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um excuse me posted:I think hydrogen is a dead end. Once we figure out we dont have enough resources to make enough batteries to give every EV 400 miles of range, we'll move onto 50 mile battery packs + range extenders. You can mark my words on that one. hydrogen range extenders.
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Bringing it back around to awesome, range extenders operate in a different regime from a regular ICE, they operate at peak torque continuously for hours on end. It requires them to be built closer to plane engines than car engines. This means that you can also start using smaller aircraft powerplants. This includes turbines. I hope you can see where I am going with this.
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um excuse me posted:I hope you can see where I am going with this.  burnouts for distance world records
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um excuse me posted:Bringing it back around to awesome, range extenders operate in a different regime from a regular ICE, they operate at peak torque continuously for hours on end. It requires them to be built closer to plane engines than car engines. This means that you can also start using smaller aircraft powerplants. This includes turbines. I hope you can see where I am going with this. They're more similar to train engines. What I'm saying is 
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um excuse me posted:This includes turbines. I hope you can see where I am going with this. Football-sized turbofan range extenders running biodiesel?
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um excuse me posted:This includes turbines. I hope you can see where I am going with this. So you're saying I'm finally getting my jet cars?
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BRING BACK THE TURBONIQUE DRAG AXLE!!!
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um excuse me posted:Bringing it back around to awesome, range extenders operate in a different regime from a regular ICE, they operate at peak torque continuously for hours on end. It requires them to be built closer to plane engines than car engines. This means that you can also start using smaller aircraft powerplants. This includes turbines. I hope you can see where I am going with this. Aircraft engines are archaic and hidebound due to inertia and difficulty of certification, so, no thanks. Peak small aircraft engine is a 50 year old Lycoming. A small APU turbine, though... Hydrogen is stupid, but internal combustion will still have a use for rough areas, wilderness, middle of Africa, etc. until solar cells and alternative power generation from remote areas gets a lot cheaper. Nidhg00670000 posted:So you're saying I'm finally getting my jet cars? This would be welcome.
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OK so I have a new project that I am gauging interest in. Not long ago I imported a rare DVR version of the PS2 that has a LOT of TV broadcast recordings on it. I'm ripping all the footage now in a stupidly complicated method but in the end I would like to have all movies/shows/ads separated and archived. Thinking of setting up a YouTube channel dedicated to the advertising, especially the car advertisements. So far I've seen a few Nissan ads circa 2002 but very keen to see what else. So my question is, are many of you interested in this project and should I bother documenting it as I go for your entertainment? I don't want to spam threads with constant posts.
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Hell yeah, archive and document that poo poo!
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Humphreys posted:OK so I have a new project that I am gauging interest in. Not long ago I imported a rare DVR version of the PS2 that has a LOT of TV broadcast recordings on it. I'm ripping all the footage now in a stupidly complicated method but in the end I would like to have all movies/shows/ads separated and archived. Also reupload The videos to Vimeo or something. Googles ai is very good at deleting normal videos that happen to have a 3 second audio sample of anything copyright even fair use.
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Humphreys posted:OK so I have a new project that I am gauging interest in. Not long ago I imported a rare DVR version of the PS2 that has a LOT of TV broadcast recordings on it. I'm ripping all the footage now in a stupidly complicated method but in the end I would like to have all movies/shows/ads separated and archived. There's a few retro TV posters on Tiktok, and I've seen quite a few old NZ/Au car ads, was thinking of sourcing and throwing some up so go for it. Edit: like, whatevers going on here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt8jU2nQTDw BuckyDoneGun fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Feb 19, 2022 |
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KozmoNaut posted:Hell yeah, archive and document that poo poo! Thanks for the support! A teaser:  
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I don't think this has been posted yet... Extremely awesome car poo poo imo https://twitter.com/AutoBant/status/1494766795957354501?s=20&t=2YoOVCfFqCiz91buubEbow
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So the car at 0:46 is the Chevrolet Mako Shark II/Manta Ray. In addition to the loving air brakes (which is what caught my attention,) it also had a digital speedometer. In 1965. I sadly cannot find a picture of the dashboard actually on, so the interior will have to do.  It was built in 1965 as the Mako Shark II. Alongside the Mako Shark, the pair were a design exercise that led directly to the C3 Corvette. In 1969 it was returned to the GM design center for updates, mostly consisting of exterior styling changes, but also replacement of the existing 427 (probably an L72, but I can’t find confirmation) with the infamous ZL1. 
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Everything I've seen said it was the engine that became the L72, which makes total sense given the big block evolution timeline. It was definitely a Mark IV, which narrows it down to L72 or L36, and it wouldn't make any sense to be an L36.
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Mr_Chicken posted:I don't think this has been posted yet... Extremely awesome car poo poo imo What's the car at 0:39?
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MrYenko posted:1959 Cadillac Cyclone The antithesis of crash protection.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:There's a few retro TV posters on Tiktok, and I've seen quite a few old NZ/Au car ads, was thinking of sourcing and throwing some up so go for it. God I haven't seen that ad since, well, 1988. Supposedly the Falcon they submerged was completely hosed when it got pulled out of the water. Kinda goes with the quality control and head gaskets issues that model had
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I went back a months in this thread and it doesn't seem like this has been posted. I don't really follow jalopnik but went there to check on the Changli I think, and clicked my way through to this eventually. https://jalopnik.com/i-bought-the-worlds-most-hopeless-jeep-bringing-it-bac-1846836392 This David Tracy guy is apparently an absolute nutter. He bought this horrible, horrible Jeep sight unseen, bought an LX470 and drove it 2000 miles to fix the FC in place. It's waaaay worse than anything I've seen on Roadkill. He spends like 3 weeks sleeping in the Lexus to fix it and then goes offroading. It's very AI.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very good Mercedes Friend of mine and I were going to something like this to a 240D of the same generation. Got as far as him buying the car, minus engine and rear axle, from my uncle’s wrecking yard (no, he no longer owns the wrecking yard, darn it.) This was in like 1987, so it would n Have been an SBC or big-block. Never got around to it. The car was sold for scrap some time in the 90s as I recall. Wish he’d kept it.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very good Mercedes doing a Vince McMahon reaction going from the LS pic to the car phone
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mobby_6kl posted:This David Tracy guy is apparently an absolute nutter. He bought this horrible, horrible Jeep sight unseen, bought an LX470 and drove it 2000 miles to fix the FC in place. It's waaaay worse than anything I've seen on Roadkill. He spends like 3 weeks sleeping in the Lexus to fix it and then goes offroading. It's very AI. Reminds me of a similar horrible goon saga. gently caress you Dave. Not this David -- the sexual predator one.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very good Mercedes I've seen in Australia someone putting a 351 Cleveland under the bonnet of a W116 series S Class
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NumptyScrub posted:Not to mention hydrogen has a tendency to make metals brittle, so replacing pressurised hydrogen fuel tanks needs to be a fairly regular thing if you don't want it to shatter unexpectedly Not quite how hydrogen embrittlement works  Admittedly though, without googling I'm unsure how much actually has been written about hydrogen embrittlement on metals from just the presence of raw hydrogen. But generally that's something that only happens during the processing stage during high energy operations (e.g. welding, plating, etc) and not something that occurs out in service. A 'failure due to hydrogen embrittlement' is basically saying that that part was hosed up the moment it came out of manufacturing and it wasn't gotten rid of using any of the recommended hydrogen bake out treatments, so it was inevitable it was going to fail.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very good Mercedes Reminds me of this beauty. https://www.lsxmag.com/features/car-features/the-red-pig-josh-stahls-ls-powered-1969-mercedes-benz-280sel/
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm so bookmarking thispost Wouldn't it be neat if I got consecutive probes so the pics all showed up in order on my rap sheet :P EDIT: sixxers each morning and I promise to be good as to not destroy the combo getting probed elsewhere Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Feb 21, 2022 |
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Ror posted:doing a Vince McMahon reaction going from the LS pic to the car phone It just puts it over the top for me too. I love it. Powershift posted:Reminds me of this beauty. This owns bones too, hell yeah.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Very good Mercedes You can build this car in GTA: Online. I think one of the cosmetic engine mods even makes the engine look like a modern V8. That color doesn't quite exist, but you could get close with "Gasoline Green" (maybe, I forget) metallic with a light blue as the pearlescent layer.
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Elmnt80 posted:I'll admit, I laughed. Congrats bro  it feels good to laugh. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I'm so bookmarking thispost serious vibes on thispost 
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ishikabibble posted:Not quite how hydrogen embrittlement works Veering away from awesome, but raw hydrogen storage tanks do get hydrogen migration into their surfaces which rearranges crystal structure at the surface, hardening it. This can lead to premature failure of pressure vessels. That's more hydrogen permeation or hydrogen migration rather than "embrittlement." I read up on hydrogen fuel cell storage stuff, and they were figuring that anything over 10kPSI wasn't really worth it anymore because it took too much energy to pump the hydrogen to that pressure. At 10kPSI, there's a LOT of opportunity for the very tiny molecules of hydrogen to just work their way into the metal directly.
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Powershift posted:They're more similar to train engines. What I'm saying is I think I've found my camper conversion project
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