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Cojawfee posted:Don't you have to take the entire F355 apart in order to do anything to it? Someday I'll find a way to breed midgets with really long fingers and make them all automotive experts, like Oompa Loompas of the car world
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I went on Ebay and bought a Polk Audio suspension for my car, but it performed like garbage and rusted quickly. Turns out it was a Polk Audio sticker over the top of the original logo, Clarion. You think that's bad? I once bought a Galaxy Note 7 edition Lamborghini.
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Saga posted:You think that's bad? I once bought a Galaxy Note 7 edition Lamborghini. You can just say
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Meanwhile it continues to do what it needs to do; because catching fire is something it needs to do, but hasn't quite decided to do at this moment.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Someday I'll find a way to breed midgets with really long fingers and make them all automotive experts, like Oompa Loompas of the car world They exist, but Boeing hires them all to work inside the wings of their planes.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Someday I'll find a way to breed midgets with really long fingers and make them all automotive experts, like Oompa Loompas of the car world Or something along those lines, Google is being exceptionally unhelpful in finding the actual quote.
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Saga posted:Yeah but these days that means you have to buy a 335i or d which will then blow up. Turbos I can understand, throttle response etc. But DI? My next thought is you saying disc brakes ruined driving. The one after that is "man i miss choke handles"
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Depending on the engine, BMW direct injection uses expensive piezoelectric injectors. If the engine doesn't have them I don't see what the big deal is.
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Domestic Amuse posted:And then you just leave your makeshift fix there because it still works and if it ain't broke (again), don't fix it. That reminds me, the gas tank and battery on my white MJ are both still held in with ratchet straps And have been since 2013 And will be until I strip it for parts
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Memento posted:As much as I hate being a pedant, you actually haven't in this thread. I'm watching the kids right now so I had time to check. I'd be pretty interested in hearing what you have to say, besides obviously "gently caress magnetic shocks". Ah, must've been the new car thread. From what I've been able to find on a corvette forum, the shocks end up being something like $4200 for the whole car, just in parts. Another thing I found was on an R8 forum saying that they're good for 30,000 miles until the ferrous grit wears the seals out on the shocks and they begin to leak. Coming from an industry where they pump highly gritty material down metal pipes, I'll believe it. I've seen metal erosion from under 1000 hours of use that blew me away. God forbid if there were any cracks in the metal, then you've just created a yawning chasm down the middle of a 6,000 pound, forged block of 4130. At 15,000 psi. (Frack pumps, yo). For instance: when a line fails at half that pressure, they tend to cut semis in half  quote:As reported by industry website, Drilling Ahead, Halliburton was pumping the frac job at a reported 8,500 PSI (pounds per square inch) when the 7″ production casing parted about 100′ below ground level. This sudden upward force also parted the surface pipe just below the casinghead, and the entire assembly, including the frac stack and the attached frac iron, became a giant bottle rocket, landing on the wireline truck. Miraculously, no one was killed, and the only injury was the operator in the wireline truck, sustaining a concussion. For anyone wondering, frack blocks that come back from the field always smell like horse poo poo. I have never been able to figure that out. And they're always packed, rear end in a top hat to bellybutton, full of sand.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Turbos I can understand, throttle response etc. The Germans screwed up direct injection. From the mid 2000s on, you have to blast all the carbon off the back of the intake valves because they didn't put in a fuel sprayer back there to clean them.
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30,000 miles? Interesting, that's even shittier than I expected.
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Domestic Amuse posted:Same applies to the Cadillac Catera (save for the "cute" part), a German car (Opel Omega-based) with a special snowflake British-built V6 that required special care, and yet people were surprised when it fell apart after being neglected like a 3800. Wikipedia page on the L81 V6 posted:Firing order: 1-2-3-4-5-6 Really, I think the falling apart was inevitable...
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BloodBag posted:For anyone wondering, frack blocks that come back from the field always smell like horse poo poo. I have never been able to figure that out. And they're always packed, rear end in a top hat to bellybutton, full of sand. Natural gas, part of which is methane, is usually found with oil. Probably related to that, I'd think.
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QuarkMartial posted:Natural gas, part of which is methane, is usually found with oil. Probably related to that, I'd think. Methane has no smell (which is why they have to add an odorant prior to distribution). The rotten egg smell in natural gas that's straight from the ground and crude oil is hydrogen sulfide, which can be very bad in large quantities. Plus, there's a litany of other chemicals they may use when fracking, so who knows if there's something else in the mix.
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smax posted:Methane has no smell (which is why they have to add an odorant prior to distribution). The rotten egg smell in natural gas that's straight from the ground and crude oil is hydrogen sulfide, which can be very bad in large quantities. Oh. I thought it was methane that smelled. As a science teacher I ought to know better 
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Cojawfee posted:The Germans screwed up direct injection. From the mid 2000s on, you have to blast all the carbon off the back of the intake valves because they didn't put in a fuel sprayer back there to clean them. Oh yeah that problem. I thought their comment was a qualitative 'driving feel' that DI somehow took away. Which is what people usually mean when they talk about last good road cars. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 10, 2016 |
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Cojawfee posted:The Germans screwed up direct injection. From the mid 2000s on, you have to blast all the carbon off the back of the intake valves because they didn't put in a fuel sprayer back there to clean them. Water injection seems to cut down on it based on stuff I've seen around here. Another good excuse to turn up the boost as well.
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QuarkMartial posted:Oh. I thought it was methane that smelled. As a science teacher I ought to know better Gas from the bunsen taps (and gas lines and bottles and...) smells because it has Methyl Mercaptan / Methanethiol or Ethanethiol added so you can smell it if you have a gas leak. TMYK.
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Whenever the topic comes up, it's mandatory to post this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku7TdLeEGsQ Additives that make flames visible and gasses smell funny are for safety! 
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Oh yeah that problem. Do you mean DI vs. earlier EFI (where injectors are located in ports just before the valves or even in the throttle body) or EFI in general vs. carbs?
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metaxus posted:Really, I think the falling apart was inevitable... I'd hope it's also a byproduct of a wonky cylinder numbering (i.e 1/3/5 and 2/4/6) but, yeah, that just seems... odd. Godholio posted:I've never seen that video before and it's absolutely horrifying. This was an entirely too common thing for pretty much the whole run of methanol in Indycar. Scary as hell. Cojawfee posted:The Germans screwed up direct injection. From the mid 2000s on, you have to blast all the carbon off the back of the intake valves because they didn't put in a fuel sprayer back there to clean them. Plenty of non-German automakers have hosed this up too. I think Toyota is the only one who has it right with the combination of port/direct injection and I thought they had some form of patent on it. If I ever (more like when, it's an inevitability) get another DI car, it's getting some form of water/methanol/fuel injection early on, just to help with that intake valve garbage.
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The Toyota one has a "cruising" TBI setup, right? From what I understood it switched in the intake injection when using cruise control or other constant-throttle applications, and DI for power pulls and immediately variable stuff. That could have been a fever-dream, though. E: not tbi but port you know what I mean
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xzzy posted:Whenever the topic comes up, it's mandatory to post this video. Are you sure it's not a bee attack?
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QuarkMartial posted:Oh. I thought it was methane that smelled. As a science teacher I ought to know better This is why odorants are added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
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smax posted:The rotten egg smell in natural gas that's straight from the ground and crude oil is hydrogen sulfide, which can be very bad in large quantities. I wouldn't call 700 PPM a large quantity though. poo poo, even 100 PPM will start to gently caress you up.
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xzzy posted:Whenever the topic comes up, it's mandatory to post this video. Ricky Bobby, you are not on fire!!
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100LL leaves white on your exhaust and smells..... fruity... after being burned. I've definitely been behind some bikes that are downright toxic though, watering eyes and poo poo.
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DocCynical posted:I wouldn't call 700 PPM a large quantity though. poo poo, even 100 PPM will start to gently caress you up. The best part is that it anaesthetizes the olfactory nerve, so you can smell it at concentrations that won't really hurt you, but much over that you lose your ability to smell it. Bonus is that it can be used to put mice into a state of suspended animation, from which they can be revived with no ill effects. Doesn't seem to work in larger mammals, though.
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IOwnCalculus posted:I'd hope it's also a byproduct of a wonky cylinder numbering (i.e 1/3/5 and 2/4/6) but, yeah, that just seems... odd.
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N is for Nipples posted:Do you mean DI vs. earlier EFI (where injectors are located in ports just before the valves or even in the throttle body) or EFI in general vs. carbs? I thought saga was bemoaning DI as something bad for a road car. And yeah toyota has that dual injection thing going, think its called d-4d or D-4i or something. They made a fuss about it when they announced the FRS engine.
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spog posted:Are you sure it's not a bee attack? If it was, then surely you'd "kill it with fire"?
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Rigged Death Trap posted:I thought saga was bemoaning DI as something bad for a road car. D4-S. D4-D is their Common Rail Diesel engine tech.
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If the DI carbon thing is really as serious as VW apologists claim then we should be hearing a lot about carbon buildup on Hyundai/Kia, GM, Mazda(skyactiv) and Honda DI engines, none of which use secondary injectors. What's more likely, that all these other companies that sell many times more DI engined cars than VW does are wrong and somehow there has been no public outcry? Or that VW is just bad at making engines?
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Pomp and Circumcized posted:If it was, then surely you'd "kill it with fire"? Tommy Boy dude.
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Throatwarbler posted:If the DI carbon thing is really as serious as VW apologists claim then we should be hearing a lot about carbon buildup on Hyundai/Kia, GM, Mazda(skyactiv) and Honda DI engines, none of which use secondary injectors. BMWs have the same issue, on both the diesel and the gas motors. Subarus are having the issue.
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I had it on my Mazdaspeed3. The issue is bad enough to cause a loss of power, but it's so gradual that I'm sure most people wouldn't notice it.
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I did enough bitching about my BMW 335D CBU issues, but here are some cliffnotes: BMW doesn't cover the service, even though it was occurring around 40k miles The motor has two sets of intake ports in the head. It's expensive to have the cleaning done (~$2000) and it's a pain in the rear end to DIY It caused a large loss of power and MPG, as well as heavy vibration at idle and a flashing CEL. I got burned by that car in that I sold my E30 for it. gently caress that car.
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