i came
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HandlingByJebus posted:With appropriate sensors, sure. The nice thing about modern EFI is that it's a reasonably powerful computer with the ability to consider pretty much whatever variable you care to give it an input for, so long as you write a little bit of software to deal with the implications. If you wanted to factor moon phase into your fuel / ignition maps, you could. And if you're Aprillia, you hit a divide by zero error at exactly freezing and the bike won't start 
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Aug 30, 2017 13:15
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Chris Knight posted:And if you're Aprillia, you hit a divide by zero error at exactly freezing and the bike won't start Hahahaha. That's perfect.
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razorscooter posted:randy johnson's shaping up to be one hell of a race car driver Do you mean this Randy Johnson? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f6owc3O_gY&t=300s that whole video is a great story, watch it. I just like that intro as it really sinks in how badass he was/is.
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Aug 30, 2017 14:02
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Wasabi the J posted:Do you mean this Randy Johnson? He does photography now. http://rj51photos.com/ Check the logo
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:He does photography now. http://rj51photos.com/ Appears to be pretty good at that photography thing too.
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Aug 30, 2017 15:39
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Not bad. Helps when you're famous to get all the access though.
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I introduced my dad to Project Binky last week. Met up with the family last night. "Really enjoying that Project Binky... whens the next part???" Oh god dad I'm so sorry!
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Aug 31, 2017 00:50
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Chris Knight posted:And if you're Aprillia, you hit a divide by zero error at exactly freezing and the bike won't start This is an absolutely hilarious error but I can't find a link to a story for it right now. Can someone help me out? It might have even been a forum post or something.
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Memento posted:This is an absolutely hilarious error but I can't find a link to a story for it right now. Can someone help me out? It might have even been a forum post or something. CA poster goddamnedtwisto's Shiver had this problem, he's the one who brought it to light. Might have been in the rant thread or discussion thread.
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Aug 31, 2017 12:04
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I have no idea but I like it. 
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Aug 31, 2017 12:33
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I have no idea but I like it. It's almost like a modern version of the Mach 5. Experimental, indeed. edit: 1991 Colani Stingray: http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1991_colani_stingray/ Googling it brings up some other truly fascinating designs from Colani: https://www.google.com/search?q=199...fMTDra5VnQKNPM: edit 2: Colani is the guy responsible for all those futuristic trucks with the giant round front glass and spinning windshield wipers. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Aug 31, 2017 |
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Aug 31, 2017 16:46
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Actually looking at the vents on it it completely makes sense it's a Colani... Awesome, cheers. *edit: The general design a mixture of these two weird looking things.  
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Aug 31, 2017 17:00
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To continue with Colani, the 2007 Pierce-Arrow, or one of the bodies you could potentially get, since it was to be bespoke coachbuilt: It was to be powered by a 10L 24-cylinder engine, down from the 13L, 66HP engine from the 20s. http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/2007_colani_pierce_arrow/
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Darchangel posted:To continue with Colani, the 2007 Pierce-Arrow, or one of the bodies you could potentially get, since it was to be bespoke coachbuilt: It's uh.... uncanny. 
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Aug 31, 2017 17:19
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Found this on Hellafunctional Facebook this morning, so I'm surprised jamal didn't post it here  http://www.themotorhood.com/themotorhood/2017/8/29/engineering-the-ultimate-20-litre
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Aug 31, 2017 17:38
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And they're putting it into a NX. God bless.
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There's a 2.4l version in a brz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Q_rGllPVs
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