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Should go in another thread. Moved.
einTier fucked around with this message at Feb 11, 2009 around 19:51 |
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| # ¿ Feb 09, 2010 15:06 |
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deviant. posted:i want to go there but i'm so loving broke A lot of people don't care for the way the guys at the Driveway have structured things. They're being a little greedy with pricing and licensing. The track is good, but it's not that good.
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| # ¿ Feb 22, 2009 19:27 |
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Nobdy posted:It looks like they're a lot cheaper but you have to buy an expensive membership? Though the pricing on that is listed as two different numbers on the website, they're both high, and then there's a monthly membership fee. I suppose they also have open days for everyone but I don't see any on their calender. But if you look for track days at Harris Hill Road, you can get on pretty economically. Here's a full track day there with instruction for $160. These guys (girl, actually) do motorcycle days there. I can't remember what's been posted in this thread, but on topic:  Click here for the full 1129x1538 image.
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| # ¿ Feb 23, 2009 04:14 |
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Phy posted:Yeah, but they'd be difficult to highside and impossible to lowside. That's already safer than a motorcycle. VVVVVVV Less safe. You can put really grippy tires on a bike and not have to worry about a lowside, but if you put grippy tires on a trike, it's very likely you'll highside it if you corner too quickly. Speaking from experience from riding three-wheelers and four wheelers and dirtbikes as a kid, it's very, very easy to get a three wheeler up on two wheels. I wish they still sold three-wheeled ATVs, but their danger was very real. einTier fucked around with this message at Feb 24, 2009 around 06:14 |
| # ¿ Feb 24, 2009 06:04 |
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Someone brought this out to the local autocross today. Which looks like a fairly standard ratted out '57 Chevy. Until you open the hood.  Click here for the full 800x533 image.  Click here for the full 800x533 image. That's an LS1, slammed into a custom built frame, topped off with Corvette suspension parts and brakes. It's basically a Corvette with a '57 Chevy body slapped on the top of it. Went like stink and sounded like it came from hell. More here. I should have snapped some pictures at the autocross, but they assured me it was all up to date on the website. It's not. It looks much better now.
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| # ¿ Mar 09, 2009 01:29 |
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ursa_minor posted:This is pretty loving AI. Not like, you know, in the good way though.   Click here for the full 640x480 image. One of my good friends is doing the fabrication work and currently has the prototype in his 300zx making about 700rwhp (using a Lexus SC300 engine). I rode in it, and it was the scariest goddamn thing I've ever ridden in. Not having a roll cage or five point harnesses and non-upgraded suspension and brakes had something to do with it.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2009 01:57 |
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Fortress TB posted:I believe that is a two-stage turbo setup, whereby one feeds the other. Preferred by diesel tractor- and truck-pullers for big power and insane torque. Generally takes a while to build boost, though. You are right though, he mentioned that this is a fairly common setup for diesel big rigs, but not so common on street-driven automobiles. The 300zx in question is a 1985 hardtop (no t-tops) Z31. It lived a hard life before he got it, and he beats the absolute piss out of it. I think including the turbos (remember, he works at boost logic and does his own fabrication) he's got about $4k into it. It looks like poo poo but goes like hell.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2009 04:36 |
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Hot Dog Hotline posted:I dunno I kind of think that honda and the porsche are photoshops. Something just doesn't look right about either of those motors. The SBC Porsche is a swap I've seen before. Apparently, it's pretty common.
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| # ¿ Mar 17, 2009 06:48 |
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oxbrain posted:You left out the scariest part,
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| # ¿ Mar 19, 2009 01:19 |
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Simkin posted:Ah, good. I'm glad I wasn't the only one hearing this:
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2009 20:28 |
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mafoose posted:I think he goes by streetfighter on hybridz.org. It's a 2JZ-GE NA-T swap with a 2 or 3 speed auto trans (don't remember which). We most certainly do not condone his street racing and have been trying to get him to quit it, but there is no denying the car is brutally fast and deceptively so. Goddamn. After watching those videos, I realize just how fast that loving thing is. I've never been in it racing anyone, so zero frame of reference other than "holy loving poo poo, this thing is going to loving kill me." Oh, and it was faster than that the last time I rode in it, and he's about to get about another 200 horsepower. I'm not sure which iteration of his evolution this was, but I think it was the setup before the last one.  Click here for the full 800x600 image.  Click here for the full 800x600 image.  Click here for the full 800x600 image.  Click here for the full 800x600 image.  Click here for the full 800x600 image.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2009 06:04 |
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oxbrain posted:People are going to make fun of his 4" exhaust in parking lots, never knowing that the car actually needs it.
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| # ¿ Mar 25, 2009 06:28 |
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Carlinator posted:^^What the hell is the car game?^^ The car game was a game we used to play here when threads went completely off the rails. It was a way of saying, "this thread is completely hosed, let's have some fun." The game was played like UNO. Someone posted a picture of a car, and if you posted a car picture under it, you had to match either the color or the car. Unfortunately, some people couldn't even get those simple rules right and thought the object was just "post pictures of cars." It also got started in drat near every thread toward the end, as some idiot would think a perfectly good thread wasn't worth reading and instead of voting one and moving on, decided now was the perfect time for the car game. So, we can't play it anymore. I do miss it. I think we should bring it back, but with the rule that if you gently caress up and post the wrong car, it's an instant ban. Start it in a perfectly good thread, ban. But I'm not The Sig, so take it up with him. einTier fucked around with this message at Apr 07, 2009 around 15:38 |
| # ¿ Apr 07, 2009 12:09 |
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MA-Horus posted:
It's also got the uber-expensive ceramic brake option.
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| # ¿ Apr 20, 2009 05:26 |
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MA-Horus posted:It sure as hell wasn't aftermarket. Even the guy at the door telling people "Don't be a loner, get a boner" was drooling over it. That's obviously a Porsche 911. Porsche doesn't make a "GT Street" or anything with that back bumper. It is also not that Techart Porsche, as that is a 996, even though it's using the 997 intakes on the wheel wells. The rear taillights and what we can see of the dash proves this is a 997 911. The flared fenders tell us it's either an S or a Turbo, and the intakes say it's a turbo -- though to be fair, someone could have tacked the fenders and intakes on a non-turbo. I thought there was a rollbar, but that's just the rear wiper. It has ceramic brakes (yellow calipers) and the Sport Chrono (the stopwatch on top of the dash). The seats look like the sport adaptive seats and I think the steering wheel is the upgraded one with audio controls on it. I also think I see the PCM unit in the dash. Other than that, I can't tell what options it has.  Click here for the full 1200x799 image. I thought the spoiler and side skirts were aftermarket, but they are not. The bumper isn't factory though. Looking around at Techart bumpers (they're aftermarket, but really high quality), leads me to the Techart GT Street.  Click here for the full 640x480 image.  Still, the bumper looks like an imitation, and none of the other modifications seem to be present -- not the spoiler, nor the front fenders, or the carbon fiber hood. einTier fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2009 around 20:22 |
| # ¿ Apr 20, 2009 20:19 |
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_firehawk posted:I think you're on to something. While the rear valance looks correct. The rear wing is only seen on the convertibles. Of which this car clearly isn't. Also the exhaust is not correct for a TechArt. Maybe he just ordered some badges and procured the rear bumper off of a wrecked one. The intakes look like the 996 GT Street. But nothing else matches. IE. Here is a 996 GT Street. This really has me guessing now. Maybe this should be in the "stupid stuff people put on their cars" thread if this turns out to be a fake. Of course, if it is Techart, one could get the Techart upgrades and only do the rear bumper. Techart is very popular in the Porsche crowd, they do things fairly tastefully and high quality. They're also extremely loving expensive. As an aside, look for the absolutely beautiful Techart Cayman in the new Fast and Furious movie.  Click here for the full 1280x960 image. MA-Horus posted:gently caress Montreal.
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| # ¿ Apr 21, 2009 00:53 |
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Darchangel posted:I realize that I'm probably signing my own death warrant here, but I don't even really like 911s all that much. Just note a Porsche-o-phile, I guess. The depth of my depravity is such that a 928 is my favorite Porker. I will admit to liking 911s well enough to look around when I hear one. You can hate the Cayenne, but except for one year, it outsold everything else Porsche sold and in 2004, it outsold everything else combined. If making trucks and sedans is what makes it possible for Porsche to keep building awesome cars like the 911 and 987, then I'm all for it. That goes double for being able to do really cool poo poo, like buy up Volkswagen Auto Group (and in effect, Audi, Lamborghini, and all the other assorted holdings). I think the Panamera is an interesting cool car, and it's a masterstroke of marketing by Porsche. It's going to sit right next to the Porsche 911, offer almost the same performance and for all the world look like a decently-pretty 4 door 911 at a similar price. Guys are going to walk into the Porsche dealership, want to buy the 911 and get shut down by their wife because it's "not practical" and they have two kids or some poo poo. And that guy is going to glance over at the Panamera and say, "what about that one? It's pretty practical." That's going to be the car they compromise on. She'll be happy because they got something practical and usable for the family, and he's going to be happy because he's going to convince himself that he got a "better, more useful" 911. They are going to sell shitloads of these.
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2009 06:03 |
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goatse guy posted:Don't forget the Porsche guys who want to tow their 911 to the track with style and luxury. Speaking of sports car manufacturers who started off making tractors ...  ..and they're even owned by Porsche now, just to bring this full circle. einTier fucked around with this message at Apr 22, 2009 around 06:39 |
| # ¿ Apr 22, 2009 06:36 |
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This isn't the first time Porsche has toyed with the idea of a 4-door 911. Click here for the full 800x600 image.  Click here for the full 740x433 image.  Click here for the full 740x242 image. And by God, Lamborghini has no excuse for not putting this awesome thing into production: 
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2009 06:55 |
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Elviscat posted:^except for the fact that the front end looks like that off of a Geo Metro...
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| # ¿ Apr 22, 2009 07:04 |
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