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

[Raudi_]

1 minute ago, terrytek said:

i mean if there's nothing stopping you, you can get them and go higher.

Battle wagon my dude I got bash bars getting made up for front and rear, and a full underbelly skid plate planned

 

[RevoltTrain]

Pro tip. Flare guns are loud, and lettuce dodgeball is fun but doesn't last long

 

 

[bcredeur97]

Today's autocross should be interesting. First I woke up and it's pouring outside lol

 

But I kinda want to autocross in the rain one time so maybe this will be that time idk

 

I don't have the camera so no video this time

[chaozbandit]

13 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

no video 

[terrytek]

is this a good deal? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/d/bmw-speed-manual-blk-blk/6222188759.html i can get a bumper replaced and painted, and other than that it's fine.

 

also. https://fresno.craigslist.org/cto/d/chevy-tahoe-lt-wd/6224367226.html how do you end up wearing out your seat so bad you end up destroying the foam in your seat?

[vetali]

1 minute ago, terrytek said:

also. https://fresno.craigslist.org/cto/d/chevy-tahoe-lt-wd/6224367226.html how do you end up wearing out your seat so bad you end up destroying the foam in your seat?

because chevy doesn't put a pillar pull up bars, so you end up destroying the seat getting in and out.

 

or the person was fat. 

[bcredeur97]

4 hours ago, chaozbandit said:

Current status

 

It's coming down. Super bad. Stopped event and we are sitting in cars

[techswede]

1 minute ago, bcredeur97 said:

Current status

 

It's coming down. Super bad. Stopped event and we are sitting in cars

Reminds me of swedish midsummer. 

[bcredeur97]

4 minutes ago, techswede said:

Reminds me of swedish midsummer. 

Lightning real close. Thunder shaking my car lol

[terrytek]

23 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Its called the fat boy slide. Slide in, slide out. And theyre just tall enough to where you drop about one or two inche and its just enough to wear the seat out. 

 

Cloth seats seem to hold up better, and the newer ( 08+ ) seats, at least from what I can tell, seem to be less susceptible to falling apart from it.  

yikes i've never seen seats trashed that much before, so it comes as a shock to me. i would normally think leather seats would last longer than cloth seats.

[yathis]

14 hours ago, KingCry said:

I'm running Forester XT struts and springs with STI wagon Sway Bars and adjustable end links with trailing arm spacers to have proper articulation still, But I wanna get King Springs and then Sumo spacers to just everything taller to get battle wagon build moved along

Has the old Ford Taurus wagon look to it somewhat.

[terrytek]

OK this conversion looks ok, but they didn't even touch the fucking engine, and why bother with a boost gauge if you don't even havea fucking turbo? https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/d/mitsubishi-mirage-evolution/6224848260.html

[FuzzyYellow]

8 minutes ago, terrytek said:

OK this conversion looks ok, but they didn't even touch the fucking engine, and why bother with a boost gauge if you don't even havea fucking turbo? https://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/d/mitsubishi-mirage-evolution/6224848260.html

because showcar.

[terrytek]

@bcredeur97 look what i found for sale in my area  https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/cto/d/mazda-mx-miata-se-ls/6230886554.html anything familiar?

[vetali]

4 minutes ago, vinyldash303 said:

Ooooo he's got the 6 disk CD changer 

gotta have your fire mixtapes for the track

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, vinyldash303 said:

They're harder to stain. 

 

All you have to do is find seats in any medium duty service pickup and they're fucked. Forklifts are another good example

 

I shouldn't say any. But some operators are exceptionally bad about it. 

My Dad's driver seat of his Ford pickup as virtually disintegrated. With over 230K miles on the thing, and very minimal maintenance besides the infrequent oil change, and occasional flying spark plug, I'm surprised the thing is running so nicely as it is, though you'd be hard pressed to find an undented panel on it. Ford can make some near-immortal trucks when they feel like it, their cars on the other hand... 

[FuzzyYellow]

Saw a focus RS in person for the first time. That color is pretty...

[Zodiark1593]

Question, is running the engine at 4K rpm at 90 mph bad for the engine (more so than running at a more sane/legal speed). This pretty much consistent most of my 4 hour drive yesterday morning. 

 

I suspect the answer is probably along the lines of "if it's maintained and not at redline, go crazy", though opinions tend to differ. The tires are probably less than appreciative, as is the suspension on the rougher areas. 

[AlwaysFSX]

18 minutes ago, FuzzyYellow said:

Saw a focus RS in person for the first time. That color is pretty...

There's a handful of em in my area, that is a good color.

17 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Question, is running the engine at 4K rpm at 90 mph bad for the engine (more so than running at a more sane/legal speed). This pretty much consistent most of my 4 hour drive yesterday morning. 

 

I suspect the answer is probably along the lines of "if it's maintained and not at redline, go crazy", though opinions tend to differ. The tires are probably less than appreciative, as is the suspension on the rougher areas. 

4k RPM jesus why is it that high

[JoaoPRSousa]

Speaking of Vehicle Virgin's shitty ass content, nice thumbnail for a FWD car. Not even going to talk about the title...

 

[FuzzyYellow]

36 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

There's a handful of em in my area, that is a good color.

4k RPM jesus why is it that high

Because 5 speed lyfe 

[vetali]

58 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Question, is running the engine at 4K rpm at 90 mph bad for the engine (more so than running at a more sane/legal speed). This pretty much consistent most of my 4 hour drive yesterday morning. 

 

I suspect the answer is probably along the lines of "if it's maintained and not at redline, go crazy", though opinions tend to differ. The tires are probably less than appreciative, as is the suspension on the rougher areas. 

Not really bad, but it will wear faster and obviously consume much more gas. 

 

16 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

Speaking of Vehicle Virgin's shitty ass content, nice thumbnail for a FWD car. Not even going to talk about the title...

 

youtube would honestly do great by getting rid of the submitted thumbnails and going back to having captures from the actual video be the thumbnail again. Especially now that you can hover over the thumbnail and get a preview. Would flow much better with that feature. 

[JoaoPRSousa]

 

Not a fan of the stretch tbh, but looks good nonetheless.

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, AlwaysFSX said:

There's a handful of em in my area, that is a good color.

4k RPM jesus why is it that high

The gearing ratios of top gear is fairly low. 65 mph puts me at about 2750-2800 rpm. 80 mph puts me at around 3500 rpm. Miatas and some econoboxes tend to have even shorter ratios. Modern automatics tend to have much taller gearing when in top gear, which is why they've been exceeding mpg ratings of their manual counterparts. 

 

22 minutes ago, vetali said:

Not really bad, but it will wear faster and obviously consume much more gas. 

While "wear"  is greater, I wonder if the difference would be significant in any way, assuming all maintenance is done by the book. 

[terrytek]

3 hours ago, vinyldash303 said:

Dad's 98 150 has a near perfect drivers seat and 320k on the clock and running perfect.  Origonal engine and tranny. Nothing rebuilt.

same case with protege, except 40k fewer miles. original clutch even, and original pretty much everything, save for struts really.