BIG HORNY COW posted:

"Bro, we should get our kayaks."

no, you should call the coast guard or for gently caress sake at least the harbormaster

Splizwarf posted:

That's pretty frightening. So, I guess this isn't exactly a car question but what's up with the camera in that? It looks like someone is recording a projection of another video on a waving screen.

Stormangel posted:

Apparently diesels will run on burnt phone books too!

Doctor Zero posted:

Is the H2 really just a Suburban with a different body or is that a myth?

Ericadia posted:

Sponge! posted:

If I had nearly 200 angry HP between my thighs I certainly would.

oxbrain posted:

What's even scarier, a lot of us secretly desire to build experimental aircraft.

Armacham posted:

that'll teach you to put mayonnaise in your crankcase

Ola posted:

I wonder if British sports coverage was like that in the 1970s. This Sunday, before the race: A one hour special on valvetrains.

bolind posted:

The yard workers also went on strike if the weather was good or it was a funny date or just because. Think General Motors, just with ships. The whole shipyard is, unsurprisingly, closed today.

meltie posted:

Some people are suggesting it was a protection mechanism that got triggered. I can't imagine a scenario where turning turtle is the best protection however.

grover posted:

Exploding dremel cutoff discs are painful. I've learned to always hold it so that I'm never in the plane of rotation.

evobatman posted:

No, definitively an E91.

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

The Scientist posted:

I was thinking about making a thread for "unique" solutions to mechanical problems - like how I once used a ratcheting cargo strap to compress a leaf spring on the front of a ford ranger so that I could get the spare tire on (in a pinch). I was doing it for a bunch of morons on the side of the road that I pulled over to help; the strap was rated for 10,000 lbs and I said "it shouldn't break, but if it does you can say that you curled 10,000 lbs. But if you here that loving truck so much as groan or creak, you get the gently caress out of there."

I wish I could think of more examples that I've used in the past, but they escape me at the moment. What do you guys think, what a thread like that go over well?

chutwig posted:

• The British will park anywhere, anytime, on any road, of any speed limit, of any width, on a blind curve.
  

trouser chili posted:

motorcycles with shared-sump gearboxes and International trucks with the SV-family engines (gear timing) recommend straight-weight oils.

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

And my understanding on why they use straight weight oils is that they lack rubber seals on their valve guides, so multiweight (lighter when cold) oil would leak past the guides.

The Scientist posted:

Don't certain patrol cars have superchargers for stuff like this (I imagine those chargers I see are pretty badass)? Still I wish a motorcycle crash on no-one. A friend told me about his cousin who (pretty gnarly, especially if you've been in a bike wreck before):After having a bike laid down, got road rash on his leg so bad that they had to take a wire brush to remove all the asphalt from the wound - they told him it was gonna hurt so bad that it would counter-act the morphine

Bondematt posted:

They run very happily on engine oil pouring through the turbo.

DJ Commie posted:

edit: If anything I'd put another motorcycle engine in, definitely fuel injected and probably Honda. The G10 turbo Chevrolet Sprint motor is too heavy and hard to find, also still likely too large.

BlackMK4 posted:

Because you don't need to, the blackbird was carbed.

ijustam posted:

I was going to add an attempt to be witty but apparently this is a thing: http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=385

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DE96qt5CI

kastein posted:

One of my favorite blogs... PS, ClF3 (yup, holy poo poo, you can start running now) is even worse than FOOF. It's a stronger oxidizer than oxygen and will spontaneously combust on contact with such reactive things as wet sand, asbestos fireproofing, cement, rock, glassware, lab assistants, etc. Same guy has a pretty good article on it, I think it's titled "wet sand won't save you now".

Captain Postal posted:

Yeah, but it exists in equilibrium with S2F10, which is really NOT harmless. Those guys doing the anti-helium voice thing with SF6 on youtube? They're idiots.

Ossetepo posted:

As far as SF6 being harmless, I wish someone had told the EPA and the NRC before they made us both replace all of our gas-insulated switchgear and promise to never, ever use SF6 as a tracer gas for air inleakage ever again.

14 INCH DICK TURBO posted:

Front shop came running out thinking something exploded.

Rujo King posted:

The website for the Get Nitrogen Institute mentions all sorts of reasons for pumping your tire up with N₂ but the main one they're on about is leakage, though they also bring up oxidation and rust.

They have a calculator on the front page that's supposed to tell you how much you'd save per year on gas and tires by using nitrogen, but I don't think they include the actual cost of tire filling itself in that, which at $6.00 a wheel isn't exactly negligible.

Mr.Peabody posted:

The only way to pump in the moisture is to use a direct pump like the 12v cigarette lighter plugin deals. Any system that uses a tank is going to have a moisture trap and dry air performs almost identically to nitrogen, since it's already 78% nitrogen. I would say nitrogen is a scam unless you're in an aircraft.

Skyssx posted:

Yeah, this and that. If you check and adjust your tire pressures regularly, you're not going to see a benefit from nitrogen. Unless you check your tire pressures annually, or you're driving an actual race car, you can get as good a performance as by just checking and adjusting your tires 4 times a year.

Cakefool posted:

You have a slow leak, probably at the bead. My v70 needs 2 psi every week or so on one wheel, I submerged it in a kiddiepool & found the leak, but it needs a new or refurbished wheel and

Mr.Peabody posted:

You'll never notice, but the water vapor will expand and contract more than dry air with the temperature change in a tire. So you'll have a larger variation between a cold tire reading and warm tire reading than you would if you used dry air.

Philip J Fry posted:

So, uhm, don't drive around with leaky acetylene tanks in your FJ. Or something.

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/general-discussion/139018-i-blew-up-my-fj-literally.html

EightBit posted:

I'm pretty sure that at 28 years old and in ok shape, I'd have a loving heart attack or two running from that stuff.

otaku69 posted:

The first generation mustangs still kill more people per year in rear end collision than that little pinto incident.
http://forums.mustangworks.com/f10/safety-issue-64-70-mustangs-21016/

bolind posted:

It turns out that auto transport train cars are slightly higher than normal train cars.