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If anyone is up this late looking for tire opinions... I have chosen my future daily and bought it in Japan. 95/96 Toyota Crown. 29k miles and absolutely mint. It will need new tires. I’m not a big aftermarket or size wheel guy, I am more about comfort and reliability it’s why I picked this car and engine. 15” stock rims and I love how they look but they are small by today’s standards.   What brand for a daily where quietness, comfort, safety and reliability are too concerns. This will be the family car and Florida trip highway cruiser. Or should I go with some brand new Toyota 17/18” take offs? Thoughts? 
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Michelin Primacy, dunno if you can find them in 15" tho Basically any Michelin touring tire you can find in that size
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Out of curiosity, do you have to somehow change to LHD headlamps on it?
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Dec 17, 2020 06:07
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Ether Frenzy posted:Someone parked a new 3LT Stingray outside my house tonight, it's the Elkhart Lake Blue and I'd like to report that the color is insanely good. Considering I live in the heart of LA's car culture, I have seen very few of any of the new 'Vettes in the wild yet. Alas it is dark out now, and pics of it aren't doing anything useful. Valley?
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Dec 17, 2020 06:10
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Yep, good eye. It's the large avenues that give the location/era of colonization away.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Michelin Primacy, dunno if you can find them in 15" tho Thanks! I was just wondering if Michelin was still the go to. slidebite posted:Out of curiosity, do you have to somehow change to LHD headlamps on it? No that’s not an US thing. I think in Canada you have to do that. Never has even been mentioned here or have I heard anyone in the US having to do that. everdave fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 06:19
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:My wife's a nurse and she's getting it Saturday. I’ve read a few pieces addressing this, people being worried they’ve rushed the process. In summary, a huge amount of the time that goes in to developing medicines is months of time where nothing is happening. Waiting for ethics board approval. Waiting for corporate board approval. Waiting for funding approval. All under tight budgets. Turns out, when you open the money taps and prioritise this one medicine over everything else, poo poo gets done. What they’ve cut out isn’t safety and testing, but all that bullshit waiting and bureaucracy.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I’ve read a few pieces addressing this, people being worried they’ve rushed the process. In summary, a huge amount of the time that goes in to developing medicines is months of time where nothing is happening. Waiting for ethics board approval. Waiting for corporate board approval. Waiting for funding approval. All under tight budgets. Turns out, when you open the money taps and prioritise this one medicine over everything else, poo poo gets done. What they’ve cut out isn’t safety and testing, but all that bullshit waiting and bureaucracy. It still blows my mind that the Moderna vaccine was developed in 2 days in January, and that Dolly Parton's funding was instrumental in the early trials. Drug development is wild.
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LobsterboyX posted:Valley? 818 for life! but in all seriousness the valley has a very distinct look - I haven't seen a suburb like it anywhere, I may be biased, but really its completely unmistakable to me.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:I’ve read a few pieces addressing this, people being worried they’ve rushed the process. In summary, a huge amount of the time that goes in to developing medicines is months of time where nothing is happening. Waiting for ethics board approval. Waiting for corporate board approval. Waiting for funding approval. All under tight budgets. Turns out, when you open the money taps and prioritise this one medicine over everything else, poo poo gets done. What they’ve cut out isn’t safety and testing, but all that bullshit waiting and bureaucracy. Echoing this, all the trials and tests for safety and efficacy required for any other drug have been done, just quickly and without the waiting, as befits a pandemic.
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Dec 17, 2020 07:14
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LobsterboyX posted:818 for life! Ask me about getting a $600 landline phone bill in the mid-90s because my phone number in La Canada was an 818 area code, so surely any BBS I'm dialing into with an 818 area code must be a local free call (even if it was Encino). Turns out dialing into Pasadena / 626 was the answer, but at least my mom was understanding.
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luminalflux posted:It still blows my mind that the Moderna vaccine was developed in 2 days in January, and that Dolly Parton's funding was instrumental in the early trials. Drug development is wild. A lot of the work had already been done because they were developing for SARSlike virus for years beforehand - It was pretty much get funding to select a candidate vaccine and get testing. There's been nothing particularly rushed about any of the Cvoid vaccines because of that prior development. Turns out competent people realised a corona virus was an ideal one for the next pandemic and begin the science. I really don tthink anyone need to question their safety because they "appear" to be quickly in use. Also of course added the usual foot dragging for paperwork was cut out too as pointed out.
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LobsterboyX posted:818 for life! 8 1 8  - It's fun when you spot a random location you are able to somehow place to being a 20 second shot in a movie from 30 years ago. For some reason I thought you were Long Beach.
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Someone developed an inside-out rotary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e785YnDmq0
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everdave posted:If anyone is up this late looking for tire opinions... That is a drat beautiful car everdave! Don't molest it with modifications like everything I own.
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everdave posted:Thanks! I was just wondering if Michelin was still the go to. You really can't go wrong with Michelin or Continental, in my experience. everdave posted:No that’s not an US thing. I think in Canada you have to do that. Never has even been mentioned here or have I heard anyone in the US having to do that. You should still do it, either a full LHD conversion or at least some bits of tape to avoid blinding oncoming traffic.
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Krakkles fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 11:35
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Anyone with recommendations on monitor arms? I acquired a pretty drat good 27in monitor for gaming that I want to swing in front of my existing 55in setup. I'll entertain suggestions, but I'm thinking of suspending from ceiling and DIY motorised pulley system. EDIT: New Grand Tour is out! Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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Dec 17, 2020 11:47
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Krakkles posted:In addition to that (which, let's be honest, you need to just do it to not be a dick to other drivers), it's 100% a thing in the US. FMVSS has pretty specific dictates about headlights and I'd be willing to bet the reflectors on that car which was never built for import to the US don't meet them. The whole point of the 25-year rule is that you don't need to meet FMVSS standards. I agree that the headlights should be either changed or at least adjusted to avoid blinding your fellow driver, but it is absolutely not a requirement in the US.
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Even if it's sealed-beams, you should swap out to NA ones, the lenses are different. I don't think we have any specific requirement here in Canada but I don't know for sure.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The whole point of the 25-year rule is that you don't need to meet FMVSS standards. I agree that the headlights should be either changed or at least adjusted to avoid blinding your fellow driver, but it is absolutely not a requirement in the US. https://www.nhtsa.gov/importing-vehicle/importation-and-certification-faqs ... but I guess that's not the correct interpretation.
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Ether Frenzy posted:8 1 8 I fit the description of long beach, however I was born and raised in North Hollywood, then I moved on up, deluxe, to Sherman Oaks. But I did have some inbetween where I lived in Sunland for a bit. MomJeans420 posted:Ask me about getting a $600 landline phone bill in the mid-90s because my phone number in La Canada was an 818 area code, so surely any BBS I'm dialing into with an 818 area code must be a local free call (even if it was Encino). Turns out dialing into Pasadena / 626 was the answer, but at least my mom was understanding. ahh, remeber when you didnt have to dial the area code to make a call? that was great... also "hello mrs. __________ is ___________ there?"
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LobsterboyX posted:ahh, remeber when you didnt have to dial the area code to make a call? that was great... also "hello mrs. __________ is ___________ there?" When I was growing up, if I wanted to call someone locally (same first 6 digits), I could just type the last 4. We also had the old analog tone system in use far later than most (captain crunch, blue boxes, etc), and there were still active ringback codes (which got me tossed out of the local mall a couple times... Malls, remember those?)
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Krakkles posted:Interesting, I was basing that on this: Section 7 is explicit: OVSC posted:A motor vehicle that is at least 25 years old can be lawfully imported into the U.S. without regard to whether it complies with all applicable FMVSS. Such a vehicle would be entered under Box 1 on the HS-7 Declaration form to be given to Customs at the time of importation.
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LobsterboyX posted:I fit the description of long beach, however I was born and raised in North Hollywood, then I moved on up, deluxe, to Sherman Oaks. But I did have some inbetween where I lived in Sunland for a bit. just lol if you didnt immediately hang up if the girls mom or dad answered the phone
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:just lol if you didnt immediately hang up if the girls mom or dad answered the phone But if you hung up you're not getting laid  Kids these days don't know how easy they have it, back then you had to go through mom and dad first.
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Humphreys posted:Anyone with recommendations on monitor arms? I acquired a pretty drat good 27in monitor for gaming that I want to swing in front of my existing 55in setup. I'll entertain suggestions, but I'm thinking of suspending from ceiling and DIY motorised pulley system. I just got a Fully Jarvis arm on black friday, but I don't know that it would mount from the ceiling like that. There's an Amazon Basics that's a wall mount that might be workable: https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Premium-Mount-Monitor-Stand/dp/B010QZCT5W Unrelated rant: I can't believe how many people expect normal shipping times right now. All the carriers get slammed on a good year, and with the pandemic, online shopping is even bigger. My wife is doing customer service for a local business that's had a huge uptick in online orders. Probably half her emails and calls are "Where's my stuff?" and some people get stupidly argumentative that their stuff is lost when USPS is just slow to update tracking (or skipping scans entirely). Businesses (except maybe Amazon) can't do poo poo once your package leaves the warehouse.
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So my workplace increases our employee discount from 10% to 25% twice a year - just before Thanksgiving, and just before Christmas (the one just before Christmas started today). Only applicable to store-brand stuff, but that covers a LOT of stuff... including two different brands of appliances, one of them is the super basic stuff like a 500w microwave, can opener, coffee maker, etc. The other is much nicer stuff that's considered a "premium" brand. There's a $20 off coupon for an air fryer in the premium brand (the price shown there isn't the same as in-store for some reason.. it's $99.97 in-store). The employee discount discounts the pre-coupon price too, not post-coupon. $100 5 quart electronic air fryer turns into a $55 air fryer.  Now that everything is washed and I've run it a bit to burn off that new appliance smell (and made the smoke alarms sing the song of their people  ), I'm gonna try some frozen taquitos in it. Dinners of bachelors everywhere!sharkytm posted:When I was growing up, if I wanted to call someone locally (same first 6 digits), I could just type the last 4. We also had the old analog tone system in use far later than most (captain crunch, blue boxes, etc), and there were still active ringback codes (which got me tossed out of the local mall a couple times... Malls, remember those?) I always had to dial 7 digits, but I do remember the click-ka-click when you'd pick up the phone and the switch would click on to give you a dial tone. And the ka-cluck when the line disconnected. MomJeans420 posted:Ask me about getting a $600 landline phone bill in the mid-90s because my phone number in La Canada was an 818 area code, so surely any BBS I'm dialing into with an 818 area code must be a local free call (even if it was Encino). Turns out dialing into Pasadena / 626 was the answer, but at least my mom was understanding. I had some brutal phone bills when I ran my BBS... 3 phone lines, plus I was state/regional hub for a few different networks. Krakkles posted:I can't wait to get it, but despite being high-enough risk that I could probably qualify somewhere ahead of GenPop, I'm also privileged enough to be able to work from and stay home, and therefore am waiting longer than I have to. Work - which has their own pharmacy - already announced that the vaccine will be available to us as soon as round 2 in Texas gets the go-ahead. The second tier is meant for "Protecting front-line workers who are at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 due to the nature of their work providing critical services and preserving the economy." (from Texas Dept of Health & Human Services). It's not mandatory, but I'm hoping to get it after seeing how others respond to it. I fully expect it to make me feel like poo poo for a couple of days (since that's a widely reported side effect), so I'll have to do it when I have a couple of days off in a row. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 14:58 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Section 7 is explicit: If you give a cop, especially a DOT cop, too much back talk they may well cite you for your lenses not being DOT stamped regardless, but based on the number of idiots around here with terrible rear end ebay/amazon headlights, the chances of that are very low.
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Elviscat posted:Echoing this, all the trials and tests for safety and efficacy required for any other drug have been done, just quickly and without the waiting, as befits a pandemic. Vaccines will show their side effects within 6 weeks, the worst of them like allergic reactions far faster than that. Pfizer and Moderna have been tested for significantly longer. I can only assume the base ingredients are not unique to these and have already been tested quite exhaustively. Of course, nothing is absolutely 100% guaranteed to be safe, but I would absolutely I'd take my chances with a vaccine side effect over getting COVID any day of the week. No contest.
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slidebite posted:Of course, nothing is absolutely 100% guaranteed to be safe, but I would absolutely I'd take my chances with a vaccine side effect over getting COVID any day of the week. No contest. Precisely. Statistically speaking, the vaccine is many orders of magnitudes better than catching the rona.
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The Door Frame posted:I have one, and I love it, but I'm more talking about balde clearance. No way I was getting a full size sawzall blade in that bracket An automotive body saw is probably what you're looking for. Basically a short-stroke reciprocating saw that uses jigsaw blades, usually air-powered, but I've seen electric ones, and even have an old B&D one powered by their old Versa-Pak system. That reminds me I need to find some old/dead batteries for that so I can use the shell to convert them to 16850 Lithiums (I have a couple Versa-Pak tools.) Here's a Ryobi battery operated one: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-ONE-HP-18V-Brushless-Cordless-Compact-One-Handed-Reciprocating-Saw-Tool-Only-PSBRS01B/313438684 Looks like "compact reciprocating saw" is the phrase you want. Milwaukee calls theirs the "HACKZALL" as opposed to the full-sized SAWZALL. I see them from Makita, Ingersoll Rand, DeWalt, etc. Pick your battery system. It still won't fit. slidebite posted:Out of curiosity, do you have to somehow change to LHD headlamps on it? Technically, we're probably supposed to, but realistically, no one ever checks. bolind posted:Someone developed an inside-out rotary: Looks like they moved the apex seals to the chamber. That plus not sweeping past the ports may make them live longer... but they just moved the issue to the side seals. Curious what they'll do for cooling the rotor, since it will have exactly the same issues as a rotary in that department, as well as the same oiling challenges. So, basically, they've created a rotary with no significant change other than awkward intake and exhaust routing. Humphreys posted:Anyone with recommendations on monitor arms? I acquired a pretty drat good 27in monitor for gaming that I want to swing in front of my existing 55in setup. I'll entertain suggestions, but I'm thinking of suspending from ceiling and DIY motorised pulley system. The Herman Miller's we have at work are really nice. They're also, $295, because Herman Miller. https://store.hermanmiller.com/office/desk-accessories/flo-monitor-support/4545.html I see one for $150 on eBay. fake edit: didn't see the ceiling mount thing.
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Krakkles posted:If you've got a blade you're not in love with, trim it with an angle grinder?
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In the waiting room for hand surgery this morning, just heard they've diverted all ER traffic away from the city because of so many COVID cases. But they're in the main hospital, not the surgical than in in! Wish me luck!
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wallaka posted:In the waiting room for hand surgery this morning, just heard they've diverted all ER traffic away from the city because of so many COVID cases. But they're in the main hospital, not the surgical than in in! Wish me luck! Good luck!
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Humphreys posted:That is a drat beautiful car everdave! Don't molest it with modifications like everything I own. Thanks! This will not be getting any mods besides a vanity license plate, a front Japanese plate and probably a bluetooth module added in. KozmoNaut posted:You really can't go wrong with Michelin or Continental, in my experience. I am definitely going with Michelin. Car won't be here until February I will do a lot of research since this will be the family vehicle. I hope I don't come off wrong but I am not a guy who would ever throw fake Xenon bulbs or anything on a car, but I have owned and sold 30+ JDM vehicles this year and not once has anyone asked about LHD/RHD lights or has it ever come up. I will def make sure the lights are aimed correctly, and I rarely drive at night anyways, but it is just has not ever even been mentioned in countless auctions or talks or forums on importing cars. But I promise you I will make sure they are aimed correctly for US roads.
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everdave posted:But I promise you I will make sure they are aimed correctly for US roads. This part is impossible without changing the reflector/projector design.  Excuse the basic graphic, but the throw pattern means that if you've adjusted them low enough to not blind oncoming traffic, you are no longer illuminating your lane correctly. The cheap fix is as mentioned using tape to block off the incorrect portion of the pattern and live with it, or replace the headlamps with LHD equivalents. I know in Canada this is a big thing before they'll let you register your car legally.
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Deeters posted:Unrelated rant: I can't believe how many people expect normal shipping times right now. All the carriers get slammed on a good year, and with the pandemic, online shopping is even bigger. My wife is doing customer service for a local business that's had a huge uptick in online orders. Probably half her emails and calls are "Where's my stuff?" and some people get stupidly argumentative that their stuff is lost when USPS is just slow to update tracking (or skipping scans entirely). Businesses (except maybe Amazon) can't do poo poo once your package leaves the warehouse. I feel this on so many levels. I work within a specialized segment of my industry and we are primarily online retail. We are "old" retail in that we don't do any sales through Amazon, all through our own site. That people are refusing to accept there is a global effin pandemic going on and that the human race is literally shipping more parcels than ever before in our history is very telling of where we are as a society. We are getting contacted daily about people's orders and they are like "When I track the package it says delayed. My package is LOST" it is like no, dude, it is not lost it is friggin DELAYED. See the giant red letters at the top of the USPS site? Where is says everything is delayed because the system is overwhelmed? And where your tracking number says "Your package is on the way but running late?" That means it is not lost. It is late. Like everyone else's. I spent a year as a FedEx Ground P&D driver. It was rough during peak then. I cannot comprehend what it would look like these days. Those guys are not getting paid enough and they are getting ridden HARD.
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Bajaha posted:This part is impossible without changing the reflector/projector design. Or open up the housings and paint the RHD "tick" black, if it's a multi-faceted reflector. Did that with the JDM HID reflector housings on my car (yes, they are factory HID reflectors, using a D2R bulb, but from a Japanese model... HIDs weren't available on US models at the time, and I wanted HIDs without being THAT rear end in a top hat, damnit). Pain in the rear end, but on mine it was very easy to identify the two facets in each housing that caused it. The beam cutoff is flat now. Sidenote: Lacking the side uptick has already resulted in one Bambi, though thankfully a baby (  for it being a baby, but  for it being small enough to go under the car and not do a ton of damage)I don't recommend pulling headlights apart to paint the tick(s), it's a royal PITA... just get the stick-on things that block the RHD uptick, then re-aim. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Dec 17, 2020 |
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