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VelociBacon posted:I don't think he has any upgrades planned for his brakes and I'm not sure how many sets he went through but probably 3 or 4. Yeah I figured anyone that can put that kind of a hurting on an already excellent stock setup is a hot-shoe late-braking sonofabitch but that's a legit driving style for the S2K and it gets the job done. 3-4 sets of pads is definitely pushing it, as is obvious. The heat damage to those is scary as poo poo, and if he gets a rotor with a defect, the first time it gets as hot as those obviously got they're gonna frag. I'm sure he's buying top quality but there are limits in metallurgy we have to obey here 
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Beach Bum posted:Yeah I figured anyone that can put that kind of a hurting on an already excellent stock setup is a hot-shoe late-braking sonofabitch but that's a legit driving style for the S2K and it gets the job done. Apparantly what he noticed was a pull to the other side under braking, loss of braking power, and a slight pulsing in the pedal.
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He was trying to weld on the fly into T1. Didn't pan out.
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I like how perfectly blued they are though. As if a metalworking artist did it.
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Aurune posted:I don't know where to start with this one... I would drive this.
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One of the contractors turned up to site in this:
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Lots of people drive Peugots, I don't think you can say they all belong in this thread. That doesn't even look like a 1007.
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There's a bloke with a beige 1007 at work, predictably the electric doors are futzed so he spent most of last summer driving to work and back with both doors open, pretty ballin really.
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InitialDave posted:One of the contractors turned up to site in this: And?
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The leading edge of the bonnet is disintegrating like a 1970s Vauxhall.
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Some may find this hard to watch  :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdp8auBPGp0
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God damnit I want that loving motor.  The guy even pretty much sucks at operating, too.
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Tekne posted:Some may find this hard to watch I don't even like the Dodge Viper and I think that is a loving waste.
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The story is that it was sold to a technical school with no vin, but I don't understand why they chose to demolish the car instead of parting it out. They just threw thousands of dollars down the shitter.
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Cars "sold" to schools in that way are often done so with agreements that the car must be destroyed and cannot be resold. Same reason Mazda scrapped a bunch of otherwise-fine cars that sat at an angle above some seawater in the Cougar Ace; too scared of liability to be worth getting any money out of what's left as anything other than raw materials.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Cars "sold" to schools in that way are often done so with agreements that the car must be destroyed and cannot be resold. Same reason Mazda scrapped a bunch of otherwise-fine cars that sat at an angle above some seawater in the Cougar Ace; too scared of liability to be worth getting any money out of what's left as anything other than raw materials. GM donated a bunch of flooded cars to schools in the early '90s, and my high school got a loaded '89 Cutlass Supreme for its auto class. It was forbidden from being driven on the street. Apparently GM sent lawyers out occasionally to do random checks, and we heard that one school had theirs taken away because it had been used as a parts runner and general errand car for the teacher. The most our car ever moved under its own power was from one end of the shop to the other. When the teacher retired, the car was crushed (as per the agreement with GM) with 8 miles on its odometer. It's a shame, because it was perfect once it had been reconditioned. I was particularly fond of it because the Cutlass Supreme was the pace car at the Indy 500 that I went to with my dad at age 9. Just like this, but black: 
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IOwnCalculus posted:Cars "sold" to schools in that way are often done so with agreements that the car must be destroyed and cannot be resold.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Having been in that kind of tech school, I can tell you that nobody nowhere will want any part of that car after those students have "worked" on it. Also having gone to a tech school I am going to confirm this as a fact.
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Same thing for depot-rebuilt military engines... I know multiple people who have bought those, said what the hell I might as well check their work, cracked one open, and found things like untightened rod fasteners, bearings that were bad and not replaced, safety wire clippings just chillin' in the oil pan, missing gaskets, etc. Then you have to go through the whole drat motor or you'll go insane wondering what else you missed that they screwed up.
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More fun with road salt: Fun fact: there is a yellow road stripe and crosswalk zebra stripes in this picture somewhere. I had to drive from Chicago to Southeastern Iowa on Sunday, in hopes that I'd beat the subzero temps. I had just gotten a brand new GoPro and unfortunatetly I didn't know the battery life was as short as it was an I missed out recording a semi-trailer dumping some of its load. I filled up when I finally got into town.   The carwash was (and still is) closed due to the subzero tempuratures 
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Jesus Christ. I keep thinking it would be nice to move somewhere where it isn't summer 3 1/2 seasons out of four, but seeing all these road salt pictures is swiftly convincing me that's a terrible idea. I like having older cars dammit.
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I managed to stray into salt-territory last weekend... and every loving CARWASH IS CLOSED 
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I once found and open car wash in below freezing temperatures. Wasn't a good idea. It was a lovely automatic wash and I had a car glazed in ice for a couple of days.
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      I can't imagine how many pounds of body filler he used. Powershift fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Jan 8, 2014 |
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Ugly as poo poo but at least he used metal and body filler instead of duct tape, expanding foam, and body filler.
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Features of the above car that I like: the vertical vent running to the side of the headlight with a line over the top that runs to the flare. Features of the above car that I don't like: everything else. Particularly the vagina on the back. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jan 8, 2014 |
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Ulfhednar posted:The carwash was (and still is) closed due to the subzero tempuratures This comes up every winter, and realistically dry salt sitting on painted metal for an extended period really isn't going to hurt anything. You'll be fine until the end of the week when temperatures come up to normal again. OTOH it sucks when your car has enough salt on it that it gets on your clothes just by looking at it.
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Powershift posted:
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Haha. But seriously, I just spent a few minutes browsing Wikipedia and it looks like a second gen Eclipse Spyder.
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It isn't that MG that Top Gear was going on about a few years ago? Didn't that come with some V8 or something? Hilariously bad build quality ( ), but from what Clarkson was saying - 'mental'.e: looks similar if you haven't looked at on in a few years. Totally different. 
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fingerling posted:It isn't that MG that Top Gear was going on about a few years ago? Didn't that come with some V8 or something? Hilariously bad build quality ( Looks like something homemade from Belarus.
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Will someone please post that awesome russian website where they hack together cars out of pieces and parts?
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Polymerized Cum posted:Will someone please post that awesome russian website where they hack together cars out of pieces and parts? http://autobotanik.livejournal.com/ looks like they got their hands on some american steel.
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CharlesM posted:What is this? A DSM? It's a very sad 97-99 2G Eclipse. I like the exposed timing belt. Nothing you want more than a timing belt getting all the road grime/dirt/etc.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Same reason Mazda scrapped a bunch of otherwise-fine cars that sat at an angle above some seawater in the Cougar Ace; too scared of liability to be worth getting any money out of what's left as anything other than raw materials. I looked up the Cougar Ace to refresh my memory and was reminded about what must have been the most amazing demolition derby session ever Wikipedia posted:After an extensive process to deploy all the airbags in each vehicle, 
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Powershift posted:
Am I the only one tempted to cut their timing belt for exposing it like that?
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