Car Thread - VROOM VROOM

[God's drunkest driver]

Neither of those have easily adjustable/dynamic injection timing that you can adjust on fuel changeover, unless you have the means to optimize it to the fuel change (dyno or some other back to back performance test and EGT gauge) or someone else has done it and can tell you what the timing should be, I'd leave it alone. The bigger concern is a fuel system that allows you to run on diesel for start and shut down because it's going to be prone to coking. I left the timing as-is in my 12V cummins back when I owned one, running anything combustible through it; used oil, vegetable oil, diesel, kerosene, whatever I could find. I just made sure I ran it on diesel and switched over after warmup. These days my only diesel is an OM603 and I barely drive it, it's my only bone stock car.

I've never touched an NA 6.5, I hope yours is turbo. If it's NA I have nothing for you.

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

The 1970 station wagon is the best looking car if I was Granted three wishes one of them will be to make stations wagons like look the 1970s ones again

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Neither of those have easily adjustable/dynamic injection timing that you can adjust on fuel changeover, unless you have the means to optimize it to the fuel change (dyno or some other back to back performance test and EGT gauge) or someone else has done it and can tell you what the timing should be, I'd leave it alone. The bigger concern is a fuel system that allows you to run on diesel for start and shut down because it's going to be prone to coking. I left the timing as-is in my 12V cummins back when I owned one, running anything combustible through it; used oil, vegetable oil, diesel, kerosene, whatever I could find. I just made sure I ran it on diesel and switched over after warmup. These days my only diesel is an OM603 and I barely drive it, it's my only bone stock car.

I've never touched an NA 6.5, I hope yours is turbo. If it's NA I have nothing for you.

I haven't bought them (the owner wants to sell them both). I was just curious since I was trying to figure out if he had modified the timing and how easily it would be to modify it back.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

IDI 6.5L GM V-8 and an Isuzu IDI (You'll see me asking about the C-223t). Owner ran both with biodiesel on a SVO system. Vehicle body of the car the C223t is in seems to be in much better shape and has about 25% (ostensibly)t he milage of the V-8, but needs to have fuel lines redone since they're sucking air. I have a post earlier in this thread asking about the 223.

Man, I would run away from anyone's homemade biodiesel conversion. That just sounds like an absolute basket case unless you know exactly what you're getting into.

If you're convinced diesel is the only way to go, and $6 a gallon doesn't scare you, then surely you have the dough to get a 5.9 Cummins. The common rail version is super easy to work on and amazingly reliable. Basically the truck falls apart around the engine. For diesels, you HAVE to pay big to play big.

Otherwise stick to Toyota 22Rs, vortec 6.0s (before cylinder deactivation), Chevy 350s, Ford 5.0s, most hemis. Please don't destroy your bank account getting a diesel if you can't afford to maintain it

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Please don't destroy your bank account getting a diesel if you can't afford to maintain it

Already did that by joining the farms.
Is it a conversion if this nigga just literally ran the indirect injection on vegetable oil?
I may just pickup a 2.2 carburated gasser instead.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

Already did that by joining the farms.
Is it a conversion if this nigga just literally ran the indirect injection on vegetable oil?
I may just pickup a 2.2 carburated gasser instead.

Please do that. At least you can Google your problems with a vehicle like that.

At the very least he had to tee in the WVO tank into the regular fuel system. WVO is normally treated with lye to make it more fluid, but lye eats away at some fuel systems. I don't think I'd buy a vehicle that's run on WVO unless I knew the guy or it's a steal and I know the vehicle

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Please do that. At least you can Google your problems with a vehicle like that.

At the very least he had to tee in the WVO tank into the regular fuel system. WVO is normally treated with lye to make it more fluid, but lye eats away at some fuel systems. I don't think I'd buy a vehicle that's run on WVO unless I knew the guy or it's a steal and I know the vehicle

I've used an Isuzu IDI before and actual done work on one (fuel line + minor engine work). I've just never dealt with one where they used WVO/biodiesel.

And I think you're confusing something. He doesn't have WVO tank switch. He's just putting it directly into the fuel tank. I need to ask if he used biodiesel or WVO in the isuzu, 99% sure he used WVO the 6.5 GM because it smells like fried food.

 

[Torque Wheeler]

I've used an Isuzu IDI

IDI = International Harvester Indirect Injection???

 

[WolfeTone]

No Mitsubishi allowed in the poll?

Trash thread

 

[God's drunkest driver]

A mitsubishi fan? My condolences. That must be like watching your first crush turn into a drug addicted, obese trash-whore.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

IDI = International Harvester Indirect Injection???

Indirect Injection. At least that's the only acronym I know.

A mitsubishi fan? My condolences.

I feel like I'm worse as an Isuzu fan. Only because they still produce diesel commercial vehicles but not passenger ones in NA.

 

[God's drunkest driver]

Isuzu kind of faded into obscurity, they only made two cool cars that I can think of; Impulse turbo and Trooper SUV. Mitsubishi is like a lolcow automaker. They had multiple really cool products and they ran most of them into the ground

• taking the eclipse from a hot AWD available turbo coupe to a fugly overweight FWD only coupe, then reviving the name for a CUV
• making the final evo the biggest and ugliest
• discontinuing the VR-4 galant and turning the galant into one of the ugliest sedans on the market

and they just unceremoniously discontinued the others; Starion, 3000GT. Now mitsubishi's reputation is just that they make the lowest quality cars of the large japanese manufacturers. All of their current offerings are shitboxes. I can't speak on the japan-only offerings such as kei cars for either maker, other than to say that the FTO was never cool, it's a turd.

 

[WolfeTone]

This is so fuckin' rude.

But you're right lmao

They had something going there in the 90s and they were one of the first companies to take an Icarus-like skydive, I just never really noticed before cause so many other companies have done that exact play in my lifetime.

 

[Darkholme's Dungeon]

Impulse turbo and Trooper SUV

Faster (diesel turbo if you replace the rods) is a nice little truck that punches much higher above it's weight class if you know what you're doing with it and it's got decent milage for a diesel pickup.

Subrau XT or a Impulse turbo would be a dream if I could find any in the US for sale. But I'm also probably never gonna do that because I would rather not pulled a Nick Rekieta.

 

[CFC-12]

Mitsubishi is like a lolcow automaker. They had multiple really cool products and they ran most of them into the ground

Ahahaha I'm stealing that quote.

I feel the same way about Chrysler. A competent enough company that always seems to fuck things up at the worst possible moments, even when the odds are in their favour. They're either making great cars that nobody wants or making shitty cars that sell like absolute hotcakes but that the people who buy them end up hating and stop buying Chryslers. The only smart thing they've done in recent decades is emphasizing the shit out of Jeep. That and Ram pickups are basically the only thing keeping the company afloat.

Though now they're owned by the clusterfuck conglomerate that is Stellantis so who knows what'll happen to them long term.

 

[Mansell's Moustache]

Is it just me or has the average driver become so much worse at driving?

The amount of people driving distracted (phones/looking at the massive iPads that carmakers jam into everything now) is insane. Passing in the right lane, expired temp tags, bumpers hanging off, going 80mph+ on a donut, etc. almost seems to be the norm now. Maybe I'm noticing it more or my road rage has gotten worse.

I do know the number of fatal accidents and unlicensed drivers (not just suspended/revoked, but people who never got a license to begin with) is rising.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Is it just me or has the average driver become so much worse at driving?

The amount of people driving distracted (phones/looking at the massive iPads that carmakers jam into everything now) is insane. Passing in the right lane, expired temp tags, bumpers hanging off, going 80mph+ on a donut, etc. almost seems to be the norm now. Maybe I'm noticing it more or my road rage has gotten worse.

I do know the number of fatal accidents and unlicensed drivers (not just suspended/revoked, but people who never got a license to begin with) is rising.

The simplification and abstraction of car controls and the over reliance on tech features like blind spot monitoring are no doubt to blame.

 

[Mansell's Moustache]

The simplification and abstraction of car controls and the over reliance on tech features like blind spot monitoring are no doubt to blame.

Agreed. Lane keep assist is a major culprit. Anecdotal, but I have seen people who had a car with lane keep assist go back to older vehicles without it and they can barely stay in their lane.

"The car drives itself! I don't need to do anything!"

 

[Troon_Patrol]

Does anyone else wish they would bring back Bench seats? At least as an option? I have a 2014 mustang GT I'd love to have a big bench seat for.

 

[Mansell's Moustache]

Does anyone else wish they would bring back Bench seats? At least as an option? I have a 2014 mustang GT I'd love to have a big bench seat for.

Hell, I'd even settle for seats that are appropriately cushioned and comfortable.