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Mister Kingdom posted:I saw this in the wild today. What the hell is it? RillAkBea posted:It looks like an 8th gen. Daihatsu Hijet. I've seen a lot of kei vans done up like VW buses but this is the first time I've seen one with a Mercedes badge. Yep:  From the looks of it it's just a badge stuck to the back? There aren't any other changes at all to it. BECAUSE of the wheels I'm assuming it's more of a stripper model, will be rear wheel drive, 660cc. They come in AWD turbo versions though: 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Old vehicles restored to stock like that are extremely my jam
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RillAkBea posted:It looks like an 8th gen. Daihatsu Hijet. I've seen a lot of kei vans done up like VW buses but this is the first time I've seen one with a Mercedes badge. Thanks.
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Wasabi the J posted:You don't say? Holy cow literally my old job. That's some loving memories drat.
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BAC Mono owns anyway but this livery is actually by the same dude from the legendary Designers Republic design house that did all the work for the Wipeout games on the Playstation all those years ago. Still such clean, iconic, timeless design. https://twitter.com/discovermono/status/1324652933036859398?s=20 https://twitter.com/discovermono/status/1324653963820630023?s=20 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Nov 6, 2020 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:BAC Mono owns anyway but this livery is actually by the same dude from the legendary Designers Republic design house that did all the work for the Wipeout games on the Playstation all those years ago. Still such clean, iconic, timeless design. Man I would love to have that sort of livery on a car. Maybe the next Sera I get for lulz
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Guess what this is from.  A hydrogen peroxide powered torpedo But imagine how many bees it sounds like.
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Okay so that's a 5-sided rotor in a 4 chamber housing, Mazda's have 3-sided rotors in 2 chamber housings, has anyone made a 4-sided rotor in a 3 chamber housing?  And how did people figure the math out on these shapes before computers?
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The things we never hope to use after school - math and geometry?
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um excuse me posted:But imagine how many bees it sounds like. Might have been a deliberate choice to modify it's signature and avoid sonar. As I understand things like submarine propeller geometries and drive shaft designs are super top-secret so if this torpedo is anything to go by who knows what insane min/maxed oddball tech is inside subs (Not just US, all submarine-operating countries have the same secrecy because it's stealth-through-obscurity).
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Erulisse posted:The things we never hope to use after school - math and geometry? Dude geometry rules! Well, technically it only straight edges, not rules.
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Wasabi the J posted:Dude geometry rules! This was a terrible geometry pun. It's parallel with my humor, I love it!
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Please don't let this thread go off on a tangent with bad math puns.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Please don't let this thread go off on a tangent with bad math puns. but it's acute angle to go in
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay so that's a 5-sided rotor in a 4 chamber housing, Mazda's have 3-sided rotors in 2 chamber housings, has anyone made a 4-sided rotor in a 3 chamber housing? Spirograph
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Colostomy Bag posted:Please don't let this thread go off on a tangent with bad math puns. Not all math puns are bad, just sum
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay so that's a 5-sided rotor in a 4 chamber housing, Mazda's have 3-sided rotors in 2 chamber housings, has anyone made a 4-sided rotor in a 3 chamber housing? How about a zero sided rotor with 3 chambers? 
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My brother works at a place where they look after some old race and rally cars. He popped into town the other day to pick up our parents because it was raining, and my mum ended up in the back of the 7th place finisher in the 1964 Monte Carlo.
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Thank you - the shop he works at has a steady stream of interesting stuff, and the WhatsApp media folder for our chats is full of interesting bits, mostly stuff he's sent me, but I try to reciprocate.
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Teach posted:Thank you - the shop he works at has a steady stream of interesting stuff, and the WhatsApp media folder for our chats is full of interesting bits, mostly stuff he's sent me, but I try to reciprocate. Why is there a picture of my bicycle in there?? I mean, it's a good bicycle. Just did a double take.
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um excuse me posted:How about a zero sided rotor with 3 chambers? This seems more complex than a basic rotor tbh, but it's not far off. Better source https://www.liquidpiston.com/how-it-works Erulisse fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Nov 6, 2020 |
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These guys work down the street from me which is why I know about it. They claim moving the apex seals off the rotating parts has tremendously helped with their longevity. But I wouldn't expect this to make it to your car anytime soon. They still have all of the same emissions issues.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Okay so that's a 5-sided rotor in a 4 chamber housing, Mazda's have 3-sided rotors in 2 chamber housings, has anyone made a 4-sided rotor in a 3 chamber housing? Believe it or not, you can do it with a Spirograph. This book right here (my personal site) has the math and example starting on page 6, but it's basically a point on a circle orbiting another circle. That's the 1971 edition. Here's the 1981 edition, which is actually a bit different, if you have interest: http://www.wright-here.net/files/manuals/REbyKenichiYamamoto-1981.pdf e: f, b, sorta? Erulisse posted:This seems more complex than a basic rotor tbh, but it's not far off. They speeled "wankel" wrong on their page. Their credibility is therefore suspect. edit: I'ma leave that typo - it's funny in context.
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Weren't the calculations for the first mission into space done by hand? Yeah, humanity can do amazing things sometimes.
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Darchangel posted:Believe it or not, you can do it with a Spirograph. That's awesome as hell.
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Erulisse posted:This seems more complex than a basic rotor tbh, but it's not far off. No apex seals to poo poo out though seems like an advantage
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um excuse me posted:Guess what this is from. I guess there's no need to worry about apex seals when your rotary blows up after a few minutes anyway.
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Hikaki posted:I guess there's no need to worry about apex seals when your rotary blows up after a few minutes anyway. 
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um excuse me posted:Guess what this is from. I imagine it sounds like an electric razor, which is what every other torpedo sounds like. At least all the ones I've heard.
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Flyinglemur posted:I imagine it sounds like an electric razor, which is what every other torpedo sounds like. At least all the ones I've heard. I've never heard a torpedo so until I'm proven wrong I'm just assuming all you hear when one goes by is 'Venga Bus'
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I've never heard a torpedo so until I'm proven wrong I'm just assuming all you hear when one goes by is 'Venga Bus'
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Rhyno posted:Weren't the calculations for the first mission into space done by hand? Sometimes I wonder what Newton could have done with access to a PC.
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Uthor posted:Sometimes I wonder what Newton could have done with access to a PC. He probably just would have masturbated more in his spare time. Dude did well enough otherwise.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:I've never heard a torpedo so until I'm proven wrong I'm just assuming all you hear when one goes by is 'Venga Bus' And just before detonation "We Like to Party! BOOM"
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Steve French posted:Why is there a picture of my bicycle in there?? Sorry - he's a cyclist, and I was showing him some of the cool bikes in the WAYWT bikes thread. I'm moving back to the UK from abroad in 7 months, and need his advice on the kind of thing to go for!
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antimatt posted:He probably just would have masturbated more in his spare time. Dude did well enough otherwise. Wasn't he an incel.
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Wasabi the J posted:Wasn't he an incel. I think Newton was volcel. According to Voltaire (via Wikipedia), Newton "was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women—a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his last moments".
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A guy a few doors down from me (I live in England) has this in his garage -      Finally got some pics of it. He works on it a lot. All I know is it's a '57 with a 5.2 V8, and it looks clean as hell.
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Teach posted:Sorry - he's a cyclist, and I was showing him some of the cool bikes in the WAYWT bikes thread. I'm moving back to the UK from abroad in 7 months, and need his advice on the kind of thing to go for! No need to apologize! I was just curious and surprised. Stoked you liked it.
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