speaking of bad tires, I still have my summer tires on even though I have blizzaks sitting in my garage. gonna be warm here in another month lol
Ladies and gentlemen... I have an accepted offer in on the house with the 4 car garage. Now a whirlwind of paperwork and dry walling commences..!
Pretty sure there are some birds nesting under the hood of my truck. I should probably evict them before they het too far along.
God damnet. I hate my buddy
So he's selling his truck and he has this sweet as fuck turbo on it, a baylock switchblade (about $3000 new, its a weird VGT turbo that operates off exhaust backpressure and sounds like a 747) and hes trading me straight across for my borg-warner S363 since what he gets for the truck wont matter with either turbo.
So now that we're trading turbos I have to make new charge tubing.... and we have a pact to buy a S480 (80mm borg) after work for each of us, and I dont want to make charge tubing twice.... and I need a T4 flange manifold....
So because we're trading turbos it set off a big chain reaction that I was hoping to delay until later that results in me spending $1600 on a turbo, $1000 on a exhaust manifold, $300 on a wastegate, and $300 on misc boots and charge tubing
but fuck me if 2000ft/lbs of torque and 80-100psi of boost isnt worth every cent :dogcited:
[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;51807392]God damnet. I hate my buddy
So he's selling his truck and he has this sweet as fuck turbo on it, a baylock switchblade (about $3000 new, its a weird VGT turbo that operates off exhaust backpressure and sounds like a 747) and hes trading me straight across for my borg-warner S363 since what he gets for the truck wont matter with either turbo.
So now that we're trading turbos I have to make new charge tubing.... and we have a pact to buy a S480 (80mm borg) after work for each of us, and I dont want to make charge tubing twice.... and I need a T4 flange manifold....
So because we're trading turbos it set off a big chain reaction that I was hoping to delay until later that results in me spending $1600 on a turbo, $1000 on a exhaust manifold, $300 on a wastegate, and $300 on misc boots and charge tubing
but fuck me if 2000ft/lbs of torque and 80-100psi of boost isnt worth every cent :dogcited:[/QUOTE]
Since you're the resident diesel expert, do you know anything about those crazy drag trucks that run like 250lbs of boost? Those things are insane
[QUOTE=clutch2;51807153]Ladies and gentlemen... I have an accepted offer in on the house with the 4 car garage. Now a whirlwind of paperwork and dry walling commences..![/QUOTE]
by 4 cars you better mean a drag car a truck a work area and a drag boat
I want to live vicariously through someone
[QUOTE=butre;51807434]by 4 cars you better mean a drag car a truck a work area and a drag boat
I want to live vicariously through someone[/QUOTE]
Race car, race boat, race motorcycle, and a racing drone... Obviously
do you not park your motorcycle in the living room? something is wrong with you
Tbh my gf sleeps in the garage and my racecar sits on the other side of the bed
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[QUOTE=clutch2;51807153]Ladies and gentlemen... I have an accepted offer in on the house with the 4 car garage. Now a whirlwind of paperwork and dry walling commences..![/QUOTE]
Awesome dude, make one hell of a garage out of it!
[QUOTE=Zombii;51807402]Since you're the resident diesel expert, do you know anything about those crazy drag trucks that run like 250lbs of boost? Those things are insane[/QUOTE]
Stock 12 valve block, 14mm headstuds, fire ringed head and block with a copper headgasket, hamilton 12 valve head, deck plate, 14:1 compression, triple turbos in the ballpark of two 91s into a single 140mm or something stupid like that, 14mm sigma pump, billet steel rods and crank, engines turn around 6000rpm I think.
The sheer clamping force on the head actually distorts the bore sometimes. The big thing is with the low compression you can cram on a larger mass of air, with say 17.1:1 compression (stock is 17.8:1) you can stuff in around 130psi. They're so overbuilt they're one of the few engines that can take such high boost levels
The main killer on the engine is that the head flows like garbage. Its inherant design is strong and there is no replacement for displacement, but it requires loads of boost to make big power.
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If any of you follow Car Throttle on FB, they posted a video the loose as fuck steering in one of my trucks :v:
[QUOTE=Xanadu;51804383]About 6 years without a wreck and I blew it, snow and ice caused me to lose traction and spin on bald tires on a highway. Was facing traffic, couldn't do much and briefly got hit in the left rear quarterpanel by somebody who couldn't react in time. But I got off lucky.
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Despite they didn't hit me all that hard, their Mercedes miraculously caught fire from the right C-pillar a few minutes later. How the fuck does that even happen? Did an airbag decide to ignite rather than deploy?
[URL]https://twitter.com/13WHAM/status/830030955062636544[/URL]
(I don't know how to embed twitter posts if it's possible)[/QUOTE]
Glad you are okay!
Hope the Impreza isn't totaled and can be fixed. We are in the process of selling/parting my Impreza from rust issues.
Got a rear end? Not a gay joke.
I have a GM 10.5.
:smug:
[QUOTE=Strontboer;51804482]I've driven about 250.000 miles by now. Accident free. (Since I drove 200.000 miles in the work truck and 30 and 20ish on 2 cars I owned)
Except for 1 time when I was standing still and someone backed into me....[/QUOTE]
I'm at about the same, and the only "crash" I've been involved in was having to scrape along a concrete barrier a bit to avoid someone who had spun out on a blind corner and was standing in the middle of the fucking road in the rain looking at their car.
It's a terrible curve though. I pulled it up on street view and you can see where someone has already smashed into the guard rail that they had just finished replacing.
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Unfortunately, not from the same generation.
Mine is a '99 Outback Sport.
2.2, auto, etc.
Hey turbo experts, I have this old as hell fairly worn AiResearch M10 Garrett from an old Daytona I got some years ago and I'm trying to find a rebuild kit for it and having really little luck, Anybody have an idea of where to source one?
Gonna check Rockauto for shits just to see if there is one there.
EDIT: No luck at rockauto.
[QUOTE=Scientwist;51809872]Hey turbo experts, I have this old as hell fairly worn AiResearch M10 Garrett from an old Daytona I got some years ago and I'm trying to find a rebuild kit for it and having really little luck, Anybody have an idea of where to source one?
Gonna check Rockauto for shits just to see if there is one there.
EDIT: No luck at rockauto.[/QUOTE]
Phone up ATP turbo, they're one of two Garret distributors in the US. Nice people, had to get a center cartridge for my ballbearing 62mm turbo and they had one.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51809946][url]http://gpopshop.com/products-pagegarrett-t3-t4-t3t4-kit/[/url][/QUOTE]
I saw that site but I'm a bit unsure if the parts will be correct. As far as the bearings and cartridge parts go regardless of compressor and turbine housing design, it [i]should[/i] be correct, yes?
I test drove a Nissan Leaf today. Pretty amazing car, and a lot bigger than I thought. I think i'll probably get one while I wait for the Model 3 to come out in RHD, and for them to work out the kinks a bit. EVs feel so comfortable to drive.
Thank god for Amazon returns. I had to ship back two brake rotors and they cover the cost of return shipping.
[QUOTE=clutch2;51807153]Ladies and gentlemen... I have an accepted offer in on the house with the 4 car garage. Now a whirlwind of paperwork and dry walling commences..![/QUOTE]
If you come help me paint my car over, ill help you drywall.
It was really, really nice out a few days ago, so I washed up and took the Dart out for a good spin on the rare 63 Degree February day. It still drives like an absolute dream, to me. The only thing that I can see as a negative is how I NEED to slam the stick into gear, which is objectively not great as far as gauging drivability goes I guess, but I actually like how mechanical it feels. Swapping between a modern 6spd. and an old 4spd. is a lot more jarring than I thought it'd be, but I did DD it for a year, and sunk back into the routine pretty quick.
Managed to nab a preddy good picture of it, I think. I dunno if it's the lighting, but my phone looks like it applied some shitty instafam filter to it without my consent, but it worked out, in my opinion. Can't wait to spam AA with photos of it once Spring rolls around.
...Just don't ask for pictures of the inside. Still a mess from repainting and the reassembly and the radio going ker-plow. :v:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TRX01IJ.jpg[/IMG]
A local shop wanted a vehicle to demo their paint restoration abilities. I offered the Blazer, and they accepted! Free touch up, yo!
[img]http://i.imgur.com/GZOpAaNh.jpg[/img]
Shit thats quite the difference! What did they do? Claybar and a light cut and polish?
Dude that looks sweet! Amazing what some polish and buffing can do.
I'm digging this body icing stuff.. really thin bodyfiller for 'final blocking' before primer.. like wiping on thick high build primer. Sands easy with 100 grit.
before..
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After..
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More blocking before icing.
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yo someone let me borrow 30 grand I just found a lancia delta on ebay
starting a general automotive course tomorrow
I'm pretty hype but I'm nervous, my dad did this same course a while ago and he got top of his class so I have a lot to live up to :v:
otherwise we've finally managed to find the matching rubber donut for the engine mounts, now we just have to make some mounts and then we'll get to see how well this engine actually runs!
I found out that the leak in my Toyota isn't oil but transmission fluid, don't even know where to start. It's the original tranny, has been through 278,000+ miles, fluid looks like shit and it's leaking onto the exhaust pipe down to the flexpipe and burning up. The car goes through hell to shift into 2nd or 3rd but I figured this was ordinary for such a heavy and large vehicle with only 4 cylinders. Probably a bit of both, it lacks power and the transmission is crap but I can't do much about the former.
[QUOTE=Del91;51802533]Jealous. Especially if it's in a drivable condition.[/QUOTE]
So, I was a bit off because I was given the wrong details.
It's an '87 Toyota Pickup 2dr Shortbed with 101,300 miles on it. Paying $600 for it. Downside, she thought it was 4x4 when it's 4x2, but I don't care much. I'm looking forward to having a nice little 5 spd standard to play around with while being able to carry some furniture and pull a small trailer with my fourwheeler on it.
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