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If that Bolt is a towed vehicle, I could see it could be a way to charge it some without mucking about with the RV electrical system or the Bolt too much. It would be quite the task to get enough energy out of an existing RV electrical system to make it worth doing. Outside of running the genset for extended periods. Its slightly klugy but I can't knock the idea. I think the worst part given what I can see of it might be that the alternator will eat a lot of shmoo right there.
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Bogatyr posted:If that Bolt is a towed vehicle, I could see it could be a way to charge it some without mucking about with the RV electrical system or the Bolt too much. It would be quite the task to get enough energy out of an existing RV electrical system to make it worth doing. Outside of running the genset for extended periods. Its slightly klugy but I can't knock the idea. I think the worst part given what I can see of it might be that the alternator will eat a lot of shmoo right there. Don't RVs already have a fairly decent charging system for their leisure batteries? Wouldn't you just need to run a thick power cable from that system to the car and avoid the need for anything mechanical to be bolted onto the car at all?
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Shut up Meg posted:Don't RVs already have a fairly decent charging system for their leisure batteries? Wouldn't you just need to run a thick power cable from that system to the car and avoid the need for anything mechanical to be bolted onto the car at all? Just off the top of my head...Depends on what they are towing it with. Maybe. Then you have the question of how far you have to run that cabling, you'll get into a good sized voltage drop pretty quick trying to move real current at 12 volts conceivably the length of an RV plus the tow bar and wherever you need to be on the Bolt 50 feet I bet(100 foot loop) . Could be some pretty large gauge cable 4/0 is a half volt drop at that length if you want the 100 amps that alternator can give(at least). Then you have to mate that cable up to both system's bus work, fuse it, support it, then some sort of robust connector between the two vehicles so that you can sever the connection easily. Not impossible but the wheel driven alternator's attractiveness has a lot of unknown variables(if that's what it is)... I'm just saying, sure, why not. Could be a shitshow, could be the the hot setup.
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Jan 5, 2020 01:35
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Mister Kingdom posted:
 $102,000 for a butchered discovette is true terrible car stuff.
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Funzo posted:My neighbor has been out working on his project Honda today. By working on it I mean running it in his driveway for hours at a time, with the engine constantly surging up and down. I have no idea what he’s trying to accomplish, and I suspect he doesn’t either. He’s not actively doing anything during this, it just sits and revs up and down the whole time. 90s model? Just from the description that's probably the idle air control valve loving up, specifically the "cold fast idle".
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Jan 5, 2020 18:48
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There's always the Corvette Limo from Mystery Men
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MrYenko posted:
Down from $217,203 a year ago!
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Funzo posted:My neighbor has been out working on his project Honda today. By working on it I mean running it in his driveway for hours at a time, with the engine constantly surging up and down. I have no idea what he’s trying to accomplish, and I suspect he doesn’t either. He’s not actively doing anything during this, it just sits and revs up and down the whole time. Don’t yuck someone’s yum
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I unironically love that stretched vette
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I unironically love that stretched vette Oh I do too. Stick a rowdy LSx in it with a six speed and let my mullet flow in the wind. $100k for it is insanity, though.
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GD_American posted:Don’t yuck someone’s yum I’m not trying to say his choice of project is bad. I just can’t figure out why he keeps leaving it running for hours at a time when he’s not actually working on it.
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Funzo posted:I’m not trying to say his choice of project is bad. I just can’t figure out why he keeps leaving it running for hours at a time when he’s not actually working on it. I have a neighbor that does this except its a straight pipe foxbody. it moves under its own power in and out of his garage so i suspect its him just keeping fluids moving. but i've never seen him actually drive it in 10+ years. it was cute when i moved here, it stopped being cute pretty quickly. i wouldn't mind if he was doing it up to operating temp but its like 2 hours every saturday or sunday of him just rev'ing the piss outta the thing. I'm like 4 houses down from him so i usually just put on some headphones or something but i have no idea why his direct neighbors put up with it.
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Chiming in on the noisy neighbor hate. A total dirtbag a block up has a Trailblazer SS with some form of exhaust fuckery. Sounds like deleted muffler/resonator at least. I wouldn't care at all, except for as far as I can tell he sells drugs since he literally comes and goes his house 20-30 times a day, sometimes as often as every 15 minutes. So now I hate the way a loud LS sounds since the noise bounces off the front of my house every single time he drives by. Must be payback for my ricer days with my loud exhaust on my Tercel in high school. I really hope he gets arrested or moves or something.
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or he's signed up for a bunch of gig work
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We have a guy with a Challenger that is constantly coming and going at odd hours, and it must be straight piped because its beyond obnoxiously loud. Regularly drives by at like 11:30 at night making ungodly racket.
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https://youtu.be/PBMi7ItQuu4
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This is more like "Post incredibly predictable car stuff" https://giant.gfycat.com/CaringHappyFlickertailsquirrel.webm
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CommieGIR posted:We have a guy with a Challenger that is constantly coming and going at odd hours, and it must be straight piped because its beyond obnoxiously loud. I ran my Z06 with the exhaust open 99% of the time... Except pulling into/out of neighborhoods after 9pm.
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Is there an exhaust valve or something that lets you change it?
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taqueso posted:Is there an exhaust valve or something that lets you change it? Z06s had an electric valve that opened to a second (louder) set of mufflers on factory cars. My quiet side was stock, the loud side was straight pipes, and I had a switch in the cabin, ya. I miss that car. 
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I should put a glasspack on Brokeback. 
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STR posted:I should put a glasspack on Brokeback. UEL headers and a muffler delete, let's make it sing 
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My neighbor has three trucks and a Mustang and they are all loud as hell. His Mustang is a 69 fastback set up for drag racing but he doesn't drag race it, and one of his trucks is a 08 stepside street rod with like 800hp that's his daily driver, huge turbo on an LS. He uses it to run errands and poo poo it's such a waste, I keep telling him he needs to take it to the drag strip and he just says "nah I just cruise around in it." In the middle of urban sprawl Florida, were he can't possibly get it anywhere near to it's potential.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:or he's signed up for a bunch of gig work Isn't selling drugs the original gig economy job? You hang around waiting for someone to ping your mobile requesting drugs, you go deliver them drugs, they give you money for it.
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Finger Prince posted:Isn't selling drugs the original gig economy job? You hang around waiting for someone to ping your mobile requesting drugs, you go deliver them drugs, they give you money for it. touche
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STR posted:I should put a glasspack on Brokeback. I want to know what a glass pack would sound like on a 2JZ. I'm yet to find video evidence.
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Finger Prince posted:Isn't selling drugs the original gig economy job? You hang around waiting for someone to ping your mobile requesting drugs, you go deliver them drugs, they give you money for it. The world’s oldest profession was a gig.
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You would think a drug dealer would want like the quietest, most nondescript, boring, least attention drawing vehicle possible. Something like my Hyundai Elantra, a car naturally protected by a SEP field. Yours eyes just slide right off it.
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Imagined posted:You would think a drug dealer would want like the quietest, most nondescript, boring, least attention drawing vehicle possible. 2 Fast 2 Furious will disagree with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_VIM03DXWI
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Imagined posted:You would think a drug dealer would want like the quietest, most nondescript, boring, least attention drawing vehicle possible. Something like my Hyundai Elantra, a car naturally protected by a SEP field. Yours eyes just slide right off it. On the other hand, an acid green Focus ST street parked outside a rough housing estate pretty solidly advertises "do not gently caress with me, I sell drugs and have weapons", even if you don't. Camouflage vs Aposematism.
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When I had my more or less straight-through exhaust equipped DSMs (one with an external WG dump pipe as well), I would try and make it a point of not going over 2k rpm while in my parents' neighborhood. Everywhere else was fair game.
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My cherry bomb* equipped 1.6 Miata was substantially louder than my H-pipe Mustang GT. I can set off car alarms pretty easily by goosing the throttle in the Mustang in a parking garage, but the Miata would do it out in the open. Off-throttle. * - it was installed backward, sooooo pretty much just a straight pipe.
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Finger Prince posted:On the other hand, an acid green Focus ST street parked outside a rough housing estate pretty solidly advertises "do not gently caress with me, I sell drugs and have weapons", even if you don't. Camouflage vs Aposematism. I witnessed that in the wild one time, in a really rough neighborhood in OKC. "Why is that dude leaving the keys in his parked custom chopper in a place like this ooooooohhh I understand now"
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Imagined posted:You would think a drug dealer would want like the quietest, most nondescript, boring, least attention drawing vehicle possible. Something like my Hyundai Elantra, a car naturally protected by a SEP field. Yours eyes just slide right off it. 2012 Toyota Prius in white. That's the Uber of choice where I am and because of that is completely invisible. For bonus points drive like a genuine Uber driver would, don't indicate, don't give way, park whereever you like and pull no notice u turns. Actually scratch that just sign up as a driver and do two jobs at once.
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STR posted:I should put a glasspack on Brokeback. Bajaha posted:UEL headers and a muffler delete, let's make it sing I'd do the same, but my OB has the H6... which has the exhaust collector built in to the head, and therefore only one exhaust outlet per head. No headers for me. Really sucks, because *flat six*!  (not mine - I haven't had to pull the engine...yet.) OBX makes a stainless steel "header", but why?  Still could replace the massive factory muffler, I suppose...
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https://twitter.com/ShittyMods/status/1214656220721754115
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It's actually, like, lovely inception: it's lovely car mods on a lovely car.
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The seats are made from BBQ grills.
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Ford "two piece" lugnuts. gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you. I had no idea this was a thing until today. GF curbed her fiesta and blew the tire but thankfully it was only a few hundred feet from the house so it made it to the driveway. OE lug wrench doesn't fit...wtf. Find ye ol' 4-way and see that 19 is the size of her OE wrench butdoesn't fit but 21 is too loose...wtf. Actually look at the lug nuts and three of the 4 are insanely swollen. I've never seen this in my life but a quick google search says i'm so not alone and people have tried to sue before on this. At this point i know i have to hammer something on there but there is no way a 19 is getting on these fatty nuts and 20 isn't a normal socket in sets but is going to be easier to massage on there than a 19. Head to the store and they have exactly 1 20mm 6 point. hammer that bitch on there and the lug breaks loose no problem. jam a punch through the socket to hammer out the lug and it just punches through the lug. what the fuckkkkkkkkkkk    I wail on the side of the lug while its stuck in the socket but its deep enough that its a lost cause and I dont feel like fighting this stupid poo poo anymore. I just buy 2 more 20's (which took 2 different stores) and a set of ONE PIECE nuts for that wheel. rinse and repeat. I eventually got that first one out of the socket by wailing on it enough with a sledge to get the neighbors to check on me. I dont care enough to free the other two and they were all crappy duralast sockets anyways. Told the gf she needs to think about replacing all of them and I checked my Escape and yup it has them too (not swollen though). Oh yeah I'm changing those loving things out because I can't imagine finding that poo poo out with a flat on the interstate or some poo poo. 3 god drat hours to change out a tire
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