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Sadi posted:Yeah just kind of strikes me like a fox with a lovely 90s body kit.
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Sadi posted:Yeah just kind of strikes me like a fox with a lovely 90s body kit. All I see is "Holden".
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This is probably the first commercial I've watched intently in a long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6HUFm6FKD4
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Maybe I'm an idiot but I fail to see the connection between some fancy engine oil and towing power. It's a fun contest, though the editing is pretty sketchy and leaves me thinking the actual results aren't what they showed in the video. Once the truck's tires started sliding it should have been game over, right?
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InitialDave posted:And 600bhp. And a twin-supercharged V8 
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InitialDave posted:And 600bhp. Was it this one that also had nearly a newton-kilometer of torque?
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xzzy posted:Maybe I'm an idiot but I fail to see the connection between some fancy engine oil and towing power. I loved it since it's such a contrast to the usual bro-dozer parking lot truck pulls. Hardhats! Safety disconnects! Instrumentation! Nobody in that video was even related! redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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xzzy posted:Maybe I'm an idiot but I fail to see the connection between some fancy engine oil and towing power. Running at higher load breaks oil down quicker. When your oil change involves 35-40 liters, you really don't want to have to change oil every 10,000 miles. The editing is obviously to make it interesting, because that was nowhere near a contest. If it was a hard pull for the truck he could have gotten the front end 2 feet off the ground. It probably seemed more interesting on paper, and once they actually did it they realized it boring as poo poo, so added  explosives and tires skidding to make a commercial out of itIf you want awesome commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vou06vXqR2s The name of the video spoils the suprise start because articcat's youtube channel is run by baboons, but it got a good laugh out of me when i saw it on tv. I just noticed the disclaimer, that's awesome too.
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xzzy posted:Maybe I'm an idiot but I fail to see the connection between some fancy engine oil and towing power. I gathered that the point was to show that that truck runs that oil exclusively and after towing a bunch of semis it can still pull a loving tug. Although I dont think that tug was anything special since real beast tugs are like 6000+ Hp with 100 hp winches. Guess the Nautical thread got lost in the archives or something. But heres a pretty good tug boat read. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/4346840 Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 02:22 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Eagle Speedster's glorious intake:
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Raluek posted:Valve covers look like Jag. Jag 6 stroked/bored to 4.7 liters.
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Raluek posted:Valve covers look like a Jaaaaaaag. Fixed that.
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This is in this month's issue of Hot Rod, but the website is pretty great. "Eh, that's a pretty big tractor alright," I hear you say. "Might even be the world's largest." You shuffle your feet and then look up at me, eyes pleading for more detail. "But why are you telling me about it?" Well, it has a 900 horsepower twin turbocharged and twin supercharged 24L 16-cylinder two-stroke Detroit Diesel with custom-made tires. It can do more than one acre a minute, at speeds up to 8 mph. That's because it produces a pants-on-head-retarded 3100 ft-lb of torque. Also it has an eight-track player. http://www.williamsbigbud.com/ http://www.vincelewis.net/bigbud.html
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That's it? only 2 superchargers?  Big mike harrah's thor has 3400hp, over 5000 ft/lbs of torque, all from a little tiny duodecuple-supercharged 1,704 cubic inch V24 two stroke diesel.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It can do more than one acre a minute, at speeds up to 8 mph. That's because it produces a pants-on-head-retarded 3100 ft-lb of torque. Come back when it's measured in mile-pounds. 
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InitialDave posted:The nineties Virage-based V8 Vantage was always my favourite. Such a ridiculous thug of a car. drat, how did I never know about this? CornHolio posted:And a twin-supercharged V8 
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kastein posted:A length of inner tube on the tailpipe gives either a "worlds largest angriest whoopie cushion" or "someone is torturing a duck" effect, depending on the length of inner tube used. There are some really good youtube videos for this, too. Oh, I have got to try this. atomicthumbs posted:found this while browsing Turbobricks and it's too batshit not to share. This is a Volvo B21 with some stuff. That is an awesome Volvo. I love turbobricks. In the related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ol8bzv-894&t=135s and the auction for it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/291321908312?forcerRptr=true&item=291321908312&viewitem= It's in Conroe, TX, and that's not too far away from me... Sadly, I barely have $25, much less $2500 right now.
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So the new new trailer for Mad Max Fury Road is out and man it looks reallllllllly loving cool. They've captured the feel of the originals nicely with regard to the ridiculous vehicles...     http://youtu.be/YWNWi-ZWL3c Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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Is Michael Bay making it? That's a lot of blue and orange. The car looks goddamn amazing though. I can't imagine how much fun it would be to sit in a shop and be asked to decorate cars for a Mad Max movie.
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xzzy posted:Is Michael Bay making it? That's a lot of blue and orange. It's being done by George Miller, the guy who did the original three.
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Haha it looks awesome as gently caress but the audio engineer in me is going "Oh gently caress that would sound straight up terrible in every way". I need to see this film because that Caddy monster truck thing is just outrageous.
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Memento posted:Was it this one that also had nearly a newton-kilometer of torque?
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Is posting Xzibit memes still bannable because e: Holy o'gently caress, they widened the lower shell and made a custom windscreen for it even
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This looks like something I would've made with Lego when I was 8 or 9. I love it.
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A swede posted:Hi, where unsure if I should post a project thread, but gusfd3s here pushed me    
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Oh god yes. That e-shaft looks like a piece of art (and has a proper 1-3-4-2 firing order, instead of 1-3-2-4 like most of em are).
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My first thought when he said it wasn't going to be piston powered was that he was going to stuff a turbine in it, which would have been equally awesome.
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I'm trying to figure this out. It's a solid axle? But the watts link is connected to both the axle tube and the diff cover? What exactly is that going to accomplish?
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Fucknag posted:I'm trying to figure this out. It's a solid axle? But the watts link is connected to both the axle tube and the diff cover? What exactly is that going to accomplish? I thought the same thing, but the middle of the linkage is meant to mount to the frame behind the axle. It just looks like it's attached to the diff cover.
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rscott posted:That wall of sound looks straight out of Dethlok At 1:44 there's a guy playing guitar on it mid chase hahah.
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xzzy posted:Is Michael Bay making it? That's a lot of blue and orange. That's a really common look/color grade in a lot of Hollywood movies these days. Not sure if there's a specific reason for it other than those end up on opposite ends of the color temperature spectrum. Tungsten=3200K which appears orange, daylight=5600K which appears as white normally, but if the camera white balance is toward a 'warmer' color temp(warm as in the feel of the light, not warm as in Kelvin), it reads as blue.
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