You know you've struck gold when you find an old forum post or personal website with an image like this.Car communities used to be pretty close knit and knowledgable... how it's all facebook groups with idiots.What happened?
I'm so fucking glad twingotuningforum.de and cliosport.net are still up and running.
>>29013766The forums for my specific cars are all great
Want a real time capsule website?aaroncake.net
>>29013766>What happened?When you think of that era of old forums, that was still an era of relatively low internet penetration in our daily lives.There was some friction to participate in those forums, which served as a natural barrier against zero-effort posters.Then friction disappeared and idiotposting ruined open places.Now you can't have an open forum at all.
minkara.co.jp has been surprisingly useful for looking up obscure toyota part numbers and seeing what they look like>>29013777oh man. the guy is STILL uploading videos and his website. that's fucking awesome.
>>29013766modern internet is such dogshitno forums show up in google search anymore except fuckass reddit
i mostly blame phones
>>29013777Holy shit this guy is still restoring the cosmo?
>>29013791adding insult to injury, you now have to log in to use old reddit. first they got rid of i.reddit which actually had a fantastic mobile UI so they could push their shitty app on users. wonder what they'll do next to make the next digg 4.0i posted info to reddit because it was one of the few places i knew that could still be fairly easily searched. but glad that i also posted it to regular forums as well.
>>29013862>you now have to log in to use old reddit.was this change made like five minutes ago because i absolutely use it to search through my town's subreddit for events and ordinance changes or what retards are complaining about loud noises today
>>29013777Fucking page loads in 0.00001 seconds I miss this internet.
>>29013771>twingo tuningLol.Is it hosted by Briggs&Stratton ?
>>29013766i used to hang out on VW Vortex
>>29013866it was done a week or two ago, they did it saying it was because of ai bots scraping the old reddit site too muchweirdly enough once you log in then out, you can keep using old reddit in that session, at least in my limited testing
>>29013876Those Germans get surprisingly creative with them. There's turbo/supercharger conversions, 1.6 and even Clio RS engine swaps, full DIY polybush guides, and a shitload of maintenance/repair/mod info on that site.
Like all websites, they either died out or became so big it has a subsection where all the mongs automatically go just to argue rather than converse on a shared interest.See 4chan's /o/ for example.
>>29013903works on my machine.
>>29013766Facebook groups killed text based forums because all of the boomers with join dates from the 90's with 30,000 post count wouldn't stop being insufferable cunts so based millennials took it to a website that doesn't jack you off for being an old piece of shit because spoiler alert no one cares also FUCK PHOTOBUCKET
>>29013766Internet took a steep dive in quality once it since women started using it
>>29014772Came here for people with holier than thous because of post count numbers, and also the photofucket purge of 2012 really did a number. Man I miss those days. Now you can barely find an active forum.and when it is it's usually newbies posting problems that are easily searchable.
>>29013766Because there's more bots than humans online now and Facebook is riddled with people influenced by said bots / are said bots. For forums, you're forced to validate you're a human and jump through more hoops than a Facebook group and as such there's more intention behind applying to post there.
>>29013766Facebook started the slide and then some corporations moved in thinking to monetize the forums and that killed them off for good.
>>29013789Minkara is still active as hell what do you mean obscure
>>29013862>>29013866>>29013903>>29014737Why are you using that shitholeBetter yet why are you here talking about that shitholeMaybe you should go back
>>29015140reddit shares the same demographic as 4chan (age, class, population, etc)redditors banned on reddit start generals on 4chan, you would know this if you were here for the last 10 years.
>>29014772this. >DO A SEARCH THIS TOPIC HAS BEEN DISCUSSED A THOUSAND TIMES AND THE SOLUTION IS WELL DOCUMENTED. THIS ISSUE IS SOLVED>the "solution" involves now-unobtainable parts, a company that no longer exists, two broken links and eight photobucket placeholders
>>29015168Ive been here for over 10 years yesBack then we shamed those faggots off this site tooBut you would know that if you were here for the last 10 years
>>29015291oh no you didn'tyou let them setup on /pol/ (syria general, ptg) and /v/its the same people going on both websites this isn't some secret site like fight club the secret was out after gamergate/runup to the 2016 election
>>29015291Ive been here since guilty crown threads on /a/ circa 2011 and I can tell you that crypto redditors were browsing this place even then. The only ones scared off were the easily offended ones but there are subreddits that are dedicated to doing nothing but grabbing screencaps off 4nigs and to my knowledge they're still doing it.
>>29015291>>29015304Also, if you've ever browsed /an/ for any length of time you would realize it's reddit lite.
>>29013766That old internet culture is long gone bro. People gotta be spoonfed everything despite all the information being at their fingertips
>>29015291you didn't do shit bro2016 was when this site got flooded with reddit boomer election tourists
>>29016099It's been deliberately made shit, obfuscated and hard to navigate to herd people towards AI assistants. The information is out there but search engines won't bring it up.
Twingos are the weirdest shit.I have a twin screw from an industrial air compressor ive been sitting on for years that I always wanted to do some stupid shit with.Incase you dont understand- the twin screw is the pump part that was spun by an electric motor just to compress air into a holding tank.Somebody send me a twingo.Ill make a a YouTube channel around it.
>>29017545What's the displacement on the blower, and how long is it? I looked into this a little bit using either the Eaton M24 from a VW 1.4 TSI Twincharged or the TVS R410 from a Volvo, but it'd be hard to package because the oil dipstick is in a spot that would likely interfere.1.2T or 1.6 16V seem more plug-and-play.
