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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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BEHOLD. Not one, buy two Bugatti Chirons! It's like VW are letting these leaks happen, or something.

 

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I've taken up six spots at Walmart before. :ph34r:

 

Honestly any car can be fun to drive almost no matter what it is.

i honestly can't see that. there's no way i can have fun in those little geo metros. those things are stupid small, yes, but there's no power to do anything fun with it.

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i honestly can't see that. there's no way i can have fun in those little geo metros. those things are stupid small, yes, but there's no power to do anything fun with it.

You've obviously never thrown a geo metro into a corner. Or on a dirt road. Just floor the thing and drive like an idiot. :D

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You've obviously never thrown a geo metro into a corner. Or on a dirt road. Just floor the thing and drive like an idiot. :D

i don't think i would want to throw one at a corner. knowing how tall it is, i might roll it over.

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i don't think i would want to throw one at a corner. knowing how tall it is, i might roll it over.

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You can push it a lot more than you think. I drove my grandma's Ls570 with air suspension and my other grandma's 4runner. There's hardly and cause for concern. That ls570 will freaking PULL too. My God. Give it the beans and you're doing 70 before you know it.

isn't the 570 like the highest trim? if so, wouldn't it be like super heavy with all those options?

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Oh is this a competition now? Let me go get a trailer :P

Pfft. Lemme go get a lorry with a trailer  :lol:

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@terrytek hell the Escalade Platinum my grandparents used to have would do 140 in a reasonable amount of time. All the shit in the interior doesn't really add all that much weight. WHEN Haggard Garage gutted the e36 they probably only shed 60 to 80 pounds then added a hydro E so they put 18 of those back in.

holy shit, a lexus ls570, then a cadillac escalade platinum? how rich are your grandparents???

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Yanked the engine out of a saab 900 today. Felt nice to work on a car again

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Yanked the engine out of a saab 900 today. Felt nice to work on a car again

 

Cousin of ours have a couple of Saab's. (Could only find one picture tho)

 

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got the tires balanced on the Tundra, and it was free, so cool. also got new headlights, but I mixed the foglights and headlights up, so I got 2 new foglights and 1 new headlight. ugh.

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got the tires balanced on the Tundra, and it was free, so cool. also got new headlights, but I mixed the foglights and headlights up, so I got 2 new foglights and 1 new headlight. ugh.

was it at america's tire? for us, if they installed the tires for us, there's lifetime free balances.

"If it has tits or tires, at some point you will have problems with it." -@vinyldash303

this is probably the only place i'll hang out anymore: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/274320-the-long-awaited-car-thread/

 

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New plan on the tires.

 

Keep my 14's with junk all seasons for every-day use. Get some 15's and put 200 treadwear tires onto 2 of them, and put a decent summer tire (like a Dunlop Direzza DZ102) on the other two. Literally will find the cheapest 15" rims that i can find, even if they are all different.

 

I will use the 15's for Autocross and use my 14's with the junk all seasons every day. 


I think that will net me the most performance per dollar.

 

Why the two different tires on 15's, I have a FWD car, so I will put semi slicks on front and the direzza's in the back for dry pavement grip and less understeer. And if it's raining, I will put the direzza's up front since they have more grooves for water. Overall I should have a TON of grip for as little money as possible. If the 200 treadwear in the back will help that much even on a FWD car, I would like to know. Because I think i could squeeze in semi slicks on all 4 corners if I needed to. 

My only question is, how many autoX events will 200 treadwear (looking at Direzza ZII star spec's) last me? Here we have 9 per year and the course is pretty small so.. The good tires will NEVER be allowed to touch normal pavement. Just AutoX only. Also if I could get away with worse tires in the back, they would last even longer. 

 

What do you think @warmmilk , @chaozbandit , @MEC-777 ??

 

 

Also, will my car roll over with 200 treadwear tires? pahaha... im getting kinda worried about the amount of body roll lol

 

 

Oh and I learned 16's will actually be worse for me in terms of tire choices.. go figure.

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Life goal: Start the family business up again and be successful. My family has always owned an auto body shop. For the last 30 years that is. But it's not been in business in the last 10 years, we still own the land and the name for the shop. I've always wanted to own a shop where people can get their car fixed or upgrade their car, boost it, build up the engine. Stuff like that. I may look into starting the business again in a few years.

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@terrytek you were right... It has gotten to the 1.50's..

Can't believe this

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Life goal: Start the family business up again and be successful. My family has always owned an auto body shop. For the last 30 years that is. But it's not been in business in the last 10 years, we still own the land and the name for the shop. I've always wanted to own a shop where people can get their car fixed or upgrade their car, boost it, build up the engine. Stuff like that. I may look into starting the business again in a few years.

That would be really cool actually. Definitely something you can make money on and have fun doing so.

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That would be really cool actually. Definitely something you can make money on and have fun doing so.

There's also a lot next to it where we could do some nice drifting legally :D

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Where's the fun in that :P

It's next to 2 busy roads, so being able to drift 24/7 without cops being called would be nice :D

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I was wondering it's some feature that my car will pull on it's own in 2nd gear(and probably 1st), it won't die if i'm not pressing the accelerator.

Or is my car fucked is some mysterious way.

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If gas was that cheap over here i'd daily this

====>The car thread<====>Dark Souls thread<====>Placeholder<====
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"Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he THINK he was doing at the time?"

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