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I just wish (in vain) that all the fuckers that do that stance would take the extra time to figure out how to properly re-aim their headlights.
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From the guy who JB welded a cranked FRS crank case. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQNU6spAh2s&t=601s Lotus is dumb, i is smart. he cut the ends of the framerails off because one is damaged and is building a steel box that's going to slide over what's left. He's an absolute hack doing dangerous poo poo, and it's terrifying that he actually got a license plate on one of the salvage cars he bought. You may also recognize him from this.  Powershift fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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Powershift posted:From the guy who JB welded a cranked FRS crank case. Jesus christ! I got curious and watched the first episode - it's 13 minutes of him talking himself into believing it isn't as bad a wreck as it really is. A good drinking game would be 'every time chris says "Fibreglass is easier to work on' you take a shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g51IAahllzY
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Humphreys posted:Jesus christ! I got curious and watched the first episode - it's 13 minutes of him talking himself into believing it isn't as bad a wreck as it really is. A good drinking game would be 'every time chris says "Fibreglass is easier to work on' you take a shot. I skipped a bunch too because the guy's a tool. Episode 1: it's probably not that bad i don't think it rolled over i don't know how the roof got scuffed. Episode 12 Figuring out how to separate the fiberglass bulkhead from the frame. Episode 13: ordered a sick rear end body kit. Episode 14: patching together the busted rear end bulkhead because removing it is too hard.
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Powershift posted:I skipped a bunch too because the guy's a tool. Episode 1: it's probably not that bad i don't think it rolled over i don't know how the roof got scuffed. Episode 12 Figuring out how to separate the fiberglass bulkhead from the frame. Episode 13: ordered a sick rear end body kit. Episode 14: patching together the busted rear end bulkhead because removing it is too hard. Episode 20: Wrecked. The only build youtube channel I can watch without cringing at every moment is Bad Obsession Motorsports. Found them through the Top Gear thread and it details the work of cramming a GT-Four Celica Motor/Gearbox/4WD into a Mini. https://user/badobsessionmsport/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txtMy7N1Fw0
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Aug 12, 2016 12:30
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I'm going with "wrong thread".
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mekilljoydammit posted:I'm going with "wrong thread". He wants $7k for a LeMons car. The project is cool but the execution is half-rear end and the price is ridiculous.
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Aug 12, 2016 14:44
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Humphreys posted:Episode 20: Wrecked. Those dudes might be the AI-est people... in the world.
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Aug 12, 2016 14:47
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Humphreys posted:Episode 20: Wrecked. I'm glad more people are watching Binky, but it made me twitch involuntarily to see a Bad Obsession video posted in this thread.
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Aug 12, 2016 15:57
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The guy who's donk put itself out of its misery last week has purchased a new victim. Consider this future terrible car stuff 
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Humphreys posted:Episode 20: Wrecked. Finnegans garage
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Aug 12, 2016 17:12
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Sorry for the glare but I didn't know they made Escalade body kits?
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Powershift posted:I skipped a bunch too because the guy's a tool. Episode 1: it's probably not that bad i don't think it rolled over i don't know how the roof got scuffed. Episode 12 Figuring out how to separate the fiberglass bulkhead from the frame. Episode 13: ordered a sick rear end body kit. Episode 14: patching together the busted rear end bulkhead because removing it is too hard. I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like B is for Build or whatever. There's doing stuff a roadkill way on a car that's never gonna see real road driving, and then there's patch welding a frame rail with a piece of random poo poo steel you found on a car that is designed to be a street machine. It was also far too much "here watch this time lapse".
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Night Danger Moose posted:Sorry for the glare but I didn't know they made Escalade body kits? They make kits for everything. Don't forget it may also be a Tahoe with a body kit. Man, how much 14 year old me wanted a Silverado with an Escalade front end...
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Aug 12, 2016 22:34
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Watched a few episodes of B is for Build. The techniques he uses don't bother me so much as long as he's the only one driving the car. If he's doing that to sell on and ruin someone else's day gently caress him.
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iwentdoodie posted:They make kits for everything. The original Escalade (and Yukon Denali, which looked nearly identical) front-end were pretty nice (and fairly understated), and quite a lot better than the Tahoe/Yukon of the day. That was the last time "understated" could be used to describe the Escalade though.
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like B is for Build or whatever. There's doing stuff a roadkill way on a car that's never gonna see real road driving, and then there's patch welding a frame rail with a piece of random poo poo steel you found on a car that is designed to be a street machine. My biggest issue is that they're trying to make it like a "how to" with no actual knowledge of how to do half of the poo poo they're doing, and doing some of it flat out wrong. Dangerously wrong. They believe they're doing it right simply because people are watching them do it. They do poo poo wrong because doing it right is hard or expensive. I have no idea how their BRZ passed a salvage inspection with a piece of round stock booger welded in place of a front crash bar, but at some point he's going to want to sell that car with a dangerous crash bar, and rear quarter panels that are probably already full of water and rusted to poo poo hidden under a body kit, and a JB welded crank case. He's the worst case horror scenario when you think of a salvage title car, and he's broadcasting his failures to a crowd of 14 year olds wishing to do the same themselves.
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Google Butt posted:Finnegans garage Didn't even think of that to be honest. I guess my brain categorizes the Motortrend channels as actual shows - not some one dicking around.
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MrYenko posted:I'm glad more people are watching Binky, but it made me twitch involuntarily to see a Bad Obsession video posted in this thread. It's like Roadkill. Yeah it's theoretically terrible car stuff but it's done so well.
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I decided I'd join the biggest facebook automotive buy and sell page for my state the other day instead of just looking at ones for cars I own. I think it was a good decision.  At first I thought the number plate was matching the paint job. No, the trick is to not remove or cover up the plates or the wheels, windows, exhaust, badges... Just taking a second look I think they masked up the windows well, the over spray is actually on the side mirror. it has a sunroof though, so it's definitely worth the $1800 they want for it.
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Aug 13, 2016 08:59
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:It's like Roadkill. Yeah it's theoretically terrible car stuff but it's done so well. There's not one thing terrible about Project Binky. Those dudes know exactly what they're doing and they do it beyond professionally. I saw the one video of B is for Build posted and wanted to choke the dude through the internet.
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Aug 13, 2016 10:36
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The paint is also on the grass. Looks like they gave up and just painted it in the driveway.
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DiggityDoink posted:There's not one thing terrible about Project Binky. Those dudes know exactly what they're doing and they do it beyond professionally. I saw the one video of B is for Build posted and wanted to choke the dude through the internet. That's why I said theoretical. A project like that on youtube should be awful like B for Build, but it is amazing and good.
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DiggityDoink posted:There's not one thing terrible about Project Binky. Those dudes know exactly what they're doing and they do it beyond professionally. I saw the one video of B is for Build posted and wanted to choke the dude through the internet. I like it because they are stupid. It's a stupid idea and anyone with experience would say that it is a silly idea that will cause you a lot of headaches. Yet they have the technical skills to make it.
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spog posted:I like it because they are stupid. It should get increasingly fun as they've filled the whole car in so now everything they do is going to be "we need to install x. The space we need for x was filled in with y 2 years ago so we need to get creative" To get back on topic the last Roadkill was pretty bad. Maybe they don't have another great episode in them?
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Jonny Nox posted:To get back on topic the last Roadkill was pretty bad. Maybe they don't have another great episode in them? I'd imagine it was bad because they went out on a lark and did some lengthy traveling to a junkyard, but their gamble fell through because the proprietor was a 'no lowballers i know what i got' kind of rear end in a top hat and all he had was straight up junk. Schedules were tight, that time was budgeted to film an episode and they couldn't budge at that point so they had to do something, etc etc.
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ishikabibble posted:I'd imagine it was bad because they went out on a lark and did some lengthy traveling to a junkyard, but their gamble fell through because the proprietor was a 'no lowballers i know what i got' kind of rear end in a top hat and all he had was straight up junk. Schedules were tight, that time was budgeted to film an episode and they couldn't budge at that point so they had to do something, etc etc. Next one is better. 
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Jonny Nox posted:
I was thinking that too... Until the Stubby Bob II episode.
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Jonny Nox posted:now everything they do is going to be "we need to install x. The space we need for x was filled in with y 2 years ago so we need to get creative" "Oh, yeah, we cut the corner of the oil sump (or whatever that was) to get the engine to fit. Guess we need to fix that."
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HandlingByJebus posted:Next one is better. It is.
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ishikabibble posted:I'd imagine it was bad because they went out on a lark and did some lengthy traveling to a junkyard, but their gamble fell through because the proprietor was a 'no lowballers i know what i got' kind of rear end in a top hat and all he had was straight up junk. Schedules were tight, that time was budgeted to film an episode and they couldn't budge at that point so they had to do something, etc etc. They expressly stated in the episode that they weren't doing the first plan because the junkyard owner wasn't making good on the deal RE: C1 parts, and Freiburger explicitly states that they paid way too much for the C3 chassis. " Honestly would have been a better episode if they'd gone to plan 'b': force the junkyard owner to eat the ants.
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Honestly, I appreciate Roadkill and the other MT shows that much more because failure is an option. Watching F&F's opinion of the car continually decline as they "work" on it is entertaining in itself. The junkyard owner is definitely the terrible car stuff because he's hoarding a bunch of cars that are low-value to begin with, and have rotted absolutely to death. There's no way in hell that Buick would ever see the light of day again without that episode, and even the plasma cutter butcher job they're doing to it is just delaying the inevitable crushing.
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That's why I also watch Dirt Every Day. I don't offroad (and never will), but the actual act of trying to make something (and often failing) is very entertaining. Plus, 600 hp dune truck!
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Geirskogul posted:That's why I also watch Dirt Every Day. I don't offroad (and never will), but the actual act of trying to make something (and often failing) is very entertaining. Plus, 600 hp dune truck! And Fred is just so loveable. He's all "we'll try and make this junk work, and if we fail, we'll still have a great time."
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KozmoNaut posted:And Fred is just so loveable. He's all "we'll try and make this junk work, and if we fail, we'll still have a great time." I do wish that DED was edited just a little rougher, and with more of the actual build. It suffers from "Here's our idea, and the first couple of major parts, here's a montage of us starting to wrench on it, KABLAM now we're three weeks later and it's buttoned up and Fred is off-roading." It could stand some more documented failure.
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3/4 of their latest episode was pushing a broken buggy up hills. I thought it was cool and good.
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spog posted:I like it because they are stupid. I am extremely envious of Nik's metalworking skills.
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Collateral Damage posted:I like that they started out as "we're gonna put a celica engine in a mini" and now they're at "we've rebuilt everything except the bonnet and trunk lid from raw sheet metal". His welding is pretty good, but his layout/fabrication and attention to detail is insane in the good way.
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