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Hello Spaceman posted:Uh you might wanna have your hat checked, buddy. I think that he may well be right. Mercury isn't good for you, but a lot of people confuse its (undeniably bad) health effects for that of its methyl- and dimethyl- forms (liquid death with a side order of pure murder).
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In Australia, where roadworthy inspections are an annual affair and the police are militant about road safety, this is the closest I'm likely to come to terrible: The bumper appears to be only attached by the PVC electrical insulation tape, not even cloth backed tape. Where we're going, we don't need mechanical fasteners.
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Aug 25, 2012 02:40
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Devyl posted:Was that real ostrich? That man is a nutter. Part of me wonders how well it handles pot holes and body flex, the rest wonders if the vehicle hasn't exceeded its GVM. http://englishrussia.com/2008/05/29/lithuanians-and-pu-foam/
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Aug 26, 2012 10:22
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Mighty Horse posted:You obviously have some sort of brake light voltage already at the back of the car, since you wired in the trailer lights.....why not just fix the lights that are there already? Maybe he'd seen the benefit of rain lamps for motorway use and wanted a set to call his own, then decided that all that extra wiring was a PITA so he'd activate them Lincoln driver style?
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Aug 28, 2012 01:03
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Maker Of Shoes posted:I have an irrational hatred towards this crap. *: Assuming it's also fitted with hellaretarded nonfunctional suspension. e: f, b Isn't there some requirement under the highway code that the wheels be completely covered by the wheelarch? IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Sep 2, 2012 |
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Sep 2, 2012 04:30
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Someone's overestimated how much parasitic load an alternator produces. (I know about the noise, still pointless)
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Sep 4, 2012 08:16
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peepsalot posted:There's an ECO(still not sure if that stands for for "eco-friendly" or "economy") but it's basically the inverse of the boost gauge. Mash the pedal and it goes to 0 chunks, coast and it goes to 4 chunks. loving stupid. Dammit I hate that car. Best guess is that it's a manifold vacuum gauge; they used to be somewhat popular as 'economy gauges' around the same time people were deliberately injecting air after the carburettor for a leaner burn.
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Sep 13, 2012 12:36
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DocCynical posted:I don't think this person understands how the box of a truck works. Now taking bets that it was in the tray until he hit the brakes.
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Sep 29, 2012 07:07
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Geoj posted:Am I missing something or is there no driveshaft on that car? That's next. 
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Oct 17, 2012 08:06
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mutt2jeff posted:All I can say is It reminds me of a Bristol for some reason. And I kinda like it, though I'd prefer higher profile tyres and different rims, possibly with body colour centre caps. If it weren't matt that would probably help. e: remove quoted images for page flow. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Oct 24, 2012 12:45
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Deceptor101 posted:what's the reasoning behind doing these fixes? The labor is low cost, its still a TON of hours and parts. Is it because buying new/newish used is really expensive due to a 100% import tax or something? I just don't see how they make money. I imagine that for people in some ex-soviet economic disaster zone, the idea of spending $500 on on the margin for a 'new' used vehicle when there's one that's been repaired for cheap on offer would be unthinkable. As an Australian, I wouldn't buy or drive one of those rebuilds but on the flip side I see a lot of American 'beaters' and 'junkers' and wonder why it's uneconomic to fix them.
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Nov 9, 2012 09:19
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Not exactly a Mechanical Failure, not exactly a Cycle Picture. Not all that exciting, but pretty weird, a pretty bad idea, and I'd never seen it before. Looks like a home-brew regrooving rather than a retreading. You'd need to be absolutely barking mad to think it was a good idea, if it is. Was it a grieving widow dropping the bike off?
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Nov 29, 2012 04:06
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These things are fantastic in sand, and I thought that was their raison d'etre. You couldn't pay me to use one for any other reason, though I can see how some people might be daft enough to try.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:11
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Powershift posted:
The horse looks like it has just been euthanised. Which would be a suitable end for that poor, malformed rolling miscarriage.
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Jan 4, 2013 06:27
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Octopus Magic posted:
Remove my dashboard from my race car? Naaa, we'll just make the cage fit around it.  Anyone taking bets that it'll just be tack welded to the floorpan, so even if it WAS rigid (which it isn't), it'd just push through the floor in a rollover anyway? vv Fighting chance it's made from a cut up trampoline frame IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 02:51 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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Jan 22, 2013 01:51
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A lot less than a drilled or slotted rotor would; since it's a drilled rotor, I don't think that he would notice at all. I'm interested in how long it stays there, and if laser etching (I assume that's how it was done) caused the disc to develop any flaws.
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Feb 22, 2013 23:44
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FIRST TIME posted:What is it with old Jaguars and wires and hoses running all over everywhere without any rhyme or reason whatsoever? It doesn't look like they designed a car so much as just started connecting poo poo together in a random fashion until something happened. Wait until you see where the air intakes are. The FI V12s have an analogue computer in the boot (US: Trunk), which requires a vacuum line run from the intake manifold all the way back. This is the sort of thinking you're up against when you're looking at/trying to make sense of British automobiles.
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Mar 6, 2013 09:28
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CommieGIR posted:To the lesser extent what is with all the yellow driving lights? Its coming back in a big way with Ricers It's called Selective Yellow. It hits the most sensitive absorption frequency in the retina, so it appears brighter for each lux thrown, and, because it's a single frequency it focuses basically perfectly. Same reason people doing visual tasks in low light will occasionally don yellow glasses. Of course, in the real world, the lux advantage is kinda undone because you have a white bulb that you then filter down to just selective yellow, dimming the output; the focus advantage is still there and is honestly fantastic. LMP1 race cars also have selective yellow headlights; maybe the theory is that you'll mistake a lowered Accord for a serious bit of racing kit. And if you're in France, they used to be standard there until the EEC made them change it.
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Mar 11, 2013 00:04
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The imperial system is often used as a shorthand to avoid issues with false precision. It's just hard coded into us at a genetic level* that "About 2.5 centimeters" is automatically translated as "This has been measured to 25mm ±0.5 mm, and I will become unreasonably upset when I fabricate something and the actual gap I needed to bridge turns out to be 27.2mm", while "About an inch" translates to "This has been eyeballed from some distance by a person with cataracts in poor light and I should not regard it as a usable number for anything but a sense of scale". *: not really, but a lot of people act this way.
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Mar 25, 2013 02:32
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If I'm looking at that right, he's got a leaf-sprung chassis from something designed by Isambard Brunel and bolted/welded/rivetted/zip-tied it to the underside of a Mazda BT-50? Is this some sort of way to get some modicum of modern safety* and convenience while still having a pre-emissions powertrain? Or am I just having too much faith in humanity? *: Yeah, I know
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Apr 4, 2013 02:07
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Well, to be fair: Actually trying to weld exhaust tubing with a stick welder is hard.
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Apr 5, 2013 01:32
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For sale, bare metal respray, interior needs some work, well kept by fastidious owner, this is one hot number that won't disappoint.
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Apr 15, 2013 05:26
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How the hell is that even remotely close to legal? If so: Why aren't you all driving mad-max inspired pedestrian death machines?
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Apr 17, 2013 11:47
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Remove the particulate filter (if fitted), wind up the injector duty cycle to 11, act surprised when all that excess carbon causes your valves to stick/pistons to melt.
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May 5, 2013 12:45
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Isn't it a rebadged Mahindra? If so, it's body-on-frame, and I'm not getting why the repair was inappropriate? As far as I know, butt welds shouldn't be weak in compression (i.e. another rollover, when it matters), or is the main concern with hardening at the weld or fatiguing of the base of the "B" pillar (where they bent it back) failing?
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May 17, 2013 04:23
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They're in addition to the standard wing mirror; they're typically a fisheye to help you reverse park and/or assess the damage to your toddler when you've reversed over them. They really are fantastically useful, but they have trouble clearing pedestrian safety standards in places other than Japan.
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May 19, 2013 09:38
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I seem to recall that the Ford diesel with EGR has a bad habit of cooking itself to death if driven drat it, new page: Have a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgRyFoQHhSQ And an image  (I'm not sure if there's an aluminium can in there, or if they're just using the hose clamps themselves as patches)
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May 21, 2013 01:33
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CharlesM posted:Seriously, it was that big a deal? When you're the only kid in school who isn't hitting the crack pipe over lunchbreak, or mainlining black tar heroin in the back row of the classroom during Math, I imagine it probably would make you feel a little excluded.
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May 22, 2013 08:20
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bennyfactor posted:
Further proof that he hasn't thought out that abomination: The rear seat he's gone to so much effort to add is basically useless for anyone who has a head thanks to the rake of the windshield. But five seconds travel with any sort of load at all ought to see to that.
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May 23, 2013 16:12
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West SAAB Story posted:I agree. The nostrils just look completely out of place and stupid on the Solstice. However, I did catch myself admiring a Redline Sky the other day. Maserati, specifically their legal department, may have been a bit interested in these.
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Sep 6, 2013 04:06
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The previous body style had a twincharged, intercooled 1 litre that went pretty well - maybe this is a Cosworth version?
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Oct 1, 2013 14:42
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The cage is welded to a flat plate that sits over the vehicle floor. The seats aren't connected to this plate. In the event of a serious accident (you know, the kind where you really need the cage), the seats will move independently of the cage. If you spin the vehicle 180º before reversing it into something solid, the mounting plate will neatly bisect you, irrespective of the mounting hardware they use. e: also add "no cross braces", "No gusseting", "(apparently) butt-welded joints". IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Oct 4, 2013 10:03
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I bet those ladies were just blown away by his driving talent, and how well he kept his composure when things went wrong. The only thing that could have made it better was if the women were undercover police.
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Oct 25, 2013 05:57
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http://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Mazda-MX-6-1993/SSE-AD-691769/ posted:Car was drive well, before had brown head gasket on April. Wondering what the best looking MX6 in the world looks like? Glad you asked: http://imgur.com/a/ShM9s Edit: I left out the punchline: 6,000AUD. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Nov 13, 2013 |
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Nov 12, 2013 10:21
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anonumos posted:It's not half bad: It looks like a modernized TF MG, minus the Lucas, Prince of Darkness electrics. And there is nothing wrong with that at all.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:11
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animeliker posted:It's an SL, so no. Every time I see a 3000GT I think "what is the point", and then I get mad that they replaced the Starion with it. The 4wd 240kw/420Nm twin turbo was the point. But I think that Freedomland only got the anemic SOHC NA motor, because freedom. As to the starion: I think that the internal geometry of the Astron 2.6 (specifically, it's an undersquare design) limited its development potential for performance use. VVV: Ah, I didn't know that. I thought they were 6 speeds? IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Dec 23, 2013 |
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Dec 22, 2013 23:31
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Ineptus Mechanicus posted:In GT2 there was always either a white or red Mark 3 Supra available for less than the 10k starting credits, and every time I started a new file I bought it and ground the Sunday Cup until I could afford whatever the top turbo was. After that just keep adding power and nothing else. I have so many fond memories of struggling to keep ahead of wheezy little Kei cars doing a near constant burnout until I crashed into a wall sideways. TVR Cerbera 12 supremacy. Shame that the physics engine would give it awful axle tramp and limit the top speed to about 5 km/h if you did anything dumb like use full throttle anywhere ever.
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Exit Strategy posted:And even things without engines - The firearms community Firearms are heat engines 
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Jan 3, 2014 00:34
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Group B does not belong in this thread. "Post terrible retarded crowd stuff in this thread", sure.
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Amphion posted:At least these ridiculous trucks have better bumper levels, don't know what you do with them though. These are some sort of specialist tow vehicles for circumventing needing an air brake endorsement on your licence or something, right? They aren't sold to dickheads to drop their spawn at school and go shopping, are they? I'm struggling to think of how someone can be stupid enough to want such a vehicle (excluding people dodging needing a heavy articulated license), yet rich enough to afford it.
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