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What is your favorite car? (Top 3)

  • Ame Sea

    Votes: 6 1.7%

  • Ferd

    Votes: 78 22.3%

  • Chevus

    Votes: 29 8.3%

  • Crintzler

    Votes: 5 1.4%

  • Doge

    Votes: 38 10.9%

  • Beem Dubya

    Votes: 28 8.0%

  • Mersaydis

    Votes: 28 8.0%

  • Volts-Wagon

    Votes: 31 8.9%

  • FIOT

    Votes: 8 2.3%

  • Joop

    Votes: 21 6.0%

  • Alphonse Romero

    Votes: 9 2.6%

  • Vulva

    Votes: 34 9.7%

  • Teslur

    Votes: 11 3.2%

  • Mincooper

    Votes: 6 1.7%

  • Knee-Son

    Votes: 17 4.9%

  • Hun-die

    Votes: 11 3.2%

  • Toyoder

    Votes: 123 35.2%

  • Hondo

    Votes: 90 25.8%

  • Subrue

    Votes: 47 13.5%
  • Total voters
    349
It's cool and nice that Ford's best year was 69'

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God's drunkest driver said:
I can't say I'm very surprised. It's usually only a small independent shop or automotive focused shop that will do things like that. I don't know what kind of car you're doing this for, I can't remember seeing it mentioned before, but I really doubt it's a prohibitively difficult part for you to make yourself unless it's a very complicated stamping. If originality isn't a concern you could always tube frame it too and just weld brackets to the tubes to hold the radiator, AC lines, whatever.
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Funny enough the two parts I want is one body work with viynal plastic, the other is I can't get the info for the already made areo underbody in alum.

Either way, weather was nice so I put the Honda on the lift put my 16" slicks on and took her around the mountains... topped the motor out at 134. Faster than expected. I think I'm going to rebuild trans soon as third (hondas weak spot) can get upset. I'll cyro etc.

Still hunting an Elise, I drove a base one but silver it's what I want... but I refuse to own a stove colored exotic.
 
Bassomatic said:
Funny enough the two parts I want is one body work with viynal plastic, the other is I can't get the info for the already made areo underbody in alum.
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vynl trim or actual body panel? It won't surivive the elemets that much on the latter...

That being said I was messing with methods to injection mold plastic at home so I might just also be insane.
 
There's a interesting rant about electric vehicules in Cuba.
December 8, 2024

Electric Vehicles: Cuba shows the way​

By Mike McDaniel


Cuban Americans have long been among America’s most fervent patriots. They’ve had the very great advantage of life under Communism, and they have no doubt life in America is leaps and bounds better. Still, in some ways, Cuba is very like California. Both are single party, socialist/communist polities and like California, Cuban government policy has all but destroyed the market for gas powered vehicles while mandating electrics:

With rising fuel costs and shortages across Cuba, the island nation has turned to electric motorcycles en masse. Nowhere is that more apparent than on the streets of Havana.
The rise in electric motorcycle usage is largely thanks to government policy, which has regulated the pricing of electric motorcycles while placing limits on imports of gasoline-powered motorcycles.

Due to pricing policy, electric motorcycles were cheaper than gasoline-powered motorcycles for years. Eventually the government outlawed the import of gasoline-powered motorcycles all together, leaving electric as the only option for new purchases.
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From where do these electric scooters come? From China, a communist ally, transshipped through Panama. But aren’t many vehicles in Cuba American makes from the 50s, kept running with chewing gum and bailing wire? Indeed, but:
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Probably An Autist said:
i broke my car rip

im a retard and didn't think reusing o-rings for my injectors would be an issue. long story short, I lost one of them and i also have a massive fuel leak.
car out of commission until i get the express delivery replacement.

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Assuming you have standard bosch style top feed injectors, the o rings used to be available locally at auto parts stores. I believe I had to look them up online and give the guys at the store the part number for them to find the box. You should never re use fuel o rings or hoses unless they're very new and verifiably undamaged, and always use a bit of oil when inserting the injectors into the fuel rail and head/manifold. Fuel leaks kill a lot of old cars.
 
God's drunkest driver said:
Assuming you have standard bosch style top feed injectors, the o rings used to be available locally at auto parts stores. I believe I had to look them up online and give the guys at the store the part number for them to find the box. You should never re use fuel o rings or hoses unless they're very new and verifiably undamaged, and always use a bit of oil when inserting the injectors into the fuel rail and head/manifold. Fuel leaks kill a lot of old cars.
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Yeah I learned my lesson. It's a 2011 Civic Type R. I just ordered the OEM kit on express delivery lol
 
Honda and Nissan are reportedly interested in possibly doing a merger. It's probably so that Honda can get access to Nissan's factories and EV technology, while Nissan can get access to Honda's Hybrid technology, and the merger would keep the lights on a bit longer for them. Either way, the Infiniti brand will probably get killed off sooner. And anti-trust laws may allow this merger to slide, since Japan would prefer Japanese companies merging together, instead of getting merged by a foreign one like how Nissan and Renault partnered up in the first place, and they're also salty about how Carlos Ghosn Metal Gear Solid himself to escape the Japanese prison system.
 
Honda - incapable of making a good looking car.
Merging with:
Nissan - incapable of making a good car.
This can only go well.

I'll PL my hate for the Japanese manufacturers or at least those available in the US a little bit. I love old Japanese cars. I currently own two of Japan's finest classics and on my list of wants is everything from an S600 to an R34 GTR. Japan hasn't made anything I'd buy in the last 20 years. I hate modern japanese cars. Toyota is pathologically risk averse and only makes underwhelming cars. I include the GR Corolla in that and yes I have driven one, a morizo too! Everything honda makes since the nu-NSX came out was styled by literal retards, the kinds of people who designed new gundams for toy sales before moving to automotive. Nissan makes exclusively junk, other than the GTR which is now ancient. If you have the displeasure of working on a nissan you'll see korean tier cost cutting in addition to the more obvious things like their junk CVTs. Subaru makes a different product but it's a crappy product, you get the added expense and complexity of the parts count of a V engine and you still only get 4cyl, plus now it's harder to work on than an I4. It's like Audi's retardation with putting engines in front of transmissions and fucking their weight distribution. Mazda at least never ruined the miata, but their cars have had major rust issues and are otherwise unremarkable if a little better looking than a honda or toyota. They really fucked up with the RX8, killing their sports car dreams forever by trying to market wankels as a normal mass market engine in an ugly little 4 door that was both slow and thirsty and thus would never succeed. Mitsubishi isn't worth mentioning.

I don't think anything good can come out of Honda and Nissan merging. Nissan at least still has a RWD sports car even if it is the twice rehashed 350Z with turbos... Honda makes what? An ugly type R and an overweight boring sedan integra.
 
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God's drunkest driver said:
Honda - incapable of making a good looking car.
Merging with:
Nissan - incapable of making a good car.
This can only go well.

I'll PL my hate for the Japanese manufacturers or at least those available in the US a little bit. I love old Japanese cars. I currently own two of Japan's finest classics and on my list of wants is everything from an S600 to an R34 GTR. Japan hasn't made anything I'd buy in the last 20 years. I hate modern japanese cars. Toyota is pathologically risk averse and only makes underwhelming cars. I include the GR Corolla in that and yes I have driven one, a morizo too! Everything honda makes since the nu-NSX came out was styled by literal retards, the kinds of people who designed new gundams for toy sales before moving to automotive. Nissan makes exclusively junk, other than the GTR which is now ancient. If you have the displeasure of working on a nissan you'll see korean tier cost cutting in addition to the more obvious things like their junk CVTs. Subaru makes a different product but it's a crappy product, you get the added expense and complexity of the parts count of a V engine and you still only get 4cyl, plus now it's harder to work on than an I4. It's like Audi's retardation with putting engines in front of transmissions and fucking their weight distribution. Mazda at least never ruined the miata, but their cars have had major rust issues and are otherwise unremarkable if a little better looking than a honda or toyota. They really fucked up with the RX8, killing their sports car dreams forever by trying to market wankels as a normal mass market engine in an ugly little 4 door that was both slow and thirsty and thus would never succeed. Mitsubishi isn't worth mentioning.

I don't think anything good can come out of Honda and Nissan merging. Nissan at least still has a RWD sports car even if it is the twice rehashed 350Z with turbos... Honda makes what? An ugly type R and an overweight boring sedan integra.
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I've had my S2000 for nearly 15 years now and I will keep this until I am on my death bed. It's a shame Honda never made another car anywhere in the same league. I tried the Civic Type R and the interior is just shit, and the car is just shit, and ugly.
I used to own a GTR which was nice, but far too much power to put down on the road so it had to go...
Neither company make anything nice now.
 
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God's drunkest driver said:
Honda - incapable of making a good looking car.
Merging with:
Nissan - incapable of making a good car.
This can only go well.

I'll PL my hate for the Japanese manufacturers or at least those available in the US a little bit. I love old Japanese cars. I currently own two of Japan's finest classics and on my list of wants is everything from an S600 to an R34 GTR. Japan hasn't made anything I'd buy in the last 20 years. I hate modern japanese cars. Toyota is pathologically risk averse and only makes underwhelming cars. I include the GR Corolla in that and yes I have driven one, a morizo too! Everything honda makes since the nu-NSX came out was styled by literal retards, the kinds of people who designed new gundams for toy sales before moving to automotive. Nissan makes exclusively junk, other than the GTR which is now ancient. If you have the displeasure of working on a nissan you'll see korean tier cost cutting in addition to the more obvious things like their junk CVTs. Subaru makes a different product but it's a crappy product, you get the added expense and complexity of the parts count of a V engine and you still only get 4cyl, plus now it's harder to work on than an I4. It's like Audi's retardation with putting engines in front of transmissions and fucking their weight distribution. Mazda at least never ruined the miata, but their cars have had major rust issues and are otherwise unremarkable if a little better looking than a honda or toyota. They really fucked up with the RX8, killing their sports car dreams forever by trying to market wankels as a normal mass market engine in an ugly little 4 door that was both slow and thirsty and thus would never succeed. Mitsubishi isn't worth mentioning.

I don't think anything good can come out of Honda and Nissan merging. Nissan at least still has a RWD sports car even if it is the twice rehashed 350Z with turbos... Honda makes what? An ugly type R and an overweight boring sedan integra.
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CaptainAutism69 said:
I've had my S2000 for nearly 15 years now and I will keep this until I am on my death bed. It's a shame Honda never made another car anywhere in the same league. I tried the Civic Type R and the interior is just shit, and the car is just shit, and ugly.
I used to own a GTR which was nice, but far too much power to put down on the road so it had to go...
Neither company make anything nice now.
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These are exactly my gripes with current car manufacturers. The Japanese especially have no affordable sports car that's a proper front engine, rear wheel drive coupe/sedan with an honest to god manual transmission and not some dogshit Subaru boxer engine like you see in the GR86/BRZ. There are literally no fun cars made by the Japanese anymore unless you want to pay BMW M5 money for a NSX or GTR. The CTR is just a super tarted up Civic and the GR Corolla is the same thing. There needs to be a proper FR chassis and the Japanese just won't do it.
 
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