Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi

[noob5,000,000]

So... I bought a car today
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[hockeystyx16]

lol at this gayass air gun. it wont take off my moms lugs. i started working on my stepdads expeditons ball joints, air gun ripped the lugs right off. WTF. i put them back on, nice and tight, like i would tighten the lugs normal, popped them right off again. weird. i loosened up a lug on the grand cherokee, tightened it same tightness as the expedition. hit it with a gun, nothing again.

then, of all the damn nuts, after it wouldnt even budge a lug, it took the lowed ball joint nuts right off. the most rusted nuts on the whole car, and it took them off no problems.

maybe this compressor is biased towards ford. i dunno, but it works, who cares if were taking it back tomorrow, im using it tonite. fack harbor freight compressors, im glad my stepdad and not i spent my money and gas getting it, but i will never concider a harbor freight compressor after this. for wrenches and that kind of stuff, HFT is where its at tho.

i found a 60 gallon husky compressor at home depot for 400 dollars. i dont want to tap into my probe fund (read: college loan return, 1000 dollars left of it), but thats a steal, and it got great reviews. if a home depot around here has one of those, i will buy it. 60 gallons is enough for almost everything, and its plenty for a HVLP gun.

[hockeystyx16]

i found this interesting. some trivia about Top Fuel dragsters.

Here are some interesting trivia facts about some REAL power! The part at the end where it talks about the hottest Z06 Corvette is really cool...

* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.

* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitromethane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.

* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster supercharger.

* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.

* Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.

* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitromethane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.

* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.

* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.

* In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.

* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.

* Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!

* Including the burnout the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.

* The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.

* The Bottom Line; Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated US$1,000.00 per second.



Putting all of this into perspective:

You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.

The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.

now thats some acceleration

[Nychold]

* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.

I was always told it was after the first 60 feet, dragsters were essentially dieseling down the track.

[NonChalant]

woo hoo the threadi request went through

[.insane]

I had to say goodbye to my tercel today, got an offer too good to refuse. It was a reliable machine 300,148 miles on it. Was a 4-speed really fun to drive, but $1200 for a 1993 Tercel was worth selling it, now i have to drive my moms old car a 1998 Contour slush box, trying to sell it soon.

Might see a shiny new car in my garage sooner than you think... a nice little surprise maybe

[Nychold]

Beef recall

So let me see if I have this right. A company fired employees who abused poor, sick, or crippled cows, 147 million pounds of beef was considered "tainted" because "the health threat was likely small" from eating it, and 37 million pounds of it (about 20%) went to school programs.

Just out of curiosity, is it a really slow news day, or what?

Animal abuse sucks. Possibly tainted meat sucks even worse. Making an enormous deal because a little over 20% of the possibly tainted meat was given to school children and had already been eaten with no ill side effects is just...

Wow.

[noob5,000,000]

Might see a shiny new car in my garage sooner than you think... a nice little surprise maybe

I went to the chicago autoshow last night and got hooked with with a test drive for the evo at the south holland dealership went there this morning and holy fvck thats a nice car, shifts feel so good, and it goes..

Will we see one in your garage one day?

maybe it may be closer than you think

[AHTOXA]

Speaking of food....


Do you know what Michael Jackson and Burger King have in common?
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They both like to stuff their meat into 5 year old buns.

[black94boost]

Mhmmm. The Knight Rider movie.... Dammit! I want a Mustang GT500KR now

[Nychold]

Mhmmm. The Knight Rider movie.... Dammit! I want a Mustang GT500KR now

Blasphemy. KITT was a Pontiac Trans Am. To make him a Mustang is just wrong and sick on so many levels. And what's with the demonic voice?

:sigh:

[black94boost]

Mhmmm. The Knight Rider movie.... Dammit! I want a Mustang GT500KR now

Blasphemy. KITT was a Pontiac Trans Am. To make him a Mustang is just wrong and sick on so many levels. And what's with the demonic voice?

:sigh:

It's the new KITT! Out with the old.. In with the new! And I think Pontiac doesn't make the TransAm anymore. Also, NBC has a major marketing deal with FORD Mhmmmm Mustangs

[blauenlanze]

-.- Is it the Knight Rider Ten Thousand, or something? TT will always stand for 2k or twin turbo. And a Trans Am.

Also, NBC has a major marketing deal with FORD

That would explain something.

If KITT returned and Pontiac made a new Firebird, and Chevy killed off their Camaro, they'd be guaranteed to be an instant hit. Even if Chevy didn't kill off their Camaro.

[noob5,000,000]

They could have used, like, a 2002 Trans Am or something, it doesnt need to be a brand new car. I think that would have been sweet.

[subzero]

just finished watching this documentary on youtube called Earthlings. a real eye opener...gives you a humbling sense of what animals have to go through just to be consumed.

part 1
part 2
part 3