• Automotive Addicts Lounge V2- Why we are all broke:
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[QUOTE=slayer3032;47936013]I'm on my 4th and a half set of tires on my Integra in just roughly 55k miles. I went through two and a half sets of Dunlop Direzza DZ101's a set of Eagle GT's as well as ruining a set of Goodyear Tri-Assurances. Now it's on a set of Goodyear Eagle Sports. The Civic is continuing my habit of ruining tires as after 9k miles the Nanking tires that two were brand new and two were newer are down to the wear bars on the insides. I murder tires and I don't even do proper burnouts anymore.[/QUOTE] 9k? What the [I]fuuuuuck?[/I] thats an oil change and a half for me, how the hell does your car eat rubber so fast?
[QUOTE=Birdman101;47936431]9k? What the [I]fuuuuuck?[/I] thats an oil change and a half for me, how the hell does your car eat rubber so fast?[/QUOTE] Well two of them are that low and they're originally from the rear which has totally wrecked trailing arm bushings which is most likely constantly knocking them out of alignment due to the arm being able to freely move an inch or two left or right lol. They're also cheap Nankings. I replaced the tierods 7k miles ago and one of the inners worked loose and knocked the alignment off for a while. I drive my cars pretty hard. They're only just about down to the wear bars, they won't go bald on the insides hopefully for another 5-6k hopefully. I hope to get a smaller, wider tire with a shorter sidewall next time around since I can totally move this car side to side on it's tires like nothing. I know 14" wheels aren't ideal but they're super light and tires are cheap. One set of my tires I sold off after getting a nail and new wheels, I then tried to stupidly kill the set of new tires on those wheels and ruined some good quiet passenger tires because they sounded and looked cheap to me. I got a nail in one near the sidewall, bought a new set of tires and then wrecked one of them letting a buddy's redneck neighbor insist he could mount them on a set of wheels I had for that shitty scrap heap of a DA Integra I bought for someone else. The rest I had to replace due to being bald though.
Man, shell's new 93 with Nitro(gen, i assume) is fucking amazing. My bike's getting much better gas mileage. I got a whole extra 50 fucking miles out of a tank!
I finally got my beat-to-shit old car cleaned up proper, hopefully gonna get it painted this summer and fix up the rusty bits in the meantime I got a nice picture of it post-cleaning [t]http://i.imgur.com/IxvdPHl.jpg[/t]
Brothers Eclipse is acting up. He's changed the sparkplugs, wires and coils. Its throwing a code for random missfire po300 iirc. He just had all the front seals, water pump and timing done a week or two before it started running like shit [editline]11th June 2015[/editline] Its a 95 GSX
po300 is easy to fix. Ignition has already been done so just check for vacuum leaks and fuel pressure problems
Bad grounds, bad distributor or bad cam/crank sensors? Check the ignition and cam timing again too.
I'm suggesting anyone with a wheel to get BeamNG.drive, it's [I]good[/I] And if anyone remembers the username Penis Colada who used to post here, he's one of the developers. He's the guy who makes all of the cars.
I bought it like a year ago, its still fun on a game pad too.
[QUOTE=Ldesu;47937152]I'm suggesting anyone with a wheel to get BeamNG.drive, it's [I]good[/I] And if anyone remembers the username Penis Colada who used to post here, he's one of the developers. He's the guy who makes all of the cars.[/QUOTE] I have an old microsoft usb wheel I fould at the thrift store for 6$, after some witchcraft I got it working with BeamNG and it it so daaaaamn fun. Then I started dicking around with the games configuration files and made this: [video=youtube;2P_ujdlUmSo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P_ujdlUmSo[/video] Im sure Ive still got the files somewhere, if anyone wants an 800+ horsepower moonhawk. [QUOTE=Tmaxx;47936606]Man, shell's new 93 with Nitro(gen, i assume) is fucking amazing. My bike's getting much better gas mileage. I got a whole extra 50 fucking miles out of a tank![/QUOTE] harharharharhar silly harley, Ive gotten 115 miles out of a tank
Man, /o/ has a real hate for anything new; i.e anything past 2000. I prefer my car having things that help me not die, but I guess that's just me.
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;47937934]Man, /o/ has a real hate for anything new; i.e anything past 2000. I prefer my car having things that help me not die, but I guess that's just me.[/QUOTE] It's okay to admit you have bad taste.
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;47938232]It's okay to admit you have bad taste.[/QUOTE] That's making the assumption that what I described entirely applies to me too. I do like cars older than 2000, just not 1970's old.
Coilovers, x-drilled and slotted rotors, Hawk HPS pads, and SSK on the way for the Miata!
[QUOTE=FlandersNed;47938345] I do like cars older than 2000, just not 1970's old.[/QUOTE] How 'bout we take this outside, just the two of us, eh?
[QUOTE=Birdman101;47937910]. harharharharhar silly harley, Ive gotten 115 miles out of a tank[/QUOTE] Can you not read? I said I got 50 extra miles. I normally get ~175 miles from F to E.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47940352]Can you not read? I said I got 50 extra miles. I normally get ~175 miles from F to E.[/QUOTE] I apologize, I posted that at 3am and I had just awoken in my computer chair after falling asleep playing civ 5. It was very disorienting.
Life is good... lol
My wipers have slowed right down lately and their resting place is part-way up the windscreen. When they do get there they judder like crazy as if jamming on something but when activated again they drop to the normal place before going up again. Video: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BVmytJNQuc[/media] Bad motor or linkages?
Alright, guys. Need a new half-shaft for my driver's side front axle. Should I buy the part myself ($140) and put it in myself, or pay my mechanic $160 to $180 to buy it and put it in for me? I mean... $40 for not having to do the work myself and not dealing with the grease from the torn boot? Sounds like a good deal by me.
Hmm. How come aircooled engines get away with only a couple dozen fins, but water cooled engines require a thousand fins on the radiator?
Because water is molecularly thicker then air and requires more force to propel the coolant through the system. Also, five large blades are sufficient to move the needed CFM of air in an engine like a beetle engine, water pumps can get away with fewer blades but have to have some pretty damn tight clearances not unlike a turbo compressor. [editline]12th June 2015[/editline] I also did a thing yesterday, which I think looks awesome. [t]http://i.imgur.com/5lhwzRJ.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/kNmbzo6.jpg[/t] Also got some stock fog lamps, although I don't think my car ever had the option for them. No pics till installed.
more energy is kept in the water and its a closed system continuously being circulated or something
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47941953]Hmm. How come aircooled engines get away with only a couple dozen fins, but water cooled engines require a thousand fins on the radiator?[/QUOTE] Water has an extremely high specific heat for a liquid, meaning that it takes a lot of energy and/or time for heat to be added or removed, hence the fuckload of fins in a radiator. It's also a closed system, so you can't just dump the hot water out after it cycles through the engine. Aircooled engines receive a continuous source of relatively low temperature air flowing over them, which is a great way to dump heat; air cooled guns would overheat extremely quickly if fired in a vacuum.
This came in today! [img]http://i.imgur.com/8W6w326h.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Saber15;47942348]Water has an extremely high specific heat for a liquid, meaning that it takes a lot of energy and/or time for heat to be added or removed, hence the fuckload of fins in a radiator. It's also a closed system, so you can't just dump the hot water out after it cycles through the engine. Aircooled engines receive a continuous source of relatively low temperature air flowing over them, which is a great way to dump heat; air cooled guns would overheat extremely quickly if fired in a vacuum.[/QUOTE] So how come everything isn't air-cooled with fans strapped to them? if it's so much easier and simpler, why isn't it common?
Because it can't cool nearly as well as water.
VW flat 4s and the corvair flat 6 were air cooled.
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;47942682]So how come everything isn't air-cooled with fans strapped to them? if it's so much easier and simpler, why isn't it common?[/QUOTE] radiator cores are much more compact and does the job fine, air cooling a somewhat large engine where packaging is tight is not worth doing
Aieh [T]http://images.autosport.com/editorial/1434115217.jpg[/t]
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