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I missed this earlier but here's some stuff about Poland and Gdansk: You can safely speed up to 10kph over the limit without getting into trouble with the police. That said, you can't get your license revoked for speeding on motorways (and the fine isn't particularly severe for Westerners/people with well-paying jobs) so you will frequently see people hauling rear end at autobahn speeds, so be aware if you're in the left lane that it's possible someone will come screaming up behind you at waaayyyy over the speed limit. There's also an app called Yanosik (which can be set to English) that allows people to mark where they see speed traps, police, traffic accidents etc. - keep it running while you're driving and it will alert you to any of those things coming up on your route. It's obviously not infallible but it does work pretty well. Also be aware that they don't gently caress around when it comes to drinking and driving - unless you're a big guy, one drink will put you in pretty serious trouble and two is pretty much an automatic prison sentence. I've heard of a fair few foreigners who go to Poland thinking they can bribe their way out of stuff or that they'll get a pass in the otherwise pretty pro-alcohol country but they really have a zero tolerance policy on this. Don't be tempted! As for Gdansk, it's a pretty cool city that has some fairly profound historic and cultural significance for Poland and eastern Europe as a whole. The Solidarity movement started there that eventually broke the Russian stranglehold on the Eastern Bloc and contributed significantly to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union in general. There's a museum about it called the European Solidarity Centre that is supposedly worth a visit, though I haven't been personally. I have however been to the Gdansk WWII museum which is great, I highly recommend it. Another fun museum to visit is the amber museum which is housed in the old city's torture chamber building. It's a weird combo, you can see lots of cool amber-related stuff like prehistoric animals trapped in amber, or a Fender Stratocaster made from the stuff, as well as lots of elaborate torture equipment. It's a small place but pretty cool. Lastly, as someone already said, go check out the main square of the old town and get a picture by the fountain, otherwise you haven't officially touristed the place  Sopot is another city that's close enough to be basically considered a part of Gdansk, it's more of a leisure beach and party town, in the summer it's like a Polish Ibiza. Loads of great bars, clubs and strip clubs. It has a big pier. Here are some of my favourite places to eat: https://www.gdanskibowke.com/en/ my favourite restaurant in Gdansk, really good Polish and German-style food in a traditional setting. http://goldwasser.pl/en/restaurant/ on the riverfront, if you like your food hoity-toity or the company is paying for dinner then this is the place for you. https://pierogarnia-mandu.pl/en/about-us/ Polish dumplings are goooood, and this place knows how to make 'em. http://zafishowani.pl/en/ Another high end place but specialising in freshly-caught local fish. There's also a pirate ship that is a bar where a live band sings sea shanties. Fun place but closed over the winter. Hope some of this was useful. Have fun! Grakkus fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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Most speed enforcement in Western Europe is done through cameras, so you'll just get a bill in the mail several months later.
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MrOnBicycle posted:SR-71's are truly badass. I've seen one at the Evergreen museum in Oregon. The most striking thing at the time was that it was dwarfed by the spruce goose sitting beside it, lol
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mewse posted:I've seen one at the Evergreen museum in Oregon. The most striking thing at the time was that it was dwarfed by the spruce goose sitting beside it, lol When I was in the AF I put gas in one while on a TDY assignment in Okinawa. The fuel hose is handed to the crew chief through a hole in the hangar door so I didn't see much  Got to see it take off tho so that was cool. [e] that story was awesome haha Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jan 13, 2019 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:When I was in the AF I put gas in one while on a TDY assignment in Okinawa. The fuel hose is handed to the crew chief through a hole in the hangar door so I didn't see much Apparently they were leaky messes on the ground because all the seals were designed for extremely high altitude? Or am I thinking of a different plane
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Jan 13, 2019 18:21
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STR posted:Seafoam that bitch and check the timing, that motor shouldn't ever ping on 87 unless it's like 130 degrees outside. The F23 is pretty overbuilt (so long as you keep oil in it, it loves to mark its territory via the front and rear crank seals, also the cam seal). They don't usually start smoking until they're well past 200k, unless they've been run low on oil or don't get wound up often. It's not pinging at all it's just revving a little smoother on 93. The engine just broke 180k miles and still runs great but it does burn a fair bit of oil - still no smoke tho. I does need some seafoam tho
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mewse posted:Apparently they were leaky messes on the ground because all the seals were designed for extremely high altitude? Or am I thinking of a different plane You're right, fuel leaked out of it but I didn't get to see that. It used JP7 which has a super high flashpoint so it wasn't a big deal. We used to hear stories about people putting out cigarettes with it. All other jets got JP4.
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64bit_Dophins posted:It's not pinging at all it's just revving a little smoother on 93. this is probably some form of psychosomatic confirmation bias to be honest
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:this is probably some form of psychosomatic confirmation bias to be honest Depends on the car. The 1MZ-FE in my beater Avalon was rated on 87 octane. The exact same motor used in Lexus cars was rated on 91 octane and made 5% more hp and 10% more torques. I can tell you straight away that there is a noticeable difference between running it on 89 versus 93. It's just a motor that adjusts the timing pretty aggressively based on the knock sensors. 
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Grakkus posted:I missed this earlier but here's some stuff about Poland and Gdansk: Thanks for all this! I'm meeting up with a German colleague there, and he's threatening to take me to what he described as a traditional diner run out of someone's home. I think he called it a "shashinki", but I can't understand him over the phone at the best of times.
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mewse posted:Apparently they were leaky messes on the ground because all the seals were designed for extremely high altitude? Or am I thinking of a different plane It’s more that because of the extreme heating that the airframe experiences during high speed flight they had to design the joints with some significant tolerances- one thing I watched the other day pointed out expansion joints in the airframe that were nearly 2” wide that at cruise closed up flush. So when you gotta take into account an air frame that physically grows in flight, and a lack of any sealant on earth that can cope with the expansion AND extreme temps of course it’s gonna leak like a sieve. They leak in flight too, but a 10lb/hr leak doesn’t really mean much when the two J-58’s are burning 60,000lb/hr!
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meatpimp posted:Depends on the car. The F20 series motor was tuned for 87
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Safety Dance posted:Thanks for all this! I'm meeting up with a German colleague there, and he's threatening to take me to what he described as a traditional diner run out of someone's home. I think he called it a "shashinki", but I can't understand him over the phone at the best of times. I don’t know if it helps, but if you go towards Russia then ‘shashlik’ is meat cooked on a skewer. I would assume that a shashinki might be related
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The F20 series motor was tuned for 87 That misses the point that some motors respond very well to a small increase in octane due to aggressive map adjustment based on knock sensor input.
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meatpimp posted:That misses the point that some motors respond very well to a small increase in octane due to aggressive map adjustment based on knock sensor input. The giant question mark is whether or not a given engine's factory programming will do this. Anything modern will certainly adjust timing around, but the computer will only advance timing so far - if the maximum allowed isn't advanced enough to need more than 87 octane, then there wouldn't be any benefit.
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To be fair, the 1MZ-FE was used in a bunch of cars, and had fairly significant changes over the years - it had a run from 1993-2007 in the US. A bit longer than Honda's F series (1990-2002), though Honda's F series (I mean the one in the Accord, not the one in the S2000) never required premium. Supposedly, the Lexus ECUs had more aggressive tuning; the Toyota versions (in the US) were used in the Sienna, Solara, Camry, and Avalon - not exactly sporty cars (the Solara was basically a convertible Camry coupe, but still far from sporty unless you're 65). The Toyota versions also didn't get VVTi until late in the game, while the Lexus versions got it a lot earlier (the VVTi versions are also where they became interference engines... the non-VVTIs are not interference). I don't have any way of confirming if the Lexus ECUs had more aggressive tuning or not personally, though I know mom's 03 Avalon with 175k (1MZ-FE w/VVTi, same motor in meatpimp's Avalon) seems to run exactly the same no matter what octane it gets (it's seen very regular maintenance, and looking in via the spark plug holes shows very little carbon, so maybe that helps?). Honda was extremely conservative with their tuning on the F22/F23, still used only a MAP sensor (no mass air flow sensor), and they didn't even get knock sensors until 1996 or or so. Toyota always had a knock sensor on that motor, MAF, and I'm fairly sure the 1MZ-FE was always coil-on-plug (if not, they went to COP in the mid 90s). Honda was using a distributor until the end of the 6th gen Accord run (2002, which also marked the end of the F series); I'm pretty sure that was also the last Honda in the US market to have a distributor. IOwnCalculus posted:The giant question mark is whether or not a given engine's factory programming will do this. Anything modern will certainly adjust timing around, but the computer will only advance timing so far - if the maximum allowed isn't advanced enough to need more than 87 octane, then there wouldn't be any benefit. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:10 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:The giant question mark is whether or not a given engine's factory programming will do this. Anything modern will certainly adjust timing around, but the computer will only advance timing so far - if the maximum allowed isn't advanced enough to need more than 87 octane, then there wouldn't be any benefit. Yep, depends on the motor. I've seen big gains with some and zero with others. STR posted:though I know mom's 03 Avalon with 175k (1MZ-FE w/VVTi, same motor in meatpimp's Avalon) seems to run exactly the same no matter what octane it gets (it's seen very regular maintenance, and looking in via the spark plug holes shows very little carbon, so maybe that helps?). This may be the key. Same motor, same car. I see a difference, STR doesn't. I know that when I'm working a car over, it sees binary throttle and redline... a lot. Enough to see the timing change over time and per-key-cycle (when I first got the Avalon it had seen nothing but crap gas and lovely maintenance. The first tank of 93 was noticeable as the ECU only adjusts timing so much per key cycle). But I wonder how many people that talk about differences or not in their cars are really getting to the point where the knock sensor even comes into play. Most people I drive with never, ever use the upper end of the RPM range...
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meatpimp posted:That misses the point that some motors respond very well to a small increase in octane due to aggressive map adjustment based on knock sensor input. that motor does not have a knock sensor
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meatpimp posted:This may be the key. Same motor, same car. I see a difference, STR doesn't. I know that when I'm working a car over, it sees binary throttle and redline... a lot. Enough to see the timing change over time and per-key-cycle (when I first got the Avalon it had seen nothing but crap gas and lovely maintenance. The first tank of 93 was noticeable as the ECU only adjusts timing so much per key cycle). Like you said, it's possible the PO used poo poo gas; being an Avalon, I'd guess it's more likely they were a typical Avalon owner and were afraid of taking it past 2500 rpm or 25 MPH, so it's probably carboned up to hell and back. At least with mom, she lives and works in an area with high traffic (and her entire work commute is major roads), so 99% of the gas stations she uses have very high turnover in their tanks (she also sticks with a few major brands, all of which are Top Tier). Admittedly she rarely hits highway speeds (she's 70, and doesn't like going over ~50), but she's a fan of the "stand on it enough that it's shifting beyond 4500 RPM until I'm passing people, then let off until I'm still slightly pulling ahead of traffic, WTF OFFICER NO I WAS NOT DOING 13 OVER, goddamnit where do I sign the ticket" method of acceleration. The road her workplace is on has a 45 mph limit with traffic typically moving at 55-60, so she has to stand on it to get out of the parking lot. The main roads around her house also typically move at ~50 (she did actually get popped, and written, for 13 over recently... senior citizen in an Avalon with handicapped plates getting a speeding ticket is just  to me)I'm not sure if yours has the dashboard trip computer (it was an option on both the XL and XLS, IIRC) - if yours does, you may have noticed the average MPG mostly resets every time you add gas (it doesn't show an obvious reset, but as soon as you start driving, it's obvious it's been reset because it drops like a rock as soon as you drive out of the gas station - the owner's manual also describes this behavior as normal, at least for the 03). Every time I drive it, I beat the snot out of it, and somehow I bring the average MPG up (over hers) slightly every time. (... maybe because I don't sit in the car with it idling for 30 minutes while I'm yakking on the phone?  )KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:that motor does not have a knock sensor Technically correct. It has two of them. And they're a complete bitch to replace. Look up Toyota/Lexus V8 starter replacement. Similar job to get to MZ knock sensors.
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The Honda F22A, which is the motor I was talking about, does not have a knock sensor.
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64bit_Dophins posted:I put 93 in my 2.3L Accord and it runs so much smoother. KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The Honda F22A, which is the motor I was talking about, does not have a knock sensor. 
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lol i'm an idiot, for some reason i thought it was a F22A carry on then
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Safety Dance posted:Thanks for all this! I'm meeting up with a German colleague there, and he's threatening to take me to what he described as a traditional diner run out of someone's home. I think he called it a "shashinki", but I can't understand him over the phone at the best of times. In my experience most Polish words sound like "shashinki" to an English speakers ear, it sort of sounds like everything and nothing in the language so it could really be anything I'm curious as to what it turns out to be!
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The Honda F22A, which is the motor I was talking about, does not have a knock sensor. 64bit_Dophins has a F23A1, which does have a knock sensor - IIRC, it's located just above the oil filter (same place as on the B, D, and H series). It's the same location as the knock sensor on the OBD2 B and D VTEC motors. How do I know this? It's STUPID easy to knock the wire off of the knock sensor when you have to hulk on the oil filter to break it loose. I knocked my 96 Civic into limp home mode a couple of times by knocking the wire off of the knock sensor when doing oil changes. My 95 VTEC Civic, OTOH, did not have the sensor. It had a blank spot where it could be drilled and tapped, but there was no sensor. I want to say the 97 model year F22A had a knock sensor. Maybe, just mayyyyybe, the 96 as well; if they did, it was very much an afterthought to comply with OBD2 (which is also why the 5th gen OBD2 Accords had the OBD2 port behind the ashtray, instead of under the dash). But all F23 engines (except for possibly the A5) had it on US models. I'm not sure how Honda got away without a knock sensor so long on VTEC engines, but they really didn't start using them on USDM models until OBD2 was a thing. They didn't change jack poo poo about their engines for OBD2 except to add the knock sensor and an intake air temp sensor, at least on the B, D, and H series engines. The D16's VTEC variant got renamed from the Z6 to the Y8, though I believe it underwent some internal changes that... basically weakened it (factory redline on the Y8 [96-00] was a bit lower than the Z6 [92-95]). Where's doogie when you need him 
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Grakkus posted:I missed this earlier but here's some stuff about Poland and Gdansk: BBC News - Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, stabbed at Poland charity event http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46858463
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fridge corn posted:BBC News - Pawel Adamowicz, Gdansk mayor, stabbed at Poland charity event He just died. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46867286
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Yeah rip
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Hope this isn't the innocuous 1st chapter in the book about WW3
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drat that was one hell of derail. Well burning 93 makes me feel successful for 300+ miles and that's honestly good enough for me.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Hope this isn't the innocuous 1st chapter in the book about WW3 If anyone is gonna start it it'll be Poland prolly. I don't even want to think about it though the world stresses me out enough as it is. So anyone else looking forward to test driving the new Supra? My credit score is over 800 now so I think they'll let me test drive it even though I only have like $3 grand to make as a down payment (not gonna buy it anyways so who cares). I feel like it's disappointing on paper but I'm sure it'll be a whole lot of fun.
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I’m not too hyped about the Supra but if my small town dealer gets one I’ll go and try to take it out, if I come in one of my JDM imports probably have a good chance. At least it’s priced “reasonable”.
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everdave posted:I’m not too hyped about the Supra but if my small town dealer gets one I’ll go and try to take it out, if I come in one of my JDM imports probably have a good chance. At least it’s priced “reasonable”. They're saying it's going to be $60k right?
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So I thought I could handle this week, let's see how it's going: Get a text at 08:50, wife's car won't start. Later updated to turns over, won't catch, showing 1/3 of a tank but she's logged 300 miles since fill up so she thinks it's empty. I get home, try it, agree, dig out a jerry can, go get it filled, funnel it in and eventually get it primed and started. Quick test drive and the rear brakes are making noise  so that's on the list as well as new fuel sender/pump/filter assemblyIn the middle of that I spent 6 hours driving a slushbox avensis to a supplier and back to find out why my job hasn't been delivered. This evening the washing machine now refuses to take any powder/fluids, managed to coax it into life but that's climbed up the list to be replaced. Then I'm grilling something and notice the grill element is becoming a funny shape, better order one of those too!  Tuesday is gonna be great you guys. Right?
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Is there any actual percentage of how BMW the new Supra is?
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That’s your three-in-a-row done buddy. You’ll be fine now! Best of luck with all your parts replacing, it sucks to all of a sudden have a list of annoying chores.
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keykey posted:Is there any actual percentage of how BMW the new Supra is? I'd love to see some guys like Roadkill hack one to bits and weigh the parts piles.
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Grakkus posted:In my experience most Polish words sound like "shashinki" to an English speakers ear, it sort of sounds like everything and nothing in the language so it could really be anything Is a store like Obi likely to carry bulk Cat6 ethernet cable? Where could I find that in Warsaw or on the road to Gdansk? Edit: found it! https://www.obi.pl/przewody-telekomunikacyjne/przewod-ftp-kat-5-4x2x0-5-mm2/p/4290771 76 produkty dostępne! Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 14, 2019 |
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keykey posted:Is there any actual percentage of how BMW the new Supra is? Very high, all the drive train is BMW, including motor. Not sure on interior parts.
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Rhyno posted:I'd love to see some guys like Roadkill hack one to bits and weigh the parts piles. That would be beautiful!  You Am I posted:Very high, all the drive train is BMW, including motor. Not sure on interior parts. Oh. Well, it sounded too good to be true.
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You Am I posted:Very high, all the drive train is BMW, including motor. Not sure on interior parts. Cars are so boring now
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