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Old Surly posted:I've been seeing a lot of painted Card's plates to remove the bird. Not sure if thats legal? Probably not -- most places any changes to the plate, even if they don't affect the visibility of the numbering, are illegal. In Ontario, where we have white plates with blue lettering, it's even illegal to repaint the numbers blue when they start to wear off.
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 The chroma noise was bugging the hell out of me so I cut it down somewhat. Can't get rid of all the JPEG artifacts, but I did some minor selective sharpening and toned out a bit of that sickening green.
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SwashedBuckles posted:It looks so tiny next to the Camry. I always thought it was massive from the usual shots you see of the Veyron by itself. Yeah, it's weird how gigantic the Veyron always looks in photographs. Something about those big blobby forms, I guess, making it look bloated. In reality it's about the size of an Audi TT, and looks a lot cleaner and sleeker in person. A 2013 Camry weighs 3200 pounds. e: holy poo poo, the Veyron weighs over four thousand pounds? What the hell, I thought it would be like 2800 or so. What happened to all the carbon fiber? How heavy is that engine? Poing posted:Tits. I've seen them on a few Samurais, but that is the first Subaru I've seen. The AWD system must be extremely confused. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Dec 4, 2012 |
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MikeyTsi posted:Are you going to be a pedantic jackass about every drat post in this thread? It said one of. ONE OF. Here's another one of:  Love the windshield decal. Linedance posted:If I were spending that much for one, I'd expect the company to fly a mechanic to wherever it broke down and repair it on site, whilst arranging my 5 star hotel for the night and alternative travel arrangements for the inconvenience. My understanding is that this is (or at least was, at one point) the standard service package when you buy any common trash new Rolls-Royce, so VAG would have to be retarded to not provide the same or better service for their halo car. drgitlin posted:$50k for new wheels (have to be replaced every 10k miles) I could see that being the case if you took it up to its full speed, but do you actually have to do that if you just putter around at 30 miles an hour between your recording studio and the Oscars, like most Veyrons?
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I can't think of a single similarity between the Boxster and the Aveo beyond "they are both cars". Even the wheelbases, the most basic thing you'd think they would have to match, are 4" apart.
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Dec 10, 2012 07:10
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KozmoNaut posted:Goddamn, only $800 for an unsafe lane change and going 127% over the speed limit? 125 in a 55...so that's basically 200 in a 90. 110km/h over the limit. In Ontario, 50 or more over is an instant 30-day license suspension, roadside vehicle impoundment, mandatory court appearance and $10,000 fine. Then add whatever criminal penalties the judge chooses to add, and the cost of getting your license back and paying through the nose for insurance if indeed you are insurable at all. 
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Dec 11, 2012 22:20
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ultimateforce posted:Most cars have 1:1 4th gears. Yep, which is why on most 5-speeds, the top gear is specifically referred to as the overdrive  travisray2004 posted:The first time my friends and I went to Toronto we read one of those signs on the highway (think it was the 401?). Have yet to speed in Canada. Your first time being caught over 0.08, it is - 90 day instant suspension - $1000 fine - mandatory alcohol education program - mandatory alcohol rehab program - 1 year of suspended license if you are convicted - after that suspension is up, 1 year of a breathalyzer interlock and it gets worse for subsequent offenses. On your third strike you'll spend a year in jail, be fined as much as the judge pleases, and never drive again. We also have a "warn" range of 0.05-0.079. If you blow that you don't actually get any criminal charges, but you do get your license suspended for 3 days and your car impounded (also gets longer with subsequent offenses) and a $150 fine. I'm totally fine with the harsh impaired driving laws, though. The speeding fines are what drive me nuts -- the 401 is literally the busiest highway in the entire world, and it has a limit of 100km/h on its entire length. Little dinky motorways in Europe have limits of 130, but the 6 to 14 lane 401, passing mostly through bleak rock-cuts and pine forests in the Canadian Shield, is stuck at 62 miles an hour. Every single person on the road speeds 10 to 30 over, so the OPP can pull over anyone they please at any time. It's super lame.
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That's awesome. The bubble hatch thing on the back like a space station window (where I'm guessing the camera remote controls are, too), the cables running along the sides like the De Lorean time machine, and the flat blacked out everything (I assume to avoid altering the lighting of the scene at all). I assume there are also internal reinforcements to support the crane/counterweight/etc. Now, why did they start with a Panamera? e: and the STUDENT DRIVER up in front
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Dec 13, 2012 09:44
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Linedance posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7TYhW2kBs This isn't getting enough love. I adore the sound of electric motors, and that just sounds wonderful 
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Dec 14, 2012 06:57
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CommieGIR posted:Oh I'm quite aware it won't just burst into flames, but it causes issues and seems like overkill outside of racing special build. An experimental 12-cylinder engine doesn't sound like a special racing build to you? Somehow I don't think it was meant for a GLC.
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Dec 30, 2012 02:44
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rear end in a top hat Bicycle posted:I'm being out AI'd by some new person at work. Yesterday they drove an old ratty VW Rabbit diesel with a bale of hay in the back, today this: A Grumman mail truck, stripped down to bare aluminum like the canoes, is my dad's dream vehicle. That's awesome.
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kastein posted:e: for that matter I want to know how the gently caress the guys with the red caravan I posted made that poor little automatic transaxle survive 35psi in an SRT4. Those things poo poo themselves all the time bolted to stock V6s. I wondered that too. When he's spooling it up by holding the brake and the gas, isn't the torque converter having to dissipate, like, an utterly enormous amount of power? Does that one run just completely cook the transmission fluid into a solid mass? VikingSkull posted:Once they fire off, the big drag engines basically start dieseling. It'll draw air from anywhere as long as there's still spark and fuel. With a magneto and IIRC mechanical fuel pumps, that'll keep happening as long as the engine turns over. If there's still a spark, it's not dieseling. That "23 amazing facts you didn't know about dragsters!" chain email that gets sent around every so often suggests that they do diesel once the electrical power is cut off, though, and it's primarily from the red-hot exhaust valves. http://www.thehulltruth.com/dockside-chat/38687-interesting-facts-about-top-fuel-dragster.html Wasn't there a thread somewhere talking about big industrial diesels at oil fields, where there can be enough oil vapor in the air that the engine just keeps on running even with the fuel supply cut off, and the only way to shut them down is to block the intake with whatever you have at hand? The post I'm thinking of ended with something like "that day, we discovered that a [engine type] will run just fine sucking in balls of newspaper, sheets of cardboard, and an entire set of mechanic's coveralls."
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Goddamn. Though it was kind of funny scrolling through all that awesome vintage class and then quote:*sad trombone*
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quote:the magazine for the modern man HIM CARS AND GIRLS The French certainly do know how to do these things. also quote:
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Well then, time to get readin' http://www.amazon.com/Fabricate-Automotive-Fiberglass-Carbon-Fiber/dp/1934709980/
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Viggen posted:He and Nikola had a fight over AC vs DC so in order to win favor, Tom decided to electricute an elephant using Nicks' choice of transit. He also tried to promote the term "westinghoused" as a synonym for "electrocuted", Westinghouse being Tesla's employer and Edison's main competitor.
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Tusen Takk posted:Yeah I did, and they're actually a crapload cheaper. She, on the other hand, wants a naturally made diamond since it's soooo romantic to have something that's been waiting since the beginning of time to be on her finger Hey, at least she's not like my friend's cousin, who told us all at dinner once, in no uncertain terms, that if her would-be-fiancé didn't get her a diamond worth at least three months' salary she would leave him on the spot. That would be around twenty thousand dollars for the poor guy (not in attendance that night) she was dating at the time. Because anything less than that would show that he didn't respect her, you see. (Unless $4k IS three months' salary for you, in which case, I truly admire your commitment to this girl)
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Jan 14, 2013 21:40
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Das Volk posted:Big, modern wheels just never seem to look right on classic cars. I agree. Particularly the skinny ribbon tires they use -- vintage cars (and to some extent even modern race cars) always look better to me when they're showing a reasonable amount of sidewall. For most average-sized sports cars I think that falls in the 16-17" wheel range.
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veedubfreak posted:And I raise you Dax Shepards Continental. This is how it should be done. This, I like. Those tires have just about the right amount of sidewall. Maybe a tiny bit more on the front would be perfect.
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I sat in an H2 once, and I'm pretty sure it had less interior room than the 1997 Escort wagon I was driving at the time. Certainly smaller windows and less overall visibility. What an awful machine.
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Slavvy posted:I've always wondered how capable the H1 is when it comes to recreational off-roading. Is it as superior as it's looks and specs suggest, compared to say a lifted land cruiser with all the suspension goodies and big tyres? I'd imagine it's pretty damned good. Not for the competitive rock-crawling kind of offroading, necessarily, but for smashing through rough fields and climbing ledges and fording rivers, like you'd actually want in the military. Really good ground clearance, self-inflating tires, a shitload of torque, and with the snorkel I think it can ford like five and a half feet of water.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Here's a different type of metro with a cage Well that is just going to be shitloads of fun.
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Cannot Find Server posted:Have you ever talked to a big Corvette (or Camaro, or Mustang) fan? This poo poo would be sacrilege to them, regardless of what a built-up I4 is capable of. I showed it to my dad and he thought it was an awesome idea. He wants a Corvette "but without all the noise and gas-guzzling bullshit. Also, how many canoes do you think that roof could support?"
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echoplex posted:Rowan Atkinson's F1 has been repaired: For now. Is this the third or the fourth time he's totaled it?
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Slavvy posted:I was thinking along the lines of: does it have head bolts/studs, cam retainer bolts/studs in the traditional sense? Surely it must just have large, multicomponent structures which distribute the forces along the same lines as actual large bolts do in smaller engines. I can't find a picture for some reason, but no, they do have actual head bolts. They're several feet long, with a shaft eight inches or so in diameter and a head the size of a basketball.
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Linedance posted:I wonder what kind of weird moire-like vibrations an unbalanced triple would produce? The most common layout puts each piston 120 degrees apart so that the vertical vibration is damped, but that results in end-to-end lateral rocking. You can put in a balance shaft to damp out that rocking (Daytona 675) and they run pretty smooth. The other option is to put the two outer pistons in unison and the center one in opposition, like some old Laverdas; then your vibration is basically the same as a single-cylinder of 1/3 the displacement. (but not centered around the crankshaft so it's not quite as simple as it sounds) I really liked the strategy they used in the original Honda Insight, which had a 997cc triple -- the electric motor varied its torque in time with the engine to smooth the output. Slavvy posted:However this completely unbalances the engine so it's the only sport bike I know of with a balance shaft. Sounds mind-boggling too but finding a video using my phone is too much effort. BlackMK4 posted:Triumph 675 Slavvy posted:I Didn't know that! The rsv mille has two if I remember correctly, too. A number of older motorcycles with fewer than four cylinders have them. Old british parallel twins (Triumphs, Nortons, etc) use a 360 degree crankshaft with both pistons rising and falling in union and firing on alternate strokes; you get the advantage of a wasted spark ignition but they really shake you up. British manufacturers switched to rubber-mounted engines to fix it. Honda parallel twins used a 180-degree crankshaft instead, which gives a smoother lateral rocking vibration like the 120-degree triple (and the 180-540 power strokes give a bit of a lumpy burble, like a cute baby Harley) but the power delivery is theoretically less even. Kawasakis used a 360 degree shaft and a balancer. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Feb 10, 2013 |
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That's amazing. "Hum te tum. Just racing in an endurance race. Better fiddle with my wrist snaps. Who needs two hands on the wheel anyway? Oh, here's a turn *executes perfect series of downshifts and drives the ideal line with as much drama as someone driving to the grocery store* drat, that wrist strap just keeps coming loose. Better fiddle with it some more."
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Make it a knife/fork/spoon set with 10, 12 and 14mm on the other end and I'm sold.
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Am I reading the article wrong, or do they start talking about the high school shop teacher who owns it, then immediately switch to some other guy who actually built it? Kind of lame that an auto shop teacher is driving a car he didn't build.
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Tactical Bonnet posted:content: here's another insane Ferrari concept from a few years ago: By "insane" you mean "unrideable first-year-college CG  fest", right?Here's another unrideable CG wank-off bike that at least looks good 
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I wonder how Soviet-era things are seen in modern Russia? Like, is putting CCCP on your truck like painting a confederate flag on your car in the USA?
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Slavvy posted:Putting CCCP on your car is trumpeting that you're either an ignorant toolbag or an old codger pining for the good old days. Select which based on age. So, exactly like a confederate flag, but without the racism.
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I don't think those are the kind of trucks that go from one job site to another. They get them to the mine somehow, and they just stay there until the mine closes or they're scrapped. Fun fact: I hear one tire costs about $70,000.
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Galler posted:Here's a timelapse of the 930e getting assembled. At 0:29 you can see the frame. Good Lord, look at the size of those axles  At first I saw them and thought "drat, is this thing powered by two gas turbines? That's awesome." Then I realized the engine was already in the frame, and thought "wow, those must just be a pair of gigantic gearboxes or differentials." Then they put one of them on each side of the frame
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The guy lets off too soon to tell, but I bet this one would have turned out a similar way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSG8hyrjoU
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Delivery McGee posted:Also, a perennial favorite from the "horrible mechanical failures" thread: From the zzzzzzzzZZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE sound just before the collapse, I'm assuming the fireball off to the right side was some kind of braking mechanism or cable winch?
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Just strap me to the front of a rocket sled. I'm sure it's faster and safer too.
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hackbunny posted:
I think the only reason they do this any more is to string the gearheads along. They probably know the exact number of those cars that they'd be able to sell, and it's not enough to consider it a win. But they also want to keep selling Maximas or whatever to the enthusiasts with families, so they tease these prototypes long enough to get our attention. They never had any intention of putting the cars into production.
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Why on earth wouldn't he cover up his license plate? I'm not supporting the guy at all, I just don't understand why he would do all this poo poo with a direct line to his name and address stuck on the back. What a moron? I mean, if the police couldn't find the 800 horsepower flat grey dune buggy that says WILKEY on the side. e: ahahahahahahhaahahahhahahhahahahahhahahaha the guy's name is Blake Wilkey. He literally has his loving name on the side.
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