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While I'm thinking of how all people should do with their cars only things that I approve of personally, two NZ/AU 'traditions' that I don't get what the gently caress about as well: -Burnout Comps, where a full day will be consumed by people 'performing' burnouts on a piece of concrete. When you have done one burnout you have experienced burnouts. You don't need to see a full day of burnouts. To make sense of it internationally, the burnout comp is the  MUDDIN' TRUCKS of New Zealand-"Powercruise" events, where 50+ usually highly modified (read: dyno queen) cars will be let onto a race track at once, with a briefing that amounts to "don't crash and we officially will say you can't go faster than 100kmhr but lol wink wink". Nobody is told about basic track day etiquette and safety gear isn't required. A friend asked me to come along to the event and, mindful of getting the Corvette ran into, I bought the stocker Integra and destroyed everyone (even in straight lines) while driving at 50% my track day pace, in a car with less than half of the HP of the average car there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtkjr59AkR8 Just about every one of these days at least 5-10 cars will end up crashed or blown up and I'm surprised nobody seems to have been killed yet. On the day I even came loose when somebody's stupidly low 350z tore its sump open on the chicane and splattered oil all over the track - something the organizers didn't even think to close the track for! Spades fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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dissss posted:I don’t think exports to the US could possibly have been a significant factor - that will have been such a small number that won’t have made a dent. It’s really down to a combination of natural attrition (90s Nissan’s rust worse than 80s Honda’s) and idiot owners modifying and/or crashing the rest of them. I'm not sure, R32 GTR prices are double what they were 4-5 years ago or so (where they went for about the same price as an RX7 instead of 2x over), but I could hazard maybe more people in the market for a R32 have come into both money and experience that the RB engine is only really that great when heavily built or in RB26DETT form - after blowing up their RB20/25 engines and reducing the crop in the process.
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Spades posted:On the day I even came loose when somebody's stupidly low 350z tore its sump open on the chicane and splattered oil all over the track - something the organizers didn't even think to close the track for! That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence
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Memento posted:That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence Rephrase: The dudes who happened to be near the observer towers and also wearing their good "going out" jorts
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Spades posted:Rephrase: The dudes who happened to be near the observer towers and also wearing their good "going out" jorts Oh yeah. I can picture them and their terrible goatees now.
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On a roll today! I have been for a while looking for an E30 BMW as a restoration project as they're generally considered to be the last "friendly" BMW to work on and, while slow as rust, are at least fun in that primitive way certain 80s econoboxes can be. This listing on the other hand has a transformers decepticon symbol on the grille which is never a good thing  Well those wheels look poo poo but I guess if the car runs okay?  Well the interior is ruined and the radio is stolen and there's a tow hook lying in the passenger's floor pan, that's always a good sign, and those gauges all over the place that don't work and there's a dash carpet probably hiding massive dash cracks and there's autobot badge pedals (is this car an autobot or a decepticon make up your mind) but if the bones are good at least?  oh  quote:Rolling body plus parts car 
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Spades posted:While I'm thinking of how all people should do with their cars only things that I approve of personally, two NZ/AU 'traditions' that I don't get what the gently caress about as well: I'd stay as far away from that group of cars as possible on a roadway, let alone a track and you decided to go wading in between them... surprised no spoilers came off at you God speed goon!
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Yeah, I was thinking about how the CEC is reporting in-state, renewable generation and the other number is probably from the ISO reporting all the power used in the state. That's probably why the claim from the Governor's Office talks about zero GHG. It's including in-state nukes plus out-of-state renewables and nukes. Still, the point remains that half of the power gobbled up by your California EV comes from non-fossil based generation. Not too shabby. I guess I'm OK with nukes. I can't order a MrFusion from my Tesla but a freaking nuclear powered car is pretty rad. HawkHill fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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Blue On Blue posted:surprised no spoilers came off at you Some parts did come off on the day, but thankfully it was mostly during the drift sessions where two of the actual 'official drift cars' managed to eat the tire wall and spread all of their cheap and nasty fibreglass rocket bunny bodykits all over the track. Fake edit: The highlight was when a kid came up to me asking what kinda turbo that I had to pull on him on the straights and then I pointed out the bone stock torqueless bastard K20A under my hood instead. More fake edit: Powercruise also being an Australian tradition, the events across the ditch combine the dangers of all that easily available mining money with zero driving talent or mechanical sympathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJIcGn6z-g
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This video gives me anxiety. Also I looked up powercruise and that is dumb as gently caress but hilarious.
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Previa_fun posted:This video gives me anxiety. death rides on a pale sikk drift cef
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Spades posted:On a roll today!  some people are on the loving moon.
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Spades posted:I'm not sure, R32 GTR prices are double what they were 4-5 years ago or so (where they went for about the same price as an RX7 instead of 2x over), but I could hazard maybe more people in the market for a R32 have come into both money and experience that the RB engine is only really that great when heavily built or in RB26DETT form - after blowing up their RB20/25 engines and reducing the crop in the process. My experience with GTRs is down to those friends have owned, The 2 guys I know well who had them, one kept his stock and beat on it, the other went for a 800+hp monster build. The stock one was ultra reliable and he took it into Europe on long trips, basically used it as a daily. The big horsepower one was constantly in the garage getting something tweaked... I'm not sure it ran for more than a month at a time and it wasn't even driven much. It was loving terrifying in terms of both power and bank account draining ability.
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There's a bone stock 316 4 door in the car park at work, nothing fancy, no visible mods, normal parking rash and shopping cart door dings, for sale for £5k. Considering it's not molested I'm more inclined to believe that valuation. Still mental.
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Spades posted:Some parts did come off on the day, but thankfully it was mostly during the drift sessions where two of the actual 'official drift cars' managed to eat the tire wall and spread all of their cheap and nasty fibreglass rocket bunny bodykits all over the track. Miners and Drug Dealers Big Day Out. Fake Edit: I cannot talk. One of my cars was featured in Hot4s. Then it got into a calendar. Mum was so proud she bought a bunch of copies and gave them to family at Xmas 
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Spades posted:(is this car an autobot or a decepticon make up your mind) In the next performance, the roles of Romeo and Juliet will be played by Starscream and Ratchet.
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Spades posted:... I mean... I look at that video and all I see is a camera car trying to have a MAD TRACKDAY BRO at a parade lap event. Kinda makes me think the driver is the rear end in a top hat and maybe everyone else is following the rule of <100kmhr ?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:In the next performance, the roles of Romeo and Juliet will be played by Starscream and Ratchet. Actually I wouldn't mind if my car yelled at me like Starscream.
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HawkHill posted:Yeah, I was thinking about how the CEC is reporting in-state, renewable generation and the other number is probably from the ISO reporting all the power used in the state. That's probably why the claim from the Governor's Office talks about zero GHG. It's including in-state nukes plus out-of-state renewables and nukes. Yeah nukes would be great but good luck getting more built in CA, I think that's the only way to go 100% CO2 emission free by 2045. Every 10% more renewable is going to get harder and harder due to what you mentioned, storage, but importing hydro helps. Cal ISO has a cool page that shows realtime energy sources, if you're interested in these kind of things it's pretty interesting.
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The Prong Song posted:I mean... I look at that video and all I see is a camera car trying to have a MAD TRACKDAY BRO at a parade lap event. Kinda makes me think the driver is the rear end in a top hat and maybe everyone else is following the rule of <100kmhr ? Nah, if you look powercruise videos up on youtube everyone's going precisely as fast as their hormones are allowing them - there are "parade lap" events at tracks but they're advertised as such. Other sessions I had on the day had other people giving a better go of it, but on a dry track you don't get too see as much bad driving.
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ExplodingSims posted:They Cybertruck has broken free and been spotted in the wild: My favorite is that Simone Giertz took her Model 3 "Truckla" to the unveiling of the Cybertruck, and actually got video of it with the Cybertruck. Guess which looks less stupid? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCKjmfsgBBY&t=497s (8:17 if it doesn't go there already.) MattO posted:Gunna plaster the back of my cybertruck with magnets holding down drawings my kids make Stainless steel. May not be ferrous enough for magnets to stick, depending on alloy. Nice thought, though. Lovely place for a giant mural, featuring the truck itself, though. HawkHill posted:I wonder if that will work, gently caress, beaten.
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That atrocity is shinier than I was expecting. I was hoping it would be a more matte finish so I could slap a greasy palm on those metal panels and drive the owner insane trying to get the handprint off.
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Darchangel posted:My favorite is that Simone Giertz took her Model 3 "Truckla" to the unveiling of the Cybertruck, and actually got video of it with the Cybertruck. Guess which looks less stupid? Fuckin magnets man, how do they work?
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xzzy posted:That atrocity is shinier than I was expecting. I was hoping it would be a more matte finish so I could slap a greasy palm on those metal panels and drive the owner insane trying to get the handprint off. Probably a slice of bologna would do it.
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I halfway expected to see chunks of pineapple, grapes and other fruit in there when he finally broke it apart
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big dong wanter posted:Are they? Legit question, i thought they were refreshed mod motors. I have too much trauma from being a ford tech in 2010 and having to fix those fuckin turds. Without addressing robustness, the Coyote was designed to use the tooling for the 4.6, but they don't actually share much of anything beyond bore center spacing iirc.
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Did anyone ever explain what the backstory was for this? That pan that was roved seems to shallow to be an oil pan. Is that a transmission? What would cause the oil to gel up like that? Is that from mixing incompatible oils or fluids?
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Q_res posted:Without addressing robustness, the Coyote was designed to use the tooling for the 4.6, but they don't actually share much of anything beyond bore center spacing iirc. Is the V-10 the last mod motor? That is a far better engine than it has any right to be, at least paired with the 4-speed Aisin. The 6-speed whatever in the last V-10 van I drove was like meeting a favorite dog years later, except it has three legs now, "Aww, what did they do to you, buddy?!"
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In the vein of terrible New Zealand cars, I did see a fake WRX today. It was just the base 4th gen sedan but with fake carbon fiber wing, skirts, trim, and angry carbon fiber headlamps, but weirdly enough no hood scoop. STI decals on the side and an STI badge, but no WRX and the impreza badge still there. It's not the most atrocious thing but it did make me double take. Fake ///M and AMG's I've seen plenty of but the kids these days are making fake WRX's?
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Trambopaline posted:In the vein of terrible New Zealand cars, I did see a fake WRX today. In America, it's rarer to see a non-WRX Impreza. I always figure someone's playing games with a sleeper. Nope, just a family car.
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Trambopaline posted:In the vein of terrible New Zealand cars, I did see a fake WRX today. Have you seen any fake Evos around as well? it seems like that's a real "thing" with Mitsubishi people now to take a Ralliart Lancer or just base model Cedia then bumper and hood swap it. Also reminds me of the early 2000s Mazdaspeed Protege which came with a dealer option for rally lights, a wing, blue metallic paint and gold wheels - like this  .i am sure they knew what they were doing
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Those Mazdas did actually come with a larger motor as well, the 2.0 was only available in the top trim level. I worked for Mazda Australia at the time and the sedan and hatch (Astina) versions of those actually sold pretty well, for a cynical marketing ploy to get rid of the last of those bodies while the factory converted over to making the 3.
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I think there's also the R Line models for Volkswagens which make them look like the R version without the Rrrrrr, for reasons unknown Edit: Also I want to finish my house move and concrete foundation pouring so I can get down to work on fixing the newest project car. To add at least one good car to counter all the terrible Spades fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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MomJeans420 posted:Yeah nukes would be great but good luck getting more built in CA, I think that's the only way to go 100% CO2 emission free by 2045. Every 10% more renewable is going to get harder and harder due to what you mentioned, storage, but importing hydro helps. Maybe some day something next gen like Traveling Wave Reactors will get built or some Alien philanthropist will gift us with a workable design for a fusion reactor but I'm not holding my breath. Especially about fusion. My first gig after grad school was with a Process Physics group at LLNL. There were two fusion projects rolling back in the 1980s. When the project that I had worked on shut down, most of my crew hooked up with the still active laser driven Inertial Confinement stuff. When you see Ed Moses on the Science Channel and he's yacking about blasting pellets with lasers, that's the guy who ran the crew that built the laser system for the (not fusion) laser project that I was working on. MFE (Magnetic Fusion Energy - a tokamak kind of deal) was the other fusion project at LLNL. They shut down MFE a long time ago. Inertial Confinement will probably live as long as the bomb guys need to do Physics but are prohibited from make big booms in Nevada. The ISO pages are interesting. I haven't been there for a while. They've added some very cool info. I want to say that I first started paying attention to the ISO data was back during the Great Western US (market manipulation) Power Crisis but maybe I'm making that up. I think that's when we first started giving our UPS strategy the stank-eye. Suddenly the idea that there was a business case for keeping our long running sims running on UPS power for way more than 20 minutes started to make sense. HawkHill fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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madeintaipei posted:Is the V-10 the last mod motor? That is a far better engine than it has any right to be, at least paired with the 4-speed Aisin. The 6-speed whatever in the last V-10 van I drove was like meeting a favorite dog years later, except it has three legs now, "Aww, what did they do to you, buddy?!" The box van I rented to move to Austin (16' with the V10) had pretty decent power. With the box about halfway packed (Budget won't rent a truck w/hitch smaller than the 16'), a flatbed car trailer, the Saturn on said trailer, and WOT the entire time (it was governed around 75 and didn't have cruise control, traffic was moving faster, so my "cruise" was just keeping it matted), I still got about 9 mpg in it. Didn't have any real complaints about the 6 speed transmission, at least when in towing mode. When not in towing mode it was sluggish to downshift and liked to upshift a bit too quick for my liking.
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Memento posted:Those Mazdas did actually come with a larger motor as well, the 2.0 was only available in the top trim level. At one point, Mazda USA did a dockside conversion to the "Protege MP3" which was a Protege with an aftermarket car stereo installed that could play MP3s from a burned CD-R. I think for extra money they would put some Racing Beat parts on it.
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