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[techswede]

Just now, vinyldash303 said:

There's enough skid marks in them they won't care. (assuming you get permission for the event)

Especially if you get some of that spray paint the city uses that washes off with rainwater that they use to mark out where different electrical and sewage and water lines are. That stuff is great.

But then it wouldn't be easier to set it up the next time anyway...

 

Back when i worked excavation i used that paint. Washes off the road surface well.. Less so out of clothes

[warmmilk]

28 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

European autocross:

 

 

Still looks hella fun.

looks awesome, but more people don't have cars like that

24 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

hey I had a corolla with a steering wheel from a different trim level *shrug*
we'll see I guess.

 

He has a 2015 GMC Sierra 1500 2wd (5.3 non-E85). Tells me he's been driving it like a maniac all week to get used to how it handles on it's not-so-big limits lol. I told him he better have some fast hands for something as tight as an autoX lol

 

Yeah I agree, the seat time and having to work the course stinks, I kind of like when there is a lot of people though because then there's a chance that you don't have to work, happened to me once and I got to go ride along with Neil the camera guy and teach him a bit of what I knew and with that he was able to improve his times. I wish I could do that all the time, makes me feel useful unlike standing around waiting for cones to fall over and then almost pass out sprinting to get them before the next car comes lol

for me its not even the "work" part of it, its the "not driving" part of it, haha

22 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

IIRC Matt has a 2015 Sierra LT. Should have a 5.3 gen V smallblock. 

 

And here its getting permits and a location. After that its time. Buuut really right now its time and money. And interest. I need to go talk to a guy with that evo and see if he knows any other car people that would do it.

getting permits and a location?  I'm not saying to put on your own, go do an event that someone else is putting on.  entry fee is usually around 35 bucks.  here's a list of events in oregon:

 

http://www.oregonscca.com/content/view/1286/288/

 

edit:

I'm gonna do my best to make the one on the 24th in Packwood, WA. but thats prolly quite a drive for you... although its a 2-3 hour drive for me too

[JoaoPRSousa]

2 minutes ago, warmmilk said:

looks awesome, but more people don't have cars like that

 

That's why your autocross is so much better. You can drive your own car.

[AlwaysFSX]

45 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

They flop back into shape...

 

 

sometimes

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[JoaoPRSousa]

Some motorcycle action for y'all

 

 

[bcredeur97]

when @Cracklingice gets back here he's gonna flip at his missed post count lol... we've gone through a lot of posts today!

[warmmilk]

9 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Its three hours for me to Portland. Otherwise I'd hella be going to those, but to Seattle its a 7 hour drive  

still cheaper and easier then putting on your own... you should at least do one

 

I'm assuming when you say Seattle you mean Packwood?  cause Packwood is about a 3 hour drive from Seattle, haha

[JoaoPRSousa]

 

[RevoltTrain]

So many posts. So little time. 

[warmmilk]

11 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

I hadn't looked up pack wood yet. And it might shave 1 hour off the drive. Because the point where if get off i5 is about the same distance to Seattle as it is to pack wood. 

that can't be right.  I5 goes right through Seattle, basically you stay on it till you reach Seattle.  To go to Packwood you'd get off I5 somewhere near the WA/OR boarder.  but either way Packwood is a hike for you... I'd try to make one of the events at PIR if I were you, even though its still pretty far at 3 hours

[GSTARR]

Does anyone here know whether the ease of over-steering on a W10 MR2 is enough to consider not buying it, from the perspective of someone who's not going to race it just drive normally?

[warmmilk]

2 minutes ago, GSTARR said:

Does anyone here know whether the ease of over-steering on a W10 MR2 is enough to consider not buying it, from the perspective of someone who's not going to race it just drive normally?

driving normally no car will kick its rear out on you.  but this is normal driving my normal people standard of normal driving.  your idea of normal driving may not be all that normal

1 minute ago, vinyldash303 said:

Whoops I was looking at Olympia

5 hour drive without traffic.

same thing with Olympia, you stay on I5 till you reach it.  maybe you were looking at Spokane?

[GSTARR]

Just now, warmmilk said:

driving normally no car will kick its rear out on you.  but this is normal driving my normal people standard of normal driving.  your idea of normal driving may not be all that normal

That's what I figured. I like to accelerate, but that's about it.

Just wanted some reassurance before I put myself out in the market

[GlassBomb]

4 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

I logged off 4 hours ago and then there were almost 10 pages to skim

We're almost up to 70k posts.

[GlassBomb]

Just now, GSTARR said:

That's what I figured. I like to accelerate, but that's about it.

Just wanted some reassurance before I put myself out in the market

It's the same issue that Mustang drivers have when leaving car shows.

 

Won't be a problem if you keep the car straight.

[terrytek]

jesus fucking christ guys, 11 pages in 6 hours. what the fuck.

[terrytek]

ok so my minivan seems to have issues with the key and the ignition. everytime i turn the key off, i can turn it to the ACC position, but it won't turn all the way to LOCK. like its physically impossible to remove it from the ignition switch. and it does happen from time to time. sometimes i worry the key won't free itself any time soon. does this mean the ignition switch is starting to go bad?

[GlassBomb]

Just now, terrytek said:

ok so my minivan seems to have issues with the key and the ignition. everytime i turn the key off, i can turn it to the ACC position, but it won't turn all the way to LOCK. like its physically impossible to remove it from the ignition switch. and it does happen from time to time. sometimes i worry the key won't free itself any time soon. does this mean the ignition switch is starting to go bad?

Something similar happened with a car at work. But that car was key-less (still had to turn a thing where a key normally goes).

 

Does it help to start the car back up, then shutting it back off again?

[terrytek]

2 minutes ago, GlassBomb said:

Something similar happened with a car at work. But that car was key-less (still had to turn a thing where a key normally goes).

 

Does it help to start the car back up, then shutting it back off again?

No. it still remains locked. but fortunately my dad did get it out this time, but i need to know what to do in case this happens again.

[GlassBomb]

Just now, terrytek said:

No. it still remains locked. but fortunately my dad did get it out this time, but i need to know what to do in case this happens again.

It was weird with our car. Sometimes it worked by turning it on and back off again. Other times it helped to jiggle it.

[Midnitewarrior4]

update on the 1986 yamaha fz600 project... got the motor from my dads house and disassembled it down to the bottom end, got most of the top end (head and cylenders) soda blasted, and i got my new piston rings and gasket set in, just gotta blast the rest, find some high temp clear coat to paint the top end and it will be ready to put into the bike, then will come painting the plastics and the frame, thenm to wire it all up and reassemble the bike.   oh and i dont know if i posted this but i also got my wheels back from powder coating

photos in spoiler

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before soda blasting

after soda blasting

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mmmm gotta love that carbon build up     also cannot describe how bad the smell of 15+ year old oil smells after just sitting there in the motor.... absolutely brutal, 

 

[terrytek]

8 minutes ago, GlassBomb said:

It was weird with our car. Sometimes it worked by turning it on and back off again. Other times it helped to jiggle it.

neither of those methods worked when my mom tried to get it out.

[pagani123]

18 minutes ago, Midnitewarrior4 said:

update on the 1986 yamaha fz600 project... got the motor from my dads house and disassembled it down to the bottom end, got most of the top end (head and cylenders) soda blasted, and i got my new piston rings and gasket set in, just gotta blast the rest, find some high temp clear coat to paint the top end and it will be ready to put into the bike, then will come painting the plastics and the frame, thenm to wire it all up and reassemble the bike.   oh and i dont know if i posted this but i also got my wheels back from powder coating

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before soda blasting

after soda blasting

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mmmm gotta love that carbon build up     also cannot describe how bad the smell of 15+ year old oil smells after just sitting there in the motor.... absolutely brutal, 

 

what car is that?

[Midnitewarrior4]

5 minutes ago, Maybach123 said:

what car is that?

the car in the background is a 1985 camaro iroc-z, the project me an my step dad are working on but progress is slow, but if your talking about the what the motor came out of its a sport bike

[Midnitewarrior4]

3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

I think it's a motorcycle 

think he was talking about the car in the background lol