Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[FakeFBI]

5 minutes ago, DriftMan said:

lol did you read the price anywhere or did they tell you that price? sounds like they tried to scam you because dammit no one could drive with that price

gas was being eatin that november so prices skyrocketed

[aDoomGuy]

11 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Watch you see a charge in your card a few days from now. I wouldn’t get too excited lol. But cool if they honor it 

Nah they reserve a fee when I enter my pin and that's been refunded. 

Well, I'll see. That pump doesn't refund the reserved amount without also deducting the fee owed for the fuel. Besides, concealing the price of goods simply isn't legal here so there's also that.  

[YellowJersey]

11 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I could prob use your old Camry rn why’d you trade it in?  

It needed more work than the car was worth. Pretty much the whole suspension system is shot. So it made time to trade it in, even though I was hoping to get a few more years out of it. Plus, I got a good price on the Civic and it's better on fuel than the Camry.

[Sarra]

Driving from California to South Dakota, then back, costs almost twice as much as buying first class round trip tickets. Would be cheaper to fly and rent a car for two weeks, than to drive.

[FakeFBI]

Just now, Sarra said:

Driving from California to South Dakota, then back, costs almost twice as much as buying first class round trip tickets. Would be cheaper to fly and rent a car for two weeks, than to drive.

depends, if some yaris hitting 50 mpg then no, if a dodge charger than yes

[Sarra]

Just now, FakeFBI said:

depends, if some yaris hitting 50 mpg then no, if a dodge charger than yes

I don't think a yaris is going to do 50 mpg at 80MPH for 40 hours of driving.

[FakeFBI]

4 minutes ago, Sarra said:

I don't think a yaris is going to do 50 mpg at 80MPH for 40 hours of driving.

if kept in low revs almost whole time then yes

[AlwaysFSX]

10 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

Imagine paying less than 6$ for a gallon of fuel

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Suckers

[RevoltTrain]

10 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

Imagine paying less than 6$ for a gallon of fuel

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Filled up at $2.10 a gallon today 

[arnavvr]

6 hours ago, Sarra said:

Driving from California to South Dakota, then back, costs almost twice as much as buying first class round trip tickets. Would be cheaper to fly and rent a car for two weeks, than to drive.

For a single person, yes. Once four or five members of a family are in a car, it can make sense to drive.

 

I also hate flying, but that's just a personal preference.

[bcredeur97]

20 hours ago, arnavvr said:

Oh come on you can still drive that Civic for a while 

I can’t it’s broken lol. Haven’t had time to tear it down and find out why so it’s chilling in the driveway rn lol

[arnavvr]

Just now, bcredeur97 said:

I can’t it’s broken lol. Haven’t had time to tear it down and find out why so it’s chilling in the driveway rn lol

I can't believe you killed a Civic. I've seen some pretty beat ones, and they have all started and can still drive.

[bcredeur97]

2 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

I can't believe you killed a Civic. I've seen some pretty beat ones, and they have all started and can still drive.

Pretty sure I threw/broke the timing belt question is whether or not slapping a new belt on will cure it or if it’s a bent valve situation. 

 

do wish I hadn’t cranked it for as long as I did lol

 

i let that oil leak all over that belt way too long lol. I might as well have done another timing belt when I fixed the leak 

 

I might just /not/ fix it and get something else depending on if I can sucker the neighbor who wanted to buy it and swap the engine 

[FakeFBI]

29 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I can’t it’s broken lol. Haven’t had time to tear it down and find out why so it’s chilling in the driveway rn lol

if it keep ripiing the belt, have you check the alternator, my civic kept ripping my belts becasue alternator didnt move

[arnavvr]

58 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Pretty sure I threw/broke the timing belt question is whether or not slapping a new belt on will cure it or if it’s a bent valve situation. 

 

do wish I hadn’t cranked it for as long as I did lol

 

i let that oil leak all over that belt way too long lol. I might as well have done another timing belt when I fixed the leak 

 

I might just /not/ fix it and get something else depending on if I can sucker the neighbor who wanted to buy it and swap the engine 

I'm pretty sure timing belts aren't that expensive; it would probably be worth it to just test it out and see if the thing works.

[bcredeur97]

12 minutes ago, arnavvr said:

I'm pretty sure timing belts aren't that expensive; it would probably be worth it to just test it out and see if the thing works.

yeah they aren't. Just the labor. I hate working in my driveway lol

[bcredeur97]

1 hour ago, FakeFBI said:

if it keep ripiing the belt, have you check the alternator, my civic kept ripping my belts becasue alternator didnt move

Timing belt not accessory belt.

[FakeFBI]

7 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Timing belt not accessory belt.

stupid me

[Sarra]

1 hour ago, bcredeur97 said:

yeah they aren't. Just the labor. I hate working in my driveway lol

Wait, a Civic timing belt is expensive in labor?

 

Ever tried doing a Subaru EJ DOHC timing belt? o.x

[FakeFBI]

3 minutes ago, Sarra said:

Wait, a Civic timing belt is expensive in labor?

 

Ever tried doing a Subaru EJ DOHC timing belt? o.x

not hard, but if it was the laternator problem, on mine i had to take one of the suspension peices off just to properly reach the alternator, pain took me 6 hours

[bcredeur97]

34 minutes ago, Sarra said:

Wait, a Civic timing belt is expensive in labor?

 

Ever tried doing a Subaru EJ DOHC timing belt? o.x

No lol, I mean for me to do it, just takes some time. Prob half of a day 

 

not really worth paying anyone to fix this thing lol

[Sarra]

2 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

No lol, I mean for me to do it, just takes some time. Prob half of a day 

 

not really worth paying anyone to fix this thing lol

Oh, gotcha. I bought my vehicle as a 'fun project', which ended up turning into an 'aggravating nightmare'.

 

Though, with how simple the timing belt is on a Civic, it shouldn't take more than a few hours? I don't think you even need specialized tools.

[Jtalk4456]

this might be a weird question, but not sure where else to ask it. 
There's the long running knowledge that current gasoline engines are most efficient around 55 mph. But when we're talking electric engines, is there some peak efficiency speed like that or does it not because it's electric?

[Lomac]

12 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

this might be a weird question, but not sure where else to ask it. 
There's the long running knowledge that current gasoline engines are most efficient around 55 mph. But when we're talking electric engines, is there some peak efficiency speed like that or does it not because it's electric?

I don't have any specific links to back this up but I do recall a couple reports indicating EV's peak efficiency is somewhere between 25 and 40mph.  Unlike ICE powered cars that can compensate for increased drag at higher speeds through better gearing, an EV isn't able to. 

[Jtalk4456]

1 minute ago, Lomac said:

I don't have any specific links to back this up but I do recall a couple reports indicating EV's peak efficiency is somewhere between 25 and 40mph.  Unlike ICE powered cars that can compensate for increased drag at higher speeds through better gearing, an EV isn't able to. 

wow that's pretty low. I mean still overall elec is good for sure, but that's not what i expected. So how would that work with the eventual move to electric mass transit, electric trains buses and all that? Actually trains not as much with moving to maglev and hypertubes over time, but still