Wet Hot American Vantasy: Pursuant To Megan's Law

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Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

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kastein posted:

I told the guy to get hosed with a pineapple full of AIDS...

LAF when are you going over there?
Back in the day I had a dream about taking over my own aussie PANEL van (drifter or sandman), but unless I had contacts or a lined up buyer I would do what you did, ie get a US van to travel and sleep in.

E: For non Australians*, those vans are like ute+van, ie car like front seats and hood/bonnet.
GM holden sandman

Chrysler drifter

E: Ford made them too

* Apologies, Brits had the almost as good ford escort panel van, smaller, but not crazy small like the mini, and other europeans had crazy small panel vans.

Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 4, 2016

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Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

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Maybe? They were also made in Germany so there's a hope.

E: last time I was in a ford escort panel van was the mk1 van my mate bought for $500-700 in 1994. He had fitted a sanpet under dash guage cluster consisting of : oil presuure (yes, a plastic tube fed straight from theblock fed into the passenger compartment/gauge), ammeter (yes, wires straight from the battery and alternator), and other straight mech feed guages like water temp and something else too. This isn't legal anymore as far as I know.
Anyway, poo poo got real bad one day while I was riding as a passenger; burning smells and smoke that traced back to the gauge cluster so I had to yank out the ammeter leads. I had a burn mark left on my fingers for 2-3 years after that. I guess I should just be glad I wasn't covered in oil and set alight at the same time from the lovely oil pressure guage.

Fo3 fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 4, 2016

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Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

(I need a hug)

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

Not to derail, but as a non-mechanic, I have never understood this kind of operation. What kind of modifications do you have to do to get a vehicle to run like this? Why do it? Does lovely low-RPM performance imply better high-RPM performance?

It's valve timing. I don't know how much you know about cars, but say for example with ignition timing spark you always set the spark before it's due; you don't want the spark before top dead centre (that's predetonation and trying to reverse engine direction) but you send it before that so by the time it gets there it's "the right time". That's ignition timing, and valve timing works the same way, you open them early so they are open more or less the right time. More or less because valves are slower to move and weren't variable* in old motors. So you get overlap - air can flow striaght through the inlet and out the exhaust instantly, doing nothing because overlap both valves are open - but it has to be that way so the valves are timed right while springing open and closed so fast for the upper range to flow at peak power/rpm.

* Of course one of the biggest advances in modern motors is variable valve lift and duration (yes vtec, but every manufacturer has a system like that now).

Fo3 fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Jan 7, 2016

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Fo3: Feb 14, 2004; RAAAAARGH!!!! GIFT CARDS ARE FUCKING RETARDED!!!!

(I need a hug)

Darchangel posted:

God damnit! Now I want a Mopar 'Camino, too. I mean, I've always liked utes (I had a '68 Chevy El Camino in high school), but have somehow never seen the Mopar ones.

Chrysler utes were an Aussie only thing.

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