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26 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't lump me in with them. I'm an enthusiast of mechanic design, be it engines, weaponry, or productive machinery. Not a guy with a wrench that reads the marketing garbage AFE/insert other "enthusiast" brand that can't legally warranty half of their products.

 

I fail to see a correlation between people screeching variations of "forced induction is more efficient!!! Reclaimed energy!!!" and anything I've said.

If you can't be civil. Please leave

 

Edit. That goes for everyone in the thread

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Just now, techswede said:

Speaking of 190E's. My computer ate shit last night. On a laptop at the moment

What happened?

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1 minute ago, techswede said:

Speaking of 190E's. My computer ate shit last night. On a laptop at the moment

 

Just now, IKnight said:

What happened?

Wait this is off topic. Discord? :P 

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5 minutes ago, techswede said:

Crawling naked on legos would be preferable

7k. Golf money

Not too bad of a price

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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Just now, IKnight said:

What happened?

Something popped/exploded while i was sleeping. Even though it was off. 

Probably PSU or someshit. Don't have the strength to deal with it at the moment.

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Just now, techswede said:

Something popped/exploded while i was sleeping. Even though it was off. 

Probably PSU or someshit. Don't have the strength to deal with it at the moment.

Aw, that sucks. No chance of warrantying it? 

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3 minutes ago, IKnight said:

 

Wait this is off topic. Discord? :P 

Giving installing it on Linux a go. We'll see how it pans out.

3 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Not too bad of a price

Yeah. If i was selling it i would've been happy

1 minute ago, IKnight said:

Aw, that sucks. No chance of warrantying it? 

Its six years old unfortunately. 

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16 minutes ago, techswede said:

A leopard II main battle tank would probably be the only worry free thing to park on my street. 

Go ahead bitches. Key the armor plates. Like i give a fuck

Slightly out of my price range

any mazda?

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35 minutes ago, techswede said:

I wonder if they make paintball claymores. That would be perfect. 

They exist. Better off with a real claymore tbqh.

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Just now, terrytek said:

any mazda?

Most likely not. 

Mazda in my price range = Rustbucket around here. 

They really sucked at rust proofing their cars a while back

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1 minute ago, AlwaysFSX said:

They exist. Better off with a real claymore tbqh.

Can't have mincemeat pay for the damages though.

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Just now, techswede said:

Most likely not. 

Mazda in my price range = Rustbucket around here. 

They really sucked at rust proofing their cars a while back

Basically stay away from anything French, early 2000's VAG and Japanese then

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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Just now, iDeFecZx said:

Basically stay away from anything French, early 2000's VAG and Japanese then

Most thing are better than a mazda though. 323's rarely have their wheel wells intact over here..

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Just now, techswede said:

Most thing are better than a mazda though. 323's rarely have their wheel wells intact over here..

I imagine Mx5s are rare to come across still intact

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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5 minutes ago, techswede said:

Most likely not. 

Mazda in my price range = Rustbucket around here. 

They really sucked at rust proofing their cars a while back

Really? I didn't know that since my protege hasn't rusted at all, since it almost never snows here so rust isn't an issue. Maybe a 3 series?

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3 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

I imagine Mx5s are rare to come across still intact

People actually care about MX5's though.

2 minutes ago, terrytek said:

Really? I didn't know that since my protege hasn't rusted at all, since it almost never snows here so rust isn't an issue. Maybe a 3 series?

You live in california. You don't know about the horrors of road salt.

 

Not into bmw's. Good engines. Not my kind of styling

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1 minute ago, techswede said:

People actually care about MX5's though.

 

Oh dear

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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2 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Oh dear

323's are bought by people that just need a car to get from a-b

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323's are bought by people that just need a car to get from a-b

Fiesta's and corsa's here usually, well used to be

More and more people buying horrid small crossovers now

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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28 minutes ago, techswede said:

People actually care about MX5's though.

You live in california. You don't know about the horrors of road salt.

 

Not into bmw's. Good engines. Not my kind of styling

what about a cheap muscle car?

22 minutes ago, techswede said:

323's are bought by people that just need a car to get from a-b

that saddens me. they're genuinely fun cars to drive, provided it's a manual.

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3 minutes ago, terrytek said:

what about a cheap muscle car?

Like a catfish? :P 

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4 minutes ago, terrytek said:

what about a cheap muscle car?

that saddens me. they're genuinely fun cars to drive, provided it's a manual.

Already there

They are great rally cars

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@chaozbandit

 

Alonzo is trying his hand at endurance. :) 

 

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On 11/19/2017 at 4:24 AM, chaozbandit said:

 

Well his other car probably wont get off the boat until just before Christmas, so I guess this will keep him busy!

he should work on my Miata instead of wasting time on that RSX :D 

I mean its a fast car and all, but having tracked the RSX with its horrible front suspenions... I just don't like them anymore...

18 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

@warmmilk @vetali (others too)

 

so I autocrossed a mazdaspeed 3 today..

here it is, in all its torque steer glory: 

 

It was quite a fun car! He had it set up really well and I found it enjoyable. The course this time was very complex, much more so than usual so that made things interesting lol

 

torque steer? Honestly when you’re autoX’ing it, it’s not bad. But if you’re say doing a pull on the street, you notice for sure, it loves to pull the wheel to the right. But really for autoX it wasn’t too bothersome. The biggest bother for me was the turbo @MEC-777. Just it was far from immediate... I didn’t like it, when the boost would come on it would like to spin the front tires... it made slaloming with smooth power difficult. (Though I’m sure on a track it would be fine)

 

Overall pretty good day... I (Braxton) beat the owner (Chris Wooster, an older Englishman. Super nice and a good driver, just had a bad day it seemed lol)

 

kicking ass and taking names!  sounds like you're getting to be quite the autox'r!

 

my only fwd autox experience was with the RSX, and with its horrible front suspension design, torque steer was horrible even though its not exactly a high torque car...

 

I didn't have any issues with the turbo autox'ing my Evo and sister's STi, but those are awd so not spinning wheels much, but I did have to account for the slight delay of throttle response.  wasn't much of an issue unless speeds got slow enough to drop really low in the rpm's.  I'm thinking the MS3 might have some torque management from the factory with it being FWD which causes a tad more lag then you'd otherwise see, maybe?

 

in other news, a buddy of mine bought a K20 EG hatch from a different buddy of mine... how he has to sell his old EG hatch and the K20 sitting in his garage...  car is about 90% done, needs a few things here and there.. new clutch, decent coilovers (on megans as place holders), better tires, a radiator thats up to track use... it came with GSR brakes that he needs to put on... 3" exhaust and a retune (no knock but afr's are pretty jumpy)

 

I have my fingers crossed he'll let me do a session in it at the track :D 

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1 hour ago, MEC-777 said:

@chaozbandit

 

Alonzo is trying his hand at endurance. :) 

 

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headlines/2017/11/alonso-makes-endurance-car-test-debut-in-bahrain.html

 

Hes surprisingly quick even though they explicitly said he wasn't pushing for fastest laps. Still within a second or two of the Formula 3.5 / LMP2 champions also there to test.

 

Whats interesting is that with Toyota confirming a two car effort for the super season, they also said one of their full-time drivers may or may not be losing that status (to part time potentially for Nando to have a go)

 

Also dont you just love his naked helmet?

 

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