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Rhyno posted:I'm planning a thread once we get going. We have a workspace and funds but nobody can agree on the car.
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Rhyno posted:I'm planning a thread once we get going. We have a workspace and funds but nobody can agree on the car. Tercel + junkyard turbo. Terbocel, Tersnail, take your pick.
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Rhyno posted:Edit: Oh yeah, went and test drove that cheap Yaris today. The exhaust was incredibly loud and it had a CEL but the deal breaker was it being a smokers car. There was ash in every crevice and a dozen burn holes in each seat. That's the worst. My car didn't smell too bad but there's like four burn marks by the A pillar, and then some more by the sunroof from when the window rollers stopped working.
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I bike to work when I'm not lazy but it's all of 1.9km each way.
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nm posted:An activity that is fun (like cycling, but other work) is more sustainable long term than just getting on a machine and exercising in one place. What's the difference between riding in place or seeing the same scenery every time you ride? I have a bike that I ride for enjoyment on the beach and trails, and I have a spin bike for daily exercise because quite frankly I've lived in this area for 30 years and it all looks and feels the same, so I'd rather not ride in the stifling heat or on busy roads with idiot drivers in an area that's no different one day to the next no matter how many routes I take. When I have time and the weather is nice and I want to enjoy myself, I put my bike on my car and go to the beach or local trail for a ride. When I just want to have a quick leg workout I jump on the spin bike. It's nice having both, and I have plenty of other activities that keep me outside so I don't need to be out on the roads.
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InitialDave posted:Well, do you want a challenge, or do you want something at least one of you already knows well in order to smooth things forward? What are the various team members' tastes in cars? I want to have fun! One dude is a Audi loyalist, another just traded in a Cobalt SS for a brand new Civic. One's an old school Honda guy. There's nearly a 20 year age gulf from the youngest to the oldest. I'm probably the least skilled in the group but it's my dad's property so I automatically get in. There's no real time table and we're not going to have a welder on hand until dad gets the garage wired for it so major fabrications will have to be farmed out.
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G1GP is live from Ebisu right now. Drift Stadium/Minami course, watch some jumping drifts http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ebisu-circuit-drift-stadium-last-comer
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Applebees Appetizer posted:What's the difference between riding in place or seeing the same scenery every time you ride? I have a bike that I ride for enjoyment on the beach and trails, and I have a spin bike for daily exercise because quite frankly I've lived in this area for 30 years and it all looks and feels the same, so I'd rather not ride in the stifling heat or on busy roads with idiot drivers in an area that's no different one day to the next no matter how many routes I take. When I have time and the weather is nice and I want to enjoy myself, I put my bike on my car and go to the beach or local trail for a ride. When I just want to have a quick leg workout I jump on the spin bike. It's nice having both, and I have plenty of other activities that keep me outside so I don't need to be out on the roads. I did spin intervals for a while and it made me want to shoot myself. Plus strava segments make things more fun.
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Rhyno posted:I want to have fun! One dude is a Audi loyalist, another just traded in a Cobalt SS for a brand new Civic. One's an old school Honda guy. There's nearly a 20 year age gulf from the youngest to the oldest. I'm probably the least skilled in the group but it's my dad's property so I automatically get in. There's no real time table and we're not going to have a welder on hand until dad gets the garage wired for it so major fabrications will have to be farmed out. Oh poo poo, we've got a line on a Mercury Tracer LTS! The LTS was, if anyone cares, a top of the line Ford Escort sedan with some LUXURY options (4 zone cooling or something?). And under the hood was the Mazda BP. Basically an Escort GT with lipstick. It's got 175K, some rusty doors but it runs and it's $1000. We might have a winner.
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Rhyno posted:Oh poo poo, we've got a line on a Mercury Tracer LTS! My dad had a fuchsia colored one and I got to drive it and got so many looks. It's 100% perfect, get that poo poo.
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scuz posted:My dad had a fuchsia colored one and I got to drive it and got so many looks. It's 100% perfect, get that poo poo. I've long had a soft spot for Ford Escorts. Hell I've owned half a dozen of them. Even if this isn't the right car for the project I might try to snatch it up for myself.
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Rhyno posted:I've long had a soft spot for Ford Escorts. Hell I've owned half a dozen of them. Even if this isn't the right car for the project I might try to snatch it up for myself. The one you're lookin at thought is different from my high school model. It's awesome because it's so light. The guy that sold it to my dad said "yeah it's safe if you have all your affairs in order" which was an allusion to "if you're gonna die, I hope you're going to heaven because this thing is a luxurious tin can with a decent engine." Since my dad's a preacher he said "sure, here's your $1,200."
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nm posted:I love exploring different areas. Plus everything changes all the time. I'll grit my teeth here and give Zwift a plug in that it makes being on a trainer bearable. Also helps getting my FTP numbers back to where I want them to. But it doesnt beat outdoors. Even with the notoriously awful to cyclists traffic Sydney has (Seriously, it's developing the reputation as most bike hostile place in the world. I don't disagree) and the routes / segments I've done 500 times+ (I've ridden across the Sydney Harbour Bridge 150 times just by itself!) Still tho, Zwift is a bearable alternative.
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nm posted:I love exploring different areas. Plus everything changes all the time. I like exploring too, just don't have the time every day for it. I guess since I'm not really hard core into biking (my bike is a modified 3 speed beach cruiser) I'm cool with the spin bike just to exercise my legs daily. I just started it tho, who knows I might get sick of it but for now it's a great tool 
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Thoughts ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNb0RUCcbuo For a pretty budget project car. Dude selling it gave me a walk around vid e: yes it's cheap & bad & the paint is insanely terrible. gimpsuitjones fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 2, 2017 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I like exploring too, just don't have the time every day for it. I guess since I'm not really hard core into biking (my bike is a modified 3 speed beach cruiser) I'm cool with the spin bike just to exercise my legs daily. I just started it tho, who knows I might get sick of it but for now it's a great tool If I'm gonna go outside to enjoy myself it's gonna be behind the wheel of the Miata.
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Just finished grinding a garbage welded-on surge brake coupler off my trailer. When they made the thing they butted the coupler right up to where the frame rails join the tongue, so the tongue was pretty short. After cleaning it up, I'm left with 4" of tongue. Hopefully I can bolt a new coupler on to that. gimpsuitjones posted:Thoughts ? What kind of project do you have in mind? Lemons car? Do you have friends with a lot of farmland? I'd happily drive something like that gloriously into the ground but would not put money into it. Full disclosure, a few 80s Nissan Sentras touched me in the bad place so I may be biased against the make/era.
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scuz posted:Dawn of War 3 is awesome cuz you can play as Orkz which is about as close as you'll get to playing as Warboys in an RTS. I'm bad at RTS stuff, but I've been practicing a bit and trying to get better at games that engage my whole brain, not just the twitch-y-shoot-y bits. Orks is the bestest. 
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Rhyno posted:Oh poo poo, we've got a line on a Mercury Tracer LTS! We got these in Aus, sans the luxury stuff (I think), but available in an AWD coup, with the option of 323 GTX motor and badged as a Ford Laser TX3 Turbo.  Cool cars. I had the Mazda Astina N/A fwd one and even that was a laugh.
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For fucks sake. Ordered some boots over a month ago from eBay. Now there's a circlejerk of blame. Seller blames Customs, Customs blame Australia Post, AusPost blames the seller. I waited 1/2 and hour on the phone for AusPost to tell me gently caress all this morning and an hour and a 1/4 on hold with customs to get nothing out of them. What a bunch of cunts. I just want these loving boots. God I hate everyone and everything.
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Liquid Communism posted:Orks is the bestest. Waaagh!
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monsterzero posted:What kind of project do you have in mind? Lemons car? Do you have friends with a lot of farmland? I'd happily drive something like that gloriously into the ground but would not put money into it. Full disclosure, a few 80s Nissan Sentras touched me in the bad place so I may be biased against the make/era. Cheap RWD 1980s Japanese car (my white whale is a good, mostly stock AE86 Levin or Nissan S12 hatch) to eventually repaint, find missing trim and chuck an SR20DET into for daily driving and straight up enjoying. I like poo poo old cars way more than anything modern. t's road legal and appears mostly mechanically sound with a decent interior and the engine (while gutless) sounds ok. The paint is super poo poo and the missing bits of trim are mildly annoying. For reference, RWD Japanese cars go for crazy money in Nz - probably because the huge majority of cars here are Japanese and mostly they've been fwd for like 35 years. The money the dude is asking is: - approx 1/5th the cost of an AE86 with panel damage, non-road legal, etc - less than all but the shittiest condition KP Starlet -twice the price of an S12 rolling shell with no dash, engine or gearbox I haven't seen a decent S12 for sale ever so I can't say what they normally go for (massively uncommon now) in comparison to this guys asking price. Honestly if it was a S12 hatchback I'd have paid the man already, the notchback is slightly less desirable to me, and with the singlecam even more so. But I've literally never seen a good condition, running, road legal S12 hatch up for sale.
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slothrop posted:For fucks sake. Ordered some boots over a month ago from eBay. Now there's a circlejerk of blame. Seller blames Customs, Customs blame Australia Post, AusPost blames the seller. I waited 1/2 and hour on the phone for AusPost to tell me gently caress all this morning and an hour and a 1/4 on hold with customs to get nothing out of them. What a bunch of cunts. Why are you worrying about it or chasing it? as a buyer on ebay you can just file a claim and they will almost instantly side with you and give you your money back. Only way the seller is gonna win is if there is some proof of delivery for your house - but it sounds like its not made it to you?. The seller should know this and they should be the person sitting on hold or just claiming against their shipping insurance.
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Don Dongington posted:We got these in Aus, sans the luxury stuff (I think), but available in an AWD coup, with the option of 323 GTX motor and badged as a Ford Laser TX3 Turbo. That's kinda the crap one tho (The GTX Mazda version was better). The earlier TX3 AWD (1.6 litre turbo) was esp at it's time one eye opening lil beastie. Actually was the first AWD turbo I ever drove and certainly left an impression. That pictured generation was bit understeery and not a throwable IMO Reputation also suffered due to gearbox detonations ad the appearence of the Lancer GSR..... which was a whole new level of fast. And then not long after Subaru dropped the WRX annnnd we all know how that went.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:That's kinda the crap one tho (The GTX Mazda version was better). The earlier TX3 AWD (1.6 litre turbo) was esp at it's time one eye opening lil beastie. Actually was the first AWD turbo I ever drove and certainly left an impression. That pictured generation was bit understeery and not a throwable IMO I dunno why but I've really taken to early AWD cars lately. I think it's to do with uncharted territory as I've never owned one, also I can't stop driving the Audi S1 in Assetto Corsa. I've always kinda loved the ST205 but I assume that's even more understeery...
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nm posted:An activity that is fun (like cycling, but other work) is more sustainable long term than just getting on a machine and exercising in one place. Applebees Appetizer posted:What's the difference between riding in place or seeing the same scenery every time you ride? I have a bike that I ride for enjoyment on the beach and trails, and I have a spin bike for daily exercise because quite frankly I've lived in this area for 30 years and it all looks and feels the same, so I'd rather not ride in the stifling heat or on busy roads with idiot drivers in an area that's no different one day to the next no matter how many routes I take. When I have time and the weather is nice and I want to enjoy myself, I put my bike on my car and go to the beach or local trail for a ride. When I just want to have a quick leg workout I jump on the spin bike. It's nice having both, and I have plenty of other activities that keep me outside so I don't need to be out on the roads. Darchangel posted:I did play the closed beta of Quake Champions a little over the weekend, and I can say that they're on the right track. It feels like Quake, anyway. As I hear it, Overwatch has a lot of the fast-paced shooter feel that Quake Arena used to, and I guess Halo still does. I do like playing the fast paced FPS games like I did as a yoot. I also still suck mightily at them, and boy has it been a while since I played with mouse and keyboard. I mostly game on the Xboxen, but I recently got a 2011 iMac that has a decent enough processor and graphics card to run newer games on Win 10. Until then, I had an old Mac Pro from 2008 or 9 with a dual-core 2.8 GHz Xeon. slothrop posted:For fucks sake. Ordered some boots over a month ago from eBay. Now there's a circlejerk of blame. Seller blames Customs, Customs blame Australia Post, AusPost blames the seller. I waited 1/2 and hour on the phone for AusPost to tell me gently caress all this morning and an hour and a 1/4 on hold with customs to get nothing out of them. What a bunch of cunts. Way off topic but what's the smallest enclosed trailer you would tow a ~14.75 foot car in? I've started trailer shopping and plan to keep it small to help keep weight down since I'm towing with the Tacoma. I think a 16' v-nose would be a little tight but a 18' might be ok. Will probably go look at some trailers in a couple weeks when I have some time and take a bunch of measurements.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Excuses. GG when I was in Indiana 11 years ago in winter there were cyclists out there. Hell I would have had no hesitation in throwing a leg over a bike. Please try that up where I live in the winter But seriously, if a dudes getting in shape, don't harp on'em - what works for one person might not work for the next. I love biking outside, but some days the weather is poo poo, I feel like bag, etc. Being able to hit a stationary bike (or, in my case, I'm getting back on the elliptical) indoors with some lovely TV on so I can zone out for 30-45 minutes works for me.
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Don Dongington posted:I dunno why but I've really taken to early AWD cars lately. I think it's to do with uncharted territory as I've never owned one, also I can't stop driving the Audi S1 in Assetto Corsa. Well the early AWD's are touchy with gearboxes and boost. Also they tend to be centre diffs that are either full open or locked. You REALLY dont want to know what happens to a TX3 gearbox if you drive it locked on tarmac....... I have good news on the Toyota GT4's. The ST165 is actually really friendly (open centre diff does that tho) and the ST205 is pretty drat good - I dont think it's much of a understeerer at all. In a lot of ways I actually prefer a ST205 over a WRX in stock form - it's a better built car and better interior, better gearbox and it def looks better. The issue for the ST205 in Aust was at the time the GT4 was offered at 80K while the WRX was 45K. Ummm.... yeah there is NOT twice the price difference between them. And certainly any performance advantage the ST205 had over the WRX vanished with the STI (which was still a lot cheaper). I find it funny that the WRX in te early 90's was still looked at as huge bang for buck and yet 45K was a lot of coin then. Now look at WRX prices now and......... you can get one for LESS at the dealer so in real terms the price of a WRX has gone down quite a startling amount. 45K in 1994 is more like 80,000 now. Or in other terms, if you took the real value of a WRX today, it's the equivalent of 25000 in 1994. I cant think of any model car that has gone down in price like that in real terms.... 39K just seems to be a price point Subaru wont move from.
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Got a check for my totaled car, my bank account has never been so bangin'. Not sure if I'm going to replace it. I would love another fun car, but I would also love to buy some property. Either way I'm watching the craigslist gold thread real good.
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Siochain posted:Please try that up where I live in the winter Minneapolis also has a huge number of year round bike commuters. Takes a dash of htfu though.
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nm posted:I don't want to go down this road too far, but up in the bike thread we have people in winnipeg riding year round, so. My main rationale for not biking in the winter is that I already have a car that's slowly decaying into a pile of rust, why would I want that to happen to my bike too?
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nm posted:I don't want to go down this road too far, but up in the bike thread we have people in winnipeg riding year round, so. FOX 9 MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL: Local goon has died today after attempting to ride bicycle to work in misguided attempt for mancard points and internet bragging rights. "I dont know why he decided to ride his bike today", Mrs. Goon said last night, "the snow was four feet deep and not even cars were attempting to go out today." Mr. Goon hit an ice patch and fell to his death in front of an salt truck. His memorial service is to be announced.
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monsterzero posted:Canal boating sounds pretty cool. I'd like to do a Californian interpretation in the next few years and spend a week or so sailing around the Sacramento-San Jaoquin Delta. A little less green than the European countryside, but more meth and dive bars. If anything it made me realise I don't have to join in with the general rush that we call life. Tootling through the countryside at 3mph in the sunshine means you have to adjust your expectations for travel. I think we went 70 miles in 10 days, we weren't travelling for hours and hours per day but just enough to get places. Locks take forever too and there were a couple of places that had runs of 20 or so in a row... On a boat you just chill the gently caress out and say hello to everyone you see. It did snow though which was weird, log fires on boats are also a cool thing to have. I also read a book for the first time in forever. Recommend it.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:FOX 9 MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL: Local goon has died today after attempting to ride bicycle to work in misguided attempt for mancard points and internet bragging rights. "I dont know why he decided to ride his bike today", Mrs. Goon said last night, "the snow was four feet deep and not even cars were attempting to go out today." Nokian makes bike snow tires, it'll be fine. Also, fat bikes.
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