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Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

Of the hundreds of phrases coined by The Simpsons that made it into regular use, "speed holes" has always been one of my favorites.

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Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
It's obvious that Krusty has been to the track.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Vitamin K.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
Since when the gently caress is a Commodore a sleeper????

MrChips
Jun 10, 2005

FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

Question 9: Unlike my answer to the previous question, this common part/practice/whatever is a total waste of money if you want to go faster.

Cold Air Intake - 17
Adiabatic
LloydDobler
Enourmo
Sigma X
KozmoNaut
Das Volk
Ephphatha
Elmnt80
I like to smoke wee
leica
IOwnCalculus
StormDrain
CharlesM
SFH1989
Diabolikus
Wrar
Bajaha

Exhaust - 5
ilkhan
Safety Dance
Freelop
CornHolio
bandman

Lower profile wheels - 3
bolind
Somewhat Heroic
Simkin

Power mods in general (ECU flash, bigger turbo, etc) - 3
Phone
KYOON GRIFFEY JR
BoostCreep

"Performance" Air filter - 3
fjelltorsk
Doccers
Mat_Drinks

Coilovers, bro! - 2
Seat Safety Switch
Naked Bear

Intake spacers - 2
angryhampster
Godholio

General maintenance - 2
Measly Twerp
Keykey

Aero - 2
sadnessboner
NitroSpazzz

ACES:

Lowering car - 1500quidporsche
A promise of a blowjob from said supermodel - CAT INTERCEPTOR
Using premium gas in a car designed for regular - iForge
Vinyl stripes - ionn
Whistle tips - SouthsideSaint
Electric turbocharger - literally a fish
Nitrous - The Locator
Driver Training, innit - Anghammarad
Losing weight. - meatpimp
Short shifter - kimbo305
Stickers! - Deeters
Setting everything up too drat stiff - InitialDave
Rocking back and forth in the seat trying to shove the car forward with your body. - Terrible Robot


Question 10: On the subject of going fast, this car is by far the best sleeper-car from the factory.

Ford Taurus SHO - 7
1500quidporsche
SouthsideSaint
Godholio
Enourmo
StormDrain
BoostCreep
Sigma X

Chevrolet SS - 5
sadnessboner
angryhampster
ilkhan
Deeters
SFH1989

Ford Transit - 2
Measly Twerp
Simkin

Ford Fiesta ST - 2
leica
Mat_Drinks

Volvo 850R - 2
Keykey
LloydDobler

Tesla Model S - 2
meatpimp
iForge

CTS-V - 2
kimbo305
fjelltorsk

ACES:

Ford Focus ST wagon - KozmoNaut
Audi RS4 Wagon - bolind
Juke NISMO - Adiabatic
LS1/2 powered GTOs - Phone
Volvo XC-70 - Safety Dance
Librarians. Look homely but holy poo poo hawt under the clothes - CAT INTERCEPTOR
Whatever year the 300hp FWD Toyota RAV4 was, that poo poo was stupid fast I mean come on holy gently caress what sick bastard at Toyota built a RAV4 that accelerates faster than a WRX STI - Seat Safety Switch
Buick Regal - Das Volk
Holden Commodore Sportwagon - Ephphatha
Volvo 240 Turbo Wagon - Naked Bear
Volvo 900 series - Freelop
Subaru Impreza - ionn
Fiero - Elmnt80
Kia K900 - I like to smoke wee
Dodge Challenger 392 - CornHolio
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 - KYOON GRIFFEY JR
Mazdaspeed3 - Somewhat Heroic
BMW M5 - NitroSpazzz
Ford Flex Ecoboost - IOwnCalculus
E63 AMG wagon - literally a fish
1973 Chrysler Newport - The Locator
MG ZT-T Estate 4.6 - Anghammarad
1993 Mazda Protegé GT (Canadian spec) - CharlesM
Volvo S60 Polestar - Doccers
Lotus Carlton - InitialDave
Mazdaspeed 6 - Wrar
Audi S4 - Diabolikus
Subaru Forester XT - Bajaha
Dodge Spirit R/T - bandman
Any small shitbox driven by someone with no fear of death - Terrible Robot

MrChips
Jun 10, 2005

FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

Scores after question 10:

leica - 73
SFH1989 - 72
Enourmo - 69
Bajaha - 69
Sigma X - 65
Adiabatic - 60
IOwnCalculus - 60
bandman - 60
Das Volk - 59
CornHolio - 59
Deeters - 58
sadnessboner - 56
StormDrain - 55
meatpimp - 55
LloydDobler - 54
Ephphatha - 54
BoostCreep - 53
I like to smoke wee - 49
Elmnt80 - 47
NitroSpazzz - 47
ilkhan - 47
angryhampster - 46
Wrar - 44
ionn - 41
Phone - 40
literally a fish - 40
CharlesM - 37
Doccers - 37
bolind - 35
Mat_Drinks - 35
KozmoNaut - 33
Seat Safety Switch - 33
The Locator - 33
kimbo305 - 33
SouthsideSaint - 32
Safety Dance - 31
Naked Bear - 31
Keykey - 31
Diabolikus - 31
iForge - 30
KYOON GRIFFEY JR - 29
Simkin - 28
Godholio - 28
Freelop - 26
fjelltorsk - 24
Somewhat Heroic - 22
Measly Twerp - 21
InitialDave - 21
Terrible Robot - 21
1500quidporsche - 19
Anghammarad - 15
CAT INTERCEPTOR - 12

See you tomorrow for the reveal of Questions 11 and 12!

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Well, gently caress.

Bajaha
Apr 1, 2011

BajaHAHAHA.



Awe yeah - 69 :quagmire:

Completely forgot about the SHO, but then again, so has the general public.

StandardVC10
Feb 6, 2007

This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

MrChips posted:

Lotus Carlton - InitialDave

I was hoping somebody would give this answer.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





After an accidental strong start, I'm charging hard for a low mediocre finish. Just like my dates.

Phone
Jul 30, 2005

親子丼をほしい。
CAI is a power mod; I demand a recount. :colbert:

BoostCreep
May 3, 2004

Might I ask where you keep your forced induction accessories?
Grimey Drawer
drat you cold air intake. Didn't even think of that. I'd be in 6th with that one. Massive gently caress up on my part.

keykey
Mar 28, 2003

     

way to go LloydDobler. :):hf::)

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Bajaha posted:

Completely forgot about the SHO, but then again, so has the general public.

Yup, totally forgot about the SHO, is it that fast anyway?

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





MrChips posted:

Ford Flex Ecoboost - IOwnCalculus

SHO in a box.

Clawing my way back to the front!

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Phone posted:

CAI is a power mod; I demand a recount. :colbert:

Most of the sheep answers are good power mods OR things you need to do to get a good base. CAI's are a waste of money? The hell? EXHAUST????? Do it badly yeah okay that's a fair call but do it well and it's worth every single cent. You do a CAI and exhaust on a Commodore, you are looking at 40+Kw. 60Kw+ with a reflash.

I would have expected Fart cannons or pod filters.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
^Put one on many other cars and you're likely to lose power and/or hydrolock an engine. Most CAI kits out there are garbage, but yeah there are a few unicorns that actually understand physics and things.



leica posted:

Yup, totally forgot about the SHO, is it that fast anyway?

In 2012 when I was considering one, some company dropped a tune on the market that put their mostly stock SHO through the quarter mile alongside a '12 Camaro SS.

Edit: Ok I can't find that video anymore, but this gets the point across. SHO has intake, exhaust, suspension, and LMS tune (which is probably the company I was thinking of). I'm finding other videos showing high 12s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRumeg1W1PM

Godholio fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 25, 2015

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





I stand by the CAI answer because most of the ones on the market, for most cars on the market, are really hot-air-sucking garbage that doesn't do anything useful. Probably not helped that mentally I lump "pod filters" in with the rest of them.

There certainly are ones that do help, especially for GM V8 products where intake restriction seems to be their favorite pastime.

Tony quidprano
Jan 19, 2014

Bajaha posted:

Awe yeah - 69 :quagmire:

Completely forgot about the SHO, but then again, so has the general public.

To be fair I had as well and when I said that I had the original 89 Taurus SHO in my mind.

ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.
CAI sunk my poo poo. That sucks.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Most of the sheep answers are good power mods OR things you need to do to get a good base. CAI's are a waste of money? The hell? EXHAUST????? Do it badly yeah okay that's a fair call but do it well and it's worth every single cent. You do a CAI and exhaust on a Commodore, you are looking at 40+Kw. 60Kw+ with a reflash.

I would have expected Fart cannons or pod filters.
It's fairly clear that people put them because knobends do a crap job of them thanks to not understanding the gap between how they should really be implemented and their own bullshit cargo-cult approach.

Every "ricer" mod/trend has its roots in something "legitimate".

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

InitialDave posted:

It's fairly clear that people put them because knobends do a crap job of them thanks to not understanding the gap between how they should really be implemented and their own bullshit cargo-cult approach.

Every "ricer" mod/trend has its roots in something "legitimate".

So? Every mod you can do to a car that works has it's opposite in ricer poo poo or way to gently caress it up. Does that make them worthless? I'm standing by what I said. Do it right, you get a huge payoff and it's worth every single cent.

And as I said, pod filters and fart cannons, oh yes that poo poo is a waste. A good CAI and exhaust isnt unicorn stuff either - it's not even rocket science to do it right. Even cardboard and strategic removal of factory resonators can work brilliantly.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

Enourmo posted:

I feel like I'm gonna do good on at least one of tomorrow's answers.

:smuggo:

3rd place motherfuckers, if all goes well I could win this again.

E: Also most modern factory intakes are CAIs, so unless you're doing a complete system replacement including tune and probably power adders, an aftermarket CAI will do jack poo poo and probably lose power at a lot of spots.

Mat_Drinks
Nov 18, 2002

mmm this nitromethane gets my supercharger runnin'
The SS is an overchromed car that shouldn't count as a sleeper (4.6 0-60 at over 40k? psssh this is a standard daily down under) and the SHO is enormous and heavy. I saw one street parked once and it was nuts, practically an RV.

I don't even own a Fiesta ST, but the stuff people are doing with them is pretty nuts!

MrChips posted:

Losing weight. - meatpimp

:btroll: spotted

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde

keykey posted:

way to go LloydDobler. :):hf::)

If I hadn't gone with comedy option the 850 T-5R would have been my answer.

LloydDobler
Oct 15, 2005

You shared it with a dick.

keykey posted:

way to go LloydDobler. :):hf::)

:):hf::)

When we had a dude with a 99% stock T5R whose only mod is a boost controller, and it's within .6 seconds in the 1/4 mile of the fastest car in our Volvo club (A heavily modded S60R) you gotta give it props.

fjelltorsk
Sep 2, 2011

I am having a BALL
i think i just realized the point was to get as many points as possible :P

clam ache
Sep 6, 2009
F you SHO haters that is a dream car and the new ones with the supercharger are the TITS! And I cant believe no one else choose whistle tips.

Wrar
Sep 9, 2002


Soiled Meat
I must have a weird brain because all my answers are genuine.

The Locator
Sep 12, 2004

Out here, everything hurts.





fjelltorsk posted:

i think i just realized the point was to get as many points as possible :P

Wait, what? :doh:

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde

fjelltorsk posted:

i think i just realized the point was to get as many points as possible :P

You can play for high points or low points, it's mostly a gauge of how tuned into the hive mind you are :v:

I'm playing to "lose"

BoostCreep
May 3, 2004

Might I ask where you keep your forced induction accessories?
Grimey Drawer

Mat_Drinks posted:

The SS is an overchromed car that shouldn't count as a sleeper (4.6 0-60 at over 40k? psssh this is a standard daily down under) and the SHO is enormous and heavy. I saw one street parked once and it was nuts, practically an RV.

I don't even own a Fiesta ST, but the stuff people are doing with them is pretty nuts!

I was thinking of the original Yamaha powered SHO, not the new behemoth version.

And I do own a fiesta ST. I think the sporty bumper covers and bright red ST badges give it away to easily.

MrChips
Jun 10, 2005

FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

Question 11: Surprisingly, some of us also like to take a break from fixing our shitboxes to watch television. This TV show is absolutely on point when it comes to the cars in it.








Question 12: Lots of rumours in the news about tech companies maybe, possibly breaking into the car manufacturing business recently. I would trust this company to get it the most right of all of them.







Answers soon...

Bajaha
Apr 1, 2011

BajaHAHAHA.



Awe man, my head was just out of it for these questions. After seeing the teaser pics :doh:

E: what's the bottom pic on the TV question?

Bajaha fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Sep 26, 2015

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Bajaha posted:

E: what's the bottom pic on the TV question?

Halt and Catch Fire.

Terrible Robot
Jul 2, 2010

FRIED CHICKEN
Slippery Tilde
I can't even remember if I answered question 12 lol...

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?
Somebody better have said Transformers.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

I put Roadkill, i feel i may have misinterpreted the question.

Kia Soul Enthusias
May 9, 2004

zoom-zoom
Toilet Rascal

Godholio posted:

Somebody better have said Transformers.

I did for a few answers for the last sheep game. Oh well.

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ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

Enourmo posted:

I put Roadkill, i feel i may have misinterpreted the question.
I said roadkill. So at least 2 points out of it.

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