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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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1 hour ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

What the fuck are you on about? We all know you're not a mechanic, quit your bullshitting.

Shhhh they dont need to know that

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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Mercedes 300SL on campus today

 

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3 hours ago, dcgreen2k said:

Mercedes 300SL on campus today

 

-snip-

holy crap, those things exist outside of storage? Lol

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5 hours ago, SinOfLiberty said:

About to steal car radiator to WC my pc

Honestly Pc radiators usually have a better design for their application that makes them more efficient + you can get them in copper to avoid mixing metals 

 

car radiators are usually cheapishly made and outside of just being able to hold together for a long while, not that efficient. They are just big 

 

+ you’ll need a big and probably noisy pump to make it work 

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3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Honestly Pc radiators usually have a better design for their application that makes them more efficient + you can get them in copper to avoid mixing metals 

 

car radiators are usually cheapishly made and outside of just being able to hold together for a long while, not that efficient. They are just big 

 

+ you’ll need a big and probably noisy pump to make it work 

+1

Car radiators not worth the cost and effort

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5 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Honestly Pc radiators usually have a better design for their application that makes them more efficient + you can get them in copper to avoid mixing metals 

 

car radiators are usually cheapishly made and outside of just being able to hold together for a long while, not that efficient. They are just big 

 

+ you’ll need a big and probably noisy pump to make it work 

Used to be you could get them in copper, I know heatercores alot of the time were made from copper too but sadly it's all cheaply made plastic/potmetal these days.

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TIL AEM makes EV management stuff. Even replacement controller boards for Tesla electric motors

 

also 900hp Ford Escape sounds like fun lol 

 

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Getting pretty tired of the sugar cane harvesting activities on the roadways here lol 

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On 12/11/2022 at 2:29 PM, dcgreen2k said:

Mercedes 300SL on campus today

 

 

 

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6 hours ago, Bitter said:

Here's something not often seen...

 

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Ooh 

 

I used to want one of those. I’m sad they never made anything like it since 

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3 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

Ooh 

 

I used to want one of those. I’m sad they never made anything like it since 

They're pretty "Toyota easy" to work on too and cheap to maintain.

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10 hours ago, RevoltTrain said:

Virginia Tech?

Yes!

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I'm going to check out a 1986 Nissan 300ZX tomorrow, is there anything in particular I should know about them first?

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5 minutes ago, dcgreen2k said:

I'm going to check out a 1986 Nissan 300ZX tomorrow, is there anything in particular I should know about them first?

Been a while since I worked on one but I remember fuel injector issues being not uncommon. Not sure if that one uses the optical distributor or not but those would go bad sometimes too, the sensor would get dirty and not read or the circuitry inside would fail.

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Hai there (saw at a random house while walking around in st augustine Florida) 

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On 12/16/2022 at 8:43 PM, Bitter said:

Here's something not often seen...

Nice Pontiac Solstice.

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16 hours ago, vetali said:

Nice Pontiac Solstice.

Thats clearly a ferrari 360

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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Figured out why I can never be a YouTube mechanic yesterday....was working on a car with many 14mm hex head bolts that I expected to be other sizes. I said out loud to myself "14, 14, 14, 14, all 14! It's like a R Kelly house party!" DEMONITIZED.

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Any fellow S197 or mustangs in general time trials/w2w/HPDE drivers in here?! Just put down a new personal best at Buttonwillow (Southern California track) Sunday, as did all of drivers in my time trials group. Temp was mid 40’s so the cars were making great power, and tires didn’t scrub out at all. 
 

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