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

[bcredeur97]

3 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

I tested it with an auto battery tester, and it still showed fully charged.  However, the battery is not quite three years old.  Would your average auto-battery tester still show it fully charged (and trickle charger show it fully charged) when dead cells are present?

No. You need a load tester. 

 

It applies a load to the battery for a few seconds and if the voltage drops while it's under load below a certain level it will Mark the battery as failed. 

 

The issue is the starter on a car really pulls a lot of power from the battery and sending a sudden heavy load to the battery is too hard and the dying cells "just give up" 

 

Hence why it goes completely dead. Those cells do return after s period of no load though, hence why you are able to get it to come back with time. 

 

A basic battery level tester will show it's charged in this case because it is... The whole problem is those cells dying under load. 

 

I've noticed newer batteries don't seem to last as long as they used to. Kind of a shame. Maybe it'll be improved one of these days idk...

[Speedyv]

52 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

why did the paint have to be kinda awesome on my old piece of junk first car? lol

 

the rest of the car was meh... and kinda rough in some places, but the paint... haha

 

those body panel gaps... never realized how bad they were lol

 

I really don't think I've seen another 8th gen as clean as mine was since then though. I can kinda see why the Insurance company gave me $4500 for it when I only paid 3k two years before lol

4500?!

 

I would have given you tree fiddy.

[RevoltTrain]

Tires are going to be mounted tomorrow. Still waiting on the engine though. Waiting is killing me. 

[RatedBlam]

Only two weeks before school starts. 

I feel like I'm gonna miss working. And the regular paychecks.

[AlwaysFSX]

10 hours ago, techswede said:

Oh right. Forgot about those.. Hmm. Exclusive early access pre-order bonus. 

I still need to test drive a car with a CVT. They suck big sweaty donkey balls on mopeds. So i really want to see how they work in cars.

Drove a rogue with one, it's not bad if you want as good of acceleration as you're going to get. And gas mileage. Surprisingly not bad all things considered, just a bit odd not hearing the vehicle shifting.

[IKnight]

10 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

you can have an electric car with a manual transmission

 

in fact you can do that with an existing car and get rid of the clutch pedal because you don't need to use a clutch with an electric motor. (though I forget why)

 

i guess you could keep the clutch for doing things like revving the engine a little (it would be super easy to rev it too far since they spin so fast lol...) to do burnouts or clutch-kicks or what have you

Wait vut? Electric car with gearbox?

[IKnight]

@terrytek @arnavvr @Speedyv Since you guys were talking about school. From what grade to what grade is high school in America? 

 

[AlwaysFSX]

9 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

@terrytek @arnavvr @Speedyv Since you guys were talking about school. From what grade to what grade is high school in America? 

 

9-12

[IKnight]

4 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

9-12

Ah ok. My sophomore schedule actually ain't bad. Start 8:30 and don't end later then 3:40. 

[AlwaysFSX]

Just now, ImadKnight said:

Ah ok. My sophomore schedule actually ain't bad. Start 8:30 and don't end later then 3:40. 

Mine used to be 8:10 to 3:50 but they changed it to 8:40 to 4. They wanted 4:30 for dismissal but we simply weren't having it.

[IKnight]

26 minutes ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Mine used to be 8:10 to 3:50 but they changed it to 8:40 to 4. They wanted 4:30 for dismissal but we simply weren't having it.

Damn, that sucked. Keep in mind I said 3:40 latest. I end at 11:45 on Fridays and 13:35 on Tuesdays . 

[RatedBlam]

I really like the hours at my job, 6:15 to 13:54 leaves a lot of time during the day. You can go to the shops when it's quieter and it's not dark when you get home in the winter. 

[arnavvr]

10 hours ago, terrytek said:

yeah suppose, but i feel like ap physics might be a bitch and a half.

 

I got some friends, but i'm just saddened my best friends aren't in any of my classes, except one. so having to do group projects is gonna suck.

I hated group projects in middle school because I would end up doing most of the work while the other group members would just sit on their asses. 

[PandaCopyRight]

 

[vetali]

15 hours ago, warmmilk said:

just as I was thinking I'm tired of this Miata, I should just sell it and get an Evo, I did a track day and kinda love it again (pad knockback is driving me up the f*cking wall though)

 

My personal opinion is that Mitsubishis are boat anchors... but slightly skewed by how many motors I've done or diagnosed for the same issue. The MZR non 2.3l is pretty bullet proof aside from timing chains. Even that isn't a huge issue in the non 2.3l. 

 

What exactly is causing the pad knockback? You explained it before, but my memory is fuzzy. 

[techswede]

5 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

Damn, that sucked. Keep in mind I said 3:40 latest. I end at 11:45 on Fridays and 13:35 on Tuesdays . 

Enjoy those hours.

My current hours

Morning 7-15

Evening 14-21

On call 15-23-07-12 (The day after)

Night 21-07

[techswede]

50 minutes ago, Mister2010 said:

 

I hope Edd makes at least a small cameo in the next binky video

[bcredeur97]

6 hours ago, AlwaysFSX said:

Mine used to be 8:10 to 3:50 but they changed it to 8:40 to 4. They wanted 4:30 for dismissal but we simply weren't having it.

12pm - 5 pm was my high school hours lol

 

But I went to high school at a college so...

[terrytek]

9 hours ago, Speedyv said:

4500?!

 

I would have given you tree fiddy.

i mean it wasn't a base model, and good paint.

 

6 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

Ah ok. My sophomore schedule actually ain't bad. Start 8:30 and don't end later then 3:40. 

bleh, those are too long of hours. i start 8:00 and end at 2PM. before they had late starts where you would go to school at 9:30am. too bad they got rid of it before i got there. and on finals days you get out at noon lol but it was 2 classes at a time, both 2 hours long, to take finals.

1 hour ago, arnavvr said:

I hated group projects in middle school because I would end up doing most of the work while the other group members would just sit on their asses. 

that was the worst. although there was a project i do remember where nobody actually slacked off and we ended up getting an a for the project. like we all met up like we supposed to and we got all the shit done.

[terrytek]

I can imagine @techswede building something like this and just waking up his neighbors, though I imagine something like that would be highly dangerous with that much power, skinny tires and no protection.

excuse the potato quality

[techswede]

9 minutes ago, terrytek said:

I can imagine @techswede building something like this and just waking up his neighbors, though I imagine something like that would be highly dangerous with that much power, skinny tires and no protection.

excuse the potato quality

*Cough*

*Cough*

[Speedyv]

My schedule for the fall.... I have another month and a quarter before school starts though

 

[bcredeur97]

My ecu is shipped

 

I think I'm gonna solder the jumper wire for the fuel pump onto it myself this time. Wish me luck lol

[RevoltTrain]

7 hours ago, ImadKnight said:

@terrytek @arnavvr @Speedyv Since you guys were talking about school. From what grade to what grade is high school in America? 

 

Depends on the school. Some local ones are 6-12 mine was 9-12

[arnavvr]

45 minutes ago, Speedyv said:

My schedule for the fall.... I have another month and a quarter before school starts though

 

I wish I had another month and a quarter before school starts. I already went yesterday and my school starts on Wednesday.