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You probably haven't stared at the front end of a dragster unless you're in the sport, but most don't have a suspension up there. Woody Gilmore added IFS to his. The idea was that the front end could absorb some shock after lifting prevent the rear ended from breaking traction. It was a major hurdle to overcome in the 60s when slingshots were still a pretty new layout. Back then as well as now, if you spun the tires the race was over.
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Saw this last weekend. Might be trying a little hard, but still thought it was pretty rad.
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Feb 17, 2019 21:16
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Okay, want.
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"The perfect house doesn't ex-" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWytJviH3d0 
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redgubbinz posted:"The perfect house doesn't ex-" [moves to left lane] [leaves rando car for dead] 
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HandlingByJebus posted:[moves to left lane] I really want to see that thing do donuts.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjeU4S10d2A I love Scumbag Labs so much 
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HandlingByJebus posted:[moves to left lane] https://youtu.be/GWytJviH3d0?t=545
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redgubbinz posted:"The perfect house doesn't ex-" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVz1kBnIDd0
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boxen posted:I really want to see that thing do donuts. Somehow I really thought they were going to try
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It makes donuts on the outside..and the inside
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The license plate is "SHTRS FULL" 
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T1g4h posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjeU4S10d2A Dumb poo poo is great
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqpq_Vye49A
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I'm the sheetmetal guy working with the giant bandage around his finger because he's sliding sheet around the shop with no loving gloves on.
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MrYenko posted:I'm the sheetmetal guy working with the giant bandage around his finger because he's sliding sheet around the shop with no loving gloves on. Yeah I noticed that. At first I thought he was missing the end of his finger, and it was pretty clear why when he was manipulating that huge sheet around.
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McTinkerson posted:Along those lines, you should just give it a V12...off to Toys R Us I go I have some bad news for you, I’m afraid.
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redgubbinz posted:"The perfect house doesn't ex-" I love that Winnebago. I watch the build videos for a few months ago. LS all the things. Hell, if nothing else, it gets better mileage than new.
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Darchangel posted:I have some bad news for you, I’m afraid. They're still around in Canada.
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Darchangel posted:I love that Winnebago. I watch the build videos for a few months ago. LS all the things. Hell, if nothing else, it gets better mileage than new. I wonder how well it would hold up to actual RV use, small motor with a heavy load plus boost. I guess that thing has room for a bigass aluminum radiator and intercooler.
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User Error posted:I wonder how well it would hold up to actual RV use, small motor with a heavy load plus boost. I guess that thing has room for a bigass aluminum radiator and intercooler. Iron block Gen 3/4 SBCs are hella stout and meth injection keeps the temps down too.
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FBS posted:Stolen from the Legos thread: PSA: This set comes out March 1, costs $150
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I just finished the first section of the 911 GT3RS build and it is huge and awesome.
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User Error posted:I wonder how well it would hold up to actual RV use, small motor with a heavy load plus boost. I guess that thing has room for a bigass aluminum radiator and intercooler. The transmission would probably be the weak link, honestly. Forced induction engines are generally pretty beefy in the rotating bits to begin with, and can be made to make power in mostly the right places for that sort of thing. You’d probably need something like an Allison 2000 or something to have any hope of long-term survivability.
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Rhyno posted:They're still around in Canada. Really? Cool! User Error posted:I wonder how well it would hold up to actual RV use, small motor with a heavy load plus boost. I guess that thing has room for a bigass aluminum radiator and intercooler. He said in the behind-the-scenes video that they had it in boost for minutes-long periods climbing hills. They put methanol injection on it for just that reason. Wrar posted:Iron block Gen 3/4 SBCs are hella stout and meth injection keeps the temps down too. e:f,b. MrYenko posted:The transmission would probably be the weak link, honestly. Forced induction engines are generally pretty beefy in the rotating bits to begin with, and can be made to make power in mostly the right places for that sort of thing. It only had a 440/727 originally, though the 727 *is* legendarily stout. A 4L80 would probably be sufficient.
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MetaJew posted:I just finished the first section of the 911 GT3RS build and it is huge and awesome. I built the Bugatti one recently and it was a work of art
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At Folly Beach for the "Folly Gras" parade, and they usually have a couple classic cars of varying quality. This truck was new, and very AI.
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So, I was watching TV and caught an episode of some car show where they buy and restore a DeLorean DMC-12. Besides realizing for the first time that the overall design of the car is a blatant copy of the Lancia Beta Montecarlo...  ... I got curious about the infamous lovely engine, and decided to read up on it. While thinking how crazy it was for a 2.8L V6 to be so underpowered in nearly all of its incarnations, I noticed a bit on Wikipedia that mentioned one of my favorite cars ever  Apparently, the famous 12000 RPM naturally-aspirated V6 of the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysO0nj2bMQ (just listen) ... was actually the maligned V6 PRV, and the fact was kept hush-hush by Fiat for obvious publicity reasons. I found this interview with the chief engineer of the 155 V6 TI project, Sergio Limone (of Fiat 131 Abarth, Lancia Rally, Lancia Delta S4... and Fiat Palio Rally fame): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRcFpmQL3bc (Italian with English subtitles) ... and he's like, guilty as charged. For the fourth and final season of the car, they needed to upgrade the engine from the 60° Busso V6 to a 90° V6, but the only Alfa Romeo 90° was the Montreal V8, which was completely inadequate: it was an expensive engine with a short production run, it was old, it had to lose two cylinders, and the cylinders that would be left were too small and too close together to be rebored. So they had to get creative: since Alfa Romeo had briefly been merged with Lancia in the 80s, they felt free to look at the Lancia catalog. They realized the Lancia Thema had been available, among others, in PRV V6, that was pretty much perfect, outside of the whole "French" thing. For publicity reasons (Fiat was unhappy with the cost of their DTM team and itching for excuses to retire it), they lied and said they went with a cut Montreal V8, but specs from the FIA registration form match the PRV V6 exactly. Naturally, the race-spec engine has very little to do with the production engine (I've read that basically the block is the only part they kept), but it's still interesting and I had never heard about it before Another interesting bit of rule-bending Limone admits to in the interview is the obviously illegal aerodynamic devices on the front doors of the 1996 model:  What made them legal is that it's technically not aero: "actually", it's a pair of unusually shaped, oversized... extra side-view mirrors, that just happen to fix a vortex that interfered with the rear wing
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Pretty sure I've got the right thread on this one.
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That is Preet sweet, but man, youd think the could do a better job blending the two different bodies.
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Very natural grafting of the pickup cab to the COE cab.
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ExplodingSims posted:That is Preet sweet, but man, youd think the could do a better job blending the two different bodies. That almost beat out "like a rock" as their slogan around that time. True story!
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Adiabatic posted:Pretty sure I've got the right thread on this one. Wonder how the ride is (hint: very, very bad). It's like those newer Hino trucks with a hood/fenders welded to the front of a forward control cab, but weirder.
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this is a good read, that interview is great — “well Merc was inventing random stuff that there wasn’t specific rules against, so we just did the same thing, and the rule book guy was totally cool with it”. I recently read John Delorean’s autobiography and was really hoping there would be more in it about the design of the DMC in it, but it was mostly about his GM years, running out of money constantly, and dealing with the British government and US justice department stooges. go figure.
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Just watched The Last Race, a documentary about the last race track on Long Island. It's about what I expected in terms of content based on the description so I'm sure it won't be a huge revelation to anyone ITT, but it's a very nice look at the sport of driving in circles in lovely cars and some interesting characters nevertheless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J2lq4SuXeA
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snugglz posted:this is a good read, that interview is great I love how graciously he drops burns on Fiat. True gentleman hackbunny fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3wnoQfLEs
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hackbunny posted:Apparently, the famous 12000 RPM naturally-aspirated V6 of the Alfa Romeo 155 V6 TI... The video is great. I highly recommend it. It's an old Italian race engineer giving 0 fucks and just laying things out from his perspective.
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Adiabatic posted:Pretty sure I've got the right thread on this one. Right thread, I've recently started dreaming of getting an Isuzu flatbed (single or crew cab) with a chevy v8 and turning it into a bizarro hotrod truck. e: Basically something like this but with tire smoke (fair warning, this video is pretty lame) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvaIFMnC_A As Nero Danced fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Feb 25, 2019 |
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