why did manufacturers shy away from carburettors?
>old coworker's carbonated truck dies off literally right as we're leaving after work>everyone else acts like they didn't see it and keeps driving>pull over and ask him what happened>ran out of gas cause gas gauge doesn't work>offer to take him home to get his gas can>this dude smells like he shit himself I legit had to check the passenger seat to make sure there wasn't a dookie stain >After we go to the gas station and back to the truck to refill it he can't start it cause the battery died>Jump the battery>Now the carburetor is cutting off the engine >Try to get him to call someone else so it's their problem and I can go home after an hourFuck that truck that dude needs a fuel injected vehicle in his life.
>>28964306>batch fire>302>'96Maybe the last lowest optioned v8 f250 to ever exist but most ford engines were MPFI by '88
>>28979786he sounds like the kind of guy that'd manage to flood an EFI engine.
>>28979846Probably with oil, coolant, or transmission fluid somehow
>>28980776The kind of person who can manage getting differential fluid mixed into the coolant
Don’t mind me, I’m just charging my car.
>>28979228This is a very stupid way of approaching the problem, except that it gives a reasonable estimate.Consider: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=65kWh%2F%28%28%28%28gasoline+hhv%29*%28gasoline+density%29%29*0.3%29+*+1+gallon%29Returns 6 gallons to charge your 65kWh Tesla at 30% efficiency. At a more realistic 23.5% efficiency, it'd be 7.7 gallons. Based on edmunds reported ~4mi/kWh for the RWD Model 3, you'd be getting ~34 mpg which is pretty good but also a long way off from say a plug-in Prius at 57+
>>28978884struck a nerve?
>>28979699YEP
>>28976751stinku a shit
>>28978993Owing any car, anywhere, without a garage id
How often do you shit your pants when encountering the UDM at night?
>>28979063Not sure what you mean it's literally a shitbox with neons stock
>IM GONNA INTIMIDATE OTHER MOTORISTS WITH MY LED LIGHTS!!!>wdym I'm a ricer, I drive a car from Europe!!
>>28978096I'd be more scared of a predator that plays Titanfall. Apex is just a disappointment
>>28977843This webm is almost as gay as OP
>>28977843Your mom creams herself when she sees the Unwieldy Dark Man
Before dieselgate it was very popular in Europe and I cannot understand why.>Most Europeans do city driving, only driving few km to the shops and to work>So you know what. Let's get a car that will kill itself in less than a year if you only drive short journeysI never understood this. Why did Europeans drive cars that required that you drive it 40 minutes on a highway or else it's going to kill itself.
>>28977058I heard somewhere that it comes down to two things. First is crude oil type, the kind of crude we have produces a lot of gasoline, back in the day gas was considered a throw away byproduct of refining crude until the gasoline engine was developed. That brings us to the second point, the tooling required to build a diesel engine was at the time more sophisticated making gasoline engines easier to manufacture, this made gas engines cheaper and easier to build, maintain, and operate. It just made economic sense
>>28980423>First is crude oil type,I guess the setup of the refineries is even more important. They must be tuned to the type of crude they are fed with and the type of products that should come out of them.Depending on the machinery present (hydro-/steam crackers, reformers, ...) a refinery can produce only a given set of outputs.
>>28980423By us I meant the USA, I kind of flipped things around answering OP's question but it's why we predominantly use gas engines over diesel>>28980456Yes, not all crude is the same, the kind we have produces a lot of gasoline, what our corporations need is a different kind of crude though so we still need to import crude to produce more kerosene, naphtha, and bitumen than we can apply ourselves
They consume less, diesel is cheaper, and VW's 1.9s are indestructiblePretty much enough for us
>>28980573If only the 1.9 was good
That’s how we roll. You wouldn’t understand if.
>>28975116You don't do shit, little faggot
>>28977813A shame that theere are that many niggers in the UK.
>>28977813Why would you upload a video of yourself doing this
>>28980680I wondered that, too.Maybe he sent it to a few close friends who he thought would understand and one leaked it?
>>28980680sure he looks like an idiot for eternity but he'll be sitting pretty once that $53 short form content check clears
>this made Brits piss and shit their pants in fearName a more based car
>>28980649Nothing worth while was built in the 80s. The only good machines from that era were unintentional delights.You only like the 80s because of the blow
>>28980655>The only good machines from that era were unintentional delights.Does Mommy still cook for ya?
>>28980684I lived through it champ, nice try though. You zoomers got magical thinking worshipping hunks of trash that got tossed back in the day.Literally every other era built better shit, and that's okay.
>>28980684You've never done blow, mate. Get fuked, Glengary.
>>28980688>You zoomersHow many fucking zoomers have seen or even heard of my picrel...You have the balls to discard an entire Epoch of vehicles,that effectively forged the tech which we enjoy today.If you're not Bait, then you're dumb AF.
true american power
>>28976151i'm guessing tunerpro is paid software?
>>28975287>obd1 USB cablethew fuck? those exist?
>>28977772Why wouldn't they?
>>28963499Gonna forget this if i don't post it now: if that TBI is going on a factory manifold, check the throttle-blade clearance and make sure the butterflies are actually opening 100%. Turns out Dodge had that issue, when they slapped a TBI on the old carb'd manifold, on the '89 Gen 1 Dakotas. I found it on my ragtop Dakota and I've seen it on 3 in a junkyard.
>>28976040Depending on the ecu you can see more data, mine was probably the most unpopular version but I have BLM/INT, coolant temp, TPS, vacuum, o2 voltage, loop status. This is all live too. Most of this is enough for me. Oh tells you the codes too but that's easy anyway.>>28976474It's free, you have to look up .xda for your ecu though. I think it's .xda, it's just the defintitons for the data. >>28977772It's not much, cost 50 bucks. I think there's a Bluetooth one even.
>Car / Price Lexus LC / a decent one with ~60k miles for $60K
>>28975315If you're going for the XJ X351 at least get the R.
gen 1 gated manual R8. i honestly think i prefer the V8 but it might be cope. either way, ive generally seen the manual+V8s around ~$120k CAD. i could technically buy one in cash right now but i wouldn't feel comfortable maintaining one at my current income level
>>28974280E63 M6 and LS430I already own both. Ferrari 575M would be the only other car I'm interested in.
96/97 dodge viper gts, blue with white stripes. 75k$-85k$ ish, still fast even by todays standards, uncomplicated and easy to work on yourself, and has to be one of the cheapest (and also arguably the best) 90s poster cars.
The best they ever made
What are we fixing today /o/?
>>28979010Bought the car to sell it for monies
>>28980134The fuck is this? Why is the engine so low? Does the intake manifold take up half the engine bay?
>>28980136Suzuki Grand Vitara 2008 with 1.6LTiny I4 in an engine bay thats built to be able to fit a 3.2L V6 = so easy to work on. Was taking my sweet time and working slowly and even then it only took about 3 hours to get the head off
nothing because it's 85 degrees and 67% humidity
A fan for my grandmother. My car is fine.
Hello there /o/nons, the Summer Cup is just five weeks away, /o/ of course wont be playing until then, however we need to take a look at the team and see if we need some new players, some returning players, and decide who is going be the medal players leading the team.
>>28976122No worries, it already looks cool as fuck
>>28976127>>28976330Here's more of an accurate image of the kit in full, changed the shorts texture around a little
>>28976660Hell yea looks dope, send it
Roster poll will be up all week, please select the players you want in that time and I'll reveal the results this weekend, thanks /o/nons
Probably going to be the final heads up, poll results this weekend
>>28979052She's Started Up Every Time https://files.catbox.moe/xqfh33.mp4Old HIGH PRESSURE FUEL PUMP might need replacing THOUGH judging from the long crank when it's coldAnd the random misfiresComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>reddit spacing
>>28979455This is not reddit spacing, boy. This harkens back to a time before all that. This... this is boomerposting.
>>28979079>German barges aren't sports carsCorrect they are Grand Torinos (aka touring cars)
>>28976615Lolwut, what country are you in? Def not the US of A
Looks aside, what are the downsides?
>>28978340>but still a boat somehow...but bmw always releases boats.
>>28979486>Car with more power fasteryeah, bmw lost because the camaro has 2 more hp.maybe if the bmw driver turnt off the A/C, the BMW wouldn't have been 2 seconds slower on the first care track.
Doesnt bmw grossly understate its 0-60 times. You could probably push this one to sub 3 seconds 0-60 with software tuning only
>>28980484from my experience their times are roughly accurate if you don't use launch control. they put a limit on the total number of times you can fully engage launch control over the lifetime of the transmissions at 100 i think for most of them so maybe it would count as false advertising if they used those LC numbers. basically the quicker 0-60 using LC is more considered a bonus that can be used 100 times.
>>28980602Good to know, thanks
What is the Honda Civic of dirt bikes? I refuse to believe I can’t build up a Honda XR or something to perform like a CRF450.
>>28972279i buildt a zuki ts50x to a hell of a beast, it did wheelies in second.
>>28972279What's the Honda Civic of dirt bikes but made by white dudes? Anything from KTM?
>>28977120The thing is I feel like all in all I’d probably get more out of an XR, but at the same time, I love the power of a 250 2 smoke.XR->light>longer intervals between maintenance>reliability2 smoke->more power>can do crazy stuff>a lot more maintenance (unfortunately a negative)
>>28972279Just get a KTM so you don't have to do the stupid shifty thing like it's the 1970s.
Well anons, I'm finally doing it. I'm buying a 2002 yz250 from some guy. Admittedly I feel a little weird about it. He's driving 3 hours to me, it's a fresh rebuilt engine, and we agreed on 2500 cash.I hope it is what he says it is.
Not Le Womens! Ahahahah!
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i put my truck up for auction, if it doesnt bring anything reasonable i guess ill part it out. i already cant sell a perfectly fine 4l60e that came from my other project, so im on the fence about just using it to ls swap my volvo with the failing jetronic system. >>28976220got any more pics man that's cool as fuck
>>28980474>i already cant sell a perfectly fine 4l60eI once put a perfectly fine transfer case for free on offerup, and it took a year for someone to take it.
>>28980480ive had better luck than that, but my buyers are looking for an 07+ one
>>28980474Thanks man. Yeah, got a ton of pictures of this thing, I've done a lot of work to it. I dragged it out of a barn after it had sat for a couple decades and got it running, then drove it home. I've done a few successful big road trips in it so far. Of course as soon as I spent some time building out the inside this winter, I blew the engine lol.
Welp this wasnt here yesterday.wonder how many more holes ill find in my car.Bodywork sucks
