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I learned to drive in an Oldsmobile Omega. Things I remember about it: Brown. Square. Rust.
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My friend did a thing  He's a glutton for punishment but he is awesome, this being only one reason
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Oct 19, 2018 21:45
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Darchangel posted:Holy poo poo. There are closed captions if you open it on Youtube 
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Oct 19, 2018 22:00
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Guinness posted:My friend did a thing
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Oct 19, 2018 22:35
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Darchangel posted:While I'm not sure what's going on with the mecha-bunny, exactly, I like all the technical stuff. Certainly beats the usual anime waifu. Yeah he couldn't get it into 5th. I really want to know more about the transmission setup they're using, it seems like some kind of clutchless manual. It has to have some kind of RPM-step down. Torque converter with an absurdly high stall? worth watching all the way to the end though, they loving destroy those tires hahahah
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Oct 20, 2018 11:01
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InitialDave posted:What engine is it? a 2.7TT I can sort of understand, if it's a diesel, kick him in the balls for being an idiot. Yeah it’s the 2.7TT. It’s already had the air suspension replaced with regular non-air suspension. Fortunately my friend is a formerly-professional mechanic. Now he gets his rocks off maintaining mechanical nightmares of his own. He is already dreaming of engine swaps for when the 2.7 inevitably sheds it mortal coil. He’s pretty AI.
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Oct 20, 2018 19:27
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Yeah he couldn't get it into 5th. I really want to know more about the transmission setup they're using, it seems like some kind of clutchless manual. It has to have some kind of RPM-step down. Torque converter with an absurdly high stall? If it’s a dual-spool turbine (which it almost certainly is,) you can just bolt the transmission input shaft to the low pressure turbine and go. It’ll be horribly inefficient, but it’ll make power.
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Oct 20, 2018 20:24
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Ashley DeLuca, whose AZ-1 was on Leno's Garage a couple months ago, took it to Laguna Seca:
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Oct 20, 2018 21:38
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This lives on the street a couple blocks down from me. 
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Oct 21, 2018 00:03
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bennyfactor posted:This lives on the street a couple blocks down from me. When I was a kid in the 80s, my dad went through two Chevettes. Then, in 1987, he "upgraded" to a used Citation. All three had a terrifying number of holes rusted in their floor pans, I'm amazed that dad never accidentally went Fred Flintstone on any of them.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:06
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bennyfactor posted:This lives on the street a couple blocks down from me. There's a mint loving X-11 around the corner from the Goodwill up the street I sometimes just go look at
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Oct 21, 2018 01:25
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KozmoNaut posted:There are closed captions if you open it on Youtube I did, but I couldn’t get English or auto-translate for some reason.
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Oct 21, 2018 02:21
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Waldstein Sonata posted:When I was a kid in the 80s, my dad went through two Chevettes. Then, in 1987, he "upgraded" to a used Citation. All three had a terrifying number of holes rusted in their floor pans, I'm amazed that dad never accidentally went Fred Flintstone on any of them. What's weird to me is the bizarro world of UK cars where the Chevette is some kind of legend? What? But no, I know people who in all seriousness proclaim the Chevette as One Of The Greatest Cars of its Era. I'm like, you're having a laugh right? Apparently it won some rallies or something? I still don't believe it.
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Oct 21, 2018 04:37
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Finger Prince posted:What's weird to me is the bizarro world of UK cars where the Chevette is some kind of legend? What? But no, I know people who in all seriousness proclaim the Chevette as One Of The Greatest Cars of its Era. I'm like, you're having a laugh right? Apparently it won some rallies or something? I still don't believe it. 
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Oct 21, 2018 05:18
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Chevettes, even when new, were made of disappointment and regret. Vile little cars and I'm glad they're now mostly piles of rust and shame.
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Oct 21, 2018 05:37
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The last time I saw a Chevette in the wild was in the late 90s, and it was about 200 feet below a cliff-side road on its side wedged against trees.
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Oct 21, 2018 06:26
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are we talkin a 125k miles car here?
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Oct 21, 2018 10:05
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A Chevette lasting 50k without holes in the floorboards or the rocker panels is a goddamn miracle.
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Oct 21, 2018 15:02
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MrYenko posted:If it’s a dual-spool turbine (which it almost certainly is,) you can just bolt the transmission input shaft to the low pressure turbine and go. It’ll be horribly inefficient, but it’ll make power. Most likely a turboshaft, like so:  The power turbine is its own separate thing, and acts like a torque converter. The green parts in the diagram are a jet engine, the blue thing is spun by the jet exhaust, and goes to the transmission. That's how helicopters and that '60s Chrysler concept car work, anyway. Edit: also American tanks and a lot of big backup electrical generators. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Oct 21, 2018 |
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Oct 21, 2018 21:56
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Darchangel posted:"I want the shittiest car GM made outside of the J-body." There was an episode of the 80s Ghostbusters cartoon where they are hired by a car manufacturer to remove gremlins from one of their factories. They had reopened a shuttered WWII bomber factory to manufacture a new line of cars, all of which start to malfunction and self destruct. The car company was called Generous Motors, the cars were the Y-car.
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Oct 21, 2018 23:10
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Chillbro Baggins posted:Most likely a turboshaft, like so: ...Which is exactly what I said?
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Oct 21, 2018 23:19
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INCHI DICKARI posted:There's a mint loving X-11 around the corner from the Goodwill up the street I sometimes just go look at The toyota minitruck class C in the backyard of that house (just barely visible in my photo) makes me think of you when I see it, so back atcha.
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Oct 22, 2018 01:27
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2-spool engines are different from turboshafts. In a 2-spool, the 2nd (outer) turbine drives the first compressor stage, so it has to spin at a speed appropriate for that compressor. You can bolt a shaft to that, but it'll slow the first compression stage way down and kill your power until shaft speed rises, pretty much the opposite of what you want in a car. In a turboshaft, the 2nd (or whatever, the last one) turbine has the sole purpose of driving the shaft and doesn't affect engine operation in any way. You can full-throttle the engine and leave it there, but accelerate and brake at your leisure, and you'll always have full power available from the power turbine. Basically picture bolting a turbo on a piston engine, but piping the air off somewhere else instead of feeding it to the intake; the engine will run the same regardless of what the turbo is doing. Some turboprops run the propeller off the same turbine as the first compressor stage, but the prop runs at a pretty steady speed so you can put an appropriate gearbox between the two. Not so with a car where the load speed is fairly often zero, and has a much wider range of operating speeds than the turbine would otherwise.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:19
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Fornax Disaster posted:There was an episode of the 80s Ghostbusters cartoon where they are hired by a car manufacturer to remove gremlins from one of their factories. They had reopened a shuttered WWII bomber factory to manufacture a new line of cars, all of which start to malfunction and self destruct. But Gremlins were AMC.  (And Y-bodies are Corvettes or the 60-64 Skylark/F-85 Cutlass/Tempest)
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Oct 22, 2018 19:06
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Kenny from the Block just unveiled his newest Gymkhana toy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgqyzQY9gks 
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Oct 24, 2018 20:24
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That is a very lovely looking machine but it should have been a 2 minute video. I don't wanna see them gab about it, I wanna see it driven. 
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Oct 24, 2018 20:33
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Oct 25, 2018 02:21
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i dont get it
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Oct 25, 2018 18:51
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Maker Of Shoes posted:i dont get it They jacked that Jeep up and slid the timber under it.
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Oct 25, 2018 18:53
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TRAIL RATED
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Oct 25, 2018 19:28
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I like this.  (link in case it doesn't work: https://i.imgur.com/kKEPCmO.gifv)
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Oct 25, 2018 20:31
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Rhyno posted:They jacked that Jeep up and slid the timber under it.
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Oct 25, 2018 20:51
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Fifty Three posted:I don't doubt it, but how can you tell? Because it’s a Liberty
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Oct 25, 2018 21:57
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builds character posted:I like this.
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Oct 25, 2018 23:14
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Fifty Three posted:I don't doubt it, but how can you tell? It's how they do it at the local dealership.
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Oct 26, 2018 04:54
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You Am I posted:*Does the Homer Simpson shtick of winding the radio receiver indicator to the other end of dial* 
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Oct 26, 2018 16:48
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Anyone have a lazy half million spare? https://www.nortnortham.com/1970_Ferrari_Dino%20246GTL_Winter%20Park_FL_24162990.veh  quote:European 1970 Dino 246GT-L. Total five-year restoration in the 90's, documented with receipts and photos. This Dino is a rare "L" model, 200 pounds lighter than the other steel-bodied Dino 246 with an alloy body. One-off air conditioning from a Ferrari 308, looks factory. I'm no Ferrari dude but that seems pretty drat good to me. How hard would it be to get it back to factory spec (delete the aircon for example) and confirm its provenance with the manufacturer?
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Oct 27, 2018 00:29
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Memento posted:Anyone have a lazy half million spare? If the engine breaks irreparably, you could always stick a F40 engine in it. I'm sure those are easy to get your hands on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65mCfloU4hw
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Oct 27, 2018 03:28
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Brony Car posted:If the engine breaks irreparably, you could always stick a F40 engine in it. I'm sure those are easy to get your hands on. ARTY SHOTS / quick cuts and horrific overlaid music is the best way for me to close tab. Fuuuuuuuuuucking hell they ruined what should have been the best video
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https://www.instagram.com/1955_chupacabra/
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