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um excuse me posted:Miata satiates my need to a nimble sports car. What role does the 86 fill for you? Fun daily driver / street car. Miata isn't plated and I wouldn't consider street driving it even if it were given how close the cage is to my head, the low / long-ish splitter, lack of headlights / turn signals / windows / side mirrors, etc. MrYenko posted:Just make sure to make it out of Oklahoma. That’s 90% of the battle. Is it the traffic?
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BlackMK4 posted:Going to try and ironman Oklahoma City to Phoenix since it was really difficult to fit this into my schedule, we will see how that goes. I did Tulsa to Albuquerque in a day back in April with the rest of the trip into Phoenix being about 5 hours the next day so you could do it in one go with a single long day. I had to stop with the dogs and all that so was slower that I could have been solo.
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BigPaddy posted:I did Tulsa to Albuquerque in a day back in April with the rest of the trip into Phoenix being about 5 hours the next day so you could do it in one go with a single long day. I had to stop with the dogs and all that so was slower that I could have been solo. Thanks, that makes it start to sound more realistic when you say ABQ to PHX in 5hr. Google was estimating 14hr for 966mi, so that sounds beatable without performance awards.
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Aug 9, 2021 03:26
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BlackMK4 posted:I haven't taken possession yet, but I the deposit was sent and I have a flight booked for Friday, one of the Hyperblue 2016 BRZs. Daily driver / backup TT car. Hikari Blue  Wait, they called it hyperblue in the US and Hikari blue everywhere else? Oh, Subaru. My wife has a 2016 in that colour and it's fantastic. Wonderfully capable for HPDE in stock form, that one seems to have a nice list of upgrades. e: Our garages are suspiciously similar...  Forgive the wood, I'm building a bench. TrueChaos fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 03:48
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BlackMK4 posted:Thanks, that makes it start to sound more realistic when you say ABQ to PHX in 5hr. Google was estimating 14hr for 966mi, so that sounds beatable without performance awards. Having done multiple fourteen hour runs (Connecticut-Raleigh, northern Michigan - Raleigh, Birmingham to Wichita) and butt loads of eleven hour drives, anything over 800 miles starts to get brutal. Best advice I can give is start early a gently caress, take plenty of snack and stretch brakes. Every half tank ideally. And stop at just once or twice and just get out of the car for thirty+ minutes or so.
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Aug 9, 2021 12:08
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As long as I go into it well rested and I have interesting audiobooks, 16 is easy for me in one day. I do it four to six times a year. Definitely feel better the next day if I skip gas station snacks and only have a few caffeinated drinks. Mostly stick to water and hamburgers.
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Aug 9, 2021 14:46
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BlackMK4 posted:I haven't taken possession yet, but I the deposit was sent and I have a flight booked for Friday, one of the Hyperblue 2016 BRZs. Daily driver / backup TT car. You aren't helping, that colour is so cool! Don't think I've seen one for sale here in that colour. I've been looking at 86's and BRZs recently while the mr2 has been sitting at a specialist for the last few months.
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BlackMK4 posted:I haven't taken possession yet, but I the deposit was sent and I have a flight booked for Friday, one of the Hyperblue 2016 BRZs. Daily driver / backup TT car. Those white wheels really make the look.
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BlackMK4 posted:I haven't taken possession yet, but I the deposit was sent and I have a flight booked for Friday, one of the Hyperblue 2016 BRZs. Daily driver / backup TT car. As said multiple times, that color and wheel combo is amazing.
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Aleks_r posted:Oh lord. There's two of them! Another .no Alfa goon, what are the odds? Sup? 
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Aug 9, 2021 17:25
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 Looks like you are a KARN-member? If not, i highly recommend becoming a member.
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Aleks_r posted:
I just inherited the sticker. What's good about it?
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Aug 9, 2021 18:25
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Have a look: https://www.klubbalfaromeo.no/medlemstilbud/oversikt/
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Aug 9, 2021 18:43
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I guess thats pretty cheap for all those discounts. Of course Ill never remember to actually make use of them
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TrueChaos posted:Hikari Blue Um, yes, hello, our garages are the same now.  Hikari is such a better name than hyperblue, I'll take it.track day bro! posted:You aren't helping, that colour is so cool! Don't think I've seen one for sale here in that colour. I've been looking at 86's and BRZs recently while the mr2 has been sitting at a specialist for the last few months.  Also, thank you guys for the tips on the drive. I'll find an audio book; I've never been able to get them since I process so much better reading but I'm giving it another chance. And yeah, the white wheels are kinda what swayed me to buy the thing since I initially wasn't feeling the color. The ad pictures were on a set of bad offset silver RPF1s that I opted not to take.
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Aug 10, 2021 01:00
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audiobooks? meh, podcasts till your brain leaks out your ears is that blue the same as the Neptune blue on the 86?
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For really long drives, my best days have been with a mix of music, podcasts, and audiobooks. Variety is key. I like to put a bunch of music on one USB stick, podcasts on a second, and have a book or two either on another USB stick or on CD. Then I can switch between different levels of paying attention as I drive. "Podcast" means many things to many people, for me it's short stories, typically sci-fi/fantasy/weirdness in ~30-45 minute episodes. I'm a fan of the Drabblecast and the various stablemates under the Escape Artists label.
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I used to get headaches on long drives because music is all I listened to. Enjoyable podcasts make 3+ hours easy.
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I ended up going into auto pilot for most of my drive from NH to Arizona. I remember a few things like all the dumb billboards about Uranus Missouri but like an idiot just skipped past the few things I did want to stop and see like Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo. Only way to survive constant bork bork bork bork bork from dumb pug. Also driving a rav4 probably induced amnesia as well from how boring and uninteresting it was to drive. Yesterday I did 300 miles in the Boxster up Mt Lemmon near Tucson and by the end of that concluded that it is a great sports car but it is not for long trips as I was super stiff getting out after.
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BlackMK4 posted:Also, thank you guys for the tips on the drive. I'll find an audio book; I've never been able to get them since I process so much better reading but I'm giving it another chance. I was always this way until I realized Audible and etc audiobook apps have an option to play at 1.25% speed. It's still not as fast or as comprehensive as reading, but I did the Dune audiobook back from Pittsburgh a couple of weekends ago and I'm pretty sure my normal podcasts would have made me drive the wrong way through traffic with anger or something. Yeah TrashFuture is not a good road trips podcast is what I'm saying.
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I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux
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BlackMK4 posted:Um, yes, hello, our garages are the same now. Don't look now but my EFR turbo is on order... 
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux I would not have expected to like this as much as I do. I like it. Congrats.
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux Ahaha what! Goons have a variety of cars, and you're still a standard deviation out. I like it, for the record.
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux lol hell yeah
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux Goddamn, this rules
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Real talk though, how much do you get harassed by the police in that?
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux Not a fan of carriage roofs on anything in any application, but... in this case, there's a certain something. Factory air ride with an aftermarket controller, or aftermarket all the way? I won't lie - I want air ride for my Crown Vic.
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux This is a cornucopia composed almost entirely of things I don’t typically like, but in this instance I absolutely adore it. My compliments to the chef.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:This is a cornucopia composed almost entirely of things I don’t typically like, but in this instance I absolutely adore it. My compliments to the chef. As an itty bitty Japanese sports car guy, I have the exact same confusing feelings
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux This is amazing hahaha
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:As an itty bitty Japanese sports car guy, I have the exact same confusing feelings It's American VIP style, without deep-dish, super cambered wheels. I kinda love it.
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux  This fuckin’ rules. You fuckin’ rule. gently caress the haters. (Not that there seems to be any here, presently.)
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When I think Cadillac that is exactly what comes to mind ergo it is 
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Captain Crabsticks posted:I did the thing to the thing. It goes up and down and eats front end parts like you wouldn't believe, I love it. Thank you coronabux This is loving awesome ahahaha
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MetaJew posted:It's American VIP style, without deep-dish, super cambered wheels. Agreed, it is pretty great.
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Dropping a dropped Caddy on the thread as we're deep in Iron Driver discussion was a masterstroke. That thing must eat long highway miles like nothin'
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Well, I finally got around to installing the longer wheel studs and spacers necessary to fit the rear wheels on after restoring them, and finished up today. I'm really, really, really pleased with how they turned out and how they look on the car right now. I couldn't decide which angle(s) I liked best so sorry y'all you get all of 'em. I swear the car is white and not a very pale yellow; there's a lot of wildfire smoke here right now.       I don't have a great photo of it with the old wheels, but here's the best I have on hand for before: 
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Steve French posted:fantastic stuff Absolutely smashingly excellent, hell yeah. White letter tire supremacy forever and ever.
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