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Nah, iwantdoodie and lecia just live in the wrong part of florida. I've got 3-4 decent cruising roads near me with the added bonus that 2 of them have no place for cops to hide since its going through a salt marsh. And the 86BRZFRS has the same 0-60 stats as my wagon. I'd probably be fine driving one and if not, theres plenty of power adders out there. 
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Elmnt80 posted:Nah, iwantdoodie and lecia just live in the wrong part of florida. I've got 3-4 decent cruising roads near me with the added bonus that 2 of them have no place for cops to hide since its going through a salt marsh. I lived in CA also. I still didn't like the car. It's slow as loving balls and has a horrible powerband without mods. The boxer is inefficient as gently caress, and between the price of the car, the power, and the mpg, there is basically no reason to own one over it's competition. I like the premise but that motor is loving garbage, and the stock tune makes it even worse.
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It looks better than its competition. 
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iwentdoodie posted:I lived in CA also. I still didn't like the car. It's slow as loving balls and has a horrible powerband without mods. Slow as balls? Not in my experience. It's not a straight line one hit wonder, it's a twisty road point to point weapon and in that it's really drat fast. My ex VE Commodore is supposably fast (and it was with a masssive straight line advantage) and it's brakes were a smoking mess trying to stay ahead of one, let alone it doesnt have the corner speed to match one. WRX vs BRZ on a track day, the WRX barely wins and thats just down to traction exiting corners. Competition? MX5? Barely. Let alone it responds stupidly well to mods - a stock BRZ does 1:13.2 around Wakefield Park (MY06 WRX 1:12.8) but stock ECU and exhaust, with jsut a set of MCA's and good tyres, you are doing 1:09.7 - which is EVO territory for a lot less money. Bolt on brakes and supercharger and you are in heavily modded STI territory (1:04) and STILL waaaay cheaper. The sheer ease and bang for buck in modding is to me purely one of the big reasons to get one, WRX's dont respond that well to simple changes. Its not a car I would DD, it's not interesting tooling around in traffic. But I would take one without hesitation for a Putty Rd blast and it wont be slow doing it either.
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Oh God why do I even what am I doing Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnyway.......... That GC8 we asked for a live or die vote on? Verdict - live. So I am going to build a race car out of it. Which of course means the shell needs to be stripped out  Our tools for today  I had supervision. Dont judge me, cat  Catte on lookout for more Subarus  I wish I had these photos when rewring WReckX. Would have come in handy.....  Catte inspection  What the hell is this????  Good first day  Suppose I aint doing too bad for drat near 49 
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A crossover separates the audio frequencies so only the bass goes to the subwoofer, the high to the tweeter, the rest to the normal speaker, etc.
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I dropped that same Ryobi P261 1/2" impact on its snout from less than a meter and it broke  It worked great otherwise.
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Those Ryobis are cheap enough that the occasional failure can be tolerated. Otherwise, bloody brilliant cheap poo poo Saw this GT clone at Supercheap. Up for a raffle.  ROTARY CONTENT Back at the silver WRX.....   Aircon and heater boxes out Annnnnnd after a long hot day...  quote:A crossover separates the audio frequencies so only the bass goes to the subwoofer, the high to the tweeter, the rest to the normal speaker, etc. This is like black magic to me. How does it do that?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:This is like black magic to me. How does it do that? There's a bunch of ways to do it but it can be as simple as a capacitor, which filters out highs, in front of the woofer and an inductor, which filters lows, in front of the tweeter. The value of each component determines where the frequencies get cut. It can get a lot more complicated but basic audio electronics always seems to be deceptively simple.
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jamal posted:Well, assuming you take off the stock Michelin "green x" low rolling resistance tires. Surprisingly, if you can get these tires hot enough, they're not atrocious. They're stupidly bad for autocross, but on a track where you can get some heat into them they're not awful.
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To get a bit more in depth, inductors and capacitors have variable impedance based on the frequency of the signal going through it. Low frequencies make a capacitor's impedance approach infinite (1/(2*pi*C*f)), and the inverse is true for an inductor (2*pi*H*f). Based on that, you can make passive filters that will only allow the frequencies you want to go through.
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Mar 11, 2018 15:22
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so black magic then
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sneakyfrog posted:so black magic then More or less.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Those Ryobis are cheap enough that the occasional failure can be tolerated. Otherwise, bloody brilliant cheap poo poo They're made by TTI as I recall, same as Milwaukee. I use the cheap drill/impact kit for work and its never let me down. The cordless glue gun is far and beyond way beyond its price in quality, I've used pro hot melt guns that sucked more at 5 times the price. iospace posted:To get a bit more in depth, inductors and capacitors have variable impedance based on the frequency of the signal going through it. Low frequencies make a capacitor's impedance approach infinite (1/(2*pi*C*f)), and the inverse is true for an inductor (2*pi*H*f). Based on that, you can make passive filters that will only allow the frequencies you want to go through. The plus side of of passive filters is they can be made to handle speaker level power without losing their quality. Downside is pretty substantial loss, somewhat low accuracy, and the fact the q isn't great, but a high input power crossover network isn't exactly the place for a 12 pole Butterworth. Or is it?
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iospace posted:To get a bit more in depth, inductors and capacitors have variable impedance based on the frequency of the signal going through it. Low frequencies make a capacitor's impedance approach infinite (1/(2*pi*C*f)), and the inverse is true for an inductor (2*pi*H*f). Based on that, you can make passive filters that will only allow the frequencies you want to go through. So more doof for my VL Commodore then?
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iospace posted:To get a bit more in depth, inductors and capacitors have variable impedance based on the frequency of the signal going through it. Low frequencies make a capacitor's impedance approach infinite (1/(2*pi*C*f)), and the inverse is true for an inductor (2*pi*H*f). Based on that, you can make passive filters that will only allow the frequencies you want to go through. That's what you would call a Neat Hack. I think I can visualise how that all works now. I might transfer all the stereo stuff to the yellow WRX, it needs a bit of doof quote:They're made by TTI as I recall, same as Milwaukee. I use the cheap drill/impact kit for work and its never let me down. The cordless glue gun is far and beyond way beyond its price in quality, I've used pro hot melt guns that sucked more at 5 times the price. Ryobi ONE+ is hand down the performance bargain for cordless tools. I don't think I have spent more than 1200 bucks for the set I have and frankly most of that was in additional batteries. Never broken one, more than powerful enough, lasts forever on a 5A battery and fo rthe price of one high quality cordless, you get four Ryobis that last almost as long and almost as powerful and tough. 2 * 1/2" impacts 2 * Drills 3/8" 90 degree ratchet Angle grinder Sawzall Radio with USB charge port and WiFi / Bluetooth Edge trimmer Hand held vaccuum Orbital sander 5 5A batteries I want to get the improved radio So when we get to a rally now, we also add to that the three other 1/2" impact, two strip lights and drill. I really need to pick up a 6 port charging station at some point. Sure Ryobi ONE+ isnt the highest of quality, nor the longest lasting but for the price? You really do have to spend a lot of money to do better
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I think most children stop putting everything in their mouth eventually, so you must be sipping from the subaru fountain of youth  Except too old to know what the hell a cross over is (were you serious?  )E: The main problem I have with ryobi is the garbage batteries they use. It's seems they want to sell tools cheap, have poo poo batteries, and sell a lot of extra batteries as a business model. I have matikas 10 years old with good batteries. FIrst ryobi tool I bought, a battery dies after 1 yr. I took it apart and it's a garbage battery and charge circuit. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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Did Ryobi stop the issue with their cordless drills shocking the piss out of you if you put your hand on the back? That's why I stopped using them.
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iwentdoodie posted:Did Ryobi stop the issue with their cordless drills shocking the piss out of you if you put your hand on the back? That's why I stopped using them. Nah.... ZAP Yes they seem fine. The drill and sawzilla seem to kill the smaller batteries. Rattleguns go for years!!!
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Fo3 posted:I think most children stop putting everything in their mouth eventually, so you must be sipping from the subaru fountain of youth I *literally* knew nothing about car stereo apart from ripping them out until that question on the crossover was answered...! I couldnt tell you a drat thing about them - like what the hell is a sub woofer? Or a tweeter and why is a tweeter so small? I rip em out, I dont put them in Batteries these days are pretty decent - but then again I tend to only get the 5A's the 1.5 and 2A's are indeed crap. iwentdoodie posted:Did Ryobi stop the issue with their cordless drills shocking the piss out of you if you put your hand on the back? That's why I stopped using them. Yeah no problem with the newer stuff.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I *literally* knew nothing about car stereo apart from ripping them out until that question on the crossover was answered...! I couldnt tell you a drat thing about them - like what the hell is a sub woofer? Or a tweeter and why is a tweeter so small? subs do low frequency so they need a larger surface area in order to push the amount of air for those lower tones, tweeters do the super high frequencies so they dont need to be massive to get just the highs nice and sharp. tweeters usually have built in crossovers so you (usually) dont need a external xover box, subs on the other hand are usually dumb boxes so they usually need an external crossover. its me. im the guy who puts all those dumb boxes in the car for you to rip out.
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sneakyfrog posted:subs do low frequency so they need a larger surface area in order to push the amount of air for those lower tones, tweeters do the super high frequencies so they dont need to be massive to get just the highs nice and sharp. tweeters usually have built in crossovers so you (usually) dont need a external xover box, subs on the other hand are usually dumb boxes so they usually need an external crossover. To add to this: The component speakers don't do well with frequencies outside their designed range so the crossover is a circuit to direct the appropriate signals to the correct speaker. Like, a woofer gets very confused with high-frequency signals and they result in it muddying up the sound. The crossover is a filter that directs only low-frequency signals to the woofer so that it can do its job properly. Similarly with the tweeter - all the low-frequency signals are filtered out so that it only has to reproduce the high end sounds.
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sneakyfrog posted:subs do low frequency so they need a larger surface area in order to push the amount of air for those lower tones, tweeters do the super high frequencies so they dont need to be massive to get just the highs nice and sharp. tweeters usually have built in crossovers so you (usually) dont need a external xover box, subs on the other hand are usually dumb boxes so they usually need an external crossover. Me, too. If he weren't on the bottom of the world, I'd see about taking all those worthless stereo things off his hands...
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Darchangel posted:Me, too. If he weren't on the bottom of the world, I'd see about taking all those worthless stereo things off his hands... i know right?
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Yeah well I'm not throwing this one out so maybe something can be arranged Riding to the airpot and watching big things take off is a thing I like.  Fukcing rats with wings trying to steal my ice cream  Anyway - today was 41C and drat near zero humidity. Fairly dangerous day to be outside as you just dont notice how much fluid you are losing... and here I am outside doing things Smelt like a blast furnace what with 50kph winds too   It's being turned into race car thence all the interior coming out. Cages and poo poo like that to go in. Windows come out this week and then the final back to shell stripping as well. I'm kinda wondering if a Barra AWD will fit.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:
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Man that's gonna understeer even worse.
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Well. BC Canada was interesting and truth be told quite a pretty place. Saw a lot of Subarus including the first time I've laid eyes on a 2.5RS coupe. I wonder how I can import one to Australia..... I also want the bike infrastructure and the very polite drivers. It's no real secret the reason why I went down the road of insanity with the rather .... large collection of Subarus was due to a long term relationship breaking down. On the other hand, one of the reasons I'm doing a lot better these days is the reason why I was in Canada this time around and I cant wait to show her the collection in person  Anyone know the import rules for a Canadian chassis?
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I would think most Canadian subarus of that era have returned the majority of the chassis back to the land. What i'm saying is it would be REALLY easy to justify to the customs folks that it's a half cut.
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Why hell would you import a 2.5rs when you have actual good subarus?
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iwentdoodie posted:Why hell would you import a 2.5rs when you have actual good subarus? Because it's be a pretty decent platform for a 22b replica I guess?
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iwentdoodie posted:Why hell would you import a 2.5rs when you have actual good subarus?
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I think it'd be far easier to make one. Despite what they look like, Subaru didn't go very far into the "good stuff" parts bin on them. The earlier ones are basically the V3/V4 STI heads with a 2.5L shortblock and no turbo, the later ones the bog standard SOHC 2.5. I mean, you have GC coupes as is, right?
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iwentdoodie posted:Why hell would you import a 2.5rs when you have actual good subarus? 2 door GC chassis are rare as hens teeth over here. 8ish years ago a 2 door WRX was $20k AUD. Now a good example will range from 40~60k or more. A rego-able 22b will set you back well over the 100k mark.
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They're not exactly common over here either anymore. The coupes have mostly gotten snapped up by the sort of people who turn into the "I know what I got!" trope.
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Chiwie posted:2 door GC chassis are rare as hens teeth over here. 8ish years ago a 2 door WRX was $20k AUD. Now a good example will range from 40~60k or more. A rego-able 22b will set you back well over the 100k mark. I mean, thanks to the oil boom and kids getting cars for graduating high school, we have a handful of STI GC coupes kicking around here too. They're even RHD.
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Very polite drivers? You must not have been driving in Vancouver.Powershift posted:I would think most Canadian subarus of that era have returned the majority of the chassis back to the land. Mainland BC weather is pretty mild, they don't have too much of a rust problem. It's Ontario and Quebec where everything is salt hell.
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iwentdoodie posted:Why hell would you import a 2.5rs when you have actual good subarus? quote:I mean, you have GC coupes as is, right? The only coupes we got were the WRX STI ver 3/4 and the 22B. Besides, I now have a person in Victoria who can keep it for me until both her and a car are ready to be imported Charles posted:Very polite drivers? You must not have been driving in Vancouver. Compared to Sydney drivers? Vancouver is polite as. That's something I noticed - the number of still running and in good condition older cars everywhere. The number of obviously rust buckets was quite low - also the number of penis replacement trucks was of course high but as a whole there's an unexpected high number of Japanese cars as well. I'll see how things go re: a 2.5RS but for now I have her coming over in August and I'm back over in BC Christmas / New Year. And I have a big list of projects with Subarus. Including that grey WRX that has a big deadline i has to meet.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:That's something I noticed - the number of still running and in good condition older cars everywhere. It's the lack of snow, and thus the lack of road salt usage. Get more inland and you'll start seeing rust everywhere.
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So where the hell was I with the cluster of Subarus..... Ah right. Now I remeber  Small hint as to what we're plotting. A lot of very custom work that right now I'm sure no one has ever tried  Dad's latest project.  There's a LOT of Subaru parts in there  Back to stripping the front end down...  Uhhhhhhhhh........................... the gently caress?   Nearly ready to be moved to the skunkworks. 
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