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Gern Blandsten posted:I bought a new car: Time to start the madness! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cQ6BL_BXK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKAK1Fzk6f0
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 Hi there buddy. Long time no see. Yeah, I know. I really don't deserve you.  All prettied up.  Time to get you back to the cave.  1972 Plymouth 'Cuda, 340 and 727 original. Got it 9 years ago, hasn't passed inspection in 5 years. Not enough time and money to fix things, so every year I take it out, drive it over to my dads, we clean it up and the I drive it back to where I keep it locked up and hope I'll have time for it next year. 
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Sep 8, 2013 07:11
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Wiring looks like someone paid a hobo in booze to do it, the rear needs a complete overhaul (and different gearing, 4.56 is quite annoying as soon as you're not on a quarter mile strip), the prop shaft needs new u-joints, the 727 is leaking from the rear seal and I have no idea what type of oil is in there (PO gave me a big box of fluids and poo poo when I got it, and it contained among all the other stuff bottles of two different brands of ATF, with the same colour Rust. The car's got the original vinyl roof, and it is rusted all over below it. Hole in the roof above the windshield on the drivers side. Plenty of rust bubbles large and small all over the A and C-pillars and down around the rear window. Rockers are rusted on both sides, and there is a lot of filler in lots of places. I got a new Edelbrock Performer carb and the factory setting as lean as hell, and the guy I spoke with to get it on rollers (understandably) doesn't want a car that leaks various fluids on his rollers. So after this vomited mess of problems, all that really needs to be done to pass a swedish inspection is to get the fueling/timing right to pass a sniffer test, and fix the rockers. The roof rust is getting pretty serious though, so last month I started taking out the interior of the car so a guy I know (who's never got time to follow through on his promises, but nevermind) can start fixing the roof. Headliner and vinyl roof is next to go, but a lack of time and workspace is killing my motivation.  In short, it's time to kick rear end and wear jorts, and I'm all out of jorts.
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Sep 8, 2013 17:23
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MrSaturn posted:Holy poo poo, I love your bike. I wish I knew more about them, and wasn't so drat convinced I'd kill myself if I bought one. You won't, unless you're functionally retarded perhaps. If you don't ride drunk (or high I guess) and actually take a safety course before you start riding, you're at about 8% higher accident risk than in a car. So what I'm saying is, start trawling CL for bikes!
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Oct 29, 2013 05:52
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kastein posted:Slap a new bed on it, flip it for a billion dollars, then use that money to buy 10 more 7.3 donors. Reaching supercriticality after only one purchase is pretty impressive, if this works.
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Nov 1, 2013 10:50
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Waa waa, trade barriers kill us poor multi-billion dollar companies, free unregulated markets are best (when it benefits us, gently caress you consumer)!
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Dec 28, 2013 07:00
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And if you're stupid enough to drive around on snow & ice with summer tyres or all seasons, then you have lost your right to complain about stupid car related poo poo (if you live somewhere that gets snow for any longer period of time).
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Jan 4, 2014 21:19
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raseri posted:And my tracktoy Honda Integra Type R with a EDM K20A2 Noice. Anderstorp?
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Jan 22, 2014 16:23
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Oxphocker posted:Some engines you can even buy a cam lock tool that holds the gears in place while you replace the belt. On Peugeot XU-series engines there are holes in the sprockets for 10mm dowels, where you can just insert a 10mm drill bit or whatever you have handy and thereby lock the engine until you've replaced the belt. No need for any special tools.
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Feb 7, 2014 16:10
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spleen merchant posted:
Nice! My first "expensive" car was one of those, a long time ago, although I had a gold metallic phase one. Noticed the difference in turning radius between left and right yet?
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Oct 27, 2014 10:09
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GramCracker posted:Good man rolling with the top down in winter. I like that. mrk posted:Being cold is a decision! blk posted:There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. doogle posted:You can only take so many items of clothing off. I don't know about the beemer, but I know for a fact that in both an SL500 (R230) and a 996 convertible you can drive around with the top down in -20 celsius with just a t-shirt on without freezing, as long as you keep the temp and fan on highest and blasting straight at you.
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Feb 8, 2015 02:58
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He's not retarded, he's norwegian. Easy mistake. 
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Feb 9, 2015 20:44
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A 426 Superbird went for over 500k at Barrett-Jackson IIRC. Although TBF, the prices at their auctions are often retardedly inflated.
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Feb 21, 2015 05:18
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meatpimp posted:That's awesome. It's like VW is trying to troll the poo poo out of Sprinters. I wish they brought it to the US. Looks like every other euro van ever?
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Feb 28, 2015 23:49
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I see. I thought you meant that it was somehow more similar to the Sprinter than other euro vans.
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Mar 1, 2015 00:13
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Mooseykins posted:Sprinters, Crafters and a handful of others can stay. Ivecos are borderline. We had Sprinter 4x4s in the military when I did my military service, we called them "Sprintelände" (Sprinter + Gelände, but also a pun about how absolute poo poo they are as elände means "miserable thing" in swedish). The Sprinter is built to a price just as much as all other miserable piles in that market segment.
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Mar 5, 2015 07:03
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willroc7 posted:Hell froze over and I sold my GTI on craigslist for asking price, which has allowed me to get the car I've been lusting after for 5 years. Previous owner modded it with almost everything short of a supercharger (intake, exhaust, tune, etc) and it is loud as gently caress. Love it. I like sloppy timing chains and I cannot lie.
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Apr 26, 2015 17:33
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My new daily driver for the summer. Just got home after doing an eleven hour overnight drive home with it after doing a fly & buy, so I'm going to go die in my bed now, kthx.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Totally awesome. Is it stock? Thanks! It is painfully stock, AFAIK it's the original numbers matching 350 4bbl and TH350 it came with, and from what I can tell there's never been any internal work on any of them. Yes, a 43 year old engine/trans combo that's never been opened. I guess that's why the street looks like this after parking it 12 hours.  My size 11 for reference. Front of the car was facing left, and I think the big puddle far left is front main seal, the two smaller ones below that is the PS pump leaking like a sieve while running, the thinner one behind the large one is engine oil from the rocker covers, and farther to the right with the small seed in it (and the one above that) is the rear main seal. The one with gravel in isn't mine, and the top one far right is trans rear seal. Puh. HotCanadianChick posted:How painful is it putting gas in that thing in dear old Scandinavia? Let me put it like this; 18 MPG US at 55 mph steady, 12 MPG at 75 mph. Petrol is about USD 6.45/gallon here... kastein posted:loving bad rear end. Thanks! It ain't no J series Jeep, but those are so goddamn rare here. 
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Jun 18, 2015 21:22
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No full frontal. 
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Feb 27, 2016 18:54
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Cleaning out some old harddrives, I found this. From my second day of ownership IIRC, which would make this 2004. https://vid.me/vDsv
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Jan 24, 2017 08:57
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It *is* like some kind of reverse GOP screed. "Less gas for me, gently caress you!"
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Jun 23, 2017 15:10
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The only thing that is somewhat of a bother when driving a RHD car in a normal country, or a LHD car in an abnormal country, is overtaking IME.
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Apr 7, 2018 18:27
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BX 14, aka 1.4 litres of hot hatch fury. Late 80s early 90s PSA is my guilty pleasure.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:42
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Since crash safety was suddenly brought up, there is a correlation between horsepower and speeding, which in turn has a direct correlation with crash frequency and severity. I can hear everyone going "Duh!" right now but this seems to be the level the conversation is at. Effects of vehicle power on passenger vehicle speeds, McCartt, Anne T.; Hu, Wen, 2016 posted:After controlling for driver characteristics, speed limit, vehicle type, and traffic volume, a 1-unit increase in vehicle power was associated with a 0.7% increase in mean speed, a 2.7% increase in the likelihood of a vehicle exceeding the speed limit by any amount, and an 11.6% increase in the likelihood of a vehicle exceeding the limit by 10 mph. All of these increases were highly significant. To illustrate the findings, a 3-unit increase in vehicle power, which is equivalent to the difference between the 10th and 90th percentile vehicle power for the study vehicles, is associated with a 38% increase in the likelihood that a vehicle exceeds the speed limit by more than 10 mph. World report on road traffic injury prevention, edited by Margie Peden ... (et al.), 2004, p76 posted:
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Old Binsby posted:anyway this is a pic thread I guess i should post pics not chat. Exposure to 80s mpvs is tolerable mostly in small amounts so i’ll post an 80s euro ford i parked behind which i reallyyyyy wish were my ride, a genuine That... that's an Escort?
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Sep 21, 2018 19:59
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Yeah, I was about to say, I don't think those fourteen segment displays made their debut in car stereos until the early-mid 90s.
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Oct 14, 2018 18:48
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1488 has been around for quite some time. It's neo-nazi and white supremacist trash being "sneaky". Eg. "WHAT I DIDNT SAY HEIL HITLER I JUST TYPED 88 OVER AND OVER MAYBE IT IS IN FACT YOU WHO ARE RACIST".
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heated game moment posted:Not sure how to get all the salt off from underneath the car, that poo poo is like concrete. I need a lift and a power washer but have neither! The swedish winter driving experience without having to freeze, cool.
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Jun 1, 2020 16:35
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KakerMix posted:
But where is doggo?
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Aug 19, 2020 09:35
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If you get a supercar in a colour that doesn't stab people in the eyes you've made the wrong choice. That'll do. 
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NitroSpazzz posted:Don't be a tease, we need more info and pictures of that beauty https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3997511
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I saw one for sale last year with a K20A2 swap, looked nicely done. Regretting not bidding on it.
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Jun 30, 2022 16:51
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Last I saw a 916, it was a guy that rolled into a gas station as I was filling up. The car was making so much rod knock noise I didn't believe it at first. I went over and asked if he needed any help and he looked at me and said "I just bought this yesterday, it didn't sound like this then" and looked like he was about to start crying. 3.2 V6 iirc.
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From my limited and quite old experience of helping arrange shows, anything but perfect weather will put a major damper on visitor/entry numbers.
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dissss posted:Right is the correct side anyway. Yeah, I seem to recall people being very critical of the E90 when it released, it was such a porker and this and that, the E36/E46 was superior in every way etc etc
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