cars

[stiff bloom]

Steve?!

[flint sable]

yeah

[stiff bloom]

That's a super fun part for sure

[flint sable]

that noise is

straight cut gears

btw

[stiff bloom]

Huh. Makes sense. Didn't know that, bit of a bummer but still cool!

[flint sable]

There’s a luncheon at Carlisle ford nationals and Steve is almost always there

[stiff bloom]

Oh man lucky! I met him a couple of times at S1 Cup events. Super cool guy but we never got to talk much he was always hyper busy

[flint sable]

We brought out an H302

[flint sable]

When are they gonna sell that thing!!!

[stiff bloom]

That S7 tho

[stiff bloom]

I don't know! They had a couple prototypes traveling with them every time and it was absolutely badass. I think they needed more funding sadly.

Which is a shame because it sits squarely in "attainable dream car" category for me

Talked to a couple of engineers about it, it really does sound like a modern US Lotus Emira: relatively cheap, super precise and bespoke, light, and with a tried and tested powertrain

[flint sable]

It belongs to the guy that runs the show

he's pretty cool

https://www.instagram.com/racelance?igsh=cnl0dDl1cGZ2dmpv

you could say i am a fan of the shows at carlisle

[stiff bloom]

Haha I can't say I blame you, if I had access I'd be similarly fanatic!

[flint sable]

if you ever get the chance, ford nationals is probably the biggest show

[tepid wing]

How stupid would it be to use a heat pump to cool the seats of a car? 🤔

[hollow flax]

if its stupid, but it works, its not stupid

[tepid wing]

It sounds cool.

[civic spoke]

Would just be stupid complicated to route everything

[tepid wing]

Hm, there are already variable duty compressors in cars right? I wonder if it's possible to tap a little off of that sort of like a mini split.

Not that I can do this right now, just pondering.

[dull heron]

why not just run refrigerant lines through the seats? 😆

[tepid wing]

Yeah exactly.

Though I guess using a heat exchanger and running a coolant loop would be safer.

[dull heron]

would probably cause a lot of issues, best to just stick to ventilated seats like most higher end cars have

[hollow flax]

i dont know why people buy leather seats, they are bad when cold, bad when hot

[dull heron]

they are much easier to clean and imo feel a lot higher quality

[hollow flax]

unless you shit on them I dont see why easier to clean is a good thing

[dull heron]

although i think Alcantara is kinda the best of both worlds

[dull heron]

what??

[hollow flax]

i mean sure easier to clean is good, but that can't be the only thing thats positive and you say ok I need that

[tepid wing]

You don't have to make them cold just not searing hot.

[dull heron]

which is why i think a fan would be better. i havent taken thermodynamics yet but im pretty sure you cant just tell the coolant what temperature to condense and expand to. its usually much colder than the desired temp

[dull heron]

i still think they feel nicer, and they also last longer in my experience

look better too

[tepid wing]

That's one reason why using a heat exchanger would be helpful. But you can have variable flow valves too.

It would be complex and expensive.

[hollow flax]

Yeah, sure, I get it somehow, just not for me. I feel that you need a car that has to cool or get warm before you drive, otherwise its a mess. Especially if you wear shorts. The leather sticks to your skin. NO thank you! :))

[dull heron]

oh i know lmao

i have leather and its over 100°F at 11am here

[tepid wing]

I miss having winters.

[dull heron]

favorite part about winter is the cold air into my engine🤤

[stiff bloom]

Well define "work". It'd probably cool the seat, sure, but it'd certainly be loud, heavy, and require worryingly large holes to be placed throughout the car to make it work

[hollow flax]

Indeed

[stiff bloom]

Well if you don't mind your seats looking like poop in 2 years yeah

[stiff bloom]

Same

In PNW where I live we usually have one week above 90F per year.

The last two years the entire summer has been over 90 basically. It's effing brutal and I hate it

[dull heron]

ah, i havent lived with it so i wouldnt know

[stiff bloom]

I mean I've only ever had Alcantara steering wheels and panels, so maybe the seats are a different type or something, but in my experience Alcantara is built for performance not longevity. It'll pill up and flake off real quickly. WAYYYY more than leather or even vinyl or cloth

[wispy cloak]

@stiff bloom remember the white truck?

It's gone

[stiff bloom]

Please tell me you didn't trade it for the worst srt4

[misty mantle]

Don't tell you you traded it for something worse than a un-built 6.0

[hexed kayak]

Im surprised its still on the road. I thought every srt4 on earth had a blown up transmission

[hexed kayak]

Like the cobalt ss is a cheap and fast shitbox like the srt4
But the difference is one still has like 13000 still on the road and the other has like 1000 at most

[misty mantle]

I would honestly take a bone-stock 6.0 powerstroke over a SRT4

Or a Cobalt

[hexed kayak]

There is a mentally deficient person that owns an autoshop on the way to where i get my weed at

[hexed kayak]

Ive never talked to them but i know they are deficient because they have 5 modded up first gen neons in front of their shop

[misty mantle]

My bronco II hates starters

apparently there's a manual starter and a automatic starter, and apparently I keep ending up with the automatic starters

[hexed kayak]

not this neon btw

all of them are this version

[misty mantle]

Oh, one of my friends just got his permit, his mom got him a neon

[hexed kayak]

the curse of reman partson a 40 year old car

Speaking of fucked up stuff on my way to buy weed @misty mantle

[misty mantle]

I'm still here

[misty mantle]

"You can't park there"

[hexed kayak]

what do you think of the house that was torched by someone and then later demolished. that car is giving massive hints

[misty mantle]

To be honest, that person deserved it

[hexed kayak]

imagine being a diddler AND driving a shitbox yaris 💀

double whammy

this is also on the native rez. so i bet the peace keepers (rez cops) arent looking to hard for the arsonist @misty mantle

[misty mantle]

At this point, I'm sadly not surprised

[hexed kayak]

them not looking is a good thing.

[hexed kayak]

all the reserves here are everyone knows everyone areas so the entire town probably doesnt want the arsonist caught

[misty mantle]

Actually, I take back what I said

It's a good thing

[wispy cloak]

That was a neon problem

[wispy cloak]

It's a built srt4

Like built built

Epoxy filled block and everything

[hexed kayak]

its gonna find a way to blow up

[wispy cloak]

It's not even getting pushed hard right now

I was told that the builder said this motor should be safe for about 24psi

And I've only seen like 12psi

In current form it's making 350-400 hp from what I was told

But it's ready for e

Injectors and tune

Should make about 600hp according to the last owner but I'm going to talk to the tuner

[hexed kayak]

idk shit about srt4s but honestly that sounds weak as fuck. a stock block turbo cobalt with some bolt ons and a tune makes 350hp

[wispy cloak]

It's still fun to drive

And makes big bov noise

[hexed kayak]

the factory tune gm sold for them with warranty made 24psi

[wispy cloak]

Also has a crazy sound system

[hexed kayak]

Booo. Not enough hooliganism in the sound

[wispy cloak]

I didn't get on the throttle much

I need to get used to this thing

Also 25mpg is crazy

[hexed kayak]

I mean it shouldnt take much to make turbo sounds. This is just normal acceleration

[hexed kayak]

Bonus of big turbos

On the highway it’s basically a corolla

[wispy cloak]

The only vehicle I've ever owned that gets over 20 is my audi

And this has double the power and better fuel economy

[hexed kayak]

I think you need to do some maintenance 💀
My 20 year old silverado does 21mpg

The only thing i have that gets under 20 is my monte carlo

[wispy cloak]

Well 22mpg at 95-100

24 if you drive in town normally

[hexed kayak]

Cause its the world worst config for fuel economy.
3700 pound fwd coupe with an almost 4L v6 that makes 216hp. And its mated to a 4 speed auto with no overdrive

My cobalt will do 37mpg on the highway

[hexed kayak]

Perks of knowing how to tune your own car.

[hexed kayak]

You can lean it the fuck out at a specific rpm and load range that your always in on the highway

[dull heron]

why do you have so much turbo flutter? is that stock?

[hexed kayak]

Because turbo flutter sounds better than a glorified sneeze

[dull heron]

its also worse for your turbo

[hexed kayak]

Oh no. The car i drive 3000km a year will need a new turbo around 2028. The travesty

[dull heron]

ok

[winged raft]

I thought I was gonna see some nasty cuts

[civic spoke]

Window regulator replaced. 👌

[tepid wing]

Nice.

[prisma frost]

Love that feature on my VW Polo

So nice to roll the windows down when im walking back to my car after a hot day

[civic spoke]

That's when it broke on me.

Rolled the windows down. And then when I started the car, turned on the AC, and closed the windows. Then it broke.

[dull heron]

i had my driver window switch break recently, luckily my regulators are fine

[charred depot]

windy window supremacy

[dull heron]

sometimes i suppose

[misty mantle]

Crank windows superior, electric windows inferior

[dull heron]

until you have to roll up or down a window you arent sitting at

i prefer being able to roll down all 4 than having a window that always works

[misty mantle]

I just leave both my front windows down during the summer, and go out and roll the up when it starts raining

[dull heron]

i always roll up and down all 4 during summer

[misty mantle]

I basically have to leave my windows down because my AC barely works

245 aircon

2 windows down, 45 miles and hour

[dull heron]

my ac does work but most of the time i prefer the wind

[misty mantle]

I’ve got a R12 system that I put R134 in, it will blow cold, if you just started the truck up

If you’re going down the road, good luck getting any cold air out of it

[charred depot]

Another 305 saloon : ) MOT and tax exempt just need to make the brakes work properly.

The door handles are on the wrong way around

[civic spoke]

Remove the switches. Swap places with passenger, and driver side switches.

[dull heron]

i replaced it already

and all other doors have the single switch

its like 15$ for the switch unit though, it really wasnt bad

[civic spoke]

Nice.

[wispy cloak]

Actual good tint is so nice

[civic spoke]

https://tenor.com/view/that-might-be-illegal-marques-brownlee-might-not-be-legal-mkbhd-gif-16724467002113865772

[wispy cloak]

We don't talk about what percent it is

(It's 5% on everything but the windshield)

[dull heron]

are those b pillars black plastic or something else?

[charred depot]

tree percent tint

[wispy cloak]

Black plastic that's falling apart

It's one thing on the exterior that bothers me

[dull heron]

you should get some meguiars black plastic stuff then

its really really good

[wispy cloak]

I also need a rear bumper and wheels

Because my rear bumper is cracked

And it's on reps

[dull heron]

damn

https://a.co/d/3sHtzL7

stuff is goated though

i used it on all 3 of my familys cars and it looks amazing

[white heart]

I fucking hate people who tint their windows

Cause I can't see if they are looking at me and will let me go or if they are about to do the stupidest shit and go without looking

[hexed kayak]

you would love cobalts then.

idk if its the design of the windows or some kind of magic but as long as you are moving over 30kph and have the windows down you wont even get slightly hot with broken AC

i drove it in traffic in 38C heat one time with no ac cause it hasnt had ac in years and i didnt even sweat

my volvos ac didnt work when i first got it but it does now and that thing will fucking cook you alive even with the windows down

[charred depot]

Nice when they just give you the size of the bearings

sounds supercharged at the moment

Was going to rip this engine out but I will try it original for an amount of time.

[white heart]

Speed ? Cobalt, too hot? Cobalt, need to tow ? Believe it or not, cobalt is the way

[hexed kayak]

cobalts cant tow

ive seen a base model sedan with 4 very obese people in it and it was struggling

[white heart]

Anything can tow if you got balls/redneck engerineering skills /s

[hexed kayak]

sitting on the bump stops and couldnt get out of second gear on the hill they were going up

[white heart]

I've unironically seen a man tow a gen 1 twingo with another Twingo

[white heart]

[white heart]

The twingo is just the weight of what a twingo can tow

[hexed kayak]

the most impressive thing ive seen is a smart car pulling a small tractor

[white heart]

That's geniunly impressive

I've seen a dumbass drift a Citroen ami once (my farmer neighbor also drifted a C15 once)

[hexed kayak]

like one of these "barley a tractor" tractors

[white heart]

Oh fair enough

Those are quite light

[hexed kayak]

still probably weighs more than the smart car pulling it

[white heart]

Let me look up rq the weight of the ami

[hexed kayak]

was it that video where it fucking flipped?

[white heart]

No actually, it was one where the road was icy so he hit a pretty clean drift

[hexed kayak]

i just had a terrible idea

[white heart]

I'm listening

[hexed kayak]

they make baby model v8s that are like 80cc

160cc v16 citroen ami

[white heart]

That sound hella funny

[white heart]

That thing would suck so much at taking turns

[supple anchor]

Trim restored

[wispy cloak]

@hexed kayak ignore the terrible lack of muffler but this is normal acceleration

This thing needs exhaust work so bad

[misty imp]

timbers shivered

[misty imp]

what a fun looking car

I wonder what engine it has

[misty mantle]

I thought that mess was a electric drivetrain for a second

[hexed kayak]

Fd rx7 + cappuccino head lights = miata with roid rage

[misty imp]

it's a vq engine lmfao

[misty mantle]

Lmao

[misty imp]

i raise you a viper gen 1 (it will murder you)

[hexed kayak]

This is. miata: anime villain edition

[misty imp]

miat sand edition

I wanna get one of them early miatas with pop up headlights

but finding one that isn't molested is rare

[hexed kayak]

Cobalt mud edition

[misty imp]

type of car that will trauma dump on you about their ex

[hexed kayak]

More like try to send you to the hospital like your ex

[misty imp]

you guys remember that fucking car

stancy pants

[hexed kayak]

“Oh no the road isnt level” spins out and dies

[hexed kayak]

Dumpster fire

[misty imp]

I fucking hate this car and the owner so fucking much

[hexed kayak]

I literally cannot think if the words to insult this car

Its just so bad

[misty imp]

I'm glad it's burnt to the fucking ground

would be funnier if it was arson though

[hexed kayak]

Speaking of arson

[misty imp]

but apprently, owner did a doo doo and made a fucky wucky with the electrics

(not surprised)

[hexed kayak]

You have no idea how happy i was looking at this and seeing the astra live and the hyundai suffer and die @misty imp

[misty imp]

Vauxhall astra?

[hexed kayak]

Even better saturn astra

[misty imp]

ew vauxhall

[hexed kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/hitting-someone-takkiyathu-sandai-fight-angry-gif-7008375052022062993

Honestly vaux is kinda poo

Opel is the cool one

[misty imp]

ped*s drives vaux over here

if you see one in a maccies car park, run

specially the corsa

[hexed kayak]

Im definitely not biased because my chevy is opel powered

[misty imp]

I want an sr350 in my life

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

it can't find traction

[hexed kayak]

I think im too close to being american to like extremely light cars with lots of power. I drove a b18 jdm mini and i almost flipped it driving on flat ground

[misty imp]

honda powered mini cooper?

[hexed kayak]

Yes

Og mini

[misty imp]

ohhh

that sounds hella fun

my dream build for my car would probably be a K20 engine, subaru drive train, impul march

[misty mantle]

Ran one of my local 4x4 trails yesterday

[misty imp]

I mean there is this:

but still

would be fucking hilarious

[hexed kayak]

You would probably like one of my abandoned projects. I ran out of money at the time and now that i have the money its too far gone for me to want to pick up again

@misty imp

[misty imp]

What the fuck is that intake

[hexed kayak]

Do you know what that sticker on the trunk means?

[misty mantle]

Didn’t those come with a boxer 6?

[misty imp]

this?

[hexed kayak]

Some. This is a 4

Well was

[misty mantle]

What engine is in it?

[hexed kayak]

Look at the sticker and watch the video

@misty mantle @misty imp its a Regal GNX motor

[misty mantle]

Isn’t that also the engine in the Grand National?

[hexed kayak]

Gnx is grand national experimental

[misty mantle]

Oh

I’ve always just known them and Grand Nationals

as*

[hexed kayak]

They are like the cobalts of the 80s if cobalts beat literally everything on the road in the 00s
The grand national is literally just grandmas regal with a turbo v6 and some fancy suspension work

[misty mantle]

Yep

One of my grandparents neighbors has either a Regal or a Grand National sitting in their yard rotting away, same with a Camaro

[hexed kayak]

But anyways thats what i was building. gnx powered 05 legacy gt that was still awd

[misty mantle]

You gotta finish it

If you still have it

[misty imp]

oh shit

you gotta finish it

[hexed kayak]

Im gonna have to like rip all the electronics out and start again. The tuning software that car uses doesnt exist anymore

[misty mantle]

Rip.

[misty imp]

I want a screaming k20 engine while turbo'd up to 25 PSI

[misty mantle]

I just want a 302 that’ll make my truck less gutless

[misty imp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbaZzeKJC8

[hexed kayak]

@misty imp https://youtu.be/2evJe9jOLjU?si=UumvPTvG7GwoI-i6

[misty imp]

technically a b16 but it's fair

[misty mantle]

I bet there was a laptop sitting in the passenger side floorboard

[misty imp]

I fuicking love super chargers so much

[hexed kayak]

Swallow your pride and put a junkyard 5.3 with an msd box in it

[misty mantle]

Nah, I want to keep a ford power plant in that truck

[misty imp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZ_GvP_fkQ still the funniest shit

[hexed kayak]

Pride = not swallowed

[misty mantle]

The 302 is a common swap for these trucks.

[hexed kayak]

But s 5.3 costs the same as some beer and half a pack of smokes

[misty imp]

I fucking hate the fact that cars still has this POS transmission

respectfully fuck the ford DCT

[misty mantle]

And I’m not old enough to buy either

[misty mantle]

The ‘ol powershit

[misty imp]

Fuck the person that "engineered" this POS

[hexed kayak]

There is a better nissan v Porsche video out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V12C6xuMwmE

[misty imp]

I don't even need to watch that to know that the patrol probably won assuming that's somewhere in middle fucking east

Those arabs are fucking insane

[misty mantle]

Safe to say that Patrol wasn’t stock

[hexed kayak]

Funny thing is they are probably an fucking amazing engineer whos a leader in their field.
“Corporate said make it fail just after the warranty ends”

[hexed kayak]

It didnt win. It drove past and then went to do errands before the 918 could finish

[misty imp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbZPQeHTfM

literal fucking rockets

it's so fucking insane that they're losing traction

[misty mantle]

TIL:Nissan Patrols aren’t just good for overland rigs

[misty imp]

you can hear them break traction as it hits peaks

[hexed kayak]

I mean tbf those things are probably geared to stand in the limiter in sand

[misty imp]

arabs and nissan pickups apparently goes well together

[misty mantle]

Very well

[hexed kayak]

I mean older ones came from the factory with an RB engine. Same as in the skyline

[misty imp]

I'm trying to think of that engine that made like 800 BHP NA

[hexed kayak]

Nascar with the restrictior plate taken off

[misty imp]

i think it's made by dodge

[misty mantle]

You kidding

[hexed kayak]

No

[hexed kayak]

Chevy zz632

[misty imp]

alot of cars came with RB engine 🙂

[hexed kayak]

There is also the RD engines. Exact same shit but diesel

[misty imp]

i think there is an infiniti that has one

[hexed kayak]

Apparently the rb30 came factory in a holden commodore 💀

[misty imp]

There's also Holden VL commadore that was common to take engines out of

[misty imp]

Snap lol

personally if I'm gonna buy an RB i wouldn't go for the 30

i'd go for the mid revision 26

since those have proper engineering oversight to turn them into race cars

[misty mantle]

Dealing with the starter in my pos yet again

[carmine summit]

RB30 better, just toss the RB26 head on

more torque and still has insane top end

[velvet forge]

Upgraded the car radio in a chevrolet matiz from '05. Not fully fastend in there. Installing the reversing camera later. Need some parts for that.

[wraith rivet]

Smack it with a hammer time

[misty mantle]

Nah, I put the starter I had on the shelf because I hit it with a hammer while it was still in warranty and it’s working fine somehow.

This truck confuses me

[worldly oasis]

Just get a Volvo

[misty mantle]

I’ll stick to my fords, thanks

[worldly oasis]

Ford owned them so it’s basically the same thing

Mine has the duratec modular 2.5

[misty mantle]

I’ve got the cologne 2.9 V6

And a fucking Mitsubishi transmission

[worldly oasis]

Asian transmissions suck ass ngl

[misty mantle]

This is the 2nd transmission. The original one grenaded back in January

[worldly oasis]

Mine just holds the torque converter like crazy at 3k rpm like shift down already

[civic spoke]

Get yourself a straight-piped Volvo V8.

[worldly oasis]

I’m planning on getting an s80 v8 soon

Either that or a manual s60r/v70r

The v8 is cheaper tho so I’m probably getting it

[civic spoke]

https://youtu.be/9xt9yq43c4U

Yes, please.

[worldly oasis]

They are like 2k for a decent one from Michigan

[misty mantle]

@worldly oasis That’s the gear that killed itself

[worldly oasis]

L gear

My dad’s grand marquis grenaded every gear besides 2nd one time

[misty mantle]

Truck had a knocking noise when we got it, I thought that was normal. Turns out it very much wasn’t. Couldn’t even limp the truck home because that gear is on the shaft that transfers power to the whole transmission

[worldly oasis]

Got it rebuilt and it’s running great now

[worldly oasis]

That sucks

[worldly oasis]

They sound so fucking good

[wraith rivet]

fact

my Mazda’s transmission is so ass

[worldly oasis]

My Volvo has the aisin a55 or smth

Goofy shift logic but it’s better than mom’s mdx

That thing will money shift in automatic mode

[native ermine]

fuck well there's your problem

[misty mantle]

I think this was causing the knocking noise

Same gear, btw

I wanted to do a full tear down, but then I probably wouldn’t be able to get my core refund

@hexed kayak I found the pics of the old transmission out of my truck

[hexed kayak]

that gen volvo is a ford volvo platform

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle this focus ST is packing the same 2.5 turbo 5cyl as my volvo s60

[stiff bloom]

BEST FOCUS

well the rs is better but that gen was peak

(so of course America never got one )

[hexed kayak]

like it would be super hard to make one on your own

wouldnt

the engine and trans already exists in america so you just need to buy a subframe some engine mounts and wiring from europe

[stiff bloom]

It also would be mega not worth it

cool: yes. Cool enough to justify alllllllll that? Not even a lil lmao

[hexed kayak]

idk about that. my s60 is a barge and it goes like a bat out of hell. same engine in a nugget ford will rip

[stiff bloom]

Well they never even made a focus hatch in that generation at all in america

[hexed kayak]

realistically though if you want a 5cyl focus st in america you can just buy a turbo volvo C30

[hexed kayak]

i forgot about that

[stiff bloom]

So I'd have to get a body. Interior. Subframe. Engine mounts. Wiring.

[stiff bloom]

yeah

[hexed kayak]

@stiff bloom

[stiff bloom]

did they make an R?

[hexed kayak]

no just a t5

which is the "faster" non sports trim

[stiff bloom]

all we got was this POS

(wheels are hot tho)

[hexed kayak]

like in my s60 a t5 has 60hp more than a 2.5t but its the same motor @stiff bloom

[stiff bloom]

Now THERE's an idea. Just boost that up real nice

C30 had AWD trims too right?

[hexed kayak]

idk

[stiff bloom]

nah only fwd

Also they wuz a lil heavy. 1350kg for a subcompact?

[hexed kayak]

most of that is the engine ngl

[stiff bloom]

Comparable focus was over 150kg less

[hexed kayak]

that 5cyl is not fucking light. its a motor made for suvs and wagons of the 1990s thats been shoehorned into a compact hatchback

[stiff bloom]

Yikes, bummer. Cuz esp in a FF that thing would be a boatanchor

[hexed kayak]

makes sense. cause the focus was speed oriented so it probably had 150kg worth of shit stripped from it over a lower trim focus

the volvo was just a car so it wouldnt have had that done to it

[stiff bloom]

I guess but 150kg is almost 400lb. That's a lot of weight

[hexed kayak]

im always surpised how much shit weighs in a car. some russian guys took all the paint off a lada and it lost 60 pounds

[stiff bloom]

Its almost exactly an entire LNF lmao

[hexed kayak]

60- or 400 lmao

[stiff bloom]

(according to wiki)

[stiff bloom]

wha Oh i got it. 400

[charred depot]

A lada we have the paint is like literally 10-15mm thick.

[stiff bloom]

well thats because it's made of colored tissue paper

[hexed kayak]

structural paint

[hexed kayak]

funny enough there is enough stuff you can take out of a cobalt to loose around 500 pounds

thats the absolute upper limit though. like cutting the structure out of the doors and using dry ice to break out all the sound deadening kind of weight reduction @stiff bloom

a volvo s60 probably has 500 pound of just sound deadening

[hexed kayak]

@charred depot @stiff bloom you can tell this car is fucking filledf with sound deadening by how quiet the music gets and how the doors sound when closing

[misty river]

Did the thing with the SN95

[hexed kayak]

Drove it like an old man?

[misty river]

Room mates car is sploded so they’re using one of mine. They’re not allowed to splode mine too.

[hexed kayak]

@misty river do real shit with that sn95

[misty river]

No

I have one for that.

[hexed kayak]

rip

sn95s are just shitboxes for me. me and my buddy buy one every couple years and then destroy it over the course of the winter

[misty river]

If my truck gets tboned or some shit that engine is going in the SN95

460 in that one

[hexed kayak]

nobody wants them here so you can find them running and driving for like 1200 bucks

cheapest 4 months of fun money can buy that isnt drugs

[misty river]

Need to find me a 94/95 manual. V6 or GT doesn’t matter. It’s for the fox more than anything.

That SN95 of mine was $1800. Then I sold it for $3000.

Buyer never registered and blew the engine up so she had me tow it out

[hexed kayak]

ill let you know next time we get one. all the mustangs weve ruined were manuals

[misty river]

$400 engine later and it’s running again

Put a split port 3.8 in it. It’s the “responsible” one.

But I want to 5 lug convert the fox body and T5 swap it. It was a mild built drag car so they swapped it to an automatic back in the day

[hexed kayak]

i think that might be the engine i hate the most on this planet. i replaced one of those 5 times on the exact car in the videos i sent

[misty river]

I’ve never blown one up 🤷‍♂️

But the person that bought mine did

Apparently “it needs an oil change” was heard as “it just got an oil change”

So the timing chain became pieces

[hexed kayak]

its easier for me to list the ways i haven't blown them up
everything from siezed rings to headgaskets to cracked blocks

then again im not exactly nice to them

they get the honda limiter treatment

[misty river]

Yeah that one is meant to take the kid to his appointments 75 miles away

Surprisingly though it gets worse mpg than my 5.0

[hexed kayak]

we got one mustang that ran so rich it used 2/3 of a tank of fuel in under 100km

[misty river]

Ew

Both cars are around 30mpg. V6 usually more like 28-29 and the 5.0 has gotten as high as 31.

Highway mileage of course

[hexed kayak]

thats weirdly good

[misty river]

Ethanol free 91 octane 🤷‍♂️

24lb injectors stock computer

V6 I just run midgrade

[hexed kayak]

my big turbo cobalt ss makes 400hp and will do 38mpg. but thats cause its a baby turbo enigne

[misty river]

Isn’t it something like low rpm turbo improves mpgs?

Someone local is selling a super coupe 3.8 for like $1,000 which is kinda tempting

[hexed kayak]

its just low load. if ther eis no load there is no neeed for boost and without the need for boost your car changes froma big turbo 4cyl to a wimpy n/a 4cyl that sips fuel

[misty river]

Idk what it is but my fox body just sits at 1500 rpm up hill down hill doesn’t care doesn’t downshift or anything

65 mph

Torquey thing

[hexed kayak]

they way i have my car tuned it only is makeing like 40hp in the rpm and load range im using on the highway

[hexed kayak]

once you exit that load and rpm range though its straight back to 400hp @misty river

[misty river]

I’ve been planning on swapping GT40 heads and intake on but since room mate needs the SN95 to get to work that’s delayed.

[hexed kayak]

my cobalt is the same way

it will crawl up hills in 1st gear without any throttle imput

[misty river]

Yeah but it’s a Slowbalt 😛

[hexed kayak]

thats why i bought it. cause everyone thinks that. when in reality 400hp in a cobalt is all you need to beat a moddeed r35 gtr

[misty river]

Going to use my fox body as a solo camping rig. That’ll piss off someone somewhere.

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/kjXYsmUYka4?t=18
@misty river

400hp fwd vs 700hp awd

[misty river]

How much that thing weigh?

[hexed kayak]

2900

[misty river]

Easy to match with a fox

Even with a 302

[hexed kayak]

ive raced them and its not a close race

[misty river]

Modded 302?

Excuse me, properly modded 302

This including 331’s and 347’s

[hexed kayak]

yeah. the cobalt ss does 0-60 in 5 seconds on its bone stock 230whp.

[hexed kayak]

and thats without using the launch control

[misty river]

Mine is a hatchback which is like 2800 and coupes are like 200 lighter

“Launch control” LOL

[hexed kayak]

what do you want? the car has factory launch control and a very slight anti lag out of the box

[pastel snow]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[misty river]

Delete it

Carb swap it

Push it into the river 😛

[hexed kayak]

dumbest shit ive heard today

[misty river]

aw

[hexed kayak]

https://youtu.be/StjEoYjfdJQ?t=6

[misty river]

Warship pooped on my fun

That ain’t a 5.0

Windsor master race

…I say as I would totally Coyote swap my fox…

[hexed kayak]

My buddies windsor grenaded racing me. Now his car hasnt ran in 4 years

There is fucking moss growing on it

[misty river]

That sounds like his error then

[hexed kayak]

The crank split in 3

[misty river]

I have to dig into mine, guy that sold it to me said it was a 331 and this and that and blah blah blah but 31 mpg doesn’t point to that at all

But it was a turnkey V8 fox body for $3k in 2022 car market prices so I took the leap

[misty river]

That’s such an easy fix why let it rot

[hexed kayak]

Also somehow in the 4 years his car has been parked it went from having rust free floors to no floors at all

[misty river]

The fuck

What a waste

[hexed kayak]

I mean if you got the money for a fully built long block and transmission ill let him know. Cause thats what it needs to be on the road again

[misty river]

Pull one from a junkyard Explorer or Mountaineer

[hexed kayak]

The the block is cracked rods are bent the input shaft on the trans is broken off and the case is cracked

[misty river]

Gives you spicier than stock heads

302 all the way to what, 2000?

[hexed kayak]

its already got summit racing heads on it. but those are runied too

[misty river]

Yeah just Exploder swap it 🤷‍♂️

[hexed kayak]

thats a waste

[misty river]

Not if you’re trying to be cheap

[hexed kayak]

which he isnt

[misty river]

Though I guess you can pull a 4.6 for about the same price

Find a Lincoln Mark VIII. Swap engine in. Boom. Cobra.

[hexed kayak]

still not close to the engine currently in it

[misty river]

4v Modulars aren’t bad

Then it’d have to be an explorer motor

Still a 302. Get it running and build from there.

[hexed kayak]

waste of money and time \

[misty river]

It’s either that or a waste of a car rotting away

🤷‍♂️

[hexed kayak]

spend money on an engine and spend time building and swapping in that engine just to rip it out and tgrow it away to put anotther windsor in

[misty river]

Naw just throw a big block in it and slam on the gas pedal

[hexed kayak]

this is probably the 4th time that car has rotten away. dude bought that car brand new from the dealer

and its his first car

[misty river]

Like I said. I’d put my 460 in the SN95 if the truck wrecks.

That could be spicy

Pushrod engines are great as long as they’re not GM

Fite me.

[hexed kayak]

well thats you. dude who owns this mustang had his dream build together. mf isnt gonna go something different cause its readily available

[misty river]

Got that truck for $250 so it’s far from a waste of money

Time, now that’s another story

[hexed kayak]

meanwhile ford had to build a dohc v8 to compete with caveman pushrods

[misty river]

I have nothing but pushrod engines so 🤷‍♂️

Put a cheap Chinese turbski on that 460 and I’ll giggle like a schoolgirl

[hexed kayak]

that doesnt scream longevity

[misty river]

But it DOES scream

[hexed kayak]

for like 6 months. the windsor already in that car was built in 1999 and made 580hp and it took 22 years of abuse to kill it

[misty river]

Someone did that to a 460. Single turbo idr how much boost but it was like 650 twerks

It was 7 lbs boost, on stock internals. 442 horsepower 655 torque.

[misty river]

Oh 302s don’t like going over 500 so that’ll probably be what did it

You did say it cracked the block. Over 500 tends to split blocks.

[hexed kayak]

i highly doubt that. that car has literally hundreds of nitrous 1/2mile runs unbder its belt

if it was the power level it would have blown 20 years ago

[misty river]

It’s a thing. People weld reinforcements to the block.

[hexed kayak]

which was already done

[misty river]

The right way to do it is to round all of the corners

Resonating frequencies and whatnot

[hexed kayak]

@misty mantle

@misty river

[dawn glade]

lol

[misty mantle]

lmfao

[hexed kayak]

i dont think anyone told elon that trucks are supposed to bend

[misty mantle]

Don't think anyone told Elon aluminum frames weren't a good idea, either

[hexed kayak]

then again jacking up a model S and throwing some home depot steel on it doesnt exactly make it a truck

[hexed kayak]

gen 2 cybertruck. carbon fiber frame

[misty mantle]

[hexed kayak]

the more soft and bendy a truck is the stronger it is

[hexed kayak]

just look at semi trucks twisting the frame to a 60 degree angle

https://youtu.be/4JbgxS1zIws?t=690
@misty mantle

if that truck wasnt able to bend like that parts would start exploding trying to take off like that

[misty mantle]

That's how you get a driveshaft turned into a pretzel

[hexed kayak]

this is why muscle cars blow them out the back so often on launch. there is nowhere for the stress to go too so it just fails

[dull heron]

time to get the other emblems blacked out now

[stiff bloom]

That's fair 😅

[stiff bloom]

Always fun to watch demon owners snap diffs

https://youtu.be/yImwDPeKX8s?si=-XTIgVxnwJitMevd

It's like poetry, it rhymes

[fleet valve]

I prefer V60 to the S60.. but I'm a swede and we are notorious for taking the entire house with us whenever we go anywhere so we need the trunk space!

and yes, I do infact drive a V60 D4 from 2017

[hexed kayak]

swede card revoked.

china card awarded

new volvos are manufactured garbage

if its newer than a P2 chassis its a geely not a volvo

[fleet valve]

They're still manufactured in sweden, just owned by chinese

[hexed kayak]

yes but china has the final say now. not the swedes

which is why the reliably of volvos is in the shitter and they get stuck in the snow now

[fleet valve]

Naa, it's people that cant drive and have studless wintertyres that get stuck in the snow

[hexed kayak]

i drove through last winter on literally bald snow tires and never got stuck

in an 05 s60

fwd

[fleet valve]

So did I, but with good tires and didnt get stuck either. Not even when I went to my familys house in north sweden and drove on unplowed roads

[hexed kayak]

Like i was able to drive out of this spot and through a snowbank on bald tires with no shoveling. But the 2019 polestar s60 i test drove got stuck in the dealers driveway cause of the snow

[hexed kayak]

@fleet valve

[hexed kayak]

and now that i have brand new non bald studded tires for it. its able to plow snow.
i can go out after the regular blizzards we have where 2 feets falls in like 4 hours and my s60 will just drive wherever i need to go with snow coming up over the hood

the only bad thing is ive had the replace the fuel filter a bunch cause it gets crushed from ice buildup

[stoic ledge]

Good to know all Ford based Volvo's are also Geely

[vocal mural]

Hot

[stoic ledge]

Bruh why are there cobswebs

[tepid wing]

Getting ready for Halloween.

[tepid wing]

I swear the worst part about having a car when most people have giant trucks is that the headlights go directly into my mirrors.

[novel relic]

Headlights height maximum restrictions and no leds in reflector headlamps would fix a bunch of stuff

[misty mantle]

Fucking leds, man

[tepid wing]

Incandescent ones suck too.

[misty mantle]

I’ve got sealed-beam headlights on my truck (‘87 model year)

[vocal mural]

I have legal led in reflector lamp. Never had issues with it

Approved to use in: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus (both Turkish and Greek occupancy),
Denmark, Spain, Germany, France, Greece, Croatia, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Turkey, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia.

Source: Osram

[misty mantle]

You put Sweden twice

[stiff bloom]

But what about Sweden

[misty mantle]

Lmfao

[charred depot]

I cant imagine it affecting the person behind the steering wheel no

[vocal mural]

Updated 😉

[prisma frost]

I’m also thinking of buying OSRAM LED lights but for the headlights

I think it’ll look nice on my Polo

[civic spoke]

Just make sure that they are compatible.

The different Polo's.

[prisma frost]

It’s the 2014 VW Polo 6C so luckily it is compatible

Basically changing everything from the headlights to the foglights and drl’s to LED for a more modern look

[civic spoke]

Just remember the adapter and all of that 👌

Wished they would have fit on my BMW.

[prisma frost]

Oh you need one?

Oh yeah I see

[prisma frost]

What BMW u got?

[civic spoke]

3 series, E46.

Not on the list.

https://look.ams-osram.com/m/279bdebe1f871386/original/LED-Night-Breaker-H7-Vehicle-List-EN.pdf

[prisma frost]

Oh yeah that sucks real bad then because it would probably look pretty good

[vocal mural]

That RMN bin

[civic spoke]

Would have loved to throw some high-output LED's in the high beam.

[prisma frost]

What’s that 🤨

Oh

Shh 🤫

[vocal mural]

I grew up in that area. My sis still lives there

[prisma frost]

Oh that’s nice

[civic spoke]

Oh, actually. I think that I might be able to get the H7 'Easy' range from Osram.

[hexed kayak]

this is why ive been debating puttiing flood lights on the back of my volvo

[civic spoke]

These might be plug and play for me.

[hexed kayak]

hyperflash included

[civic spoke]

"Offroad use only"

[hexed kayak]

some of these on the rear bumper pointing up at trucks

[civic spoke]

Meaning that I could really only use them for the high beam.

[hexed kayak]

i love cheap leds that only have one beam setting not

[vocal mural]

Those aren’t approved, nightbreaker is

[hexed kayak]

what are you fucking german?

"is forbidden"

[civic spoke]

Don't have too much choice for low beams. It's halogen or die, more or less.

[vocal mural]

I am 25% German. My grandma is

[civic spoke]

Yeah, I saw. Could at least use them for the high beam. I guess.

[prisma frost]

My Halogen high beams are so useless it’s unreal

[hexed kayak]

someones never heard of retrofits

its how i got bi-xenon projector lights in a 17 year old chevy

[civic spoke]

Have looked at retrofitting some stuff. But idk about the legality.

[hexed kayak]

those shits are only in brand new bmws

[hexed kayak]

xenon projector lights also sound amazing

they make an actual noise when switching form low to high beam @civic spoke

[hexed kayak]

@civic spoke may have to play this one on your phone to hhear

[civic spoke]

I rather throw in my own retrofit kit.

[hexed kayak]

thats what i did. i built these lights in a weekend out of the stock chrome lights

[civic spoke]

You can get this stuff. https://retrofitlab.com/collections/all/products/bmw-3-e46-1998-2005-zkw-halogen-headlights

[civic spoke]

Just not sure about the legality of them.

[hexed kayak]

Dont paint them red like i did and you will be fine

[high prairie]

It will be a happy little accident.

[hexed kayak]

they are better than leds cause they have an atuall cutoff line that stops the light from going up any higher
you can also artificially kneecap them by pointing them really low so they dont blind people

[civic spoke]

Did you see my beam when I replaced my lenses?

[hexed kayak]

@civic spoke not bolted in here so the beam isnt level but you can see its got a hard cut off where the beam doesnt go higher

[hexed kayak]

I love how the lights of every car just stop giving a shit when it gets off to the far right side

[hexed kayak]

I know it’s intentional but its still funny

[civic spoke]

I believe it's to shine lights on the side of the road.

[novel relic]

Nice headlight polish/new

[hexed kayak]

Yup. They are pointed down on the left side for oncoming traffic and up and to the right on the right for the side of the road

[civic spoke]

New. Replaced the whole lens. 👌

[native ermine]

can just buy whole new headlights with the projectors already in them

[hexed kayak]

opposite on rhd cars

[civic spoke]

Oh, I know. But those are many times stupid expensive. Or ugly.

[hexed kayak]

i cannnot understate how shit those lights are 80% of the time

[novel relic]

Yea i remember mh first car,new was 350 a pop and then manually polished it for 2 days,1 day each side for them to fog up 1.5 years later

[native ermine]

the ones i got were like 700 and look OEM

this was a few years ago so they probably have gone up in price

[hexed kayak]

ive got a set of taillights for my cobalt somewhere that cost me 900$

[civic spoke]

Basically all of them want to add their own style of halo DLR, too. Bleh.

[hexed kayak]

old

[native ermine]

what you don't like the halos??

[hexed kayak]

what cost me 900$

[civic spoke]

Wouldn't mind halo DLR's, but some of the aftermarket ones with LED lights look stupid.

[civic spoke]

Oh, forgot. They are called angel eyes.

[hexed kayak]

https://www.adriantaillights.com/store/Chevy-Cobalt-c114018563

[native ermine]

yeah those look sick

tho i don't like the LED hot spots

[civic spoke]

Wouldn't really mind this, tbh.

[native ermine]

but the ones I've got have a light diffusion layer

[hexed kayak]

this is just some dude in his basement building lights for chevys and Porsches

[native ermine]

those are post facelift yeah?

[civic spoke]

It's facelift (LCI), yes.

[hexed kayak]

i hate it. the angel eyes are way to big

[native ermine]

noic

[civic spoke]

Never heard someone say post facelift.

[native ermine]

I've got a pre facelift

[civic spoke]

Sounds like a facelift after a facelift.

It's either pre-facelift, or facelift.

[native ermine]

lol you know what i mean

[hexed kayak]

yo dawg we heard you like facelifts

[native ermine]

[hexed kayak]

so we face lifted your facelift to give you a even more facelifted facelift

[civic spoke]

If they are smaller, then they look dumb either way.

[stoic ledge]

Just get LED matrix 😎

[civic spoke]

Not even sure if it's the angle, either.

[hexed kayak]

isnt led matrix that shit volvo uses to create dead spots in the lights

[civic spoke]

That's with the xenon retrofit as well.

[civic spoke]

I think a few manufacturers use similar stuff.

[stoic ledge]

LED matrix is high beam with multiple sections so it can turn its beam off towards oncoming drivers while keeping it in front of you on

[hexed kayak]

thats what i was thinking of

Citroen DS lights but not ass

[civic spoke]

Works so-so, depending on the car, and how hilly it is, etc.
But I rather they have that, instead of just driving around with high beams on.

[hexed kayak]

it works really good in volvos

[stoic ledge]

Seems to work quite well on the Astra

[hexed kayak]

with volvo you can have a car sitting smack dab in the middle of your lights beam and they would barley be able to tell

[civic spoke]

Can't remember what car it was, if it was an ID7 or whatever it was. But dude thought it shut off too late.

[stoic ledge]

It also has different light patterns depending on the speed/environment you're driving

[civic spoke]

But when it works, then it's amazeballs.

[native ermine]

tis my girl

[hexed kayak]

you know whats not good about mtrix lights

[stoic ledge]

Potential replacement cost

[native ermine]

its pre facelift but has an 05 hood which makes it look at bit more curvy

[hexed kayak]

if you get in the worlds smallest fender bender your gonna have to skip your wallet and go straight to removing limbs

[civic spoke]

No tint gang.

[hexed kayak]

i hate not having tint

[civic spoke]

Larger kidneys.

[stoic ledge]

I just have to make sure the other party is guilty, and then they can buy me 2 new headlights

[civic spoke]

Crack your headlights, and blame a gravel truck for it.

[stoic ledge]

Smart 🤓

[native ermine]

yeah also that

[civic spoke]

Actually something you can do for a windshield and stuff. They are supposed to have their loads 'secure' after all.

[stoic ledge]

Windshields are usually covered here anyway (luckily)

Other stuff, you generally need a 2nd party

[charred depot]

I have windshield cover but I dont know where they are going to get a new one.

big delamination spot

[civic spoke]

Probably make one new

[charred depot]

write off the car at that heh

thats if anywhere still has the mould

[hexed kayak]

get ahead of the game. take out that windshield and mould it

[charred depot]

I have the last new windscreen in the UK but I refuse to fit it as I know right as I do a massive rock will be flung at my windscreen

[hexed kayak]

plexiglass windshield

[charred depot]

If it came to it but scratching and legality issues

Its technically not allowed ish but I would likely get away with it

[hexed kayak]

gonna need a new window after the first time it rains

which in the uk means its gonna last like a day

[charred depot]

I did look into it before there is a material that works better

[hexed kayak]

you know what else you could do but may be hard as fuck

relamitate the windshield on your car

[charred depot]

Car windshields seem to get a bit fragile with age in terms of removing

I dont think its workable

[hexed kayak]

or you could cut out the lifted section of plastic and find a way to fill it with that stuff for repairing tiny rock chips

[charred depot]

You could maybe fill the void somehow but it wouldnt hide it

[hexed kayak]

you could also laminate whatever plastic substitute you find for glass
if you laminate it and give it a really think ceramic coating then you shouldnt have to worry about scratches or it shattering in your face

[charred depot]

It doesent bother me enough to do anything, just people always ask whats up with it and its on the edge of being a MOT fail.

Eventually the screen will get cracked and I will have to replace it especially with these track days.

[hexed kayak]

my volvos window is cracked

but i got lucky

the crack started and ended in one single small corner of the glass

so its barleyt even there

@charred depot i have just become unlucky

Its gotten bigger

It now goes from drivers side to passenger side across the whole window but its still not visible

[charred depot]

Id just have it replaced on a modern only reason I haven't is rarity.

[hexed kayak]

i just need the time to change my window

[hexed kayak]

the volvos are there and the windshield only costs 60$ from the juknkyard

[pure pond]

im happy i got a car with flat windows so you can get them made for cheap

[hexed kayak]

go away jeep owner

[pure pond]

suzuki owner

[hexed kayak]

thats just sad

[misty mantle]

My rear side windows are curved at the top, fml is I ever have to replace one of them

[hexed kayak]

@charred depot me in a rwd mustang on straight ice

[charred depot]

rwd's alot more aids but predictable atleast than 4wd on ling longs

[pure pond]

and you didnt hit people? this must be ai

[hexed kayak]

opn second thought that was on the driver

[charred depot]

they chickened out but the tyres are useless

[hexed kayak]

mf hit the brakes instead of steering out of it

would he have saved it who knows but no fucking way he would have just stabbing the brakes

its only embarassing if you have to call someone to pull you out of a snow bank

[misty mantle]

Didn't have my dashcam at the time, but the first time I drove in the snow I slid into a curb twice

[hexed kayak]

the first time i drove my black cobalt ss in the snow i ended up on my neighbours front lawn

it hasd just snowed and it was still on bald track tires and it NEEDED to be moved

@charred depot

I miss that jeep you see parked there

[misty mantle]

I've still got 10-someodd year old road tires

I'm planning on getting Falken Wildpeaks at some point

[charred depot]

I think 30 year old tyres still holding air

[hexed kayak]

That jeep was lowkey the best drift car ever

[misty mantle]

rwd is fun in the snow

[charred depot]

Id have a offroad vehicle but theres no greenlanes in Scotland due to legality differences to England and im not paying to get stuck.

[hexed kayak]

fwd too just not for the same reasons

[hexed kayak]

you rip the ebrake turn the wheel to full lock
then you put in it reverse and floor it

[misty mantle]

At least, it's fun until you get stuck because your tire chains decided to become front suspension chains instead

[hexed kayak]

forklift mode

[hexed kayak]

[misty mantle]

This happened to my parents on my moms Bronco Sport back when we got 5 feet of snow

[prisma frost]

🧼

[misty mantle]

They were about a half mile from home coming back from a grocery run, too

[hexed kayak]

generic adolf mobile

[prisma frost]

🫣

[hexed kayak]

your car when you dont put the right oil in it

https://youtu.be/nw467CjhYcU?t=1

[prisma frost]

😂 😭

[stoic ledge]

Dented plate

[prisma frost]

From previous owner

[stoic ledge]

Replace it

[prisma frost]

Not fixing it bc it doesnt bother me

[stoic ledge]

👀

[prisma frost]

Money waste

[stoic ledge]

I can't stand it

[stoic ledge]

That's the purchase of a VW indeed

runs

[prisma frost]

🫣

[stoic ledge]

No but in all seriousness, it's a cheap fix to make the car look a lot nicer

[charred depot]

If they were made of plastic like ours it wouldnt be mangled : )

[stoic ledge]

It's what, €20 for a Luxury license plate?

[stoic ledge]

They'd just fade 😛

[charred depot]

Ive never had them fade really, usually just broken off at the screw holes or like delaminated coming apart with moisture inside

My saloon has the original 40 year old plate on the back

[stoic ledge]

That's not much better than a dented plate tho xP

[charred depot]

supa reflective tho

[stoic ledge]

Luxury plates are ❤️ tho

They look so much nicer

[prisma frost]

I hardly notice it and it's a hassle to get a replacement

I think every plate in NL has those 3D letters

They look x1000 better

[stoic ledge]

Nah it's not, they pop out and you can just walk in to any parts store and get a new one made

[stoic ledge]

No you can get both, the Luxury plates are like twice as expensive

Many put on the standard plates

Generally it's a standard plate unless you ask

[prisma frost]

I've never seen a car in NL without luxury plates

Ah makes sense

[stoic ledge]

Bruh you see them all the time

You probably don't even notice it

I can go on Autoscout and I bet 50% of the cars won't have luxurious plates

[prisma frost]

I must be blind then

[stoic ledge]

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/citroen-c4-picasso-1-6-vti-tendance-7-persoons-gasoline-black-6fc3fd94-023a-4474-a79b-0ac188e82ef2

First car, no luxury plate

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/skoda-fabia-1-2-tsi-ambition-airco-trekhaak-gasoline-black-2d593458-e8d4-4f5b-a386-cc7686974cef

2nd car, standard plate

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/ford-mondeo-2-3-16v-ghia-automaat-gasoline-blue-315086e0-e142-492a-acac-5f154f372bf9

3rd car, standard plate

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/kia-ceed-cee-d-1-4-x-tra-gasoline-grey-1b7ef6fc-6133-4505-bdbf-f83f54c42ab2

Kia Ceed: luxury plate. But faded

https://www.autoscout24.com/offers/bmw-120-1-serie-120i-high-executive-m-pakket-gasoline-white-1ba42631-db6d-4db4-9108-d7d5850b52f8

BMW: luxury plate

So 3/5 normal
2/5 luxury so far

I'll count a few more and give my verdict

[tepid wing]

I should look into getting a custom plate.

[prisma frost]

I just have no reason atm to replace my plate when it’s only slightly dented. It works and is still very readable so it’s just a money waste im afraid but maybe in the future

[stoic ledge]

30 normal
15 luxury

So ⅔ of my sample test or normal plates, ⅓ are the luxury plates 😛

Dented plates make a car look unloved and neglected imho

[prisma frost]

Oh well considering its a vw polo im sure the previous owner neglected it a lot

[stoic ledge]

Probably

No but in all seriousness, otherwise it looks quite clean

So then the attention of course immediately gets drawn to the plates

(or anything else which isn't "perfect")

[prisma frost]

Im more focused on these little imperfections. The plastic trim isn’t flush with the bumper but rather sticking out and the bumper next to the headlight is sticking out and also not fully attached it seems

[stoic ledge]

Probably popped out of a clip after the previous owner made a slide bump

When he also dented the plate

[prisma frost]

Gosh that would mean the whole bumper would need replacing im guessing

[stoic ledge]

You can try pushing it back in to a clip

I'm not sure Where the clips exactly are

[prisma frost]

I’ve put some force on that part and it kinda works but it pops out again after a min

Im guessing the plastic part has a few broken clips so that would need replacement

But it’s all unnecessary

[stoic ledge]

Probably the clip where it should connect broke

Yeah

[prisma frost]

I’d probably change my Headlights to LED first and from there I’ll see what can be done

[tight cypress]

superglue it on

[dawn glade]

@hexed kayak

do you know from which year the s60 and v60 were made in China ?

like yesterday you said something about "from that point they are crap"

would a 2015 v60 be a good year?

how does the turbo and the engine age? do they need a rebuild at some point ?

[hexed kayak]

geely bought volvo in 2010

the s60 i have ended production in 2009

[dawn glade]

oh ok
so a 2015 would be a no go I guess

[hexed kayak]

And my engine has 325k on it with no engine lights

[dawn glade]

nice

[compact grotto]

@dusk ocean

[hexed kayak]

Lol nice door ding

Time to fuck up the person parked next to you

[compact grotto]

Be nice I’m sad! lol

[dawn glade]

that's sad indeed

[compact grotto]

Sadly I don’t know who it was, this likely happened last night or this morning and I don’t know ow who was parked next to me.

[hexed kayak]

You need Swedish steel

Those dents on the roof are from when a tree fell on this car

[dawn glade]

well I guess I'll look for older Volvo model

[hexed kayak]

This is the worst dent on my car

Its from a shopping cart that was doing 60kph

[hexed kayak]

Massive wind storm with 140kph winds

@dawn glade

[dawn glade]

those Volvo looks sturdy

I'll check what's around here for some older ones

[hexed kayak]

My old cobalt ss that i use for parts

@dawn glade volvo

[dawn glade]

thick panels

[hexed kayak]

@dawn glade and listen to the sound of the doors closing

[brittle totem]

2019 And newer are designed under Geely ownership but I don't think any of them are built in China unless you live in Asia.

[hexed kayak]

xc90 is

[hexed kayak]

and all the engines for all volvo cars are assembled in china

[dawn glade]

sounds insulated AF
won't hear tire noise on the highway with that

[brittle totem]

Some of them are assembled in Sweden. It's mainly the Asia market that get the ones that are built in China.

"The Volvo XC90 is currently made throughout various plants in Sweden. The vehicles assembled there are what you would find throughout most of the world, except for Asian market examples. Those Volvo XC90 SUVs are assembled mainly in Chengdu, China. Volvo Cars has plans for assembling all 2022 Volvo XC90 models at their new facility in South Carolina"

[hexed kayak]

@compact grotto that dent should be able to get pulled with no paint work

find a nice PDR place near you

[compact grotto]

Yeah, PDR is the plan for sure

[hexed kayak]

it will cost a decent chunk of change but atleast your car wont have paintwork

[stoic ledge]

That's just not true lol

Initially all VEA engines came from Sweden, and later the only Chinese VEA engines are those used in the Chinese production plants and/or the Chinese/Asia market brands/cars (Lynk&Co, Chinese production XC40 for example)

[dusk ocean]

Sheeeeeit

[dusk ocean]

Gonna be tough on a crease

[hexed kayak]

any bodyman worth their salt can take care of that

[stoic ledge]

That generation was practically fully developed before Geely took over. It's also on a Ford-shared platform (e.g Mondeo)

2015 is iirc the year they switched between Ford engines back to Volvo's "own" VEA?

Technically that was developed under Geely ownership but the only real part they had in it was finding, all development was done by Volvo, in Sweden, by Volvo engineers. It's as much Volvo if not more than any previous engine

[dawn glade]

I spotted a t5 and a t6 polestar ... the polestar is really tempting as it's more powerful and probably a bit more fun to drive

but the t5 is cheaper

[stoic ledge]

Depending on the year the T6 is a 3.0T 6-cyl or a 2.0T 4-cyl 😛

[dawn glade]

both 2015

from that year that t6 should be 3.0T 6 cyl according to Wikipedia

[stoic ledge]

Yeah 2015 was the switching year I think

Fyi Iirc, the only Volvo made in China for the European market is/was the S90 (and now the EX30)

Polestar is likely still the 3.0 T6 for 2015

[dawn glade]

well I'm in Canada so I don't know if there was any made in China
also I can't get more recent than that

the 2015 polestar is even stretching it

[stoic ledge]

Non-Polestar was VEA I4 I think

Well for export in general©^

V60 was made in Europe solely

[dawn glade]

same for s60?

[stoic ledge]

S60 II was made in China but only the LWB I think... EU and US versions are from either Sweden or Belgium, I think Sweden

S60 III is Made in the US of A

[hexed kayak]

canadian volvos are EUDM cars

[hexed kayak]

so if there are any Chinese volvos ending up in europe then they are ending up in canada

[stoic ledge]

So it's only the S90 and EX30

[dawn glade]

good to know

[hexed kayak]

ew

[spice compass]

Thanks

[hexed kayak]

idc if that car goes 0-mach fuck in 0.0000001 seconds
hyundai as a company doesn't exist to me anymore after the shit show that was owning one of their cars

[spice compass]

We all could say that about any car. But good on ya brother. Stick it to them.

[hexed kayak]

you really cant. 3 short blocks 2 transmissions and 5 diffs all before 100k km

[spice compass]

Sucks

Sucks you stuck with it that long and didn't learn after the 2nd short block.

[hexed kayak]

ihad to stick with it if i wanted to get it bought back by the dealer under lemon laws

and our lemon laws make you put up with issues for way too fucking long before they come into effect

[spice compass]

That blows for you.

[hexed kayak]

@spice compass the hilarious part is there was usually a 1-2 month wait before i could get the engine changed because they were fully booked for engine replacments

that far out

[spice compass]

That doesn't surprise me.

[hexed kayak]

all the non hyundai dealers ive ever worked at could take a car that needs an engine and start work same or next day
so being fully booked for 2 months out is fucking wild

[hexed kayak]

@spice compass

[hexed kayak]

this is better

[spice compass]

Yeah that far out is crazy but where I live that doesn't surprise me either.

[hexed kayak]

Brembo gang

[dusk ocean]

Psh

[hexed kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-meme-public-weird-gif-11126868111164642824

[dusk ocean]

Not even carbon

[spice compass]

Can't wait to take this with the EN to track days.

[dusk ocean]

Seats need more recline

[hexed kayak]

I was gonna go to the woodward dream cruise the year but the police ruined those plans

[dusk ocean]

Bump steer correction

[hexed kayak]

I went last year but my car got impounded for an unpaid parking ticket and i can only get it back august 17th

@spice compass the dream cruise is august 17th

[spice compass]

Where is this dream cruise?

[hexed kayak]

Detroit. Biggest car show on the planet

[spice compass]

I am in the south. I mainly do shows and full on track days.