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wesleywillis posted:I didn't know where to put this, but I figure some of you boat weirdos might find this interesting. I'm not even remotely boaty and I found that very interesting. It's boats going uphill! Well, up stairs anyway.
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My anger is a bit up there. This car is mine:  These are mates it parks near (but not next to).   Someone apparently came into my apartment building's parking garage and torched some motherfucking cars. People are scum.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:My anger is a bit up there. Jesus, that's bullshit. I'm sorry.
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I went on vacation in Italy and stopped by the Alfa Romeo museum on the outskirts of Milan. I learned, for the first time in my life, that their logo doesn't have a fire-breathing dragon on it - it has a man-eating dragon. The flailing arms look like flames if you don't look too closely. There were also some very pretty cars, especially the Disco Volante and the Carabo, the most synthwave of cars...            
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BigPaddy posted:I believe it is the last one as the book after the one for season 6 is like a 30 year time jump or something and the show runners were like Rumor is there will be a series with different actors, maybe? Gonna be hard to do without Alex. Wish they'd just ignored his character this season rather than killing him of when the actor turned out to be a sexpest. Though if you've read the last books they could just do what they did to amos.
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got off on a technicality posted:Sexy Alfas Also.. the domino meme with this at the start and the modern BMW grille at the end:
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I made half-size challahs to give to my neighbors for Christmas. 
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got off on a technicality posted:I learned, for the first time in my life, that their logo doesn't have a fire-breathing dragon on it - it has a man-eating dragon. The man being eaten represents a Saracen/Moor being defeated during the Crusades. Not something they like getting around these days I'm sure.
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I haven't done a work-on-the-car marathon in years. Unfortunately it's not my project getting worked on. Fortunately it's my daily driver. I got a holiday bonus and spent it on new speakers and an amp for it. But 7 hours yesterday, 9 hours today and I'm still not done. It's not back breaking work like getting under the car is, so I'm not totally beat, but man I'm moving slow.
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LloydDobler posted:I haven't done a work-on-the-car marathon in years. Unfortunately it's not my project getting worked on. Fortunately it's my daily driver. I got a holiday bonus and spent it on new speakers and an amp for it. But 7 hours yesterday, 9 hours today and I'm still not done. It's not back breaking work like getting under the car is, so I'm not totally beat, but man I'm moving slow. That's how I work. I just potter around. During Bathurst I slowly fixed an electric lawn mower, then over the course of the afternoon did little bits of lawn as I was not prepared for the batteries to not be charged.
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StormDrain posted:I made half-size challahs to give to my neighbors for Christmas. Quality challahs there!
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RIP Paul Walker posted:My anger is a bit up there. that sucks, but it's a garage, right? are there cameras?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:are there cameras? That's a harder question to answer that I would have thought. Body shop did get me a quote to fix it, $1466.80 + 5 days of time.
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wesleywillis posted:I didn't know where to put this, but I figure some of you boat weirdos might find this interesting. These are great vids. I love time lapses taken from big ships.
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Follow TimBAtSea for tugboat stuff. Also, my truck blew an emissions code on our way to Thanksgiving. 2015 GMC, LML Duramax. "DEF Quality Low" and all that jazz. 10 days at the dealer before they could even look at it. Cleared the code, charged me $20/gallon for DEF (instead of $3/gallon for truck stop bulk/Wally World), and said it was fixed. 200 miles later, same code. They want to parts-canon it: Both NOX sensors, and the DEF injector. Estimated damage: $1880. And no clue when they'll have parts, I'm guessing at least 2 weeks. FML.
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I feel compelled to share this offer with the good goons of AI, which are known for their love of not just cars, but also food: Darto International of Argentina (of all places) have an offer until the 22nd where they will pay shipping and customs to anywhere in the world on their steel frying pans: https://www.dartointernational.com/ They're a little bit like cast iron pans. They need seasoning, and a bit of care, but you're left with an indestructible pan that can go in the oven, on the BBQ, in the pizza oven, you name it. They work on gas, conventional and induction stoves. If you just want to give it a try, the smallest one is  .(I gain nothing from this; I'm just a happy customer.)
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Their prices track very similarly to Matfer Bourgeat and Debuyer, which are sort of the OG French carbon steel pans. I have a couple of Matfers, and if the Dartos work just as well, I would absolutely recommend getting one. I love my frying pans. The one-piece construction looks very sleek and should be even more durable than the spot welds and rivets used by the French brands, though I've never seen one fail 
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StormDrain posted:I got a hot tip that the local JY got a bunch of old iron from the 60's and 70's... so that's a few things, 1 if anyone needs anything, put in a request, I'm going in the morning. Second-of-ly, I hope I find something I personally need, and C:\, looks like my Secret Santy is getting whatever weird poo poo I can find. did you end up going to the yard? there are a couple things maybe you could keep an eye out for, if you're still planning on going. both for my amc, since you said there was a rambler of some kind. first, a pair of original tan-colored seatbelts, if they're in good shape. lap belts only, not interested if it's a 3-pointer. ideally they'd be the floor-retracting front-bucket ones, but stationary back-seat ones would be good too.  second, a windshield wiper motor. i think many amc's used this same setup; it's at least the same between the javelin/amx/rambler american. dunno what else. just the motor and mounting plate, i think they're easy to remove? but i havent done it yet. mounts right to the top of the engine-side of the firewall. hopefully there is a cable connector pretty close so chopping can be avoided.  neither of these are urgent needs, but if you're there anyway and have some time to kill... spares are good to have.
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bolind posted:I feel compelled to share this offer with the good goons of AI, which are known for their love of not just cars, but also food: For those of y'all that have used both, what are the differences between cast iron and these steel pans? I've got cheap cast iron pans that I've loved for years, but kinda want something with a less textured cooking surface. Not that I need more kitchen gear, but tis that time of the year and I'd like to give back to a friend that bought me a Japanese knife for going to his wedding.
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sharkytm posted:Follow TimBAtSea for tugboat stuff. Find an independent diesel repair shop. Sometimes the heavy truck places will do pickups as well. Not all of them are delete places. Lots of them out there not interested in performance as well. Its probably just a nox sensor
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rdb posted:Find an independent diesel repair shop. Sometimes the heavy truck places will do pickups as well. Not all of them are delete places. Lots of them out there not interested in performance as well. I've called. 3-4 weeks before they can see the truck, they're all buried in snowplow-prep and other work. 2 of the 3 said "Just delete it", which doesn't help. I'm sure it's just one NOX sensor, but I can't afford to have them do one, regen/clear, then wait another 200 miles to find that it's the other or the injector. I need the truck for work stuff, and there aren't any rentals because :2021:
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Between CSB and Spyder's experiences with diesel and this anecdote, my long-term position that diesels can be a fuckload of hassle despite their reputation doesn't seem to have been so paranoid. I've also had a long-term paranoia about the security of computery things but it's only been the last several years that the general populace has agreed.
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sharkytm posted:I've called. 3-4 weeks before they can see the truck, they're all buried in snowplow-prep and other work. 2 of the 3 said "Just delete it", which doesn't help. I'm sure it's just one NOX sensor, but I can't afford to have them do one, regen/clear, then wait another 200 miles to find that it's the other or the injector. I need the truck for work stuff, and there aren't any rentals because :2021: Yikes. Sorry man. Aside from that I hate that this stuff gets a bad rap because of poor diagnostics. It really cleans emissions up. Too many people fall back on the parts cannon or “just delete it” because they can’t look at live data or don’t have an adequate understanding of how it works and $1800 repair bills and bad feelings are the result.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Between CSB and Spyder's experiences with diesel and this anecdote, my long-term position that diesels can be a fuckload of hassle despite their reputation doesn't seem to have been so paranoid. Despite my love for diesels, i've been saying this for years. Modern small diesels have also given up the traditional diesel's base overbuiltness and all of them will have expensive DPF problems in their lifetime, The 3.0 FCA ecodiesel drives a failure prone fuel pump off of the timing gear for an exhaust cam which is pressed onto the camshaft. the new 3.0 duramax has a 150,000 mile engine or transmission out service to replace the belt that drives the oil pump. The 5.0 Cummins.... jesus christ the 5.0 Cummins
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RIP Paul Walker posted:For those of y'all that have used both, what are the differences between cast iron and these steel pans? I've got cheap cast iron pans that I've loved for years, but kinda want something with a less textured cooking surface. Like you said, cast iron (at least modern cast iron) has a more textured rougher surface. In the olden days, cast iron pots and pans were smoother inside, I don't know if that was because of being milled, or because of a different casting technique. The rough surface results in it taking a lot longer to build a good smooth and hard seasoning. In contrast a carbon steel pan is pressed from sheet steel, and has a very smooth surface right from the beginning, I find that it takes a lot less time to build a surface that's great for frying eggs. A cast iron pan will be thicker simply out of necessity, because cast iron is rather brittle. That also means it has a huge thermal mass, and will retain heat better, even if you dump a large hunk of cold meat in it. The downside is that it takes a lot of time to properly preheat and temperature adjustments are slow. A carbon steel pan is thinner because the steel is more ductile and springy, it will bend rather than crack. It heats up faster and temperature adjustment is very quick, which is part of the reason why pro chefs love them so much. Unlike cast iron, even if you have the pan ripping hot and on a full-blast burner, it will cool off somewhat if you put too much cold food in it at once, so don't over-crowd it. Both materials are mediocre at heat distribution, a modern frying pan with multi-layer construction with have much more even heat distribution. Personally it doesn't bother me, I just shuffle the food around the pan a bit and get even cooking that way. There's also a matter of geometry, and that's really just down to the traditional shapes, not anything inherent to the materials. Cast iron skillets usually have very straight sides and carbon steel pans tend to have very sloping sides. I find the sloping sides much easier to work with, when I need to get under something and flip it. The Darto pans look to have somewhat straight sides, so they're more like a traditional cast iron skillet in that way. KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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rdb posted:Yikes. Sorry man. I knew the risks buying a DPF/DEF equipped truck. Truth is, I don't run it hard enough for the regens to do a great job. When I bought it, I assumed I'd be doing a lot more heavy hauling. Instead, it's hauling my fat rear end around with maybe 2 trips a month with 3000# in the bed. My next truck is probably going to be gas. I won't delete it because I've got a env. science background and I know the emissions are greatly reduced. The fuel mileage boost is nice, too. Pay to play, and all... plus I can't stand being a hypocrite. I've got the parts added to my online cart, everything could be here in a few days. If the dealer comes back with an extended lead time on the parts, I'll just DIY it, and have the local shop do the forced regen/relearn (or update my AutoEnginuity and DIY that too). My problem is time. It's in short supply these days, and my time is worth a lot more than it used to. I'd pay the indy shop $1000 to do it (and offered to) if they could turn it in a few days, but I'm not a regular customer and they've got to service their big commercial outfits with the limited staff they all seem to have. RIP Paul Walker posted:Between CSB and Spyder's experiences with diesel and this anecdote, my long-term position that diesels can be a fuckload of hassle despite their reputation doesn't seem to have been so paranoid. Powershift posted:Despite my love for diesels, i've been saying this for years. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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Raluek posted:did you end up going to the yard? I'll totally take a look this weekend. If you saw I went to the wrong yard lol.
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The simple overbuilt diesels are too old to depend on, the new ones are too fickle to depend on. Buy a LS or Godzilla. Throw a turbo on it if you need the extra torque. CP4s are gonna blow regardless of what its bolted to... that's +/- any injection pump though. Forced de-rate with some of the places I go would be disastrous.... not that old poo poo works any better. fwiw DEF Injectors and NOX sensors are in very short supply industry wide. If you can source spares, hoard them. There's been so many parts that you'd think would be commonly available, but they're not. Either backordered till 2022, gotta ship it from 3 states over, or a 6-8 week lead time. There's just no way to solve for this. It'll be this one weird emissions component, some random rear end gasket or a critical component like a starter that takes the whole system down. Anything pre-emissions is getting so old it cant be relied on for anything more than just being yard art. Anything with a warranty costs what a house did 10 years ago. Both will see time on a flatbed no matter what. I've learned a pretty hard lesson over the last few years. The future? It's electric.
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cursedshitbox posted:The simple overbuilt diesels are too old to depend on, the new ones are too fickle to depend on. Buy a LS or Godzilla. Throw a turbo on it if you need the extra torque. I only drive it like 3000km a year, but my complete pre-emissions 7.3 is unbelievably solid. I just used it for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and it was just ready to play. That said, if it every needs anything like injectors or a turbo, i'm scrapping the truck. It's an ex-railroad yard truck, too. It was probably only ever shut off for oil changes in it's first 13 years of life.
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cursedshitbox posted:The future? It's electric. Mining for poo poo the battery needs + the burning of batteries due to climate-change fueled wildfires aside, I completely agree. First time I drove a Tesla was a game-changer (in spite of the poo poo-rear end interface). My next car is going to be electric, I just wish manufacturers could understand that certain aspects of car design have been solved for years and don't need re-solving. A non-zero amount of people have died because of "creative, advanced" shifters and door handles, which is loving disgraceful. Also sunroofs should open.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Mining for poo poo the battery needs + the burning of batteries due to climate-change fueled wildfires aside, I completely agree. First time I drove a Tesla was a game-changer (in spite of the poo poo-rear end interface). My next car is going to be electric, I just wish manufacturers could understand that certain aspects of car design have been solved for years and don't need re-solving. A non-zero amount of people have died because of "creative, advanced" shifters and door handles, which is loving disgraceful. Also sunroofs should open. sunroofs peaked at the Lincoln Zephyr  Made me curious,  oof probably only 2-3 years until it's NLA e: drat, 63 pounds
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Powershift posted:sunroofs peaked at the Lincoln Zephyr My 2018 Elantra GT has an openable sunroof that spans basically the entire roof, it kicks rear end in spite of any issues and all the weight.
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Powershift posted:I only drive it like 3000km a year, but my complete pre-emissions 7.3 is unbelievably solid. I just used it for the first time in a few months a couple days ago and it was just ready to play. I said the same thing about my 7.3 till it just wasn't. To be fair to it, it still ran while dying pulling a 3 ton load a hell of a lot longer than say a 5.0 v8 Cummins would. It was not my dd and was just a 10ish thousand km per year utility vehicle so it didn't matter if it was being fussy. The new one though, woof. I've never experienced a 7.3 that would light off in half a revolution regardless of ambient temp. With the trend of old trucks its worth more running than not, and worth more as a whole than all of its parts. I can't get mad and cut it apart like rovers past. Even if it wasn't, this piece of poo poo owes me till I die. Nor do I ever want to drag another old "big three" diesel pickup back from the depths of hell ever again. RIP Paul Walker posted:Mining for poo poo the battery needs + the burning of batteries due to climate-change fueled wildfires aside, I completely agree. First time I drove a Tesla was a game-changer (in spite of the poo poo-rear end interface). My next car is going to be electric, I just wish manufacturers could understand that certain aspects of car design have been solved for years and don't need re-solving. A non-zero amount of people have died because of "creative, advanced" shifters and door handles, which is loving disgraceful. Also sunroofs should open. Sure the manufacturing of batteries is terrible. A steel/aluminum framed bicycle or public transit is about the best you're gonna do to be conscious about transportation with respect to minimal climate impact, which as a non-billionaire individual, is exactly 1 Fuckall. There's no ethical consumption under Crapitalism. I love electrics and always have. LiPo was a total gamechanger when it came to the R/C world. Nitro became this annoying pain in the rear end thing that wasn't worth it anymore. This is sorta the same. Whats great is this modern tech is getting condensed into motorcycles making them safer and better than ever. Agreed. Don't reinvent the wheel. How about building something that just loving works without yokes and touchscreens. Control surfaces and human interfaces are some of my biggest gripes in modern vehicles. The design decisions implemented is just down right hostile to the user. Kind of like flying, we took something the species dreamed of doing for thousands of years and condensed it into adjunct misery. I would love to get my hands on a Honda-e but loving lol to that.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:My next car is going to be electric, I just wish manufacturers could understand that certain aspects of car design have been solved for years and don't need re-solving. A non-zero amount of people have died because of "creative, advanced" shifters and door handles, which is loving disgraceful. Also sunroofs should open. Agreed, and this, along with "holy gently caress cars got expensive" is why I will probably just refit one of my old piles to EV. An electric first-gen RX-7 would be pretty awesome, and it would be almost trivial to surpass the stock power (~104 HP/100 lb-ft.) Scaling up, electrifying my '70 Cutlass with Tesla-equivalent power would be impressive.
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Good: Upper control arms for the C10 arrived Bad: Lower control arms for the C10 from the same order are not here and the supplier didn’t think to say that they would be in separate shipments weeks apart
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I actually thought about the SA RX-7 as an EV but part of the joy is the light weight. You're getting rid of the powertrain but I feel like an EV powertrain is going to be heavier. The Gen Leaf battery (just as a reference point) is about 1/3 of the total all up kerb weight of a SA. Granted, you could use a smaller battery but the Leaf isn't exactly long legged.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I actually thought about the SA RX-7 as an EV but part of the joy is the light weight. You're getting rid of the powertrain but I feel like an EV powertrain is going to be heavier. The Gen Leaf battery (just as a reference point) is about 1/3 of the total all up kerb weight of a SA. Granted, you could use a smaller battery but the Leaf isn't exactly long legged. The advantage of starting with a light car though is that you need fewer batteries to move everything that's not a battery. I would imagine much of the fun lost through overall weight gain could be clawed back thanks to center of gravity. My issue outside of cost is the need for battery conditioning with our -40 weather and all the fun roads being 3 hours away.
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RIP Paul Walker posted:Between CSB and Spyder's experiences with diesel and this anecdote, my long-term position that diesels can be a fuckload of hassle despite their reputation doesn't seem to have been so paranoid. Its more expensive, thats been my experience with the three I have owned, 98 e450 7.3, 06 LBZ dmax, 18 6.7 cummins. The 7.3 cost more to buy and maintain than a gas 5.4 at the time. Same with the dmax, same with the cummins. Personally- spyders truck was trashed by poor tuning and the normal diesel guy previous owner. Had it gone to anyone other than a guy like spyder it would have been scrapped. Most of the 7.3s are this way by now just due to age and the 5 previous owners who bought it thinking it would need no maintenance and make a poo poo ton of power while doing so and treated it as such. CSB knows what he’s doing and increased the power level of the truck by adding a turbo but in the end old iron is just old and finicky. Hes also capable of fixing his mistakes. The normal diesel guy just moves on. Also FWIW this truck is all mechanical and still broke. Even the beloved all mechanical cat 3406b will bust a governor on the pump from time to time. Computerized high pressure injection just requires different tools and skills to fix. My experience has been different. Besides a transmission in the PSD, none of them have been that bad. The PSD and Dmax maybe $300 worth of poo poo besides oil, fuel filters and tires. The cummins only has 70k on it so far so who knows. It will be pulling a 16,000lb 13’5” tall 102” wide fifth wheel a couple thousand miles in the next two weeks. Its still under warranty and has been the most faithful of the three. But my poo poo has always been stock and it will always be that way. Sharkys truck is probably stock but after 6 years and who knows how many miles I don’t think needing some repairs is that bad. And I do think proper diagnostics would make this a $600 repair. But the prevailing attitude in that industry is counter productive. They treat the emissions stuff with disdain and hate for its existence in the first place, and deleting or parts cannon is the norm. Its not going to just go away. Even gas engines have EGR coolers now. Its going to be more prevalent and rather than learn new skills they have been convinced it just needs to go and stop at no lengths to propagate that attitude. Sorry for the rambling.
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