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Pfft, if you haven't had to use a wet gutter as an inspection pit then you've lived a sheltered life. 
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mafoose posted:I've never seen bearings as part of a drum! I know both wear out but wtf? VW wedge the bearing races in there on any drum equipped car I've seen and I'm struggling to imagine where else you'd put them. OF course those were tapered rollers, is that ball bearing supposed to be in there?
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I guess in a car that light your axial/bending forces are going to be low anyway but putting that sort of bearing there is still a weird choice, motorcycle history or no.
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Feb 28, 2014 18:25
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veedubfreak posted:The concept of going 90 in that tiny box scares me. One of these:  Will do an indicated 105mph (which is funny when the thing is gear limited to ~96mph) downhill with a tailwind along the M45. It's exactly as pants-shittingly terrifying as you'd expect, somehow that air dam on the front didn't do jack squat to stop the car going light at those speeds. Colour me suprised.
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13 INCH DICK posted:Tonight was lesson one in teaching the GF to drive stick. Things certainly get exciting in a hurry. I've never heard my Civic make those noises.... The first driving lesson I gave my bf, he ended up shifting into 2nd without taking his foot off the throttle, pinging off the rev limiter and chirping the tyres as he let back off the clutch because that's how you do it in racing games.  I'm glad I taught the emergency stop first.
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I think Biturbo's belong on a scale all of their own. It's just a circle with two diametrically opposed points, carburetted and EFI.
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Aug 21, 2014 20:45
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I want to think you're joking but suspect you're probably not. 
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Aug 24, 2014 18:04
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Nearly new when parked.
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Blacknose posted:Wait, you owned Hayes brakes that worked? That's a loving Christmas miracle. Seriously, I've sworn off Hayes after the goddamn plastic lovely plug popped out of the front master cylinder of mine on a long descent. Still the only time I've deliberately ghost ridden my bike because I couldn't get the thing slowed down with just the rear and was headed towards some enormous trees. I'm just glad my bike and I made it unscathed, I ripped that poo poo off the minute I got home.Look at this bullshit:  
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Dec 5, 2014 14:41
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Maybe it was a marketing thing. "Dual piston fixed calipers! Performance!"
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Dec 5, 2014 20:36
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All that metal to move those two tiny little pads. 
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Dec 7, 2014 01:02
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I drove our ~5 year old company Jetta the other day and couldn't believe how bad the visibility was even vs. a car from 2001. On the plus side I could put the seat far back enough for my legs, but I was then sat in-line with the b-pillar and could see poo poo all out of the side. The jumbo pillars and high belt line make it feel like I was driving a pillbox around.
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Dec 7, 2014 20:26
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Smart car is...wider. No way. *E* Civic: 1,505 mm Fortwo: 1,510mm 
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Dec 7, 2014 20:28
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The worst part is I'd happily watch an hour of 'Ed China fixes shitboxes' without the whole pretending to make a profit off of the whole thing business tacked on.
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Dec 12, 2014 21:51
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My car has a throttle cable to run a DBW sensor, what now? No, I'm serious, what the gently caress now Peugeot? What is that poo poo? 
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dissss posted:I believe it was Peugeot that shoehorned a 6 speed transmission into a chassis that wasn't designed for it by fitting a steering rack that had different amounts of lock left and right The same chassis I think, I believe my dad's 306 GTi-6 had this exact 'feature'. Mine's a diesel, so it's not like there's even a throttle body to gently caress about with.
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Dec 31, 2014 00:16
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Well, your dick isn't the only thing you can use. 
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I am disappointed they're not parked in size order.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:So what usually breaks first on a Biturbo? The mechanic's will to live? Breaking first implies any of it worked when it was new.
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Rectal Placenta posted:Man, gauges that show the amount of TURBO! are the best. Seriously this, I love the lack of units, it's just "some". Maybe it's an absolute pressure gauge and is actually reading correctly. 
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Feb 12, 2015 18:29
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Perhaps the numbers are some sort of countdown, like the doomsday clock but for Biturbo ownership rather than just global thermonuclear war.
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Feb 19, 2015 10:41
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Bank 2 too rich and too lean at the same time seems an impressive feat.
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14 INCH DEVITO posted:Guess who just found a civic 1200 carburetor in balls deep Snohomish Were there no Goldwings in the local junk yards?
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This made me think of you, my car's in the garage having the exhaust welded up and is now blocked into the bay. The mechanics are playing car park Tetris to get it back out. (Another mechanic put the cars there in the first place.)
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