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VikingSkull posted:Those.......loving.....rear........wheels Seriously, the factory wheels on my wife's 07 Focus are better than those.
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Gorilla Salad posted:If you've never seen Australian road safety commercials, you might want to brace yourself. The TAC (Traffic Accident Commission) pulls no punches. The truck driver is the perfect touch. He gets out, looks at the damage and just slumps. He knows there's no way anyone survived.
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CharlesM posted:Where's that? That's in New South Wales, Australia, around the area of Broken Hill.
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Q_res posted:I'm about 98% certain that's from a Jackie Chan movie. It's from Who Am I, which I watched on a cross-country bus trip through Cambodia last summer. It was dubbed into English, with Khmer subtitles. It owned. Any time you see a Mitsubishi Evo doing awesome ridiculous movie things, it's probably a Jackie Chan movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Motors#Partnership_with_Jackie_Chan
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Nov 18, 2012 08:24
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 Doesn't someone post here whose job is to take cars apart like this for promo photos? I could be thinking of another forum.
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Nov 20, 2012 23:09
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It's brilliant, the invasion stripes are a great touch.
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Nov 24, 2012 12:58
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Oh man, the Mitsubishi Starion. A guy tried to tell me once that it got its name from a Japanese executive trying to pronounce Stallion. Pretty sure it was something to do with Orion, and that he was racist.
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Nov 25, 2012 10:14
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It took me a few seconds to figure out what I was looking at and why I was getting a boner.
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Nov 28, 2012 01:59
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jonathan posted:It was 1996 and I thought NOFX was a good band. Basically my opinion of anything was irrelevant, including the ugly curvy cousin of the 510. NOFX were and continue to be a Good Band. I don't think I'll ever stop listening to Wolves in Wolves' Clothing.
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An '88 Familia (Australian delivery) does 3k rpm at 100km in fifth. Therefore, by that logic, I was doing 220km at 6600rpm, even though the speedo ran out a little while ago.
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Dec 11, 2012 09:57
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You Am I posted:I'd say 99% of servos have LPG here in Australia. Probably drops down to around 80% in the country and 50% in the outback.
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Dec 15, 2012 10:38
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It isn't car poo poo, but it's pretty AI. This engine makes its best fuel economy at 53,244 horse power at 90 rpm. Big engine.  Big turbo.
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A good mate of mine is working at the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 hour this weekend, pit crew for the Aston Martin St. Gallen team. They're racing a Vantage GT4, seen here having just had new front rotors in the pits.  This morning he posted this picture to the Facebooks.  Aston Martin One-77. Apparently it has the most powerful naturally aspirated production engine in the world; I don't know about that, but it does have seven hundred and fifty horsepower. edit: you can stream the event here: http://new.livestream.com/itvl/bathurst12hour Memento fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Feb 9, 2013 |
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Throatwarbler posted:Who knows how fast the 177 actually is? Has it ever been tested or driven in anger by anyone? I think they could probably wring more power out of the viper engine if they wanted to, but the Viper already has bigger tires than a Veyron, on a RWD car with a conventional manual transmission I think you're hitting limits other than the engine. I think the horsepower figure on the Aston is more bragging than actually useful, it is like $2 million dollar or whatever car. Yeah it doesn't seem like a really hard-edged "racing" road car, more of a medium-sozed Grand Tourer that had the engine worked on until they could make that claim.
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The one I linked last page was definitely two stroke.
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So this is Nelson Piquet in his Benneton, right? I can understand the sparks coming out of the bottom, but what's the go with the rest of them?
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If he's talking about just the regular two-door (not 22B) then they are not uncommon in Aus/NZ. He doesn't see them every half hour, though, but the four-doors are in fact common as muck here. We did get something like four of the 22B in Australia, and I saw one once, where the rich dickhead who bought it had just blown the gearbox up by cranking the boost to hell, putting slicks on it and clutch-dumping it down the Heathcote Raceway dragstrip. 
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jonathan posted:Awesome cars don't need to idle well.
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Mar 22, 2013 13:27
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 gently caress. gently caress! gently caress gently caress FUUUUCK FUUUUUUUUUUCK! phew.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKdWEfbmCyU This is totally the right thread for this, by the way.
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Fucknag posted:I can't think of any Mazdas that are/were out-and-out Bad Cars. Tributes. I don't even know if they got them in America, but in the first year they were out, we were doing - Rear brake calipers leaking - Fuel pump seals leaking - Oil leaks between the two halves of the block - Brake light switches inoperative - Front seat belt stalks cracking - Cruise control cables sticking - Factory sunroofs leaking That's not including the shitful fuel economy, the horrible plastic-y trim even at the highest spec level and the surprisingly little cabin space for a mid-sized SUV. When they first came out, they were definitely what I would define as a Bad Car™. Memento fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Rhyno posted:Having owned one, I remember we had an HE 929 come in to the Mazda specialty shop where I was working, and the guy who had it was the Used Cars Manager for the local Mazda dealership. This was a Mazda Sentia for the rest of the world, and it was the first one I had ever seen. I think about seven in total got imported to Australia. I mentioned in passing how much of a piece of poo poo this thing was, and how terribly ugly it looked. The guy who brought it in said something along the lines of "yeah, and I have to sell the loving thing". I forgot all about the Eunos 800M. When I was working at the dealership (I got poached to go work on far, far cooler Mazdas when my boss left) we would sit the owners down before telling them how much the 100k service was going to cost. Generally you'd get away with a little bit of change from three and a half grand. About five grand adjusted for inflation. On a car that probably had a resale value at that point in time of 20k. Oh and that's 100,000km, not miles.
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Elmnt80 posted:Well, IoC said its cool to make a new one, so I'm trying to figure up a first post for the thread with general safety and common terms and the like. Nautical Insanity: A Hole In The Water You Pour Money Into.
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In the spirit of enormous machinery, I thought you guys might like to see this. Click for big. That thing on the left there is a Komatsu 930E haul truck, fully loaded weight of 1,270,000 pounds. She's a big fucker. The loader on the left is a LeTourneau L-2350, which holds the Guinness World Record for Largest Earth Mover, and can move 160,000 pounds of rock in one scoop. Four scoops will fill up the Komatsu. Look at the dude in the haul truck cockpit. Look how tiny he is. These things are loving massive. I'm a little over six feet tall, and I don't even come up to the middle of the wheel on the LeTourneau.
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Slavvy posted:I've wondered this for a while and I guess you're the guy to ask: what is the benefit of having gigantic fuckoff wheels like that as opposed to caterpillar tracks? I can understand the haulers having wheels because they potentially have to drive on hard surfaces, and their entire job consists of driving from place to place, so wheels definitely make sense there. But why would you want wheels on an earth mover? Literally every decision about the specs on one of those things is to do with cost. It costs more to fix them, and because you're not working them on surfaces where mud beyond a few centimeters depth is an issue, you're not getting any appreciable benefit from tracks. Remember that tracks are for going places where wheels will get bogged to poo poo, and that the places where those loaders are working used to be the inside of a mountain - solid bedrock with no dirt to make mud. Speed isn't as much of an issue, and they're exactly as maneuverable as a tracked vehicle, as each wheel is independently driven. The 45L diesel is there to provide power to electric motors. Again, that's a cost issue, electric is easier on tyres and means no expensive drivetrains to break. Electric means you get to have a constant, efficient speed for the diesel to work at, which means you can cut down on battery capacity needed, as you know how much is being provided at all times from the diesel. EightBit posted:gently caress, how long do those take to put on? It's not too bad, couple of hours maybe? The workshop they maintain these things in is an aircraft hanger full of toys I could play with until the day I die and never get bored. The chains themselves come rolled up and you use the gantry crane to get them off the delivery truck, then roll them out on a big painted-on pattern on the floor. Then you drive the loader on, and use the crane to lift them and fix them into place. The hardest part is the bit where you fasten them at the top, because you're working at height and there's nothing like a minesite for the most spectacular OSHA anal retentiveness ever. I don't spin spanners for a living any more, I'm an exploration geologist, but I spent a morning I had off once watching the poo poo they get up to at Heavy Vehicle Maintenance at the mine that photo was from and it was awesome. Throatwarbler posted:Earth movers have to get to where the earth is too? If that thing was on tracks you would need a huge trailer and tractor to move it from site to site? They come in parts on the back of several flatbed trucks, with an accompanying Landcruiser full of factory techs to build them. They usually spend their entire lives on the same site, and if you need to move them off for whatever reason, you take them apart and ship them. You might get away with driving a little wiggle wagon or something on the roads for a limited amount of time, but not something like that.
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Elmnt80 posted:I'm rather curious if that loader was actually made at the LeTourneau plant in Longview or if its just using their name on it. Yep, there's a bunch of Lone Star State stickers on the wall at the workshop that came with the paperwork. They ship them through the Panama Canal in several containers worth of bits, which is a whole lot cheaper than you'd think. This site is in South America, West Coast, but they get to our sites in Australia the same way. I can't imagine buying off-brand or badge-engineered stuff from China or India or Brazil would end up being any cheaper at all, in the long run.
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InitialDave posted:And 600bhp. Was it this one that also had nearly a newton-kilometer of torque?
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VikingSkull posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuf8rJAbyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7ZPSxHgKmw 80s-est song on the planet.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Isn't that what the XJ220 had? And doesn't everyone blame that for its failure? Well, if we're going to just broadly paint a single engine configuration with the same brush, then the Nissan GT-R also has a TTV6, and I don't think anyone would call that car a "failure".
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Did somebody say mining machinery? This is the Nautilus Minerals Seafloor Production Bulk Cutter tool. It's like a regular old open-face pit cutter, except it operates literally a mile under water. I'm not super on board with the environmental issues surrounding the use of these things, but you have to admit the technology is  as gently caress.
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Powershift posted:Normally front end swaps go in the terrible thread, but this is just too fuckin cute 100% correct thread.
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Powershift posted:It's a center diff out of a tandem set-up remember Current status: semi erect.
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Butt Wizard posted:Does anyone want to know what a 25 year old R32 GTR looks like when it's in 4.5B condition out of Japan? gently caress man, don't start me. I've halfway convinced myself that one of these is going to be my next major purchase; fortunately I'm spoiled for choice being in Australia. The main issue here is trying to find one that's close to stock without being modified to poo poo by some knuckle-dragger. There's 8 GT-Rs within an hour's drive of me right now. Plus some GTS-T and GT-T models, but who wants them.
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Powershift posted:it's a foremost husky, just google image serch, there are tons of fuckawesome variants. i've driven it's smaller cousin, the nodwell. the nodwell you steer with 2 sticks, shift by flooring it, and the engine is about 4 inches from your right elbow. The huskys have a steering wheel and obviously more room for the engine. Yeah I'm a big loving fan of vehicles that you need a helicopter headset to operate.
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Mcqueen posted:Post more big trucks. They are boss as hell.  Komatsu 930E. Loaded weight: one million, two hundred and seventy thousand pounds. The text on the second truck's front rail translates to "Work safely for your family waiting at home". Click for even more enormous. Memento fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Mar 6, 2015 |
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Mooseykins posted:Errr.. lol, thank you. I was doing a resource estimate earlier and I had tons on the brain.
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Mooseykins posted:We need some wreckers in here. Mooseykins posted:
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Slavvy posted:Those super duper extendy cranes look like something a kid would draw. Are those built just to show off manufacturing skills or are they actually useful for stuff? I can't picture what you would lift with those that's light enough to avoid tipping the truck, yet heavy/inconvenient enough to prevent just moving it normally. I've seen them here for fibreglass pool shells. You have a two-story house and no laneway behind your yard, but want an in-ground pool installed. Those things generally weigh less than a ton.
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El Scotch posted:"Oh gently caress!" Close. More like "AWWWW gently caress. ...aww gently caress."
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