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xzzy posted:Hood mounted mirrors: good Is that engine from that car? It doesn't match up with the beyond 2000 video and it looks more like it's under a rear hatch or something maybe? Also yeah last time I was in Japan in 2009 I saw a lot of people smoking in their cars. It seemed like at that time like a lot of places were moving toward public smoking being less tolerated as it seemed to change between my visit in 2008 and 2009.
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Preoptopus posted:Whatever happened to entry level super cars starting at 120k? Or is that just a price reserved for luxo barges now. KozmoNaut posted:I don't think it's exactly the same process, but Artisan Dice is using "filament wound" carbon fiber to make RPG dice for hypernerds.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:In addition to what's already been said, I think the thing to keep in mind is that $20k base-model sedans can outperform a lot of supercars from years past. We don't really think of cars as impressive these days unless they're pushing 500hp, but an STI or a modern v8 mustang is going to make a Muira (wikipedia says the inflation-adjusted price of one when new was about $120k) look slow on the track AND be more luxurious doing it. You may not look as good or feel as special, but the performance per dollar is hard to argue with. Feh, forget about something from the 60s like the Miura. An $80,000 Corvette Z06 outperforms an $800,000 (adjusted dollars) Ferrari F40, the ultimate boy's-room-poster-car of 1990, in every single performance metric. That's only 25 years for the price of a given level of performance to be cut by more than 90%. It's insane.
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It's probably me being insane, but if I had a choice of a new fast car or an old fast car, I'd take the old one. There's something about having a brash, hard to drive powerful car that's just much more rewarding. They just have more character to me. Also there's nothing like 90's turbo lag, that thump when it come on boost is just so intoxicating.
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Puddin posted:It's probably me being insane, but if I had a choice of a new fast car or an old fast car, I'd take the old one. Would I like a bit more power? Probably. But, seeing how in my area of Scotland, theres alot of speed cameras, and my drive up the A9 to see friends in Inverness has 200 miles of uninterrupted average speed cameras now (boo) clocked in for 60mph... It's harder and harder to put even the admittedly low HP down that I have. Let alone an STi or Mustang.
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Falken posted:200 miles of uninterrupted average speed cameras imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever
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I drove from Glasgow to Fort William last year, there were loads of camera signs but no actual cameras. And some of the roads up there are lush, pity I was in a Kia rental car.
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You know the dual carriage way bits (the proper dualled bits, not the 2+1 sections) of the A9 north of Perth aren't monitored yeah? Honestly I don't mind the average speed cameras, even if I hate them in principle. On average my journey times have been quicker, although certainly not as quick I used to sometimes do it before the cameras there are far less grindingly slow trips - admittedly I think that is more to do with upping the HGV speed to 50 than the cameras. It's always been a boring road anyway, there are plenty of good alternative options if you have the time - back when I lived near Stirling I found going via Trinafour and Killin was much more fun and no slower if you drove keenly. Edit: ^There doesn't seem to be as many mobile cameras in Glencoe as there used to be. There aren't any fixed cameras I can think of west of the a9 / north of Glasgow - it's the vans and unmarked/marked patrols you need to look out for. The borders always seemed worse - I've gotten tickets on Soutra and on the a7, and the a9 at dunblane in my younger stupider days, but never in the highlands despite typically driving quicker up there. stump fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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I think this Civic was posted earlier racing at Bathurst, here it is in Adelaide dueling with an AE86. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMcN6SQrtcw I don't know the first thing about "Improved Production" but my initial impression is 
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I drove from Glasgow to Fort William last year, there were loads of camera signs but no actual cameras. And some of the roads up there are lush, pity I was in a Kia rental car. A bunch of us (4 cars) did Edinburgh to Skye cross-country last year and the roads were incredible.I did not let driving a 15 year old Citroen Dispatch with 3 of us in it ruin the experience, although I did have to elbow my passengers out the way every time I wanted 2nd and there was a left switchback.
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stump posted:The borders always seemed worse - I've gotten tickets on Soutra and on the a7, and the a9 at dunblane in my younger stupider days, but never in the highlands despite typically driving quicker up there.
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Blacknose posted:A bunch of us (4 cars) did Edinburgh to Skye cross-country last year and the roads were incredible.I did not let driving a 15 year old Citroen Dispatch with 3 of us in it ruin the experience, although I did have to elbow my passengers out the way every time I wanted 2nd and there was a left switchback. Yeah it's a brilliant drive - I go Uist monthly and the drive up from Dundee is great once you leave the a9 at Dalwhinnie, the road across the Spean Bridge, and later on the over the hill leaving from Inveraray are some of my favourite roads in any car. Falken posted:Yeah, I live in Galashiels. The A7 road up to Edinburgh is surprisingly sparse on speed cameras, considering how often I hear ambulances rocking up past my house (I live on the A7, less than a mile from the exit of Gala) to respond to a crash. I've seen plenty of silly driving on the a7, and the a68 is even worse. I was really stupid to get caught on the a7, driving north through Stow bang on 30, see the NSL sign in the distance with only one house left and boot it, suddenly I see a camera van parked in a layby right bedside the NSL sign which had been hidden by a hedge. stump fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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NoWake posted:That's not to say people blow smoke in your face, in my experience everyone was incredibly polite. Even outdoors, people would step away from their group to have a smoke, then put their butts out in a pocket ashtray instead of flicking them on the ground. Oh, they are so insanely polite, save for a handful of 20somethings who I saw, gasp, throw their butts on the ground in Tokyo. What blew me away was the smoking in arcades, pachinko parlors, and smoking sections in restaurants.
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MetaJew posted:Oh, they are so insanely polite, save for a handful of 20somethings who I saw, gasp, throw their butts on the ground in Tokyo. There used to be an arcade in Orlando (Rocky's Replay for the locals) that sold beer and allowed smoking inside. They sold some bar food, but it was really almost entirely arcade, moreso than ie Dave and Busters. I don't smoke anymore but it was the best poo poo up til they closed around 08-09. I still remember the big flap when they axed smoking in restaurants around 02 or whenever. People cared so much, but drat it's a nicer experience without. E: For vaguely AI content, my primary game at Rocky's was Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune. I must have spent at least a thousand over the years getting my cars maxed out, that game was fun as hell.
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MetaJew posted:What blew me away was the smoking in arcades, pachinko parlors, and smoking sections in restaurants. It sort of blows my mind that there are so many retirees in Japan whose entire day supposedly consists of sitting in front of a mahjongg candy cab in a Namco arcade and burning pack after pack of cigarettes all day.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:...sitting in front of a mahjongg candy cab in a Namco arcade and burning pack after pack of cigarettes all day. I don't smoke anymore, but this sounds fabulous.
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I worked in a bar when the smoking ban came down and as a non smoker it was loving glorious.
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Rhyno posted:I worked in a bar when the smoking ban came down and as a non smoker it was loving glorious. Same. Not coming home reeking for smoke in your clothes and hair was the best surprise
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 Japan was loving Gloriousth. Two weeks wasn't enough to scratch the surface and I'm already planning another trip. Definitely hit up Yoshi at fun2drive for the AI weeaboo experience of your dreams, MY GIRLFRIEND is leaning on the car because she was so terrified of driving triple the speed limit following the tour guide's sti-swapped legacy gt.
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^^ *adds to list*
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 NEW EPISODE OF PROJECT BINKY ON THE WAY https://twitter.com/badobsessionmsp/status/839034130092417024
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slothrop posted:I think this Civic was posted earlier racing at Bathurst, here it is in Adelaide dueling with an AE86. He is an incredible driver, seriously seriously good.
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slothrop posted:I think this Civic was posted earlier racing at Bathurst, here it is in Adelaide dueling with an AE86. I think improved production is minor engine stuff along with suspension but most of the other kit is basically the same. That civic is pretty special and having driven across the top of Mt Panorama that guy has bigger balls than I. It's not too bad until you start coming back off the top and the walls close ever close as you get closer to Conrod
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KingPave posted:He is an incredible driver, seriously seriously good. This is incredible racing.
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cheese-cube posted:
A new Binky video always makes my week.
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TWSS posted:
Hahahaha, gently caress yes. I'd found this company a couple months ago and couldn't find anyone that had actually done it. Time to commit.
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TWSS posted:
I need more info, because after 2ish weeks in Japan I want to go back.
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As a dirty foreigner you must pay a premium with your first rental for you will surely do disgusting things like eat or drink in the car. Your subsequent rentals will be normal price. You will need an international driver's licence and there is no insurance. You sign a contract agreeing to reimburse fun2drive for the full value of the car if you crash (around $5000USD for the AE86). When I went, literally a year ago today, somebody wrecked an r33 or r32 gtr a few weeks prior and a guy destroyed an AE86 a few months prior to that. Yoshi has many fine cars to choose from (lotus elise, super 7 and r35 were out on rental that day)  Not a car you want to pay to crash  STI  Tour comes complete with ring bound laminated stills to set the scene   This girl made her drifter friend stop so she could take a video of me and the car while yelling a lot. Who knows maybe I trended on Japanese social media that day. That jzx90 did a pretty outrageous burnout on its way out of the lot.    The locals were very kind   Before you do it I would make sure you're comfortable shifting with your left hand (I bought a TH8A for my t500rs sim setup and did a lot of practice in assetto corsa). Also, there are no curbs only 3 foot deep concrete drainage ditches that are wider than the wheel. Lose control and you wreck the car. I would highly recommend the tour, as I drove way faster keeping up with yoshi than I would have been comfortable driving on my own. I saw a lot of really cool cars including a Porsche club led by a straight piped 356 that bombed past us as we were on the uphill. I caused some traffic on the uphill sections, but on the downhill sections it was foot to floor and following yoshi's line we were able to pull away from some much more powerful cars. Hakone is also incredibly beautiful and I highly recommend staying somewhere with an onsen.
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ishikabibble posted:...CFRP is carbon fiber To add to this, Boeing and Lamborghini worked together with academia to develop the forged composite process, and in fact Boeing makes the window frames for the 787 out of the stuff. So if it's good enough to satisfy the pathologically conservative aviation authorities in one of the highest-stress components of a passenger aircraft, then it should be good enough for practically any application you can dream up for it.
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Haha, I'd definitely have done that if it'd been available when I went over there last. Assuming my name didn't result in a "how about no..." *Looks up vehicle shipping rates and statute of limitations on car theft in Japanese law*
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TWSS posted:You sign a contract agreeing to reimburse fun2drive for the full value of the car if you crash (around $5000USD for the AE86). I would not have the balls to do this, kudos to you. Wait, that cars only worth 5k?
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cakesmith handyman posted:I would not have the balls to do this, kudos to you. It's Japan.
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I'd hope you get to keep it if you manage to miss your storm drain inner wheel placement during a touge race and are required to pay for it. That looks loving awesome, I'll be doing it too. Bucket list. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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gently caress it, I'll reimburse them that without even thinking about it. That's seriously cheap.
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Yeah, can you kick the fender and pay $5000 to get the car? 
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MrChips posted:To add to this, Boeing and Lamborghini worked together with academia to develop the forged composite process, and in fact Boeing makes the window frames for the 787 out of the stuff. So if it's good enough to satisfy the pathologically conservative aviation authorities in one of the highest-stress components of a passenger aircraft, then it should be good enough for practically any application you can dream up for it. The first thing that I found googling it gets to talking about comparing forged carbon composite vs 2x2 twill prepreg and stitched RTM layups, both setup to be "quasi-isotropic". In that, they claim the forged composite, in an abstract touting it, has about a third the tensile strength of either the prepreg or RTM layups, but most of the tensile modulus (the prepreg layup was about 20% stiffer but whatever) Quasi-isotropic layups are what you'd see in an 80s vintage F-1 tub, where they're just using twill weave fabric layers and building it up - as I said, modern use unidirectional layups that aren't trying to be isotropic. Unidirectional prepreg, loaded along its axis, is around 2.5x as strong as the figure given for the quasi-isotropic prepreg layup, and around 3x as stiff as the prepreg, or 4x as stiff as the RTM or forged carbon layups. You can go google your own sources if you want to dispute the numbers - all of the ones I'm using are for actual layups, not just raw fibers. Now, that said, the numbers given for the forged carbon, in the paper touting it, have it about as strong as 6061 aluminum per volume, so stronger per weight. That's still pretty useful. But just to bring things back around... Bape Culture posted:They reckon it's lighter and stronger but I don't see how. The strength in from the overlapping fibres. A load of chips suspended in resin how does it have anything like the strength? We must have a materials engineer on here some place. Please explain it as if I were a child. Again, as I pointed out before and here again, it isn't stronger and lighter.
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That looks and sounds amazing. Did you get the full experience with a load of tofu in the car that got you disqualified if it was ruined when you got to your destination?
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Somewhat Heroic posted:That looks and sounds amazing. Did you get the full experience with a load of tofu in the car that got you disqualified if it was ruined when you got to your destination? NO FOOD OR DRINK ALLOWED INSIDE THE CAR! Drivers and passengers must wash hands after eating before returning to the car. To the others that were asking, no, if you destroy the car you pay them the moneys, they keep the totaled car and then you leave with nothing but a sense of shame for having destroyed a national treasure. I'm not sure how minor damage is dealt with, but yoshi told me the r34 goes through several drivers side mirrors a year due to americans going too tight on left handers.
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InitialDave posted:How good are their cars? Really nicely maintained and tight, or superficially clean but a bit tired? The car was initially red as you can see from the interior shot and the watanabes definitely came off the other wrecked car, but it had exceptional brakes, yoko AD08r tires and a week old clutch. The NSX, hakosuka and kenmeri were all immaculate, but i only drove the AE86 so I can't really comment on the others.
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