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Powershift posted:
i wonder how many of these are honeypots
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We had a bunch of cat thefts at work just before the pandemic started. They were rolling round our car parks, jacking certain ones up and just sawing the cats out. They caught the guy when he was stupid enough to post an ad like that on Facebook marketplace. It seemed too stupid to be real but it turns out some criminals are really not smart.
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Jul 20, 2021 07:19
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Colour me ignorant, but why are they going for so much? Some rare metals at elemental level? I'm going with a hi-flow cat setup soon so getting some $$ back would be nice
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Jul 20, 2021 11:49
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Yeah, rare metals. Platinum is one of the most expensive metals in the world, and extensively used in catalytic converters. People who work in platinum processing facilities wear coats. After work they get an air bath in a kind of air lock system, and even just the dust clinging to their coats is worth capturing in the air bath and reprocessing. Platinum is stupidly expensive but sadly also incredibly useful.
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Jul 20, 2021 11:55
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Only worth $45,000 per kg. No problem.
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Jul 20, 2021 12:29
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LimaBiker posted:Yeah, rare metals. Platinum is one of the most expensive metals in the world, and extensively used in catalytic converters. Ah yes, I watched a video ages ago of a guy who sweeps freeways for the 'dust'. He also digs up dirt and grime from NYC sidewalks in the diamond district for profit.
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Jul 20, 2021 13:24
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Kneeling in the breakdown lane, sloshing water in a hubcap Suddenly jumping up and dancing around like "EE-HEE-HEE-HEEE"
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Jul 20, 2021 13:46
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   boomers gonna boom
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Jul 20, 2021 15:54
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I knew the ending when I saw the first pic and it still upset me.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:03
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Powershift posted:
Is that for the new corvette?
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Jul 20, 2021 16:06
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AFewBricksShy posted:Is that for the new corvette? yeah 
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Jul 20, 2021 16:08
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Instant weight savings right there. Not that I’m buying a C8, but that stupidity would be close to a deal breaker.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:51
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Advent Horizon posted:Instant weight savings right there. I'm pretty sure that's just something you can buy aftermarket, not from the factory.
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Jul 20, 2021 16:57
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It's like a piece from a Hotwheels made bigger
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Jul 20, 2021 17:07
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AFewBricksShy posted:I'm pretty sure that's just something you can buy aftermarket, not from the factory. Then it would definitely be a deal breaker when buying used.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:18
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Advent Horizon posted:Instant weight savings right there. Actually he added a few pounds for no benefit 
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Jul 20, 2021 17:29
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One weird trick to save money on intake air filters I guess?
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Jul 20, 2021 17:33
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Powershift posted:
I was given a 95 F150 Ext Cab with a bad transmission and some terminal rust issues but a health 5.0 V-8 that I wanted to replace the tired million mile 302 in my 73 F-100. I cut the cat off and took it in with the radiator and a few other parts. The local Alter metal facility paid me $600 for the cat. Just incredible. I remember being happy with $75.00 in the not to distant past ffs.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:48
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The roadside dust in some areas would qualify as high‐grade platinum ore.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:49
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That's true for most interstate highways, iirc. Of course the trick is that working mines tend to process somewhat more dirt than you can sweep up off the side of the highway.
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Jul 20, 2021 17:53
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brb, gonna get a broom and dust pan
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Jul 20, 2021 18:36
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Sure you'll get some platinum from road dust but also a lot of: Zinc Cadium Cobalt Chromium Copper Mercury Molybdenum Nickle Lead and when I mean get I mean get in your lungs and eventually your bloodstream
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Jul 20, 2021 19:10
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Platystemon posted:The roadside dust in some areas would qualify as high‐grade platinum ore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GPWJPLcHg
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Jul 20, 2021 19:12
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Advent Horizon posted:Then it would definitely be a deal breaker when buying used. Why, the presence of it assures that the car has never once been driven hard. A great buy!
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Jul 20, 2021 19:27
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Lol totally worth it!
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Jul 20, 2021 21:45
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LOL that's the exact video. Then it showed one from the new york guy who is also an insane person.
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Jul 21, 2021 09:02
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Cody's Lab became Cody's Meth Lab so gradually...
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Jul 21, 2021 14:31
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I know the chat about backfire tunes was a couple of pages ago but I just caught up and had an experience in the wild last night. I was waiting to turn right onto a busy-ish street and a slammed Audi with questionable body panel fit and fart cans drove by. I was able to turn a couple of cars later and ended up in the left turn lane at the next light. Audi was two lanes over in the right turning lane. I looked over and the late teen/early twenties driver had his window open and was looking right at me. I rolled mine down and he yells, "WANNA RACE?!" while gunning his engine. I was in my 1320 Challenger and was trying to figure out how to end the conversation as quickly as possible (even if I had wanted to race, we were turning in different directions with a lane in between us and a car in front of him). I said, "mine is fully stock though, is yours?" He started gunning it to backfire and yelled back, "NO! CAN YOU DO THIS?!" and kept redline gunning it for the backfires. I said "nope" and the light thankfully turned green. I could hear him screaming up the street the opposite direction. Well that's my Kids These Days story.
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Jul 21, 2021 14:45
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Flyinglemur posted:I know the chat about backfire tunes was a couple of pages ago but I just caught up and had an experience in the wild last night. A long time ago when I had my stock KA24DE powered 240sx with 130k miles and multiple oil leaks a guy in an S2k asked to drag race me at a stop light. I told him "Naw!" but he kept revving at me. The light turned green and he kept revving and then got frustrated and sped away, making an abrupt right turn down a street after the stop light and clipping a curb with his back right wheel. 
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Jul 22, 2021 04:44
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It's always great when someone is revving at you at a red light, right in front of a cop, and the cop is already staring the two of you down, knowing he's about to write some tickets, he just isn't sure who he'll be able to write more tickets to yet. It's hilarious when you rev back and bait them into during a burnout, you take off like grandma, and the cop flies past you chasing down that Celica, laughing his rear end off and giving you a thumbs up. Yeah yeah I know, ACAB, but this was around 2000 or 2001, and I was in a ricer Civic that got too much attention. I was more than happy to divert some of that attention to the idiot that couldn't be bothered to look in his mirror before testing his rev limiter and fart cannon. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:38 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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STR posted:Yeah yeah I know, ACAB, but this was around 2000 or 2001, and I was in a ricer Civic that got too much attention. I was more than happy to divert some of that attention to the idiot that couldn't be bothered to look in his mirror before testing his rev limiter and fart cannon. Cops used to pull me over to look at my car and figure out what it bloody was. It was quite loving irritating as it was a tarted up Toyota Sera with un-engineered modifications and the anxiety was annoying. EDIT for content. I put Casey here because he is going from building cool stuff to bitching about commenters instead of just doing the builds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkSXOwxpsUo Humphreys fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Jul 22, 2021 |
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Jul 22, 2021 08:28
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I was pulled aside at the boarder between Denmark and Sweden in my DC5 Integra Type R as the boarder guys wanted to know what it was and get pictures.
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Jul 22, 2021 13:37
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I roared by a cop in Tampa in my Galaxie once and the first thing he said after pulling me over was "whacha got in that thing?" Then he did the "do you know how fast you were going?" and I immediately said "Yes I was doing 61" (it was a 55 and I was prob doing 75-80) Got off with a warning
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Jul 22, 2021 14:13
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I get revved at in my painted Quattro, and I just laugh and go "Of course you are faster than me, that's not what Quattro is for."
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Jul 23, 2021 03:47
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MattO posted:I roared by a cop in Tampa in my Galaxie once and the first thing he said after pulling me over was "whacha got in that thing?" +6 can't tix!
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Jul 23, 2021 04:51
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My brother drove a 71 Plymouth duster that a guy down the street from us had somewhat restored and modified with glass packs. It was loud as hell. He got pulled over several times by the local PD but never got a ticket. Cops just wanted to see what it was and issue a "slow down". This was the 90s in suburbia. These same cops pulled me over years later as a pizza driver and once they remembered you, they left you alone. I mean, can't ticket the drivers from the pizza joint where you get free lunch once a week.
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Jul 23, 2021 05:03
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I never got stopped by the police for anything like that but my 2001 Regal GS got a lot of confused looks by the locals when I was stationed in Sardegna. There was a time I was in rural Sardegna (but I repeat myself) on a road trip and stopped for gas. Two mechanics came out and circled it, speaking Italian the whole time. They got to the back and one of them pointed at the badge and looked at me and said, "BOO-eeck?" I nodded and said "Buick" and they seemed pleased.
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Jul 23, 2021 14:22
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Ha, I've been watching his bee keeping videos as background sound for a while now. Good to see he's still doing neat stuff, though I kind of imagined by the number of subs he has these days.
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Jul 23, 2021 15:02
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Powershift posted:
gently caress these assholes. Catcons should require a proof of origin or licensed scrapper or something, like copper used to (still does?) StormDrain posted:I knew the ending when I saw the first pic and it still upset me. I was thinking “wrong thread”, until the second picture looked a little off to me.
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Darchangel posted:gently caress these assholes. Catcons should require a proof of origin or licensed scrapper or something, like copper used to (still does?) Yep. Mine was cut off my 4runner a few weeks ago. Out $300 so far and still fighting one stupid nut to get the end of the pipe off the header. They cut the upstream O2 sensor wires as well, even though they didn't cut that part off. So I have to solder those back together as well.
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