cars

[carmine summit]

half of having a VNT is having it tuned properly

[charred depot]

they were just running on the vacuum can but reversed to accept boost.

[carmine summit]

close the vanes too much it'll be laggy, open the vanes too much it'll be laggy

if you don't have an ECU to control it the best way is to use vacuum with a dedicated vnt boost controller

[charred depot]

This was cobbled together and it was pretty amazing.

[carmine summit]

I only know of 2 on the market, both made by the same company

https://gfb.com.au/products/boost-controllers/manual-boost-controllers/v2-vnt-boost-controller-reliable-and-effective-boost-control-for-vnt-vgt-turbos/

oh wait that second one is wastegate only

so its just the one

[charred depot]

I might order one when i get the turbo mounted, was going to piss about with arduino control.

Kept a scrap car around to put the engine into so I can work out all the issues before putting it into one of my main cars.

[misty mantle]

Basically, you're using the junk car as a engine run stand with extras

[wispy cloak]

I think I have a 63mm but I don't remember

[stoic ledge]

Because I bought a petrol car

[charred depot]

Should have bought a diesel : )

[stoic ledge]

In the Dutch tax climate? No thanks

[charred depot]

just stick a petrol vin on it

[misty mantle]

I don't see how they wouldn't notice that its a diesel

[charred depot]

whos gonna notice

[wispy cloak]

Absolutely nobody

[charred depot]

A friend of mine has a petrol car with a diesel engine, DVLA uninformed : )

[wraith rivet]

😎😎

😳

[charred depot]

I might be putting a diesel engine into my petrol estate, it would invalidate my low emission zone classic exemption so : /

I do have a vinplate and registration for a diesel estate which no longer exists just waiting to come back to life

[stoic ledge]

Meh the petrol almost gets diesel like mileage

[charred depot]

too modern : )

get a real opel / vaux

[vocal mural]

I just bought a fake Opel 2 weeks ago

[hexed kayak]

The parts store just gave me a cookie

[misty mantle]

Noice

[misty mantle]

Parts for your GFs cobalt?

[hexed kayak]

Yup

[hexed kayak]

Ft. Big toe

[formal horizon]

MF Ghost premiere at Fujiwara Cafe was fire

[patent basalt]

Who auto crosses here or rally cross

My crosstrek needs a purpose

[hexed kayak]

neither of those are it

[wraith rivet]

saw this earlier 🥺

so bootiful

the black on white looks nice

[stoic ledge]

Fake Opel

[patent basalt]

Plenty of people do that with them

My local scca has three

[vocal mural]

Chevrolet/Daewoo (Does share tech with Opel, doesn’t it?)

[hexed kayak]

Opel engine

same engine in the opel gt

[stoic ledge]

That one shares 0 tech with Opel, basically an entire Daewoo product, also uses older Daewoo engines (S-TEC iirc?) which is not the default small Opel engine

Also buttons, switchgear, seats.... nothing is Opel

[vocal mural]

☹️

I’ve S-TEC II, the default one

[dusky bobcat]

Mb forgot to reply to this. This is all I can find. 5vz not 3vz. I don’t think shifting at 5k is the right solution so

Looks like d/dx for the hp graph is highest at around 3600, should I go to about there then?

[hexed kayak]

what are you trying to find?

[dusky bobcat]

Just where to shift/how to improve fuel economy without new parts

Getting 13mpg rn so…

[hexed kayak]

theres lots of stuff you can do other than shifting

for shifting though you want a balance of power and low rpm. you was as little rpm to get the car going for the next shift without being too little that the car bogs in the next gear

you dont technically need new parts and you can cobble them together with stuff laying around but make a smooth undertray for the whole car and make a hot air intake by making the car suck in air from right over the exhaust manifold

[misty mantle]

Put it in neutral going downhill

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah, I need new spark plugs but I’m scared the current ones wont come out but that’ll fix it. Also smaller tires and taking the roof rack of would help. I avoid idles and keep cruise speeds as much as possible. If you got any other solutions tho I’m all ears

[hexed kayak]

i drove 3km going to Detroit with my cobalt ss fully turned off

[misty mantle]

Noice

Infinite MPG

[hexed kayak]

traffic at the border and the bridge was a 2.5 km downhill

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah that’s what I’m trynna find, been doing 3k and after the shift I end up at 2k good power but doesnt sound like it’s using too much

[hexed kayak]

you need to get the plugs changed somehow though

[dusky bobcat]

Shouldn’t hurt should it? Helps with engine braking anyway

[hexed kayak]

another thing that is bad is stopping

[dusky bobcat]

Wdym?

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah but that’s kinda hard to avoid all together

I reduce it but there’s only so much I can

[hexed kayak]

learn the length of the red lights on your route and go just slow enough that it turns green when you get to it. on good days i can get though every light on my route home without stopping in my volvo

[hexed kayak]

you said you are worried the current plugs wont come out

[hexed kayak]

ive freaked out a couple cops cause im just barreling toward a redlight and it goes green 6 feet before i enter the intersection

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah I need to find a solution for them. I usually stop at most of them, only time I’ve never hit a light I was going like 5 over which my car is already struggling with 45 so I’d rather not do that constantly

[feral reef]

That’s a joke right?

[dusky bobcat]

Oh yeah I think they might just be rusted into the block, they all work just not at full efficiency. If they don’t come out they don’t come out, not a huge issue

[dusky bobcat]

Lmao people like that have freaked me out a few times

Usually think they’re gonna kill someone

[misty mantle]

Yes, it was

Its also something I do anyway because I drive a manual

[hexed kayak]

they just know light timings

[hexed kayak]

i do it when i dont want to engine brake

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah I’m sure they do, it was on a Sunday though so they probably weren’t doing it every day

[feral reef]

Why would you, that’s just using more fuel

[hexed kayak]

thats the kind of thing you pay a shop for. cause if they snap the plug or strip the head they get to deal with it

[feral reef]

Unless you turn the engine off, but that’s a bad idea

[misty mantle]

Theres a several mile downhill stretch between my house and town where I just put it in neutral and brake every once-in-a-while

[hexed kayak]

done that alot. but ive driven lots of cars with no power brakes

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah that’s prolly smart, gotta lotta mechanics in my family though, we swapped an engine this summer they ain’t gonna let some spark plugs stop them

Granted that engine was worth like 3x my car

[feral reef]

Then just put it in top gear and never brake? And use 0 fuel in the process

[dusky bobcat]

Would prolly use a little fuel right?

[feral reef]

None

[hexed kayak]

no

[dusky bobcat]

Huh ok

Didn’t know that

[feral reef]

Idling in neutral on the other hand does use fuel

[hexed kayak]

its a full fuel cut your engine is running on the kinetic energy of the car

[dusky bobcat]

How does it know to not inject fuel tho?

[feral reef]

Idk, engines are smart

[dusky bobcat]

Obviously newer cars with computers and shit but I doubt most manuals are that smart

[misty mantle]

It can tell what position the throttle is in

[hexed kayak]

because its in vaccum and there isnt any usefull work to be done so it stops pulsing the injectors

[dusky bobcat]

In idle the throttle is out but it still injects fuel

[dusky bobcat]

Ah that makes sense ig

[misty mantle]

Fair

[hexed kayak]

if you hook up a scanner to your car it will actually say the blade is open 5-15% at idle

[dusky bobcat]

Oh fr? That’s interesting

But 0 in gear on a hill?

[feral reef]

No, 0 in gear going down hill

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah sorry what’s what I meant

[hexed kayak]

probably like 3% just to let some air in for the engine to turn over

[feral reef]

Going down hill in neutral is no different from neutral on flat ground

[dusky bobcat]

Ah yeah that makes sense would prolly want that

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah mb typo

[hexed kayak]

thats how engine braking works running your car normally its compressing and it wants to push the pistons down to the oil pan but during engine braking its making a vaccum and wants to pull the pistons back up into the valves thus slowing down the car

[dusky bobcat]

I mean also just the pistons moving in the cylinder at 2000 rpm is a lot of friction oil or not

You could open the valves and get some engine braking still. Idk if it would be good for it but still

[hexed kayak]

not really its just the vac and conpression forces

if you get a motor with no cyl head on it you can turn the engine over from the crank pulley like a knob on a car radio

super easy

[dusky bobcat]

Huh ok

I know very little abt cars so I’ll take your word for it

[hexed kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stuaK5bk_Ck

[dusky bobcat]

Still tho the pistons are loosing all kinetic energy on every cycle since they switch directions shouldn’t that slow it quite a bit?

[wispy cloak]

They don't really switch directions suddenly

[wraith rivet]

yeah try 3000-3500

[hexed kayak]

they all balance out so while one is going in another is going out and it doesnt really loose energy from that

[wispy cloak]

@dusky bobcat do you understand how the crank works

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/I-yxxFmA2RI?t=32 @dusky bobcat this guy meassures how much tq it takes to turn it and its almost nothing

[wraith rivet]

a Jake brake is the same thing isn’t it? but the valves just stay closed so it’s like a compressor

[wispy cloak]

Same thing as what

[hexed kayak]

it does the same thing buts a jake brake is an actual component that will adjust the valves

[wraith rivet]

ohh okay it needs extra hardware

[wispy cloak]

It opens the exhaust valves after compression

Which is part of the reason it makes so much noise

On my f350 I can use my turbo as an exhaust brake

[hexed kayak]

i drove a ram with a factory jake brake

[wispy cloak]

Those exist?

[hexed kayak]

i didnt know they did before they handed me that work truck

6.7 cummins ram

or its an exhaust brake

i forget

[wispy cloak]

Are you sure it isn't an exhaust brake

What does it sound like

[hexed kayak]

i dont remember cause it was a few years ago but it shook the whole cab of the truck

[wispy cloak]

Did it go WAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA

https://youtube.com/shorts/sZptZ_7Cps4?si=m2UfzmbmZJANeFo9

Like this

[misty mantle]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lmDmoTn6xhk

[dusky bobcat]

But it’s still changing direction at the end, that’s a lot of acceleration and deceleration

[dusky bobcat]

Yeah I do, idk the exact order or anything but I get the idea

[wispy cloak]

I thought you could only get them aftermarket

[misty mantle]

Honestly, I didn't know either until I just popped in here to see what was going on

Quick youtube search brought that video up

Damn, it sounds good

[hexed kayak]

idk why i needed a truck with a jake brake when i didnt tow but i was glad i had it

it was a welding rig

with a tool box uplift

[dusky bobcat]

But that’s at such low speeds and rpm’s that they don’t loose that much momentum. I’m sure it’s mostly the compression I’m just sayin the momentum and friction have a big play too, but it’s not worth arguing abt

[wispy cloak]

That is a short block so it has no compression

[wispy cloak]

Did you have to flip a switch to use it

[hexed kayak]

that only matters when you get to highend engines like super cars. or even f1 cars are a better example cause their motors have soo much friction in the rotation assembly while cold the motor just cannot turn over at all

they have to heat the block then start the car

[hexed kayak]

yes

[wispy cloak]

Are you sure it was factory and not done by the upfitter

[hexed kayak]

i assume its factory because there was no reason for one to be nesscasary for the box on the back

[wispy cloak]

I can't find anything about it being factory

[hexed kayak]

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/threads/when-did-the-stock-exhaust-brake-appear.256019/ im reading this rn

[wispy cloak]

Exhaust brake is different

It's where it creates an exhaust restriction instead

[hexed kayak]

i know but its the only thing i can find for a factory "engine brake device"

[wispy cloak]

Which is why trucks with vgts have it

[hexed kayak]

i just remembering how much cool shit the guy i used to work for had

and he just let it all rot

One dude has all this. Including that real nascar

[hexed kayak]

google dexter stacey 55

hes not the owner just the driver

[dusky bobcat]

Your prolly right, again I know like nothing abt cars, doesn’t matter that much either way

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle what you think of that collection

theres a 454 ss in there which im pretty sure is what you like besides fords

[misty mantle]

No way this guy has a Grand National

Factory turbo V6

[hexed kayak]

yup and he lets it rot outside all year

hasnt moved since 11

[misty mantle]

Offer to get it back on the road for him, if not buying it outright

[hexed kayak]

he bought that 50th anniversary edition vette new and never drove it. it has delivery miles

[hexed kayak]

hes not interested in anyone messing with his stuff

hes a car hoarder

he has 5 modern challengers and 3 modern camaros

[dull cedar]

is it a time thing or a "I don't want ANYONE else to enjoy these cars" - oh well that answers it lol

[misty mantle]

Holy shit, I would be in heaven if I knew where this place was

[hexed kayak]

you can see a few of them in the first pic i sent

Red is challenger blue is camaro

[hexed kayak]

The thing i liked the most was the real cup car

[misty mantle]

Bro has got money coming out of everywhere, holy shit

[hexed kayak]

This is a billet engine civic

[dusky torrent]

sleeper build right?

[hexed kayak]

Most likely

[hexed kayak]

Btw his gnx is one of 6 on the street he lives on

[dusky torrent]

you know how ppl mod cars so they dont have to spend so much on a luxury car?

i wonder if that civic beats a stock m2

[hexed kayak]

He owns a native cigarette factory and owns the internet and phone companies that does the whole rez

And a truck stop

[hexed kayak]

When you google dexter stacey 55 you can see the truck stop sponsored the nascar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dexter+stacey+55&sca_esv=570532409&tbm=isch&sxsrf=AM9HkKlGjTX1sRQBUX21jBs8MRo574okYA:1696379517083&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiajJSUktuBAxVEhv0HHcIODzoQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1904&bih=915&dpr=1#imgrc=FEQm4R7h85ne3M

[hexed kayak]

dexter is a mid driver though

he hasnt raced a cup car in series since 2011 and failed to qualify this year

[hexed kayak]

probably

[dusky torrent]

why do ppl buy supercars

[hexed kayak]

idk there isnt a point to me

[coarse jewel]

status, fun when you have perfect weather and no pot holes and minimal traffic

[dusky torrent]

i dont see the point either

[coarse jewel]

But Porsche is better

[hexed kayak]

brakes for some of those cars cost as much as an 800hp engine for my cobalt ss

[dusky torrent]

a bmw 335i for example can put out as much horsepower as a corvette c8

[coarse jewel]

iirc the ferrari the ferrari brakes cost as much as a WRX

[dusky torrent]

no point in owning a supercar lol

[hexed kayak]

i can see the point in buying quite a few of them

[coarse jewel]

Supercars are fun

[hexed kayak]

but none are keeping the stock motor

i would buy cars like a gallardo or ferrari f430 and drop in a twin turbo 6.0 vortec

[coarse jewel]

McLaren can keep a stock motor, British are surprisingly good with Engines. Will just need to completely redo the electrical system. But Porsche is the best option for superish car performance that's actuall practical

[dusky torrent]

for me if im buying a supercar, i'd treat it like it's an expensive thing u know

no modifying

take it out once a week

store in garage

[hexed kayak]

loose 50k in one year from depreciation

[dusky torrent]

yeah that is what it is with those cars

[coarse jewel]

Super cars cost a few hundred thousand, if you can afford a super car you can afford to properly care for it.

[dusky torrent]

the 458 italia is special to me and if i own one ion want to ruin it with mods and engine swaps

i guess i am what they call a "purist"

[hexed kayak]

thats not the kind im interested in

id be looking on copart for my supercar

25k

[coarse jewel]

few hundred thousand minimum

most are $1 mil +

[dusky torrent]

i'd own a rolls royce tho

[hexed kayak]

idk what you think a super car is but thats hypercar money

[dusky torrent]

idfc about depreciation. if i have frick you money, im commissioning a rolls royce

[coarse jewel]

If I could somehow afford super cars I'd get a McLaren for track days and fun road driving and a GT3RS for daily

[dusky torrent]

i heard mclarens are shit in terms of maintenance

[hexed kayak]

they are also built like trash

[coarse jewel]

Main issue is the same as all British cars, electrical.

[hexed kayak]

i was looking at the mclaren booth at the 2023 montreal auto show and the panel gaps are horrifying. the door was scraping the enamel off the carbon tub on 2 seperate cars and on an other the frunk latch wasnt aligned so you could only close it by brutally slamming it

[coarse jewel]

aren't those usually prototypes and concept cars and engineering samples?

[hexed kayak]

no these were customer cars that had already been paid for

and been reged and plated

[eternal cove]

Bruh I drove directly into a hail cone in death valley.
Formation.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/668646611278102558/1158593407736877056/iime2.mp4?ex=651d7872&is=651c26f2&hm=f48977b27b031baceecb5b706fca9d71cdaefba32700ccfd022bccf322cc1723&

Contact.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1158906681506406512/1158916906124836864/Contact.mp4?ex=651dfcfa&is=651cab7a&hm=b71980c673c6d28978bf796b2d293e6ca48bf5deac437c1b5aa6240af31ee6bc&

Starlink lived but connection went off a cliff.

[hexed kayak]

in would be crying if i went through that in my cobalt ss

Custom paint ruined

[wispy cloak]

That just looks like sleet

When I heard hail I thought the windshield was gonna get shattered

[carmine summit]

taking the 5.0l V10 out of the Gallardo and dropping in a boat anchor is just dumb

[hexed kayak]

not really

[carmine summit]

that's one of the best V engines ever made

not even an exaggeration

the 2.5l 5 cylinder in the RS3 that people make 1300+hp with is based on that V10

it's so much better than an LS/LT

[hexed kayak]

it also costs 30 grand for a reman engine vs 600 bucks at the junkyard

[carmine summit]

so just don't trash it? lol

skill issue

[hexed kayak]

i keep cars a long time and drive them alot. you think that v10 would last doing 50k km a year

[carmine summit]

yes

[hexed kayak]

7 years time it would have 300k miles on it

[carmine summit]

also there's no way you're driving 50k km a year in a gallardo lol

[hexed kayak]

i drove 30k this year in my big turbo ss an 60k in my volvo this year

[carmine summit]

you don't know what it's like to drive, it's not something youd even want to drive every day

[carmine summit]

and I drove 20k in my big turbo jetta, it's still completely different

[hexed kayak]

i know what they are like to drive

its a fine daily

did a road trip with my old boss in his

[carmine summit]

a road trip isn't the same as daily driving, at all

[hexed kayak]

from toronto canada to san jose costa rica

6200km one way if you dont stop to look at things

spent a whole month in it

4 roadside oil changes too

[hexed kayak]

was the same guy who owns all this shit

[wispy cloak]

5.0 with two less cylinders better

[hexed kayak]

Thats while towing an excavator

[wispy cloak]

Unopened coyote go crazy

[hexed kayak]

When i saw it say 2018 f150 i was like “here we go another person who thinks an f150 is fast because they came from a 7.3 idi” and then i was like oh shit

[wispy cloak]

That's what happens when you have a mustang drivetrain with awd

[hexed kayak]

Might have a small bit to do with the facts it’s probably a super snake as well

[wispy cloak]

That's a regular f150

Just supercharged

[hexed kayak]

Pretty sure its a snake. Cause its says super there and f150s dont get a super duty option

[wispy cloak]

If it was super snake it'd say shelby in front of the name

Here's another f150

[pastel marsh]

christ

[hexed kayak]

[charred depot]

just remove it

[fathom socket]

that's like 20k, is it considered a good deal considering the mileage?

[past copper]

My brother literally just did that to his cobalt steelies before he left for college. I mean it works right?

[vocal mural]

Any good?

[timber oar]

Plug em in and find out

[charred depot]

you want nice warm candle spec bulbs

[hexed kayak]

if he sanded the rust on them and put rust converter then they weill be fine for awhile

This cobalt is getting some attention next

[hexed kayak]

I just painted them cause im doing maintenance and doing winter prep

Need

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle

[stoic ledge]

Just get it LHD?🤔

[vocal mural]

New lämp

[hexed kayak]

there hasnt been an accord wagon sold here since the 90s

[stoic ledge]

Well if you want to import a Japanese RHD one you can just as well import a LHD one from Europe

[hexed kayak]

true

[stoic ledge]

https://www.autoscout24.de/angebote/40c42543-4fc2-418b-9e14-d0d50fcb87a8

[hexed kayak]

2x the milage tho and im pretty sure the rhd will go cheaper

[stoic ledge]

Ofcourse, RHD is basically worthless

They're quite difficult to find in Europe

Sold poorly

[hexed kayak]

i dont mind rhd though

[hexed kayak]

used to drive it everyday for work

canada post imports rhd crvs and uses them to deliver mail in rural areas and thats what i did quite awhile ago

[wispy cloak]

Rhd mail jeeps still exist too

[hexed kayak]

cant you buy them new from the dealer

state side

[wispy cloak]

No idea

Don't know why you'd want a jeep

Let alone a rhd one

[hexed kayak]

i remember hearing that somewhere

[hexed kayak]

i dont but a locally sold brand new rhd is interesting

https://www.autotrader.com/oversteer/you-can-buy-a-brand-new-right-hand-drive-jeep-wrangler-in-the-u-s#:~:text=Car Buying Tools-,You Can Buy a Brand-New Right-Hand-Drive,Jeep Wrangler in the U.S.

[misty mantle]

Lmao

[stoic ledge]

Kek Autotrader regionblocking

[wraith rivet]

solving my vibration issues once and for all

[hexed kayak]

i need to do that

i also need to figure out something for my licence plate

the plate in my cobalt ss starts visibly flapping when i play music

[wraith rivet]

lmao

is it just held on by 2 top screws?

not 4?

[stoic ledge]

Plates require no screws to stay in place

[charred depot]

Plate on the rear of my car is the original dealer plate from like 40 years ago not been removed heh

[stoic ledge]

Lol gg

[charred depot]

Can see the state of the front plate though when I first got it in this picture.

its readable

drums hammered off to make it roll and A framed

Im probably going to paint my estate RAL 5012

be a shit paint job but the grey is a bit boring.

[stoic ledge]

Looks very authentic and untouched, definitely never dinged

[hexed kayak]

only holes for 2 screws

[charred depot]

its a taxi so it is amazingly uncrashed

[hexed kayak]

thats why people in europe always loose them driving through water

[charred depot]

Minor damage to back left repaired, has a new wing / fender on the front right

All my plates are screwed on but I suppose dealers are fitting them with double sided tape these days I think for the most part.

[hexed kayak]

i watch videos of people driving through uk fords in their cars and and by the end of each video there is usually a pile of 20-30 plates

[charred depot]

A decent adhesive with the correct prep should be good if not better than screws

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/Qmm7AfLMAqY?t=359

[charred depot]

Saab had taped on plates which were original

[hexed kayak]

its always the german cars that give up half way through

[hexed kayak]

that tape is proabably a fossil now

[charred depot]

During flood season I am always tempted to drill a hole in the bulkhead and stick my air intake inside the car heh

So I can bomb through floods and have cocky modern cars follow me

Do it with a car I dont care about.

The annoying thing is insurance will pay out for all those people

I know of a case where people deliberately hydrolocked a damaged M5 V10 engine to get insurance to pay for a replacement.

[hexed kayak]

smort

[misty mantle]

Half the time you can save a hydrolocked engine if it doesn't have any bent rods

[hexed kayak]

serisously though. if you are gonna commit insurance fraud that the way to go about it

[hexed kayak]

drive a car with rings so washed out the water just goes straight into the pan

no hydrolocking

[charred depot]

I get annoyed with insurance being so high but it makes sense...

Wouldnt be me claiming for anything

[hexed kayak]

ive got liability on all my shit

no full coverage

[charred depot]

The funny thing here is comprensive (full coverage) generally works out cheaper here for under 25's.

Something something liability only drivers dont care about their cars and are more dangerous drivers

[hexed kayak]

its a waste of money for me when it comes to cobalts because ive repaired enough of them i can probably do a better job than a body shop for cheaper

[charred depot]

I am third party only (liability) on the Maroon 305 as the insurance is dealt with by a specialist as its mortified.

[hexed kayak]

liability here is damn cheap

my black ss purple ss volvo and gold base cobalt cost a total of 73$ a month to insure

[charred depot]

Its hard to say here its a great random number generator

Without a set of no claims bonus: Citroen BX Estate £1500/y Citroen BX Hatchback top spec TZD Turbo £600/y

No claims bonus can only be used in one place at a time so I have say a policy with 3-4 years built up another with 2 and another with 1.

[feral reef]

My Miata is about €77/month for full coverage

[charred depot]

Modified 305 is £27/m, Stock 305 estate is £45/m

[hexed kayak]

if i ever wreck my purple car the black one is getting cannibalized to save it

[wispy cloak]

They'll bend rods in most cases

Especially high compression gas engines

[charred depot]

My modified car is the cheapest to insure because my noclaims bonus and because I have to talk to real people to get it insured and fill out a bunch of extra forms.

I hate talking to insurance people

[wispy cloak]

My cheapest vehicle to insure is the firetruck

[charred depot]

Answer 100 questions "lmao we knew from the 2nd question we werent going to cover you"

no price, just no

[wispy cloak]

Because of the antique plates

[hexed kayak]

they probably figure it isnt moving much

[wispy cloak]

Yep

I have Hagerty on that

[hexed kayak]

i hate hagerty

[wispy cloak]

Otherwise my super duty is $400 every six months for full coverage

And the audi is $300 every six months for liability

[charred depot]

Classic insurance can be good here but I use my cars for business purposes with decent mileage which excludes me.

[wispy cloak]

I only use Hagerty for the firetruck

[hexed kayak]

every quote they have given me on insurance is like 3x what beniva charges me

[wispy cloak]

I use Hagerty because classic insurance

[hexed kayak]

they wanted 180$ a month to insure my rotten black ss on liability

[misty mantle]

If something happens to my Bronco that ends up totaling it out, I'm buying it back and either salvaging parts for another Bronco II if its to smashed up or just turn it into a dedicated off-roader which I was planning on doing in the future anyway

Even though I could probably drive it on the road with salvage title in the state of california, why would I when I can just jack it up on boggers

[hexed kayak]

ive had an non road legal car. its not a great as you think

you end up paying insurance and maintenace on a trailer and you can NEVER use it any time you want

they also break way more from sitting alot

[misty mantle]

I have a ATV and a Snowmobile, I'll already have a trailer anyway

[hexed kayak]

it would still be better to get it to a rebuilt title so it can drive on the road then build it

its why i havent put a cage in my cobalt yet. i like driving it around on the road

[misty mantle]

I would be ripping the emissions shit out of it so I wouldn't be able to get it smogged

[hexed kayak]

isnt it almost exempt anyway?

[misty mantle]

Think so due to how old it is

But yeah, can't drive on the road without a valid smog certification here in Cali if the vehicle is registered in the the CA DMV system

[hexed kayak]

montana llc time

[hexed kayak]

i just checked and its bs that cali doesnt move up the smog exmept years

75 or older

your car has to be almost 50 years old to be exempt

[misty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/angry-kid-vine-table-tantrums-gif-18579023

Can't get a vin off a pre-75 bronco II because they didn't exist until the early '80s

[charred depot]

Not too long ago it was 25 years old for classic exemption, 40 years atm

[hexed kayak]

scum

that behavior is gonna drive classics to their grave

[charred depot]

Some people get really annoyed when you tell them that a 40 year old car doesent need a MOT

Out in the fred flinstone mobile

[wispy cloak]

When my dakota was totaled I refused to give up the title to insurance so they gave me a lesser settlement and I kept the truck

Clean title

[charred depot]

Someone I know crashed a volvo 850 only damage to front bumper and they categorised it without even looking at the car so it basically cant go back on the road.

[wispy cloak]

No cars need inspections here and it's great

[hexed kayak]

people are gonna not have enough money to fix their classic cars and pass emmisons so they are going to get parked and rot away till it becomes exempt and a real build can be done

[misty mantle]

Thats some bullshit

[charred depot]

I like the inspections because it creates a challenge for us

[wispy cloak]

Why didn't they fight with insurance

[charred depot]

didnt care

Without MOT's it would be so easy to keep a shitbox on the road

[hexed kayak]

i dont. i got interrogated about why my car has aluminum control arms instead of the factory steel while living in toronto

[wispy cloak]

My audi is registered with a check engine light, 20 year old tires, and more

My super duty has had all emissions systems deleted

[hexed kayak]

it was as base cobalt with fe5 turbo ss stock suspension

[wispy cloak]

And will not have a muffler soon

[charred depot]

They dont care about stuff like that here

[wispy cloak]

Insurance realized they fucked up with me

[charred depot]

can modify all you want as long as it is to spec, ofcourse on newer stuff you generally cant remove emissions systems.

[wispy cloak]

Because they took over the legal time limit to give me a payout

Didn't provide a rental

[charred depot]

The emissions test for old diesels is basically does it deploy a smoke screen Y/N

[wispy cloak]

And I had over a dozen witnesses, a video of it, and admission in writing from the other driver

[hexed kayak]

what are you gonna do

insurance claim for my gfs fiat went quick

1 week and we had a 12500$ cheque

[wispy cloak]

They paid for all mechanical repairs, let me keep a clean title, and gave me more money than I paid for the truck

[wraith rivet]

Damn

[misty mantle]

If the tires hold air, thats all that matters

[wispy cloak]

They do but are completely bald and terrifying to drive on

[hexed kayak]

who knew a 8 year old fiat with 156k km was worth that

[wispy cloak]

New tires have been ordered but I'm just waiting for them to get in

The compound on these have also significantly degraded

[misty mantle]

Drag slicks

[wispy cloak]

They're continental extreme contacts or whatever

Getting hankook something or others

[hexed kayak]

i had 2 buy 2 new tires in detroit

[misty mantle]

Scary shit, I'm guessing?

[wispy cloak]

New tires for the audi are so cheap

[hexed kayak]

in one day i toasted the brand new indy 500s on the front wheels

[wispy cloak]

It's only like $500 for a good set

[hexed kayak]

rolled into a tire shop right on woodward on chords and got 2 new indys and kept going

[misty mantle]

We may end up putting the stock suspension on my Dads bronco when it comes time for tires due to how expensive the tires are that are currently on it

[wispy cloak]

How much are they

[hexed kayak]

i still have to go and scrape all the rubber out of the wheel well

[misty mantle]

All I'm gonna say is they are big Mickey Thompsons that are on it currently

[wispy cloak]

Like $500 a tire?

[hexed kayak]

put some ling longs on it

[misty mantle]

Probably

Think they are like '30-someodd inch tires

[wispy cloak]

My super duty tires are about $300 a piece before tax and install

Those are 33s

[hexed kayak]

that sounds cheap to me

the 255/40/18 tires on my ss cost 240 a piece

https://youtu.be/hZ5P9xMOO_4?t=684

@wispy cloak @misty mantle ukrainians are something else

[misty mantle]

Paid about $75 a pop for 2 front tires on my ATV

[wispy cloak]

Usd

So a full set before tax or install is about $1200

[misty mantle]

$150 for both, and $20 for mounting and disposal of the old tires

[hexed kayak]

[charred depot]

I run a upgrade on my car to 175's : )

meant to have like 155 / 165's

[wispy cloak]

My audi is on 205s stock

[charred depot]

Wheelspin city with the Dturbo power

[hexed kayak]

mfs using artillary rounds as a hammer

[hexed kayak]

go to 225

shit will flip over

[charred depot]

the rear arches on the estate only accept 175's

5mm of clearance

[hexed kayak]

thats crappy

[charred depot]

Its intentional there is basically 0 arch protrusion in the boot.

[hexed kayak]

but muh big tires

[wispy cloak]

The super duty is on 285s

Dakota 255s

[hexed kayak]

i think i might go down to 235s on my car

[wispy cloak]

The dakota is as close to stock as I could get

[hexed kayak]

it has ALOT of grip

[wispy cloak]

But 255/55r17 is just such a weird size

So I went 255/50r17

[charred depot]

wont see that good a boot on many estates, especially these days.

[hexed kayak]

400hp fwd and it spins half of 1st

[wispy cloak]

My super duty will gladly spin through half of the gears it has

[charred depot]

its always wet here so most of the power I have is pretty useless.

[wispy cloak]

Torque monster lifestyle

[hexed kayak]

im pretty sure i make high 300s tq

[wispy cloak]

The dakota will spin first and second

I make like 800 something I think

[charred depot]

My petrol 305 will spin many gears on 15 year old winter tyres.

[wispy cloak]

Something something blah blah blah numbers

[hexed kayak]

that was my volvo last winter

[charred depot]

Its really fun until you actually need to stop

[hexed kayak]

the snow tires were so worn and old it would start burning rubber while going up parking garage ramps

more than a 30 degree grade and it starts peeling out at the smallest touch of the gas

[wispy cloak]

That's how my audi is

It'll spin into second

Which sounds impressive

[charred depot]

I have a little FWD hatchback with 20 year old tyres on the back if I lifted off the throttle going around a roundabout it would bring the rear around

[wispy cloak]

But 20 year old tires

That are also bald

When it's wet I can spin through third

[hexed kayak]

i dont fuck with old tires

me and old tires dont like eachother

[charred depot]

I have decent tyres on my maroon one but all my other cars are pretty tragic on that front.

[wispy cloak]

I only keep old tires on low power vehicles

[hexed kayak]

ive wrecked 3 cars my whole life each time it was cause dry rotted tires just flew into a million parts

[charred depot]

I have 2 of the same car one with tragic tyres one with expensive ones.

[wispy cloak]

Super duty has decent tires

Dakota has new fronts and decent rears

[charred depot]

I was driving the decent one for ages then had to swap into the shit one, bombed it up to a roundabout at 60mph start braking >locked up.

[wispy cloak]

I don't even want to know how old the firetruck tires are

[hexed kayak]

yes

thats how old

[wispy cloak]

Last time I priced new tires for it fronts were $1000 a piece before install or tax

And rears were $500 a piece

So about $4000 before tax or install

It's an ungodly number

[charred depot]

Its funny the wheels on my estate exceed the value of the car.

[hexed kayak]

i bet you could find better tires for it behind someones house

[wispy cloak]

It has nice tires on it

[charred depot]

They are rare limited edition rallye steels everyone wants for some reason.

[hexed kayak]

people constantly pester me for the recaro seats in my parked black car

[charred depot]

people get more annoyed because they are in pretty dreadful condition at the moment as I dont really care.

[hexed kayak]

i get 3-5 messages a week asking if i want to sell them yet and 1-2 notes left on the car a month asking if ill sell the whole thing or just the seats

[hexed kayak]

like who tf wants to buy a whole car for seats

[charred depot]

mini people

[hexed kayak]

they do look cool though

[hexed kayak]

those poor bastards in the supercharged mini community. i wonder if they are okay

[charred depot]

Dont look too closely at the arch here, perfect recreation with caveman hammer technology.

where the arch angle goes funny all inside the door along the sill had to be rebuilt for an MOT.

needs patched again as theres another hole you can see now lol

[hexed kayak]

it looks fine to but i saw a cobalt yesterday with cardboard taped over the rockers

soooo

[wispy cloak]

A fuel level sensor for my audi is $200 so I could literally buy a whole other parts car for that and a couple of other things and come out on top

[charred depot]

they sometimes use a magnet here to check heh

need to mix in some metal shards to the filler.

[wispy cloak]

The holy grail of b5 parts are headlight washer caps and bumper clips

Because the bumpers are notorious for sagging

[hexed kayak]

ive got a box of lathe fillings for that

[wispy cloak]

So if anybody has a driver's side bumper clip for a b5

[charred depot]

Im going to be respraying the estate with RAL 5012, just bought 16 cans. Its probably gonna look shit but grey is too normie.

[hexed kayak]

quebec only has inspections for cars being brought into the province and my buddies come to me with cars they buy to docter them up to pass inspection then over time they rebuild properly

[wispy cloak]

My super duty started as an american truck, was exported to canada, and imported back to america

Then ended up in the south for a decade

[near lantern]

If anyone here feels like buying a double-decker bus, now's your chance

https://www.communitytransit.org/news-and-events/article-detail/2023/10/03/one-double-tall-to-go?fbclid=IwAR2ARqX3doXj6wgS3lBQHqyZ4-5qWJY3eVyt-jaXlRgIrgSHQfiwLeHwysI

[hexed kayak]

new home just dropped

[near lantern]

go get it at auction then

[hexed kayak]

you think it could carry a cobalt ss in the bottom back half and flat tow a volvo?

with living area on the second level

[near lantern]

idk what a colbalt SS is but probably

buses have got pretty huge engines so yeah i think it could tow the vast majority of things

[hexed kayak]

This is a cobalt ss

[near lantern]

no idea

i only came here to say that theyre for sale

you could probably sleep in that bus as it is cause its got seats like a bed

i have a picture somewhere

[hexed kayak]

if i was to buy a bus like that id be living it and the bottom half would be a work shop and be able to hold a car

[near lantern]

top deck looks like this

go to Flickr.com and search for “community transit 2010 Enviro500”

[wispy cloak]

It's probably rear engined

[near lantern]

it is

iirc every transit bus in seattle is rear engined

[dusky torrent]

my hot take: the porsche 911 gt3 is overhyped

i like the car it's just that the supra kids have moved on

[coarse jewel]

very hot take, considering it out performs a good chunk of super cars in track conditions and road conditions and does so while being reliable.

[hexed kayak]

supra on the other hand is only good modded

any gen

even the lastest one isnt great stock

[dusky torrent]

it corners well and has active aero but it has 2 less hp than the 991.2

i want to ask porsche engineers why a 2 hp deduction

[coarse jewel]

hp doesn't mean everything

[dusky torrent]

the nordschleife straight

[coarse jewel]

Supra kids are the kids that believe horse power means everything

[dusky torrent]

more hp gives more top speed

[hexed kayak]

the spec sheet shows a 2hp reduction but not the extra suspension r&d

[dusky torrent]

supra kids are horrible

and the gt3 rs is overrated

[hexed kayak]

not 2hp. at the kind of speeds the gt3 does you are talking an extra 100hp to make a big difference

[dusky torrent]

the gt3 used to be my dream car but not anymore bc it's not unique and not understated anymore

i still like the 458 italia

and the e39

[coarse jewel]

a Ferrari, which will break 5km off the lot. Smort.

[hexed kayak]

all ferrari owners have a stick and a bag of marshmallows in their glove box

[dusky torrent]

no no, those are mclarens

mclarens break 5 km

ferraris break at 50 km

[coarse jewel]

McLaren's are reliable, maybe require a complete rebuild of the electrical harness but that's easier than an engine rebuild.

[hexed kayak]

i think i mentioned yesterday the horrendous build quality i witnessed

[hexed kayak]

this message

[coarse jewel]

so far you're the only person I've found to say this

[hexed kayak]

https://youtube.com/shorts/8QlzjwGTZRc?si=f-KiW1W1h7NyyaDC

its a common thing

[dusky torrent]

my legs hurt. what could be the issue?

[hexed kayak]

cancer

[dusky torrent]

it's been 5 days since i last ran

maybe im not getting enough lean protein

[hexed kayak]

why are you asking the car channel in a discord and not a doctor

[dusky torrent]

no idea im just bored

i should start weightlifting again but lightly

[wraith rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/whistlindiesel-ferrari-field-gif-7874992751393400687

[hexed kayak]

you know as much as i like to joke about ferraris catching fire that was his own damn fault

[wraith rivet]

yeah lol

tbh I wouldn’t think brakes would get that hot just doing that to set those things on fire

but they prob could’ve saved it if they tried hard enough

[hexed kayak]

they arent moving fast but the actual wheel speed of the car is high so its not hard for the brakes to get hot

[wraith rivet]

I guess

OH

brain wave

I was always thinking it’d only be hot if he was actually braking but realized if a corn husk got jammed in between anything stationary and spinning that alone could make it ignite

silly me

[dusky torrent]

i wanna test my testosterone levels. i cant grow facial hair yet im almost 19

i also dont have chest hair

[wraith rivet]

😳

[hexed kayak]

true

[hexed kayak]

bruh some people just cant grow beards

mine started at 14 but i know people in their 50s who are still baby faced

[dusky torrent]

i think that's due to the trend of decreasing t levels in men

nvm this is #cars

[hexed kayak]

you know im not much older than you right

[coarse jewel]

I'm 18 and can easily grow a half decent beard in a week

[vale prawn]

check out the whip

[hexed kayak]

Nah aoc nasty

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/PPkMzphYLGI?t=211

this makes me happy lol

cobalt over jetta

[vocal mural]

Mad Trump

[shut dew]

[torn silo]

Is anyone here really good with relays and electrics?

I have a relay that isn’t made anymore and I need to know what relays I can use to replace them. (The pin positions do not matter)

V23072-C1061-A303

It’s for the central locking in my bmw

I can get a daughter board made to adapt different relays but I do not know what relay I could use to replace

[dusk ocean]

E36 control module just buy a donor or entire replacement for like $35-60

It's not coded to the car or anything

[charred depot]

You can still buy thoese relays, how have you condemned them if you dont know the pinout?

theres the diagram if you did want to bodge in some other relays.

[sturdy tree]

remapping your car to save gas was the biggest lie ever told lmao

Remapped my golf 6 1.2 from 85hp to 130hp, holy shit the difference is impressive! It drives so much better. However I'll call the gas pedal the money pedal from now on.

[torn silo]

Where from?

[torn silo]

Yeah but I need to find another one from a coupe from the same year apparently

[dusk ocean]

just put the PN# in ebay

[charred depot]

Here I think https://store.minitools.com/en/sei-v23072-c1061-a303-relay-v23072-c1061-a303.html

Are you in Europe?

[dusk ocean]

Or just buy a donor board for the relays

[torn silo]

Australia the shipping is crazy

[charred depot]

ah

if you are desperate I guess any 15A SPDT relay would do, I am sure I have ones with a pretty close pin spacing.

[torn silo]

Ok I have found a guy near me, $60 for a used board I’ll try him I think the relays should all be the same from all years at least I hope

[dusk ocean]

yeah I'd expect the relays to be the same - this a door lock or window issue?

[torn silo]

Door lock

[dusk ocean]

word - common issue on E34s also

I've got like 4 or 5 E34 GMs sitting around

[torn silo]

I have a friend who could make me daughter pcb boards to adapt another relay onto it

A fellow Bmw enjoyer 🤝

[dusk ocean]

You could also do it without a board and just solder a relay up

[torn silo]

I really want an e34

[charred depot]

fancy, some wires and hot glue the relay in the box.

[dusk ocean]

I have like .... 6 BMWs right now or so. I had 8 or 10 at my highest.

[torn silo]

Not if the pin positions its too dissimilar

[dusk ocean]

Yes, with wires.

[torn silo]

How big are 15 amp wires?

[dusk ocean]

14 awg

[torn silo]

Has to fit in small little pin holes

[charred depot]

well the size of the pins have to take 15A so..

[charred depot]

its not continuous so wouldnt stress.

[torn silo]

Valid

[dusk ocean]

It's all fused anyhow

[torn silo]

You guys have been the most helpful of all the communities I’ve tried, thanks guys.

It’s sad to see the proper relays go obsolete when they’re only gonna keep breaking lol

I guess that’s the point

[dusk ocean]

That's why you just need to keep buying cars for parts

🙂

[torn silo]

I expect teslas will be the same one day

[torn silo]

This is the factory spec

How close do I need my operate and release VDC to be?

[charred depot]

any 12v relay will do

[torn silo]

U reckon?

I guess it will either be supplied 12v or 0v right? so yeah that makes sense

[dusk ocean]

Most outputs are going to pull down to ground

BMW doesn't do a like 5v high 1v low, its always 5-12v high 0v low

[torn silo]

Right so yeah any should work?

[dusk ocean]

Yep basically

[torn silo]

Cooooool I might even be able to fix it this weekend then!

[dusk ocean]

If you want a forever fix go get a solid state relay 😛

(just watch for diode requirements)

[torn silo]

Alright now you’re testing the limits of my high school science class 1 term of circuit knowledge 😭

A diode is like a resistor but only goes one way right? What do I need to watch out for?

[dusk ocean]

haha first things first get a working replacement going, then you can experiment

[torn silo]

Do you think the rear light circuit could affect it?

[dusk ocean]

That looks like an E36 lol

[torn silo]

Yessir

[dusk ocean]

God bless

needs more tape!

[torn silo]

Got myself a bit of a project

[torn silo]

The previous owner thought they were an electrician 😭😭😭
I’ve pulled it apart now but it was literally twisted wires with tape 💀

[dusk ocean]

Typical E36 owners (sorry!)

yeah I would unfuck that trunk wiring

[torn silo]

Hehehe on the list of things to do. At least the rest of the car works. Kind of the sunroof works but catches on the wind deflector

Oh and the interior door cards and headliner all need work 😭

🫡 gotta keep ‘em alive tho

I crashed a perfect one so now I’m restoring one as a redemption build 😂

[dusk ocean]

haha damn

[misty mantle]

Rust, Yummi

[charred depot]

have a bit more welding to do on my estate before painting it light blue, no panels available and I am not a very good panel beater so heh.

anythings better than boring grey

[feral reef]

ND3 coming next year https://car.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1536685.html

[languid spear]

how do i know if my kenwood DDX4016BT supports mp4 vidios to playback

[misty mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/google-exists-google-search-it-geekboy-geekboy-cz-gif-25933207

[languid spear]

i culd not finde enything so i gues it dosent i mean latest apple device it supports is the iphone 5s

[wispy cloak]

Archaic

[misty mantle]

It also supports iPods, so yeah

[languid spear]

it can stream vidios from the 30 pin dock contor on ipods tho

[wispy cloak]

That's so old

Just get a new head unit at that point

[misty mantle]

Yeah, just get a new headunit

Or get a iPod

[languid spear]

i got it for free and its bether then stock audi a4 sline 2007 head unit

[misty mantle]

There is still a huge community behind iPods

[wispy cloak]

That doesn't mean it's good by modern standards

[languid spear]

i relly whanted a sub foower and that unit dosent support it

this is the unit

[misty mantle]

If you're gonna get a sub and amp, may as well spend some more money on a new head unit that supports recent phones

[languid spear]

true it worked with my samsung a71 so im happy for the moment

[languid spear]

and the car is giving a fault code beckuse this unit is not installed

[misty mantle]

Just Audi things

[languid spear]

ya to top it of its a b7 2.0 tdi

the oil pump have gone broken one time the engine survied but not the turbo when it hapend but works just fine now hehe affter some spare parts and meny work hours

[dusk ocean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zpv22Wgsnk

[stoic ledge]

Drove this Fisker today... quite fun, loads of power, sometimes even too much (wheel hop, torque steer). Interior, not 100% fan of all controls, too much in the screen. It can only be in landscape mode when in park, can't drive it in Landscape mode which is a shame as that's actually better imho. And we got locked in, the passenger door didn't work sometimes

[civic spoke]

EV's are kind of a cheat mode for high power.

[novel relic]

Those screens man, i swear, my night blindness would be the death of me with screens shining at me constantly

[wraith rivet]

Tf what’s the point of the rotating screen lol

[stoic ledge]

Widescreen to watch Netflix or whatever while charging

But why you'd want it portrait... idk

[novel relic]

At least the climate control is not in the digital screen

[stoic ledge]

More settings are, but the basics are below it

[torn silo]

Very crunchy mmmmm mmmmm

[civic spoke]

Bring back SAAB's night mode.

[novel relic]

Night panel lol, nah, my car has a dimming dial, can turn down every light in the car

[arctic pewter]

+hole in the exhaust

[torn silo]

Even headlights? 🔥

[torn silo]

I’ve been told I need to match the 132 ohm coil resistance to avoid blowing a driver. Is this true ?

[novel relic]

Nah, they just get hidden

[dusk ocean]

i think you'd be hard pressed to not hit that

[torn silo]

How do you mean? Most I can find are near 400 😦

[dusk ocean]

and thats fine

you would not want to go lower than 132 ohms

[torn silo]

Ah ok, I heard it can blow the driver otherwise

Thanks!

[dusk ocean]

I dunno - should not be an issue

if you current limit it with a resistor should be fine

the resistor is not built into the relay i'd thi nk

[torn silo]

Fair so I might want to test with a bread board first?

[dusk ocean]

no

you're fine

[torn silo]

Ok lol

Thanks sorry the whole things got me overthinking every possible aspect

[wraith rivet]

is an oil change every 5k miles overkill?

0w20 4 cylinder

I am the literal definition of whatever they call “high wear environments”

dusty, constant stop and go, short trips, hot asf etc

[stoic ledge]

With constantly short trips .. maybe not

Depends on how much time is in-between it also

[wraith rivet]

lemme check I have a picture of the last time I did it

was around 47k miles, now I’m at 51,700 ish

found it

December last year

10 months?

[stoic ledge]

I'd then do it once a year

[wispy cloak]

I change the oil in the super duty every 5000 miles

It's fords "extreme conditions" interval

[hexed kayak]

i do the oil on all my cars every 5000km

[hexed kayak]

the oil on my purple ss gets changed after any abuse

[misty mantle]

I do the oil in my ATV every hundred miles or so, all the small engines I do every year, and my Bronco I do every 3,000

[hexed kayak]

3000miles is 4800km so thats around what i do

the purple ss gets new oil after track days and things like that and it got new oil after i went to detroit and back cause it did 2400km and 9 hours of burnouts and launches in 3 days

[charred depot]

do the oil when I change the engine every 5000 miles.

[charred depot]

Actually fitted a engine without draining the oil so just used that

[deep zealot]

[misty mantle]

I wonder if they've tried to do that with Ford and GM

[wraith rivet]

yikes

[carmine summit]

I just wait for the 15000km service interval lol

my oil is always black but its a diesel so it's black after like 200km

black oil means it has oil

[hexed kayak]

what kind of small engines do you have?

[hexed kayak]

i hate black oil

i know its normal for diesels and cars that haven't always had perfect maintenance.

but it just makes me think the engines about to fall apart

my black cobalt ss always has black oil no matter what. it goes black within 30km of an oil change. but my purple one always comes out amber. and it only took 2 1000km oil changes in my volvo with atf mixed into the oil to get it to come out amber after every 5000km usually it takes 5-6

[patent basalt]

My 2018 f250s oil doesn’t go black almost at all, my Subaru either (it burns most of it) the challenger also doesn’t, pretty much the rest of my shit does

[fathom socket]

the more i look at BMW the more i appreciate Hyundai

[misty mantle]

Mainly mower and generator engines, as well as ATV

[feral reef]

I would assume they dim at night, haha

My Miata does

[charred depot]

need a nice cozy cluster

that ice isnt from outside thats from the inside of the windscreen heh

cant wait for winter, hopefully we get decent snow as its fun trawling about in old shitboxes with winter tyres with everyone in their modern cars on summers like "wtf"

[charred depot]

this was probably the favourite cluster ive had

[wispy cloak]

I really like the audi and firetruck clusters

I just want my fuel gauge to work

But I haven't had time to pop the tank open yet

[charred depot]

its a shame they never included a temp gauge on that cluster, just a light for "fucked" and another for "mega fucked"

"buy a new cylinder head light" and "just buy a entire engine"

[topaz vessel]

I always liked this cluster.

[wispy cloak]

That's how the temp gauges are on my f350

Cold, normal, or fukushima

Oil pressure is also good or zero

But the truck shuts off with low oil pressure because heui

[topaz vessel]

The idiot lights and fuel and temp were to the right.
When it was off it was just all dark glass.

[charred depot]

For some reason they set the warning lights on cars with these to like 105 / 110C which is pretty extreme

basically if the like came on you were probably already fucked

[wispy cloak]

Yep

Exactly how the super duty is

I don't understand why audi thought an oil temp gauge was more important than an oil pressure gauge

[charred depot]

Need to add a oil temp sensor to mine to see how toasty its getting, it has a oil to water heat exchanger so they should theoretically stay about the same but.

[carmine summit]

it's probably burning it

most likely in the head or turbo

[wispy cloak]

I just deezul

[carmine summit]

injection shop called, my pump is finally done

have someone going to pick it up for me

then tonight I can start working on putting the car back together

[wispy cloak]

This fine German automobile just makes clean oil

It has only had one oil change in over 15 years

But it has also only done 2000 miles in that time

[carmine summit]

it's junk, I'll get rid of it for you

and only charge you $400 for disposal, it's a good deal

[wraith rivet]

nuh uh

I’ll do it for $200

[wispy cloak]

Buy my bmw

[hexed kayak]

drain it and fill it with atf then come back 3 days later and put oil in it\

[wispy cloak]

No

The oil wasn't bad

[hexed kayak]

ive done some bad things with atf

shits great

sometimes it works too well

ive used it on sluged up motors and it does such a good job cleaning them that all the gunk holding the motor together leaves and it starts leaking from everywhere and burning oil

[stoic ledge]

@brittle totem got Wireless AA now

And the volume button here is not ridiculous like on VW's thank God

[hexed kayak]

i wish i coulld use wireless audio

but my ears hurt cause it usually sounds much worse than a cable\

[stoic ledge]

Oh Bluetooth/wireless sounds perfectly fine with this setup

I'm actually unsure how this setup works tbh, with the wireless device it's connected via WiFi, but my phone is also still connected over bluetooth to the head unit... so the music goes via Bluetooth?

I don't mind the cable that much, but the port is only 500mA which can barely keep the phone charged

[brittle totem]

Is it just plug and play ? How much did cost ? My brother might get something similar for his Cupra.

[brittle totem]

Yeah in the passat 30-40% volume is fine after that its extreamly loud for no reason😅

[stoic ledge]

Yup, was €75 with shipping

[civic spoke]

https://youtu.be/w85vaBhghtg

[hexed kayak]

captain sparkles is just doing side quests now

[civic spoke]

He will forever be known as "Pro's Don't Talk Sh*t" to me.

[hexed kayak]

you ever heard of a df goblin?

[civic spoke]

I have not.

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/6ZLw_ZMVI_U?t=152

its a kit car that uses a cobalt ss engine

it weighs as much as a happy meal

fully street legal

some ariel atoms use that engine too

[civic spoke]

Probably not for all states.

Then again. There are different laws for kit cars.

[hexed kayak]

legal in all 50 mexico and Canada

[civic spoke]

Oh, right. It's one of those cars that are technically legal.

Since they require a donor car and everything.

[hexed kayak]

it uses almost everything from a cobalt

even the gauge cluster

[civic spoke]

"Is the Goblin street legal?"
"Registering the Goblin for street use is possible in most states.
The laws for registering assembled/custom/kit vehicles vary by state. Some states require additional equipment like a safety glass windshield, parking brake, emissions equipment and more. You'll want to research your state to see the requirements.

You should also search our forum to see if anyone has registered in your state.

We don't yet offer all of the specialty items that some states require. Once you determine what is required in your state, contact us to see what parts we have available to help you register."

In other words. "I guess it's legal?"

[hexed kayak]

it depends on how you spec it. because you can get it anywhere from a metal tube cage with wheels to a car with body panels fenders and windows,mirrors, turn signals

[civic spoke]

Yeah, that's what I mean. It's up to the owner to make it compliant to any of the local laws.

[hexed kayak]

yup but they offer pretty much everything you would ever need. some sates just need less

[civic spoke]

cough
Florida
cough

[hexed kayak]

texas too

[civic spoke]

Though, I am pretty sure Georgia is also pretty easy on the rules.

Guess you just need to browse through the laws surrounding kit cars for that state, I guess.

[hexed kayak]

seems like it would be fairly straigh forward in cali too somehow

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/new-registration/register-a-specially-constructed-or-modified-vehicle/

[misty mantle]

The emissions equipment mainly apply to California

[civic spoke]

If the engine is from a compliant car, then it should be all good.

[hexed kayak]

a stock cobalt ss turbo motor would pass smog like its nothing with a factory gm stage 1 tune

and that would be a 1300 pound car with 290hp and 270tq

[misty mantle]

My dad put a Ford Performance tuning box in his Bronco to unlock the throttle response, turbo, and some other stuff. You don’t even need to floor it for it to push you back into your seat now, and you can REALLY hear that turbo spin

[hexed kayak]

i love turbo noise

[misty mantle]

And it’s a ford part, so it doesn’t even void the warranty

[hexed kayak]

Just like that cobalt ss tune

I always found it cool how gm and ford offer factory speed parts

Gm sells a book on how to build an ecotec to 850hp

[misty mantle]

Even though my dad used my good Bluetooth scan tool to enable all the GOAT modes, but as long no one from ford sees that, warranty is still good

[hexed kayak]

I wish i had a car where you could fuck around like that

I know some cars you can enable a hidden lap timer with scanners

[misty mantle]

Ford is practically begging you to do stuff to the full-size bronco. They literally plastered “Accessory Ready” all over the damn thing

With arrows pointing to factory mounting spots for stuff like light bars

[hexed kayak]

want to see something cool gm offered

https://www.crateenginedepot.com/Cobalt-Stage-3-2006-07-Performance-Upgrade-Kit-88958719-P10455.aspx

"Unique PCM which includes a calibration for the smaller pulley, an adjustable rev limiter, a 100 octane mode, and a nitrous algorithm."

in 2006 for what is essentially an econobox

[misty mantle]

Wow

[hexed kayak]

and you keep your warranty

not that it matters in 2023

[hexed kayak]

question is does ford sell light bars

[misty mantle]

Guess I should have said 3rd party accessories

[hexed kayak]

fords dropping the ball

making a car to be modded and not making 1st party mods

people would pay big money for a ford steel bumper with a winch mount

[wispy cloak]

The main target is the f150

[feral reef]

lol @novel relic remember that we talked about rusty discs?
This happens if you let them rust, don’t drive for a couple of days and then drive again

They were spotless before this

[novel relic]

Pretty much yeah

[wispy cloak]

I drove my audi on brakes that sat for 15 years

[hexed kayak]

how did that go

[wispy cloak]

The brakes work great

Front pads are really dusty though

[hexed kayak]

lol where do you live

[wispy cloak]

Illinois

[hexed kayak]

weird

[wispy cloak]

It was parked inside the whole time

[hexed kayak]

if i let a cars brakes sit for 15 years here i would sail into a wall when i drove it

[hexed kayak]

ah that explains it

[wispy cloak]

It got new brakes right before it was parked

And I had the whole hydraulic system apart up top

Next brake job this car gets I will be using pads that produce minimal amounts of dust hopefully

[boreal sleet]

that looks cleaaan nice!

[misty mantle]

Or just buy one that they know is good quality from a brand like Warn WITH a winch

[charred depot]

trying out colours, masking on the edit is about as good as it will be when I actually paint it heh

[halcyon grotto]

looks nice

[vocal mural]

Let’s write an honest review about my shitbox (2011 Chevy Spark 1.0 50kW BiFuel LS).

Acceleration: Really terribly slow (everyone is tailgating) at the end of the acceleration lane you’re at 50km/h :csKEKWAIT:

Fuel economy: although my harsh driving (pedal to the metal) i get 7,4l/100km, with the current LPG price in the Netherlands of 0,80€ per l it is economically viable making the total cost of ownership about 0,20€/km.

Seat comfort: Around ok for an hour or 1 and a half of driving.

Noise: when driving on fresh ZOAB little to no noise.

Sound system: Ok for a €12000 new price car (no Bluetooth but AUX or USB)

Vision: the thick A pillar annoys me making that I must turn my head to look in (sharp) curves.

Under the bonnet:
Everything seems easy accessible for maintenance that after watching some videos on YouTube (for example Chrisfix) you can do it on your own. (Had replaced the headlights with blue coated H4, was just taking the plug out, dust over off and the lamp was accessible (compare that with some other cars where you need to take the whole unit off)).

TL:DR
Ok and very cheap for daily, non sport driving, terrible for motorways.

[hexed kayak]

hear me out... nebula purple

[charred depot]

I already have a maroon one heh

Plus I am a cheapskate so will just be using the cheap common RAL 5012 paint.

[dusky torrent]

the tire looks broken but i fixed it

[hexed kayak]

still a side wall bubble man

mot failure (i think)

[dusky torrent]

i popped the side wall back in

i ran it on the dyno (treadmill)