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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, vinyldash303 said:

In mexico it doesn't take long to bounce the speedo off the limiter.

Gotta get some bumper stickers for that.

10 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Found the impact that jiffy lube uses to tighten drain plugs. 

Great, now I'm gonna boycott it. :P

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Funny to think I was gonna buy one of these...

 

Farah seemed to love it, the guy who owned it looked like he was having the time of his life lol

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I couldn't remove the plastic cover in ny car even if I wanted to.  As it also doubles as the air box.

Id need to make/purchase some intake for it. 

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56 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

Funny to think I was gonna buy one of these...

 

Farah seemed to love it, the guy who owned it looked like he was having the time of his life lol

Those things are no slouch. On the Cayuga road course it took all I had in my modded Civic SiR to keep up with a guy in one of these in front of me. I could catch him in the twisties, but he'd just pull away on the straights. :P 

 

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This morning 2nd gear wasn't nice to me at all.

 

kept crunching it. Started double clutching between first and second and it helped some. 

 

Guess  it's time for that Motorcraft fluid and the master and slave. Either could solve the problem, I'm probably gonna do both. 

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21 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

This morning 2nd gear wasn't nice to me at all.

 

kept crunching it. Started double clutching between first and second and it helped some. 

 

Guess  it's time for that Motorcraft fluid and the master and slave. Either could solve the problem, I'm probably gonna do both. 

It's funny, my trans shifts better/smoother when it's cold and gets worse as it warms up.  

 

Yet other cars seem to crunch more when they're cold and smooth out when they warm up. :P

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Let me tell all of you about a little (large) car made be a little (large) company in Japan (well, Australian branch anyway), which goes by the name, of Mitsubishi.
Here down in the ass**** of the world (Australia and New Zealand), we were given a gift. A gift that could have been glorious, had good old Mitsi not plastered a big, fat F*** Y** on their own foreheads. This little (large) car's name is the 380. Now, I'm sure a large portion of you guys (and girls) have heard of the tire-burning V8's we live and love down here. The Holden Commodore and the Ford Falcon. This car, this 380, was built to contend with these GIANTS. And it would have done exactly that, had they not made the thing a F***ING FRONT-WHEEL DRIVE. Okay, okay, let's just look past that. Just forget and imagine that it was built with the power going to the right set of wheels. Now, the power band on this engine looks like scale of hotness of a Russian chick as she ages; it falls hard as you go up. But, my god, the low-end torque this thing shoves up your ass is nothing less than euphoric. This torque is delivered by a 3.8L 24 valve V6 hunk of aluminium. Well okay, we can fix that top-end with a little bit of boost, right? WRONG! This engine is built like a tank, but the rods are as skinny as an Ethiopian girl on a diet. So, we watched as the 380, which could have stood at that summit on which the Ford and the Holden stand on, dies within 3 years.
I'm an owner of a 380, this was just a rant on the thought-process (or lack thereof) of the people who brought this car into existence.
Also, the front of it is as ugly as sin.

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7 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

It's funny, my trans shifts better/smoother when it's cold and gets worse as it warms up.  

 

Yet other cars seem to crunch more when they're cold and smooth out when they warm up. :P

It's really annoying. Why can't it just be smooth all the time?! Lol

 

whats especially aggravating is I had just changed the trans fluid with redline fluids too :/ money basically wasted, though it only holds 2 quarts so it wasn't much. 

 

The motorcraft fluid is kinda pricy though. Guess because OEM ford. 

 

This problem is unique to the 6 speed Miata though. of course the 5 speed is "perfect" :/ 

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15 hours ago, terrytek said:

this is such a beautifully restored nsx. http://www.speedhunters.com/2016/09/clarion-builds-acura-nsx-230000-miles/

 

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A start/stop button and a flat bottom wheel on a 90s car... Oh man... I NEED IT

 

12 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Who was it that was competing with me for times on the Rio full course in Forza Apex? Because I just did 2:27.

EDIT: 2:26.78

 

That was me :D

What car were you driving?

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I also must add that my gearbox doesn't do that when shifting at high rpm. Which is interesting. 

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My gearbox, and pretty much the entire car is of the works better cold variant.

Maybe it suffers from some heatsoak too. Or the intake air preheating flap is forever stuck on hot :P

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NEW HOONIGAN VIDEO YAY

the level of skill in this video is AMAZING.

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4 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

The C7 R the Le Mans one. 

 

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11 minutes ago, terrytek said:

NEW HOONIGAN VIDEO YAY

the level of skill in this video is AMAZING.

 

"Sponsored" by FH3? W00T

 

KB's cars as a DLC? Yes please.

 

Or maybe the Gymkhana car will be like a body kit you can apply to your Focus RS. That would be sick. AF.

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Just now, vinyldash303 said:

I don't know how you keep pulling these numbers out of your ass but fine I'll give it a go later tonight. 

now you know how I feel when I race @MEC-777 and @chaozbandit in pCars

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41 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

now you know how I feel when I race @MEC-777 and @chaozbandit in pCars

hmmmm.... pCars you say? :D 

should try to join in some day ... if its possible :P

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1 minute ago, Mister2010 said:

hmmmm.... pCars you say? :D 

should try to join in some day ... if its possible :P

Always looking for more people to race with. :) Feel free to add me on steam; MECZero

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2 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Always looking for more people to race with. :) Feel free to add me on steam; MECZero

I might try get back into Pcars

Needs money for car parts :P

 

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4 minutes ago, MEC-777 said:

Always looking for more people to race with. :) Feel free to add me on steam; MECZero

done :D 

 

1 minute ago, iDeFecZx said:

I might try get back into Pcars

yeah ... im trying to get back into it as well ... but dont have many people to race with ... so i have been playing iracing xD 

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2 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

I don't know how you keep pulling these numbers out of your ass but fine I'll give it a go later tonight. 

 

I use the Xbox 360 controller to play... And I also have TCS off and use manual with clutch because yolo. (rewind on tho xD)

 

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Just now, vinyldash303 said:

Oh see that's lame. I don't use rewind. Also use the 360 controller and no traction  control but abs is on

 

Ok, I'll do some laps without rewind. I also have ABS on.

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