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iwentdoodie posted:How...how is it that slow Hard street tires, highway-geared automatic, 8-way power seats. Still faster than before I started, which was 18.34. Baby steps. e:quoted for new page
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iwentdoodie posted:How...how is it that slow Engine's already figured out that its in a Buick.
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Left Ventricle posted:
kastein posted:supercharger
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Dec 4, 2016 01:44
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kastein posted:supercharger Baby steps. Suspension, tires, transmission, driver skill, weight reduction. Then POWERRRRRRRRRRRR. All in due time, friends. Fermented Tinal posted:Engine's already figured out that its in a Buick. 
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Dec 4, 2016 01:50
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poo poo, I bet that thing can swallow a 50 shot. Does the ECU like HPTuners? What happened with the reaction time there? I wish we had a drag strip here still so we could do an altitude-corrected "slowest car in AI" challenge. It's probably one of the stupid ACVWs though 
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Seat Safety Switch posted:poo poo, I bet that thing can swallow a 50 shot. Does the ECU like HPTuners? Frozenphil, probably.
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Dec 4, 2016 03:25
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Does the ECU like HPTuners? Seat Safety Switch posted:What happened with the reaction time there?  basically. Some "git gud scrub" is in order.
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Dec 4, 2016 03:36
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Well, reaction time only matters if you're actually racing the car next to you. If you're measuring the car's improvement, it doesn't affect anything else. HPTuners lists the 1997 Monte as a supported vehicle, so you could possibly have some luck finding a LSx tuner already familiar with HPT.
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Dec 4, 2016 03:50
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Get.
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Dec 10, 2016 04:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKYMgfjCd7E
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Dec 19, 2016 16:41
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I agree with everything said in that video.
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Dec 19, 2016 21:29
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GodDAMMIT I came here to post that!
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Dec 19, 2016 23:11
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Also this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGUaX6X0GgY
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Dec 23, 2016 03:00
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The gently caress did he find a Century that wasn't already in LV's driveway?
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Dec 23, 2016 03:04
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 Left Ventricle posted:A box was dropped on my porch by Fedex. Hailing from the far-flung wasteland of Massachusets.
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Dec 31, 2016 22:59
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Ken Stein you absolute madman. You're beautiful. I love you. Have my manbabies. 
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This goes some (small, but significant) way to redeeming 2016. Awesomeness.
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Dec 31, 2016 23:51
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Yea I like where this is headed.
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Dec 31, 2016 23:55
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kastein ends 2016 on a bangin' note.  !
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Jan 1, 2017 00:19
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Absolutely did not see that coming, but gently caress yeah  These AI threads where people do good work on otherwise unloved cars are my favorite. Always psyched to see this thread and Boaz MacPhereson's Second Chances and Second Dances, or: Yeah, it's got four doors, so what? thread rise to the top of my bookmarks. 
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Jan 1, 2017 00:35
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Nuevo posted:Absolutely did not see that coming, but gently caress yeah Oh, you.  LV, I assume that last pic is of the swapped car, yeah? You could have the only supercharged swapped Century... ... in the whuurrrld.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:LV, I assume that last pic is of the swapped car, yeah? You could have the only supercharged swapped Century...  ). Gold wagon or yellow sedan are the candidates, since the SC is from a Buick 3.8, and those two have Buick engines. Adapting the Buick SC to a Chevy engine is not impossible, but it's not really worth it for the amount of work necessary. You have to make your own lower intake manifold, for example.If Ken pops in and tells me what year car the SC came from, that will tell me if I can even use it. If it's from a Series I L67 (92-95), I can use the heads and lower intake from a Series I on my 3.3 block. It's still an uphill battle from there, but feasible. However, the gold wagon has an interesting future. I am in the planning and theory stages of my sekrit progect. It's gonna be a doozy.  ITS A SEAKRET DONT ASK ABOUT THE PORJECT
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Jan 1, 2017 05:43
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We should ask 14" after he gets home if he wants to go do some more Hunter S. Thompson videos. If you need anything to make this happen let me know.
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Jan 1, 2017 05:50
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Left Ventricle posted:Pics of the SC are on, in order: white wagon's broken original engine (won't work), white wagon's current engine (won't work), gold wagon ( The 3.1 and (I think) 3.3/4 motors are 60 degree designs, so the manifold probably won't work. However, I want to say the blower for the V6 in the 90's thunderbirds wasn't even mounted on the motor.
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Jan 7, 2017 23:05
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Just wanna say my U-Body and I are fully on board with everything you're doing
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Jan 8, 2017 00:20
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Nice, I haven't seen a dustbuster van in ages.
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Jan 8, 2017 22:25
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I had one a few years ago. 1995 Trans Sport, Buick 3.8. I'd probably still have it, if not for the booster and master failing at the same time, and the AC compressor seizing and the belt tension being so tight that it locked the rest of the accessories solid and the engine wouldn't crank back over. I didn't even have the $40 to buy a bypass pulley at the time, so off to the yard it went in 2012.  Great when it worked. It even returned 27 mpg highway, two higher than its EPA rating of 25.
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Left Ventricle posted:I had one a few years ago. More importantly they look really cool, especially for a minivan
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Jan 9, 2017 11:57
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So Ken said in the AISS thread that the supercharger is from a Series 2 3.8, which is ground-up different from the Series 1 and the 3.3 in my cars... I may be able to use it at some later date, but it doesn't look like it's in the cards right now.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:34
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Yeah, sorry about that I didn't pick it up looking for it to fit your project, luck of the draw. Had no idea they were even different. Hell, if you sell it on ebay or swap it for one you can use or sell it and use the money to buy one you can use (or something else, up to you) it certainly won't hurt my feelings. I sent it to you because I felt like it and figured you would at least have a chance of using it, otherwise I was going to end up trying to sell it to broke ricer idiots at swapmeets for the next year or with it wasting space in my spare bedroom because I'm never going to get around to using it.
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Jan 10, 2017 22:08
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I could swear an early s2 SC could fit onto a S1, but not the pre-s1 (86-88) motors.
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Jan 11, 2017 00:29
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kastein posted:Yeah, sorry about that  Metal Geir Skogul posted:I could swear an early s2 SC could fit onto a S1, but not the pre-s1 (86-88) motors.
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Good news everyone! I partially participated in the Roadkill Zip Ties event. I drove out to Irwindale Speedway in the wagon. It got 27 mpg, which is slightly lower than its EPA rating, but still good. They even took and posted a picture of my lame-o dad wagon on their website! I spoke briefly with Freiburger about my car and he was "impressed" that I did all the research and work myself. Even if he was just blowing smoke up my rear end, it's nice to hear. There was a lot of really cool stuff out there, which I'll probably be posting in the Awesome thread. I had to break off and head home after the lunch stop in Blythe though, so I didn't get the full Roadkill experience. Still had a great time. Then, of course, the fun has to be tempered. The bad news: at some point overnight Friday, someone who doesn't know how to drive hit my other car. It is normally parked where all the oil stains are, probably at least ten feet away.  Various bits of their lights, and tire marks.     The damage, which is... surprisingly minimal, considering how far the car had been pushed.     I'm not allowed to have nice things, I guess. I could have filed a police report, but they wouldn't investigate it. The police report would be for presenting to my insurance company when I file a claim, but I only carry minimum required insurance because it's a 25-year-old Century. So I instead get to seethe with impotent rage at some random dickhead who can't be bothered to even leave a note saying "sorry I hit your car" or even "why the gently caress was your car parked in my way".
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Jan 15, 2017 18:29
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loving god drat son of a bitch people are lower than frog's balls. pull the bumper, go easy with a heatgun and you can waft out the wrinkles from the back side. inspect the retractor, it *should* be ok. Goof off will handle the scuffs well. try it on a small area to make sure it doesnt take your paint with it The best thing that offsets more power? More plate. they'll be in pieces next time, and it'll look mad max as gently caress.
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Jan 15, 2017 18:48
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Man what assholes but yea at least the damage wasnt too bad, poor old yeller
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Jan 15, 2017 18:53
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gently caress that guy for not even leaving a note, and you should've made it all the way out. Was fun as hell and I never even managed to get face to face with Freiburger or Finnegan.
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Jan 15, 2017 19:03
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Do you not have uninsured motorist coverage? I have liability-only and my policy includes that. I think that might handle hit-n-run.
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Jan 15, 2017 20:47
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It's a 25yo Buick, won't most insurance companies try to total it even with that amount of damage?
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Raluek posted:Do you not have uninsured motorist coverage? I have liability-only and my policy includes that. I think that might handle hit-n-run. Fermented Tinal posted:It's a 25yo Buick, won't most insurance companies try to total it even with that amount of damage? Basically this. There are likely no witnesses, I don't even know what kind of vehicle hit it, who cares about some lovely old Buick, etc.
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We care.
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