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Darchangel posted:Yeah, sort of like that, only a bit more streetable, and mid-engine. That is mid-engine. Everything you see is turbo.
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Larrymer posted:Kinda funny considering the context of him driving up a goddamn mountain with no guard rails. Hillclimbs in cars aren't really on the top level of motorsports risk  I think that's mostly left to Irish road racing.
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BlackMK4 posted:Hillclimbs in cars aren't really on the top level of motorsports risk The Isle of Man TT averages 2.5 deaths for every time the 1-week event is held. Are there any other regularly scheduled races with that kind of kill count?
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Sagebrush posted:The Isle of Man TT averages 2.5 deaths for every time the 1-week event is held. Are there any other regularly scheduled races with that kind of kill count? Dakar's pretty lethal innit?
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Slavvy posted:Dakar's pretty lethal innit? Depends on the number of snipers.
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Darchangel posted:Someone's been watching Initial D. Exactly what do you think is in a normal previa, and where?
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BlackMK4 posted:Hillclimbs in cars aren't really on the top level of motorsports risk Land Speed Records. Or if you go to water, every person that has tried to beat Ken Warby has died and the offical death rate is 85% since 1940 for the WSR. No one other than Warby has gone past 300 mph and lived... which when you understand that even the slighest chop can send a boat doing 300kph+ into the air and destory it becomes clear that is one motorsport you are highly likely to die.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Land Speed Records. JFC 
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Sagebrush posted:The Isle of Man TT averages 2.5 deaths for every time the 1-week event is held. Are there any other regularly scheduled races with that kind of kill count? The Grand National?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Land Speed Records. 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Land Speed Records. Wikipedia posted:Australian Ken Warby broke the Anglo-American domination when he piloted his Spirit of Australia to 464.46 km/h (288.60 mph) to beat Lee Taylor's record. Warby, who had built the craft in his back yard, used the publicity to find sponsorship to pay for improvements to the Spirit. On 8 October 1978 Warby travelled to Blowering Dam, Australia, and broke both the 480 km/h (300 mph) and 500 km/h barriers with an average speed of 511.12 km/h (317.6 mph). As he exited the course his peak speed as measured on a radar gun was approximately 552 km/h (345 mph).   I salute you
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I have never watched or read Initial D because my AI anime was Yoroshiku Mechadock
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Cross posting from the craigslist thread Someone go buy this thanks
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iospace posted:Speaking of 90s vans... is it wrong that I want to mod a Previa to be a sleeper? There are a lot worse vans you could be starting with. Mid engined, available RWD, AWD, manual, and with a factory supercharger. What minivan could possibly be a better starting point?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Exactly what do you think is in a normal previa, and where? It's a 4-banger on it's side under the floor in a stock Previa. It's front engine V8 in THAT Previa. Meet in the middle, as it were. edit: Something along the lines of this or Supervan, but more subtle. Darchangel fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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BoostCreep posted:There are a lot worse vans you could be starting with. Mid engined, available RWD, AWD, manual, and with a factory supercharger. Well, the Astro/Safari twins were RWD or AWD, with a 4.3L V6, can easily swallow a V8 in the stock location, and can have a beefy enough rear axle to handle it. Nowhere near as cool looking as Toyota's space capsule, though.
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The transfer case in the astros is also close to what was shipped in the syclone. Just sayin.
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V8-swapping an Astro is also well-researched at this point. An LSx fits nicely, and can even be made emissions-legal if you have to worry about that. I reeeeeaaally wanted to swap my wife's Astro at some point, but alas, she traded it in.
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BoostCreep posted:What minivan could possibly be a better starting point? The only minivan with good go-fast aftermarket support would be those 2.5 turbo Caravans, right? Not that you end up with a better... sports van. ^^^ oh yeah, any van with a LS-compatible bellhousing and engine bay.
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BoostCreep posted:There are a lot worse vans you could be starting with. Mid engined, available RWD, AWD, manual, and with a factory supercharger. I don't know if you guys ever got the first gen Mazda MPV, but they were big engine bay/rwd/V6 from the factory. There was a dude in Sydney in the late 90s that put a huge turbo on his, ran 12s with it until he blew the engine up, then did a Holden V8 swap. LS motors are a lot more common here now but couldn't be had for less than $extortion at the time. Edit: cool, they came with lockable 4wd in Japan. Memento fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Paging previa_fun
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BoostCreep posted:What minivan could possibly be a better starting point?
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For the cost of a type 2, you could buy a Ferrari.
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Everything about that is the most Australian poo poo I've ever heard 
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Memento posted:I don't know if you guys ever got the first gen Mazda MPV If you mean one of these. Then yeah, we got those in the US. Good loving luck finding one these days though.
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BlackMK4 posted:Everything about that is the most Australian poo poo I've ever heard You should see Warby's boat in person - it's in the Aust Maratime Museum. It's smaller than you would think and made from wood and fibreglass - it's in no way as well built as you would expect a WSR to be. It looks exactly like you would think an amateur boatbuilder would come up with working in a suburban backyard (Not even in a garage...!). Almost all other WSR boats are far, far bigger and of course far better built. I think they even towed to to Blowering with a panel van - Warby himself was a Makita salesman and bought the engine surplus and not running for 69 dollars. The more you know about Warby and the boat, the frankly more unbelievable it is the drat thing floated, let alone is the sole suriviving boat to go over 400 kph.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You should see Warby's boat in person - it's in the Aust Maratime Museum. It's smaller than you would think and made from wood and fibreglass - it's in no way as well built as you would expect a WSR to be. It looks exactly like you would think an amateur boatbuilder would come up with working in a suburban backyard (Not even in a garage...!). Almost all other WSR boats are far, far bigger and of course far better built. They are making a second one! It went to the paint shop in Febuary which was the last update I can find on it: http://warbymotorsport.com/Spirit_of_Australia_II.php Look at the nose! 
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Trap sprung. Sperg post incoming. IIRC the Previa's engine (2TZ-FE/FZE) isn't exactly the same but it essentially a spiritual ancestor to the RZ series found in the early Tacos that took boost fairly well. That said you're definitely going to be fighting the weird rear end packaging. I think the best sleeper Prrevia would probably be the 2TZ-FZE motor with the five speed but those are rare as hen's teeth. I know for sure you could never purchase a 4wd/5speed/supercharger package from the factory. I have no idea why I like those vans so much either. They're not fast (obviously) and don't handle that well even with the mid engine and they're a pain in the rear end to work on but I love that they encapsulate peak 90s Japanese weirdness. Engine accessories, for example, were mounted up front but driven off a driveshaft mounted to the front of the crank. The radiator and fan were up front and the water pump was on the engine block and driven by an internal chain. There was even a tiny little intercooler up front for the supercharged models.  I'd drive the poo poo out of that V8 swapped one, too. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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Surprised no one has mentioned the Espace F1 yet https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGUyIOGVa0M
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Darchangel posted:It's a 4-banger on it's side under the floor in a stock Previa. It's front engine V8 in THAT Previa. Meet in the middle, as it were. Ah, I didn't know they were on their side, gotcha.
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BoostCreep posted:There are a lot worse vans you could be starting with. Mid engined, available RWD, AWD, manual, and with a factory supercharger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUXss-aeZ9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja2yg4MArew i don't know if it's a good starting point but I can't imagine it would be more than three grand to slam one together e:windows movie maker in full effect
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Q_res posted:If you mean one of these. Then yeah, we got those in the US. Good loving luck finding one these days though. For like 3 months I swore there was a bro-dozer firing up outside my apartment window at 5:30AM and rolling out at 5:40AM every morning with a crappily tuned exhaust and a weird cam. Until I wandered to take the garbage out during that timeframe and realized it was a roached MPV with an exhaust that ends somewhere about 18" from the headers, that hadn't had it's oil changed since about 1999.
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Angry vampire car
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Gorilla Salad posted:Angry vampire car '59 Impala Q_res posted:If you mean one of these. Then yeah, we got those in the US. Good loving luck finding one these days though. Why have you used mspaint to give it wide tires and scribble out some bits on the side?  E: and rimmzzzz
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Raluek posted:'59 Impala Vlad the '59 Impala
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You should see Warby's boat in person - it's in the Aust Maratime Museum. It's smaller than you would think and made from wood and fibreglass - it's in no way as well built as you would expect a WSR to be. It looks exactly like you would think an amateur boatbuilder would come up with working in a suburban backyard (Not even in a garage...!). Almost all other WSR boats are far, far bigger and of course far better built. The trophy is still in the St George Motor Boat Club on Kogarah Bay. Ken's local club. http://www.gregwapling.com/hotrod/land-speed-racing-australia/land-speed-racing-australia-ken-warby.html There is a pic here. The rudder on Warby's boat looks like it was cut with a blowtorch out of 1/4" mild steel plate, and probably is. Its not sharp or nicely shaped at all. The Jet came from Williamstown RAAF Base near Newcastle. It was basically a donation. I saw it run on Kogarah Bay in the seventies during one of the Clubs Race Days.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:let alone is the sole suriviving boat to go over 400 kph. I think he was radared at 344 mph / 555 kph max with the upgraded boat. It's mind-boggling. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 19, 2017 |
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Raluek posted:'59 Impala I think it's just a picture they grabbed from Google images, that someone was using to mock up their sick modz. Aren't those Supra wheels?
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Anyone want to tell me what this awesome car is: It's shown up to Exotics at Redmond Town Center pretty often. Has no branding on it whatsoever, and isn't in that great of shape, yet they keep putting it in the line. It's far more mysterious and exciting than 95% of the other cars that show up simply because I have no clue what it is. An Aston Martin DBR2 Also shows up regularly, it is also a cool car. 
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