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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ1mUvHRE1w

Found this as a related video to something posted in the awesome pics thread.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Someone in the Panther megathread said something about air raid sirens and it reminded me of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCivOpWhOP0

Chrysler hemi V8 powered air raid siren from the cold war.

IIRC, they reached sound pressure levels of 137dB or so... at 100 feet.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I am honestly not sure what to make of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE

Those are some pretty impressive stunts, but... why? What? :psyboom:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Cat Terrist posted:

Peopel actually LISTEN to that poo poo? I couldnt tolerate more than two seconds.

You and me both, I hit mute and kept watching for the ridiculous stunts and general lack of concern for life and limb.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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D C posted:

Counterpoint, girls dont know and dont care what year a car is.

Nor for that matter what engine it has. Hell, a lot of guys don't care what year the car is, nor what engine it has, if my years as a lube monkey are anything to go by. I got stared at more times when asking "is it a 4.0L 6 cylinder or a 5.2L V8?" or "4 cylinder or V6?" than I care to recall, and someone told me their 1995 was definitely a 1998 a few months ago.

To 90% of the driving public cars are driving appliances that must be begrudgingly repaired and maintained when they cease to move at all.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Found this in another thread...

Bow TIE Fighter posted:

A gif led me to this video of how they stop overheight vehicles at the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. Nice warning system, but despite all the engineering in the world, sometimes you can't fix stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTMC-uxJoo
The video also shows a truck knocking a bridge girder off its supports, can't imagine how expensive that was to fix...

I can think of a few places where this could really help out.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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This just in, Russians are loving insane and their roads are horrible. In fact in a few sections of these videos it appears that staying off/out of the road/mudbog/river would be easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJ18eJeNgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VOULfira3o

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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poo poo :stonk:

That engine needs a rebuild now... see the sparks flying out the exhaust right before he choked it partially? I don't even want to know what those sparks were produced by, seeing as I am reasonably certain that's not a turbocharged DD.

If I had to guess, it's rings, which would also explain why it runs away, it's getting plenty of fuel off the walls of the cylinders on every stroke.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Yeah, you can bump start the LD/LDS/LDT-465 (white/continental I6 multifuel used in old US military trucks) going backwards by accident too. It's a real trip until you realize all the gears go backwards except the reverse, then you see smoke coming out the intake stack and realize the oil pump is pushing your lube back into the oil pan and it's time to shut it off ASAP.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Shamelessly stolen from chrisgt on irc.

Here is the king of drifting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99HEkNIQuc

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I think that was more of an interference fit with the curb.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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The slowest, most bad rear end drag race of all time :911:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiumWuHDRmE

26 second quarter mile @ 49.4mph!

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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real_scud posted:

The more I see of Russian drivers I realize if I ever go there I'm never, ever driving a car. It literally looks like it's no-holds barred and no one has any idea how to properly drive.

So many of the incidents are simply because people are driving way too fast for the surrounding environment, and a lot of the others are because people are idiots and don't want to slow down for people turning.

A lot of it is also complete idiots trying to do a U-turn or left turn from, oh, the extreme right lane, as far as I can tell. Without checking their blind spot or anything else for that matter.

edit: holy gently caress, best episode of roadkill ever. Except I know they'll find a way to top that still. They better run over a tank with a mining dumptruck next.

kastein fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jun 28, 2013

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Yes. Mostly because I don't think either one of them finished a sentence the entire time instead of just abruptly switching mid-stream to half of another sentence, which made things yes carl, it sure looks like he's going to be setting a second driver is preparing to start!

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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VikingSkull posted:

The coverage was terrible, I watched a few hours of it. Not that bad considering it was a webcast and not some professional work.

Also Redbull is a loving nasty drink but I'm forever thankful for the things they've done for motorsport. I don't think there's ever been a sponsor that gets it quite like they do.

Maybe Marlboro.

Agreed, I can't stand redbull or monster but they sponsor people so... cool!

Monster stickers on a non-pro vehicle are also a great warning flag that the driver/owner is a total retard.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I think someone needs to combine the two activities that have been mentioned and mount a paintball gun on each kart. I haven't decided if I think it'd be more fun with 2-person karts (gunner+pilot) or "flying" solo.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Throatwarbler posted:

Russian tractor rallycross. The most :ussr: of motorsports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQPrT-51zEU

oh my god I think this might be my favorite thing ever.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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The one that pops off and spiral-rockets all over the place @ 7:00 just when the cop parks by the fire and the bystanders start walking forward gets me every time.

e: the first time I saw video #1 I'll admit it, I cracked up when the song playing had the lyrics "I wanna scream, and shout, and let it all out" not 5 seconds after the truck crashed and exploded. Then the same lyrics come up again only a few seconds before the next round of explosions. Terrible song, great timing.

kastein fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jul 17, 2013

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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VikingSkull posted:

This is the best sleeper.

I will not entertain any arguments that say otherwise :colbert:

I dunno man...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1W8iccGmnA

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Evaporative cooling from the fuel, too.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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What's that, an old tractor that has a glowplug and starts with a loving shotgun shell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpZfp0Ss2U

gently caress yes it is.

E: also just a snatch strap that snaps will quite easily pierce a windshield or break an arm. You don't want to be anywhere near poo poo like that, a friend of mine had a muddy strap snap and just the torn end went straight through the fiberglass hatch of her cherokee.

Getting metal d-rings involved just makes it worse, they'll smash holes right through metal body panels.

kastein fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Nov 10, 2013

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Some crazy bastard barrel rolled a trophy truck... intentionally. Not the way you're thinking, either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dak_3m798Ic

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I think this is what you're talking about :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJAczgfmHk

These kids are a lot more adventurous about their rail karting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQi3YNaVms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPu3WJ9xuBY

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Hello Spaceman posted:

Dakar.

One of the contenders finally restarts his car. He starts driving forward - right into a ditch.
Then it rolls.

My French ain't good (it's nonexistent) but it's pretty evident that his co-driver, stranded at the side of the road, calls him an idiot.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19ehni_us-stage-4-top-moment-san-juan-chilecito_auto

What in the gently caress was the driver thinking? I mean, really?

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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This isn't on youtube but it's worth the watch.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=609081452498204&set=vb.100001890632469&type=2&theater

Who says you need slicks to go drag racing? :getin:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Pretty sure that 232 and a 401 share the same bellhousing pattern, too. And the 401 mount arms might even bolt to the stock motor mount locations.

AMC was great like that.

place your bets on how many launches the transmission would handle before releasing gear teeth to the winds. I've got my money on 3.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIgmKGDqFM

Remember that ad for pepsi a year ago involving a salesman being scared by a test driver?

Yeah, they just counter pranked the guy at jalopnik who debunked it... got him good.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Metric horsepower is the most enraging unit on the planet, at least to a units sperg.

It's like someone saw the metric system and said "it's so perfect and symmetrical" and then thought to themselves "we should emulate the absolute worst stupidity of the imperial system and come up with a half assed backwards unit for something we already have" and thus kilowatts weren't good enough, and an oddball unit of instantaneous power, the metric horsepower, was required as well.

Not even kidding, it's less logical than the imperial one. Imperial horsepower are at least a whole number of watts.

PS/metric horsepower is the turd in the punch bowl.

</:spergin:>

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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That video is a prime example of douchebag on douchebag crime. The idiot lady in the left lane clearly had space to move over... and the dudebro was, well, a dudebro.

The only thing that would have made it better is if she proceeded to drive into a guardrail or something while filming him crashing.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Bumming Your Scene posted:

Doesn't look like a freeway to me or a road where keeping right pertains to, especially when a school zone exists. I'm on Team Camera Lady.

In most states the law doesn't specify, you're supposed to keep right except to pass on any multi lane road. Fair point, though, it's definitely a lot more justifiable if there are lights and left turn lanes and stuff.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Yeah, I've seen fingers broken by those.

Even as an EE (hell, especially as an EE) I'd never want a motorized center console lid. That's a solution looking for a problem, and it's not even a good solution.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I am glad to see proper safety gear was in use, they're using their safety retinas.

That looks like something I could be convinced to do after a few beers. Definitely not a wise life choice.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I wouldn't be at all surprised if that IS a flood car.

To add to what VikingSkull said - the worst possible thing you can do to a car electrical system is submerge it with the battery connected. Absolute worst thing. Not only does the water wick up inside the insulation for multiple feet (just ask VW, do it right and you can get coolant all the way from the reservoir level sensor to the tail lights! :v:) if a battery is left connected it significantly speeds up corrosion. I know of multiple Sandy victim vehicles that had the harnesses literally fall apart because they sat in seawater with the battery connected for a few days, there was simply no solid copper left inside the wiring in many spots.

Even when it doesn't corrode everything severely, the remaining salt and sludge nestled into the harness attracts moisture, being somewhat hygroscopic, and dirty water/damp salt is quite a conductor. You will never, ever, EVER get all the electrical gremlins out of a saltwater (or even many freshwater) flood car, not without complete replacement of anything with a wire in it. And since it's all saturated deeply into all the pinch welds and under the carpet, you're looking at severe, nearly unrepairable chassis corrosion issues within years, as well.

This is why flood cars are crushed, and why I avoided Sandy victims when buying parts at the junkyard during that time period.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Jesus christ, buy an automatic. Those poor synchros.

I ground the gears less than that my first loving day with a mantrans, driving a loving 50 year old military truck home from where I bought it. And I'm not exactly coordinated.

kastein fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Apr 19, 2014

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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These are even better now that I know a bit of Russian obscenity.

Tip: anything that sounds like "maht", "suka", or "blyad" is in the middle of a string of curses. "ne pizdi" means anything from "my dick!" to "shut the gently caress up" to "no poo poo?" to "you've got to be kidding me" to "gently caress off" to "you're full of poo poo" to "stop bullshitting me" depending on the situation. It's an all purpose phrase.

http://www.youswear.com/?language=Russian

The wonders of having worked for a company that was mostly composed of Russians :allears:

kastein fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Apr 24, 2014

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaIa1XqvFrE

Ratty old Olds Cutlass wagon... with an L18 8.1L Vortec in it.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Blow holes in a meth lab by driving through it with a demo derby car? Sure, why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOKyYeXJpwY

The town officials who OKed this are just fine in my book.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I haven't watched US top gear since Rutledge had a pro driver run the offroad buggy downhill with him in the passenger seat against the kayak. gently caress you, grow a pair, what kind of auto enthusiast are you anyways?

(It doesn't help that driving a buggy like that is something I would kill for)

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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VikingSkull posted:

he hit the throttle because that's how a winged sprint turns easiest due to the huge stagger they run in the tires

dude in front of Stewart had to really move to avoid the kid, too

never run around a hot dirt track wearing almost all black at night is probably the best advice

Yeah, I dunno what the gently caress he was thinking.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Came here to post that. Holy poo poo.

Of course, it happened in Russia.

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