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Viggen posted:Goddammit. Why do I always long for what I can't have? You could always find a 1974 model. It's almost the exact same minus small details and the air intakes.  Also, I wish I could find a bigger version of this picture. Good on Lamborghini for barely bloating in 39 years. 
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BoostCreep posted:You could always find a 1974 model. It's almost the exact same minus small details and the air intakes. I want the prettier one.
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Well then, time to get readin' http://www.amazon.com/Fabricate-Automotive-Fiberglass-Carbon-Fiber/dp/1934709980/
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BoostCreep posted:Also, I wish I could find a bigger version of this picture. Good on Lamborghini for barely bloating in 39 years. Weren't they obnoxiously large for the times though?
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BoostCreep posted:Also, I wish I could find a bigger version of this picture. Good on Lamborghini for barely bloating in 39 years. It looks like it's out of here: http://www.sportauto.de/fahrberichte/lamborghini-reventon-trifft-countach-turbo-extrem-sportwagen-1586368.html?item=33#article_detail But that particular picture is conspicuously missing ??
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BoostCreep posted:You could always find a 1974 model. It's almost the exact same minus small details and the air intakes. 15" longer and only a couple hundred pounds heavier. Not bad, Lambo.
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drat, the Countach is nearly fourth years old??? Still looks futureistic and poo poo hot today
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Hog Obituary posted:It looks like it's out of here: http://www.sportauto.de/fahrberichte/lamborghini-reventon-trifft-countach-turbo-extrem-sportwagen-1586368.html?item=33#article_detail  
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Preoptopus posted:Hmmm Claaaassssy... I think it may be physically impossible to look at this picture without hearing that 50s "this is going to happen in the future" song in your head.  Thanks "Help me identify a song" megathread The song is Happy-Go-Lively Nuevo fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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I have no idea what particular song you're referring to, but I found this. e- aquacopters! e2- narrator totally gets a boner when he starts yelling about jungle road construction. DEFORESTATION, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 03:48 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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Viggen posted:I want the prettier one.   The wacky digital dash  only lasted as long as the first prototype. The prototype got the NACA ducts and scoops relatively soon, due to hot air intake and overheating problems.  Even though the door was displaced a bit, it still opened afterwards.
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cursedshitbox posted:In a sick way I like the painted DMC-12. Any more details/pics of this?
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Preoptopus posted:Haha I didnt even see thoes! Hey, a Triumph Spitfire in its normal state! Couldn't resist.
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The world's first V8 powered "personal massager". 
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The ultimate in interchangeable parts. Unless you break a mirror. Then you're hosed. e: ^^^Tht's hot. Or it would be with no radiator etc. if it were given a fuel feed and started.
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You want a different kind of AI awesomeness? This: I'm currently writing an article about the woman in the white shirt. Not only does she build and work on cars from the 50's & 60's, but she's also one of the women responsible for wrenching on the SEMA Mustang Build Powered By Women. Oh and this picture? Well, when she isn't busy working on cars, she's busy working with a few middle and high schools with a program that helps younger teenage girls realize that anyone can work on cars; not just guys. That's pretty friggin' awesome in my book!  
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That is excellent! Makes you wonder what the next generation of car guys (and gals) is gonna be like.
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angryhampster posted:That is excellent! Makes you wonder what the next generation of car guys (and gals) is gonna be like. With all the computers and technology being implemented into cars today, they will be nerds.
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GramCracker posted:With all the computers and technology being implemented into cars today, they will be nerds.
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IOwnCalculus posted:That seems like actually getting in/out of the back would be a pain, and what is that thing sticking up out of the tunnel? It'd be cool if it needed a 2nd tranny to act as a reduction gear system, and the passengers had to coordinate shifting with the driver. I want to play this game.
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kimbo305 posted:It'd be cool if it needed a 2nd tranny to act as a reduction gear system, and the passengers had to coordinate shifting with the driver. I want to play this game. If I had a diesel with a twin stick setup, I'd totally play it just to mess with my girlfriend.
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grover posted:Just wait- soon you won't be tuning cars, you'll be overclocking them. Backported my 2013 to run off my nForce2. Sure it runs a little hot but thats what 
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cursedshitbox posted:In a sick way I like the painted DMC-12. This.  
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grover posted:Just wait- soon you won't be tuning cars, you'll be overclocking them. But they're already water-cooled. What more can we do to them but light up the insides with led's?
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grover posted:Just wait- soon you won't be tuning cars, you'll be overclocking them. I know you're kidding, but the only reason the Prius is even possible is the fact that buck/boost converters have made massive strides in efficiency and power capability over the last 20 years. And one of the only reasons they've improved so much is that the frequencies they run at have skyrocketed, allowing designers to use much smaller inductors and capacitors without losing efficiency due to switching losses. For instance the "picoPSU" is a 120 watt ATX power supply that takes 12 volt DC input and supplies all the power rails needed to run an ATX motherboard and a few drives, at 96% efficiency, in a package barely larger than a regular ATX motherboard power plug. The same power supply in the original IBM PC weighed around 3 pounds and was two or three times the size of a standard ATX power supply, and produced half as much power... at something like 60-80% efficiency. Hell, the massive improvements in DC/DC converter efficiency are the only reason people are starting to talk about DC power for the grid instead of AC power again. AC is great because you can step it up and down at will using only transformers (with capacitor banks and inductors for power factor correction at times) but DC/DC conversion is very quickly closing the efficiency gap. The scary part? All of this relies on rare earth metals from China, Africa, and Russia, and supplies are running shorter every day. They are already starting to restrict exports and the electronics market will really suffer when we run out of tantalum, niobium, samarium, etc. kastein fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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kastein posted:DC/DC conversion is very quickly closing the efficiency gap. It only took a couple hundred years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowA1xUZpmA Oh, Nikola, you were just a few centuries before your time..
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Viggen posted:It only took a couple hundred years. He was born in the 1850s, did most of his best work between the mid 1880s and the mid 1910s, and died in 1943, so I'm not sure about "a few centuries", but he was a loving genius. It's too bad so much tinfoil hattery and wacky conspiracy theory crap is tied to his name these days.
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davebo posted:But they're already water-cooled. What more can we do to them but light up the insides with led's?   The future is here.
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Lightbulb Out posted:I thought this was the awesome AI car poo poo thread? I think that's more like a massive body kit, but those cars do own
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I think it's just because they haven't put the race tires on it yet. Just funny to see.
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As a masochistic m30 lover, the first generation oil filter housing sickens me. It's good to know that even the factory BMW mechanics couldn't get the thing to hang anything other than vertically on the crane though!
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Slavvy posted:As a masochistic m30 lover, the first generation oil filter housing sickens me. It's good to know that even the factory BMW mechanics couldn't get the thing to hang anything other than vertically on the crane though! You realize it's hanging from a leveler, right?
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Krakkles posted:You realize it's hanging from a leveler, right? I'm meaning the engine sits tilted drastically toward the right when it's in the car. In the picture it's clear that it's hanging with the block perfectly vertical, like a nissan I6 or what have you. When you have this situation and you're trying to make the mounts etc line up it is a HUGE oval office to install, makes me think the picture is staged.
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Tusen Takk posted:
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