I like small engines
>>28777090As long as it's not an odd number (5 is ok)
>>28777090I don’t.>picrel4.600”(116.84mm) bore4.500”(114.3mm) strokeBig sucky squeezy bangy blowyboi
>>28777090how small we talkin here ?>>287771372 litres is about as small as any engine should be.the weight and bulk savings are marginal when going any smaller.
Can we go smaller?
>>28777090small enginebig cuck
German manufacturers deserve to vanish.
>>28778880photoshopped or ai slop
>>28778934>photoshop in 2026
>>28778880Calm down, Louis Rossman. There will be a Chinese clone of the tool on the AliExpress in 0.5 seconds.
>>28778935oof. weird.
>>28778887Tool head for the screws will probably be patented too to prevent people selling or making workarounds. You'll have to mill your own.
How is it so fucking perfect bros?
>>28778721I will be mocked, and this will be called cope, but my fucking god the modular v8 just sounds like pure SEX. Coyote has nothing on it in this department at least.
>>28778722>>28778721the sn95 is fucking hideous
>>28778721There are and they're me. I do reckon the S197 had better engines though.>>28778722The New Edge Mustang is probably the best looking of the plastic bumper Stangs (especially the 03-04 Cobra) but the Bullitt styling cues don't suit the design as neatly.
>>28778721>>28778850>hurr sn hate bonerYou have shit taste.
>>28778708Jokes on you, fox bodies are rapidly becoming more valuable and ran examples are selling for big money.S197 won't be far behind. My GenX dad is already I-know-what-I-got'ing his supercharged S197.
Thinking about wingsThinking about aeroAero for coolingAero for lengtheningAero for downforceFlexible aeroStatic aeroFolding aerohttps://youtu.be/ltTe52rqhschttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a-DiI80fLghttps://youtu.be/asjCftxLXys
I'm contemplating installing a small trunk lip on my '04 Accord. It's got the eco K20 with a crazy 155hp. Convince me that it's pointless.
I just want to know my car can produce vapes at speed.
>>28778586The factory Ford team was racing the Cobra fox body mustang in the same series that Saleen was running their cars.The Cobra wing was purely aesthetics (i personally think it looks like shit) and was doing nothing for downforce in the straights and they kept losing to Saleens.Ford found a loophole in the rules that because the Saleen was available through Ford dealers, their wing was a legal option. They swapped the Saleen wing onto the Cobras and were then competitive.
ya know what Pontiac stands for?
>>28768145HumansYearn forUltimateNDrivingAutomobileInternationally
>>28768145HAULINGtOYOTASNTODAACRUSHERIF YOU CAN BUILD A GOOB BIKE, YOU CAN BUILD A GOOD CAR. YOU CAN'T STOP S HONDA. JUS DISABLE UR VCM AND IT WILL OUTLAST SOME CANDIAN MADE SHIT. BEST WAY TO HAUL KIDS AND 2X4S.GOBBLESS
>>28766268Powerful OwnersNavigate TracksInAwesomeCars
>>28766268Popular owner's note: today, I ate cum
GayMan’s Chevy
Why the fuck is everything so bright and blinds you in seconds?
>>28774453I was outside last night just standing in my driveway and 5 miles away was some light blinding me.Fucking faggot must have been literally incinerating other drivers as he passed them.I was looking at it through the bushes too.
One of my bulbs is out.I'm gonna join them. I just wanna see.
Kolidascope wasnt fun as kid and isnt when ur driving i got the tysm astigmatism
>>28770275Simple answer, new cars and trucks are too big. Even "properly aligned" headlights will blind car drivers because the standard was created 80 years ago when everyone only drove cars.Anyone talking about cheap headlights and aftermarket LED conversions is coping, this isn't the 00's anymore, 99% of cars on the road are running the stocks that came from the factory. There was a point when headlight conversion could be an upgrade from sealed beams or maybe they wanted the chinzy altezza look, those times are long gone.When is the last time the average normie fiddled with their headlight cutoffs? Never, that's when, they either get screwed at the dealership buying a bulb and alignment, get a little less screwed buying and dropping in whatever cheap bulb they can get at the vatozone or might buy LED bulbs off Amazon if they're unhappy with the brightness but none of that changes the light cone pattern of the headlight bucket they are going into. Nobody gets a screwdriver to fiddle with the alignment screw, why would they, if they didn't get into an accident there is no point messing with it would be the thought.
>>28770275It’s this new LED hellscape. It’s not just this weird arms race of headlights, the street lights as well. Go find pics from like 2005 of any residential area at night it should be all amber street lights covering everything in this almost soft golden light that somehow illuminated everything perfectly but also wasn’t blinding.I just don’t drive at night anymore. I refuse to unless I absolutely have to. I literally cannot see anything it’s just pure black and beams. I also live in Miami so it’s way more traffic than most other places combined with migrants from places with fucked up traffic rules and low IQs combined with just generally horrible scumbags also with low IQs.>>28770580>artificial is intervention (human) in the breeding processSuch as humans selectively breeding horses to have longer manes, or altering the environment so only a certain % of mosquitos mate or even survive.>natural selection is environmental stressorsSo man made artificial power of the sun lights meant to make things visible in the dark at night when it’s supposed to be dark in man made vehicles moving at 50mph in man made cities where the only nature is maybe some decorative trees and shrubbery is all just part of nature. Got it.
What you just did it???
>brown>filthy home office>suspicious liquid stain on monitor screen>uses whiteboard to doodle>uses Chrome, unironically>Facebook open>Steam open>CS:GO open>calculator open>camera app open>comb next to gum and pink lip balmFrom this I can only deduce you are a (possibly) homosexual Indian male working your first real job as an immigrant in a Western nation.Yes or yes?
>>28778962"You are currently offline" - This is terrible, how can you live without access to the Internet?
>bro buy a le slow car fast for the twisties so you can have fun without breaking speed limitsUm do people actually believe ts
>>28778916I'm not arguing that. I did 140 in my 911 on Tx 21 (Old San Antonio Road). While that was fun, it wasn't as much fun as sliding around gravel roads in that old diesel rabbit, and there were a lot more opportunities for 4 wheel drifts on gravel roads than there were for topping the ton in the sports car.
>>28778909Based and true. I too own a Mk1 Golf, it's slow as hell but unironically the most fun I've had in a car.
>>28778879Generally no. If they did, these people and their stupid little Miatas and Golfs wouldn't be putting on sport suspension and air intakes and expensive tires to make them faster. Taking a slow car/bike fast is indeed fun. But doing that on purpose, when you actually have a faster option, that's advanced level fun. You need to be enlightened by speed to really understand and appreciate it. Anyone new to performance automobiles just wants to go fast. Which is based and totally OK. Just know that "muh slow car fast" is 100000000% cope if they've never owned anything significantly faster.Picrel example. 70s shitbike with no rider aids. It's my 8th bike. This thing would get absolutely dusted by any 600 or bigger from the past 20 years. But it's so unbelievably raw. I love it.
>>28778951>their stupid little Miatas and Golfs wouldn't be putting on sport suspension and air intakes and expensive tires to make them fasterLmao how come i've never heard of people who detune their cars to make them slower because apparently that makes cars more fun?
>>28778879Buy a light car, not a slow car.
>Can't get an arc half the time>Other half immediately get my rod stuck to the work surfaceWhy is this shit so hard? Especially when all my advice is just>Here watch you just have got to get a feel for it bro
>stick welding in 2026literally why. it's probably the rod ur using, some are hard to strike. you should also bake them in the oven to dry them out.
>>28776645>Those are both going to be more high performance than anything you faggots have ever built.You can believe what you want
>>28777719>Implying your little cage couldn't possibly be stick welded. My farm equipment I repair will see more stress on it than that ever will
>>28777963Your farm equipment is made of 3/4" plate or something like that. Nobody disputes that stick is appropriate for that kind of thing. Trying to get clean welds with consistent penetration around the 1/8" cage tubing would be a totally different story, especially because that cage is cromoly, which is somewhere between nightmarish and impossible to stick weld. Stick still has its applications (even if flux core is eating some of them nowadays) but it's way less relevant to a normal automotive mechanic than MIG.
>>28775767>Like pipelinesLiterally transitioning to MIG.Like other anon said, stick is a relic of a bygone era- being kept alive by poor rednecks and farmers. Its "adequate" for plate steel when tolerances are measured in feet.My chassis' went through x-ray inspection before they hit the track. You'll never pass using stick on 7/8" .080 tubing.
Are the new Tundras good to go? I don't know what else to get for a truck, it's like every brand and style is now unreliable dogshit. I just want something new that can pull a trailer rated to 9,990lbs gvrw. I thought about an f250 with the 7.3, but I'm reading about all these issues people have with Ford.
>>28778698And what is the excuse for needing an unreliable, '''new''' POS truck vs a used truck with a bulletproof motor?The nu-Tundra with the V6 is also the worst choice currently of any brand for a full size truck.
>>28778704Because I want new.
>>28778711Based.
>>28778698tundras suck for towing. very unstable at speed. get a 3/4 ton from any of the big 3.
Stage 1: The price wars>gasoline demand drops>refineries and gas stations lower their prices to compete against each other for the dwindling demandStage 2: The shakeout>demand and prices get too low to sustain the fixed costs of running a refinery or gas station, and so the lower profit ones shut down>this causes supply shortages and spikes in pricing>with less gas stations and refineries, any unplanned outage or shutdowns loss will create supply shocks, causing prices to fluctuate more rapidlyStage 3: The Death of the mass market>as prices of gas goes up and services become sparser, demand falls sharply, creating a self feeding death spiral>the economics of scale break down heavily and the price becomes completely uneconomical for mass consumption>gasoline becomes a niche product only the rich or hobbyists can afford to keep their old cars running>anything that relied on the economics of mass market gas usage dies off
>>28778932>Jesus fucking christ, we have a very likely/possible World War coming up sometime in the next couple of decades.yeah, this isn't happening. feel free to send your own kids, though, mordecai.
>>28778945It will happen and all of the markets have already begun turning in directions indicative of that. Nobody's kids have to go, we already amended the Selective Service Act so that you don't have to sign up for the draft and you don't have to be an American Citizen to get drafted. They're going to send the Mexicans and Chink Diaspora to fight the war and use force multipliers and self-flying aircraft to fight most of it, then just bomb all the infrastructure and let the chinks starve to death. Its not complicated, Anon.
>>28778941>he still doesn't know how oil and gas are related
>>28778965>the brown foreign animal is still pretending he isn't ESL
>>28778973To make a gallons of gassoline requires gallons of oil.
https://youtu.be/P4Z-L5Jn_Ro?t=31yea so how are they just comfortable with being 1 bit of bullshit on the road surface away from going 130kmph into a guardrail idk i dont get itstupidity or skill? maybe its not so likely?
If you were actually talented you'd already have a contract as a teenager.
>>28777977i still think they are cool and wanna ride like thathopefully fast enough to die instead of end up like picreltracks are paywalled but maybe 70% of the limit could be safe
bumparoo
>>28777951Thruxton guy at 3:40 could have gotten so much more out of his machine, a shame he let them pass
>>28777951I once downshifted a bit harshly whilst crossing a wet white line. Little wiggle, sat up straight, nothing more. People love blowing up shit out of all proportion and gatekeeping by using their embarrassing failings as cautionary folk tales.
>>28777239The one that isn't doing 80mph through a school zone
>>28778103not even close
>>28777990even the x5 has grown on meat least compared to all the shitslop suv/crossovers the world has had to suffer with since then
>>28777765Thank you anon
>>28778348>parked in dirt in the backyardhiding them from the repo man?
/org/ Off Road General
>>28777524>I have decided on the Chevy trackerbased
>>28777524>escape/tributeThis is not the greatest car in the world.
>>28777524 >escape Common so easy to get parts but shit in all other ways
ausbros i want to get my first 4wd. what would you reccomend with the market the way it is atm? i like the 4runner/hilux surf and 100 series but i dont want to spend over 10k for a car with 400000kmsif i get a ute i want a single cab too
>>28778324Toyota are (usually) a safe bet but you pay more for that level of reliability. Of a ute is an option then im guessing you live in upsidedownland and your market is going to be very different than what Euro or U.S. anons are accustomed to.
Revolutionary design
>>28778546As I understand, the rear tail lights are supposed to be like the marks left by cat's claws.The choice of having the leaping cat on the back of the car as well as on the steering wheel is because Chinese customers when asked found the 'Growler' logo to be too intimidating.With regards to any other element of Ian Callum's vision regards to the rear, I cannot comment.
>>28778603Oh. One other thing.The rear is clearly supposed to look like a coupe whilst offering the practicality of a proper saloon.
>>28778546>>28778603>>28778608https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eWIrBOc3zEThe classic clip.
>>28778546never understood why they did that black pillar, body color looks fine
>>28778898I was about to call you out but that does actually look absolutely fine, and better than a poorly-fitted piece of black plastic.
