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kastein posted:Well goddamn that was a hell of a story. He should try it again with all alloy block LS motors. The Unlimited class is basically dead at this point in terms of competition or development, since the core airplanes are too expensive for an event that happens one weekend a year, and the really fast airplanes are all retired to museums or grounded for various financial reasons. As someone put it; "You buy a P-51 for $2 million, spend another $1 million modifying it, and now it's maybe worth $1 million because no one wants a modified Mustang". For the last few years, the Unlimited Gold race was basically Voodoo or Strega showing up, running something like 100mph faster than everyone else on the first lap, and then backing way down on the speed for the remaining seven laps to keep their engine from exploding. The Bronze and Sliver classes are basically just rich people flying warbirds in circles without really pushing the airplanes, so there's basically zero competition involved. Where the interesting racing and building is happening is the Sport class, since the rules are simply that the airplane has to be an FAA certified, kit, plans, or amateur built airplane, using a piston engine (or engines) with no more than 1000 cu. in. total displacement, capable of at least 200mph. Since those rules are deliberately vague, the class has a ton of people entering everything from an RV-7 that'll do maybe 250mph to a heavily modified Lancair or a Glasair that run massively boosted engines (and occasionally nitrous oxide) and can crack the 400mph mark. The number of entrants means the racing is usually a hell of a lot better than the Unlimited airplanes, and since the airplanes are significantly more affordable, it's also a class that has a future, whereas the Unlimiteds are basically a dying breed.
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I'm going to assume that early 2000s MB ML 320s have air-ride. Why am I going to assume that?   (I apologize for the quality. The new Viofo dashcam is great, but the glare from driving east in the morning killed the front view, and I passed under a bridge just as the car came into frame on the rear camera, meaning I had to wait until it was further away but in the light before cropping the frame.) Because this fellow seems to have lost the front half. Spotted on the drive into the office this morning, captured on my dash cam. Poor dude was bouncing his way down the highway on the bump-stops, seriously tucking the front tires. I presume that he recently learned the lesson that just because you can afford an older Mercedes-Benz doesn't mean you can afford the maintenance.
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BraveUlysses posted:sigh I'm pretty sure I have a k24a8 valve cover just sitting around. Yours for the price of shipping (I'm in NY). They're also EVERYWHERE in junkyards these days, and about 10 minutes to get out.
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Darchangel posted:I'm going to assume that early 2000s MB ML 320s have air-ride. SK Motorsports on Youtube had an older MB minivan and it was threatening to leave them stranded, like it had a hard limit to how many starts they had left while he towed his custom time attack car (with no mufflers!) to Laguna Seca from Canada.
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But enough video of your Playskool train
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You had one job! <turns> So did you! Thank you for giving me a genuine laugh out loud moment at work. 
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Feb 7, 2022 22:40
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I didn’t know the Metro games were real
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No context or details but it certainly looks like a horrible mechanical failure! https://twitter.com/Russia_NC/status/1491690399747948547
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Pile Of Garbage posted:No context or details but it certainly looks like a horrible mechanical failure! Easily escape an imminent accident! Tuck and roll! Tuck and roll!
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Horrible mechanic failures https://streamable.com/94z9jd Forgive the commentary I was rather giddily stupefied at the condition I do not have carnage pictures as I simply had the shop doing my tires do the wheel bearing as well. Bonus: they did the alignment before the wheel bearing and then got snooty when I pointed out that an alignment on a wheel bearing with a loving half-inch of lateral runout at the rim probably isn't valid. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Feb 12, 2022 |
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Feb 12, 2022 01:14
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Pile Of Garbage posted:No context or details but it certainly looks like a horrible mechanical failure! Needs some body work but is still functioning mechanically. Beautiful sick week carnage: https://www.motortrend.com/features/honda-civic-drag-racing-engine-explosion-failure/  He missed a day and got it back together for today, but i think he blew it up again.
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Couple from work today. Even though it's now the "slow" season, it mostly means a higher percentage of what does show up is extra hosed. "Customer says wheel cracked. Replace with wheel from back seat"  This one was great, because it was all on the inside. I started rolling it away from the car before I really noticed 
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Feb 12, 2022 03:06
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PitViper posted:
Seems like a cooper tire sub brand?
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It's a Discount Tire house brand, which means it's probably an otherwise-discontinued version of a tire that a major manufacturer is making for Discount.
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Powershift posted:Needs some body work but is still functioning mechanically. Man that block is so thin, really needs some external reinforcement.
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CommieGIR posted:Man that block is so thin, really needs some external reinforcement. Good advertisement for those head studs though! Also from what I read from Frieburgers socials, they lost control of their wastegate and that thing pegged out a 7 bar map sensor before it went kaboom!
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Powershift posted:Needs some body work but is still functioning mechanically. Just get some ratchet straps, problem solved
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You Am I posted:Just get some ratchet straps, problem solved This seems like a great dumb idea for Project Farm or someone like that, see how many bolts holding together an engine can be replaced with straps while still keeping the combustion internal.
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wolrah posted:This seems like a great dumb idea for Project Farm or someone like that, see how many bolts holding together an engine can be replaced with straps while still keeping the combustion internal. That's a Garage 54 quality idea.
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Complete with 'we'll be removing the bolts as the engine is running'
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wolrah posted:This seems like a great dumb idea for Project Farm or someone like that, see how many bolts holding together an engine can be replaced with straps while still keeping the combustion internal. Seventeen rolls of duct tape later... I mean, I kept my '65 Fury's 383 on the road after the (at the time, NLA) driver's side motor mount decided to become a 2-piece by wrapping it in over 100-feet of button & carpet thread. Necessity, mother, etc.
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wolrah posted:This seems like a great dumb idea for Project Farm or someone like that, see how many bolts holding together an engine can be replaced with straps while still keeping the combustion internal. I would be totally down with seeing something like that. If you use studs, but not nuts to clamp it down, that would keep head, gasket and block aligned. Only issue I can see is sealing between head, gasket and block good enough to "probably" contain combustion without cranking the ratchet straps down hard enough that they might crush the valve cover to the point they may interfere with the cams and/or rocker arms. Otherwise, gently caress FUCKIN YEAH!!
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Start with an engine that has a cast aluminum valvecover instead of steel or plastic, go hog wild.
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You Am I posted:Just get some ratchet straps, problem solved The alcohol burning Briggs & Stratton motors in the quarter midgets have 1” plates tied together with allthread rod to help keep the heads on the block. They make just a little bit more power than stock.
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Super twin drag bikes also have a strap around the engine, because anything coming up from the front cylinder will be thrown directly in-front of the rider's face and the rear cylinder is typically pointing at their stomach 
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Came across this right as it happened - I was literally walking past and there was a loud clunk.  Driveshaft made an unplanned exit from the gearbox when the car turned left off the roundabout. I stuck around to help the guy because he totally blocked the road. Winching it up onto the recovery truck was wince inducing: https://i.imgur.com/KQKfniE.mp4
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Owner has been ignoring some relatively inexpensive noises for a long time for that to happen (and it got a shitload more expensive - new control arm, new strut, new tire, new brake line from what I can see). Ball joints aren't that expensive to have done, and they usually protest a bit before they let go like that.
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Pretty much what I was going to say. I’ve seen a number of “ball joint popped loose” vehicles on the side of the road in my life. That ballpoint there was dry as a bone.
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I've been avoiding looking under my car so that I can act surprised when everything related to the front wheels falls off
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AirRaid posted:Came across this right as it happened - I was literally walking past and there was a loud clunk. Driver's been wondering for months what that GROINK sound on bumps was I like how the flatbed operator gives that tiny effort to turn the wheel in. They got lucky. A new lower control arm & balljoint assembly, strut, check & service of the tie rod assembly, followed by an alignment, should put it back into service. Then get new front tires. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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Yeah they got lucky that the failure didn't lead to a collision with another object and also that the fender and driver's door don't appear to have taken any serious damage.
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AirRaid posted:Came across this right as it happened - I was literally walking past and there was a loud clunk. Goddamn. I had something simliar happen but lucked out with my truck driver; He used a hydraulic jack (like the one you have in your garage with the wheels) to jack up the tire and slowly got that thing up on the bed of the truck without too much issue.
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right he coudl have stuck it on a dolly and pulled it up.
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My friend Jack ignored the GRONKKKKKKK noise over bumps for like 50k miles on his 94ish Honda Accord and it snapped in half on a pothole 200ft from my driveway after a BBQ one day. He was lucky, he was doing like 5mph. So we jacked/dragged it onto my car dolly and pulled it back down the hill and fixed it the next day. Which, due to Honda being stupid in the early 90s, involved a balljoint, new unit bearing, and new brakes. We also did the other side brakes, bearing, and balljoint at the same time because of that. They buried the balljoint underneath the unit bearing, meaning you have to take it out first to get a press on it which usually destroys it on those cars in the rust belt, and since they use captive brake rotors and it had needed brakes forever, we did those too. Great design. It also needed a CV shaft on the side that actually broke because, well, that's what happens 
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The only thing more expensive than vehicle maintenance is not doing it.
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STR posted:Owner has been ignoring some relatively inexpensive noises for a long time for that to happen (and it got a shitload more expensive - new control arm, new strut, new tire, new brake line from what I can see). Ball joints aren't that expensive to have done, and they usually protest a bit before they let go like that. I had been getting some weird grinding and scraping on turns for a few days, so I took my work truck (Ram 2500 with ~220k) by the yard and the head mechanic looked at it. Couldn't reproduce, somehow. He shrugged, figured he had more important heavy equipment to work on, and told me to "drive it until it presents itself" Well literally that night on my way home, I bumped over the expansion joint on a bridge and my passenger front wheel bearing failed and my truck started pulling hard right for the side of the bridge. Not loving cool. Limped to where I could pull over and that tire had helllla camber now. I guess I'm lucky it didn't loving fall off. Arrath fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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kastein posted:My friend Jack ignored the GRONKKKKKKK noise over bumps for like 50k miles on his 94ish Honda Accord and it snapped in half on a pothole 200ft from my driveway after a BBQ one day. He was lucky, he was doing like 5mph. So we jacked/dragged it onto my car dolly and pulled it back down the hill and fixed it the next day. Ain't Honda double-wishbone great? Getting the bearing assembly out of one is an excellent anger-management technique.
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PainterofCrap posted:Ain't Honda double-wishbone great? Getting the bearing assembly out of one is an excellent anger-management technique. great till it aint. Then its 47 out of 10 swears to unfuck the goddamned thing.
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