[QUOTE=Tu154M;27124954]Probably not really long lasting though, at least in der colder parts of the world with salt on the roads etc.[/QUOTE]
That's good, because I think you missed the part where the car looks absolutely fucking hideous.
[QUOTE=MikeL14;27126677]That's good, because I think you missed the part where the car looks absolutely fucking hideous.[/QUOTE]
Well i gave up judging any matter of taste in this thread and was just commenting on the general DIY paint thing.
[editline]1st January 2011[/editline]
Oh nevermind i only watched it on 20% zoom. Looking at it in full, yes it is actually hideous.
The car would look fine if he buffed the orange peel out of it.
And actually took some time to tape it off before he painted.
What if the vehicle was lifted, say 6-9 inches. If it was hit wouldnt most of the impact slide under the truck hitting most of the suspension, though there is the problem of killing whoever hit you with the bottom of your truck door.
[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;27127159]What if the vehicle was lifted, say 6-9 inches. If it was hit wouldnt most of the impact slide under the truck hitting most of the suspension, though there is the problem of killing whoever hit you with the bottom of your truck door.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't help against a semi or any other lifted truck.
[QUOTE=Dylan_94;27112134]I'm getting my step dads 1999 dodge durango slt with a 5.9L Magnum v8. I can get it but i am not sure if i want to, because 12mpg is pretty painful. Doesn't matter right now though, i still haven't gotten my license. Still getting kinda excited for getting a car though. It will probably be around the middle of 2011.[/QUOTE]
The durango is a great suv. Also the 5.9L engine is a tank and with little modification could probably take a turbo which could somewhat boost your gas mileage depending on how you drive.
so i just bought an ic sprayer (universal winshield washer kit) and now I think I might just go E85+meth injection on the stock turbo since it's cheaper then upgrading the turbo
tl;dr who wants a windshield washer kit
I thought this looked nice. Thanks to my phones poor optics it doesn't really though.
[img]http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs007.snc6/165766_499856128960_774948960_5998339_6613593_n.jpg[/img]
hey man ur blinding people with your rice lights
they're stock and they don't blind stfu
Ok, how about this as an argument: What do you guys care? I don't give two shits how dangerous my truck may or may not be compaired to a vehicle made 40 years later, no shit it is going to be safer...But what do you care? I'm going to choose my truck over your typical car with the same body style as every single other car on the street
[img]http://hybridlane.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2008_ford_fusion_sport_appearance_package.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.thetorquereport.com/honda_accord_tsx.jpg[/img]
[img]http://wallpapers.indiauto.in/automobiles/hyundai/2010-hyundai-sonata-1.jpg[/img]
etc.etc.etc.any day, no matter how much more safe it is, i really don't care...The only other vehicle i would be caught dead driving would be a Subaru WRX or something like Edberg or Ford drives, simply because its different from the same damn car everyone else drives...
I have reinforced my frame, boxed it all in (and it wasn't even an x-frame to begin with so???), and as VQ said, also have "10 bumpers" Sitting out the front of my truck, made out of two of these:
[img]http://www.sunpochina.com/upload/201072211204363791.jpg[/img]
Stacked, which are also, mind you, reinforced...I won't FEEL anything i hit because all of the force will be transferred to your fancy crumple zones (and why would i be getting in an accident in the first place?) My truck is a steel wall driving down the road, my truck is not going to crumple to the rear tailgate and snap both my legs off because it isn't some piece of shit rusted out x frame with no engine, its a truck i built from ground up...Just because it doesn't have crumple zones and airbags doesn't mean I'm going to lose my legs and/or die when i hit a smart car going 10 MPH...
The point of this whole rage post is this simple question here: What does it matter to you? Are you afraid I'm going to kill someone i hit? I can assure you, whether you believe me or not, I'm NOT going to be hurt in an accident driving this tank, so why are you all preaching to me about how unsafe my truck is? It ISN'T unsafe.
You all assume, for whatever reason, that older vehicles MUST, MUST MUST MUST, be rusted, weak, metal dash, piece of shit death traps. Let me tell you this though: Whoever taught you that is an idiot.
1. No rust as I've said 20 times. My frame probably looks better than a 1998's.
2. Reinforced, not weak.
3. No metal dash (where did you get this? there wasn't even an option back then, my dash is just as safe as yours...)
4. No, i don't have unbolted seats and bench seatbelts...I have custom bucket seats welded to the floor with 3 point seatbelts and a rollcage...Why? I offroad. I need safety if i roll over or go barreling down a cliffside or what-have-you.
More than likely i will get a shit load of dumbs and disagrees and get people like VQ replying to me to tell me how stupid i am but listen to me for once...You don't know me. You don't know my truck. It isn't as unsafe as you all assume it is. If anything I'm safer driving my tank than most of you are in your vehicles. Just sayin.
m1 abrams needs crumple zones
[QUOTE=justin1992;27133067]Ok, how about this as an argument: What do you guys care? I don't give two shits how dangerous my truck may or may not be compaired to a vehicle made 40 years later, no shit it is going to be safer...But what do you care? I'm going to choose my truck over your typical car with the same body style as every single other car on the street
[img_thumb]http://hybridlane.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2008_ford_fusion_sport_appearance_package.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://www.thetorquereport.com/honda_accord_tsx.jpg[/img_thumb]
[img_thumb]http://wallpapers.indiauto.in/automobiles/hyundai/2010-hyundai-sonata-1.jpg[/img_thumb]
etc.etc.etc.any day, no matter how much more safe it is, i really don't care...The only other vehicle i would be caught dead driving would be a Subaru WRX or something like Edberg or Ford drives, simply because its different from the same damn car everyone else drives...
I have reinforced my frame, boxed it all in (and it wasn't even an x-frame to begin with so???), and as VQ said, also have "10 bumpers" Sitting out the front of my truck, made out of two of these:
[img_thumb]http://www.sunpochina.com/upload/201072211204363791.jpg[/img_thumb]
Stacked, which are also, mind you, reinforced...I won't FEEL anything i hit because all of the force will be transferred to your fancy crumple zones (and why would i be getting in an accident in the first place?) My truck is a steel wall driving down the road, my truck is not going to crumple to the rear tailgate and snap both my legs off because it isn't some piece of shit rusted out x frame with no engine, its a truck i built from ground up...Just because it doesn't have crumple zones and airbags doesn't mean I'm going to lose my legs and/or die when i hit a smart car going 10 MPH...
The point of this whole rage post is this simple question here: What does it matter to you? Are you afraid I'm going to kill someone i hit? I can assure you, whether you believe me or not, I'm NOT going to be hurt in an accident driving this tank, so why are you all preaching to me about how unsafe my truck is? It ISN'T unsafe.
You all assume, for whatever reason, that older vehicles MUST, MUST MUST MUST, be rusted, weak, metal dash, piece of shit death traps. Let me tell you this though: Whoever taught you that is an idiot.
1. No rust as I've said 20 times. My frame probably looks better than a 1998's.
2. Reinforced, not weak.
3. No metal dash (where did you get this? there wasn't even an option back then, my dash is just as safe as yours...)
4. No, i don't have unbolted seats and bench seatbelts...I have custom bucket seats welded to the floor with 3 point seatbelts and a rollcage...Why? I offroad. I need safety if i roll over or go barreling down a cliffside or what-have-you.
More than likely i will get a shit load of dumbs and disagrees and get people like VQ replying to me to tell me how stupid i am but listen to me for once...You don't know me. You don't know my truck. It isn't as unsafe as you all assume it is. If anything I'm safer driving my tank than most of you are in your vehicles. Just sayin.[/QUOTE]
u mad?
[QUOTE=justin1992;27133067]...[/QUOTE]
Your posts make me think you're incredibly full of yourself and criticizing what you do is completely out of question for everyone but yourself.
You put a shitload of steel on your truck and now think you're driving a tank that you can survive anything in? That's not completely how Statics work.
he mad we stylin' on him
[editline]1st January 2011[/editline]
but seriously, don't want to re-ignite the flame here, but there is a reason why modern cars don't have reinforced steel for protection on each side, it just doesn't work like a crumple zone does
the force of the impact needs to go somewhere, and that's what the crumple zone does. the impact on your re-inforced metal won't be absorbed, but just distributed throughout your truck, probably giving you extreme whiplash
oh and btw even the toughet metal breaks at high speeds, ever see a train crash?
[QUOTE=Tu154M;27133621]Your posts make me think you're incredibly full of yourself and criticizing what you do is completely out of question for everyone but yourself.
You put a shitload of steel on your truck and now think you're driving a tank that you can survive anything in? That's not completely how Statics work.[/QUOTE]
Are you implying you could survive anything in a new vehicle?
[QUOTE=Apocalypsox;27133812]Are you implying you could survive anything in a new vehicle?[/QUOTE]
Er, no. I'm obviously implying that his driving redneck fort is probably not as safe as he thinks it is.
[QUOTE=VQ35HR;27133747]he mad we stylin' on him
[editline]1st January 2011[/editline]
but seriously, don't want to re-ignite the flame here, but there is a reason why modern cars don't have reinforced steel for protection on each side, it just doesn't work like a crumple zone does
the force of the impact needs to go somewhere, and that's what the crumple zone does. the impact on your re-inforced metal won't be absorbed, but just distributed throughout your truck, probably giving you extreme whiplash
oh and btw even the toughet metal breaks at high speeds, ever see a train crash?[/QUOTE]
if a 4500lbs truck hits a 2500lbs sedan, crumple zones mean shit when the sedan is launched in the opposite direction
the energy doesn't need to be dispersed throughout the frame because it gets dispersed into whatever the truck is hitting
now if it was a wall..
[editline]1st January 2011[/editline]
if I were hitting another car i'd take the truck, if I were hitting a structure or a truck I'd take something with crumple zones
seriously every stupid argument in this thread is based around people expecting a one size fits all car/truck/frame/sound system/v8/l4/etc etc etc
(justins wall of text)
You just summed up about 10 pages if what I was saying.
This is fucking fun to watch, now imagine if either the accord or the van were an older vehicle. The older vehicle would be torn to pieces, occupants (if they weren't dummy's) would be dead.
Newer cars are made to keep you safe in a wreck which is why crumple zones, airbags, traction control, abs, laminated windshields, 3 point belts, running lights, dimming mirrors, etc, were created.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60LLyBHHHg4&feature=related[/media]
Look at this, old cars smacking into each other
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7wG4uy-Phs[/media]
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A new, large Audi SUV vs a new Minicar (Fiat 500), you'd be sore, but you would walk away from both.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVF1Wr7GLQ&feature=related[/media]
Don't think that I'm bashing old cars. I'm not, I love everything about them, their simplicity, their looks, the way they sound and even the shiny interiors. But compared to today's vehicles in crashes (at 45mph+), you aren't going to live unless your in full safety gear or aren't in the car at the time of the wreck and you put a rock on the gas pedal.
What is a yolk, it says this ramcharger needs one.
[url]http://alberta.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-trucks-1990-dodge-ramcharger-4x4-W0QQAdIdZ243332773[/url]
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;27148771]1:05
:smug:[/QUOTE]
A bursting airbag is still better than your head slamming directly into a metal object.
All this new vs old car stuff is bullshit
Not everybody (especially here were we're young) can afford a car newer than a 2000 model
[QUOTE=Ldesu;27149086]All this new vs old car stuff is bullshit
Not everybody (especially here were we're young) can afford a car newer than a 2000 model[/QUOTE]
Most of the time, cars from 79 and earlier cost way more than this now.
2001 Volvo S-80 for $3850. If you have a job, even a McDonalds clerk, you can get that. Insurance is also going to be cheaper than an old car too.
[url]http://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/2139620778.html[/url]
Took the Volvo up what Google Maps said was a perfectly legit road yesterday; ended up being a muddy/snowy mess. Still took it like a boss, though.
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;27149254]Most of the time, cars from 79 and earlier cost way more than this now.
2001 Volvo S-80 for $3850. If you have a job, even a McDonalds clerk, you can get that. Insurance is also going to be cheaper than an old car too.
[url]http://orlando.craigslist.org/cto/2139620778.html[/url][/QUOTE]
There are a few years between 1979 and 2000
disagreed... wat
I'm pretty honored that the car I made graphics for was featured in the Speedhunters 2010 summary thingy. Can't wait to see the full feature
[url]http://speedhunters.com/archive/2011/01/01/editorial-gt-gt-behind-the-curtain-c.aspx[/url]
Congrats
[QUOTE=Ldesu;27149086]All this new vs old car stuff is bullshit
Not everybody (especially here were we're young) can afford a car newer than a 2000 model[/QUOTE]
lol there is a difference between calling a 1976 truck old and a 1995 truck old
by old we mean like older than the 90`s
90`s technology and standards now is different but not amazingly different
70`s and now is like a whole different world
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