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Geirskogul posted:Why does it seem like the driver's side suspension is blown on all three of the small cars? Fat guys in little cars?
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Camera perspective fuckery and a slope to the parking lot, but mostlyVoltage posted:Fat guys in little cars.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:59
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New title is kinky. 
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Jun 4, 2014 04:13
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Geirskogul posted:Why does it seem like the driver's side suspension is blown on all three of the small cars? Stiff breeze coming from the right.
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Jun 4, 2014 08:19
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T1g4h posted:All of you guys talking about your experiences driving manuals and teaching other people how, I feel like an AI failure because I've never learned to drive stick. All of my cars have been slushboxes. Always been afraid of trying because I don't want to grenade someone's trans learning how If you do your driver's exam in an automatic over here, you get a class BA license instead of B, and have to do it again in a manual to upgrade. Fairly strong motivation to learn a manual in the first place - and all the driving schools seem to only use manuals, anyway. (And we have a lot of obligatory courses , so you can't just learn on your own and show up for the test.)
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Jun 4, 2014 10:01
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Leperflesh posted:"Slipping the clutch" usually means people who gas + clutch between 2nd and 3rd, 3rd and 4th, etc. You usually have to slip the clutch a little to get going from a dead stop in 1st, but between all the other gears it's completely unnecessary and puts unneeded wear on the clutch. 
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Jun 4, 2014 12:26
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Seat Safety Switch posted:You take that back, there's nothing sad about an Impreza L. Slow is Fast posted:I argue the L is the better car anyway... Why is this? I thought it was always the famed "IMPREZA 2.5RS" that got everyone's dicks hard from that generation, pre-WRX.
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Jun 4, 2014 15:09
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Less fragile. You can be down right ignorant with the 2.2L and it wont die. Doesn't make enough power to destroy the gearbox either. They're cheaper and relatively bulletproof. If you find them slow just do bushings and tires and bring your bean bag. Or boost it. The 2.2 will make good hp boosted with a head swap and some horrible other banjo hack bolt ons. RS's people want 5k for them BECAUSE RS and then you get to listen to sad rod bearing sounds.
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Jun 4, 2014 15:29
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Computer viking posted:If you do your driver's exam in an automatic over here, you get a class BA license instead of B, and have to do it again in a manual to upgrade. Fairly strong motivation to learn a manual in the first place - and all the driving schools seem to only use manuals, anyway. (And we have a lot of obligatory courses , so you can't just learn on your own and show up for the test.) Ya, but in the US, it's only like 15% of cars are manual any more. In Europe and other places with culture, manuals are the standard. Here in the US we have to be able to stuff our face and text while driving, so that 2nd hand can't be tied up using a shifter.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:27
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Computer viking posted:If you do your driver's exam in an automatic over here, you get a class BA license instead of B, and have to do it again in a manual to upgrade. Fairly strong motivation to learn a manual in the first place - and all the driving schools seem to only use manuals, anyway. (And we have a lot of obligatory courses , so you can't just learn on your own and show up for the test.) Unless your friends are car guys, it's really common to not know anyone who owns a stick here in the US. I've had younger acquaintances and coworkers not know what a stick is, or shocked that you can still get a Mustang with a manual transmission.
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Jun 4, 2014 16:42
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Leperflesh posted:My wife's been driving stick since she was 16. When we first started going out, she drove an '86 CRX. When I met my wife she was driving a '79 Celica 5-speed coupe (wish we'd kept that car,) and has had manuals only since, with the exception of our Astro Van. My dad taught me the basics on a VW dune buggy when I was, oh, 12 or so, and I refined my skills on my first car: a '79 Fiat 128 sedan. I spent quite while practicing smooth starts and stops. When I finally moved on to gear changes, I was surprised by how easy that was in comparison. kastein posted:The first stop after getting in an auto for the first time in months is always rough, I usually nearly put my head through the windshield Been there, done that, more than once. veedubfreak posted:I grew up hanging out with old people and air cooled people, so knowing how to drive a clutch was just sort of the default. One time I snapped my clutch cable about 20 miles from home and had to limp the car home. Luckily it had a freshly rebuilt transmission and new starter. Put car in first gear, start car, shift every 3000 rpms and turn car off when next light turns red. Rinse > repeat. I had to do similar once when the clutch cable mount RIPPED THROUGH THE FIREWALL on my '78 Chevy Monza (legendary GM build quality) and I had to get it to a friend's house where there were tools to build a reinforcing plate. that old Saginaw 4-speed took it in stride. Kind of wish I had kept that car, too.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:03
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Slow is Fast posted:RS's people want 5k for them BECAUSE RS and then you get to listen to sad rod bearing sounds. I've seen coupes sell for more than that in rough shape. 2.5RS looks cool, but that is it.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:26
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nm posted:I've seen coupes sell for more than that in rough shape. 2.5RS looks cool, but that is it. Heavier than any wagon too, even an OBS.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:34
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Darchangel posted:When I met my wife she was driving a '79 Celica 5-speed coupe (wish we'd kept that car,) and has had manuals only since, with the exception of our Astro Van. Thinking about it, I actually learned manual by driving my grandfather's old international tractor as a kid. He paid me like $10 an hour to mow his grass when I went to visit 
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Jun 4, 2014 18:39
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Got bored did stuff
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Jun 4, 2014 23:21
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Heavier than any wagon too, even an OBS. Buncha 2.5RS haters. If I had to do it again, I'd have started with an L. Less poo poo to pull out.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:35
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can you lift the seats out one handed? I imagine there small enough to.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:43
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Discovered that even though I've been parking it in the garage, and the weather is nice that the horsehair padding was still wet and moulding so I scraped all of that out. The carpet which I thought I could save was actually dissolving for some reason causing it to melt down into a sticky sludge and it even softened the tar insulation underneath into poo poo.   The rest of the floors looked really good actually, just some surface rust and the one spot noted before.    
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Jun 5, 2014 00:47
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veedubfreak posted:Ya, but in the US, it's only like 15% of cars are manual any more. In Europe and other places with culture, manuals are the standard. Here in the US we have to be able to stuff our face and text while driving, so that 2nd hand can't be tied up using a shifter. I can eat pizza while driving a badly undergeared stick-shift in NYC traffic  (tested this empirically back in 2012. The Nalgene bottle of water goes between your legs, else it'll tip over because they don't fit in cupholders.)
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Jun 5, 2014 00:49
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kastein posted:I can eat pizza while driving a badly undergeared stick-shift in NYC traffic My Audi doesn't have cupholders that fit jack all. Drink sizes tend to be smaller in Europe anyway. I broke my day cupholder with my coffee mug one morning. ECS wanted $180 for a new one. My buddy just gave me his when his A4 finally bit the dust. Gotta have my gallon of coffee damnit.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:54
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Guess who's rear end decided to give me a call and leave me a voicemail today?
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Jun 5, 2014 01:21
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MikeyTsi posted:Guess who's rear end decided to give me a call and leave me a voicemail today? Ben Kingsley?
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Jun 5, 2014 01:48
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MikeyTsi posted:Guess who's rear end decided to give me a call and leave me a voicemail today? It wasn't a butt dial. It was the spiders.
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Jun 5, 2014 04:29
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Hmm spotted a rusty silver 2 door in front of Hale's Ales. All I got was this picture though.  
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SierraEchoBravo posted:My Audi doesn't have cupholders that fit jack all. Drink sizes tend to be smaller in Europe anyway. I broke my day cupholder with my coffee mug one morning. ECS wanted $180 for a new one. My buddy just gave me his when his A4 finally bit the dust. Gotta have my gallon of coffee I have a Saab, which has probably the worst cup holder ever (not counting the 1.5" deep molded jokes on the inside of the glove box of certain old Chevy trucks). It's really clever; you push a little button and some fancy clockworks do their thing and a little ring spits out of the dash and then flips completely over and drops down a little ledge to rest the cup on. It's amazingly fragile (I've had the car not two years and I'm on my second cup holder) and I only use it to hold the ash tray because that's something else that apparently you simply can't get any more. My Suburban has seating for 8 and only one ash tray. The windows in the far back don't even open, WTF are they supposed to do back there, eat the ashes? (I bought a bunch of "Butt Buckets"; even sprang for the fancy ones with cigar rests. What do my friends do? I loan the truck out, because when you own a truck you will end up loaning it out, and those drat things get nicked every time. I've had it so long that now all of it's an ash tray, though (another joy of truck ownership; eventually it reaches a stage where you don't have to care about the interior any more).
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Jun 7, 2014 00:24
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it's because most people don't smoke anymore and smoking in a vehicle is kinda gross.
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Jun 7, 2014 00:29
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Even when I smoked I didn't do it in the car, because ash is gross and the smell two days later after a rain was gross. Same with the one friend I had that smoked. I mean, to each his own, but sometimes if the majority of the population doesn't smoke (and half of those that do will pretend they don't in certain public situations) features like ashtrays go by the wayside. Just means you have to get a bit creative, really.
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Geirskogul posted:Even when I smoked I didn't do it in the car, because ash is gross and the smell two days later after a rain was gross. Same with the one friend I had that smoked. I mean, to each his own, but sometimes if the majority of the population doesn't smoke (and half of those that do will pretend they don't in certain public situations) features like ashtrays go by the wayside. Just means you have to get a bit creative, really. Eh, I get that some people smell it, but I just don't. My dad has always smoked, so I grew up around it. I have to get my nose down in an ash tray to really get the smell of it, and even that doesn't really bother me. Now if someone's smoking nasty-rear end cheap cigarettes, I can tell the difference between those and something that's just plain tobacco (I try to always smoke additive-free cigarettes, no point in making something like that even more dangerous). But it's still something like 25% of the population smokes, and one in four just seems like an awful lot of the population to raise the middle finger to, figuratively speaking. I do get the creative bit, the best impromptu ash tray is the big aluminium drink bottles that "Jolt" used to come in, now I think some of those battery-acid-tasting energy drinks come in them; they're the ones that look like a cylinder of refrigerant and have a twist-off aluminium top. They're gas-tight and you can even fit a whole cigar in one, if you've been unlucky enough to buy/be given a truly awful cigar. Which I was. I turned 18 and promptly bought the cheapest cigar in the Mobil Oil in downtown Lowell. It wasn't very nice, let's just say.
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Red_October_7000 posted:Eh, I get that some people smell it, but I just don't. My dad has always smoked, so I grew up around it. I have to get my nose down in an ash tray to really get the smell of it, and even that doesn't really bother me. Now if someone's smoking nasty-rear end cheap cigarettes, I can tell the difference between those and something that's just plain tobacco (I try to always smoke additive-free cigarettes, no point in making something like that even more dangerous). But it's still something like 25% of the population smokes, and one in four just seems like an awful lot of the population to raise the middle finger to, figuratively speaking. The big rockstars still come in those cans, and yeah they do make perfect car ashtrays. What I really don't understand is people who smoke in the car with all the windows up. That poo poo is just weird.
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Sudo Echo posted:The big rockstars still come in those cans, and yeah they do make perfect car ashtrays. What I really don't understand is people who smoke in the car with all the windows up. That poo poo is just weird. When I smoked, I did that poo poo once or twice due to rain (Florida summer downpour, not the kind of light drizzle you can put up with for a few minutes.) Quickly decided "gently caress it, I'll just wait a few minutes." Before I quit, I got to a point where I'd smoke like a fiend at work or hanging out with friends, but I could go for 2-hour car rides without lighting up. Just not worth the hassle. Plus speaking as a former smoker, quit for a year and sniff a heavy smoker's car and tell me that poo poo doesn't smell. It cannot be conveyed how much you get used to it until you stop and your sense of smell comes back.
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I quit 9 years ago. I'll still smoke if I'm really drunk, but otherwise it doesn't appeal to me. ( on the other hand... eh, few times a week)That said, when I bought my car it had a little bit of a new car scent in it (despite being 7 years old). I was a bit surprised to find a few cigarette burns a couple of weeks later, especially since it doesn't have an ashtray of any kind. I guess someone ran an ozone machine in it at some point. I can smell a heavy smoker's car when I walk past it in a parking lot; I gag if I have to sit in one now.
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I know you want a Biturbo but you may consider this fine alternative: http://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/4508443772.html
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Jun 7, 2014 13:13
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Pffft, that's a Cavalier with chrome, mechanical parts are everywhere. Too easy.
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Jun 7, 2014 20:43
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No pictures released, and not even available to purchase yet! They're really building the hype on this one.
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Jun 7, 2014 20:57
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blk posted:I know you want a Biturbo but you may consider this fine alternative: http://eugene.craigslist.org/cto/4508443772.html I'll second the "meh". It would be much, much better if it had the stick; I understand that the combo of the V-6 and the stick made it rather spritely, or at least a far cry from the horrid pig that the 3-speed 4-cyl jobs were.
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I'm still keeping my eye on the $1600 Biturbo in Fife that's been for sale for about a year. It's gonna happen, it's just a matter of coming up with the funds.
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13 INCH DICKSTARTER Help make the world's first crowdfunded torture campaign become a reality for one Rewards: $25 - 13 INCH's 13 Month calendar, with a sexy shot of 13" splayed over a different engine bay every month $50 - 13" Nightmare Pig replica (soul not included) $150 - 13" will smoke a natural material of your choosing! $500 - A box of spiders, signed by 13". Also a mention on Twitter
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Jun 8, 2014 03:01
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este posted:13 INCH DICKSTARTER You forgot to include a paypal where I can send my $500 to.
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You need to add a $1000 tier: you get to send a box of spiders to 13". And he smokes them.
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I bet we could get 1k for him to smoke a box of spiders.
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