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[Zando_]

54 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Can you atleast post about finding interesting stuff for sale and not generic shite?

Its like us over in europe getting excited over a ford mondeo . . .

Why can't peeps enjoy generic cars? I get excited over exotic stuff or plain old cars, they're all interesting and cool IMO. A lot of old "boring" cars are pretty interesting, often packing a lot more than they seem to (like the crown vic having a solid V8, same one that's in my truck, they sound great and are damned reliable). 

 

50 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Sorry that shitty modded Focuses don't interest me.

Yeah when something is too heavily modded it loses what made that car special IMO (there's a few crazily modded show cars that are extremely well done and don't make the car wack). It's like so many idiots around here (Tennessee) making their trucks or SUVs as wide as the actual road lanes and whacking on a 12" lift with the nose even higher, that massive size coupled with low visibility and a lazy/shit driver behind the wheel makes for a showcase of excess and idiocy that just ruins your day. There's some lifted trucks I see that are well done and still look like a balanced and reasonable truck, but I prefer mine at the stock height, it's aesthetically pleasing and there's no practical need for a higher ride. Most brodozers are lifted for the sake of being lifted and it's just eh. Shitty modded for sure. 

 

13 minutes ago, vetali said:

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Eeeeeeehhh... seems like that's just something that ruins the car for the sake of big dyno numbers. Similar to a 300WHP Fiesta I saw a feature on, problem was that it needed a massive turbo and way higher rev limits to make that, so it went from a super zippy hatchback to something with massive turbo lag you had to smack to an insane RPM to make the power you were supposed to. Hella cool if you like big numbers, but if you want to actually drive the thing, it just sucks the soul out of the car. 

All subjective ofc, basically the TL:DR is: if you like modded or more exotic stuff, awesome! Embrace that, talk about that, enjoy it. But being even a casual car enthusiast isn't all about big numbers and mods and shit, people can enjoy pretty bog-standard cars and the stories behind them coupled with the often times amusing decisions the engineers made for various reasons. 

[vetali]

3 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Cylinder deactivation kit for my 2007 Tahoe from Texas Speed arrived today. 

 

400hp hoe hittin the hood strip wen?

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

Sorry that shitty modded Focuses don't interest me.

*Spits out dumb juice*

 

Its okay, Dan didnt mean you

 

[vetali]

5 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

~370 crank ish. Dyno numbers two weeks 

Might actually not get gap'd by my civic now

[vetali]

23 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Id like to see what they’d do for 1/4 mile times. Driveshaft is only good for 120 i think. Then it hits critical speed

theoretical speed softcap

[iDeFecZx]

2 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

*Spits out dumb juice*

 

Its okay, Dan didnt mean you

 

 

Ive been out and about in my old one the past few days. Man do I miss having "luxuries" like aircon and a decent stereo

I forgot how harsh the ride is however, the civics just bouncy enough where potholes and drains are bearable to drive over unlike the focus

[TVwazhere]

20 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Ive been out and about in my old one the past few days. Man do I miss having "luxuries" like aircon and a decent stereo

I forgot how harsh the ride is however, the civics just bouncy enough where potholes and drains are bearable to drive over unlike the focus

Your Type R doesnt have air conditioning or good speakers? Sounds like a race car to me

 

If you think that's firm, you'll hate the Koni spring's lowering springs I got. Definitely a lot firmer (but for me not unbearable) I tend to avoid pot holes, though occasionally I do hit one and the car hits so hard I fell my soul leaving my body

[Energycore]

3 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Cylinder deactivation kit for my 2007 Tahoe from Texas Speed arrived today. 

 

 

I never thought I'd see a camshaft outside of a production plant.

 

You gonna install these yourself?

[Beef Boss]

Finding local rx7's for sale is difficult lol. That or I'm just looking in the wrong place. I'm dead set on getting an fd sometime after college. 

Any fd owners here? 

[vanished]

I was just reminded of something I've seen/heard of a lot that has never made sense to me and maybe some of you can shed some light on it one way or another:

I've always heard that running AC in the car reduces power or increases fuel consumption.  Of course this is true, it must be by physics, but also by physics, it should be by an insignificant amount.  A powerful AC unit might draw 1800 W, which is only 2.4 HP.  Even if it was really inefficient or a lot more power hungry, what are we talking, like, maybe 5 HP?  On a car with 140+, that shouldn't really be a big deal.

[vanished]

9 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Thats all assuming 100% efficency. The electric window aircon runs at a constant rpm. Your engine doesnt. Automotive ac compressor will use more hp at a higher engine speed on track than it will on highway. That said on a track car they’re more worried about the few hundred pounds of ac equipment than they are the horsepower. 

 

On the freeway its better to use the ac than it is to have windows down. Because areodynamics. In town the opposite is true. 

 

It will be more noticeable on a 140 hp car than it will be on a 325 hp suv. Modern cars will actually decouple the compressor just as if it were turned off above a certain rpm at a certain throttle position. If you look at the tune file for my tahoe you can actually see these settings and fiddle with them

For sure on an actual race car I get why they don't include it, every last HP and lb matters, but I see people talking about this with ordinary sedans and stuff you drive normally in the city.  I guess I'd be curious to know just how inefficient it is then, and what a typical car AC unit would use in terms of power.

[FuzzyYellow]

Got a Topper for the Turdna! it was 5 hours away, but I got it for $100, so it was worth it. got 19 MPG on the way back. That's absolutely nuts for a 1st gen Tundra. they eat fuel like it's going out of style.

[Bitter]

On a ISF it's 10hp

 

 

Now on a 100hp car take 10hp and 10lbft of torque when you're cruising at 50hp holding 60mph.

[Bitter]

Just now, FuzzyYellow said:

Got a Topper for the Turdna! it was 5 hours away, but I got it for $100, so it was worth it. got 19 MPG on the way back. That's absolutely nuts for a 1st gen Tundra. they eat fuel like it's going out of style.

Got some weight reduction too I see! The giant mono-brow surely does not help at highway speeds!?

[FuzzyYellow]

Just now, Bitter said:

Got some weight reduction too I see!

yep. Body is one of the next things on the list, after suspension. I don't know how updated you are on this truck, but Toyota replaced the entire frame, lower control arms, brake lines, etc. back in February.

[vanished]

2 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Sitting in traffic in my s10 it would consume an additional 0.1 gallon per hour. Engine idling in gear would burn 0.44 gph. Ac clicks on and it would bump up to 0.52 ish. Once you were moving you couldnt really tell. In my tahoe i haven’t really looked. You can tell once you’re moving. Like going up a hill in 3rd gear, then hit the button to turn off ac, you can feel the engine pull a little harder.

 

it depends on how much power engine makes and how big of compressor is on it. Tahoe has much larger compressor because the cab is huge vs the s10. Also has front and rear ac so thats two systems on one compressor, has to be even bigger. 

Yeah I seem to remember it being around 0.1 - 0.2 L/h in a TDI Jetta when idling

[Flying Sausages]

[RevoltTrain]

7 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Cylinder deactivation kit for my 2007 Tahoe from Texas Speed arrived today. 

So glad you took my recommendation for the TSP bumpstick, thing is gonna be lowkey cool with the cam, and exhaust work you're doing. Honestly if you have extra funds would recommend an open air intake, they just make everything sound better

1 hour ago, FuzzyYellow said:

Got a Topper for the Turdna! it was 5 hours away, but I got it for $100, so it was worth it. got 19 MPG on the way back. That's absolutely nuts for a 1st gen Tundra. they eat fuel like it's going out of style.

Got that good old fashioned midwest weight reduction

 

Rust is lighter than carbon fiber

[dcgreen2k]

38 minutes ago, RevoltTrain said:

Got that good old fashioned midwest weight reduction

Rust is lighter than carbon fiber

Don't have to worry about weight reduction if there's nothing there in the first place

[iDeFecZx]

8 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

Your Type R doesnt have air conditioning or good speakers? Sounds like a race car to me

 

If you think that's firm, you'll hate the Koni spring's lowering springs I got. Definitely a lot firmer (but for me not unbearable) I tend to avoid pot holes, though occasionally I do hit one and the car hits so hard I fell my soul leaving my body

The speakers in the civic are that bad that anything over 10 volume gets badly distorted and its still not even loud lmao.

The rides by no means awful I just forgot how stiff it was compared to both its older contemporaries

[Ordinarily_Greater]

Hello car enthusiasts

 

As someone who's always interested in stock cars and live in the JDM area, I couldn't help myself to want a Civic FD as a daily street car.

The looks and performance seemed perfect to me. Also i am new to the car modding community.

 

So if i ever bought one, i will prepare for the mods that i will do:

1. a real exhaust design that works and looks like the one in the picture i put, and i have been said that for a stock engine (yes imma leave it stock), you dont put dual rear exit so... i guess single rear exit with a branch to 2 holes?
2. Tires, Brakes, lighter Rims, any recommendations for street use?

Thats pretty much it, thanks everyone

 

P.S. anyone have a civic fd as well? have u tried this bodykit?

downloadfile.bin

[iDeFecZx]

53 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Hello car enthusiasts

 

As someone who's always interested in stock cars and live in the JDM area, I couldn't help myself to want a Civic FD as a daily street car.

The looks and performance seemed perfect to me. Also i am new to the car modding community.

 

So if i ever bought one, i will prepare for the mods that i will do:

1. a real exhaust design that works and looks like the one in the picture i put, and i have been said that for a stock engine (yes imma leave it stock), you dont put dual rear exit so... i guess single rear exit with a branch to 2 holes?
2. Tires, Brakes, lighter Rims, any recommendations for street use?

Thats pretty much it, thanks everyone

 

P.S. anyone have a civic fd as well? have u tried this bodykit?

downloadfile.bin 39.76 kB · 3 downloads

Is this an FD2 Type R or a regular one?

If its a Type R then Mugen are the goto place for a good sounding exhaust system. 

[Euchre]

That 'Triumph Acclaim' some posts back is really a Honda for sure, just manufactured by BL in the UK with their own badges on it. Straight up the same car as the early 80s Honda Civic sedan in the US otherwise.

 

As for the AC thing, in a vehicle with '140hp', that's peak output, at high RPM. The lower the RPM, the greater the impact of a 5hp load vs the output of the motor. If you make 50hp at 900rpm, you're losing 10% of power - that's a seriously noticeable difference. When you are accelerating from a dead stop, you want to turn off AC if you want max power to get up to speed quickly. This is why most vehicles disengage the AC clutch when you go full throttle at low RPM. I have the totally separate AC switch on my car, so when I do come to a full stop on rural roads that have high speed limits (45mph+), I kick it off until I'm back up to speed again. With recirculation turned on (also a discreet control on my car), I barely feel a drop in the temp of the air being blown out, before I re-engage the AC compressor.

[3 Lions]

1 minute ago, Euchre said:

That 'Triumph Acclaim' some posts back is really a Honda for sure, just manufactured by BL in the UK with their own badges on it.

Yep I did actually say that in my post. 

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 hour ago, iDeFecZx said:

Is this an FD2 Type R or a regular one?

If its a Type R then Mugen are the goto place for a good sounding exhaust system. 

its gonna be a regular 2006 manual or matic (paddle shifts FTW) FD, and im planning to bodykit with the one in the image. A silver mugen RR concept i guess

 

my plan is im gonna find a centered single pipe then route it to those fake "tips" so they actually do something.

 

hopefully this car (manual, silver) is what im getting, hopefully in 2 years someone will sell a fd like this again