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KozmoNaut posted:Trap sprung. I'm a Star Wars nerd, sue me  Big Daddy Keynes posted:so were two of the orig trilogy. empire was legit af tho Jedi, maybe. A New Hope however was literally like nothing ever seen before on screen. Sure it was a basic Heros' Journey but the rest of it really had no peer until Empire came out - just look at how so much of A New Hope still holds up 40 years later... then have a look at what was released around it's time and how awful they are. So I'd call ANH great given it was 1977 and they invented technology to make it happen as well as the immense influence it had on cinema Empire of course is legit one of the greatest films of all time. The critique for Force Awakens that it's a rehash of ANH and Empire is true but lets face it, Disney needed to win an audience back after the prequel poo poo fighs. It's a play it safe movie and it did it really well - it's cool to be a Star Wars fan again
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88h88 posted:New Roadkill The fat guy is the kind of guy who lists rusted out poo poo for restored car prices with "no lowballers i know what i got, you gotta take the tree growing through it, too."
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Aug 12, 2016 12:58
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Yeah, I've never seen quite a collection of outright poo poo like that before.
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Aug 12, 2016 13:01
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The fact he has a ROADRUNNER just gathering dust is a crime against humanity For fucks sake, get that fucker running again for sell it to someone who will
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The fact he has a ROADRUNNER just gathering dust is a crime against humanity Not even gathering dust. Actively rotting.
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Aug 12, 2016 13:16
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Powershift posted:Not even gathering dust. Actively rotting. What the gently caress is wrong with him?
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Aug 12, 2016 13:21
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Somewhat Heroic posted:Any form of the bachelor/ette/in paradise franchise crap makes me want to drink sulfuric acid. This is terrible. Why do people watch this? Turn off the volume and enjoy the view
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Aug 12, 2016 13:27
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What the gently caress is wrong with him? He probably paid $2000 for it in 1983 and isn't dragging it out of the weeds until someone shows up with 200,000.
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Aug 12, 2016 13:34
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There was much sadness in that video, too many cars just sat rotting. :/
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Aug 12, 2016 13:46
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88h88 posted:There was much sadness in that video, too many cars just sat rotting. :/ You know what we have to do. In 2016, a crack mechanics unit was sent to prison by a Prius-driving court for assaulting some dude with a shitload of rare cars with trees growing through them. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security impound lot to the Automotive Insanity underground. Today, still wanted by probably a bunch of rednecks or something, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you know a battered car, if no one else can help, and if you can find them....maybe you can hire The Gay-Team.
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Adiabatic posted:You know what we have to do. There's guys like these everywhere. Hoarding cars, letting them rot. Some of them would be worth $20,000 after you put $25,000 into them, and the old fucks would rather let them rot than take less than $10k.
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Powershift posted:There's guys like these everywhere. Hoarding cars, letting them rot. Some of them would be worth $20,000 after you put $25,000 into them, and the old fucks would rather let them rot than take less than $10k. Yep, there's a guy near Albuquerque who posts his whole lot every few days but he wants too much so nothing ever sells.
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Powershift posted:There's guys like these everywhere. Hoarding cars, letting them rot. Some of them would be worth $20,000 after you put $25,000 into them, and the old fucks would rather let them rot than take less than $10k. I'm just at a complete loss at that mentality. Especially when you see something truly remarkable and worth a god awful amount of money if you just even stored it in a garage.
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Barrett Jackson is to blame for all of that.
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Adiabatic posted:You know what we have to do. If I have to suck a cock to get a Road Runner then so be it.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Barrett Jackson is to blame for all of that. This is very true. So many cars have been "brought back" when they should have stayed dead. Unless you are an absolute goddamned expert on the exact model you're looking at, there's no way to buy a musclecar from the '60s without taking a good chance of getting taken. Patch panels for every part of the car, cars being cut apart for a modern "resto" cut-and-shut... just too much risk. Dad had a '69 GTO Judge in the mid-'90s and we sold that because it had a couple repair spots and wouldn't be a long-term collectable... gently caress, that thing would be considered a "survivor" now.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:05
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88h88 posted:If I have to suck a cock to get a Road Runner then so be it. My old man sold his Vette, Trans Am, and Road Runner when my mom got pregnant. No wonder we used to fight all the time.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:14
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Is anyone else excited about the LV3 V6? It's the new GM 4.3/ LT1 with two cylinders lopped off. Super light and compact plus GM parts bin.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:25
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Could it be the new swap gem for those few cars where even an LS is too long? I've kinda wanted to do a 4.3 build since I had my Blazer a while back.
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Wrar posted:Is anyone else excited about the LV3 V6? It's the new GM 4.3/ LT1 with two cylinders lopped off. 285HP out of 4.3L. That's the GM I know! edit*  Just look how cute it is! FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Specific output is the dumbest metric ever. How much do all those extra HP/L drive up the cost while still leaving you with a physically larger engine? Plus the thing about throwing cubic inches at the horsepower problem means the engines are way less stressed than some 20:1 compression, 9k rpm screamer. There's a reason GM motors are generally known for their longevity.
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meatpimp posted:This is very true. So many cars have been "brought back" when they should have stayed dead. Unless you are an absolute goddamned expert on the exact model you're looking at, there's no way to buy a musclecar from the '60s without taking a good chance of getting taken. Patch panels for every part of the car, cars being cut apart for a modern "resto" cut-and-shut... just too much risk. Is it bad that I'd rather buy a muscle car that's mostly new steel so I don't feel remotely bad that I'm not going to do anything like a restoration? I mean, I love a good full on clean car, but I really want something stupidly loud and moderately fast I don't have to feel bad about racing sometimes. This is why I'm going to end up with a Maverick or late 70's Camaro that would look at home in a Mad Max movie.
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88h88 posted:If I have to suck a cock to get a Road Runner then so be it. thats the difference between you and me, chief. i don't need a road runner.
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Holy poo poo Makita makes an 18V air conditioned jacket.
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Wrar posted:Is anyone else excited about the LV3 V6? It's the new GM 4.3/ LT1 with two cylinders lopped off. It appears to have been on the market for a couple years now but seems like a good swap option once they start hitting the JY
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Enourmo posted:Specific output is the dumbest metric ever. How much do all those extra HP/L drive up the cost while still leaving you with a physically larger engine? Less... stressed? A engine built with proper airflow dynamics and tolerances will get great gas mileage, horsepower, and last a long time.  Am I missing something here? The ecoboost makes 330~hp out of a 2.7 with 12psi. Which, even without the boost is 210hp or 78~hp, far better than the GM which sits at 66. And the ecoboost is also known for reliability and isn't a "screamer". FlapYoJacks fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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spog posted:At what point does it officially change from 'car' to 'heap of junk in the shape of a car'? Wars have been fought over the answers to lesser questions.
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ratbert90 posted:Less... stressed? A engine built with proper airflow dynamics and tolerances will get great gas mileage, horsepower, and last a long time. It's much bigger than this engine physically. This is ~24Wx~24Lx~28H. You could put it in drat near anything but an Opel GT. I looked at car-part and they're in the 1.5-2k range as people have gradually wrecked newer Silverados and GMCwhatevers.
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Wrar posted:It's much bigger than this engine physically. This is ~24Wx~24Lx~28H. You could put it in drat near anything but an Opel GT. I looked at car-part and they're in the 1.5-2k range as people have gradually wrecked newer Silverados and GMCwhatevers. Fair enough; it's just not something I am super excited about. 
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Yeah I guess what I meant was volume-specific output is a better metric in my book than displacement-specific. That pretty much disqualifies turbos since turbos and intercoolers tend to be bulky. Superchargers are a little better, but also put more stress on the engine since it takes shaft power to run them. The old GT500s, for example, made about 500 hp from that 5.4, but it took (roughly, it's hard to get numbers for stock hardware) 150 hp to run the blower, so the internals are effectively experiencing the stress and conditions of a 650 hp NA motor. So it's harder to get longevity. That leaves high-power NA engines, which are what I was thinking of since that's what this V6 is. You can optimize for airflow and whatnot (once you've maxed out basic tuning, I mean), but the main power increases there come from either revving higher or upping compression, both of which put more stress on the internals. Smaller-displacement motors tend to have shorter strokes/crank throws, which means a shorter lever arm, so to get the same torque at a given RPM (and thus the same hp) you need to put more force through that rod/piston assembly. Wow this got more in-depth and technical than I thought. Tl;dr big motors that make power "inefficiently" have benefits on a road car and I definitely appreciate them more than I used to.
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The proper metric with which to judge is area under the curve/weight.
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I was programming with headphones on. Ever see lightning strike a transformer next to your office? It made me jump 5 feet in the air.
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ratbert90 posted:I was programming with headphones on. Ever see lightning strike a transformer next to your office? It made me jump 5 feet in the air. I'm more interested in the origin of your red title. What's the story?
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God drat you fuckers talking about cheesesteak, now I'mma eat some for lunch.
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meatpimp posted:I'm more interested in the origin of your red title. What's the story? I primarily deal with infosec and follow several IT related threads including the information security fuckup thread in YOSPOS. There is a bunch of people in the infosec field that dislike AV because all the AV programs are terrible and the security issues they cause are worse than the terrible detection they provide. This is a INCREDIBLY hot topic in the IT thread and don't you dare bring up how AV is bad. OSI Beandip gave 5 people a few months ago gigantic red titles about how their opinion on AV is bad. This title was from somebody in the IT thread who was pissed I dared bring up AV again.
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ratbert90 posted:I primarily deal with infosec and follow several IT related threads including the information security fuckup thread in YOSPOS. You don't say *opens up newspaper* please do go on
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ratbert90 posted:I primarily deal with infosec and follow several IT related threads including the information security fuckup thread in YOSPOS. Gotcha. Nerd Stuff. I use Microsoft's built-in AV. That should get a red title on its own.
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meatpimp posted:Gotcha. Nerd Stuff. I use Microsoft's built-in AV. That should get a red title on its own. Nope, actually, that's the generally recommended least likely to gently caress your poo poo up these days. 
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