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I'd need at least two Vornados and an inline HHO system to fully take advantage of all those raw CFMs, figure I can probably triple my power output while actually finally proving at least one of the laws of Energy can be broken by this one wierd trick the gas companies are absolutely going to hate once they hear about it. Or my back up plan is to let my car get so loving decrepit that camaro girl tosses me the keys out of guilt to run to get more cigarettes if I run out at work and vicariously imagine what could have been, even if just for five minutes. She still hasn't decided what other car she wants to buy to replace it, btw. Or even correct the expired tab issue it had when we hired her. One day though, one day she'll see how I was such a nice guy waiting around, showing how much that camaro meant to me in the only ways I know how to silently externalize unrequited lust.  
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Would the Civic even be able to draw air through a carb that big? 
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Nov 27, 2015 06:09
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Panty Saluter posted:Would the Civic even be able to draw air through a carb that big? Well no, that's why I carried this 3d Printer for like 3 miles so I can set it up and print out a restrictor/adapter plate just in time to watch her drive off in a loving Dodge with some jerk rear end who probably doesn't even love that Camaro the way I do
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Nov 27, 2015 06:15
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:Well no, that's why I carried this 3d Printer for like 3 miles so I can set it up and print out a restrictor/adapter plate just in time to watch her drive off in a loving Dodge with some jerk rear end who probably doesn't even love that Camaro the way I do This is loving meta.
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Nov 27, 2015 06:34
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Wait gently caress went to verify I had the car actually put together and not just buttoned up because a friend asked for a ride home and discovered I missed the radiator leaking from the loving side of the top tank.
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Nov 27, 2015 07:41
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You're playing with fire man. My Ford Escorts used to get like this and the best thing to do was to not fix anything. The state of things under the hood was a snapshot of terrible brokenness frozen in time, and would stay that way until I stopped observing and started disturbing the beast with new parts.
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Nov 27, 2015 08:38
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It probably says something that the first car in my entire life that I have enjoyed and cared about enough to, for the first time ever, keep past the two year mark has only made it that far by slowly falling into an entropic pit of decay. That poor loving thing is held together by baling wire and the hopes and dreams of children all across the world too young to fully comprehend the decades of futility yet to come
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The same thing is currently happening with my bus. Every new part stresses the system and another mechanical fuse blows. Replace oil pump? Blow oil seals. Remove dents from the pushrod tubes? Dents held the old seals closed. Replace clutch? Throwout arm breaks from the new pressure plate tension. Replace front shifter bushings? Rear snout bushing fails. Replaced drag link? Tie rod ends reveal their play. New brake servo and master cylinder? Blow all the slave cylinders, one by one. Replace slave cylinders? Blow soft lines. Clean wire contacts? Booster fan melts. Rear fan seal refresh? Cracked seal housing falls apart. New heater cables? New tension breaks the heater box mechanism. Fix odometer? Speedo cable disintegrates. Hell, tose chunks of aluminum I pulled from the oil pan? Probably stabilized and distributed temperature evenly so the case wouldn't crack. New tires? Old tires had worn into the bad alignment. And this thing drove 1600 miles no problem before all of this. You're playing with fire. The bigger the spare parts pile, the bigger the car's hunger for destruction when you poke it awake. Queen_Combat fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Nov 27, 2015 11:00
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:It probably says something that the first car in my entire life that I have enjoyed and cared about enough to, for the first time ever, keep past the two year mark has only made it that far by slowly falling into an entropic pit of decay. Yeah, it's a Honda.
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Nov 27, 2015 17:09
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:So many parts piled in my room, so few hours in the day to keep blowing them off. Lol. My parts pile for my four cars keeps getting bigger and I keep thinking of reasons to put that poo poo off. I have a waterpump/TB kit I bought two years ago for the Miata
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my theory goes, the less you fix cars, the longer they last. My roomates been running his monte carlo into the ground with zero fucks given running that bitch on 4 cyl and reving the gently caress out of it on every cold start with no oil in it. Every morning i tell him he will blow up his car and every night he says she got me home again with a smug face. I hate his car so much. At this point I think shes personally just trying to prove me wrong.
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Nov 27, 2015 17:24
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Preoptopus posted:my theory goes, the less you fix cars, the longer they last. My roomates been running his monte carlo into the ground with zero fucks given running that bitch on 4 cyl and reving the gently caress out of it on every cold start with no oil in it. Every morning i tell him he will blow up his car and every night he says she got me home again with a smug face. I hate his car so much. At this point I think shes personally just trying to prove me wrong. You should go check the tire pressure.
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Nov 27, 2015 17:58
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Yo call me crazy but does this totally in no way look like a threaded hole something fell out of Cause my service manual ain't exactly reassuring me. 
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Geirskogul posted:The same thing is currently happening with my bus. Every new part stresses the system and another mechanical fuse blows. That's always the trap. You buy a shitbox, fall in love with it next thing you know you're burning through tons of cash because new part A caused issues with parts B, C and D. You can't ever give up though because all that poo poo in the past is sunk cost, you just have to push forward because there is a slight glimmer of light at the end of the corner. Just two or three more parts and it'll be running like a top I swear to god.
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And the best part is I don't even have a problem, I can stop whenever I want.
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Nov 27, 2015 20:58
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ive had new control arms with urethane bushings for over a year at this point (well the bushings have been installed since like april) and i still havent gotten around to putting them on the protege inertia is a powerful thing
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Nov 27, 2015 21:25
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Not that I actually require it for today's work, but when's the last time any of you busted out a dwell meter.
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Nov 27, 2015 21:54
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Why don't you have the electronic ignition conversion yet?
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Geirskogul posted:Why don't you have the electronic ignition conversion yet? Over the course of 17 vehicles I have had 3 seperate name brand Pertronix failures with the fix being finding the points thrown in the glove box and putting them back in, and getting home. The points in the car now have 20k on them and look new and as long as you maintain your ignition system parts are literally bomb proof and I have not once had a failure from points ever.
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Had a pertronix fail in the beetle, but the compufire is going strong 15k later, but I understand. I still carry points and a condenser in both gloveboxes.
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In a similar vein, I just bought a complete set of new Lucas ignition gubbins for the Land Rover.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:Not that I actually require it for today's work, but when's the last time any of you busted out a dwell meter. I've got one very similar to that, Sears, from probably the '70s. At least late enough that mine has markings for rotaries, though they're wrong for my '79 RX-7. Might be correct for the early twin-dizzy models. I haven't used it in years - I converted it to the later electronic ignition after replacing and setting the points (two sets!) once. Ditto on my '70 Cutlass. I can still use it as a tach for the RX-7, since it has external coils. Mine came in a boxed full tune up kit from Sears that I got from my wife's grandfather's estate. It had a Mighty-vac, spark tester, flexible spark plug driver, spark boot removal pliers, a tune-up guide for common cars of the time (firing orders and such), that dwell-meter, and probably a few other things. That kit has actually been pretty handy.
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InitialDave posted:In a similar vein, I just bought a complete set of new Lucas ignition gubbins for the Land Rover. Which size jar of replacement wiring harness smoke does yours take?
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Cakefool posted:Which size jar of replacement wiring harness smoke does yours take?
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InitialDave posted:In a similar vein, I just bought a complete set of new Lucas ignition gubbins for the Land Rover. I like to imagine that Lucas boxes actually say "gubbins" on the label. 
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Noticing a recurring theme with your poo poo, Honda. The Fuel filter the parts guy had to spend 5 minutes hunting to even find a picture of the right one, I know I can find them online but when it's a week out and the shipping is more than the part I figured I'd check locally. I'm not sure how I can still find it in me to somehow expect something to be on the shelf anywhere. Plus sides, found a starter in Puyallup I'm getting tomorrow new in box, told work to forget the other one which they still have a question mark about if it's even on the way, and with the new mounts and bushings in I have a noticeable decrease in road noise. I figured that part out because now I can hear the axles that were clicking on turns when I bought the car apparently also do it under straight line acceleration too now, just couldn't hear it before. And realised I forgot to look at them yesterday.  I seriously need to just stop looking under my car, period.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:I like to imagine that Lucas boxes actually say "gubbins" on the label. I briefly thought he said "ignition guibos" and was terrified.
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Safety Dance posted:I briefly thought he said "ignition guibos" and was terrified. That's BMW, get with the program.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:Not that I actually require it for today's work, but when's the last time any of you busted out a dwell meter. I love your dedicated gently caress you towards any hint of buying a SOLUS.
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I have officially entered the twilight zone. My starter came in and I picked it up and got a cool guy at the register and no line so we pulled up my car and literally across the board on any and every part we randomly searched for or clicked on is listed in red as RARE PART - SPECIAL ORDER
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I am the best god damned used car salesman alive. Dude just asked if I'd sell my car as he had one just like it decades ago and he hasn't seen one running in who knows how long, and I led the gates with a quick run down of the unique and absolutely unobtainable for any price number of parts the car not only has but needs as well, then the rest of what's wrong, then the fact there's a running 76 automatic on craigslist for 1500 bucks right now, followed with my initial offer of 3k to start since he was still not taking the hint. I am now going to proceed to eat the half pound block of raw parmesan cheese I decided to buy for dinner because as a functioning member of society who people somehow trust to dress himself in the morning, much less repair and operate motor vehicles unsupervised, I am allowed to make decisions for myself that boil down simply to "because I want to."
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You... you didn't sell him yours, right? Right?
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:I am now going to proceed to eat the half pound block of raw parmesan cheese I decided to buy for dinner... At least it's got some protein in it.
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rndmnmbr posted:You... you didn't sell him yours, right? The reason the whole "here's a better car for half the price" tactic is so effective is the exclusivity of being steered away to perhaps the vehicle for a less discriminating sort. Buy high, sell low, the path to success begins with hard work, determination, and irrefutable proof that jet fuel doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel beams. The rest just falls into place. Just like WTC7. loving WAKE UP ALREADY PEOPLE
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So, you didn't sell the civic, did you?
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Geirskogul posted:So, you didn't sell the civic, did you? Like I'd be able to find anything even half as efficient at suiting my rather specific and esoteric personal lifestyle requirements for under three grand barring the sudden appearance of a shop on a street corner with an ancient old man I've never met who's been expecting me for quite some time, and that he believes the solution to all of my desires just perhaps might be found within this case right here. And so reasonably priced as well, since after all, it always was mine to begin with.
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...So what was in the case?
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Pleasure and pain, indivisible. And to think I hesitated.
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Only one thing can be in that case.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:procrastibate I'm choosing to believe this was a deliberate portmanteau, because I love it.   14 INCH DEVITO posted:as a functioning member of society ehhhhh...
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