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Olympic Mathlete posted:Didn't someone invent transparent *aluminium or something? Let's do cool poo poo with it. Transparent aluminum... kinda exists. Its aluminum in the same way that sapphire is aluminum. Elementally it's got aluminum in it (sapphires/rubies are just aluminum oxide, Al2O3), but it doesn't have any of the properties of aluminum alloys like you're thinking. It's just a ceramic.
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MrYenko posted:I see your straight eight and raise you an Allison V-12. Over 4 minutes of it not running... and 30 seconds of idling away. Mind you , look how much it scoots just idling. edit: sorry, that sounds kind of snippy. It's cool to get a good look at the thing. Just wanted more noise. :P Here's some footage of it doing its thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdevb1J81jc I used to go to tractor pulls with my dad when I was young. Allison V-12s were the poo poo. Fuckoff monsters like this, but in the 1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdJTOLKiUd8 Here's a POV of it pulling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itbt8VXHWlk Boaz MacPhereson posted:I'll drop the wager back down to 8 cylinders but with a nice nitro kicker. I love that video and will never miss an opportunity to watch it. The engine going from pretty spicy on gasoline to "attempting to escape" on pop is incredible. I'd never seen that until I watched that particular video some years ago. Boaz MacPhereson posted:I tend to giggle like an idiot when they cut it over.  My best friend's dad (and next door neighbor at the time) drove the "Good Times Machine" Top Fuel dragster in the 1970s, and built a nostalgia small-block Chevy dragster in the 2000s. I miss that. He was in his 60s in the 2000s - finally gave it up. This is the Top Fuel car, and I'm pretty sure that's Chuck in the denim jacket:  That thing sat in the garage next door to me pretty often. It was awesome. A time when you didn't have to be a multi-million-dollar team to do Top Fuel. There's even a possibility I'm there out of sight. That was taken at the local NHRA dragstip in 1976 - we lived next door from 1974-1980. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 22:05 on May 21, 2021 |
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Bleh, forgot to paste this into the above reply. Ah, well, that one is big enough already.CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Actually they made parts for about 250 to 300 motors for the Phase IV that were used on the XA GT coupe as an option called I think the RPO. So the Phase IV heads do actually exist Oh, cool. Thanks for the history. So real, but near-mythical.  As Nero Danced posted:A handful of Phase IVs did exist, for about a week before Ford killed them off. They made 4 before stopping the program. Of which, the fates and whereabouts of 3 are known- one is missing. Far as I'm concerned, the Interceptor is where it went- the guts of it anyways. So they said in the movie! ...aaaand, because  , I know we all call it "The Interceptor", technically wasn't it a Pursuit Special? AKA BoB (Black-on-Black, for the satin-black on gloss back.)
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Darchangel posted:Over 4 minutes of it not running... and 30 seconds of idling away. Mind you , look how much it scoots just idling. Not at all, I was phone posting and couldn’t listen, thanks for finding a better example!  Soooooo many 1710s got run to destruction (or sunk) in boats and tractor-pullers in the fifties and sixties that most people selling them now will actually want to get to know you before selling you one, to make sure it actually goes in an airplane. Kermit Weeks specifically has a huge hoard of Allison and Packard V-12s and parts, and will totally sell them to anyone that has a project with wings. I totally get it, but it also means the days of stupid-huge-aero-V12-where-it-doesn’t-belong stuff are probably mostly in the past. And that’s sad as well.
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A cool article about a super rare Honda: https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/40594/1976-honda-lady-review-driving-the-one-of-one-civic-wearing-haute-italian-fashion
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6-cB1AGPO8 This channel is the perfect thing to zone out to after a stressful day.
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Bring back cute cars. https://twitter.com/daikin_kanazawa/status/1396718983118680069?s=20 I also want a baked sweet potato (you call them yams?) from this cool as gently caress Century 
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May 24, 2021 12:34
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Ukraine's Eurovision entry had a cool truck in their video https://twitter.com/_Go_A_/status/1373584651785285632
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I'm digging the 'stained glass' that's super cool. https://twitter.com/Midnight__child/status/1396963288093765634?s=20
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I'm digging the 'stained glass' that's super cool. Kinda fun, but needs a lot more lace doilies for maximum ethnic grandma effect.
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May 25, 2021 17:31
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I wonder which one of those shards will blind me in a mild accident.
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Finger Prince posted:Kinda fun, but needs a lot more lace doilies for maximum ethnic grandma effect. um excuse me posted:I wonder which one of those shards will blind me in a mild accident.
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Krakkles posted:Because white people don't do this? White people can't be ethnic? My babcia would disagree were she not putting doilies all over heaven's end tables.
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Krakkles posted:Because white people don't do this? Looks like a sticker, yeah.
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Finger Prince posted:White people can't be ethnic? My babcia would disagree were she not putting doilies all over heaven's end tables.
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Krakkles posted:I mean, you used the word. What did you mean when you said "ethnic"? I would define it as people who maintain old-world cultural norms, aesthetics, and/or traditions. As in, people who haven't fully assimilated into whatever the dominant culture is. It's completely agnostic to any specific background. It's certainly not a slur. My family is ethnic.
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May 25, 2021 18:44
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Howay you wastemen this is an insanely dumb derail. https://www.carscoops.com/2021/05/kimeras-evo37-reimagines-the-iconic-lancia-037-with-modern-tech-more-than-500-hp/ How about this.
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Bape Culture posted:Howay you wastemen this is an insanely dumb derail. Hard agree (on both points), but let it never be said that I shied away from a shitpost derail.
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Yeah, no, questioning why someone used a word which is frequently a dogwhistle for race isn't a shitpost. I don't think you're wrong to use the word the way you did or to consider your family ethnic, at all, but it's a reach to say that I'm shitposting because I, without knowing that you're (Polish?) or meant the word to refer to your family, questioned it. It's still weird, because it's not like grandmothers who don't meet that definition either don't use doilies, but whatever, language is weird. That Lancia is cool as hell, although when it came up elsewhere (which I cannot for the life of me find), someone pointed out that the original had something approaching too much power, and this is ... nearly double?
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Krakkles posted:That Lancia is cool as hell, although when it came up elsewhere (which I cannot for the life of me find), someone pointed out that the original had something approaching too much power, and this is ... nearly double? quote:Post awesome AI car poo poo I really dig that stained glass sticker too, is that a commercial product or something? I mean, I wouldn’t do it myself, but surely lots of people would.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I really dig that stained glass sticker too, is that a commercial product or something? I mean, I wouldn’t do it myself, but surely lots of people would. It's absolutely a commercial product and you can probably get it at like Michael's or whatever your local craft store is.
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they sell all sorts of those privacy films on Amazon I put some in one of our bathroom windows so we wouldn't have to close the shades but still get plenty of light. my favorite part of buying it was realizing that Chinese companies have fully run out of names for brands when they are coming up with poo poo like "rabbit goo" (yes, it's real)
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Krakkles posted:That Lancia is cool as hell, although when it came up elsewhere (which I cannot for the life of me find), someone pointed out that the original had something approaching too much power, and this is ... nearly double? If the power delivery is more linear, remember that old radial superchargers are incredibly peaky, I could be tricked into thinking it doesnt need a world class racer to handle it. Weve come a long way i forced induction and tire tech. But lmao its gonna kill a man Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:40 on May 26, 2021 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:If the power delivery is more linear, remember that old radial superchargers are incredibly peaky, I could be tricked into thinking it doesnt need a world class racer to handle it. Weve come a long way i forced induction and tire tech. Where's the lineup?
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Rigged Death Trap posted:If the power delivery is more linear, remember that old radial superchargers are incredibly peaky, I could be tricked into thinking it doesnt need a world class racer to handle it. Weve come a long way i forced induction and tire tech. Shiny. Chrome. Valhalla. Witness, etc.
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Darchangel posted:Shiny. Chrome. Valhalla. Witness, etc. AV/Post combo. With the blower, even. I opened that link hoping for the Stratos, but still. Would gleefullly wrap around a tree.
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boxen posted:AV/Post combo. With the blower, even. I found out the other day that for the scenes where the Pursuit Special turned the blower on, they had a camera set up on to film the Falcon on the back of a tow truck driving down the road, and just started it up. So you get the blower going from stationary to spinning, while the car is clearly moving fast. Really neat bit of creative filming as opposed to having to rig something up in the engine itself.
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Memento posted:I found out the other day that for the scenes where the Pursuit Special turned the blower on, they had a camera set up on to film the Falcon on the back of a tow truck driving down the road, and just started it up. So you get the blower going from stationary to spinning, while the car is clearly moving fast. Really neat bit of creative filming as opposed to having to rig something up in the engine itself. I love stuff like that. a small crew and a day of specialty shooting and they've got what the need for the movie and then some.
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Memento posted:I found out the other day that for the scenes where the Pursuit Special turned the blower on, they had a camera set up on to film the Falcon on the back of a tow truck driving down the road, and just started it up. So you get the blower going from stationary to spinning, while the car is clearly moving fast. Really neat bit of creative filming as opposed to having to rig something up in the engine itself. Yep, that’s correct. Now subsequent replicas have come up with ways to do it like it appears. The one I’ve had the pleasure to work on here in TX has an AC compressor with a clever pulley - one sheave is connected to the clutch, and one able to freewheel as normal. Engage the compressor clutch, and the blower drive is engaged. The compressor itself is empty. This particular replica does have working AC, though, and was upgraded to a five-speed after the original top-loader 4-speed grenaded itself on a road trip. It’s a neat car, set up as a Road Warrior version.
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That's a thing that's always bugged me when I see it in movies. If you put a clutch of some sort on it, you can get it to work like that but doesn't that hugely choke off airflow into the engine when it's off? I suppose you could rig some sort of bypass but by that point you're spending a lot of effort on something that doesn't need to be done.
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Pretty much. It could work, and Toyota actually did it on the MR2, but it took some extra plumbing. It would be a pain with the big 6-71.
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Neutering yourself out of a supercharger for screen accuracy. 
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boxen posted:That's a thing that's always bugged me when I see it in movies. If you put a clutch of some sort on it, you can get it to work like that but doesn't that hugely choke off airflow into the engine when it's off? I suppose you could rig some sort of bypass but by that point you're spending a lot of effort on something that doesn't need to be done. Some people run supercharger bypasses or a wastegate post SC - pre TB to control power too
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Neutering yourself out of a supercharger for screen accuracy. Personally, I would run a functional blower, with an intercooler because you have to space it up to look right anyway, and use the Scott as a throttle body for MPFI. There’s a company that makes replicas of the Scott injector that makes them a throttle body EFI as well!
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Why has no one slapped a CVT to the front of a blower yet so it can always be spinning at the correct RPM regardless of engine speed?
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Probably because they want the blower to increase power rather than rob it.
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McTinkerson posted:Why has no one slapped a CVT to the front of a blower yet so it can always be spinning at the correct RPM regardless of engine speed? They have, but it doesn't seem to have taken off for whatever reason. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15344305/finally-a-cvt-that-makes-sense/
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