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veedubfreak posted:How hard was it to put those horns on the car? I need something loud as gently caress for when I finally get my bug on the road. Also, somehow when I moved out here from Texas my parents managed to hide a 3 foot set of longhorns in my stuff. They are now mounted in the garage. The hard part was mounting them - I wound up going .... special, and using some old L brackets to mount them to the radiator support. I probably should have put them on a relay, especially since I went from 1 horn to 2. But 
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A bug is almost like a Subaru, so follow the Subaru community and put bright red (or pink) Hella Supertones on it. It's like a grandfather putting his baseball cap on backwards to impress his bratty grandkids before breaking down, telling them a story about how he shot his best friend in the war, and then retreating to his study for enough brandy to pickle a moose. In reality, go get Fiamm Highway Blasters from Harbour Freight or equivalent. They'll be like 20 bux and 130dB.
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nnnnghhhhgnnngh posted:Scotch tape racing stripe on the windshield? There's an accord or something with 5 colors of painter's tape 'pinstriping' around where I live. The tape has been there for months and gets changed regularly. Can't make this up, I'll have to take a picture if I see it.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:04
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Das Volk posted:Look closely... The front right wheel has a massive crack on the upward most spoke. Also missing a centre cap. 
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Cenodoxus posted:
That is the cleanest Star Trek Transporter Malfunction I have ever seen.
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Das Volk posted:Look closely... Is that a crack in the FR wheel? EDIT: Oh wow was I late to the party
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He lost a lug nut or two?
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Pretty sure that's just dirt on the wheel, not a cracked wheel.
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Jul 12, 2013 22:17
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I saw this curious abomination in Hamilton yesterday: 
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PopeOnARope posted:I saw this curious abomination in Hamilton yesterday: No, that's amazing. It looks like an actual park bench on the trunk!
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Left Ventricle posted:No, that's amazing. It looks like an actual park bench on the trunk! My first thought was ironing board.  I heard downforce is good for getting tough creases out of khakis. Cenodoxus fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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 The diesel stack in the bed looked homemade (but after perusing the internet, they all kind of look homemade it seems). The truck had Power Stroke badges all over it despite that fact that I'm pretty sure that generation never had the Power Stroke engine.
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The Europeans will probably laugh at this one but man fuel prices are starting to bite here which brings the gauge up to 
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Jul 13, 2013 07:53
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8.66484 Us Gal for $US 59.73 meaning 6.89 per gal. The only saving grace is that Diesel is slightly cheaper here in NZ, But we make it up in other ways.
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The only time I've seen a price like that in Australia is at William Creek, which is the pimple on the arse end of bum gently caress nowhere.
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Hey guys check out this wiki designed car. I'll let you ride first. Crankit fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Jul 13, 2013 14:26
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This doesn't look very safe 
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Crankit posted:Hey guys check out this wiki designed car. 
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Crankit posted:Hey guys check out this wiki designed car. You don't understand. It's held together by the power of the community.   "I prefer a vehicle that doesn't hurt Mother Earth. It's a go cart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction."
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Don't worry guys it looks much better with the Aero-shell in place. edit: Just realised you guys might want to know some of the stats for the car. quote:
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Jul 13, 2013 16:57
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I feel bad for Maryland if that's the best they can do with bodywork.
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OptimusMatrix posted:He lost a lug nut or two? Each wheel was missing at least one lug nut.
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Das Volk posted:Each wheel was missing at least one lug nut. Reduction of unsprung weight. 
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I love how the body work on the wiki car completely ignores the shape of the headlight assembly.
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Nubile Hillock posted:I love how the body work on the wiki car completely ignores the shape of the headlight assembly. It didn't have adequate citations
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That's the same car as this one (http://www.wikispeed.com/Affordable) right? That's what the real world mockup looks like so far?  Also, you forgot to mentions the car's best features: No roof, no doors, and what is clearly the best feature, can be bought with bitcoins.
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ExplodingSims posted:That's the same car as this one (http://www.wikispeed.com/Affordable) right? That's what the real world mockup looks like so far? Yeah but how many totaled Saturn Ion Redlines is it worth?
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I'm not really sure but I think I might want a totaled Ion Redline more than that turd. At least there's evidence that the Saturn can be sold to total idiots.
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Crankit posted:Don't worry guys it looks much better with the Aero-shell in place. 100+ MPG 149MPH 5 seconds 0-60 $25,000 Rated for direct strike from an EF3. 
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Crankit posted:Hey guys check out this wiki designed car. I don't know. It just looks like a mess of box-tubes. Even with the shell on, I'm bothered by the "frame". Seems highly inefficient to design the cassis that way. Wouldn't it be lighter/stronger to build a proper tube-frame chassis like an Atom or a Lotus of some kind? Also, with the way they treated the head lights, that's a pretty big waste & weight penalty, having a huge headlamp assembly that not even half of which is actually exposed. Don't get me wrong, it seems like they've got an idea in their heads. Though I definitely want more than 4 gallons of fuel, as I tend to drive more 'spirited' than 'hypermiling'.
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YF19pilot posted:I don't know. It just looks like a mess of box-tubes. Even with the shell on, I'm bothered by the "frame". Seems highly inefficient to design the cassis that way. Wouldn't it be lighter/stronger to build a proper tube-frame chassis like an Atom or a Lotus of some kind? Also, with the way they treated the head lights, that's a pretty big waste & weight penalty, having a huge headlamp assembly that not even half of which is actually exposed. I think maybe they used the (Civic?) headlights as a test running the vehicle with no body. The pics with the body on looks like they have something else in place.
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Saw this marvel of bodywork driving around the other day:  I want to know who looks at that and thinks "Job well done"
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Bajaha posted:I want to know who looks at that and thinks "Job well done" The guy who got the commission selling duct tape to idiots.
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YF19pilot posted:I don't know. It just looks like a mess of box-tubes. Even with the shell on, I'm bothered by the "frame". Seems highly inefficient to design the cassis that way. Wouldn't it be lighter/stronger to build a proper tube-frame chassis like an Atom or a Lotus of some kind? Also, with the way they treated the head lights, that's a pretty big waste & weight penalty, having a huge headlamp assembly that not even half of which is actually exposed. That is basically what an Elise chassis looks like.
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jamal posted:That is basically what an Elise chassis looks like. The Elise would like to respectfully disagree.  I was thinking about the wiki car for a while, and a lot of things got to me about it. The frame is needlessly bulky, they totally didn't bother using the hollow tubes to run cabling and it looks like they neglected crumple zones. The Elise chassis is clever, it makes really good use of material and space and with my elementary knowledge of physics, seems like it might do better in a crash. The wiki thing is all 90 degree angles. It'll probably liquify the passengers in a head-on and get ripped to shreds in diagonal impacts.
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I wasn't being serious.
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Cenodoxus posted:100+ MPG TIV #1 was ugly as sin but I can't help but think that Samaris talking about them being unnecessary jinxed him a bit. Edit: found this glorious pile of poo poo the other day, it's a 6 judging by the rear bumper cover (no outlets for duals, despite some badly crooked ones hanging from underneath) 
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At least he took the wipers off to spray them.
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