>plastic control arms2026 everyone
>>28778029Monocoque chassis' were developed for safety because theyre stronger you fucking braindead retard.
>>28776669>only way to get bones in 2026 is if they're plasticGrim
>>28778953>seriously guise im not poor>my $60 poorfag ramps had 2 foot extensions>i dont even know who makes my jobs supposedly fancy ramps and had to use a picture of the poorest of ramps ever madesure thing jeet. it doesn't help that the only brands you can think of when it comes to exotics are ferraris and lambos. have fun riding your trains
>>28779160What if he is trains man that does hard trains man work?
>>28779148>Sorry Wolverine, no adamantium for you. We had to cut costs, so we reinforced your bones with Chinese plastic.
Isn't it weird how an offroad bike weights half as much as a normal bike but an offroad car weights twice as much as a normal car?
>>28779214I see, so AWD are 298lbs lighter overall.
>>28779220Not overall. Just the drive train. Offroad vehicles are still weigh twice as much.
>>28779227So the vehicle weight is doubled, but the drive train weighs 198lbs less
>>28779231Minus another 100
>>28779231Exactly. Just like when a woman gets a BBL
>>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?
>>28778064>i8>blocks your pathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxe_b2GRwok
>For Classics made from 1979 or older, with few exceptions.>Everybody has their own taste, but some tastes are wrong. If you aren't sure if your car is classic or not, it's not.>Your Honda Miata doesn't belong here.>US, Euro, Jap, or whatever.>Post your classic, your work on it, your hackery, and get advice.>Any and all discussion about classics welcome, but may not necessarily generate responses; don't get butthurt.>Period correct performance > cosmetics.>Metal > plastic.>Classic shitbox > modern shitbox.>JBweld and RTV can fix anything>If you see rust there is more.>Rust and bodywork are the most difficult thing to repair.>Electrical work is difficult until you stop reading forum posts and buy a multimeter.>Low oil pressure? Worn mains and rod bearings. Use lucas and 15W40 until you afford a rebuild.>Do NOT buy a classic and plan to pay someone to work on it. You need to be able to do 90% or more of the work or you will go broke.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>28779106It sounds like a ball issue to be honest.Symptom is exactly what happens if you adjust a box with worn balls and you tighten too much.
>>28779162Idk who that is. I just like older z cars. Liked the 350s as a kid, only car that ever grabbed my attention other than novas, randomly started seeing 240s and 280ZX’s all over the place a couple years ago. As in, in video games, some shows, in some cartoon advertisements for non car related things, social media, have even randomly seen multiple hot wheels 240s in passing at the store they just stuck out out of the entire wall of cars.Really really liked the look of the car. Couldn’t stand it started reading up on them and I’m in love with what I’ve learned. No other car has gotten me a hard on like this. That’s the car I personally want
>>28779169oh man...it got rebuilt by Firm Feel. they said that they bench tested it too, and I don't think they're lying either - if they had just slapped the valve assembly on it without centering the steering would go straight to one side when the engine starts.I did see someone else had a similar issue,> It would intermittently show up, especially when parking. You'd spin the steering wheel and it would suddenly get stiff and then release. The issue turned out to be a small leak in the return hose. Once tightened and the bleed procedure followed, it was fine.I'm probably clutching at straws but gonna try all the small things at this point, especially because what he was describing above is exactly what's happening to me.
>>28779158>I assume this means my best bet is to get a car that runs, and then buy the parts I want myself and find a garage that will A use the parts I bought and preferably B let me take part in the processPretty much what I did with mine. It ran, but pretty much every single rubber bit needed replacement. The only extra wiring seemed to be a washer pump switch and that was done rather poorly so I ripped it out and redid it properly. Then I replaced the power feed wires with fatter wiring so it wouldn't melt down, and installed a headlight relay harness to take the extra load from the halogen bulbs off the rest of the wiring harness and the headlight dimmer switch
>>28779185Nah I was just giving you grief, he's a youtuber fixing up an old Z bit-by-bit for the past few years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ38C-M3tykThis is his most recent video and it's quite advanced, but this is about the limit of what you'd be able to accomplish with a stock Z only having basic hand tools and a parking spot.Also check this guy out, literal perfectionist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KolOaqA6Q
Is Nissan Pathfinder a good new car? It’s relatively cheap in Canada, around $38k (CAD) MSRP for a large SUV. Made in America. Is it good or shit?
>>28778848Durango is $57k new here.
>>28778853Idk where here is, but dodge is kind of desperate these days, probably can get a good discount. But so is nissan
>>28778870Canada.
>>28778848>But is there any reason to get these over a v8 rwd durangoIt'll still get stolen and insurance is a bitch on these
>>28778848Not wanting to touch a FCA product is a valid reason
Do these work? I need to add a gauge for oil pressure and temperature to my S197 and was looking for a simple mod. Do these hurt oil flow/pressure significantly?
>>28779174Not. Send it
>>28779174>>>/diy/
these are like a black hole for gas
>>28778564>blah blah blah blah yap yap yap "you needed to know a man....WITH A SCREWDRIVER if you ever wanted a car to run right" lol, lmao even
>>28778564Woah it's almost like a racing part needs specific conditions for it to run it's best!
>>28776395Ford's electronic feedback carb had better MPGs than the previous standard carb AND the MAF EFI that came directly after it.
>>28778564>t. Zoomie who cant in2cars unless a computer does it for him.20 bucks says you take your car in for oil changes because "I could do it but my time is more valuable" and then you plop your ass in front of your computer and play Cow of Dooty for 3 hours after your shift at McDicks.
who else /4160/ ?
Do you think the four-stroke engine is unique to Earth, or is it a simple enough design to have been independently invented elsewhere in the universe?
>>28778282>I ever tell you about the time our FTL drive died in the middle of nowhere, and the human on board with us pulled the engine out of his car and bolted it on to the drive, enabling us to get back home?>Since then, I keep a spare "El Ess" engine on all my ships. You never know when you need them, and you need them more than ya think.
>>28776119>Pretending Abiogenic petroleum origin has any basis in realityWhat was that about midwit?
>>28778289Kek
>>28775254Who gives a fuck.Who fucking gives a fuckFuck fucking fuck a fuck.Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Ing.
>>28775395>has no other usesSee that's the one flaw in the premise. It's a good, and fun story, and suspension disbelief for the sake of the message and all of that,But grav manip has ALL of the uses.All.It would fix quite literally every problem we have (thus allowing us to deepen more into our self-species predatory behavior and attack each other for having a single arm hair out of place, or not present)
>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
>>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.
Stick is simple and cheap and if you git gud with stick you're gud with a TIG.
>>28773762skill issueyou should be ashamed. welding is like one rung above working at mcdonalds.
>>28773762Those fancy inverter machines do help a lot in this case, and your rod quality is important too. Welding with those ancient transformer tombstones takes some experience
Modern cars designs all look like 3D printed slop.
because they are
>man makes obvious observation>more news at 10
Okay guys, you want a REAL unpopular opinion? I think a car owner should be doing most or all of the maintenance on his car.
>>28778060How so?
>>28778145Being into driving cars is not the same as being into maintaining them. Maintanence is busywork.>>28778145
Ultimate Driving Machine Edition
>>28778865I'm a bot, the comment was generated automatically
The REAL UDM wishes Merry Christmas
>>28778878>baby bro trying to copy big bros nickname
why do the Chinese make cars like this?
Because Big LED is in kahoots with Big Optomotry. Customers for life.
>>28778804biggu grirrbiggu rightsbiggu ruxury
>>28778907>biggu grirr>biggu rights>biggu ruxurywhy is this car a ruxury
rook rike chit
>>28778804Serious answer?The Chinese don't have as much of a concept of brand loyalty as Westerners do. Their car companies are relatively young and fast-moving, not encumbered by history or legacy or the expectations of a loyal customer base. Differnet brands are popping up and dying and they're all just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks in a desperate bid to become successful before the investors' money runs out. Due to this high-pressure environment and China's general lack of enforcing copyright laws, they will often just "borrow" successful styling cues from existing vehicles that Western manufacturers have already spent billions designing. They are literal Frankenstein's Monster cars, all the best bits from better brands sown together and sold for half the price. It only makes sense that they are so subtly grotesque.I have also noticed that the average Chinese car buyer is an NPCs of the lowest order who has zero awareness of brand reputation and views the car as a good value appliance, much like you would when buying a new kettle. They also drive like brainless retards, but that's beside the point.
After five years owning a gen 2 Cayenne S, I now bought a gen 3 Cayenne. Right color in Dolomite Silver, right rims, right options package; I'm over the moon.I already thought the earlier one was a formidable vehicle, but this one trumps it in every way. It's the most powerful, precise and comfortable vehicle I've ever had the joy of driving.And something that's likely controversial around these parts: I think it looks great too.I'm really fucking happy /o/, I hope you find the same happiness in whatever car you want to own as well.
>>28779034>>28779030>non QV
>>28779038you posted a car from 2022 lol
>>28779041that is still being produced right now. goes to show just how good it is
nuBMW is horrible. i dont know a single og BMW fan and owner who still likes them
>>28775319>Right color in Dolomite SilverGray boring blob. My condolences
Which new truck can handle jumps the best? under 35k so most likely mid size: tacoma, colorado et al. No I won't be doing any jumps but I would like to imagine that I am a Baja/rally driver behind the wheel.
>>28778311Are you really going to be jumping a $35k truck? Let's be realistic here. A $3k GMT800 is going to larp as a trophy truck a lot harder than a $35k small truck will.
>>28778317No I will not be jumping the truck, I just want the one that possibly could the most. Kind of like buying a sports car with a racing pedigree even though you don't go to the track.
I found this, it's not a jump but the tires are off the ground
lying in wait.they lurk in the deepest shadows.In the darkest alleyways.behind every liquor storewaiting to run every stop sign.Every red light.they stop for nothingthey stop for no onenobodys insurance is saferemain vigilant this winter. The camry is always out hunting. And the less safe the conditions are, the more likely you are to fall prey to their dastardly deeds
>>28779044You’re confusing the Camry driver for the Corolla or Civic queer. Nobody driving a Camry new is doing that because it’s almost luxury priced now. Your entire post is something an Altima driver would do, cheapskate boomers, niggers and white women drive those cars, and jeets drive the compact and Nip sedans because that’s all they can afford.
OP is an Altima driver.
