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scapulataf posted:What am I missing here? It's probably a G60.
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meatpimp posted:It's probably a G60. A friend of mine bought one in college, promptly realized the money sink it was to keep it running, tried to sell it and blew the engine up on the first test drive with a potential buyer.
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May 2, 2010 17:23
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meatpimp posted:It's probably a G60. I don't know my superior german vehicles very well, but I'll assume some sort of body kit or cosmetic work to make it look like something its not.
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May 2, 2010 19:15
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scapulataf posted:I don't know my superior german vehicles very well, but I'll assume some sort of body kit or cosmetic work to make it look like something its not. G60 is an engine code for the supercharged version. The G stands for 'grenade'.
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May 2, 2010 20:34
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I HATE CARS posted:G60 is an engine code for the supercharged version. The G stands for 'grenade'. Ahh, now I think I've figured it out, the engine is a mechanical failure because of the tendency for the engines to blow. Now I get it. It didn't help that I thought I was in the "you put what on your car" thread. Problem solved.
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May 2, 2010 23:19
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I'm surprised nobody has posted this... It was made by Hyundai! 
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Sponge! posted:I'm surprised nobody has posted this... gently caress, I went through page after page to post that... so: .jpg) Mine is more 
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May 3, 2010 06:09
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jesus christ. every picture I see of that fire reminds me more and more of some horrible Michael Bay movie. And we're all in it.
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May 3, 2010 10:11
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Coasterphreak posted:jesus christ. every picture I see of that fire reminds me more and more of some horrible Michael Bay movie. The only way the movie would be better is if it was in space... you know, since there are always huge FIREBALLS in space...
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May 3, 2010 13:49
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Sponge! posted:Even still, try sending a consist of turbine-elec units through the average north american loading gauge tunnel and watch as everything behind the first one flames out and dies... Hah...that's a good point, I never thought about that.
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TheShedDweller posted:I guess what I meant to say is, like a Miller cycle engine it uses constant pressure forced induction. Only on a 2 stroke diesel rather than a Otto cycle. But unlike most 2 stroke motors, they have exhaust valves at the top of the combustion chamber instead of ports to help increase compression. A guy I knew who worked as a diesel mechanic explained it to me like this... What you are describing is a two stroke cycle, the Miller is a modified Otto cycle. It has the typical four strokes; suck, squish, bang, blow. The squish part is modified in that the intake valve stays open during the first quarter of the stroke, allowing the supercharger to compress the charge. This is sometimes called the fifth stroke. The two-stroke diesel engine also requires a supercharger, most famously in the 6-71 Screamin' Jimmy. They are two stroke as you describe, a bang/suck/blow stroke, and a compression stroke.
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May 3, 2010 17:02
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I hope that oil rig has Hyundai's famous warranty!
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meatpimp posted:It's probably a G60. At one of the last big mr2 meets I went to, there was someones friend driving a vr6 corrado that he had turbo'd. We were all giving him poo poo about how long till his car broke down. Well 3 mr2's had issues, including mine snapping its throttle cable, and the corrado was there to help out, seeing as he had a poo poo ton of tools in his car. I think he was more surprised than anyone else that he didn't have any issues with his car.
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Two Finger posted:I don't have a picture, just a story. I bet two things happened to her after this: She pissed herself. Any doubts about the existence of God were removed from her mind.
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May 4, 2010 00:55
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 D: My poor old Corolla. I guess it's a mechanical failure.. if by mechanical I mean "those liquid-carrying semi trucks" and failure I mean "caused me to lose control and it ran over the front of my car". It was not a good night for me. But hey! It still drove to the side of the road before another semi hit me, so.... huzzuh? e: the driver of the semi had the audacity to tell me, "You bent a couple o' my rims!!" "Oh yeah? You BENT HALF OF MY CAR." dick.
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May 4, 2010 04:10
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huskyjackal posted:
Already I can feel my rage rising.
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huskyjackal posted:
Aren't most semi/car accidents caused by the car? And how does a semi-truck cause you to lose control?
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May 4, 2010 12:03
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Yes please tell us how this wasn't completely your fault.
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huskyjackal posted:"caused me to lose control" Generally the use of this phrase means your driving wrote a check that your driving skill couldn't cash.
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May 4, 2010 12:17
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Landerig posted:I bet two things happened to her after this: Yeah, I've asked her for photos. All her stuff is currently on a container coming to NZ from the UK so could be a while, but once it arrives all sorts of ship-related mechanical failures will be uploaded.
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May 4, 2010 12:38
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huskyjackal posted:the driver of the semi had the audacity to tell me, "You bent a couple o' my rims!!" "Oh yeah? You BENT HALF OF MY CAR." dick. Please go on, you can't just leave a story hanging like that. I'd really like to know how a semi made you lose control.
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May 4, 2010 13:59
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huskyjackal posted:
You are going to have to explain this further. Semis don't usually jump out at you; rig jockies aren't exactly mobile and tend to be very good about staying in their own lanes.
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Boat posted:I'd certainly read it, but I don't know of any words for trains that start with "A." Amtrak
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frozenphil posted:Amtrak Automotive Insanity > Post Pictures of Horrible Mechanical Failures > Amtrak
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blankooie posted:Automotive Insanity > Post Pictures of Horrible Mechanical Failures > Amtrak  Dave Inc. posted:Aren't most semi/car accidents caused by the car? And how does a semi-truck cause you to lose control? Almost 80% are the fault of the smaller car. I wouldn't be surprised if next on the list was lovely roads/weather. I've had lane changes due to wind, or my axles grabbing a rut in road construction.
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Ok, first--you are ALL correct when you say "this bitch can't drive worth a drat"--I can't, couldn't, and since that happened made a point to re-evaluate and reassess my skills.. so I bought a manual and stopped driving automatics as a start*. I'm not gonna lie and say I'm more skilled but I'm definitely more alert. I had cruise control on at 75 in a 70 zone on 65N, was passing a semi when we went about a curve and the rear end of the semi slid into my lane and I panicked. I'm told I spun a few times and ultimately my front end went smash under the semi's rear tires. Trucker who was behind me and saw the whole thing claims the semi had taken the turn too fast (he was in right lane, me passing on the left) for his load and the load had swung the rear of his vehicle into my lane/almost into my car and that's when my SUPAR SAVER driving skills allowed me to intelligently swerve without thought instead of, oh, say braking or performing a smarter driving maneuver. I simply hadn't been paying enough attention and bam, got whacked for it. I recall looking for his blinker to warn me he was going in my lane but he didn't use one and his claim was "a deer got on the road so I swerved to avoid it" and my only response was "..you didn't check to see if you were going to swerve into a CAR instead?"   Not very dramatic or anything, simple case of "bitch can't drive, pay more loving attention to your surroundings." * driving a manual is obviously not a "fix" for stupidity, but teaching myself to drive it has also made me much more alert as a whole and more aware of my car and as a result my surroundings--no more time to fiddle with CDs, cell phone, radio and other nonsense like the rest of america's drivers. 
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I'm still confused at how this is in any way some kind of mechanical failure.
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Valt posted:I'm still confused at how this is in any way some kind of mechanical failure. I'm pretty sure Toyota Corollas are supposed to bear the weight of a loaded 53 foot trailer on the front end.
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trouser chili posted:I'm pretty sure Toyota Corollas are supposed to bear the weight of a loaded 53 foot trailer on the front end. I'm eagerly awaiting the results of today's Congressional hearing on the matter.
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Valt posted:I'm still confused at how this is in any way some kind of mechanical failure. Obviously, it was another case of Toyota unintended acceleration into the semi's rear tardbar. I am tweeting CNN's Rick Sanchez to alert the public at large.
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May 4, 2010 22:17
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MATLAB 1988 posted:Obviously, it was another case of Toyota unintended acceleration into the semi's rear tardbar. I am tweeting CNN's Rick Sanchez to alert the public at large. Tardbar. I'm gonna have to use that.
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May 4, 2010 23:05
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MATLAB 1988 posted:Obviously, it was another case of Toyota unintended acceleration into the semi's rear tardbar. I am tweeting CNN's Rick Sanchez to alert the public at large. Alert Brian Ross @ ABC so he can
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anonumos posted:rig jockies aren't exactly mobile and tend to be very good about staying in their own lanes. In North/South Carolina, on 65/70 mph 2-lane roads, trucks will swerve in front of you in a heartbeat. This happens to me daily on I77 and I85 but only on the 2-lane stretches.
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Cheap Bourbon posted:Alert Brian Ross @ ABC so he can And get the automotive instructor from SIUC to wire up the test car so he can simulate a semi impact by slipping two wires together.
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anonumos posted:You are going to have to explain this further. Semis don't usually jump out at you; rig jockies aren't exactly mobile and tend to be very good about staying in their own lanes. I knew a driver who was hauling a double, a 45' with a 28' pup trailer on the back, and had it jump out... and then it kept going. The wind caught it, the pup wasn't fully loaded so it lifted and gained enough momentum to yank the big trailer sideways and he went flying like something from 'Twister'. He said he felt the truck shake, looked in his mirror and saw the pup as it was drifting across the left lane. He had enough time to think "Oh sh" before the maiden flight of his experimental aircraft. Another driver I knew was pulling 2 28' trailers and half of the roof from the back trailer sheared off at some point. He didn't even know until he got to his destination and some lucky unloaders got a skylight for a bit. There were pictures floating around but I broke the phone they were on long ago. DELETED fucked around with this message at 01:17 on May 5, 2010 |
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anonumos posted:You are going to have to explain this further. Semis don't usually jump out at you; rig jockies aren't exactly mobile and tend to be very good about staying in their own lanes. On the 401 between Toronto and Montreal, truckers love to quickly flash the blinker once while hauling their rig into the next lane as fast as possible; ignoring the fact that your driving along side them, expecting you to jam the brake or take the shoulder.
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Lowe9 posted:On the 401 between Toronto and Montreal, truckers love to quickly flash the blinker once while hauling their rig into the next lane as fast as possible; ignoring the fact that your driving along side them, expecting you to jam the brake or take the shoulder. Don't drive in a truck's blind spot. It's like the most dangerous place on the highway, don't be there. Personally, I've never seen a trucker do something dangerous on the road, but I've seen plenty of car drivers do crazy poo poo around trucks. There was a guy at my old office though that said he saw truckers loving things up all the time, but I think he was just crazy.
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hatefulsquid posted:I thought you guys might appreciate this. This is an oil-rigger's blog site, with some pretty technical in-depth discussions about what happened to the deepwater horizon and why: http://www.drillingahead.com/forum/topics/transocean-deepwater-horizon-1 Be sure to read the comments after the main article. And this link is a clip from a radio show where one of the guys that was on the rig that day called in to try to clear some stuff up. http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1790422&spid=32364 The tl:dr of it, though, is that the disaster almost certainly had nothing at all to do with the actual ship. Several things had to have gone wrong, but all of those things would be in the bore, the safety devices at the top of the bore (the sea floor), and the operation of the riser (the big neutrally-bouyant pipe between the sea floor and the floating rig). Essentially, the very very deep oil field is under tremendous pressure. It's necessary to balance the pressure coming up from below, with pressure down the riser and well from above, so that various operations can be performed. In this case they had just plugged the well with concrete and were setting a second (redundant) plug above that, when a severe runaway overpressure occurred (exactly why and how is not yet known) and all of the failsafes designed to prevent gas from bursting up the riser failed (for a variety of possible reasons). So Hyundai isn't at fault here. Possibly halliburton is, or BP, or some other contractor, or (most likely) a combination of factors that include operational error, poor planning, and physical failure of equipment.
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Speaking from experience, its sometimes hard for ne to keep my work cube van in its lane in cross winds. Even worse driving the "bus" with trailer on the back. I can't imagine how hard it is for a truck with a 53' trailer on the back to do the same. That being said, I got cut off by a truck driver today, and I wasn't in his blind spot. Coming from the 400 south to 401 west, coming on to the 401 west, I check and moved over,this trucker guy moved over in front of me. There was nobody behind me, or in the lanes beside me, moved over again, and went to pass trucker man, who then decided to cut over on me and I had to slam on the brakes. I know that highway well, and the lane he was in didn't end for a couple km, nobody behind me for several hundred meters and nobody beside me, but this guy had to get over RIGHT NOW!! For the truckers on here, I know it ain't easy, you guys work long hours, jacked up on speed and caffiene pills to make your deliveries on time, and there are more cars doing stupid poo poo around trucks than there are trucks doing stupid poo poo around cars but some guys drive like douche bags. Truck or car drivers. Now back to talking about mechanical failures I guess.
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Dave Inc. posted:Don't drive in a truck's blind spot. It's like the most dangerous place on the highway, don't be there. I once saw a truck force a minivan to slam on its brakes on and slide full stop onto the shoulder as he muscled his way into the left lane in front of it. Nevermind on that section of the interstate trucks aren't allowed in either of the left two lanes. On the other hand, I see cars doing stupid poo poo daily. Generally trucks just sit over in the right lane and don't bother anyone. The only problem I've ever had with one was a mechanical failure on the way to Miami. A truck in the next lane slightly ahead of me blew a retread; I had nowhere to go and as I ran over it it ripped the rhino guard off the underside of my engine and broke out the bottom grill on one side of my front end.
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