The Car Thread

[p0ke]

The Fast and the Furious popped up in my Netflix recommendations and I thought it was funny how poorly all that car dialogue had aged. I don't need a car for race wars.

Hah... I really liked those movies when they came out, but then again I was ... maybe 12? when the first one was released. And yeah, the dialogue sounds really silly now

 

[narad]

Hah... I really liked those movies when they came out, but then again I was ... maybe 12? when the first one was released. And yeah, the dialogue sounds really silly now

"Edwin happens to know a few things and one of the things Edwin knows is, it's not how you stand by your car, it's how you race your car. You better learn that."

Holy shit, someone actually wrote that into a screenplay. Then it went past multiple editors. Then the actor agreed to say that. And then they still managed to get a take where none of the other actors laughed or rolled their eyes!

But yea, I was a bit older, like 18, and was driving a 97 Mitsubishi Eclipse, that I had already installed blue underlights on from independently discovering about the import mod scene on some AOL-internet backpages a few months prior. Felt super cool ::sigh::

 

[_MonSTeR_]

For those interested, it seems first press drives in the new Supra are getting reviewed...

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/toyota-supra-prototype-driven/38760

 

[MFB]

I've never understood the need for the camo/effect paint job they do for prototype cars, like, we can all tell the form factor from those photos so just let them do a solid on it and be done

 

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I've never understood the need for the camo/effect paint job they do for prototype cars, like, we can all tell the form factor from those photos so just let them do a solid on it and be done

I think it just makes it difficult to make out exact details on the car.

 

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managed to get the cars side by side finally!

 

[DudeManBrother]

I’m disappointed with your lack of floor epoxy and Snap-On calendars

 

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I’m disappointed with your lack of floor epoxy and Snap-On calendars

Eh i'm only renting so the garage will stay as is, if and when I buy another place with a garage, I'll definitely make it sweet. And air conditioned.

 

[DudeManBrother]

Hell yeah. AC in Texas is mando for every room

 

[I play music]

Hell yeah. AC in Texas is mando for every room

but for the garage?!

 

[DudeManBrother]

but for the garage?!

If you spend time in there heck yes you’ll at least want a register with a manual damper so you can pump AC in there while you’re working. You don’t need to keep it on all the time.

 

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If you spend time in there heck yes you’ll at least want a register with a manual damper so you can pump AC in there while you’re working. You don’t need to keep it on all the time.

If I owned this place I’d definitely want to hook the garage up and make it as nice a room as possible!

 

[I play music]

If I owned this place I’d definitely want to hook the garage up and make it as nice a room as possible!

If you spend time in there heck yes you’ll at least want a register with a manual damper so you can pump AC in there while you’re working. You don’t need to keep it on all the time.

Ok I can understand this if you use the garage for something like band practice, build some stuff etc. But from what I see Misha only uses it to park his cars

 

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Ok I can understand this if you use the garage for something like band practice, build some stuff etc. But from what I see Misha only uses it to park his cars

Oh in that case I guess I shouldn’t.

 

[jaxadam]

If I owned this place I’d definitely want to hook the garage up and make it as nice a room as possible!

Don't epoxy chip coat them, swirl them!

 

[_MonSTeR_]

Swirling anything improves its tone tenfold. Imagine the natural reverb from that swirled garage floor!

 

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Don't epoxy chip coat them, swirl them!

Damn that’s sick, it’s the used prestige car of floors

 

[sakeido]

epoxy coated floors are the tits

the RX7 weeps a bit of oil cuz the oil cooler lines are going bad. been putting it off cuz I gotta pull so much shit out to do them, I'm going to do a bunch of other stuff at the same time in the spring. So I get a decent coating of oil going but you can just hose the floor off and squeegee it, no oil stains on the floor. shit's amazing

but holy fuck does it ever get slippery. cleaning the oil off makes it look clean but that just makes that one spot of zero friction deadly invisible. you are probably supposed to soak up the oil with cat litter first then clean with detergent...

 

[_MonSTeR_]

but holy fuck does it ever get slippery. cleaning the oil off makes it look clean but that just makes that one spot of zero friction deadly invisible. you are probably supposed to soak up the oil with cat litter first then clean with detergent...

New Cat Day thread coming soon?

 

[MaxOfMetal]

epoxy coated floors are the tits

the RX7 weeps a bit of oil cuz the oil cooler lines are going bad. been putting it off cuz I gotta pull so much shit out to do them, I'm going to do a bunch of other stuff at the same time in the spring. So I get a decent coating of oil going but you can just hose the floor off and squeegee it, no oil stains on the floor. shit's amazing

but holy fuck does it ever get slippery. cleaning the oil off makes it look clean but that just makes that one spot of zero friction deadly invisible. you are probably supposed to soak up the oil with cat litter first then clean with detergent...

Get a couple bags of a product called "Stardust" its a super fine, inert powder. Much, much easier to clean up oil and various chemical spills than cat litter. You don't have to clean much, if at all, afterwards either. You only need an ounce or two of the stuff to clean a gallon of oil.