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This thread is surprisingly awesome. Here's the infamous Furze video where you get to see an engine run with no head. Educational! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8gvgISVHak
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Holy poo poo, what are the chances of that happening? It looks like it brought some hot engine oil along with it, judging from how it splashed against the drywall as it ruptured through the house. What would you even change on the engine to withstand something like that? That's gotta be a shitload of force to move a piston that weighs almost 100lb that far. Am I right in assuming it was the cause of poor maintenance? Those bolts should have been checked and retorqued to make sure the thread wasn't wearing on them. edit: Man, I wonder what it sounded like to whoever was inside the house at the time. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Apr 28, 2010 |
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Apr 28, 2010 08:00
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I wonder if I can adapt his business model and start a company that properly exercises expensive cars for rich motherfuckers who are too busy running banks, etc in order to drive all of their gorgeous classics enough. "I assure you, I'm very thorough."
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May 13, 2010 18:15
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Little bit from the latest MRT Performance newsletter; why not to drop the clutch at 8.5k. Almost pedestrian for this thread.    Not sure what part of the car this last picture is of.. looks like there's some steering bits here, so my guess is that it cleaved through an exhaust pipe and took out part of the body? 
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Aug 17, 2010 01:20
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Man, am I looking at that right? The detonation was so bad the flame front travelled up the intake valve and scorched the throttle body?
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Oct 15, 2010 16:29
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Phanatic posted:The woman who *gets out of her car* at 0:25 (I guess because she thinks it will explode when it slides into another car at ~12mph) is potentially the stupidest person on the entire planet. e: fb
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el topo posted:Also why do people think that they need to use more power when their tires lose grip? What you want to do is shift to a higher gear and use less revs, that limits the torque that's sent to the wheels and reduces the chance of spin. Of course I grew up in a place that has proper winters every year, maybe that's why I know that... As for "gears," I had a lot of conversations with people around the time that Toyotas were trying to kill their unfortunate drivers during which it was revealed most of them had no idea what the "N" on their automatic transmission selector stood for. The concept of gearing and trading torque for speed is probably a subject that is beyond most drivers' education here. If I had a nickel for every time I drive down a nice snowy road, brake gently for an intersection and then hit a slick of ice 3 inches from the crosswalk from some retard burning out the 15 year old all seasons on their loving Caravan I'd be rich enough to live somewhere better. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jan 11, 2011 |
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Jan 11, 2011 21:42
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Not really a mechanical failure but I'm pretty sure our free Z31 just became much less free.        Good thing we're not making a show car. Also a good thing the timing belt didn't snap in transit: 
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Mar 24, 2011 17:11
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I have a Black & Decker "Rotary Tool" and it's excellent. It was around half the price but is compatible with all the Dremel discs, etc. My favourite use so far is as a headlight polisher.
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Jun 1, 2011 19:30
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peepsalot posted:but I'm not really an expert on engine carnage. I'm just a software developer that works in a car shop, heh.
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Sep 15, 2011 16:04
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I saw a 929 do that once, but it was a ball joint that sheared along the pin.
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Oct 8, 2011 05:55
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Sponge! posted:Dear lord wtf am I doing wrong?! These only have like 20K on them.
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Nov 16, 2011 18:13
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A few years ago a neighbor of mine destroyed the balljoint on his Mazda 929 leaving our alley, so for a few hours we got to see it blocking the entrance to our alley with a crude handwritten sign saying "CAR SICK  DO NOT MOVE" until the police forced him to summon a tow truck and take it to Canadian Tire.It had some amazing demon camber on that left front wheel though.
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Nov 30, 2011 15:45
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grover posted:If propane is such a great refrigerant, why don't we use it instead of R-134a? If I had to guess, the safest solution would be to blend propane with something else, but I don't know what kind of pressures R12 systems run as I've never serviced one. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Dec 2, 2011 |
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Dec 2, 2011 18:30
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Wow, I always figured school buses were really flimsy and would just blow apart on a rear end impact like a box truck. They must build those things on one hell of a frame.
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Dec 14, 2011 19:25
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It's amazing how flimsy those control arms are once you shove a shitload of lateral force through them.
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Jan 14, 2012 06:19
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Cakefool posted:3 months @ 15' sideways, over 3500 cars crushed. I remember reading that in either natgeo or new scientist back when. The Race to Save the Cougar Ace A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars quote:Little things make a big difference. For instance, most of the cars have six airbags, and discharging them individually (forcing them to inflate so they can't be resold) takes about five minutes apiece -- or a total of a half-hour per car. So engineers back at Mazda's headquarters, in Hiroshima, fashioned a device that can discharge all six at once.
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Jan 23, 2012 19:16
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I'm curious about what happens when you contaminate the fuel with it directly. Obviously the exhaust becomes a little bit toxic, but I'm sure a smart goon can figure out how to get around that.
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Feb 1, 2012 19:43
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Black88GTA posted:How something like this made it all the way from concept to actual product for sale to consumers without someone along the way going
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Feb 2, 2012 21:21
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and then saying "uh, hey, guys, maybe this isn't such a good idea" is just a complete mindfuck. 
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Maybe I'm being thick, but I can't see the guy jumping up and grabbing onto the cable before the helicopter crashes in the last video posted. Which guy is it? edit: Wait, I see him now (black shirt, partially obscured by the guys standing there). He really reefs on it. Surprised he's alive. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Mar 6, 2012 |
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Mar 6, 2012 18:16
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H110Hawk posted:You can't get the car checked out under the recall and then have them give it back to you until the parts come in to repair the damage? If not ask very nicely for an equivalent free loaner/rental car due to the obvious safety concerns. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Mar 9, 2012 |
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Mar 9, 2012 18:34
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Petekill posted:What exactly is going on here? I just bought an 06 SE-R recently, is this something I should be concerned about? Think of it like shoving a wad of chewing gum into the end of a pressure washer, then point the pressure washer directly at your eye. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Mar 29, 2012 |
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Mar 29, 2012 23:51
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jamal posted:maybe it's not such a good idea to use cheap knock-off suspension and steering parts: edit: Looks like it's streaming on MotoIQ right now, so I guess it's on now.
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Apr 7, 2012 00:03
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I didn't realize bats came that small. All I've ever hit are little birds.
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Jun 14, 2012 03:30
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I think that's the first time I've seen one window both sides of the block.
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Jun 15, 2012 17:25
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You have a paved junkyard? Does someone hold your hand, keep a parasol over your fair skin and do your nails after removing the part for you as well?
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Jun 19, 2012 15:12
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Dr 14 INCH DICK Md posted:It remains a mystery. Dude didn't seem to have any idea what so ever of what caused it. He wanted to know if that would cause his pull
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Jun 25, 2012 15:41
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Cakefool posted:I'm going to volunteer to sound stupid - half cemented block? They also used to call them "hard blocks" or "filled blocks." Old school drag-strip tech. e: I think they usually pour it into the coolant passages, so a half cemented block would be halfway to the head with cement.
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Jun 25, 2012 23:10
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InitialDave posted:Observe Tommi Makinen doing the same, and giving a sum total of zero shits:
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Jul 6, 2012 15:58
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grover posted:That seems fine if the two engines/transmissions are identical, but how would you handle it if your engines were running at different rpms and different shift points? Link 'em anyhow, and shift both whenever the lesser of the two hits redline? Think of the through-the-road hybrid cars that are coming out nowadays.
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Jul 20, 2012 04:02
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How did it smell?
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Check out this Hotchkis article for empirical validation that hollow swaybars are much lighter weight and almost as stiff as a solid swaybar of a similar diameter. http://www.hotchkis.net/_uploaded_files/hollow_vs_solidinstructions162file.pdf quote:Okay, lets illustrate the tire example. Let’s say,
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The 4B11 in the Evo X is pretty burly. Here's one that reportedly lost a plug, then got towed by the rear wheels on a highway.   Post
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Jul 28, 2012 04:23
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imgur's pool for "just rolled into the shop" has some really interesting failures.
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Dr 14 INCH DICK Md posted:For you guys saying gear oil stinks, ever smell a transmission thats been running on coolant? How does that even happen? Seriously hosed tranny cooler?
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Aug 13, 2012 01:53
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Good thing too, fire hydrants are pricey as hell to replace.
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Copied from the nasioc mechanic bitching thread: That's all of 'em!
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Radbot posted:Just make an account an unsubscribe from everything except /r/justrolledintotheshop, etc. Makes it a much nicer place. Or just do what I do and subscribe to the imgur RSS for it: http://imgur.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop You only have to touch reddit if you want to see the comments for an image, which hopefully you never feel the urge to do.
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Plus those are all fires in the back of the car. This is for a fire in the front of the car. It's dangerous because you can't see through a front fire to continue driving, unlike a rear fire, and a pedestrian may be injured during what would otherwise be normal operation.
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MrChips posted:Your friend wouldn't happen to be this guy, wouldn't he? Furthermore, why does he stay in the goddamn left lane as he's going 20 under the limit aaagh
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