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Slavvy posted:
If that's the picture, that's not the factory front fascia. It's not ricer-bad though.
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MrChips posted:Oh god did he just prop that poor engine with the starter? Inertial starter, it's supposed to work like that.
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Mar 29, 2014 19:42
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KozmoNaut posted:Inertial starter, it's supposed to work like that. I was referring to how he used the starter to turn the engine over through four or five blades before he started it - an action that should be done very carefully by hand. If that engine had sat for more than 30 minutes (or was fully cold), that's a good way to bend a rod if/when the piston tries to compress any fuel or oil that accumulated in the combustion chamber.
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Mar 29, 2014 19:54
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Motronic posted:Yeah, it's a shame they stopped buying tail lights from Volvo for the 968s.
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Mar 29, 2014 20:24
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Slavvy posted:Try working on one, your opinion will rectify itself nicely. I'm just amused that he used z32 and "wish for space" in the same sentence.
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Mar 29, 2014 20:29
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Some kid in Shanghai's gonna have a nice thing to take to show and tell. Looks like that Veyron that's done up to look like porcelain. 
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Mar 29, 2014 20:35
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Didn't that thing have like actual porcelain in the paint?
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Mar 29, 2014 20:39
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The cutest little car show ever     http://news.drom.ru/27750.html Makes me sad that i would probably never fit in anything there.
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VikingSkull posted:Didn't that thing have like actual porcelain in the paint? Yes. It is amazing. 
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Mar 29, 2014 22:45
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I've painted off and on for like 15 years and have no idea how the gently caress they did that. e- holy gently caress I'm old, more like 20 years 
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Mar 29, 2014 22:49
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Preoptopus posted:Yes. It is amazing. I loved the Veyron before, and now I hate my life even more for not being born to gently caress loads of money.
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Mar 29, 2014 22:52
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Preoptopus posted:Yes. It is amazing. I absofuckinglutely would not park that hard against a curb with that car. 
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Mar 30, 2014 01:34
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Imagine it following an unsecured gravel truck for some inexplicable reason
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G-Mach posted:I think only the 3000GT VR4s are worse to work on out of all the 90s japanese supercars.  OEM FD3S Vacuum hose land is up there.
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Preoptopus posted:Yes. It is amazing. The markings make it look like it's driving through a tunnel and you're seeing the patterns of the lights as they reflect off the paint.
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Mar 30, 2014 05:21
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Octopus Magic posted:
Interesting, electronically controlled EGR?
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Preoptopus posted:Interesting, electronically controlled EGR? not electronic, dark majiks
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MrChips posted:I was referring to how he used the starter to turn the engine over through four or five blades before he started it - an action that should be done very carefully by hand. If that engine had sat for more than 30 minutes (or was fully cold), that's a good way to bend a rod if/when the piston tries to compress any fuel or oil that accumulated in the combustion chamber. That's how big radials work. Too big to do it by hand (like kickstarting a literbike), pump the oil out with the starter with magnetos off, then turn on the spark and set the exhausts on fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F23RciUwDE
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Neptr posted:If that's the picture, that's not the factory front fascia. It's not ricer-bad though. I could be wrong, but I believe that's the '99 spec JDM front bumper cover. Slavvy posted:Try working on one, your opinion will rectify itself nicely. I helped Scrodes change the timing belt on his old (now Tondef's) Z31 years ago. What an utter pain in the oval office that was. Several years after that, one night when I was feeling particularly generous, we changed the under-drive pulley on his Z32. That's when I started paying someone else to work on my cars.
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Well this sucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfS8iz2NaLE
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Both at fault, glad nobody seemed hurt.
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front wing flexing posted:Both at fault, glad nobody seemed hurt.
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front wing flexing posted:Both at fault How?
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revmoo posted:How? I'm guessing for crossing over the line? Failure to Yield? edit: Also, how is this Awesome and not Terrible?
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revmoo posted:How? They both did something wrong and ticketable that directly lead to the accident. Failure to yeild for the mazda, speeding for the lambo.
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The Aventador had right (left?) of way. Unless there were traffic lights, traffic turning right always has to give way.
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Collateral Damage posted:The Aventador had right (left?) of way. Unless there were traffic lights, traffic turning right always has to give way. Speeding like a motherfucker is usually a contributing factor to fault in an accident. In some places, even 1% fault makes it an insurance 50/50 split (I know nothing of how UK insurance works though). Edit: also, when he hit he was already on the brakes, you can hear the revs drop off significantly. So he was going so fast that the brakes only slowed him down to the speed of the impact. Also, it's looks like the speed limit on the street is only 20 mph. dr cum patrol esq fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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It's irrelevant, he had right of way, regardless of whether he was speeding, and he certainly didn't seem to be speeding by enough for it to be a factor. Supercars on YouTube do bring out all the miserable twats though: quote:Personally i think investing that much money in a car is just disgusting. We really are filthy rich aren't we. Can you imagine what this guys could have done with the money he would have left over if he had bought a cheap car. He could have helped so many people and influenced many peoples lives. 
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front wing flexing posted:(I know nothing of how UK insurance works though). Some UK insurance companies have been known to increase people's rates if they fit winter tires on aftermarket wheels (even steelies), because they're then driving "a modified car". If you don't declare any and all modifications and diversions from standard spec, they will deny coverage in the event of an accident.
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InitialDave posted:Supercars on YouTube do bring out all the miserable twats though: That gets you upset? I mean I like seeing supercars and I have no clue how that guy made his money so I'm not gonna knock him, but people imagining the good that could be done with the money spent on a supercar seems like the least offensive objection to wealth I've seen on youtube. It's not like he accused him of driving a fast car because he has a small dick or something. I'm sure people that rich won't get their ego bruised by hippies on youtube.
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InitialDave posted:It's irrelevant, he had right of way, regardless of whether he was speeding, and he certainly didn't seem to be speeding by enough for it to be a factor. It's not irrelevant. Maybe, irrelevant for the sake of conversation and debate but not for police reports and insurance claims. I'm not saying the mazda wasn't mostly at fault, it clearly was, I'm saying that the lambo driver contributed as well and if he was going the speed limit or not that much above (again, the speed limit is 20 on that street) he would've avoided any incursions to that lane. Again, I'm not familiar at all with UK insurance but in my state in the US that lambos speed would be a mitigating factor to assigning all fault on that of the car. KozmoNaut posted:Some UK insurance companies have been known to increase people's rates if they fit winter tires on aftermarket wheels (even steelies), because they're then driving "a modified car". That's quite strict compared to most of the US. Wow.
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Regardless of police report, since the mazda probably has the cheapest insurance they could get from a comparison site and a stuffed meerkat toy, and the lambo probably has the most bespoke for rich people it'll never be your problem insurance (and a stuffed meerkat toy), it'll end up being the mazda driver's fault in the end.
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Linedance posted:Regardless of police report, since the mazda probably has the cheapest insurance they could get from a comparison site and a stuffed meerkat toy, and the lambo probably has the most bespoke for rich people it'll never be your problem insurance (and a stuffed meerkat toy), it'll end up being the mazda driver's fault in the end. I had no idea why you mentioned a meerkat so I had to look it up. What the hell is up with insurance mascots? Stateside we have the GEICO Gecko who for some reason is British, and the British have a meerkat which is Russian? Do people just not trust a mascot if its local? Edit: forgot this was the awesome poo poo thread, here: Out with the old  In with the new 
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I wouldn't want anything Russian anywhere near my auto insurance.
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davebo posted:I had no idea why you mentioned a meerkat so I had to look it up. What the hell is up with insurance mascots? Stateside we have the GEICO Gecko who for some reason is British, and the British have a meerkat which is Russian? Do people just not trust a mascot if its local? So awesome. Are they going to be running the c7r at lemans do you know?
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Linedance posted:So awesome. Are they going to be running the c7r at lemans do you know? Yeah there'll be two C7's with Gavin and Magnussen leading like normal. The Vipers dropped out to focus on the American races though.
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davebo posted:I had no idea why you mentioned a meerkat so I had to look it up. What the hell is up with insurance mascots? Stateside we have the GEICO Gecko who for some reason is British, and the British have a meerkat which is Russian? Do people just not trust a mascot if its local? I think the Gecko is an Aussie...
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Wasabi the J posted:I think the Gecko is an Aussie... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W74DroB-dwM&t=13s And to keep this post in line, have some Roadkill. I love this truck. 
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davebo posted:That gets you upset? front wing flexing posted:It's not irrelevant. Maybe, irrelevant for the sake of conversation and debate but not for police reports and insurance claims. This is the UK, not the US, not Europe, not somewhere else. That's how the game's played here. Hit a pedestrian/cyclist who was doing something so astoundingly stupid as to almost be called suicide? Good luck getting out of the blame. I had a friend hit by someone going too fast on a wet road as he was coming out a driveway, and it was his fault - right of way trumps minor infractions/being a knob. Also, what Linedance said. davebo posted:the British have a meerkat which is Russian? Do people just not trust a mascot if its local? Simples!
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front wing flexing posted:That's quite strict compared to most of the US. Wow. Much like all laws in the US, lobbyists are a bitch. SEMA isn't just a car show.
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