Terrible Car Stuff - Ah yes lets put the known home wrecker in charge of our polycule

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ComfyPants: Mar 20, 2002

meatpimp posted:

Found some stills:

Never has a car been more aptly named :barf:

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:33

Octopus Magic: Dec 19, 2003; I HATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU LIKE* AND I NEED TO BE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I POST

*unless it's a DSM in which case we cool ^_^

I like how even with a professional photographer and taking the "best angles" one can get, it still looks like it was horribly constructed.

I'm also trying to figure out what that car was originally.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 01:39

BlackMK4: Aug 23, 2006; wat.; Megamarm

C5 Corvette?

# ? Oct 1, 2012 01:40

Undead Waterfowl: Dec 29, 2008

astrollinthepork posted:

Ahaha, Grove City never change.

I just want to know who fed this car peanuts? Look at that allergic reaction. Epi pen stat!!

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:00

Shifty Pony: Dec 28, 2004; Up ta somethin'

Motronic posted:

As some of you know, I do a decent amount of work on DuraMax tuning. Trust me, morons run smoke tunes through a DPF all the time. As long as they don't leave it on a smoke tune for more than a few minutes at a time it doesn't totally screw things up. It's just less black and sooty and more white and oily.

Also, one of the first things you do to get more power out of one of those is replace the exhaust (which includes a DPF delete), followed by blocking off the EGR. Modifying the tune to keep the ECU from freaking out about their absence (including making them not throw codes and light the MIL) literally takes me less time than the actual flash process to upload the changes to the ECU. Of course, this is for off road vehicle only. Amirite?

And on the terrible car stuff, just about every person who has/wants a 5-way tune switch saves one or two slots for either a smoke tune or a really stupid lopey cam idle sounding tune that I came up with while playing around with a friend's truck. It's terrible, and I'm a terrible person for being an enabler. To my credit, I at least try to talk them out of that crap.

Yeah I didn't want to break his happy place thoughts that I falsely planted. At least the modification is harder to do now if you want to get the "real" black sooty smoke effect. The Ford 6.4L is still supposed to be "bad" for smoke because the sequential turbos spool up too quickly.

However what I think will really kill the smoke tune is that a) it burns a ton of pricey fuel, b) it is now indicative of a malfunctioning engine rather than a high performance one, and c) the rest of the diesel enthusiast community collectively blames them for having to deal with the drat DPF. It is pretty hilarious watching them get chewed out when they post on the various forums.

Hopefully it becomes a setting on the tune switch they never touch after showing all their buddies.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:25

MikeyTsi: Jan 11, 2009

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1993...=item35c01d408f

There's a lot more pictures, each one more horrible than the last,...

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:26

Kotaru: Jan 17, 2004; "Serve the Hive.....
Feel the groove.
I control....
the way you move."

That is a lot of chicken wire.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:29

Viggen: Sep 10, 2010; by XyloJW

MikeyTsi posted:

There's a lot more pictures, each one more horrible than the last,...

quote:

I AM SELLING THE VEHICLE "AS IS" AS IT IS USED. I AM A GEORGIA DEALER. YES, A GEORGIA FULLY LICENSED DEALER. THIS CAR IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE TO A GEORGIA RESIDENT. IF YOU HAVE A GEORGIA DRIVERS LICENSE I WILL NOT SELL THIS CAR TO YOU. PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS CAR! THE REASON IS BECAUSE IN GA I WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PROCESS THE TITLE FOR YOU. SINCE THIS IS A "REBUILT" TITLE IT WILL NEED TO PASS GEORGIA INSPECTION PROCESS FOR A GA RESIDENT. I WILL NOT SUBMIT THIS CAR FOR GA INSPECTION, EVEN THOUGH I BELIEVE IT WILL PASS AFTER A FEW ITEMS ARE RETURNED TO ORIGINAL CONDITION. PLEASE DO NOT BID OR CONSIDER BUYING THIS IF YOU ARE A GA RESIDENT.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:30

tbb9: Sep 6, 2011

I just read this as "I won't sell this car to anyone who I might see again"

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:34

peepsalot: Apr 24, 2007; ��PEEP THIS...
��BITCH!

look better than a gumpert apollo to be fair

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:35

Anarchist Mae: Nov 5, 2009; by Reene; Lipstick Apathy

All of those hacked away bits, and it still doesn't look as mad (or as good) as a TVR:

# ? Oct 1, 2012 04:28

Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

MikeyTsi posted:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1993...=item35c01d408f

There's a lot more pictures, each one more horrible than the last,...

It looks like a Revell kitbash.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 07:23

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

It's not the worst thing I've ever seen but design wise it looks stupid.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 11:31

Viggen: Sep 10, 2010; by XyloJW

tbb9 posted:

I just read this as "I won't sell this car to anyone who I might see again"

Yep. Doesn't want to get sued to poo poo for a turd.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 16:26

MikeyTsi: Jan 11, 2009

tbb9 posted:

I just read this as "I won't sell this car to anyone who I might see again"

I've read it as "I've discovered my dope-rear end modz have made it so the car is no longer legal to drive on any actual roads".

# ? Oct 1, 2012 23:15

Octopus Magic: Dec 19, 2003; I HATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU LIKE* AND I NEED TO BE SURE YOU ALL KNOW THAT EVERY TIME I POST

*unless it's a DSM in which case we cool ^_^

You could drive it in Florida!

I'm assuming the sextuplet of exhaust pipes and the tinted headlights kinda uhhh limit the inspectability

# ? Oct 1, 2012 23:23

Exit Strategy: Dec 10, 2010; by sebmojo

Taken by a friend as he left work today.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 23:59

Devyl: Mar 27, 2005; It slices!

It dices!

It makes Julienne fries!

I think we can wrap this thread up.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 03:53

Hugh G. Rectum: Mar 1, 2011

Devyl posted:

The zipties in the armrest really complete this picture. It's perfect.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 05:24

SG-83: Sep 6, 2004; I guess it's not just a dog thing!

It's like an Aztec and a Stinger concept got together and had sex. Then their retarded inbred offspring got hooked on meth and this is the result.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 05:36

ComfyPants: Mar 20, 2002

I just wonder what the thought process is whenever someone rattle-cans the hell out of a car inside and out like that. Surely it can't be, "Oh man, this is WAY better than it looked when it rolled out of the factory!"

# ? Oct 2, 2012 05:37

Previa_fun: Nov 10, 2004

The eight (8!) clip on air fresheners lead me to believe the interior of that care regularly smells as bad as it looks.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 05:51

Nuevo: May 23, 2006; Fun Shoe

Previa_fun posted:

The eight (8!) clip on air fresheners lead me to believe the interior of that care regularly smells as bad as it looks.

I would argue he was going for symmetry, but then I look at the flames on the doors and well...

# ? Oct 2, 2012 06:20

INCHI DICKARI: Aug 23, 2006; by FactsAreUseless

Hey of all the air fresheners out there I actually really loving love the vanilla vent clip ons of that brand. Most air fresheners give me headaches.

I dunno about 8 but I think I've run 4 or 5 in really stinky cars before.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 06:48

Devyl: Mar 27, 2005; It slices!

It dices!

It makes Julienne fries!

Also notice the impressive lack of tread on the front tires.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 06:53

hitze: Aug 28, 2007; Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

It's a childs computer case they painted to look :krad:

in car form

# ? Oct 2, 2012 06:55

Nodoze: Aug 17, 2006; If it's only for a night I can live without you

BoostCreep posted:

Absolutely not. It is much cheaper just to buy a real car and destroy it than pay someone to create a replica. In the film industry nobody cares about vintage this or classic that. Why spend $20,000 on a replica of a classic muscle car when you can buy the real thing for 10? It all comes down to the bottom line and what fits in the budget. You should see how many real vintage items are used as props and then thrown away after a shoot because it's cheaper and easier to dump them in a dumpster than go through the process of selling them off again.

I've witnessed conversations like this first hand:

"what should we do with these perfect condition 1930's deco radio and refrigerator?"
"we're done with that scene. just trash 'em."

The film industry is extremely wasteful.

This was a very real '70 Charger that was destroyed. In fact they destroyed quite a few of them for the first film alone.

What is common is building a replica of a super rare car out of another vintage car because the original version is usually too expensive to buy for the film. They would buy, for example, a base model '67 Mustang with a 6 cylinder engine and build it to look like a GT500 instead of buying an actual expensive Shelby car. While this is somewhat better, they are still destroying probably several classic mustangs in the process.

Here's a good video showcasing the cars that were built for the 4th Fast and Furious movie. They built 240 cars for the film and destroyed pretty much all of them. Don't click if you don't want to see piles of wrecked Gran Torinos. They bought 9 of them for the movie, built them all to look the same, and then wrecked 8 of them during filming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=778mkceE0UQ

In the Avengers they hacked an NSX to make it look like the new NSX that's coming out in a couple years :gonk:

# ? Oct 2, 2012 07:18

Faerunner: Dec 31, 2007

Nodoze posted:

In the Avengers they hacked an NSX to make it look like the new NSX that's coming out in a couple years

Everything I'm seeing on the internet says it was an actual new NSX prototype, where are you getting this "hacked up original NSX"?

# ? Oct 2, 2012 08:33

kimbo305: Jun 9, 2007; actually, yeah, I am a little mad

Faerunner posted:

Everything I'm seeing on the internet says it was an actual new NSX prototype, where are you getting this "hacked up original NSX"?

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/driving-the-avengers-acura-nsx-roadster.html
> That's because, under its skin, The Tony Stark Acura NSX Roadster is really a 1991 Acura NSX.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 08:59

Faerunner: Dec 31, 2007

kimbo305 posted:

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/driving-the-avengers-acura-nsx-roadster.html
> That's because, under its skin, The Tony Stark Acura NSX Roadster is really a 1991 Acura NSX.

Huh, I guess I missed that article. Fair enough!

# ? Oct 2, 2012 09:02

Safety Dance: Sep 10, 2007; Five degrees to starboard!

Devyl posted:

Also notice the impressive lack of tread on the front tires.

They're slicks. HOW IS HE GOING TO RUN 9'S WITHOUT SLICKS?

# ? Oct 2, 2012 13:26

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

More like he spent all his money on rattlecans so he couldn't afford better wheels.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 13:48

Seizure Meat: Jul 23, 2008; by Smythe

MikeyTsi posted:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1993...=item35c01d408f

There's a lot more pictures, each one more horrible than the last,...

quote:

THE CAR SHOWS 90,577 KILOMETERS ON THE DASH. I DO NOT KNOW THE EXACT MILEAGE OF THIS CAR AS THE DASH IS IN KM PER HOUR AND NOT MILES PER HOUR.

holy poo poo.....

# ? Oct 2, 2012 14:02

davebo: Nov 15, 2006; Parallel lines do meet, but they do it incognito; College Slice

Devyl posted:

Waaaaaait a second...

That's not a Fusion!

# ? Oct 2, 2012 17:17

slidebite: Nov 6, 2005; Good egg

VikingSkull posted:

holy poo poo.....

haha no poo poo.

Judging by the cluster photos, it's hosed anyhow. Showing 3K @ 20KPH when he was taking the photos.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 17:46

DropShadow: Apr 15, 2003

Took me a little while to figure out what I was looking at here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsrpokpUmTQ

That is a rear-projection big screen TV being hauled in the backseat of a Solara convertible. The driver was watching me in his mirror as he turned the corner, as if he couldn't imagine why anyone would want to record this feat. I was behind him for about a mile before he turned. No biggie.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:16

bung: Dec 14, 2004

I'm going to classify this as terrible. It's a "Stig" figure family (including the dog) on the back of a Honda minivan.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:42

rscott: Dec 10, 2009

meatpimp posted:

Found some stills:

Must be a big U2 fan.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:46

kastein: Aug 31, 2011; Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.

Friend of mine found this on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-POINT-4PT...5e3313d&vxp=mtr

JDM (fits anything) 4 point harnesses... for $9 each. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm half tempted to pick up a set to do destructive testing on, just to see if they actually hold up.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:54

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:33

Nuevo: May 23, 2006; Fun Shoe

kastein posted:

Friend of mine found this on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-POINT-4PT...5e3313d&vxp=mtr

JDM (fits anything) 4 point harnesses... for $9 each. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm half tempted to pick up a set to do destructive testing on, just to see if they actually hold up.

So long as it's not :signings:

for shipping, do it. Should be amusing.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 19:15

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