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I would have been ok if they'd called it the GalaxiE Also the first Mache I ever saw was parked outside an exhaust shop, like, what tomfuckery is going on there
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This is a very informative video as always with these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oErNuV0pwk0
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A good thread on Indian tractor steez https://twitter.com/tubegobbled/status/1486102908651331591?s=20 *edit: and an INSANELY good M1: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/27526/lot/237/         Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Jan 26, 2022 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A good thread on Indian tractor steez Holy poo poo it's actually built on a Sauber C9 and is powered by an SBC. 
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Rotten car gets dragged out of a field and resurrected. The "secret chassis is just Miata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9XOvOP7eW0
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^ Similarly Driftworks dropped an oooooold (1972) Hilux on top of an MX5 (Miata) and called it the Hi5. It's cool as poo poo. https://youtu.be/L5ca4OC56yg https://www.driftworks.com/blog/our-cars/james-hi-5/ 
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Left Ventricle posted:Rotten car gets dragged out of a field and resurrected. Didn't take a lot to get the shell off of the old chassis, did it? I love the fact that he just muscled the body onto the Roadster chassis. No lifts or hoists here, brah.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:^ Similarly Driftworks dropped an oooooold (1972) Hilux on top of an MX5 (Miata) and called it the Hi5. It's cool as poo poo. Here's another cool example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9XOvOP7eW0
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mobby_6kl posted:It's cool but feels bizarre when they swap the Miata drivetrain INTO a car to make it faster. You appear to have missed the post immediately before the post you quoted.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:A good thread on Indian tractor steez This is loving amazingly badass There is a n62b44 for cheap round here. If only there were blueprints for an M1. It would have higher chances of completion than my e30 I didnt touch in 2 years.
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That AI twitter design bot occasionally puts out bangers. https://twitter.com/noahpasaran/status/1486795529619083264?t=bQFPeXREVoqFR09XpUUHAQ&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That AI twitter design bot occasionally puts out bangers. for some reason i can see that being MR like one of those mad Peugeots
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Darchangel posted:You appear to have missed the post immediately before the post you quoted. Yes i did miss it, oops
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mobby_6kl posted:Yes i did miss it, oops No worries. That's a great video.
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If you're old like me, you'll recognize it:
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There used to be one of those Smokey and the bandit cars at a dealership near me and I’d just go stare at it.
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VideoGameVet posted:If you're old like me, you'll recognize it: Ok now that is cool.
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No car is too small to be useful. https://twitter.com/TheAn1meMan/status/1484200964924256256?t=gMzz2XjaeTEycLXPZMZfqA&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:No car is too small to be useful. Awesome. The ghost of ancient noodle truckers lives on. Tiny little sheds on wheels with a few gas burners and a water tank, all driven by a motorcycle engine. Think a hole-in-the-wall noodle vendor on wheels. The system of taxation in Japan at the time meant registration was very inexpensive, which was good because a lot of those guys lived in the truck. You'll see them in pictures taken in Japan from the early 50s until maybe the 70s. They also figure in many novels set during those times, books by Kobo Abe in particular. This is a good example of mundane poo poo that is mostly forgotten, even by people who lived through the era. Come to think of it, Abe includes a little car content in every book I've read by him. It's usually little car content, too.
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^ I clearly need to do a bit more research on this, thank you! And I adore this: https://twitter.com/iamvndre/status/1487886444630786048?t=nH8__8VKTR_3Cx1nNsXNzw&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:And I adore this:  That is loving amazing.
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Volvo had a 60* v8 built like the ford sho? what? sound so good I wasted half an evening learning about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ3jXFJMVrc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErsP3csZv9U
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no lube so what posted:Volvo had a 60* v8 built like the ford sho? what? They had a few issues in the XC90 - there was a failure mode that would dump water right onto critical bearing(?) in the vee, for example. That was fixed, but it was still slightly compromised to make it fit in the available space. Still, the noise the race engine made gives me goosebumps, and the XC90 there sounds great. The engine is built by Yamaha, so it's not a complete pile. You could also get it in the S80. And Yamaha made an offshore outboard using the block, with reverse flow heads (exhaust in the vee)! edit: an exposed balance shaft bearing was the issue: https://blog.fcpeuro.com/the-dark-side-of-volvos-excellent-v8 Nice noises from the Volvo-derived V8 in a Noble M600 on that page, BTW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QU9KE98-mY edit2: now I want to put the Volvo V8 and transaxle in the back of something unsuspecting... Darchangel fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fRP5u1Wwg One of the best final laps ever, Scott McLaughlin in the Volvo on debut. Watch the whole thing, it's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jezbabdxFc
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that's hella dope BuckyDoneGun posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fRP5u1Wwg holy poo poo, that's some racing. dude was ~20-21 in that Volvo? what a crazy skilled dude
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no lube so what posted:that's hella dope Yeah about that age. I wasn't clear, it was the *cars* debut round, not his, however it was only his second season and in that second clip he's battling Jamie Whincup, who at the time had 4 Bathurst and 5 Championship wins under his belt. Scott went on to win 3 championships and 1 Bathurst before moving to race Indycar with Penske.
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Darchangel posted:edit2: now I want to put the Volvo V8 and transaxle in the back of something unsuspecting... I’ve wanted to do this exact thing with this exact motor for so long that I’ve been casually shopping for engines and cars. Apparently with some hackery some of the Volvo manual transmissions can be forced to work. Dr Rocksalt fucked around with this message at 07:52 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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Get owned. https://twitter.com/boring_cars/status/1488470793390641153?s=20&t=hUIPNQFSktAL32sVt8Bi5A Oh and you can have the coolest AZ-1 too as a treat. https://twitter.com/onesfd/status/1488375396533821440?s=20&t=hUIPNQFSktAL32sVt8Bi5A Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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EFB Edit2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peYUBZHf20Q McTinkerson fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Feb 1, 2022 |
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Darchangel posted:They had a few issues in the XC90 - there was a failure mode that would dump water right onto critical bearing(?) in the vee, for example. That was fixed, but it was still slightly compromised to make it fit in the available space. Still, the noise the race engine made gives me goosebumps, and the XC90 there sounds great. The engine is built by Yamaha, so it's not a complete pile. You could also get it in the S80. You and no lube so what probably already know this, but the Yamaha 60* V-8 as deployed in the guppy SHO had a pretty severe issue as well. The cam gears are basically friction-fit onto the ends of the cams with no keyways or anything. Eventually the gear can slip a little and the valves and the pistons get put into a violent speed-dating scenario. The most popular solution to this issue is to weld the cam gear and the camshaft together. Ford Zetec motors as found in Escort ZX2s and old Focus models had similar issues, but the engines were non-interference. How hard is it to machine in a keyway?
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This is more likely terrible than awesome but it made the jr. high boy in me chuckle seeing it in traffic. Somebody was driving a new taurus sho and put some stick on chrome letters "CLI" on the rear bumper left of the main "Taurus" badge. Saw it so briefly I couldn't get pic. 
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PBCrunch posted:... The cam gears are basically friction-fit onto the ends of the cams with no keyways or anything. The Mazda MZR 2.3 had something like this involving some friction washers for the cam hears/VVT I think. Something about using special one time use washers that had a diamond coating. I don't understand why keyways aren't uses as standard.
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Kind of a side bar.... In the industrial sphere, keyless locks for mounting on shafts are fairly common. Their clamping force is significantly better than size on size/"most" interference fits with key. All the torque clamping is distributed around the shaft as opposed to be focused right on the key... and they work exceptionally well. Keys actually become detrimental to the holding capacity as that becomes an area on the shaft with zero clamping force and the keys themselves may become stress risers... or, worse yet, too lose of fit and the key becomes the only thing holding them in place. That's when we often see sheared or rolled keys. THAT SAID, the systems they seem to use in automotive obviously aren't the same. I suspect it's a mixture of production/machining cost and physical size constraints. A ring of mechanical fasteners around a 20mm shaft is probably not going to fly when it comes time to implement. The industrial keyless lock systems use a ring of mechanical fasteners and a tapered sleeve to drive the taper and increase the clamping force on the shaft. Something like this: http://www.tsubaki.ca/products/ptu-components/power-locks/ It would be pretty cool if they could downsize this to work on automotive sized applications but the costs would probably be prohibitive.
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VideoGameVet posted:If you're old like me, you'll recognize it: I mean, I think I have to quote it.
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This one will probably be easier to get. https://twitter.com/TamiyaUK/status/1488806901349445635?s=20&t=DygBWr02PGg54AivxO_rJw And hell yeah. https://twitter.com/TakuroSpirit/status/1488901953468104705?s=20&t=-LS5Z02tYBrsEl0lJ4kG_A What the gently caress is going on?! https://twitter.com/TakuroSpirit/status/1488903098311614465?t=x905lzkoMbBzFkRgZnmsXA&s=19 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Feb 2, 2022 |
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Soon-to-be engine donors.
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Assuming you had winter tires (big assumption for these randos I know) wouldn't it be as good as any other rwd?
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Even then, there's the lack of traction control (vs a modern rwd), the huge mountain of torque and in this case the width of those tires is going to be a negative. Could you safely drive it in those conditions? Probably, but anybody with the sense to do so would likely try to avoid doing it.
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