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With how poor the reviews were for 2023, I'm surprised it got a sequel. Extending the runtime is a ballsy move, too. It rained here last night. 2 years ago it was -35*c on New Years.
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I did it! Prestone 50/50 https://i.imgur.com/KcObkEc.mp4 Rotella T6 0W40 https://i.imgur.com/zoC1EEz.mp4 Propane https://i.imgur.com/zO0dbuX.mp4 propane accessories https://i.imgur.com/bDOtqq1.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/dZdjAEf.mp4 Powershift fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jan 13, 2024 |
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slidebite posted:What was the temp when you took the video? -45? According to my thermometer, ERROR*c. The Flir just bounces off -60*C. Weather Canada says -43.5
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I would like to taste the forbidden slurpee. My mind did suggest to me that the propane looks cool and refreshing.
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wesleywillis posted:No diesel? I didn't feel like siphoning cold diesel out of the truck. 60/40 freezes at -52*c, 70/30 at -70*c, but it also won't cool as well when it hits +35*c in 6 months.
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His Divine Shadow posted:Goddamn how dystopian it is to be afraid of an ambulance picking you up because it's too expensive. I once had an ambulance called for me, they showed up, couldn't do poo poo because they couldn't administer pain meds to move me, waited 10 minutes for a better ambulance to show up and then billed me $200. I have also driven to the hospital in "shouldn't be driving" condition to avoid an ambulance. His Divine Shadow posted:In my own news I entered two of my cars into a value estimator. Got me beat. (there is no 1999 option)  Shame it lost 2/3rds of it's value in 10 years  At least the American site knows what's up. 
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Humphreys posted:Cracked two of my low profile rims today on our wonderful Queensland roads. Lucky I have spare sets of tyre/wheel packages. Only lost about 30 minutes of the day. When i had the BMW i had low profile tires and lost 3 tires and bent 1 rim all within like 6 months. I'm a sidewall guy now.
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I'm doing the timing belt in my AE86 GTS and the cost and rarity of of the "while you're in there" stuff, is a pain in the rear end. an 4.8/5.3 LS is probably cheaper if you don't have the engine yet. Even once you get past the fact that there were basically 3 different corollas in 87, there are a whole bunch of different accessory belts based on A/C, power steering, and build date. What my car actually had on it, Rock auto s for the FX16 which is the FWD hatch. I've also got A/C, Power steering and a final month build date Can you guess which belt is the hard to find one?  All the bits are adorably small though. 3.7l of oil, 5.6 liters of coolant, 1.7 liters of transmission fluid, 1.5 liters of diff oil. My truck takes 16 liters of oil, 37 liters of coolant, 17 liters of transmission fluid, 3.3 liters of diff oil. JDM engines in general have gone up significantly R32 GTRs used to be $8k here, now Engine+Trans+diff is $25k. Toyota 1GZs were $2500, now they're $4k-$6k. Speaking of my truck, someone broke into my truck outside Home Depot today, completely hosed up the door lock to the point where it doesn't even lock anymore. They tried to start it with something plastic, stole my 4xl winter jacket and a bag of stuff from princess auto that had the receipt in it. They dropped a small backpack of drugs and phone chargers in the truck so they're probably about as pissed off as i am. Someone found the princess auto bag in a store parking lot a couple blocks away and drove to princess auto to get it back to me. I figured the thieves would have tried to return the stuff with the receipt but obviously found something better in someone elses vehicle. I'm going to mount the largest air horn i can find under the dash and mount it to a button in place of the original ignition cylinder. I'm almost tempted to shave the door handles too.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I dunno but the first is what I would call normal for a normal sized car, but I suspect the overton window for cars has shifted a lot in the US. I guess the 7.3 liter v8 is probably the odd one but it’s smaller than the engine in my other car  This is the first inline 4 I’ve owned, also The first n/a 4 cylinder.
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slidebite posted::cries in porsche: They're superior german parts though right  It's getting kind of hosed up again. The Canadian Tire has a dude in a tactical vest with "loss prevention officer" written on it, and aviators walking around the store now. Going into the store the other day there were a bunch of itunes gift cards scattered all over the parking lot. The one on the north end burned down last year because someone lit a propane tank on fire inside the store so they could steal a vacuum cleaner. The liquor store in the parking lot there has anti-theft devices on every bottle. Home depot apparently has plain clothes loss prevention dudes. Still, someone found my bag of stuff in a parking lot and drove out of their way to bring it back to the store. The good people far outnumber the bad, but one rear end in a top hat can do so much damage.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:So you’ve got a Cadillac 500 or one of the many Ford 460s? 73 Mark IV with the 460. the 7.3 is the powerstroke in my truck. The two combined are 14.8 liters and nearly 450hp. Raluek posted:i think this is backwards. the 80s and 90s artificially shifted the window towards the small displacement end, but now we're back closer to where we started. On the other hand, displacement in trucks is going down. The F-150 offers a 165 ci 6 cylinder, Smaller than the 170ci i6 in the first mustang. The two engines offered in the 2025 Ram 1500 are 220ci and 183 ci GM is rumored to be coming out with an 8.3 liter Duramax Powershift fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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CommieGIR posted:I still want to make a turbodiesel-electric plugin hybrid. Just a diesel and a generatoe and an EV drivetrain. After starting out looking at propane catalyst heaters the one night, I got deep into looking at propane fuel cells. Unfortunately they're not designed for intermittent use. You would still need a lot of batteries as a buffer.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:I think it''s more "cheap as gently caress turbo I6" that even Barra from a junkyard taxi can't match. Of course if you lift the head you're in for an ordeal. Even pre-emptively replacing the head bolts can be rough. cursedshitbox posted:I'm working on it. With the added difficulty of making homebrew biodiesel because might as well go all the way. I thought the 2ML70 was WHY GMT hybrids were in the yards now.
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cursedshitbox posted:Ah it took after the 4l60 I see The problem is that once the partnership with Daimler was dissolved, everybody just stopped making them, and stopped making parts, and stopped sharing the forbidden knowledge needed to rebuild them. Pomp and Circumcized was using a lexus box to electrify an RX7 some time ago, although he has since ripped it all out for an F20c https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911577
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I can get 21-22mpg at 100kph without a canopy. 120kph with a canopy i'm down to ~14mpg. The torque converter locks up at ~65kph and it will idle around town. If i would stay out of the boost it would probably get pretty crazy city mileage. The lincoln is at like 10mpg around town but i also really enjoy driving it. I'll take the $10 in fuel to run errands. Powershift fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Mr-Spain posted:Was going about some random stuff on the SS and me and my buddy were kinda suspect about the condition of the oil; cut it open to some glitter;  Not Wolverine posted:What is the point of the Ford Godzilla engine? It's a 7.3L gas engine, in superduty pickups it makes 430hp, 475ft-lbs so it's not a really high power output engine, for comparison, a Ford 6.2L V8 is 385hp and 430ft-lbs. It's a replacement for the 6.8 V10, and is the base engine in the F-650 and F-750 and stripped chassis(motorhomes, delivery vans) Area under the graph is important, It makes 350ft/lbs at the wheels at 2200rpm, the 6.2 doesn't get there until 3500. Fuel economy at low load will be worse. longevity at high load will be much better. Powershift fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Not Wolverine posted:Despite being critical of Godzilla, I don't think it is necessarily a bad engine, I think it's an impressive cool design. What I dislike about is simply that it's a new design which seems like a lot of money to spend on a niche market, and I think commercial vehicles could have also used another mod motor version instead. I think you misunderestimate the number of F-53/59s ford builds. The Avon Lake plant that only builds 7.3 powered vehicles, most without bodies, has more hourly employees than the flat rock plant that builds 100k mustangs a year. The Windsor engine plant that only builds the 7.3 has more hourly employees than the Essex plant that builds the 5.0 Think of it this way. The 6.2 is a passenger vehicle engine that can tow sometimes. The 7.3 godzilla is a commercial engine that the F350 gets as a treat. The 6.8 V10 is a boat anchor and a half.
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Not Wolverine posted:I honestly had no idea that Ford gas engines were used in Class A motorhomes, I just assumed they would all be a Cummins or Detroit diesel at this point. You probably also didn't know about Ford's secret best vehicle.  The 2025 Econoline cutaway. -Front engine, rear wheel drive -7.3 and 6 speed auto are both good for 1000hp on stock internals. -under 40 grand, cheaper than a V8 mustang -already has the maximum stage of weight reduction. -33rd year of the 4th gen econoline so they should have things figured out. -The only screen is the segment LCD in the AM/FM radio 
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Bathurst 12 hour is starting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CTjle7xC0
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My signature move is "I'll just patch it in a hackey way for now and fix it right when i get the chance" turning into a permanent fix. The poor person who bought my old truck probably hates me. Sorry about all the JB weld but some of it held up for 100k before it even got to you.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:To my knowledge it's the opposite. Retaining compound is for poo poo that is not supposed to come apart. Period. I've got some green stuff from Loctite - don't recall the number - and it kind of scares me. I haven't used it yet and don't know of anything specific that would require it, but I got some should the need arise. In my experience, it's specifically for the hardest to reach valve cover bolt.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:Yeah, my 77 Mk V is 79.7 before mirrors and is what everyone would consider “a tank.” 87 inches wide is just unmanageable. It won’t fit in a lot of places (read: drivethru) If it’s anything like my Mark IV, the mirrors aren’t even the widest part of the car. It’s about 80” wide at the arches and maybe 74” at the mirrors.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:So all the poo poo going on with Boeing and a whistleblower is found dead in his truck outside the hotel he was staying at whilst giving legal interviews about all of his claims? Bring a parachute.
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Goodwood Members meeting is on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtsa5oqf5mQ https://i.imgur.com/ntFSYYJ.mp4 Powershift fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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Humphreys posted:A fun thing is that when I use my OBD to check things with the Torque app. It does SOMETHING and then the car flags a stability control issue on the dash. NEVER when the app is not in use. I keep the OBD plugged in at all times (Bluetooth) Torque pro shuts off powerstrokes when it tries to connect, although most regular code readers do too.
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kastein posted:Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars Fortunately for me, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. Applebees Appetizer posted:Good thing I don't work on cars too much anymore, these days my rage comes from just driving around and dealing with complete idiots on the road. Not just on their phones, but complete attention devoted to their phones, only being pulled away by rumble strips or a large thud.
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