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I was gonna get the exhaust finished, but got a case of the ole rona yesterday. So, I got everything unboxed and ready to go until I get past the worst of it. Quick question for the thread: Leave these natural, or blast them and get them cerakoted flat black? The supercharger (and bracket) is flat black, as well as the intake plumbing. The coil covers are black/red, so I've been leaning toward black, but I do appreciate the nice stainless headers. 
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davecrazy posted:The last hurrah of ICE.
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davecrazy posted:The last hurrah of ICE. It's everything I hate with a passion and yet I love it. Congrats dude.
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davecrazy posted:Dodge''s mashup of a pony car and an SUV
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PBCrunch posted:That is the American definition of Automotive Insanity. It's a full second faster then my old 03 Mach 1 in the 1/4 mile despite being 1900lbs heavier. And it literally fits the entire family.  It's pure stupid American v8 muscle and I love it.
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@35.5K USD, best value car I have ever driven. about to hit 2000 km in one month and I still laugh at the stupid stuff it will do.
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Qmass posted:@35.5K USD, best value car I have ever driven. about to hit 2000 km in one month and I still laugh at the stupid stuff it will do. Incredibly rude to point out the USD price on this car that the US could have gotten, but didn't.
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car tax can be crazy in Australia so it would probably be even cheaper in America... if you weren't stuck with the hyundai "scion TC" velostar. GTIs start at around 43800 USD and you can't even get them manual anymore, for comparison 
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I hope the resident Danes are going to chime in how that's 73k USD car there 
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Since my older son is about to get his license and I didn’t really want to have him driving a janky old R53 Mini around that’s been giving us more and more issues, I decided to give him my ‘15 Fit and trade the R53 on an R60 Countryman S. It’s for sure a goddamn goofy-rear end dad-mobile, but I enjoy the color, the interior space, and the turbo engine, not to mention the interior isn’t falling apart on the R60 Old vs new   2012 BRG Countryman S 6MT    
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https://i.imgur.com/z2QY4KN.mp4 finally made it through the breakin period
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BraveUlysses posted:https://i.imgur.com/z2QY4KN.mp4 Proper. 
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 My C6 Base. Installed a ZR1 body kit, long tube headers,x pipe, axleback with cutouts, and a vortec supercharger this winter. EvilBeard fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Feb 20, 2022 |
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BraveUlysses posted:https://i.imgur.com/z2QY4KN.mp4 Hell yeah
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Lightbulb Out posted:Hell yeah
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Lightbulb Out posted:Hell yeah
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BraveUlysses posted:https://i.imgur.com/z2QY4KN.mp4 hell yeah
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Lightbulb Out posted:Hell yeah 
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Crosspost from the other thread: Replaced the worn out 33” A/Ts with some 235/75 Blizzaks. Wow these old cars perform much better with the stock sizes. I might need to upgrade the power steering pump before summer when I take it wheeling here in Colorado with another set of 33s.
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Lightbulb Out posted:Hell yeah
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BraveUlysses posted:https://i.imgur.com/z2QY4KN.mp4 yes. perfection. EvilBeard posted:
Hell yeah Imperador do Brasil posted:2012 BRG Countryman S 6MT Fuckin beautiful color you've got there
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Here is the stupid thing I did. And here is what I did to fix it.   I broke the bottom off of the rear shock while changing a shock mount so I replaced everything with Bilsteins/HR sport stuff. Drives great.  .
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Gave it a slight test leaving work Monday. It's still not tuned, but as long as you don't go wot @ high rpm for long it's ok. Otherwise it throws a tps error. https://twitter.com/evilbeard/status/1496249813448409088?t=7vrReZBhQAVTyASVVfTOzg&s=19 EvilBeard fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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EvilBeard posted:Gave it a slight test leaving work Monday. It's still not tuned, but as long as you don't go wot @ high rpm for long it's ok. Otherwise it throws a tps error. Oh, them are purdy sounds.
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EvilBeard posted:Gave it a slight test leaving work Monday. That’s some beautiful music.
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ThirstyBuck posted:Here is the stupid thing I did. youre drat right, using a chrome socket on an impact gun is stupid ThirstyBuck posted:I replaced everything with Bilsteins/HR sport stuff but this isnt stupid EvilBeard posted:Gave it a slight test leaving work Monday. It's still not tuned, but as long as you don't go wot @ high rpm for long it's ok. Otherwise it throws a tps error. this is stupid 
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:pffft, a mega roll of saran wrap from Costco and a My wife and I are shopping for a ute to stop the damage to the Saaaaaaab convertible. Australians love white cars. It's boring. Utility-utes, vehicles bought new by tradies to carry stuff from Bunnings to the client and tow the boat on weekends are always, always white. We came up with a fairly narrow list of requirements, and hoped for something in a colour to show up. Not much is out there, tomorrow we're going to go see a Holden Colorado that ticks the important boxes but not the one about colour. Oh well. Sooner or later we'll buy a crate of plasti-dip and upgrade whatever ute we end up buying.
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My dumb rear end is daily driving in the snow and ice- ‘for reasons’ Reasons are we are buying a house- so no new cars for me at the moment.  
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morethanjake32 posted:My dumb rear end is daily driving in the snow and ice- ‘for reasons’ At least you are doing it in style!
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Humphreys posted:At least you are doing it in style! Yeah, my dumbass has been sitting on a replacement heater core for a year, might have to finally get around to it.
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My 2007 BMW 320d automatic, bought in 2013 and still daily driven with 150,000+ miles on it. Lots of sport equipment, but not a single M badge anywhere. A little worse for wear since the photo was taken in its glory days, and I've had to replace two turbos and an ECU, but it's just such a versatile daily that I can't find a reason to get rid of it. Bought just yesterday, a 1999 Honda Accord Type R. I've wanted one since they came out, and since it was a neighbor selling this I just had to jump on the opportunity. Don't know much about it since it was impossibe to get a straight answer about anything from the guy selling it, but I got it at a price where I can live with that. I got to drive it for all of one hour before the check engine light came on, but a good old ELM327 adapter let me know it was just an O2 sensor. It also has the most ridiculous exhaust with tons of noise in the midrange where absolutely nothing happens, and then silence when it enters VTEC! Oh, and the OEM wheels have studded winter tires on them, which are getting replaced with Michelin PilotSports this week! It's gonna be a fun moneysink this summer! 
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Good post and cars. Make a thread for the RRRRRRRRRR
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"I did something stupid" - I bought a V6 ute with 170 kg of extra weight on the back end and drove it up from the coast the day petrol prices shot past $2/L. Our new-to-us ute. by ExecuDork, on Flickr Our new-to-us ute. by ExecuDork, on Flickr Our new-to-us ute. by ExecuDork, on Flickr2004 Holden Rodeo with the 3.5L V6 and 290 000 km. We're going to name it "Matilda", probably. Names for cars are always provisional until they feel right, of course. My wife and I found this on Gumtree about 3 weeks ago and made arrangements to go down to test drive it a couple of weekends ago, and we decided to buy it right then. That trip coincided with some of the worst weather to hit the east coast of Australia in a long time. Long stupid story of stupidity short, we couldn't drive home because the ute was behaving very poorly - surging and stalling, not consistently but at seemingly random times. Losing power in the middle of a roundabout off the highway at 60 km/h scared the poo poo out of my wife, and the torrential rain and darkness didn't help any. We'd bought it from a little independent dealer selling mostly through Gumtree, and he turned out to be an excellent person. We dropped it off at his place and went home, and he had his mechanic check it out - and they diagnosed a stretched timing belt. The service records said it had last been done at 210 000 km so we should have been good for another 20 000 km. That explained the symptoms - terrible fuel efficiency (3/4 of tank burned over 250 km of flat highway) in addition to the surging and stalling - and the seller paid for our new timing belt, saving us around $1000 and the risk of something bad happening climbing up the 375 km and more than 1000 m elevation gain to get home. The party trick for this ute is the tail lift. We found the owners manual and the seller went over the operation of it when we bought it but we haven't actually tried it yet. I'm itching for something big and heavy to pick up, the load limit is 500 kg (and the max load for the ute is a tonne). This will save wear on the Saab. I've learned my lesson, while it's fun for a while and seems to work that way, a convertible is not a ute. EDIT: annoyingly, I cannot find a DIY manual for this car. Haynes/Chilton skipped the RA chassis, 2003-2008 and nobody else even tried to publish a book for this vehicle. I can find 6000-page PDF shop manuals but I'd rather have something that does not assume I have access to a lift and pneumatic tools. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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ExecuDork posted:New With that lift, be prepared to be on speed-dial for everyone wanting to move poo poo.
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