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

[Bitter]

18 minutes ago, Benji said:

By sitting in the car and figuring out that the gear configuration doesn't fit the original gear box and shifting stick.

Are they really looking for that?

[Bitter]

1 hour ago, Benji said:

Not specifically, no (at least to my knowledge). But let's just put it that way... If you know what car it is and all of a sudden it has a different stick, would you not notice that?

If it's a 10yr old car and I'm seeing 100 cars a day, probably not. Keep a stock shifter on it. Different trans doesn't mean different shifter, especially if the pattern wasn't on the ball.

[JoaoPRSousa]

On 7/5/2021 at 3:39 PM, bcredeur97 said:

I do agree that mods that make a car unsafe should prob be more regulated but just because I don’t like people remapping their diesels to smoke like locamotives doesn’t mean I want car modifying banned. At the end of the day it’s not really many who do that.. most people just want more power really and even that is a small group too. Ppl don’t want to burn their warranties and such 

 

Tell me you're not from Portugal without telling me you're not from Portugal.

[That_Random_Guy]

awww yea my seats came in after months of back order

 

[Bitter]

Shoulda gotten brown seats.

[That_Random_Guy]

5 minutes ago, Bitter said:

Shoulda gotten brown seats.

yeaaa... no. 

[Bitter]

10 minutes ago, That_Random_Guy said:

yeaaa... no. 

Yeah, yeah. They won't show the shit stains as much.

[bcredeur97]

2 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Tell me you're not Portugal without telling me you're not from Portugal.

Lol as a southern American I don’t get this 

[JoaoPRSousa]

3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Lol as a southern American I don’t get this 

 

Basically in Portugal the fuel type of choice is diesel. And here in Europe we make a lot of those. Diesel has always been the cheaper alternative and cars consume less, so it's a no brainer. Just so happens that you can remap them and get quite some power without sacrificing too much on the mileage. And people when focused on getting power also happen to delete the DPF and cats and the lot. Also happens that they don't tune the cars well because for them, making smoke is the shit. So, there's a lot of people here that buy old VAG hatchbacks/sedans/wagons with the TDI engines and remap them like crazy. Every single "tuner" (lets call em them to not be offensive) here has diesel car, not just VAGs, and usually also remap them like that, with popcorn limiters and make plenty of one wheel peels.

So it is very common in Portugal to see a diesel car "tuned" and rolling coal. This is every "tuners" idol here because of, if you've read what I wrote, makes a lot sense, unfortunately for the whole scene. The tuner's Portuguese.

 

 

 

So yeah, we have plenty of people with cars like that with not a lot of supporting mods for the kind of torque and power, unless they involve power lmao, they're making on their clapped out hatchbacks.

[arnavvr]

20 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Lol as a southern American I don’t get this 

As a Western American I don't understand either...

[JoaoPRSousa]

I missed a "from" in that sentence lmao

[jagdtigger]

19 hours ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

And people when focused on getting power also happen to delete the DPF and cats and the lot. Also happens that they don't tune the cars well because for them, making smoke is the shit.

Its quite a conundrum, for power you need more fuel. But more fuel means more soot. You either cut back power or install bigger turbo.... Even old not tuned diesel engines will release lots of soot when they get a hefty load at the end of the crankshaft....

 

[Bitter]

I guess negative camber is out of style? I can't keep up with what's what with kids these days.

[bcredeur97]

Thoughts on the Lotus Emira? 
 

I think it’s a great replacement for the Evora — which was always meant to be lotus’ do everything car not just a track focused car 

 

and it looks awesome. I’d be scared to hit the front splitter on stuff though everyday lol 

[iDeFecZx]

4 hours ago, Bitter said:

I guess negative camber is out of style? I can't keep up with what's what with kids these days.

 

 

Something tells me the cause of that began with a "Watch this"

[Bitter]

[gleetk]

Ran into some stranger from LTT(Brian) at a car meet. Couldn’t get him to stop touching my wires in my Crown Majesta for some reason (jk) lol. Real cool dude imo, has a vary insightful knowledge about cars and not just classic computer systems.

[atxcyclist]

6 hours ago, Bitter said:

Insane terminals.jpg

Not even a battery hold-down? I see what I think is a mechanical fuel pump, so what is that old thing so I can stay well away from the red ones...

[chaozbandit]

o7 valkyrie
 

 

[JoaoPRSousa]

 

Here she is lads

[Bitter]

17 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

Not even a battery hold-down? I see what I think is a mechanical fuel pump, so what is that old thing so I can stay well away from the red ones...

65 Impala with clearly some interesting people working on it.

[Bitter]

 

[TVwazhere]

There's a decent amount of tailight options for 98-05 beetles but almost nothing for headlights. 

 

Taillight 

I'm a slut for anything sequential

 

Headlight

These say they're specific to EU, so I dont think I can use them here

[bcredeur97]

I bought this sight unseen btw. It’s perfect except for some rock chips Up front, and a cracked fog light also a Piece of plastic trim above the back window is loose. 

 

goes down the road smooth and quiet, no clunks. Engine sounds great and everything looks normal. I think I lucked out lol 

[iDeFecZx]

51 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

I bought this sight unseen btw. It’s perfect except for some rock chips Up front, and a cracked fog light also a Piece of plastic trim above the back window is loose. 

 

goes down the road smooth and quiet, no clunks. Engine sounds great and everything looks normal. I think I lucked out lol 

ohhh a big golf