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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:
Thirding this, do not, under any circumstances put all seasons on this, either use a winter beater or get a set of snow tires+rims.
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I get the all seasons hate but I think it depends on where you live. I live in the PNW where it only snows maybe 1 week per year but rains all the time. Winter gets close to or below freezing on a number of days, but a lot of other days are in the 40s-50s. I switch from summer tires to all seasons once it starts to get cold.
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Sep 7, 2023 17:32
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Same. In Chicagoland, I hate the in-between parts of the seasons where it’ll be 70F one day and 35F the next day. I do have a set of snow tires for the winter months.
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Sep 7, 2023 17:44
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That’s where im at. The stock rubber apparently gets white knuckle under 40 degrees but more often then not when I leave for work in the fall and winter before it snows it will be that cold, but then it will warm up to 40+. But actual ‘no poo poo it’s snowing’ might only be a few days out of a few weeks during the heart of the winter. davecrazy fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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Sep 7, 2023 18:08
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Unpopular opinion, but unless you’re really pushing it, I doubt you’d tell much difference in an ultra high performance all season (michelin ps4/bfg comp force) compared to a summer. You’ll also have better performance in wet and cold bumper seasons, if that’s a thing in your neck of the woods. You’ll still want a set of winter tires if winter happens around you, though.
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Sep 7, 2023 18:18
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Love my Pilot Sport A/S 4s.
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Full Collapse posted:Love my Pilot Sport A/S 4s. Sames
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Sep 7, 2023 23:44
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Probably going to put those on my car because they have better dry and wet traction than the lovely Pirellis that came on it and it does get down to freezing/below here and I'd like to be able to drive sometimes. The Pirellis are only rated down to something stupid like 54 F. It's never going to see snow so whatever.
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Just picked this up yesterday. I'll be posting a project thread once in get things going, but what I know is it's a 1966 Satellite with a 440 stroked to 512 putting out 696hp/630ft-lbs and a "racing transmission". Right now I'd like to turn it into something for the street but it needs a lot before I feel comfortable trying to start it or anything. When the PO died, he was in the process of tracking down an oil leak, the driveshaft isn't installed, it doesn't have spark plugs, and one of the valve covers is missing some hardware. This is my first car from before 1985, first carbureted engine, first true project. There's a lot I don't know about the car but I have a couple hundred pages of documentation and receipts to go through to try to figure poo poo out.     
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two_beer_bishes posted:Just picked this up yesterday. I'll be posting a project thread once in get things going, but what I know is it's a 1966 Satellite with a 440 stroked to 512 putting out 696hp/630ft-lbs and a "racing transmission". Right now I'd like to turn it into something for the street but it needs a lot before I feel comfortable trying to start it or anything. When the PO died, he was in the process of tracking down an oil leak, the driveshaft isn't installed, it doesn't have spark plugs, and one of the valve covers is missing some hardware. That is one hell of a loving project. Start a thread.
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Said I wasn't going to buy anything else for the car well until these came up on ebay. NOS Advan RGII with a production date of 2008, wanted to get AD09's but the only size that would've worked was 245/40/18 which is a bit too much for a standard car. So ended up going with Michelin Cup2's instead in 225/40/18, the standard wheels still had the factory primacy tyres on. Although they had plenty of tread they were from 2018 so they were pretty crappy feeling, I'm still amazed how much difference good tyres makes to a car. These are going to be my track wheels for a bit until I find another set of probably slightly less nice wheels hopefully.  Edit: The most nervewracking thing was seeing if the tyre place was able to swap the TPMS valves from the std wheels to the advans, luckily they were able to do it as having the tpms light on at MOT time means it would fail. Also it's just super annoying to have warning lights lit up on the dash. I didn't want to have to go out and buy a TPMS coding tool and sensors to do it myself either. For my second set of wheels I'll most likely be buying a device that plugs into the canbus network on the car that will let me disable the tpms light when needed and I can just turn it on when using the wheels with the sensors. track day bro! fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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two_beer_bishes posted:Just picked this up yesterday. I'll be posting a project thread once in get things going, but what I know is it's a 1966 Satellite with a 440 stroked to 512 putting out 696hp/630ft-lbs and a "racing transmission". Right now I'd like to turn it into something for the street but it needs a lot before I feel comfortable trying to start it or anything. When the PO died, he was in the process of tracking down an oil leak, the driveshaft isn't installed, it doesn't have spark plugs, and one of the valve covers is missing some hardware. alright here we loving go!
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track day bro! posted:Said I wasn't going to buy anything else for the car well until these came up on ebay. NOS Advan RGII with a production date of 2008, wanted to get AD09's but the only size that would've worked was 245/40/18 which is a bit too much for a standard car. So ended up going with Michelin Cup2's instead in 225/40/18, the standard wheels still had the factory primacy tyres on. Although they had plenty of tread they were from 2018 so they were pretty crappy feeling, I'm still amazed how much difference good tyres makes to a car. You must have infinity grip now. I cannot imagine a car that lightweight and that power with tires like that.  It was CruiserFest this weekend at the Land Cruiser Heritage museum. Not my own ride, but maybe one day 
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two_beer_bishes posted:Just picked this up yesterday. I'll be posting a project thread once in get things going, but what I know is it's a 1966 Satellite with a 440 stroked to 512 putting out 696hp/630ft-lbs and a "racing transmission". Right now I'd like to turn it into something for the street but it needs a lot before I feel comfortable trying to start it or anything. When the PO died, he was in the process of tracking down an oil leak, the driveshaft isn't installed, it doesn't have spark plugs, and one of the valve covers is missing some hardware. meatpimp posted:That is one hell of a loving project. Start a thread. and get some oil in the cylinders and install spark plugs like now.
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I'm a dumb loving bastard with brainworms for 80s cars and almost zero mechanical experience. So I decided to give up a perfectly sorted '87 951 for something worse.  + Looks good in photos. + M30B35 / manual + Survived Trail of the Dragon on the way back home. + Cardinal red interior. I love the interior design in general. + AC works + Recent clutch and brake work. + Lower control arms, tie rod ends, anti-sway bar replaced. + New tires + Interior switches/electronics/lights all work. + Same dusty crayon smell that apparently all these 80s German cars have. + Fat fuckin folder of service records going back to original purchase. + Overall I really like it. Has some of the characteristics I liked in the 944 but in an overall larger/comfier/more aggressive package. +/- Front seats are black cloth Recaros, apparently period correct, works with stock electronic adjustment switches, but I still want matching red leather sport seats. +/- Cardinal red is worn and faded. Plan to sand and re-dye. Black vinyl/plastics in good shape except for cracks in dash. - Looks like poo poo in person. Pretty bad rust on wheel wells, especially rears. - I think there's an exhaust leak somewhere up front. Can smell it with windows down. Mixes terribly with the Black Ice Little Trees the previous owner had stuffed away. - Bucks/surges at light throttle around 2k RPM, like for maintaining speed. Throttle positioning sensor maybe? - AC (R134a conversion) is pitiful and died randomly on the way home. Got it started again by running over a particularly bad pothole. - Oil gauge light randomly flickers. - The yellow headlights randomly flicker, so the PO disconnected them. I'm hoping this is just a relay issue. - Odometer doesn't work, unsurprisingly. - Lower bumper attached by zipties in matching BMW blue! - Some of the items in the fat fuckin folder of service records are still problems today (the exhaust smell in the cabin being one). I'd like to make this into a reliable car for fun and errands but uhhhhh. Also, bonus 88 XJSC I decided was gonna be my first project car. Did I tell you about the brainworms? 
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I think the brainworms spilled into the engine bay of that jag. 10/10 sick buy though, that era of bmw rules, i briefly had a 1978 733i in high school, incredible quality but it was too much of a headache for a teenager. Id love to get something similar again.
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The 6er having percussion related electrical restoration sounds like the euro fuses and relays being, well, old. I cleaned the fuse box on my 79 Fiesta and replaced any intermittent relays and it all started working..
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Mung Dynasty posted:I'm a dumb loving bastard with brainworms for 80s cars and almost zero mechanical experience. So I decided to give up a perfectly sorted '87 951 for something worse. Man. Imagine if cars just looked nice again. I'm so tired of everything being mega angry with a billion lines everywhere. What a sweet pickup (and I don't mean either of the pickups in the background)
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DJ Commie posted:The 6er having percussion related electrical restoration sounds like the euro fuses and relays being, well, old. I cleaned the fuse box on my 79 Fiesta and replaced any intermittent relays and it all started working.. So much of the 944 was apparently entirely reliant on fuses and relays as well, so good call. Doing some shopping tonight.
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Mung Dynasty posted:I'm a dumb loving bastard with brainworms for 80s cars and almost zero mechanical experience. So I decided to give up a perfectly sorted '87 951 for something worse. Very nice. I often flirt with the notion of getting rid of my G31 and replacing it with one of these.
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Voltage posted:I think the brainworms spilled into the engine bay of that jag. I had a '78 530i in my late teens, early 20s that I loved dearly. My dad eventually stole it from me, but until then that car was fun as hell.
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drat, put that dad in prison
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track day bro! posted:Said I wasn't going to buy anything else for the car well until these came up on ebay. NOS Advan RGII with a production date of 2008, wanted to get AD09's but the only size that would've worked was 245/40/18 which is a bit too much for a standard car. So ended up going with Michelin Cup2's instead in 225/40/18, the standard wheels still had the factory primacy tyres on. Although they had plenty of tread they were from 2018 so they were pretty crappy feeling, I'm still amazed how much difference good tyres makes to a car. Hell yeah!
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I went for a drive this weekend.     Central Oregon is beautiful; doubly so on a 650 mile TSD rally around some of the best back roads in the area.
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Safety Dance posted:I went for a drive this weekend.   All of those shots are absolutely incredible and I am insanely jealous. When's my next local TSD?
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McTinkerson posted:All of those shots are absolutely incredible and I am insanely jealous. Thanks! We got lucky: a freelance motorsports photojournalist joined us. He was offering photo packages for a pretty reasonable price, so I bought one and I'm really pleased with the results.
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Hell yeah, great shots and that looks like an awesome weekend
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That first and third shot are especially cool, looks awesome indeed The snazwagon is looking less awesome after a low speed collision last week. Supposedly both insurance companies already agreed to a 50-50 settlement but I haven't been contacted by the other driver's insurance... And my insurer couldn't find the other driver's information when I called the other day? Cool if I do get a whole new bumper, it was a bit hosed up from 2 other incidents. But now I need to find someone who will wrap just the bumper lol. Sab669 fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Sep 21, 2023 |
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Those rally shots look amazing. Good job.
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New tire day ceremony: https://youtu.be/XbqnRPEGbYo?si=QsRwKVch3Qk3oZ-f
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Voltage posted:New tire day ceremony: Proper.
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From this angle the car is  personified. Really looks feisty. And great.
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Sharp. Living in Pennsylvania has spoiled me though, no front plate, and no holes for it either.
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Alarbus posted:Sharp. 
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Alarbus posted:Sharp. I haven't bothered with one in NY, cops didn't even mention it the two or three interactions I've had getting ticketed / in an accident 
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Fifty Three posted:Unless the car was originally at a dealership in another state, then you gotta pony up for the bumper plugs anyway. I’ve never had a dealer drill the front bracket in when I’ve asked them not to.
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