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Drheat posted:
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blambert posted:This is the best Christ, people. You shovel the snow out from under and around the car first! I can't imagine the feeling the driver of the truck and/or car owner and/or whoever tied it down must have had when the back of the car just exploded like that.
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Nov 7, 2009 21:31
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Taaaaaaarb! posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoDpMVwxFw That poor poor FB  That said, I love how there's just the shower of sparks and the hood flies open and closed and it's like nothing changed.
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Nov 17, 2009 07:43
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Couldn't you just get under the car and drain the oil?
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Nov 18, 2009 00:30
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UserNotFound posted:I bet you could install one of those tiny 9oz paintball cans to the intake triggered by a simple sensor/logic device. That is an awesome idea, due in no small part to it reminding me of a nuclear reactor's SCRAM system. In that case it's generally a big electromagnet holding a secondary set of control rods above the reactor, so if something goes wrong the magnet dies and the rods drop in and instantly shut down the reaction. Fun fact: the original emergency arrest system in the 1930s research reactors was very similar, but the rods were held up with a rope and pulley and they just kept a man on station with an axe to cut the rope. Fun job.
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Nov 18, 2009 03:58
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BigKOfJustice posted:Before anyone yells at me for white knighting the H2, it has it's flaws, and I think it's a porker [other than width, it's longer and taller than my h1, they hide it with black body cladding on the rockers and roof line ]. The H3 with the adventure package [front and rear eaton lockers] I like though. Most of the dumb H2 poo poo online is due to operator error, not so much the truck. I sat in an H2 once at an auto show. It has the worst visibility of basically any vehicle I've ever been in, and I've sat in the cockpit of a space shuttle. I literally could not see anything less than two feet tall within maybe 5 feet of the car in any direction -- absolutely the best way to run over toddlers. I also believe it has less usable interior space than my 1997 Escort station wagon. It was just a thoroughly unpleasant experience.
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Nov 21, 2009 05:29
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KelvereseAysen posted:Another far-fetched alternative is that the piston's connecting rod failed in such a fashion as to allow the piston to be forcefully ejected into and through the head by the force imparted on it from the rotating mass of the crankshaft/other pistons. Maybe. I can't figure out how the piston (or whatever) seems to just...materialize in midair. There's a bang and then something appears to shoot out of the side of the gas tank, but there's no leaking gas or visible damage to the bike. It almost seems like it's just some random piece of the intake manifold or something that cracked off when the engine backfired/exploded.
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Nov 24, 2009 01:06
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The Third Man posted:That's amazing. Left side: delicious chocolate pudding Right side: huge pile of poo poo Camshafts in the background: tar
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Nov 27, 2009 05:26
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The thing about that blown-up Russian hydroelectric plant that gets me is what the actual problem turned out to be (besides that the 29 year, 10 month old turbine had a 30-year designed working life): the enormous turbine, weighing more than 1 thousand tons, was unbalanced in its spin. How much off-center, you ask? A few inches? Half an inch? less?? 0.84mm.
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Feb 4, 2010 09:48
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leica posted:This is pretty funny...... What is going on here? What is happening when the filter looks like it's burning up? Is that oil squirting out and then getting sucked back in/being burned off?
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Feb 6, 2010 09:50
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That cargolaw site is indeed terrible (it even has *embedded music* on random pages), but those are some awesome photos. Ever wonder what it looks like when an Airbus gets hit by a shoulder-launched missile?  There used to be an engine just to the left of that maintenance scaffold. Some others:     That last one is a ship full of fireworks.
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Feb 7, 2010 08:54
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Splizwarf posted:It seems like there's some obvious solution that involves an air pump and the industrial equivalent of an inflatable raft but I can't put my finger on it. I think the solution is "tow to shallow water, slide ramp underneath, slowly winch out at an angle with water pouring out". Maybe add a "punch hole in lower end" to speed it up. If you're only ever lifting a few inches of water at a time, I'm sure you could do it with a Jeep or something.
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Feb 9, 2010 04:37
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Blocko posted:Alternatively you could tow it to shallow water, drill one hole in a corner near the bottom, and one on the top. Attach air compressor, pump water out, tow to land with a jeep. I thought about this, but I dunno if crates are airtight enough. I'd bet that all the air would rather just leak out cracks near the doors or something. You might be able to use something like this:  (sorry about the Chinese watermark) Zodiac pontoons. Take two of those bad boys (deflated), sink one under the container on each end, lash them to it, and blow them up. Presumably the water would drain out however it got in.
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Feb 9, 2010 06:10
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InitialDave posted:Where we're going...we won't need roads!
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Feb 9, 2010 20:52
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Sockington posted:Mallcruiser thread ahoy. I see dozens of these goddamn things all over Phoenix and they piss the hell out of me. Maybe 30% of them have more actual ground clearance than an unloaded Ranger, and I've never seen one that got its clearance by a method other than SUPER SWAMPERS or whatever. You need a ladder to climb into the cab, but you could hit a basketball with the differentials. What the gently caress.
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Feb 9, 2010 23:51
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BigKOfJustice posted:Or you got something like Arizona where if it's got 4 wheels and a seat its street legal. Of course, if you live in Phoenix like 2/3 of the population does, you have to obey CARB emissions requirements. 4 wheels, a seat, and three catalytic converters and a vapor reclamation system  VVV They started out down here. orange lime fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 10, 2010 |
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Feb 10, 2010 05:04
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I like to believe that the pickup truck has a permanently-mounted frame in the bed specifically for carrying those around. And yeah, it would be so much cooler if it were on bearings. I wonder how fast it would spin in a 60mph wind? bolind posted:In reply to all this container talk, check out this video, towards the end, to see what kind of damage big waves can do to ships and their cargo. I cannot believe that they're allowed to have an open spinning shaft like that. I know it's got a railing in front of it, but if you get your hand caught anywhere near that green support you don't have a hand any more 
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Feb 11, 2010 20:44
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sandoz posted:100 rpm direct drive and tens of thousands of horsepower. There really isn't a word for how much torque that is. I'll have to see if I can dig up the data files from the radio telemetry strain gauge test I did on one of those in college. Sure there is. Torque = (hp*5252)/engine speed at which hp was measured. If it's putting out 10,000hp at 100 rpm that's 525,000 lb-ft. As I said,
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Feb 11, 2010 22:34
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blambert posted:I was asleep in the back of my parents car when the transfer case exploded at 90mph. Was scary as hell. Big loud bang and two blue flashes, then the sound of metal grinding constantly until we stopped. where, and how big, were the blue flashes that you could see them inside the car, while asleep?
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Mar 14, 2010 23:05
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Whitey Ford posted:Straight 6 for ever Wankel 
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Mar 31, 2010 22:08
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kimbo305 posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_High_Feature_engine Checked out that Wikipedia page. This photo is a joke, right? 
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Apr 2, 2010 03:11
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I can't find a picture of it anywhere, but as I recall the largest Wankel engine ever built was an Ingersoll-Rand model that was designed to run the pumps along natural gas pipelines, using the gas itself as fuel. I know it was a two-rotor developing greater than 1000 hp and it displaced something like 80 litres, but I don't know what the physical dimensions would have been.
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Cop posted:Well, she just got it a few days before. Brand new with 2 miles and she's 2 month pregnant so she had some doctor appointments. But you said 124 miles in the earlier post. She drove 124 miles with the oil pressure light on?
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