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DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Bear Report posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqsyxuGb_x0

I just uploaded this. Who doesn't love the Ferrari FXX?

I love how he's going all out, and just hands his mobile to the passenger.

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DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Revenant.Eagle posted:

Co-Driver must have had to change his pants after that one.

Sideways through a Cattle Grid would do that, but that is amazing driving.

DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Nov 13, 2006

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

ZerglingMinor posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHEzclhmlpw

The delorean GT-ARRGH

A goon owned that.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIINNNNGGGGG IN MY SKIN, THIS VTEC IT WILL NOT HEAL


I very much agree, I close the window as soon as I hear Linkin Park, Korn, Hatebreed, or any other numetal garbage. I might listen to that when I am xBabyXHitlerXemoxX, but not when I'm looking at otherwise cool/funny vidoes.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

tractorcrusher posted:

Um, those are all cup cars... Not exactly just a Mustang Cobra R.

That is like saying a FR500C is not any different than a vanilla dealer-lot Mustang.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Lilbeefer posted:

:colbert:


Seriously though, that was cool.

I see that as more of a complaint that they have to wear a firesuit and a helmet rather than doing 42 times with 500 dudes! :dominic:

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

KozmoNaut posted:

In the same vein as the tractor-beat country music posted earlier:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kIXDssKFg4

That is the worst video of the worst bike subculture, christ.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
Kids in the Hall enjoy their cars too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zu0vAMkpag&NR=1&feature=fvwp


edit: with bonus henry ford is a nazi joke!

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
It could be a Ferrari 250GTO spitting out hundred dollar bills into traffic and the driver would still be a shithead for racing in traffic. How childish, go find an industrial lot so you only endanger your own dumb rear end.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

RealKyleH posted:

He seemed to know what he was going for the most part but something that always catches my ear or eye is using the material inconel. Why on earth is inconel being used for this stuff? Why would you use an inconel heat shield when the exhaust housing of the turbo is made from cast steel?

I know cobb makes an inconel wrx up pipe and it seems like the same BS. How are you gonna run steel pistons and steel exhaust housing but justify the use of inconel at any point in between?

Aluminum pistons, nobody makes steel ones in a modern engine.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Ziploc posted:

EDIT: That retarded car has a supercharger from a 3.8lt Thunderbird bolted to it. Pulled like a freight train.

Thats the standard supercharger to use for most things. You can spin it slowly and it still doesn't leak too bad, can make some power, never wears out if you change the oil, etc.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

totalnewbie posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu3FwgIHsQA

Here's the whole thing.

Their warehouse/studio thing is at the Alameda NAS, its pretty amazing since the whole airstrip is more or less theirs for use. Its absolutely gigantic, space wise.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Muffinpox posted:

You really don't know poo poo about US rally do you?


Instead of watching finnish amateur rally, why don't you watch a video of what Ken and Travis do 99% of the time in their cars when not at the X-games events.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLzEl_0FgK8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ySmUIyhU3E&feature=related

He usually does this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPz7qPAxxxc

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

kimbo305 posted:

I think Baby Hitler said that they're pentroof same as most heads now. The hemi heads don't pass emissions.

Hemi heads are not only not used anymore (last use was as I can remember some ancient Toyota engine (3Y maybe?) but they are almost total poo poo as a head design. In order to make real compression, the pistons were stupidly heavy, not that it mattered on big ol' truck V8s or 5500RPM redline Toyota commuter engines.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
The Charade battled the Festiva at Thunderhill last year, maybe I should have played that fact up more.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

VikingSkull posted:

I still have trouble wrapping my head around the idea that Ken Block was the kick in the rear end America needed to give Rally a foothold here.

:psyduck:

Money talks. So does flashy advertising.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
A single John Deere hit and miss engine is used to start what sound like a gigantic vertical hit and miss engine. I doubt it is diesel given it doesn't smoke much and still sound hit-and-miss.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
Track workers are usually volunteers that are either racers themselves or are into the corner worker scene. Not to say that medical crews were informed or deployed anywhere near properly, but corner workers aren't all extrication and trauma specialist heroes, and tend to be prohibited from most actions that would put themselves in danger more than they already are. There was a big discussion on coern workers a few months back that someone quoted SCCA and NASA rulebooks.

DJ Commie fucked around with this message at 17:11 on May 22, 2012

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
The boundler-strewn ground on the side of the mountain is not as forgiving as groomed gravel trap, to say the least.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Nooooooo my Daihatsu :(

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Preoptopus posted:

So Chris Harris ordered one for himself? God drat I need to get into automotive journalism.

None of the motor journalists I know (cool ones) have any money, and most barely have cars, if they even do. I think Jay Lamm's car is still a early 2000s Volvo station wagon, Murilee Martin rolls around in a formerly automatic EG or EK Honda hatchback, and one doesn't own a car.


edit: one has an S2000 now that I think about it.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Carteret posted:

That is the exact reason. Negative Camber up front helps maximize the contact patch of the front tires.

Except that is the job of caster, not as much static camber. Everything is messed with for geometry, they're made for massive understeer to keep stable at huge angles.


edit: That is also not at all how you start such an expensive engine, that idiocy is reserved for 40 year old lawnmowers.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

VikingSkull posted:

Teams use ether to start NASCAR engines all the time, especially if one stalls during pit stops. It's not ideal, but it's common.

The fuel injected ones? Its definitely a holdover from the carbureted era then, EFI engines are not that hard to start in even the most insane setups of cam/CR.

DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...

Sudo Echo posted:

The only real abuse in that was the FRAM filter.

Its the same company Fram as the cheap Fram, but not at all the same filters.

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DJ Commie
Feb 29, 2004

Stupid drivers always breaking car, Gronk fix car...
I wondered why the Leaf builder looks really familiar.

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